Manchester United

2004–05 season
Manager	Sir Alex Ferguson
Chairman	Sir Roy Gardner
Premier League	3rd
FA Cup	Runners-up
Carling Cup	Semi-finals
Community Shield	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	First knockout round
Top goalscorer	League: Wayne Rooney (11) All: Wayne Rooney (17)
Highest home attendance	67,989 vs Portsmouth (26 February 2005)
Lowest home attendance	48,891 vs Crystal Palace (10 November 2004)
Average home attendance	66,751
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 season was Manchester United's 13th season in the Premier League, and their 30th consecutive season in the top division of English football.^[1]

The season finished trophyless (only their fourth trophyless season in 17 seasons) for United, who finished third in the Premier League with 77 points – an amount which in some seasons would have been enough for title glory. Their European Cup dream ended in the Second Round at Milan, while they were eliminated from the League Cup by Chelsea in the semi-finals. The last chance of silverware was blown by a Paul Scholes penalty miss against Arsenal in a shoot-out after a goalless draw in the 2005 FA Cup Final.

On a more positive note, newly-signed 19-year-old striker and leading club goalscorer Wayne Rooney was voted PFA Young Player of the Year.

United also ended Arsenal's record-breaking 49-game unbeaten league run with a 2–0 home win in late October.

Contents 1 Pre-season and friendlies 2 FA Community Shield 3 FA Premier League 4 FA Cup 5 Carling Cup 6 Champions League 6.1 Qualifying stage 6.2 Group stage 6.3 Knock-out stage 7 Squad statistics 8 Transfers 8.1 In 8.2 Out 8.3 Loan out 9 See also 10 References

[edit] Pre-season and friendlies

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
18 July 2004	Cobh Ramblers	A	2 – 1	Timm, Cooper	8,000
25 July 2004	Bayern Munich	N	0 – 0 (2 – 4p)		58,121
28 July 2004	Celtic	N	1 – 2	Smith 35'	55,421
31 July 2004	Milan	N	1 – 1 (8 – 9p)	Scholes 33'	74,511
3 August 2004	PSV Eindhoven	H	1 – 0	Silvestre
5 August 2004	Urawa Red Diamonds	H	A – A	Match abandoned due to bad weather
6 August 2004	Burnley	A	3 – 1	Scholes 30', P. Neville 38', Eagles 47'	8,814

[edit] FA Community Shield

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
8 August 2004	Arsenal	N	1 – 3	Smith 55'	63,317

[edit] FA Premier League

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
15 August 2004	Chelsea	A	0 – 1		41,813	17th
21 August 2004	Norwich City	H	2 – 1	Bellion 32', Smith 50'	67,812	8th
28 August 2004	Blackburn Rovers	A	1 – 1	Smith 90'	26,155	11th
30 August 2004	Everton	H	0 – 0		67,803	9th
11 September 2004	Bolton Wanderers	A	2 – 2	Heinze 44', Bellion 90'	27,766	11th
20 September 2004	Liverpool	H	2 – 1	Silvestre (2) 20', 66'	67,857	8th
25 September 2004	Tottenham Hotspur	A	1 – 0	van Nistelrooy 42' (pen.)	36,103	5th
3 October 2004	Middlesbrough	H	1 – 1	Smith 81'	67,988	4th
16 October 2004	Birmingham City	A	0 – 0		29,221	6th
24 October 2004	Arsenal	H	2 – 0	van Nistelrooy 73' (pen.), Rooney 90'	67,862	5th
30 October 2004	Portsmouth	A	0 – 2		20,190	7th
7 November 2004	Manchester City	H	0 – 0		67,863	7th
14 November 2004	Newcastle United	A	3 – 1	Rooney (2) 7', 90', van Nistelrooy 74' (pen.)	52,320	7th
20 November 2004	Charlton Athletic	H	2 – 0	Giggs 41', Scholes 50'	67,704	6th
27 November 2004	West Bromwich Albion	A	3 – 0	Scholes (2) 53', 82', van Nistelrooy 72'	27,709	4th
4 December 2004	Southampton	H	3 – 0	Scholes 53', Rooney 58', Ronaldo 87'	67,921	4th
13 December 2004	Fulham	A	1 – 1	Smith 33'	21,940	4th
18 December 2004	Crystal Palace	H	5 – 2	Scholes (2) 22', 49', Smith 35', Boyce 48' (o.g.), O'Shea 90'	67,814	4th
26 December 2004	Bolton Wanderers	H	2 – 0	Giggs 10', Scholes 89'	67,867	4th
28 December 2004	Aston Villa	A	1 – 0	Giggs 41'	42,593	3rd
1 January 2005	Middlesbrough	A	2 – 0	Fletcher 9', Giggs 79'	34,199	3rd
4 January 2005	Tottenham Hotspur	H	0 – 0		67,962	3rd
15 January 2005	Liverpool	A	1 – 0	Rooney 21'	44,183	3rd
22 January 2005	Aston Villa	H	3 – 1	Ronaldo 8', Saha 69', Scholes 70'	67,589	3rd
1 February 2005	Arsenal	A	4 – 2	Giggs 18', Ronaldo (2) 54', 58', O'Shea 89'	38,164	2nd
5 February 2005	Birmingham City	H	2 – 0	Keane 55', Rooney 78'	67,838	2nd
13 February 2005	Manchester City	A	2 – 0	Rooney 68', Dunne 75' (o.g.)	47,111	2nd
26 February 2005	Portsmouth	H	2 – 1	Rooney (2) 8', 81'	67,989	2nd
5 March 2005	Crystal Palace	A	0 – 0		26,021	2nd
19 March 2005	Fulham	H	1 – 0	Ronaldo 21'	67,959	2nd
2 April 2005	Blackburn Rovers	H	0 – 0		67,939	3rd
9 April 2005	Norwich City	A	0 – 2		25,522	3rd
20 April 2005	Everton	A	0 – 1		37,160	3rd
24 April 2005	Newcastle United	H	2 – 1	Rooney 57', Brown 75'	67,845	3rd
1 May 2005	Charlton Athletic	A	4 – 0	Scholes 34', Fletcher 44', Smith 62', Rooney 67'	26,789	3rd
7 May 2005	West Bromwich Albion	H	1 – 1	Giggs 21'	67,827	3rd
10 May 2005	Chelsea	H	1 – 3	van Nistelrooy 7'	67,832	3rd
15 May 2005	Southampton	A	2 – 1	Fletcher 19', van Nistelrooy 63'	32,066	3rd

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
2	Arsenal	38	25	8	5	87	36	+51	83
3	Manchester United	38	22	11	5	58	26	+32	77
4	Everton	38	18	7	13	45	46	−1	61

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

[edit] FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
8 January 2005	Round 3	Exeter City	H	0 – 0		67,551
19 January 2005	Round 3 Replay	Exeter City	A	2 – 0	Ronaldo 9', Rooney 87'	9,033
29 January 2005	Round 4	Middlesbrough	H	3 – 0	O'Shea 10', Rooney (2) 67', 82'	67,251
19 February 2005	Round 5	Everton	A	2 – 0	Fortune 23', Ronaldo 58'	38,664
12 March 2005	Round 6	Southampton	A	4 – 0	Keane 2', Ronaldo 45', Scholes (2) 48', 87'	30,971
17 April 2005	Semi-final	Newcastle United	N	4 – 1	van Nistelrooy (2) 19', 58', Scholes 45', Ronaldo 76'	69,280
21 May 2005	Final	Arsenal	N	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (4 – 5p)		71,876

[edit] Carling Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
26 October 2004	Round 3	Crewe Alexandra	A	3 – 0	Smith 10', Miller 57', Foster 59' (o.g.)	10,103
10 November 2004	Round 4	Crystal Palace	H	2 – 0	Saha 22', Richardson 39'	48,891
1 December 2004	Quarter-final	Arsenal	H	1 – 0	Bellion 1'	67,103
12 January 2005	Semi-final First leg	Chelsea	A	0 – 0		41,492
26 January 2005	Semi-final Second leg	Chelsea	H	1 – 2	Giggs 67'	67,000

[edit] Champions League

[edit] Qualifying stage

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
11 August 2004	Third qualifying round First leg	Dinamo Bucureşti	A	2 – 1	Giggs 38', Alistar 72' (o.g.)	58,000
25 August 2004	Third qualifying round Second leg	Dinamo Bucureşti	H	3 – 0	Smith (2) 47', 50', Bellion 70'	61,041

[edit] Group stage

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Group position
15 September 2004	Lyon	A	2 – 2	van Nistelrooy (2) 56', 61'	40,000	3rd
28 September 2004	Fenerbahçe	H	6 – 2	Giggs 7', Rooney (3) 17', 28', 54', van Nistelrooy 78', Bellion 81'	67,128	1st
19 October 2004	Sparta Prague	A	0 – 0		20,654	2nd
3 November 2004	Sparta Prague	H	4 – 1	van Nistelrooy (4) 14', 25' (pen.), 60', 90'	66,706	2nd
23 November 2004	Lyon	H	2 – 1	G. Neville 19', van Nistelrooy 53'	66,398	1st
8 December 2004	Fenerbahçe	A	0 – 3		35,000	2nd

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Lyon	6	4	1	1	17	8	+9	13
Manchester United	6	3	2	1	14	9	+5	11
Fenerbahçe	6	3	0	3	10	13	−3	9
Sparta Prague	6	0	1	5	2	13	−11	1

[edit] Knock-out stage

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
23 February 2005	First knockout round First leg	Milan	H	0 – 1		67,162
8 March 2005	First knockout round Second leg	Milan	A	0 – 1		78,957

[edit] Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		Carling Cup		Europe		Other		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Tim Howard	12	0	4	0	5	0	5	0	1	0	27	0
2	DF	Gary Neville	22	0	4	0	1	0	7	1	1	0	35	1
3	DF	Phil Neville	12(7)	0	4(1)	0	3	0	1(5)	0	0(1)	0	20(14)	0
4	DF	Gabriel Heinze	26	1	4	0	2	0	7	0	0	0	39	1
5	DF	Rio Ferdinand	31	0	5	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	42	0
6	DF	Wes Brown	18(3)	1	6	0	3	0	6(1)	0	0	0	33(4)	1
7	MF	Cristiano Ronaldo	25(8)	5	6(1)	4	2	0	7(1)	0	0	0	40(10)	9
8	FW	Wayne Rooney	24(5)	11	6	3	1(1)	0	6	3	0	0	37(6)	17
9	FW	Louis Saha	7(7)	1	0(2)	0	4	1	0(2)	0	0	0	11(11)	2
10	FW	Ruud van Nistelrooy	16(1)	6	3	2	0	0	6(1)	8	0	0	25(2)	16
11	MF	Ryan Giggs	26(6)	6	2(2)	0	1	1	6	2	1	0	36(8)	9
12	FW	David Bellion	1(9)	2	1	0	3	1	2(1)	2	1	0	8(10)	5
13	GK	Roy Carroll	26	0	3	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	34	0
14	FW	Alan Smith	22(9)	6	0(3)	0	1(1)	1	3(2)	2	1	1	27(15)	10
15	MF	Kléberson	6(2)	0	0	0	3	0	2(1)	0	0	0	11(3)	0
16	MF	Roy Keane (c)	28(3)	1	4	1	1	0	6	0	1	0	40(3)	2
17	MF	Liam Miller	3(5)	0	2(2)	0	2	1	3(2)	0	0	0	10(9)	1
18	MF	Paul Scholes	29(4)	9	5(1)	3	1(1)	0	7	0	1	0	43(6)	12
19	MF	Eric Djemba-Djemba	3(2)	0	2	0	4	0	5	0	1	0	15(2)	0
20	FW	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	FW	Diego Forlán	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0(3)	0
22	DF	John O'Shea	16(7)	2	3(1)	1	4	0	5	0	1	0	29(8)	3
23	MF	Kieran Richardson	0(2)	0	1	0	3	1	1(1)	0	0(1)	0	5(4)	1
24	MF	Darren Fletcher	18	3	1(2)	0	3	0	3(2)	0	0(1)	0	25(5)	3
25	MF	Quinton Fortune	12(5)	0	5(1)	1	4	0	3(2)	0	1	0	25(8)	1
27	DF	Mikaël Silvestre	33(2)	2	2(2)	0	2	0	7(1)	0	1	0	45(5)	2
28	DF	Gerard Piqué	0	0	1	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1(2)	0
29	DF	Jonathan Spector	2(1)	0	1	0	0(1)	0	1(1)	0	0(1)	0	4(4)	0
31	MF	David Jones	0	0	1	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0
33	MF	Chris Eagles	0	0	1	0	1(2)	0	1(1)	0	0(1)	0	3(4)	0
35	GK	Ricardo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW	Sylvan Ebanks-Blake	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
42	FW	Giuseppe Rossi	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0

[edit] Transfers

[edit] In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2004	DF	Gerard Piqué	Barcelona	Undisclosed
6 July 2004	FW	Giuseppe Rossi	Parma	Undisclosed
31 August 2004	FW	Wayne Rooney	Everton	£27m

[edit] Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
14 July 2004	DF	Mark Lynch	Sunderland	Free
27 July 2004	MF	Nicky Butt	Newcastle United	£2.5m
2 August 2004	MF	Luke Chadwick	Unattached	Free
20 August 2004	FW	Diego Forlán	Villarreal	Undisclosed
27 December 2004	MF	Bojan Djordjic	Rangers	Undisclosed
31 January 2005	MF	Eric Djemba-Djemba	Aston Villa	£1.35m
30 June 2005	GK	Roy Carroll	Unattached	Free
30 June 2005	FW	Daniel Nardiello	Unattached	Free
30 June 2005	GK	Ricardo	Unattached	Free
30 June 2005	DF	Paul Tierney	Unattached	Free

[edit] Loan out

Date From	Date To	Position	Name	To
15 July 2004	31 May 2005	FW	Eddie Johnson	Coventry City
16 July 2004	30 June 2005	FW	Daniel Nardiello	Barnsley
29 July 2004	31 May 2005	MF	Michael Stewart	Heart of Midlothian
18 August 2004	30 June 2005	FW	Kenny Cooper	Academica Coimbra
11 September 2004	31 May 2005	GK	Luke Steele	Coventry City
7 October 2004	7 November 2004	MF	David Fox	Shrewsbury Town
6 December 2004	5 January 2005	FW	Colin Heath	Cambridge United
21 December 2004	7 May 2005	DF	Paul Tierney	Bradford City
23 December 2004	29 January 2005	DF	Paul McShane	Walsall
21 January 2005	23 April 2005	MF	Chris Eagles	Watford
28 January 2005	5 March 2005	FW	Kenny Cooper	Oldham Athletic
29 January 2005	15 May 2005	MF	Kieran Richardson	West Bromwich Albion

[edit] See also

• Manchester United F.C. seasons

[edit] References

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