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2002–03 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ14507528 ↗
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2002–03 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup was the ninth season of the Bosnia and Herzegovina's annual football cups, and the third season of the unified competition. The competition started on 6 November 2002 with the First Round and concluded on 27 May 2003 with the Final.

First round

Thirty-two teams entered in the First Round. The first legs were played on 6 November and the second legs were played on 10 November 2002.

Second round

The 16 winners from the prior round enter this round. The first legs were played on 27 November and the second legs were played on 30 November 2002.

Quarterfinals

The eight winners from the prior round enter this round. The first legs were played on 15 February and the second legs were played on 5 March 2003.

Semifinals

The four winners from the prior round enter this round. The first legs will be played on 19 March and the second legs were played on 9 April 2003.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2002–03 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup” is football tournament season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bosnia, Herzegovina and Football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2002–03 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.