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2002–03 Second League of Serbia and Montenegro

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ4600951 ↗
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The 2002–03 Second League of Serbia and Montenegro season (Serbian: Druga Savezna Liga) consisted of four groups of 12 teams.

The competition started this season as Second League of FR Yugoslavia. The country changed name from FR Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro on February 4, 2003, and the competition became the Second League of Serbia and Montenegro.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002–03 Second League of Serbia and Montenegro” 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.