2004–05 Leicester City F.C. season

Leicester City were hoping to make an immediate return to the FA Premier League following relegation the previous season, but got off to a poor to indifferent start to the season, seeing them drawing too many games and prompting Micky Adams to resign in October despite claims by the club that they wanted him to continue.^[1] He was replaced by Hearts' Craig Levein,^[2] but he couldn't inspire Leicester to improve and the club finished the season in a disappointing 15th place.

Kit

Leicester retained the previous season's kit, manufactured by French company Le Coq Sportif and sponsored by Narborough-based bank Alliance & Leicester.^[3]

Final league table

Main article: 2004–05 Football League

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Sunderland	46	29	7	10	76	41	+35	94
P	2	Wigan Athletic	46	25	12	9	79	35	+44	87
	3	Ipswich Town	46	24	13	9	85	56	+29	85
	4	Derby County	46	22	10	14	71	60	+11	76
	5	Preston North End	46	21	12	13	67	58	+9	75
P	6	West Ham United	46	21	10	15	66	56	+10	73
	7	Reading	46	19	13	14	51	44	+7	70
	8	Sheffield United	46	18	13	15	57	56	+1	67
	9	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	15	21	10	72	59	+13	66
	10	Millwall	46	18	12	16	51	45	+6	66
	11	Queens Park Rangers	46	17	11	18	54	58	-4	62
	12	Stoke City	46	17	10	19	36	38	-2	61
	13	Burnley	46	15	15	16	38	39	-1	60
	14	Leeds United	46	14	18	14	49	52	-3	60
	15	Leicester City	46	12	21	13	49	46	+3	57
	16	Cardiff City	46	13	15	18	48	51	-3	54
	17	Plymouth Argyle	46	14	11	21	52	64	-12	53
	18	Watford	46	12	16	18	52	59	-7	52
	19	Coventry City	46	13	13	20	61	73	-12	52
	20	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	13	12	21	40	65	-25	51
	21	Crewe Alexandra	46	12	14	20	66	86	-20	50
R	22	Gillingham	46	12	14	20	45	66	-21	50
R	23	Nottingham Forest	46	9	17	20	42	66	-24	44
R	24	Rotherham United	46	5	14	27	35	69	-34	29

Results

Leicester City's score comes first^[4]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 2004	West Ham United	H	0-0	30,231
11 August 2004	Derby County	A	2-1	26,650	Nalis, Benjamin
14 August 2004	Millwall	A	0-2	11,754
21 August 2004	Watford	H	0-1	22,478
28 August 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1-1	27,550	Scowcroft
30 August 2004	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	0-1	22,263
11 September 2004	Rotherham United	A	2-0	6,272	Nalis, Dublin
14 September 2004	Sheffield United	H	3-2	23,422	Scowcroft, Dabizas, Wilcox
18 September 2004	Burnley	H	0-0	22,495
25 September 2004	Queens Park Rangers	A	2-3	15,535	Scowcroft, Connolly
28 September 2004	Gillingham	A	2-0	6,089	Heath, Dublin
2 October 2004	Preston North End	H	1-1	21,249	Benjamin
16 October 2004	Coventry City	A	1-1	18,054	Dublin
19 October 2004	Ipswich Town	H	2-2	22,497	Connolly, Heath
23 October 2004	Stoke City	H	1-1	22,882	Halls (own goal)
30 October 2004	Cardiff City	A	0-0	13,759
2 November 2004	Crewe Alexandra	A	2-2	6,849	Nalis, Guðjónsson
8 November 2004	Coventry City	H	3-0	22,479	Nalis, Tiatto, Heath
13 November 2004	Sunderland	H	0-1	25,897
20 November 2004	Wigan Athletic	A	0-0	10,924
27 November 2004	Plymouth Argyle	H	2-1	23,799	Scowcroft, Dublin
4 December 2004	Leeds United	A	2-0	27,384	Nalis, Kelly (own goal)
11 December 2004	Reading	H	0-2	24,068
17 December 2004	Nottingham Forest	A	1-1	21,415	Connolly
26 December 2004	Rotherham United	H	0-1	27,014
28 December 2004	Sheffield United	A	0-2	22,100
3 January 2005	Queens Park Rangers	H	1-0	23,754	Connolly (pen)
15 January 2005	Preston North End	A	1-1	12,677	Connolly
22 January 2005	Gillingham	H	2-0	23,457	Connolly, Nosworthy (own goal)
5 February 2005	Crewe Alexandra	H	1-1	27,011	Gillespie
12 February 2005	Ipswich Town	A	1-2	27,392	Stewart
22 February 2005	Stoke City	A	2-3	14,076	Williams, Guðjónsson
26 February 2005	Reading	A	0-0	14,651
5 March 2005	Nottingham Forest	H	0-1	27,277
8 March 2005	Burnley	A	0-0	10,933
15 March 2005	Watford	A	2-2	11,084	Connolly, Hughes
18 March 2005	West Ham United	A	2-2	22,031	Connolly (pen), Gillespie
2 April 2005	Millwall	H	3-1	22,338	Stearman, Connolly (pen), De Vries
5 April 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1-1	22,950	Maybury
9 April 2005	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	1-1	6,638	Connolly (pen)
16 April 2005	Wigan Athletic	H	0-2	23,894
19 April 2005	Cardiff City	H	1-1	21,336	Connolly
23 April 2005	Sunderland	A	1-2	34,815	Maybury
26 April 2005	Derby County	H	1-0	25,762	Connolly
1 May 2005	Leeds United	H	2-0	26,593	Dublin, Connolly
8 May 2005	Plymouth Argyle	A	0-0	19,199

FA Cup

Main article: 2004–05 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 2005	Blackpool	H	2-2	16,750	Williams, Edwards (own goal)
R3R	15 January 2005	Blackpool	A	1-0	6,938	Guðjónsson
R4	29 January 2005	Reading	A	2-1	14,825	Williams, Scowcroft
R5	19 February 2005	Charlton Athletic	A	2-1	23,719	Dabizas, Dublin
QF	13 March 2005	Blackburn Rovers	A	0-1	22,113

League Cup

Main article: 2004–05 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2	4 October 2004	Preston North End	H	2-3	6,751	Guðjónsson (pen), Blake

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Ian Walker
2	DF	Peter Canero
3	DF	Danny Tiatto
4	DF	Nikos Dabizas
5	MF	Stephen Hughes
6	DF	Matt Heath
7	MF	Keith Gillespie
8	MF	Lilian Nalis
9	FW	Dion Dublin
10	FW	James Scowcroft
11	MF	Jordan Stewart
12	FW	Stefan Moore (on loan from Aston Villa)
14	DF	Darren Kenton (on loan from Southampton)
15	MF	Scot Gemmill
16	MF	Gareth Williams

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Richard Stearman
19	FW	David Connolly
20	DF	Paddy McCarthy (from March)
21	MF	Jason Wilcox
22	MF	Joey Guðjónsson
23	MF	Tommy Wright
24	DF	Alan Maybury
25	FW	Nathan Blake
26	FW	Mark de Vries
27	MF	Lee Morris
28	MF	Stephen Dawson
29	DF	Alan Sheehan
30	GK	Conrad Logan
33	GK	Lars Hirschfeld

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
5	DF	Martin Keown (to Reading)
12	DF	Chris Makin (to Derby County)
13	GK	Stuart Taylor (on loan from Arsenal)
14	MF	Kevin Harper (on loan from Portsmouth)

No.	Position	Player
18	DF	Matt Elliott (retired)
20	FW	Trevor Benjamin (to Northampton)
36	GK	Kevin Pressman (to Leeds United)
	MF	Paul Ashton (to Grimsby Town)

Transfers

In

Paddy McCarthy: from Manchester City, £100,000

References

↑ "Adams resigns as Leicester boss". BBC Sport. 11 October 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
↑ "Leicester appoint Levein as boss". BBC Sport. 29 October 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
↑ http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Leicester_City/Leicester_City.htm
↑ http://www.statto.com/football/teams/leicester-city/2004-2005/results

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