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Serie A
2004-05
Serie A Logo
Season information
Winners not awarded
Relegated Bologna
Brescia
Atalanta
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League Juventus
Milan
Internazionale
Udinese
UEFA Cup Sampdoria
Palermo
Roma
Season statistics
Matches played 380
Goals scored 960
Average 2.53
Top goalscorer Cristiano Lucarelli
(24 goals)
Highest scoring Livorno 4-6 Parma
 ← 2003–04
2005–06 → 

In the 2004–05 season, the Serie A, the highest professional football league in Italy, was expanded to contain 20 clubs, which played 38 matches against each other, rather than the 34 matches in previous seasons.

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 as champions, although they were later stripped of the title due to their involvement in the 2006 Serie A scandal. Runners-up AC Milan were also implicated in the scandal, and as a result that season's title was not awarded to any club. Udinese qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in its history; Palermo, in its first Serie A campaign in over 30 years, finished in 6th place, qualifying for the UEFA Cup for the first time in its history; Roma qualified for the UEFA Cup as the runners-up in the Coppa Italia because the cup winner, Internazionale, already qualified for the Champions League.

Two teams, Brescia and Atalanta, were directly relegated to Serie B, while the third relegation place 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. This method of classifying teams on equal points totals was abolished for the 2005–06 season.

Final classification[]

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Notes
1 Juventus 38 26 8 4 67 27 +40 0861
2005–06 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Milan 38 23 10 5 63 28 +35 79
3 Internazionale 38 18 18 2 65 37 +28 72
2005–06 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4 Udinese 38 17 11 10 56 40 +16 62
5 Sampdoria 38 17 10 11 42 29 +13 61
2005–06 UEFA Cup First round
6 Palermo 38 12 17 9 48 44 +4 53
7 Messina 38 12 12 14 44 52 −8 48
8 Roma 38 11 12 15 55 58 −3 0452
2005–06 UEFA Cup First round
9 Livorno 38 11 12 15 49 60 −11 45
10 Lazio 38 11 11 16 48 53 −5 0443
2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 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 Parma 38 10 12 16 48 65 −17 42
Relegation tie-breaker
18 Bologna  (R) 38 9 15 14 33 36 −3 42
19 Brescia  (R) 38 11 8 19 37 54 −17 41
Relegation to the  Serie B
20 Atalanta  (R) 38 8 11 19 34 45 −11 35

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results[]

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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
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.

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.

Top scorers[]

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

External links[]

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