2004–05 Rangers F.C. season

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

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.

Players

Squad information

Transfers

In

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

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

Out

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving to
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Transfer
fee		 Source
8 CM GER Christian Nerlinger 31 Free Agent Transfer n/a n/a [15]
4 CM BRA Emerson 32 Free Agent Transfer n/a n/a [2]
20 RW POR Nuno Capucho 32 Free Agent Transfer n/a n/a [16]
25 CB NOR Henning Berg 34 Retired End of contract Summer n/a [17]
10 CF NED Michael Mols 33 Utrecht End of contract Summer n/a [17]
5 CB NED Frank de Boer 34 Al Rayyan End of contract Summer n/a [18]
14 AM NED Ronald de Boer 34 Al Rayyan End of contract Summer n/a [18]
38 CF SCO Darryl Duffy 20 Falkirk End of contract Summer n/a [19]
33 CM SCO Billy Gibson 22 Partick Thistle End of contract Summer n/a [20]
34 CB SCO Andy Dowie 21 Partick Thistle End of contract Summer n/a [21]
LM SCO Peter Leven 20 Kilmarnock End of contract Summer n/a [22]
CM SCO Paul McHale 22 Cowdenbeath End of contract Summer n/a [23]
24 CF SCO Steve MacLean 21 Sheffield Wednesday Transfer Summer £0.125 [24]
23 CM ESP Mikel Arteta 22 Real Sociedad Transfer Summer £2.6m [25]
33 CM SCO Alex Walker 20 Clyde Loan Summer n/a [26]
32 CF SCO Tom Brighton 20 Scunthorpe United Loan Summer n/a [27]
4 CB FRA Jean-Alain Boumsong 25 Newcastle United Transfer Winter £8m [28]
3 CB AUS Craig Moore 29 Borussia Mönchengladbach Transfer Winter Free [29]
16 LB ITA Paolo Vanoli 32 Vicenza Transfer Winter Free [30]
38 CF Macedonia Bajram Fetai 19 Inverness Caledonian Thistle Loan Winter Loan [11]
27 CM SCO Stephen Hughes 22 Leicester City Transfer Winter £0.1m [11]

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

Squad statistics

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

Top scorer

Disciplinary record

Club

Coaching staff

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

Source: Wikipedia article

Board of Directors

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

Source: Wikipedia article

Other staff

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

Source: Wikipedia article

Matches

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

UEFA Champions League

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

UEFA Cup

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

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.

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.

Friendlies

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

Competitions

Overall

Scottish Premier League

Standings

Results summary

Results by round

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