2004–05 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Nottingham Forest
	2004–05 season
Chairman	Nigel Doughty
Manager	Joe Kinnear (until 16 December); Gary Megson (from 10 January)
Stadium	City Ground
Football League Championship	23rd (relegated)
FA Cup	Fifth round
League Cup	Fourth round
Top goalscorer	League:; Gareth Taylor (7); All:; Gareth Taylor (11)
Average home league attendance	23,565
← 2003–04	2005–06 →

During the 2004–05 English football season, Nottingham Forest competed in the Football League Championship.

Season summary

Manager Joe Kinnear was hoping to push for promotion from the newly named Coca-Cola Championship in 2004–05, but the start to the season was poor. Despite a promising draw with Wigan on the first day of the season (the game which started a run of four consecutive draws), the team's form and league position went downhill. With fans getting restless, and the threat of demonstrations against the team management, Kinnear resigned in December after a 3–0 defeat to arch-rivals Derby County at Pride Park left Forest struggling at the foot of the Championship.^[1] Following Mick Harford's brief reign as caretaker, in January 2005, Gary Megson was named as Nottingham Forest's new manager. He had previously won promotion to the Premiership twice with West Bromwich Albion, having taken over at a time when they were on the verge of relegation to League One,^[2] and it was hoped that he could achieve the same success with Forest. But that target was made all the more difficult to achieve at the end of the 2004–05 season, when Forest finished second from bottom in the Coca-Cola Championship and were relegated to League One. This made them the first former winners of the European Cup to suffer relegation to the third tier of their domestic league.

Final league table

			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

Nottingham Forest's score comes first^[3]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 2004	Wigan Athletic	A	1-1	12,035	Taylor
11 August 2004	Ipswich Town	H	1-1	21,125	Evans
14 August 2004	Crewe Alexandra	H	2-2	24,201	Taylor, King
21 August 2004	Leeds United	A	1-1	31,808	Reid
28 August 2004	Coventry City	H	1-4	23,041	Johnson
30 August 2004	Plymouth Argyle	A	2-3	17,538	Jess (2)
11 September 2004	Cardiff City	H	0-0	21,607
14 September 2004	Sunderland	A	0-2	23,540
18 September 2004	Stoke City	A	0-0	21,115
26 September 2004	West Ham United	H	2-1	25,615	Evans, King
29 September 2004	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	0-1	20,109
3 October 2004	Millwall	A	0-1	11,233
15 October 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1-0	21,865	Reid
19 October 2004	Sheffield United	A	1-1	19,445	Johnson
23 October 2004	Preston North End	A	2-3	12,439	King (2)
30 October 2004	Watford	H	1-2	24,473	Reid
3 November 2004	Rotherham United	H	2-2	21,619	Johnson, King (pen)
6 November 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1-2	27,605	Johnson
13 November 2004	Burnley	A	0-1	11,622
20 November 2004	Reading	H	1-0	21,138	Taylor
27 November 2004	Gillingham	A	1-2	8,784	Taylor
4 December 2004	Queens Park Rangers	H	2-1	26,099	Reid, Lester
11 December 2004	Derby County	A	0-3	30,793
17 December 2004	Leicester City	H	1-1	21,415	Dawson
26 December 2004	West Ham United	A	2-3	32,270	Johnson (2)
28 December 2004	Sunderland	H	1-2	27,457	Reid
1 January 2005	Stoke City	H	1-0	22,051	Bopp
3 January 2005	Cardiff City	A	0-3	15,545
15 January 2005	Millwall	H	1-2	25,949	Commons
22 January 2005	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	0-0	6,704
5 February 2005	Rotherham United	A	0-0	8,448
23 February 2005	Preston North End	H	2-0	19,209	Evans, Commons
26 February 2005	Derby County	H	2-2	26,160	Evans (pen), Taylor
5 March 2005	Leicester City	A	1-0	27,277	Taylor
8 March 2005	Watford	A	2-0	12,118	Commons (2)
12 March 2005	Ipswich Town	A	0-6	25,765
16 March 2005	Leeds United	H	0-0	27,101
19 March 2005	Wigan Athletic	H	1-1	24,008	Taylor
2 April 2005	Crewe Alexandra	A	1-1	8,458	Dobie
6 April 2005	Coventry City	A	0-2	22,221
9 April 2005	Plymouth Argyle	H	0-3	28,887
12 April 2005	Sheffield United	H	1-1	21,903	Commons
16 April 2005	Reading	A	0-1	17,905
23 April 2005	Burnley	H	1-0	24,165	Commons
30 April 2005	Queens Park Rangers	A	1-2	17,834	Bopp
8 May 2005	Gillingham	H	2-2	24,800	Morgan, Bopp

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 2005	Queens Park Rangers	A	3-0	11,140	Reid, Commons, Folly
R4	29 January 2005	Peterborough United	H	1-0	16,774	King
R5	12 February 2005	Tottenham Hotspur	A	1-1	35,640	Taylor
R5R	2 March 2005	Tottenham Hotspur	H	0-3	28,062

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	25 August 2004	Scunthorpe United	H	2-0	7,344	Taylor, King
R2	22 September 2004	Rotherham United	H	2-1	11,168	Taylor (2)
R3	26 October 2004	Doncaster Rovers	A	2-0	9,261	King, Perch
R4	10 November 2004	Fulham	H	2-4	9,252	King, Reid

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	Colin Doyle (on loan from Birmingham City)
2	DF	Matthieu Louis-Jean
3	DF	Alan Rogers
4	DF	Wes Morgan
5	MF	Darryl Powell^[4]
6	DF	John Thompson
7	MF	David Friio
8	MF	Paul Evans^[5]
9	FW	David Johnson
10	FW	Gareth Taylor
11	FW	Marlon King^[6]
12	GK	Barry Roche
14	MF	Eoin Jess
15	MF	Andy Impey
16	DF	Chris Doig
17	MF	Kris Commons

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Kevin James
19	FW	Jack Lester
20	FW	Craig Westcarr
21	DF	John Curtis
22	GK	Paul Gerrard
23	MF	Eugen Bopp
24	DF	Gregor Robertson
26	MF	Ross Gardner
28	DF	James Perch
29	DF	Jon Olav Hjelde
30	DF	Des Walker
32	MF	Adam Nowland
33	FW	Neil Harris
34	FW	Scott Dobie
36	DF	Andy Melville (on loan from West Ham United)

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	Michael Dawson (to Tottenham Hotspur)
7	MF	Andy Reid (to Tottenham Hotspur)
19	MF	Brian Cash (to Bristol Rovers)

No.	Position	Player
21	DF	David Tarka (to Perth Glory FC)
34	MF	Shaun Derry (on loan from Crystal Palace)
35	MF	Yoann Folly (on loan from Southampton)

Reserve squad

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

No.	Position	Player
25	DF	James Biggins
27	MF	James Beaumont
31	GK	Ian Deakin
35	DF	Justyn Roberts

No.	Position	Player
37	DF	Vincent Fernandez
38	MF	Gavin Hurren
39	FW	Matthew Glass
40	GK	John Lukic, Jr.

References

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↑ Powell was born in England.
↑ Evans was born in England.
↑ King was born in Southwark, England.

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[3] ttp://www.statto.com/football/teams/nottingham-forest/2004-2005

[4] Powell was born in England.

[5] Evans was born in England.

[6] King was born in Southwark, England.

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2004–05 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Contents

Season summary

Final league table

Results

Legend

Football League Championship

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

References

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