106th season of the Football League
Football league season
The 2004?05 Football League
(known as the
Coca-Cola Football League
for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th completed season of
The Football League
.
2004?05 was the first season of the rebranded Football League, with the
First
,
Second
and
Third Divisions
becoming the
Football League Championship
,
Football League One
and
Football League Two
respectively.
Coca-Cola
replaced the
Nationwide Building Society
as title
sponsor
.
Wigan Athletic
were promoted to the Premier League as Championship runners-up. They had only been elected to the Football League in 1978, had been the league's fourth-lowest placed club in the
1993?94
season, and before 2003 had never reached the second tier of English football.
Nottingham Forest
were relegated from the Championship to League One, becoming the first former
European Cup
winners to be relegated to the third tier of their domestic league ? having won two straight European Cups a quarter of a century earlier. Only ten seasons previously, in
1994?95
, they had finished third in the Premier League, and had reached the quarter-finals of the
UEFA Cup the following season
.
Events
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Final league tables and results
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The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
website,
with home and away statistics separated. Play-off results are from the same website.
Championship
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Football league season
Updated to match(es) played on 9 December 2011. Source:
Football League Tables
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C)
Champions;
(O)
Play-off winners;
(P)
Promoted;
(R)
Relegated
Locations of the 2004?05 Championship teams
Play-offs
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Topscorers
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League One
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Football league season
Updated to match(es) played on May 2005. Source:
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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C)
Champions;
(P)
Promoted;
(R)
Relegated
Notes:
- ^
Wrexham deducted 10 points for entering administration.
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Locations of the 2004?05 League One teams
Play-offs
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Topscorers
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League Two
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Football league season
Updated to match(es) played on 15 September 2009. Source:
2004?05 League Two
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C)
Champions;
(P)
Promoted;
(R)
Relegated
Notes:
- ^
Cambridge United deducted 10 points for entering administration
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Locations of the 2004?05 League Two teams
Play-offs
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Topscorers
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See also
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References
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External links
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National teams
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League
competitions
| Level 1
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Levels 2?4
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Levels 5?6
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Levels 7?8
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Levels 9?10
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- Isthmian League
(
Two
)
- Combined Counties League
(
Premier
,
One
)
- Eastern Counties League
(
Premier
,
One
)
- Essex Senior League
(
level 9 only
)
- Hellenic League
(
Premier
,
One East
,
One West
)
- Kent League
(
level 9 only
)
- Midland Alliance
(
level 9 only
)
- Midland Football Combination
(
level 10 only
)
- North West Counties League
(
One
,
Two
)
- Northern Counties East League
(
Premier
,
One
)
- Northern League
(
One
,
Two
)
- Spartan South Midlands League
(
Premier
,
One
)
- Sussex County League
(
One
,
Two
)
- United Counties League
(
Premier
,
One
)
- Wessex League
(
One
,
Two
)
- West Midlands (Regional) League
(
level 10 only
)
- Western League
(
Premier
,
One
)
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Cup
competitions
| FA cups
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Football League cups
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Domestic leagues
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Domestic cups
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League cups
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UEFA competitions
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