The 2003-04 campaign was a season of valiant effort and prolific scoring for Ternana as the Rossoverdi secured a respectable 7th-place finish in a historically long, 46-match Serie B season. Leading the charge was the powerful and agile striker Riccardo Zampagna, whose career-best haul of 21 goals proved decisive and established him as one of the league's most feared forwards. This campaign, marked by Zampagna's individual brilliance on co-ownership from Messina, cemented Ternana's status as a formidable mid-table force in the second tier and remains a defining chapter of the club's modern history.