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2004–05 Football League
106th season of the Football League
106th season of the Football League
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | The Football League |
| season | [2004–05](2004-05-in-english-football) |
| winners | Sunderland |
| promoted | Sunderland |
| Wigan Athletic | |
| West Ham United | |
| relegated | Kidderminster Harriers |
| Cambridge United | |
| continentalcup1 | New Clubs in League |
| continentalcup1 qualifiers | Chester City |
| Shrewsbury Town | |
| prevseason | [2003–04](2003-04-football-league) |
| nextseason | [2005–06](2005-06-football-league) |
Wigan Athletic West Ham United Cambridge United Shrewsbury Town The 2004–05 Football League (known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th completed season of The Football League.
2004–05 was the first season of the rebranded Football League, with the First, Second and Third Divisions becoming the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League Two respectively. Coca-Cola replaced the Nationwide Building Society as title sponsor.
Wigan Athletic were promoted to the Premier League as Championship runners-up. They had only been elected to the Football League in 1978, had been the league's fourth-lowest placed club in the 1993–94 season, and before 2003 had never reached the second tier of English football.
Nottingham Forest were relegated from the Championship to League One, becoming the first former European Cup winners to be relegated to the third tier of their domestic league – having won two straight European Cups a quarter of a century earlier. Only ten seasons previously, in 1994–95, they had finished third in the Premier League, and had reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup the following season.
Events
- 3 December 2004 – League One side Wrexham enters financial administration. Under new Football League rules, the club is penalised 10 league points, placing the club in relegation danger.
- 21 January 2005 – Former Chelsea chairman Ken Bates finalises a deal to buy a controlling interest in the debt-riddled Championship club Leeds United.
- 2 April 2005 – Stockport County become the first League team this season to be relegated.
- 29 April 2005 – League Two side Cambridge United enters financial administration, six days after being formally relegated from the Football League.
- 7 June 2005 – George Burley resigns as manager of Derby County, citing differences with the club’s board.
- 24 June 2005 – Former Bolton Wanderers assistant manager Phil Brown becomes Derby County’s fifth manager in four years.
Final league tables and results
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website, with home and away statistics separated. Play-off results are from the same website.
Championship
Main article: 2004–05 Football League Championship
Wigan Athletic Nottingham Forest, Rotherham United
Brighton & Hove Burnley Cardiff City Coventry Crewe Alexandra Derby County Gillingham Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Millwall Nottingham Forest Plymouth Argyle Preston North End QPR Reading Rotherham Sheffield United Stoke Sunderland Watford West Ham Wigan Athletic Wolverhampton Wanderers
Play-offs
Main article: Football League Championship play-offs#2005
1st leg – 14/15 May; 2nd leg – 18/19 May 2005 30 May 2005 | RD1-seed1=3rd | RD1-team1= Ipswich Town | RD1-score1-1=2 | RD1-score1-2=0 | RD1-score1-agg=2 | RD1-seed2=6th | RD1-team2=West Ham United | RD1-score2-1=2 | RD1-score2-2=2 | RD1-score2-agg=4 | RD1-seed3=4th | RD1-team3=Derby County | RD1-score3-1=0 | RD1-score3-2=0 | RD1-score3-agg=0 | RD1-seed4=5th | RD1-team4=**Preston North End ** | RD1-score4-1=2 | RD1-score4-2=0 | RD1-score4-agg=2 | RD2-seed1=5th | RD2-team1=Preston North End | RD2-score1=0 | RD2-seed2=6th | RD2-team2=West Ham United | RD2-score2=1
Topscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | ** Nathan Ellington ** | ** Wigan Athletic ** | **24** |
| 2 | Jason Roberts | Wigan Athletic | 21 |
| = | Teddy Sheringham | West Ham | 21 |
| 4 | Shefki Kuqi | Ipswich Town | 20 |
| = | Darren Bent | Ipswich Town | 20 |
| 6 | Kenny Miller | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 19 |
| = | Dave Kitson | Reading | 19 |
| 8 | Marlon Harewood | West Ham | 18 |
| = | Paul Furlong | Queens Park Rangers | 18 |
| 10 | Richard Cresswell | Preston North End | 17 |
| = | Dean Ashton | Crewe Alexandra | 17 |
| 12 | Marcus Stewart | Sunderland | 16 |
League One
Main article: 2004–05 Football League One
Hull City Stockport County, Torquay United, Wrexham Dean Windass (Bradford City), 27
Bournemouth Barnsley Blackpool Bradford City Brentford Bristol City Chesterfield Colchester Doncaster Hartlepool Huddersfield Hull Luton Town MK Dons Oldham Peterborough Port Vale Sheffield Wednesday Stockport Swindon Torquay Tranmere Walsall Wrexham
Play-offs
Main article: Football League One play-offs#2005
1st leg – 12/13 May; 2nd leg – 16/17 May 2005 29 May 2005 | RD1-seed1=3rd | RD1-team1= Tranmere Rovers | RD1-score1-1=0 | RD1-score1-2=2 | RD1-score1-agg=2 (5) | RD1-seed2=6th | RD1-team2=**Hartlepool United (pens.) ** | RD1-score2-1=2 | RD1-score2-2=0 | RD1-score2-agg=2 (6) | RD1-seed3=4th | RD1-team3=Brentford | RD1-score3-1=0 | RD1-score3-2=1 | RD1-score3-agg=1 | RD1-seed4=5th | RD1-team4=Sheffield Wednesday | RD1-score4-1=1 | RD1-score4-2=2 | RD1-score4-agg=3 | RD2-seed1=5th | RD2-team1=**Sheffield Wednesday ** | RD2-score1=4 | RD2-seed2=6th | RD2-team2=Hartlepool United | RD2-score2=2
Topscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | ** Dean Windass ** | ** Bradford City ** | **27** |
| **=** | ** Stuart Elliott ** | ** Hull City ** | **27** |
| 3 | Paweł Abbott | Huddersfield Town | 26 |
| 4 | Adam Boyd | Hartlepool United | 24 |
| = | Leroy Lita | Bristol City | 24 |
| 6 | Sam Parkin | Swindon Town | 23 |
| 7 | Steve Brooker | Bristol City | 21 |
| 8 | Steven MacLean | Sheffield Wednesday | 19 |
| = | James Hayter | AFC Bournemouth | 19 |
| = | Luke Beckett | Oldham Athletic | 19 |
League Two
Main article: 2004–05 Football League Two
Scunthorpe United, Swansea City Kidderminster Harriers Shrewsbury Town
Boston United Bristol Rovers Bury Cambridge Utd Cheltenham Chester City Darlington Grimsby Town Kidderminster Harriers Leyton Orient Lincoln City Macclesfield Mansfield Northampton Town Notts County Oxford Rochdale Rushden & Diamonds Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Southend Swansea City Wycombe Yeovil Town
Play-offs
Main article: Football League Two play-offs#2005
1st leg – 14/15 May; 2nd leg – 21 May 2005 28 May 2005 | RD1-seed1=4th | RD1-team1=**Southend United ** | RD1-score1-1=0 | RD1-score1-2=1 | RD1-score1-agg=1 | RD1-seed2=7th | RD1-team2=Northampton Town | RD1-score2-1=0 | RD1-score2-2=0 | RD1-score2-agg=0 | RD1-seed3=5th | RD1-team3=Macclesfield Town | RD1-score3-1=0 | RD1-score3-2=1 | RD1-score3-agg=1 | RD1-seed4=6th | RD1-team4=**Lincoln City ** | RD1-score4-1=1 | RD1-score4-2=1 | RD1-score4-agg=2 | RD2-seed1=4th | RD2-team1=**Southend United ** | RD2-score1=2 | RD2-seed2=6th | RD2-team2=Lincoln City | RD2-score2=0
Topscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | ** Phil Jevons ** | ** Yeovil Town ** | **27** |
| 2 | Andy Kirk | Northampton Town | 26 |
| 3 | Jon Parkin | Macclesfield Town | 22 |
| = | Lee Trundle | Swansea City | 22 |
| = | Nathan Tyson | Wycombe Wanderers | 22 |
| 6 | Freddy Eastwood | Southend United | 21 |
| = | Simon Yeo | Lincoln City | 21 |
| 8 | Junior Agogo | Bristol Rovers | 19 |
| 9 | Paul Hayes | Scunthorpe United | 17 |
| = | Grant Holt | Rochdale | 17 |
References
References
- (29 April 2005). "Cambridge United file for administration... is this the end of the U's?". BBC.
- "England 2004–05". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
- "English League Leading Goalscorers".
- "ESPN".
- "ESPN".
- [https://archive.today/20120728000454/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/topscorers?league=eng.4&year=2004&cc=5901 soccernet.espn.go.com]
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