Football League Championship 2004-05 | ||
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Season information | ||
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Winners | Sunderland | |
Promoted | Sunderland Wigan Athletic West Ham United | |
Relegated | Gillingham Nottingham Forest Rotherham United | |
Season statistics | ||
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The 2004–05 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the thirteenth season under its current league division format. It began in August 2004 and concluded in May 2005, with the promotion play-off finals. This was the first season to feature the rebranded Football League. The First Division, Second Division and Third Division were renamed the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League Two respectively. Coca-Cola replaced the Nationwide Building Society as title sponsor.
The winners of the Championship in 2005 are Sunderland. Wigan Athletic reached the Premiership as Championship runners-up. They had been elected to the Football League only 27 years earlier, had been the league's fourth lowest club 11 years earlier and until 2 years before reaching the Premiership they had never played in the upper half of the English league. Nottingham Forest were relegated from the Championship to League One, becoming the first former European Cup winners to slide into the third tier of their domestic league – having won two straight European Cups a quarter of a century earlier. Just ten years ago they had finished third in the Premiership and reached the following season's UEFA Cup quarter finals.
Changes from last season[]
From Championship[]
Promoted to Premier League
Relegated to League One
To Championship[]
Relegated from Premier League
Promoted from League One
League table[]
Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Notes |
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1 | Sunderland (C) (P) | 46 | 29 | 7 | 10 | 76 | 41 | +35 | 94 | |
2 | Wigan Athletic (P) | 46 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 79 | 35 | +44 | 87 | |
3 | Ipswich Town | 46 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 85 | 56 | +29 | 85 | |
4 | Derby County | 46 | 22 | 10 | 14 | 71 | 60 | +11 | 76 | |
5 | Preston North End | 46 | 21 | 12 | 13 | 67 | 58 | +9 | 75 | |
6 | West Ham United (P) | 46 | 21 | 10 | 15 | 66 | 56 | +10 | 73 | |
7 | Reading | 46 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 51 | 44 | +7 | 70 | |
8 | Sheffield United | 46 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 57 | 56 | +1 | 67 | |
9 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 46 | 15 | 21 | 10 | 72 | 59 | +13 | 66 | |
10 | Millwall | 46 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 51 | 45 | +6 | 66 | |
11 | Queens Park Rangers | 46 | 17 | 11 | 18 | 54 | 58 | −4 | 62 | |
12 | Stoke City | 46 | 17 | 10 | 19 | 36 | 38 | −2 | 61 | |
13 | Burnley | 46 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 38 | 39 | −1 | 60 | |
14 | Leeds United | 46 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 49 | 52 | −3 | 60 | |
15 | Leicester City | 46 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 49 | 46 | +3 | 57 | |
16 | Cardiff City | 46 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 48 | 51 | −3 | 54 | |
17 | Plymouth Argyle | 46 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 52 | 64 | −12 | 53 | |
18 | Watford | 46 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 52 | 59 | −7 | 52 | |
19 | Coventry City | 46 | 13 | 13 | 20 | 61 | 73 | −12 | 52 | |
20 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 46 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 40 | 65 | −25 | 51 | |
21 | Crewe Alexandra | 46 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 66 | 86 | −20 | 50 | |
22 | Gillingham (R) | 46 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 45 | 66 | −21 | 50 | Relegation to the 2005–06 League One |
23 | Nottingham Forest (R) | 46 | 9 | 17 | 20 | 42 | 66 | −24 | 44 | |
24 | Rotherham United (R) | 46 | 5 | 14 | 27 | 35 | 69 | −34 | 29 |
Updated to games played on 9 December 2011
Source: Football League Tables
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament
Play-offs[]
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
6 | West Ham United | 2 2 (4) | |||||||||||
3 | Ipswich Town | 2 0 (2) | |||||||||||
6 | West Ham United | 1 | |||||||||||
5 | Preston North End | 0 | |||||||||||
5 | Preston North End | 2 0 (2) | |||||||||||
4 | Derby County | 0 0 (0) |
Stadia[]
Team | Stadium | Capacity |
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Sunderland | Stadium of Light | 49,000 |
Leeds United | Elland Road | 37,697 |
West Ham United | Boleyn Ground | 35,146 |
Derby County | Pride Park Stadium | 33,597 |
Sheffield United | Bramall Lane | 32,609 |
Leicester City | Walkers Stadium | 32,500 |
Nottingham Forest | City Ground | 30,602 |
Ipswich Town | Portman Road | 30,311 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | Molineux Stadium | 28,525 |
Stoke City | Britannia Stadium | 28,000 |
Wigan Athletic | JJB Stadium | 25,138 |
Preston North End | Deepdale | 24,500 |
Reading | Madejski Stadium | 24,161 |
Coventry City | Highfield Road | 23,489 |
Burnley | Turf Moor | 22,546 |
Cardiff City | Ninian Park | 22,008 |
Millwall | The New Den | 20,146 |
Watford | Vicarage Road | 19,920 |
Plymouth Argyle | Home Park | 19,500 |
Queens Park Rangers | Loftus Road | 19,128 |
Gillingham | Priestfield Stadium | 11,582 |
Crewe Alexandra | Alexandra Stadium | 10,046 |
Brighton & Hove Albion | Withdean Stadium | 8,850 |
Rotherham United | Millmoor | 8,300 |
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