2004–05 Rangers F.C. season

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Rangers
2004–05 season
Chairman John McClelland
(until 1 September)
David Murray
(from 1 September)
Manager Alex McLeish
Ground Ibrox Stadium
Scottish Premier League 1st
P38 W29 D6 L3 F78 A22
Scottish Cup Third Round
League Cup Winners
Champions League Third qualifying round
UEFA Cup Group Stage
Top goalscorer League:
Nacho Novo (19)
All:
Nacho Novo (25)
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 season is the 108th season of competitive football by Rangers.

Contents

[edit] Overview

Rangers played a total of 51 competitive matches during the 2004–05 season. They went into the season looking to recapture their Scottish Premier League crown, which Celtic had won the season before. Manager Alex McLeish made several summer signings, with the signature of Frenchman Jean-Alain Boumsong being his biggest coup. Others included strikers Dado Prso and Nacho Novo, as well as the experienced midfielder Alex Rae and future Ibrox favourite Marvin Andrews.

Rangers League form began poorly picking up only 8 points from their first 5 matches. Rangers lost the first Old Firm derby of the season 1-0 at Celtic Park and fell behind Celtic in the league. Rangers form improved following the loss to Celtic and they weren't to lose again in the league until April. This run of form included two wins over Celtic in November, once in the League Cup and the other in the League. They also ended a poor run of results at Celtic Park, with a 2-0 victory in February. A 2-1 loss to Celtic at home in April left Rangers five points behind with just four games left of the season. Celtic led by two points on the final day of the season and were winning 1-0 against Motherwell, but two late goals for Motherwell coupled with Rangers 1-0 win over Hibernian saw Rangers win the title.

Rangers also won the League Cup this season, with a 5-1 victory over Motherwell in the final. Rangers were beaten in the Scottish Cup however, losing 2-1 to Celtic in the third round.

After losing to CSKA Moscow in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, Rangers entered the UEFA Cup. Rangers managed to qualify for the newly formed group stages with a penalty shoot-out win over Maritimo. Rangers failed to progress beyond the group stages however, a 2-0 loss at home to Auxerre seeing them fail to stay in Europe beyond Christmas.

[edit] Players

[edit] Squad information

[edit] Transfers

[edit] In

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving from
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Ends
 Transfer
fee		 Source
9 CF CROCroatia Dado Pršo 29 Monaco France Transfer Summer 2007 Free [1]
8 CM SCOScotland Alex Rae 34 Wolverhampton Wanderers England Transfer Summer 2006 Free [2]
5 CB TRITrinidad and Tobago Marvin Andrews 28 Livingston Transfer Summer 2007 Free [3]
14 CM SerbiaSerbia Dragan Mladenović 28 Red Star Serbia Transfer Summer 2008 £1.1m [4]
4 CB FRAFrance Jean-Alain Boumsong 24 Auxerre France Transfer Summer 2009 Free [5]
10 CF ESPSpain Nacho Novo 25 Dundee Transfer Summer 2008 £0.45m [6]
24 LB FRAFrance Grégory Vignal 23 Liverpool England Loan Summer 2005 n/a [7]
Undisclosed CF SCOScotland Derek Carcary 18 Queen's Park Transfer Summer Undisclosed Free [8]
23 LW SWESweden Bojan Djordjic 22 Manchester United England Transfer Winter 2005 Free [9]
4 AM BELBelgium Thomas Buffel 23 Feyenoord Netherlands Transfer Winter 2009 £2.3m [10]
Undisclosed CB FINFinland Jukka Santala 23 HJK Finland Transfer Winter Undisclosed Free [11]
16 CB GreeceGreece Sotirios Kyrgiakos 25 Panathinaikos Greece Loan Winter 2005 n/a [12]
23 GK NEDNetherlands Ronald Waterreus 34 Manchester City England Transfer Winter 2005 £0.1m [13]
6 CM SCOScotland Barry Ferguson 26 Blackburn Rovers England Transfer Winter 2010 £4.5m [14]

Last updated: 11 January 2006
 Total spending: £8.45m

[edit] Out

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving to
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Transfer
fee		 Source
8 CM GERGermany Christian Nerlinger 31 Free Agent Transfer n/a n/a [15]
4 CM BRABrazil Emerson 32 Free Agent Transfer n/a n/a [2]
20 RW PORPortugal Nuno Capucho 32 Free Agent Transfer n/a n/a [16]
25 CB NORNorway Henning Berg 34 Retired End of contract Summer n/a [17]
10 CF NEDNetherlands Michael Mols 33 Utrecht Netherlands End of contract Summer n/a [17]
5 CB NEDNetherlands Frank de Boer 34 Al Rayyan Qatar End of contract Summer n/a [18]
14 AM NEDNetherlands Ronald de Boer 34 Al Rayyan Qatar End of contract Summer n/a [18]
38 CF SCOScotland Darryl Duffy 20 Falkirk End of contract Summer n/a [19]
33 CM SCOScotland Billy Gibson 22 Partick Thistle End of contract Summer n/a [20]
34 CB SCOScotland Andy Dowie 21 Partick Thistle End of contract Summer n/a [21]
Undisclosed LM SCOScotland Peter Leven 20 Kilmarnock End of contract Summer n/a [22]
Undisclosed CM SCOScotland Paul McHale 22 Cowdenbeath End of contract Summer n/a [23]
24 CF SCOScotland Steve MacLean 21 Sheffield Wednesday England Transfer Summer £0.125 [24]
23 CM ESPSpain Mikel Arteta 22 Real Sociedad Spain Transfer Summer £2.6m [25]
33 CM SCOScotland Alex Walker 20 Clyde Loan Summer n/a [26]
32 CF SCOScotland Tom Brighton 20 Scunthorpe United England Loan Summer n/a [27]
4 CB FRAFrance Jean-Alain Boumsong 25 Newcastle United England Transfer Winter £8m [28]
3 CB AUSAustralia Craig Moore 29 Borussia Mönchengladbach Germany Transfer Winter Free [29]
16 LB ITAItaly Paolo Vanoli 32 Vicenza Italy Transfer Winter Free [30]
38 CF MacedoniaRepublic of Macedonia Bajram Fetai 19 Inverness Caledonian Thistle Loan Winter Loan [11]
27 CM SCOScotland Stephen Hughes 22 Leicester City England Transfer Winter £0.1m [11]

Last updated: 1 February 2005
 Total received: £10.825m

[edit] Squad statistics

1 Germany Klos, StefanStefan Klos GK 34 0
2 Netherlands Ricksen, FernandoFernando Ricksen DF 51 9
3 Australia Moore, CraigCraig Moore DF 6 0
4 Belgium Buffel, ThomasThomas Buffel MF 18 5
4 France Boumsong, Jean-AlainJean-Alain Boumsong DF 28 2
5 Trinidad and Tobago Andrews, MarvinMarvin Andrews DF 38 4
6 Scotland Ferguson, BarryBarry Ferguson MF 15 2
7 Georgia (country) Arveladze, ShotaShota Arveladze FW 33 9
8 Scotland Rae, AlexAlex Rae MF 32 1
9 Croatia Pršo, DadoDado Pršo FW 46 21
10 Spain Novo, NachoNacho Novo FW 48 25
12 Scotland Malcolm, RobertRobert Malcolm DF 28 1
14 Serbia Mladenovic, DraganDragan Mladenovic MF 9 0
15 Georgia (country) Khizanishvili, ZurabZurab Khizanishvili DF 25 0
16 Greece Kyrgiakos, SotiriosSotirios Kyrgiakos DF 17 2
16 Italy Vanoli, PaoloPaolo Vanoli DF 7 0
17 Scotland Burke, ChrisChris Burke MF 16 0
18 England Ball, MichaelMichael Ball DF 18 0
19 Scotland Thompson, StevenSteven Thompson FW 34 10
20 Scotland Hutton, AlanAlan Hutton DF 12 0
21 Scotland Ross, MauriceMaurice Ross DF 19 1
22 Scotland McGregor, AllanAllan McGregor GK 2 0
23 Sweden Djordjic, BojanBojan Djordjic MF 5 0
24 France Vignal, GrégoryGrégory Vignal DF 42 3
25 Netherlands Waterreus, RonaldRonald Waterreus GK 15 0
26 Denmark Løvenkrands, PeterPeter Løvenkrands MF 24 4
27 Scotland Hughes, StephenStephen Hughes MF 15 2
31 Tunisia Namouchi, HamedHamed Namouchi MF 26 3
37 Scotland Smith, StevenSteven Smith DF 4 0
40 Scotland Adam, CharlieCharlie Adam MF 1 0
42 Scotland Davidson, RobertRobert Davidson FW 1 0
45 Scotland McCormack, RossRoss McCormack FW 1 0

[edit] Top scorer

[edit] Disciplinary record

[edit] Club

[edit] Coaching staff

Position Staff
Manager Scotland Alex McLeish
Assistant Manager Scotland Andy Watson
First-team coach Netherlands Jan Wouters
Fitness coach Scotland Frank Nutall
(from July)
Goalkeepers coach Scotland Billy Thomson

Source: Wikipedia article

[edit] Board of Directors

Chairman Scotland John McClelland
(until 1 September)[31]
Scotland David Murray
(from 1 September)[31]
Chief Executive Scotland Martin Bain
(from 11 February)[32]
Finance Director Scotland David Jolliffe
Non-Executive Director Scotland John Greig
(from 11 February)
Non-Executive Director Scotland Alastair Johnston
(from 11 February)
Non-Executive Director Scotland Dave King
Non-Executive Director Scotland Donald Wilson

Source: Wikipedia article

[edit] Other staff

Physiotherapist Scotland Davie Henderson
Doctor Scotland Dr Iain McGuiness
Chief Scout Scotland Ewan Chester
(until 29 June)
Kit controller Scotland Jimmy Bell

Source: Wikipedia article

[edit] Matches

[edit] Scottish Premier League

M
 Date
 Tournament
 Round
 Ground
 Opponent
 Score1
 Report
7 August 2004 Scottish Premier League 1 A Aberdeen 0 – 0
14 August 2004 Scottish Premier League 2 H Livingston 4 – 0
21 August 2004 Scottish Premier League 3 H Hibernian 4 – 1
29 August 2004 Scottish Premier League 4 A Celtic 0 – 1
12 September 2004 Scottish Premier League 5 A Heart of Midlothian 0 – 0
19 September 2004 Scottish Premier League 6 H Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1 – 0
26 September 2004 Scottish Premier League 7 A Dundee 2 – 0
3 October 2004 Scottish Premier League 8 H Kilmarnock 2 – 0
17 October 2004 Scottish Premier League 9 A Motherwell 2 – 0
24 October 2004 Scottish Premier League 10 H Dundee United 1 – 1
27 October 2004 Scottish Premier League 11 A Dunfermline Athletic 2 – 1
31 October 2004 Scottish Premier League 12 H Aberdeen 5 – 0
7 November 2004 Scottish Premier League 13 A Livingston 4 – 1
14 November 2004 Scottish Premier League 14 A Hibernian 1 – 0
20 November 2004 Scottish Premier League 15 H Celtic 2 – 0
28 November 2004 Scottish Premier League 16 H Heart of Midlothian 3 – 2
5 December 2004 Scottish Premier League 17 A Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1 – 1

Last updated: 15 May 2005
Source: Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

11 Dec 2004 Dundee H 3-0 48,114 Novo, Pršo, Malcolm
19 Dec 2004 Kilmarnock A 1-0 11,156 Arveladze
27 Dec 2004 Motherwell H 4-1 49,909 Novo (2), Arveladze, Thompson
01 Jan 2005 Dundee United A 1-1 10,461 Namouchi
15 Jan 2005 Dunfermline Athletic H 3-0 48,055 Thompson, Andrews, Rae
23 Jan 2005 Aberdeen A 2-1 17,495 Pršo, McNaughton (o.g.)
29 Jan 2005 Livingston H 3-0 48,579 Pršo, Novo, Ricksen
12 Feb 2005 Hibernian H 3-0 50,143 Pršo (2), Buffel
20 Feb 2005 Celtic A 2-0 59,041 Vignal, Novo
26 Feb 2005 Kilmarnock H 2-1 48,575 Pršo, Novo
02 Mar 2005 Hearts A 2-1 13,842 Novo, Ricksen (pen.)
05 Mar 2005 Inverness CT H 1-1 49,345 Ferguson
13 Mar 2005 Dundee A 2-0 9,876 Andrews, Ricksen
03 Apr 2005 Motherwell A 3-2 10,210 Vignal (2), Pršo
14 Apr 2005 Dundee United H 0-1 49,302
17 Apr 2005 Dunfermline Athletic A 1-0 8,266 Pršo
24 Apr 2005 Celtic H 1-2 49,593 Thompson
1 May 2005 Aberdeen A 3-1 17,198 Ferguson, Pršo (2)
7 May 2005 Hearts H 2-1 49,342 Buffel, Andrews
14 May 2005 Motherwell H 4-1 49,495 Buffel (2), Arveladze (2)
22 May 2005 Hibernian A 1-0 17,450 Novo

[edit] UEFA Champions League

M
 Date
 Tournament
 Round
 Ground
 Opponent
 Score1
 Report
10 August 2004 UEFA Champions League QR3 A Russia CSKA Moscow Russia 1 – 2
25 August 2004 UEFA Champions League QR3 H CSKA Moscow Russia 1 – 1

Last updated: 25 August 2004
Source: Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

[edit] UEFA Cup

M
 Date
 Tournament
 Round
 Ground
 Opponent
 Score1
 Report
16 September 2004 UEFA Cup R1 A Portugal Marítimo Portugal 0 – 1
30 September 2004 UEFA Cup R1 H Marítimo Portugal 1 – 0
(4-2 pen.)
21 October 2004 UEFA Cup GS A Poland Amica Wronki Poland 5 – 0
25 November 2004 UEFA Cup GS H Grazer AK Austria 3 – 0
2 December 2004 UEFA Cup GS A Netherlands AZ Netherlands 0 – 1
15 December 2004 UEFA Cup GS H Auxerre France 0 – 2

Last updated: 15 December 2004
Source: Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

[edit] Scottish Cup

M
 Date
 Tournament
 Round
 Ground
 Opponent
 Score1
 Report
9 January 2005 Scottish Cup 3 A Celtic 1 – 2

Last updated: 9 January 2005
Source: Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

[edit] League Cup

M
 Date
 Tournament
 Round
 Ground
 Opponent
 Score1
 Report
22 September 2004 League Cup 3 A Aberdeen 2 – 0
10 November 2004 League Cup QF H Celtic 2 – 1
2 February 2005 League Cup SF N Dundee United 7 – 1
20 March 2005 League Cup F N Motherwell 5 – 1

Last updated: 20 March 2005
Source: Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

[edit] Friendlies

M
 Date
 Tournament
 Round
 Ground
 Opponent
 Score1
 Report
1 18 July 2004 Friendly A Germany SC Fürstenfeld Germany 4 – 0

Last updated: 9 January 2005
Source: Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

20 Jul 2004 AS Roma N 4–1 Novo (2), Pršo (pen.), Rae
24 Jul 2004 Fulham A 1–0 14,173 Pršo
28 Jul 2004 Tottenham Hotspur H 2–0 35,750 Pršo, Novo
31 Jul 2004 Newcastle United A 2–4 31,554 Pršo, Ricksen
01 Aug 2004 Feyenoord N 0–0 24,000

[edit] Competitions

[edit] Overall

[edit] Scottish Premier League

[edit] Standings

[edit] Results summary

[edit] Results by round

[edit] References

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