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In the 2004-05 season, the Serie A, the major football Italian professional league, was composed by 20 teams, for the first time in several years.

The first two teams qualified directly to UEFA Champions League, teams ending in the 3rd and 4th places had to play Champions League qualifications, teams ending in the 5th and 6th places qualified to UEFA Cup (another spot was given to the winner of Coppa Italia), while the last three teams were to be relegated in Serie B, the Italian second division.

Juventus finished first in the table. However the club was subsequently stripped in 2006 of what would have been their 28th national title because of their involvement in the 2006 Serie A scandal. Udinese qualified for its first time to UEFA Champions League; Palermo, at its first Serie A campaign in over 30 years, reached the 6th place, gaining access to UEFA Cup for the first time in its history; Roma qualified for UEFA Cup as the runner-up in Coppa Italia because the cup winner, Internazionale, already qualified for CL Qualifying. As regards the relegations, two teams, Brescia and Atalanta, were directly relegated to Serie B, while the third relegation was to be decided among three teams, Fiorentina, Bologna, and Parma; counting only the so-called classifica avulsa, that is the table composed solely by the six matches between the three teams, Bologna and Parma had less points, and played the relegation tiebreaker; the tiebreaker was won by Parma, defeated 0–1 at home but winning 0–2 away in the return match.

[edit] Final classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juventus	38	26	8	4	67	27	+40	086¹	UEFA Champions League 2005-06 Group stage
2	Milan	38	23	10	5	63	28	+35	79	UEFA Champions League 2005-06 Group stage
3	Internazionale	38	18	18	2	65	37	+28	72	UEFA Champions League 2005-06 Third qualyfing round
4	Udinese	38	17	11	10	56	40	+16	62	UEFA Champions League 2005-06 Third qualyfing round
5	Sampdoria	38	17	10	11	42	29	+13	61	UEFA Cup 2005-06 First round
6	Palermo	38	12	17	9	48	44	+4	53	UEFA Cup 2005-06 First round
7	Messina	38	12	12	14	44	52	−8	48
8	Roma	38	11	12	15	55	58	−3	045²	UEFA Cup 2005-06 First round
9	Livorno	38	11	12	15	49	60	−11	45
10	Lazio	38	11	11	16	48	53	−5	044³	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2005 Third round
11	Lecce	38	10	14	14	66	73	−7	44
12	Cagliari	38	10	14	14	51	60	−9	44
13	Reggina	38	10	14	14	36	45	−9	44
14	Siena	38	9	16	13	44	55	−11	43
15	Chievo	38	11	10	17	32	49	−17	43
16	Fiorentina	38	9	15	14	42	50	−8	42
17	Bologna	38	9	15	14	33	36	−3	42	Relegation tie-breaker
18	Parma	38	10	12	16	48	65	−17	42	Relegation tie-breaker
19	Brescia (R)	38	11	8	19	37	54	−17	41	Relegation to {{Fb competition {{{s}}} {{{c}}} }}
20	Atalanta (R)	38	8	11	19	34	45	−11	35	Relegation to {{Fb competition {{{s}}} {{{c}}} }}

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
¹ Juventus was stripped of the title during the Serie A 2005-06 season, because of the 2006 Italian football scandal
²Roma gained entry to the 2005-06 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia 2004-05 runner-ups: champions Internazionale qualified to the 2005-06 Champions League.
³Lazio gained entry to the 2005 Intertoto Cup after Messina and Livorno renounced.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	ATA	BOL	BRE	CAG	CHV	FIO	INT	JUV	LAZ	LCE	LIV	MES	MIL	PAL	PAR	REG	ROM	SAM	SIE	UDI
Atalanta		2–0	0–0	2–2	3–0	1–0	2–3	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1
Bologna	2–1		1–2	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–1
Brescia	1–0	1–1		2–0	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–3	0–2	0–1	2–3	2–1	0–0	0–2	3–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1
Cagliari	3–3	1–0	2–1		4–2	1–0	3–3	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–1
Chievo	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1		1–2	2–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–3	0–0
Fiorentina	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–0		1–1	3–3	2–3	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	2–2
Internazionale	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–2		2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	5–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	3–1
Juventus	2–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	3–0	1–0	0–1		2–1	5–2	4–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	3–0	2–1
Lazio	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1		3–3	3–1	2–0	1–2	1–3	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	0–1
Lecce	1–0	1–1	4–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–2	0–1	5–3		3–2	1–0	2–2	2–0	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–4	2–2	3–4
Livorno	1–1	1–0	2–1	3–3	1–2	2–0	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–0		3–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	3–6	1–2
Messina	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–4	1–1		1–4	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–3	2–2	4–1	1–0
Milan	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	6–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	5–2	2–2	1–2		3–3	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	3–1
Palermo	1–0	1–0	3–3	3–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	3–3	3–2	1–2	2–1	0–0		1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–5
Parma	2–2	1–2	2–1	3–2	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	6–4	0–0	1–2	3–3		1–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0
Reggina	0–0	1–1	1–3	3–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–3		1–0	0–1	3–3	0–0
Roma	2–1	1–1	2–2	5–1	0–0	1–0	3–3	1–2	0–0	2–2	3–0	3–2	0–2	1–1	5–1	1–2		1–1	0–2	0–3
Sampdoria	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	2–1		1–1	2–0
Siena	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–4	2–1		2–3
Udinese	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	3–3	1–1	1–0

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

[edit] Relegation tie-breaker

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Parma	2-1	Bologna	0-1	2-0

Bologna F.C. 1909 relegated to Serie B.

[edit] Leading Scorers

Place	Scorer	Scored	Team
1	Cristiano Lucarelli	24	Livorno
2	Alberto Gilardino	23	Parma
3	Vincenzo Montella	21	Roma
4	Luca Toni	20	Palermo
5	Mirko Vučinić	19	Lecce
6	Andriy Shevchenko	17	Milan
7	Adriano	16	Internazionale
	Mauro Esposito	16	Cagliari
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	16	Juventus
10	David Di Michele	15	Udinese

[edit] Transfer

[edit] References and Sources

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2006, Panini Edizioni, Modena, November 2006

[edit] External links

[1] - Italian version with pictures and info.
[2] - All results on RSSSF Website.
2004/2005 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.com)

[edit] Footnotes

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