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Season | 2004–05 |
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Dates | 14 August 2004 – 15 May 2005 |
Champions | Chelsea 1st Premier League title 2nd English title |
Relegated | Crystal Palace Norwich City Southampton |
Champions League | Chelsea Arsenal Manchester United Everton Liverpool (as Champions League winners) |
UEFA Cup | Bolton Wanderers Middlesbrough |
Intertoto Cup | Newcastle United |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 975 (2.57 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Thierry Henry (25 goals) |
Best goalkeeper | Petr Čech (24 clean sheets) |
Biggest home win | Arsenal 7–0 Everton (11 May 2005) |
Biggest away win | West Bromwich Albion 0–5 Liverpool (26 December 2004) |
Highest scoring | Tottenham Hotspur 4–5 Arsenal (13 November 2004) |
Longest winning run | 8 games [1] Chelsea |
Longest unbeaten run | 29 games [1] Chelsea |
Longest winless run | 15 games [1] West Bromwich Albion |
Longest losing run | 6 games [1] Bolton Wanderers Tottenham Hotspur |
Highest attendance | 67,989 Manchester United 2–1 Portsmouth (26 February 2005) |
Lowest attendance | 16,180 Fulham 1–0 West Bromwich Albion (16 January 2005) |
Total attendance | 12,882,140 |
Average attendance | 33,900 |
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The 2004–05 FA Premier League (known as the FA Barclays Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the 13th season of the Premier League. It began on 14 August 2004 and ended on 15 May 2005. Arsenal were the defending champions after going unbeaten the previous season. Chelsea won the title with a then record 95 points, which was previously set by Manchester United in the 1993–94 season, and later surpassed by Manchester City in the 2017–18 season (100), securing the title with a 2–0 win at the Reebok Stadium against Bolton Wanderers. Chelsea also broke a number of other records during their campaign, most notably breaking the record of most games won in a single Premier League campaign, securing 29 wins in the league in home and away matches, which was later surpassed by themselves in the 2016–17 season.
Arsenal were the favourites to defend their title after finishing the previous season unbeaten, but they also faced competition in the form of regular challengers Manchester United and Chelsea, the latter under the new management of Portuguese José Mourinho, who had just won the UEFA Champions League with Porto. Liverpool also had a new manager in Spaniard Rafael Benítez, who had just won La Liga and the UEFA Cup with Valencia and were expected to challenge for the title too. Another managerial change at a club aiming for the top was at Tottenham Hotspur, who appointed Jacques Santini, who had just led France to the quarter-finals of the 2004 European Championship.
At the other end of the table, amongst those tipped for relegation were Norwich City, Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, having all just been promoted from the First Division (rebranded this season as the Championship). Everton, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth were also tipped to struggle, the first three finishing just outside the relegation places the previous season and Portsmouth being in their second season.
Arsenal's record-breaking unbeaten streak of 49 games ended on 24 October 2004, when Manchester United beat them 2–0 at Old Trafford.
For the first time since the advent of the Premier League in 1992, no team was relegated before the final day of the season. In each of the last three weekends of the season, the team that was bottom of the table at the start of the weekend finished it outside the drop zone. The final round of the season began with West Bromwich Albion at the bottom, Southampton and Crystal Palace one point ahead and Norwich City a further point ahead, in the last safe spot. West Brom, who had been bottom of the table and eight points from safety on Christmas Day, did their part by beating Portsmouth 2–0. Norwich, the only side to have their fate completely in their own hands, lost 6–0 to Fulham and went down. Southampton took the lead against Manchester United within 10 minutes through a John O'Shea own goal, but ultimately lost the match 2–1 and were also relegated. Crystal Palace, away to Charlton Athletic, were leading 2–1 after 71 minutes, but with eight minutes to go, Jonathan Fortune equalised for Charlton to send their South East London rivals down. Had Palace won they would have stayed up; instead they became the first team to be relegated from the Premier League four times. As a result, West Brom stayed up, becoming the first club in Premier League history to avoid relegation after being bottom of the table at Christmas.
As all four matches ended, cameras focused on West Brom's home ground, The Hawthorns, as confirmation of other results began to filter through. Once the realisation dawned on the players and fans that survival had been achieved, a mass pitch invasion was sparked, with huge celebrations. The Portsmouth fans joined in the celebrations as, through losing, they had "helped" relegate arch-rivals Southampton.
Twenty teams competed in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the First Division. The promoted teams were Norwich City, West Bromwich Albion and Crystal Palace, returning to the top flight after an absence of nine, one and six years respectively. The promoted teams replaced Leicester City, Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, who were relegated to the newly branded Football League Championship. Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers were both relegated after a season's presence, while Leeds United ended their top flight spell of fourteen years.
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Liverpool | ![]() | Mutual consent | 24 May 2004 [2] | Pre-season | ![]() | 16 June 2004 [3] |
Chelsea | ![]() | Sacked | 31 May 2004 | ![]() | 2 June 2004 [4] | |
Tottenham Hotspur | ![]() | End of caretaker spell | 1 June 2004 | ![]() | 3 June 2004 [5] | |
Southampton | ![]() | Mutual consent | 23 August 2004 [6] | 10th | ![]() | 23 August 2004 |
Newcastle United | ![]() | Sacked | 30 August 2004 [7] | 17th | ![]() | 6 September 2004 [8] |
Blackburn Rovers | ![]() | Signed by Newcastle United | 6 September 2004 [8] | 19th | ![]() | 16 September 2004 [9] |
West Bromwich Albion | ![]() | Sacked | 26 October 2004 [10] | 16th | ![]() | 9 November 2004 [11] |
Tottenham Hotspur | ![]() | Resigned | 5 November 2004 | 11th | ![]() | 8 November 2004 [12] |
Portsmouth | ![]() | 24 November 2004 [13] | 12th | ![]() | 21 December 2004 [14] | |
Southampton | ![]() | Sacked | 8 December 2004 | 18th | ![]() | 21 December 2004 [15] |
Manchester City | ![]() | Resigned | 11 March 2005 [16] | 12th | ![]() | 11 March 2005 |
Portsmouth | ![]() | Returned to director of football position | 7 April 2005 | 16th | ![]() | 7 April 2005 [17] |
Manchester City | ![]() | End of caretaker period | 12 May 2005 [18] | 8th | ![]() | 12 May 2005 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Chelsea (C) | 38 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 72 | 15 | +57 | 95 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
2 | Arsenal | 38 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 87 | 36 | +51 | 83 | |
3 | Manchester United | 38 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 58 | 26 | +32 | 77 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
4 | Everton | 38 | 18 | 7 | 13 | 45 | 46 | −1 | 61 | |
5 | Liverpool | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 52 | 41 | +11 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round [lower-alpha 1] |
6 | Bolton Wanderers | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 49 | 44 | +5 | 58 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [lower-alpha 2] |
7 | Middlesbrough | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 53 | 46 | +7 | 55 | |
8 | Manchester City | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 47 | 39 | +8 | 52 | |
9 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 47 | 41 | +6 | 52 | |
10 | Aston Villa | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 45 | 52 | −7 | 47 | |
11 | Charlton Athletic | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 42 | 58 | −16 | 46 | |
12 | Birmingham City | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 45 | |
13 | Fulham | 38 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 52 | 60 | −8 | 44 | |
14 | Newcastle United | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 44 | Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round |
15 | Blackburn Rovers | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 32 | 43 | −11 | 42 | |
16 | Portsmouth | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 43 | 59 | −16 | 39 | |
17 | West Bromwich Albion | 38 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 36 | 61 | −25 | 34 | |
18 | Crystal Palace (R) | 38 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 41 | 62 | −21 | 33 | Relegation to the Football League Championship |
19 | Norwich City (R) | 38 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 42 | 77 | −35 | 33 | |
20 | Southampton (R) | 38 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 45 | 66 | −21 | 32 |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | ![]() | Arsenal | 25 |
2 | ![]() | Crystal Palace | 21 |
3 | ![]() | Arsenal | 14 |
4 | ![]() | Tottenham Hotspur | 13 |
![]() | Middlesbrough | 13 | |
![]() | Chelsea | 13 | |
![]() | Portsmouth | 13 | |
8 | ![]() | Fulham | 12 |
![]() | Southampton | 12 | |
![]() | Chelsea | 12 |
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The PFA Player's Player of the year award was won by Chelsea captain John Terry.
The shortlist for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award, in alphabetical order, was as follows: [21]
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney was the recipient for this award.
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard won this award for the first time.
Goalkeeper – Petr Čech
Defenders – Gary Neville, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole
Midfielders – Shaun Wright-Phillips, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Arjen Robben
Strikers – Thierry Henry, Andy Johnson
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard won this award.
Chelsea's midfielder Frank Lampard won the Premier League Player of the Season award.
Arsenal and French striker Thierry Henry won the Premier League Golden Boot award for the third time in his career with 25 goals.
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech won the Premier League Golden Glove, for 25 clean sheets, in his debut season as he set a remarkable record of 10 consecutive clean sheets, as Chelsea won the title.
José Mourinho was awarded the Premier League Manager of the Season award after he led Chelsea to their first Premier League title, second Top division title in their history. [22] [23] During his first season at the club, Chelsea won the Premier League title (their first league title in 50 years) and the League Cup. The season was also notable for the number of records set during the season: Fewest goals against in a Premier League season (15), most clean sheets kept in a season (25), most wins in a season (29), most consecutive away wins (9) and the most points in a season (95).
The Premier League Fair Play Award is merit given to the team who has been the most sporting and best behaved team. Arsenal won the award for the second year in a row, ahead of Tottenham. [24] The least sporting side for 2004–05 was Blackburn Rovers, who achieved a significantly lower fair play score than any other side. [25]
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