2005 UEFA Cup final

The 2005 UEFA Cup final was the final match of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, the 34th season of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second-tier club football tournament. The match was contested by Sporting CP and CSKA Moscow on 18 May 2005; CSKA won the match 3–1. Sporting CP opened the scoring in the first half from full-back Rogério, before Aleksei Berezutskiy equalised in the second half. Yuri Zhirkov would give the Russian side the lead nine minutes after CSKA's equalising goal, and the Moscow outfit would close out the scoring 15 minutes from the end after a quick CSKA counterattack saw Vágner Love become the youngest player to score in a UEFA Cup final at the age of 20 years, 341 days,^[6] firing the ball past Sporting goalkeeper Ricardo to give the Russian side a first UEFA Cup trophy.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} It was also the first European trophy won by a Russian club, in what was the first final since Dynamo Moscow—then part of the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union—lost the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup final, and the first European title for a side from what was the Soviet Union since Dynamo Kyiv, now part of Ukraine, won the 1986 European Cup Winners' Cup final.

2005 UEFA Cup final

Match programme cover
Event	2004–05 UEFA Cup
Sporting CP CSKA Moscow 1 3
Date	18 May 2005
Venue	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Man of the Match	Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow)[1][2]
Referee	Graham Poll (England)[3]
Attendance	47,085[4]
Weather	Fair 19 °C (66 °F) 54% humidity[5]
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The match was played at the Estádio José Alvalade – home ground of finalists Sporting CP – in Lisbon, Portugal. ^[12] Until then, it was the third European football final to be held in Portugal, after the 1967 European Cup final, which was held in another venue in the Lisbon District, the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras,^[13][14] and the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup final, which was held at the old Estádio da Luz in the city.^[15]

Venue

The Estádio José Alvalade was announced as the final venue on 5 February 2004, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland.^[16][17]

Route to the final

Further information: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League and 2004–05 UEFA Cup

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Sporting CP				Round		CSKA Moscow
UEFA Cup						Champions League
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Initial phase	Qualifying phase	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Bye				Second qualifying round		Neftçi	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)
Rapid Wien	2–0	2–0 (H)	0–0 (A)	First round	Third qualifying round	Rangers	3–2	2–1 (H)	1–1 (A)
Opponent	Result			Group stage (UC, CL)		Opponent	Result
Bye				Matchday 1		Porto	0–0 (A)
Panionios	4–1 (H)			Matchday 2		Paris Saint-Germain	2–0 (H)
Dinamo Tbilisi	4–0 (A)			Matchday 3		Chelsea	0–2 (A)
Sochaux	0–1 (H)			Matchday 4		Chelsea	0–1 (H)
Newcastle United	1–1 (A)			Matchday 5		Porto	0–1 (H)
N/A				Matchday 6		Paris Saint-Germain	3–1 (A)
Group D third place Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Newcastle United 4 10 2 Sochaux 4 9 3 Sporting CP 4 7 4 Panionios 4 3 5 Dinamo Tbilisi 4 0 Source: RSSSF				Final standings		Group H third place Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Chelsea 6 13 2 Porto 6 8 3 CSKA Moscow 6 7 4 Paris Saint-Germain 6 5 Source: [18]
						UEFA Cup
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout stage		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Feyenoord	4–2	2–1 (H)	2–1 (A)	Round of 32		Benfica	3–1	2–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
Middlesbrough	4–2	3–2 (A)	1–0 (H)	Round of 16		Partizan	3–1	1–1 (A)	2–0 (H)
Newcastle United	4–2	0–1 (A)	4–1 (H)	Quarter-finals		Auxerre	4–2	4–0 (H)	0–2 (A)
AZ	4–4 (a)	2–1 (H)	2–3 (a.e.t.) (A)	Semi-finals		Parma	3–0	0–0 (A)	3–0 (H)

Match

Details

Sporting CP	1–3	CSKA Moscow
Rogério 29'	Report	A. Berezutski 56' Zhirkov 65' Vágner Love 75'

18 May 2005 (2005-05-18)

19:45 UTC+1

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 47,085^[4]

Referee: Graham Poll (England)

Sporting CP

CSKA Moscow

GK 76 Ricardo RB 37 Rogério  80' CB 22 Beto CB 14 Joseph Enakarhire LB 15 Miguel Garcia CM 26 Fábio Rochemback CM 28 João Moutinho  88' RW 10 Ricardo Sá Pinto  73' AM 8 Pedro Barbosa (c)  14' LW 11 Rodrigo Tello CF 31 Liédson Substitutes: GK 1 Nélson DF 4 Ânderson Polga DF 23 Rui Jorge DF 27 Custódio MF 45 Hugo Viana  88' FW 9 Marius Niculae  73' FW 17 Roudolphe Douala  80' Manager: José Peseiro

GK 35 Igor Akinfeev CB 24 Vasili Berezutski CB 4 Sergei Ignashevich (c) CB 6 Aleksei Berezutski RM 15 Chidi Odiah CM 22 Evgeni Aldonin  86' CM 25 Elvir Rahimić LM 18 Yuri Zhirkov AM 7 Daniel Carvalho  82' CF 11 Vágner Love CF 9 Ivica Olić  67' Substitutes: GK 1 Veniamin Mandrykin MF 2 Deividas Šemberas  82' MF 8 Rolan Gusev  86' MF 10 Osmar Ferreyra MF 19 Juris Laizāns FW 17 Miloš Krasić  67' FW 40 Aleksandr Salugin Manager: Valery Gazzaev

Man of the Match: Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow)[1][2] Assistant referees:[3] Michael Tingey (England) Glenn Turner (England) Fourth official:[3] Steve Bennett (England)[3]

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions

See also

• 2005 UEFA Champions League final
• 2005 UEFA Super Cup
• PFC CSKA Moscow in European football
• Sporting CP in European football
• 2005 PFC CSKA Moscow season
• 2004–05 Sporting CP season