2004–05 La Liga

The 2004–05 La Liga season was the 74th since its establishment. It began on 28 August 2004, and concluded on 29 May 2005.

La Liga

Season	2004–05
Dates	28 August 2004 – 29 May 2005
Champions	Barcelona 17th title
Relegated	Levante Numancia Albacete
Champions League	Barcelona Real Madrid Villarreal Real Betis
UEFA Cup	Espanyol Sevilla Osasuna (as Copa del Rey runners-up)
Intertoto Cup	Valencia Deportivo La Coruña Athletic Bilbao
Matches played	380
Goals scored	980 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Samuel Eto'o Diego Forlán (25 goals each)
Biggest home win	Real Madrid 6–1 Albacete (14 November 2004)[1] Real Madrid 5–0 Levante (28 November 2004)[2] Real Madrid 5–0 Racing Santander (7 May 2005)[3]
Biggest away win	Osasuna 1–6 Málaga (27 February 2005)[4]
Highest scoring	Athletic Bilbao 4–4 Real Betis (13 February 2005)[5]
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

Teams

Twenty teams competed in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Segunda División. The promoted teams were Levante (playing top flight football for the first time in thirty nine years), Getafe (playing in the top flight for the first time ever) and Numancia (returning after a three-year absence). They replaced Valladolid, Celta de Vigo and Murcia after spending time in the top flight for eleven, twelve and one years respectively.

Promoted to 2004–05 La Liga	Relegated from 2003–04 La Liga
Levante Getafe Numancia	Valladolid Celta Vigo Murcia

Albacete

Athletic    

Atlético

Barcelona

Betis

Deportivo

Espanyol

Getafe

Levante

Málaga

Mallorca

Numancia

Osasuna

Racing    

Real Madrid

Real Sociedad

Sevilla

Valencia

Villarreal

Zaragoza

Location of teams in La Liga 2004–05

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Albacete	Carlos Belmonte	18,000
Athletic Bilbao	San Mamés	39,750
Atlético Madrid	Vicente Calderón	55,005
Barcelona	Camp Nou	98,772
Betis	Manuel Ruiz de Lopera	52,132
Deportivo de La Coruña	Riazor	34,600
Espanyol	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys	55,926
Getafe*	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	16,300
Levante*	Ciudad de Valencia	25,354
Málaga	La Rosaleda	30,044
Mallorca	Son Moix	23,142
Numancia*	Los Pajaritos	8,261
Osasuna	El Sadar	19,553
Racing de Santander	El Sardinero	22,400
Real Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	80,354
Real Sociedad	Anoeta	32,200
Sevilla	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	45,500
Valencia	Mestalla	55,000
Villarreal	El Madrigal	23,000
Zaragoza	La Romareda	34,596

(*) Promoted from Segunda División.

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)	Shorts sponsor
Albacete	Martín Monteagudo	Le Coq Sportif	IV Centenario Don Quijote de La Mancha	Caja Castilla-La Mancha/Arcos Cuchillos	None	Caja Castilla-La Mancha, Metalpanel La Mancha
Athletic Bilbao	Ernesto Valverde	100% Athletic	Euskadi (in UEFA matches)	None	None	None
Atlético Madrid	César Ferrando	Nike	Columbia Pictures	None	None	AXN
Barcelona	Frank Rijkaard	Nike	None	None	TV3	None
Betis	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer	Kappa	Andalucía/Globet/El Monte (in cup matches)	Globet/Andalucía	None	Coosur
Deportivo de La Coruña	Javier Irureta	Joma	Fadesa	None	None	None
Espanyol	Miguel Ángel Lotina	Umbro	Grup Tarradellas	Interapuestas.com	TV3	Hoteles Hesperia
Getafe	Quique Sánchez Flores	Joma	Opción Centro de Ocio	None	None	Propietarios del Suelo de Getafe
Levante	José Luis Oltra	Hummel	Mutua Valenciana Automovilista	None	None	Mutua Valenciana Automovilista
Málaga	Antonio Tapia	Umbro	Unicaja/Andalucía	None	None	None
Mallorca	Héctor Cúper	Reial	Spanair	None	None	Illes Balears
Numancia	Máximo Hernández	Joma	Caja Duero	None	None	Soria
Osasuna	Javier Aguirre	Astore	Caja Navarra	None	Reyno de Navarra	None
Racing de Santander	Nando Yosu	Joma	Organización Impulsora de Discapacitados	Santander 250	Cantabria	Cantabria
Real Madrid	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	Adidas	Siemens Mobile	None	None	None
Real Sociedad	José Mari Amorrortu	Astore	FIATC Seguros	NGS Europe	NGS Europe	FIATC Seguros, NGS Europe
Sevilla	Joaquín Caparrós	Joma	Font Lys Agua Mineral/Vinícola Hidalgo/La Gitana (in UEFA matches)	Font Lys Agua Mineral/La Gitana	Locura Energy Drink	Coosur
Valencia	Antonio López	Nike	Toyota	None	Canal Nou	None
Villarreal	Manuel Pellegrini	Puma	Aeroport Castelló	None	Canal Nou	None
Zaragoza	Víctor Muñoz	Lotto	Pikolin	None	None	None

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barcelona (C)	38	25	9	4	73	29	+44	84	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Real Madrid	38	25	5	8	71	32	+39	80
3	Villarreal	38	18	11	9	69	37	+32	65	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
4	Real Betis	38	16	14	8	62	50	+12	62
5	Espanyol	38	17	10	11	54	46	+8	61	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
6	Sevilla	38	17	9	12	44	41	+3	60
7	Valencia	38	14	16	8	54	39	+15	58	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round
8	Deportivo La Coruña	38	12	15	11	46	50	−4	51[a]	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round
9	Athletic Bilbao	38	14	9	15	59	54	+5	51[a]
10	Málaga	38	15	6	17	40	48	−8	51[a]
11	Atlético Madrid	38	13	11	14	40	34	+6	50[b]
12	Zaragoza	38	14	8	16	52	57	−5	50[b]
13	Getafe	38	12	11	15	38	46	−8	47[c]
14	Real Sociedad	38	13	8	17	47	56	−9	47[c]
15	Osasuna	38	12	10	16	46	65	−19	46	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[d]
16	Racing Santander	38	12	8	18	41	58	−17	44
17	Mallorca	38	10	9	19	42	63	−21	39
18	Levante (R)	38	9	10	19	39	58	−19	37	Relegation to the Segunda División
19	Numancia (R)	38	6	11	21	30	61	−31	29
20	Albacete (R)	38	6	10	22	33	56	−23	28

Source: LFP
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored; 7th Fair-play points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. DEP: 8 pts; ATH: 4 pts → ATH 1–0 MLG; MLG: 4 pts → MLG 1–0 ATH
2. ATM 1–1 ZAR; ZAR 0–0 ATM
3. RSO 1–1 GET; GET 2–0 RSO
4. Since Betis, winners of 2004–05 Copa del Rey, was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League, losing cup finalists Osasuna earned a spot in the first round of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup.

Overall

• Most wins – Barcelona and Real Madrid (25)
• Fewest wins – Numancia and Albacete (6)
• Most draws – Valencia (16)
• Fewest draws – Real Madrid (5)
• Most losses – Albacete (22)
• Fewest losses – Barcelona (4)
• Most goals scored – Barcelona (73)
• Fewest goals scored – Numancia (30)
• Most goals conceded – Osasuna (65)
• Fewest goals conceded – Barcelona (29)

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	ATH	ATM	FCB	BET	RCD	ESP	GET	LEV	MCF	MLL	NUM	OSA	RAC	RMA	RSO	SFC	VCF	VIL	ZAR
Albacete		1–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–2	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–1
Athletic Bilbao	3–1		1–0	1–1	4–4	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	4–3	3–0	2–1	3–0	1–3	2–2	2–1	2–0
Atlético Madrid	3–1	1–1		1–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	0–3	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1
Barcelona	2–0	2–0	0–2		3–3	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–3	4–1
Betis	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–1		2–0	1–4	2–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	4–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–2
Deportivo La Coruña	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1		4–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	1–1	1–3	1–4	2–0	2–2	2–2	1–5	1–1	2–3
Espanyol	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–1		2–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–3	2–2	0–0	3–1
Getafe	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–0		1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–0
Levante	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–0		0–1	2–0	1–1	4–0	3–1	0–2	2–1	0–3	0–0	2–4	0–0
Málaga	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–4	1–2	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–0		0–0	4–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–5	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–0
Mallorca	2–1	4–3	1–1	1–3	1–1	2–2	3–2	3–1	1–2	1–2		3–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	3–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–2
Numancia	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–2		2–2	2–3	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1
Osasuna	3–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–6	1–1	2–0		1–0	1–2	1–0	4–1	0–0	3–2	2–2
Racing Santander	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	2–2	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–1		2–3	1–3	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0
Real Madrid	6–1	0–2	0–0	4–2	3–1	0–1	4–0	2–0	5–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	5–0		2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–1
Real Sociedad	0–2	3–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–2		1–0	3–3	0–4	2–1
Sevilla	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–4	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	2–2	2–1		2–2	2–1	0–1
Valencia	2–0	2–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	3–0	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2		2–1	0–0
Villarreal	1–0	3–1	3–2	3–0	0–0	0–2	4–1	4–0	4–1	3–0	2–1	4–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1		2–0
Zaragoza	4–3	0–2	0–0	1–4	1–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	4–3	1–0	0–1	4–1	5–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	3–0	2–2	1–0

Source: LFP (in Spanish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Awards

Pichichi Trophy

The Pichichi Trophy is awarded to the player who scores the most goals in a season.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Samuel Eto'o[6]	Barcelona	25
	Diego Forlán	Villarreal
3	Ricardo Oliveira	Real Betis	22
4	Ronaldo	Real Madrid	21
5	Júlio Baptista	Sevilla	18
6	Fernando Torres	Atlético Madrid	16
7	Juan Román Riquelme	Villarreal	15
	Maxi Rodríguez	Espanyol
	David Villa	Zaragoza
10	Nihat Kahveci	Real Sociedad	13
	Michael Owen	Real Madrid

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Joaquín	Real Betis	15
2	Deco	Barcelona	11
3	Francisco Yeste	Athletic Bilbao	10
4	Juan Román Riquelme	Villarreal	9
	Ronaldinho	Barcelona

Zamora Trophy

The Ricardo Zamora Trophy is awarded to the goalkeeper with the lowest ratio of goals conceded to matches played.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals against	Matches	Average
1	Víctor Valdés	Barcelona	25	35	0.71
2	Iker Casillas	Real Madrid	30	37	0.81
3	Leo Franco	Atlético Madrid	32	37	0.86
4	Pepe Reina	Villarreal	37	38	0.97
5	Santiago Cañizares	Valencia	29	29	1
6	Esteban	Sevilla	33	28	1.18
	Carlos Kameni	Espanyol	45	38
8	Toni Doblas	Real Betis	35	29	1.21
9	Daniel Aranzubia	Athletic Bilbao	52	37	1.41
	Luis García	Zaragoza	52	37

Fair Play award

This season, the award was not published neither given to any club due to an administrative affair.^[7]

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of La Liga hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Maxi Rodríguez	Espanyol	Real Betis	4–1 (A)	12 September 2004
Sergio Pachón	Getafe	Athletic Bilbao	3–1 (H)	3 October 2004
Juan Román Riquelme	Villarreal	Valencia	3–1 (H)	23 January 2005
Ricardo Oliveira	Real Betis	Athletic Bilbao	4–4 (A)	13 February 2005
Salva	Atlético Madrid	Mallorca	3–1 (H)	3 April 2005
Yossi Benayoun	Racing Santander	Deportivo La Coruña	4–1 (A)	24 April 2005
Diego Forlán	Villarreal	Barcelona	3–3 (A)	22 May 2005

See also

• 2004–05 Segunda División
• 2004–05 Copa del Rey