2004–05 UEFA Champions League

The 2004–05 UEFA Champions League was the 50th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the 13th since it was rebranded as the UEFA Champions League in 1992. The competition was won by Liverpool, who beat Milan on penalties in the final, having come back from 3–0 down at half-time. Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was named as UEFA's Footballer of the Year for his key role in the final and throughout the Champions League season. The final, played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, is often regarded as one of the best in the history of the tournament.^[1][2][3]

2004–05 UEFA Champions League

The Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 13 July – 25 August 2004 Competition proper: 14 September 2004 – 25 May 2005
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 72
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (5th title)
Runners-up	Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	335 (2.68 per match)
Attendance	4,945,419 (39,563 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 8 goals
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

As it was their fifth European Cup title, Liverpool were awarded the trophy permanently, and received the UEFA Badge of Honour.^[4][5] A new trophy was made for the 2005–06 season. As winners of the competition, Liverpool went on to represent UEFA at the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship.

Porto were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Milan's cross-city rival Internazionale in the first knockout round.

Association team allocation

A total of 72 teams from 48 of the 52 UEFA member associations participated in the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league, Andorra and San Marino). Kazakhstan also did not participate this year as none of their clubs were able to obtain UEFA license. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[6]

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
• Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–49 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.

Association ranking

For the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2003 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1998–1999 to 2002–03.^[7]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Spain 75.539 4 2  Italy 62.311 3  England 58.340 4  Germany 51.132 3 5  France 43.468 6  Greece 36.782 7  Portugal 35.583 2 8  Netherlands 33.498 9  Scotland 30.375 10  Turkey 28.991 11  Belgium 28.500 12  Czech Republic 27.950 13  Switzerland 26.250 14  Ukraine 24.583 15  Israel 23.999 16  Austria 23.375 1 17  Poland 21.625 18  Russia 21.041

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19  Serbia and Montenegro 19.831 1 20  Norway 19.575 21  Bulgaria 18.665 22  Croatia 18.625 23  Sweden 17.591 24  Denmark 17.375 25  Slovakia 13.665 26  Romania 12.957 27  Hungary 12.790 28  Cyprus 10.165 29  Slovenia 9.332 30  Finland 7.208 31  Latvia 6.665 32  Moldova 5.832 33  Georgia 5.666 34  Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.333 35  Lithuania 3.998 36  Iceland 3.498

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 37  Macedonia 3.497 1 38  Belarus 3.416 39  Republic of Ireland 3.331 40  Malta 2.998 41  Armenia 2.165 42  Wales 2.165 43  Liechtenstein 2.000 0 44  Albania 1.831 1 45  Estonia 1.665 46  Northern Ireland 1.498 47  Luxembourg 1.332 48  Faroe Islands 1.165 49  Azerbaijan 1.165 50  Kazakhstan[Note KAZ] 0.500 0 51  Andorra 0.000 52  San Marino 0.000

Distribution

Since the title holders (Porto) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, and the group stage spot reserved for the title holders is vacated, while no team from Kazakhstan was admitted, the following changes to the default access list are made:^[8]

• The champions of association 10 (Turkey) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions of association 16 (Austria) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 26, 27 and 28 (Romania, Hungary and Cyprus) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (20 teams)		20 champions from associations 29–49 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round (28 teams)		12 champions from associations 17–28 6 runners-up from associations 10–15	10 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (32 teams)		6 champions from associations 11–16 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 6 third-place finishers from associations 1–6 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–3	14 winners from the second qualifying round
Group stage (32 teams)		10 champions from associations 1–10 (including title holders Porto) 6 runners-up from associations 1–6	16 winners from the third qualifying round
Knockout phase (16 teams)			8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders).

Group stage
Valencia (1st)	Arsenal (1st)	Lyon (1st)	Porto (1st)TH
Barcelona (2nd)	Chelsea (2nd)	Paris Saint-Germain (2nd)	Ajax (1st)
Milan (1st)	Werder Bremen (1st)	Panathinaikos (1st)	Celtic (1st)
Roma (2nd)	Bayern Munich (2nd)	Olympiacos (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (1st)
Third qualifying round
Deportivo La Coruña (3rd)	Liverpool (4th)	PSV Eindhoven (2nd)	Basel (1st)
Real Madrid (4th)	Bayer Leverkusen (3rd)	Rangers (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)
Juventus (3rd)	Monaco (3rd)	Anderlecht (1st)	Maccabi Haifa (1st)
Internazionale (4th)	PAOK (3rd)	Baník Ostrava (1st)	GAK (1st)
Manchester United (3rd)	Benfica (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Trabzonspor (2nd)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (2nd)	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (1st)	Žilina (1st)
Club Brugge (2nd)	Wisła Kraków (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)	Dinamo București (1st)
Sparta Prague (2nd)	CSKA Moscow (1st)	Djurgårdens IF (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)
Young Boys (2nd)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	Copenhagen (1st)	APOEL (1st)
Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	Rosenborg (1st)
First qualifying round
HIT Gorica (1st)	Široki Brijeg (1st)	Shelbourne (1st)	Flora (1st)
HJK (1st)	Kaunas (1st)	Sliema Wanderers (1st)	Linfield (1st)
Skonto (1st)	KR (1st)	Pyunik (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)
Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Pobeda (1st)	Rhyl (1st)	HB (1st)
WIT Georgia (1st)	Gomel (1st)	Tirana (1st)	Neftçi (1st)

Notes

1. ^
   Kazakhstan (KAZ): 2003 Kazakhstan Premier League champions Irtysh failed to obtain UEFA licence, along with other Kazakhstani clubs.^[9]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[10]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	25 June 2004	13–14 July 2004	21 July 2004
	Second qualifying round		27–28 July 2004	4 August 2004
	Third qualifying round	30 July 2004	10–11 August 2004	24–25 August 2004
Group stage	Matchday 1	26 August 2004 (Monaco)	14–15 September 2004
	Matchday 2		28–29 September 2004
	Matchday 3		19–20 October 2004
	Matchday 4		2–3 November 2004
	Matchday 5		23–24 November 2004
	Matchday 6		7–8 December 2004
Knockout phase	Round of 16	17 December 2004	22–23 February 2005	8–9 March 2005[a]
	Quarter-finals	18 March 2005	5–6 April 2005	12–13 April 2005
	Semi-finals		26–27 April 2005	3–4 May 2005
	Final		25 May 2005 at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul

Notes

1. Internazionale home game in the Round of 16 was rescheduled to one week later (15 March 2005) due to venue clash with Milan.

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
KR	2–2 (a)	Shelbourne	2–2	0–0
Skonto	7–1	Rhyl	4–0	3–1
Flora	3–7	HIT Gorica	2–4	1–3
Linfield	0–2	HJK	0–1	0–1
Pobeda	2–4	Pyunik	1–3	1–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	Jeunesse Esch	2–0	0–1
WIT Georgia	5–3	HB	5–0	0–3
Sliema Wanderers	1–6	Kaunas	0–2	1–4
Široki Brijeg	2–2 (a)	Neftçi	2–1	0–1
Gomel	1–2	Tirana	0–2	1–0

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyunik	1–4	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–3	0–1
APOEL	3–4	Sparta Prague	2–2	1–2
Rosenborg	4–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	2–0
Young Boys	2–5	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	0–3
HIT Gorica	6–2	Copenhagen	1–2	5–0
Neftçi	0–2	CSKA Moscow	0–0	0–2
Žilina	0–2	Dinamo București	0–1	0–1
HJK	0–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–0	0–1
Skonto	1–4	Trabzonspor	1–1	0–3
Club Brugge	6–0	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2–0	4–0
Tirana	3–3 (a)	Ferencváros	2–3	1–0
Hajduk Split	3–4	Shelbourne	3–2	0–2
Djurgårdens IF	2–0	Kaunas	0–0	2–0
WIT Georgia	2–11	Wisła Kraków	2–8	0–3

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
GAK	1–2	Liverpool	0–2	1–0
Juventus	6–3	Djurgårdens IF	2–2	4–1
Ferencváros	1–2	Sparta Prague	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Rosenborg	5–3	Maccabi Haifa	2–1	3–2 (a.e.t.)
Bayer Leverkusen	6–2	Baník Ostrava	5–0	1–2
CSKA Moscow	3–2	Rangers	2–1	1–1
Shakhtar Donetsk	6–3	Club Brugge	4–1	2–2
Dynamo Kyiv	3–2	Trabzonspor	1–2	2–0
Red Star Belgrade	3–7	PSV Eindhoven	3–2	0–5
Dinamo București	1–5	Manchester United	1–2	0–3
Basel	2–5	Internazionale	1–1	1–4
Benfica	1–3	Anderlecht	1–0	0–3
Shelbourne	0–3	Deportivo La Coruña	0–0	0–3
PAOK	0–4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–3[a]	0–1
HIT Gorica	0–9	Monaco	0–3	0–6
Wisła Kraków	1–5	Real Madrid	0–2	1–3

Notes:

1. The first leg finished 2–1 to Maccabi Tel Aviv, but was awarded 3–0 against PAOK for fielding a suspended player.^[11]

Group stage

Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League group stage

Anderlecht

Sparta

Chelsea

Arsenal

Liverpool

Man. United

Valencia

Real Madrid

Barcelona

Deportivo

Monaco

Lyon

PSG

Bayern

Leverkusen

Bremen

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

M. Tel Aviv

Roma

Juventus

Milan

Internazionale

PSV

Ajax

Rosenborg

Porto

CSKA

Celtic

Fenerbahçe

Shakhtar

Dynamo

Location of teams of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

16 winners from the third qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and six second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into eight groups of four teams each. The top two teams in each group will advance to the Champions League play-offs, while the third-placed teams will advance to the third round of the UEFA Cup.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order:

1. Points earned in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
2. Total goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
3. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
4. Cumulative goal difference in all group matches.
5. Total goals scored in all group matches.
6. Higher UEFA coefficient going into the competition.

Maccabi Tel Aviv made their debut appearance in the group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	LIV	OLY	DEP
1	Monaco	6	4	0	2	10	4	+6	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–1	2–0
2	Liverpool	6	3	1	2	6	3	+3	10			2–0	—	3–1	0–0
3	Olympiacos	6	3	1	2	5	5	0	10	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–0	1–0	—	1–0
4	Deportivo La Coruña	6	0	2	4	0	9	−9	2			0–5	0–1	0–0	—

Source: ^[12]

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	RMA	DKV	ROM
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	2	1	13	7	+6	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	3–0	3–1
2	Real Madrid	6	3	2	1	11	8	+3	11			1–1	—	1–0	4–2
3	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10	Transfer to UEFA Cup		4–2	2–2	—	2–0
4	Roma	6	0	1	5	4	16	−12	1			1–1	0–3	0–3[a]	—

Source: ^[14]
Notes:

1. With Dynamo Kyiv leading 1–0, the match was abandoned at half-time after referee Anders Frisk was hit by an object thrown from the crowd. UEFA awarded Dynamo Kyiv a 3–0 win and ordered Roma to play their next two European games behind closed doors.^[13]

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	BAY	AJX	MTA
1	Juventus	6	5	1	0	6	1	+5	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	1–0	1–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	3	1	2	12	5	+7	10			0–1	—	4–0	5–1
3	Ajax	6	1	1	4	6	10	−4	4	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	2–2	—	3–0
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	1	1	4	4	12	−8	4			1–1	0–1	2–1	—

Source: ^[15]

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LYO	MUN	FEN	SPP
1	Lyon	6	4	1	1	17	8	+9	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–2	4–2	5–0
2	Manchester United	6	3	2	1	14	9	+5	11			2–1	—	6–2	4–1
3	Fenerbahçe	6	3	0	3	10	13	−3	9	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–3	3–0	—	1–0
4	Sparta Prague	6	0	1	5	2	13	−11	1			1–2	0–0	0–1	—

Source: ^[16]

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	PSV	PAN	ROS
1	Arsenal	6	2	4	0	11	6	+5	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	1–1	5–1
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	6	7	−1	10			1–1	—	1–0	1–0
3	Panathinaikos	6	2	3	1	11	8	+3	9	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–2	4–1	—	2–1
4	Rosenborg	6	0	2	4	6	13	−7	2			1–1	1–2	2–2	—

Source: ^[17]

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	BAR	SHK	CEL
1	Milan	6	4	1	1	10	3	+7	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	4–0	3–1
2	Barcelona	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10			2–1	—	3–0	1–1
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	2–0	—	3–0
4	Celtic	6	1	2	3	4	10	−6	5			0–0	1–3	1–0	—

Source: ^[18]

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	BRM	VAL	AND
1	Internazionale	6	4	2	0	14	3	+11	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	0–0	3–0
2	Werder Bremen	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13			1–1	—	2–1	5–1
3	Valencia	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–5	0–2	—	2–0
4	Anderlecht	6	0	0	6	4	17	−13	0			1–3	1–2	1–2	—

Source: ^[19]

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	POR	CSKA	PAR
1	Chelsea	6	4	1	1	10	3	+7	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–1	2–0	0–0
2	Porto	6	2	2	2	4	6	−2	8			2–1	—	0–0	0–0
3	CSKA Moscow	6	2	1	3	5	5	0	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	0–1	—	2–0
4	Paris Saint-Germain	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	5			0–3	2–0	1–3	—

Source: ^[20]

Knockout phase

Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Bracket

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Manchester United		0	0	0
	Milan		1	1	2
								Milan		2	3	5
								Internazionale		0	0	0
	Porto		1	1	2
	Internazionale		1	3	4
															Milan (a)		2	1	3
															PSV Eindhoven		0	3	3
	Werder Bremen		0	2	2
	Lyon		3	7	10
								Lyon		1	1	2 (2)
								PSV Eindhoven (p)		1	1	2 (4)
	PSV Eindhoven		1	2	3
																						25 May – Istanbul
	Monaco		0	0	0
																						Milan		3 (2)
																						Liverpool (p)		3 (3)
	Barcelona		2	2	4
	Chelsea		1	4	5
								Chelsea		4	2	6
								Bayern Munich		2	3	5
	Bayern Munich		3	0	3
	Arsenal		1	1	2
															Chelsea		0	0	0
															Liverpool		0	1	1
	Liverpool		3	3	6
	Bayer Leverkusen		1	1	2
								Liverpool		2	0	2
								Juventus		1	0	1
	Real Madrid		1	0	1
	Juventus (a.e.t.)		0	2	2

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	1–2	Juventus	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Liverpool	6–2	Bayer Leverkusen	3–1	3–1
PSV Eindhoven	3–0	Monaco	1–0	2–0
Bayern Munich	3–2	Arsenal	3–1	0–1
Barcelona	4–5	Chelsea	2–1	2–4
Manchester United	0–2	Milan	0–1	0–1
Werder Bremen	2–10	Lyon	0–3	2–7
Porto	2–4	Internazionale	1–1	1–3

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	2–1	Juventus	2–1	0–0
Lyon	2–2 (2–4 p)	PSV Eindhoven	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Chelsea	6–5	Bayern Munich	4–2	2–3
Milan	5–0	Internazionale	2–0	3–0[a]

Notes:

1. Match was abandoned after 72 minutes as Milan led 1–0 due to flares thrown onto the pitch by Internazionale fans, one of which struck Milan goalkeeper Dida.^[21] UEFA awarded Milan a 3–0 win (5–0 aggregate) and ordered Internazionale to play their next four European games behind closed doors.^[22]

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	0–1	Liverpool	0–0	0–1
Milan	3–3 (a)	PSV Eindhoven	2–0	1–3

Final

Main article: 2005 UEFA Champions League final

The final was played on 25 May 2005 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.

25 May 2005 (2005-05-25)

21:45 UTC+3

Milan	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Liverpool
Maldini 1' Crespo 39', 44'	Report	Gerrard 54' Šmicer 56' Alonso 60'
Penalties
Serginho Pirlo Tomasson Kaká Shevchenko	2–3	Hamann Cissé Riise Šmicer

Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 69,000^[23]

Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

Rank[24]	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	8	528
2	Adriano	Internazionale	7	548
	Roy Makaay	Bayern Munich		702
4	Sylvain Wiltord	Lyon	6	606
	Hernán Crespo	Milan		612
	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan		869
7	Ivan Klasnić	Werder Bremen	5	431
	Obafemi Martins	Internazionale		510
	Tuncay	Fenerbahçe		525
	Didier Drogba	Chelsea		688
	Thierry Henry	Arsenal		720
	Michael Essien	Lyon		930
	Luis García	Liverpool		972

See also

• 2004–05 UEFA Cup
• 2005 UEFA Super Cup
• 2005 FIFA Club World Championship
• 2004–05 UEFA Women's Cup