2004–05 ACF Fiorentina season

Fiorentina

2004–05 season
Chairman	Andrea Della Valle
Manager	Emanuele Mondonico Sergio Buso Dino Zoff
Serie A	16th
Coppa Italia	Quarter Finals
Top goalscorer	League: Fabrizio Miccoli (12) All: Fabrizio Miccoli (12)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

ACF Fiorentina returned to Serie A, following a two-year absence following the bankruptcy of the previous incarnation of the club. Fiorentina returned only due to the expansion in terms of the number of top-league teams, and therefore had to significantly strengthen the squad in pre-season. Dario Dainelli, Giorgio Chiellini, Hidetoshi Nakata, Fabrizio Miccoli, Martin Jørgensen, goalkeeper Cristiano Lupatelli, Enzo Maresca, Tomáš Ujfaluši and Javier Portillo were among the highly rated players to sign up for Fiorentina, either permanently or on loan. With this squad, Fiorentina was expected to challenge for a place on the top half of the table, but slipped into the relegation battle that affected more than half of the Serie A clubs during the dramatic season. In the end, a strong finish to the season under incoming coach Dino Zoff saved La Viola from relegation, with an emotional 3-0 victory against Brescia, confirming their survival.

Following the season, two interesting appointments were made, when Lecce's sporting director Pantaleo Corvino and highly rated coach Cesare Prandelli were signed up. The club continued its furious pursuit of the top clubs with the swoop of striker Luca Toni from Palermo. Fiorentina looked to be back to stay.

Squad

Goalkeepers

• Sebastián Cejas
• Marco Roccati
• Cristiano Lupatelli
• Francesco Palmieri

Defenders

• Dario Dainelli
• Giorgio Chiellini
• Mirko Savini
• Tomáš Ujfaluši
• Christian Maggio
• Daniele Delli Carri
• William Viali
• Antonio Aquilanti

Midfielders

• Christian Obodo
• Luis Helguera
• Angelo Di Livio
• Luca Ariatti
• Hidetoshi Nakata
• Enzo Maresca
• Martin Jørgensen
• Marco Donadel
• Luigi Piangerelli
• Gaetano Fontana

Attackers

• Christian Riganò
• Fabrizio Miccoli
• Javier Portillo
• Giampaolo Pazzini
• Enrico Fantini
• Valeri Bojinov

Serie A

Matches

1	Roma	1–0	Fiorentina
	Montella  67'

2	Fiorentina	2–1	Cagliari
	Miccoli  16' Dainelli  90 + 1'		Suazo  90 + 3'

3	Palermo	0–0	Fiorentina

4	Fiorentina	0–2	Sampdoria
			Bazzani  11' Sacchetti  64'

5	Parma	0–0	Fiorentina

6	Fiorentina	0–0	Siena

7	Udinese	2–2	Fiorentina
	Mauri  17' Sensini  51'		Miccoli  15, 66'

8	Reggina	1–2	Fiorentina
	Paredes  59'		Maresca  72' Miccoli  88'

9	Fiorentina	4–0	Lecce
	Jørgensen  45 + 3' Obodo  62, 71' Chiellini  90'

10	Fiorentina	1–1	Inter
	Dainelli  26'		Adriano  81'

11	Juventus	1–0	Fiorentina
	Olivera  76'

12	Fiorentina	1–1	Livorno
	Riganò  71'		C. Lucarelli  77'

13	Messina	1–1	Fiorentina
	Parisi  69' (pen.)		Ariatti  54'

14	Fiorentina	1–0	Bologna
	Riganò  63'

15	Milan	6–0	Fiorentina
	Seedorf  16, 82' Crespo  22, 61' Shevchenko  52, 73'

16	Fiorentina	2–0	Chievo
	Riganò  45' Portillo  71'

17	Atalanta	1–0	Fiorentina
	Budan  81'

18	Fiorentina	2–3	Lazio
	Miccoli  21, 82'		Di Canio  33' Pandev  82' Dabo  82'

19	Brescia	1–1	Fiorentina
	Di Pasquale  62'		Miccoli  49'

20	Fiorentina	1–2	Roma
	Maresca  20'		Cassano  23' Montella  67'

21	Cagliari	1–0	Fiorentina
	Esposito  11'

22	Fiorentina	1–2	Palermo
	Miccoli  72'		Toni  58' González  69'

23	Sampdoria	3–0	Fiorentina
	Flachi  15' Tonetto  33' Diana  74'

24	Fiorentina	2–1	Parma
	Chiellini  47' Miccoli  81'		Gilardino  84'

25	Siena	1–0	Fiorentina
	Flo  6'

26	Fiorentina	2–2	Udinese
	Bojinov  22' Ariatti  34'		Muntari  41' Di Natale  56'

27	Fiorentina	2–1	Reggina
	Pazzini  48' Miccoli  69' (pen.)		Colucci  78'

28	Lecce	2–2	Fiorentina
	Dalla Bona  28' Vučinić  31'		Jørgensen  47' Maggio  86'

29	Inter	3–2	Fiorentina
	Cambiasso  26' Verón  53' Córdoba  65'		Pazzini  40' Córdoba  86' (o.g.)

30	Fiorentina	3–3	Juventus
	Pazzini  14' Chiellini  35' Dainelli  75'		Del Piero  21' Ibrahimović  58, 83'

31	Livorno	2–0	Fiorentina
	C. Lucarelli  12' (pen.), 42'

32	Fiorentina	1–1	Messina
	Dainelli  61'		Di Napoli  90 + 5'

33	Bologna	0–0	Fiorentina

34	Fiorentina	1–2	Milan
	Maresca  25'		Shevchenko  46, 55'

35	Chievo	1–2	Fiorentina
	Mandelli  87'		Miccoli  42' Bojinov  79'

36	Fiorentina	0–0	Atalanta

37	Lazio	1–1	Fiorentina
	Siviglia  18'		Maresca  2'

38	Fiorentina	3–0	Brescia
	Miccoli  43' (pen.) Jørgensen  59' Riganò  66'

Top Scorers

• Fabrizio Miccoli 12 (2)
• Enzo Maresca 4
• Christian Riganò 4
• Dario Dainelli 4

Sources

RSSSF - Italy 2004/05

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2004–05 in Serie A Atalanta Bologna Brescia Cagliari Chievo Fiorentina Internazionale Juventus Lazio Lecce Livorno Milan Messina Parma Palermo Reggina Roma Sampdoria Siena Udinese