2005 Chivas USA season

Chivas USA
2005 season
Owner	Jorge Vergara
Manager	Thomas Rongen ; (until May 2005); Javier Ledesma Interim; (May–June 2005); Hans Westerhof ; (from June 2005)
MLS	Conference: 6th; Overall: 12th
MLS Cup Playoffs	Did not qualify
U.S. Open Cup	Fourth round
SuperClasico	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Héctor Cuadros (4); All: Three players (4)
Home colors	Away colors
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Last updated August 04, 2025

The 2005 Chivas USA season was the club's first season of existence, and their first in Major League Soccer, the top flight of American soccer. The club competed in the MLS's Western Conference, where they finished in sixth place, or last place, in the Conference.

Season review

Thomas Rongen was appointed as Chivas USA's head coach in September 2004, and coached the team until May 2005, when he was replaced with Javier Ledesma on an interim basis. At the end of June, Hans Westerhof was appointed as the permanent manager until the end of the season.

Transfers

In

Date	Number	Position	Player	Previous club	Fee/notes	Ref
November 19, 2004	22	DF	Arturo Torres	LA Galaxy	Expansion Draft First pick
November 19, 2004	2	DF	Orlando Perez	Chicago Fire	Expansion Draft Third pick
November 19, 2004	5	DF	Ezra Hendrickson	D.C. United	Expansion Draft Fifth pick
November 19, 2004	8	MF	Francisco Gomez	LA Galaxy	Expansion Draft Seventh pick
November 19, 2004		MF	Antonio de la Torre	Colorado Rapids	Expansion Draft Ninth pick
November 19, 2004	19	FW	Matt Taylor	Kansas City Wizards	Expansion Draft Eleventh pick
November 19, 2004		DF	Craig Ziadie	MetroStars	Expansion Draft Thirteenth pick
November 19, 2004		FW	Jamil Walker	San Jose Earthquakes	Expansion Draft Fifteenth pick
November 19, 2004	99	FW	Thiago Martins	D.C. United	Expansion Draft Seventeenth pick
November 19, 2004		DF	Jeff Stewart	Colorado Rapids	Expansion Draft Nineteenth pick
January 14, 2005	18	GK	Brad Guzan	Generation Adidas	SuperDraft Round one
January 14, 2005	17	MF	Christian Jimenez	South Florida Bulls	SuperDraft Round two
January 14, 2005	4	DF	Aaron Lopez	UCLA Bruins	SuperDraft Round three
January 14, 2005	20	DF	Esteban Arias	Connecticut Huskies	SuperDraft Round four
February 26, 2005	27	DF	Douglas Sequeira	Real Salt Lake	Trade	^[1]
July 2005	4	MF	Juan Pablo García	Atlas
August 19, 2005	19	FW	Francisco Palencia	Guadalajara
	1	GK	Martín Zúñiga	Veracruz
	21	GK	Shaun Kalnasy	Spokane Shadow
	59	GK	Sergio García	Loan from Guadalajara
	3	DF	Ryan Suarez	LA Galaxy
	23	DF	Armando Begines	Guadalajara
	6	MF	Francisco Mendoza	Guadalajara
	7	MF	Ramón Ramírez	Guadalajara
	10	MF	Héctor Cuadros	Guadalajara
	11	MF	Milton Blanco	Fresno Fuego
	12	MF	Mike Muñoz
	13	MF	Rodrigo López	Guadalajara
	16	MF	Antonio Martínez	Necaxa
	26	MF	Jesús Ochoa	Lagartos de Tabasco
	9	FW	Isaac Romo	Loan from Guadalajara

Out

Date	Number	Position	Player	New club	Fee/notes	Ref
November 24, 2004		DF	Jeff Stewart	Real Salt Lake	Trade
March 8, 2005		FW	Jamil Walker	D.C. United	Trade	^[2]
June 27, 2005	3	DF	Ryan Suarez	MetroStars	Waived
August 29, 2005	1	GK	Martín Zúñiga	Retired
	4	DF	Aaron Lopez
	47	DF	Alfonso Loera	CD Tapatio
		DF	Craig Ziadie
		MF	Antonio de la Torre

Roster

No.	Name	Position	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Signed in	Contract ends
Goalkeepers
18	Brad Guzan	GK	(1984-09-09)September 9, 1984 (aged 21)	Generation Adidas	2005
21	Shaun Kalnasy	GK	(1981-11-04)November 4, 1981 (aged 23)	Spokane Shadow	2005
59	Sergio García	GK	(1982-09-19)September 19, 1982 (aged 23)	loan Guadalajara	2005
Defenders
2	Orlando Perez	DF	(1977-07-12)July 12, 1977 (aged 28)	Chicago Fire	2005
5	Ezra Hendrickson	DF	(1972-01-16)January 16, 1972 (aged 33)	D.C. United	2005
20	Esteban Arias	DF	(1982-08-26)August 26, 1982 (aged 23)	Connecticut Huskies	2005
22	Arturo Torres	DF	(1980-12-11)December 11, 1980 (aged 24)	LA Galaxy	2005
23	Armando Begines	DF	(1983-03-26)March 26, 1983 (aged 22)	Guadalajara	2005
27	Douglas Sequeira	DF	(1977-08-23)August 23, 1977 (aged 28)	Saprissa	2005
Midfielders
6	Francisco Mendoza	MF	(1985-04-29)April 29, 1985 (aged 20)	Guadalajara	2005
7	Ramón Ramírez	MF	(1969-12-05)December 5, 1969 (aged 35)	Guadalajara	2005
8	Francisco Gomez	MF	(1979-01-25)January 25, 1979 (aged 26)	Kansas City Wizards	2005
10	Héctor Cuadros	MF	(1983-03-20)March 20, 1983 (aged 22)	Guadalajara	2005
11	Milton Blanco	MF	(1984-04-27)April 27, 1984 (aged 21)	Fresno Fuego	2005
12	Mike Muñoz	MF	(1983-09-14)September 14, 1983 (aged 22)	California Golden Bears	2005
13	Rodrigo López	MF	(1987-05-10)May 10, 1987 (aged 18)	Guadalajara	2005
16	Antonio Martínez	MF	(1977-07-09)July 9, 1977 (aged 28)	Necaxa	2005
17	Christian Jimenez	MF	(1986-11-03)November 3, 1986 (aged 18)	South Florida Bulls	2005
26	Jesús Ochoa	MF	(1981-10-12)October 12, 1981 (aged 24)	Lagartos de Tabasco	2005
44	Juan Pablo García	MF	(1981-11-24)November 24, 1981 (aged 23)	Atlas	2005
Forwards
9	Isaac Romo	FW	(1983-03-23)March 23, 1983 (aged 22)	loan from Guadalajara	2005	2006
15	Francisco Palencia	FW	(1973-04-28)April 28, 1973 (aged 32)	Guadalajara	2005
19	Matt Taylor	FW	(1981-10-17)October 17, 1981 (aged 23)	Kansas City Wizards	2005
99	Thiago Martins	FW	(1976-09-04)September 4, 1976 (aged 29)	D.C. United	2005

Competitions

Major League Soccer

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	San Jose Earthquakes	32	18	4	10	53	31	+22	64	MLS Cup Playoffs
2	FC Dallas	32	13	10	9	52	44	+8	48
3	Colorado Rapids	32	13	13	6	40	37	+3	45
4	Los Angeles Galaxy	32	13	13	6	44	45	−1	45
5	Real Salt Lake	32	5	22	5	30	65	−35	20
6	Chivas USA	32	4	22	6	31	67	−36	18

Source: MLS

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	Pts	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
32	18	4	22	6	31	67	−36	3	11	2	15	30	−15	1	11	4	16	37	−21

Last updated: October 16, 2005
Source: ESPNSoccernet.com
Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference

Results

April 2, 20051	Chivas USA	0–2	D.C. United	Carson
13:00 PST	Cuadros 18'	Report	Eskandarian 29' Gros 32' Olsen 44' Gómez 52'67'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center Attendance: 18,493

April 9, 20052	San Jose Earthquakes	3–3	Chivas USA	San Jose
13:00 PST	Ching 17'90' Davis 45' Mullan 60' Cochrane 71' Dayak 75'	Report	Martins 3' 33' Ramírez 40' Cuadros 73' Sequeira 90'	Stadium: Spartan Stadium

April 16, 20053	Chivas USA	1–3	FC Dallas	Carson
19:00 PST	Ochoa 5' Martins 44' Suarez 78' Hendrickson 90'	Report	O'Brien 40' 66' Ruiz 85' (pen.) Johnson 90'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

April 23, 20054	LA Galaxy	3–1	Chivas USA	Carson
19:00 PST	Albright 6' Jones 14' Vagenas 24' Kirovski 32'	Report	Cuadros 19' Lopez 45' 51' Ramírez 49' Romo 49'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

April 30, 20055	New England Revolution	1–0	Chivas USA	Foxborough
16:30 PST	Dempsey 88'	Report	Cuadros 61' Taylor 72' Martins 73' Suarez 78' Romo 83'	Stadium: Gillette Stadium

May 7, 20056	Chivas USA	1–0	Real Salt Lake	Carson
19:00 PST	Cuadros 39' (pen.) Loera 49' Begines 90+4'	Report	Rojas 57' Whitfield 76' Kreis 85'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

May 14, 20057	Colorado Rapids	2–1	Chivas USA	Denver
18:00 PST	Borchers 18' Henderson 30' (pen.) Pedro 56' Cannon 73' Freeman 73' Cunningham 78' N'Kong 79' Lewis 86'	Report	Suarez 67' Ramírez 75'	Stadium: Invesco Field at Mile High

May 18, 20058	Real Salt Lake	2–0	Chivas USA	Salt Lake City
18:30 PST	Akwari 20' Williams 37' Trembly 39' 68'	Report	Perez 36' Gomez 83' Loera 90+2' 90+2'	Stadium: Rice-Eccles Stadium

May 22, 20059	Chivas USA	2–5	FC Dallas	Carson
18:30 PST	Cuadros 19' (pen.) Romo 53'	Report	Pitchkolan 1' Goodson 15' Gbandi 31' Ruiz 48' O'Brien 51' Johnson 69' Miña 90+1'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

May 28, 200510	Chivas USA	0–2	LA Galaxy	Carson
19:00 PST		Report	Chinchilla 62' Nagamura 63' Vagenas 76' Gomez 83'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

June 1, 200511	Chivas USA	1–1	Kansas City Wizards	Carson
19:30 PST	Ramírez 38' Martins 58'	Report	Burciaga 30' Gutiérrez 56'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

June 4, 200512	Chicago Fire	5–2	Chivas USA	Chicago
13:00 PST	Jaqua 2', 60', 74' Marsch 53' Guerrero 57'	Report	Martínez 5' Hendrickson 42'	Stadium: Soldier Field

June 12, 200513	Chivas USA	1–1	San Jose Earthquakes	Carson
17:00 PST	Martínez 32' Romo 62' Hendrickson 66' Begines 70' Torres 90+3'	Report	Clark 15' Moreno 45' Aloisi 63'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

June 18, 200514	Chivas USA	1–3	Colorado Rapids	Carson
19:00 PST	Begines 65' Martins 83' (pen.)	Report	Cunningham 30', 62', 78' Beckerman 40' Lewis 83'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

June 22, 200515	FC Dallas	2–1	Chivas USA	Dallas
17:30 PST	Miña 18' Pitchkolan 45+1' Thompson 81' Núñez 90+1'	Report	Hendrickson 39' Taylor 48' Ramírez 64'	Stadium: Cotton Bowl

June 25, 200516	Kansas City Wizards	3–0	Chivas USA	Kansas City
14:00 PST	Thomas 17' Conrad 46' Zavagnin 69' Arnaud 70' Victorine 85'	Report	Arias 9' Martínez 85'	Stadium: Arrowhead Stadium

July 2, 200517	Chivas USA	0–1	Chicago Fire	Carson
19:00 PST	Gomez 19' Martínez 45' Cuadros 68' Perez 76'	Report	Pause 66' Segares 78'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

July 9, 200518	Chivas USA	5–1	Real Salt Lake	Carson
19:00 PST	Kamler 4' (o.g.) Cuadros 16' (pen.) Ramírez 38' Martínez 53' Taylor 55' Martins 57' Romo 83'	Report	Knowles 16' Mathis 23' Kamler 74'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

July 16, 200519	LA Galaxy	2–0	Chivas USA	Carson
19:00 PST	Kirovski 19' Gomez 64', 90+3'	Report	Martins 44' Arias 48'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

July 22, 200520	Chivas USA	1–0	New England Revolution	Carson
19:30 PST	Sequeira 38'	Report	Heaps 81' Franchino 87' Dorman 90+1'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

August 6, 200521	Real Salt Lake	2–1	Chivas USA	Salt Lake City
14:00 PST	Mathis 18' Williams 49' Kreis 74' (pen.)	Report	Romo 17' Ochoa 19' Arias 21' Torres 27' Sequeira 63' Begines 74' Martínez 90+1'	Stadium: Rice-Eccles Stadium

August 10, 200522	Chivas USA	0–1	LA Galaxy	Carson
19:00 PST	Sequeira 43' Torres 68' Guzan 82'	Report	Albright 32' Gomez 64' Donovan 83' (pen.)	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

August 13, 200523	D.C. United	3–0	Chivas USA	Washington, D.C.
13:00 PST	Simms 30' Quaranta 41' Walker 43' Kovalenko 64'	Report	Ramírez 35'	Stadium: RFK Stadium

August 21, 200524	MetroStars	3–3	Chivas USA	East Rutherford
15:00 PST	Guevara 5' (pen.), 69' (pen.), 90+4' Bradley 25' Parke 51' Meola 86'	Report	Palencia 17', 22' 90+1' García 39' 45+1' Mendoza 69' Hendrickson 80' Cuadros 86'	Stadium: Giants Stadium

August 27, 200525	FC Dallas	2–2	Chivas USA	Frisco
17:30 PST	Goodson 39' Ruiz 44' Núñez 67' Gbandi 69' Johnson 82'	Report	Arias 37' Hendrickson 59' Sequeira 82'	Stadium: Pizza Hut Park

September 3, 200526	Chivas USA	0–3	Columbus Crew	Carson
19:00 PST	Palencia 45'	Report	Glen 34' Wolyniec 60', 69' Szetela 76'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

September 10, 200527	San Jose Earthquakes	3–0	Chivas USA	San Jose
19:00 PST	Clark 4'74' Chung 47' Ching 87'	Report	Perez 11' Hendrickson 33' Martínez 38' Palencia 59' Mendoza 72'	Stadium: Spartan Stadium

September 17, 200528	Chivas USA	1–2	San Jose Earthquakes	Carson
19:00 PST	Mendoza 20' Sequeira 34' Ramírez 52'	Report	Robinson 67' Califf 81' Moreno 90+3'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

September 24, 200529	Chivas USA	1–3	Colorado Rapids	Carson
19:00 PST	Torres 19' 65' García 36' Ramírez 49' Sequeira 59' Arias 90'	Report	Pedro 25' Gargan 42' Kirovski 47' (pen.) Foss 89' N'Kong 90' Serna 90+1' Dayan 90+3'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

October 1, 200530	Columbus Crew	0–1	Chivas USA	Columbus
16:30 PST	Wingert 86'	Report	Palencia 59' 88'	Stadium: Crew Stadium

October 5, 200531	Colorado Rapids	1–1	Chivas USA	Denver
18:30 PST	Petke 32' Dayan 33' Denton 62'	Report	Borchers 35' (o.g.) Arias 70'	Stadium: Invesco Field at Mile High

October 16, 200532	Chivas USA	0–2	MetroStars	Carson
10:00 PST		Report	Bradley 49' Agoos 65' Guevara 90+4'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center

U.S. Open Cup

July 13, 2005 Third round	Charlotte Eagles	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Chivas USA	Davidson
21:00 PST	Coggins 24' Swinehart 81'		Arias 3' Martins 84' Romo 120'	Stadium: Richardson Stadium Referee: Andrew Chapin

August 3, 2005 Fourth round	LA Galaxy	5–2	Chivas USA	Carson
14:00 PST	Jones 16' Ngwenya 36' Gomez 45' Donovan 89' Nagamura 93+'		Sequeira 4' Ramírez 20'	Stadium: The Home Depot Center Referee: Michael Kennedy

Statistics

As of Match played October 16, 2005

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		MLS		U.S. Open Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	USA	Orlando Perez	27	0	24+3	0	0	0
5	DF	VIN	Ezra Hendrickson	31	3	31	3	0	0
6	MF	MEX	Francisco Mendoza	24	0	20+4	0	0	0
7	MF	MEX	Ramón Ramírez	31	3	31	3	0	0
8	MF	USA	Francisco Gomez	12	0	8+4	0	0	0
9	FW	MEX	Isaac Romo	25	2	11+14	2	0	0
10	MF	MEX	Héctor Cuadros	26	4	18+8	4	0	0
11	MF	USA	Milton Blanco	5	0	0+5	0	0	0
12	MF	USA	Mike Muñoz	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
13	MF	USA	Rodrigo López	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
15	FW	MEX	Francisco Palencia	9	3	9	3	0	0
16	MF	USA	Antonio Martínez	25	2	16+9	2	0	0
18	GK	USA	Brad Guzan	24	0	23+1	0	0	0
19	FW	USA	Matt Taylor	21	2	14+7	2	0	0
20	DF	USA	Esteban Arias	15	1	14+1	1	0	0
22	DF	USA	Arturo Torres	23	2	15+8	2	0	0
23	DF	MEX	Armando Begines	22	0	18+4	0	0	0
26	MF	MEX	Jesús Ochoa	16	0	12+4	0	0	0
27	DF	CRC	Douglas Sequeira	23	2	23	2	0	0
44	MF	MEX	Juan Pablo García	9	1	9	1	0	0
59	GK	MEX	Sergio García	5	0	5	0	0	0
99	FW	BRA	Thiago Martins	22	3	21+1	3	0	0
Players away from Chivas USA on loan:
Players who left Chivas USA during the season:
1	GK	MEX	Martín Zúñiga	4	0	4	0	0	0
3	DF	USA	Ryan Suarez	15	1	14+1	1	0	0
4	DF	USA	Aaron Lopez	4	0	3+1	0	0	0
47	DF	MEX	Alfonso Loera	12	0	9+3	0	0	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	MLS	U.S. Open Cup	Total
1	MF	10	Héctor Cuadros	4	0	4
	FW	99	Thiago Martins	3	1	4
	MF	7	Ramón Ramírez	3	1	4
4	DF	5	Ezra Hendrickson	3	0	3
	FW	15	Francisco Palencia	3	0	3
	DF	27	Douglas Sequeira	2	1	3
	FW	9	Isaac Romo	2	1	3
8	MF	16	Antonio Martínez	2	0	2
	FW	19	Matt Taylor	2	0	2
	DF	22	Arturo Torres	2	0	2
			Own goal	2	0	2
	DF	20	Esteban Arias	1	1	2
13	DF	3	Ryan Suarez	1	0	1
13	MF	44	Juan Pablo García	1	0	1
			TOTALS	31	5	36

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name
Number	Nation	Position	Name	MLS		U.S. Open Cup		Total
2		DF	Orlando Perez	2	1	0	0	2	1
3		DF	Ryan Suarez	2	0	0	0	2	0
4		DF	Aaron Lopez	2	1	0	0	2	1
5		DF	Ezra Hendrickson	4	0	0	0	4	0
6		MF	Francisco Mendoza	3	0	0	0	3	0
7		MF	Ramón Ramírez	6	0	0	0	6	0
8		MF	Francisco Gomez	2	0	0	0	2	0
9		FW	Isaac Romo	4	0	0	0	4	0
10		MF	Héctor Cuadros	5	0	0	0	5	0
15		FW	Francisco Palencia	4	0	0	0	4	0
16		MF	Antonio Martínez	5	0	0	0	5	0
18		GK	Brad Guzan	1	0	0	0	1	0
19		FW	Matt Taylor	1	0	0	0	1	0
20		DF	Esteban Arias	4	1	0	0	4	1
22		DF	Arturo Torres	3	0	0	0	3	0
23		DF	Armando Begines	4	0	0	0	4	0
26		MF	Jesús Ochoa	2	0	0	0	2	0
27		DF	Douglas Sequeira	5	0	0	0	5	0
44		MF	Juan Pablo García	2	0	0	0	2	0
47		DF	Alfonso Loera	3	1	0	0	3	1
99		FW	Thiago Martins	5	0	0	0	5	0
			TOTALS	69	4	0	0	69	4

References

↑ "Chivas USA contrató a defensor costarricense Douglas Sequeira". wvw.nacion.com (in Spanish). Nacion. February 26, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
↑ "D.C. United Signs Nick Van Sicklen and Jamil Walker". www.oursportscentral.com. Our Sports Central. March 8, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

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[1] "Chivas USA contrató a defensor costarricense Douglas Sequeira". wvw.nacion.com (in Spanish). Nacion. February 26, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

[2] "D.C. United Signs Nick Van Sicklen and Jamil Walker". www.oursportscentral.com. Our Sports Central. March 8, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

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