SERIE A 2004-05

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 Calcio qualified for its first time to UEFA Champions League; US 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; AS Roma qualified for UEFA Cup as the runner-up in Coppa Italia because the cup winner, Inter Milan, 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 playoff; the playoff was won by Parma, defeated 0–1 at home but winning 0–2 away in the return match.

Contents

Classification

Results Table

Leading Scorers

Transfer

External links

Classification

Place	Team	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Goals scored	Goals conceded	Points	Comments
1.	Juventus F.C.1	38	26	8	4	67	27	'86'	Champions League
2.	A.C. Milan	38	23	10	5	63	28	'79'	Champions League
3.	Internazionale Milano F.C.	38	18	18	2	65	37	'72'	CL Qualifying
4.	Udinese Calcio	38	17	11	10	56	40	'62'	CL Qualifying
5.	U.C. Sampdoria	38	17	10	11	42	29	'61'	UEFA Cup
6.	U.S. Città di Palermo	38	12	17	9	48	44	'53'	UEFA Cup
7.	F.C. Messina Peloro	38	12	12	14	44	52	'48'
8.	A.S. Roma	38	11	12	15	55	58	'45'	UEFA Cup2.
9.	A.S. Livorno Calcio	38	11	12	15	49	60	'45'
10.	S.S. Lazio	38	11	11	16	48	53	'44'	Intertoto Cup
11.	U.S. Lecce	38	10	14	14	66	73	'44'
12.	Cagliari Calcio	38	10	14	14	51	60	'44'
13.	Reggina Calcio	38	10	14	14	36	45	'44'
14.	A.C. Siena	38	9	16	13	44	55	'43'
15.	A.C. ChievoVerona	38	11	10	17	32	49	'43'
16.	ACF Fiorentina	38	9	15	14	42	50	'42'	[4 2 2 0 3-1 8] Relegation Playoff
17.	Bologna F.C. 1909	38	9	15	14	33	36	'42'	[4 2 1 1 5-3 7] Relegated
18.	Parma A.C.	38	10	12	16	48	65	'42'	[4 0 1 3 3-7 1] Relegation Playoff
19.	Brescia Calcio	38	11	8	19	37	54	'41'	Relegated
20.	Atalanta B.C.	38	8	11	19	34	45	'35'	Relegated

^1. Juventus F.C. stripped of championship due to ruling regarding the match-fixing scandal, announced on 14 July 2006. Juventus represented Italy in the Champions League during the 2005/06 season.
^2. A.S. Roma gained entry to the 2005/2006 UEFA Cup as losing Coppa Italia finalists.

Results Table

★ Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top.

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	Inter
	Mauro Esposito	16	Cagliari
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	16	Juventus
10	David Di Michele	15	Udinese

Transfer

★ Summer Transfer

★ Winter Transfer

★ co-ownership

★ co-ownership

External links

★ 2004/2005 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.com)