2004–05 Preston North End F.C. season

Preston North End
2004–05 season
Chairman	Derek Shaw
Manager	Craig Brown (until 29 August) Billy Davies (from 29 August)
Stadium	Deepdale
Championship	5th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Richard Cresswell (16) All: Richard Cresswell (21)
Average home league attendance	12,841
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

During the 2004–05 English football season, Preston North End F.C. competed in the Football League Championship.

Season summary

When Preston went down 1-0 at Brighton thanks to a Marlon Broomes own goal on 28 August 2004, a day later, Craig Brown was sacked and replaced with his assistant Billy Davies.^[1]

Davies took Preston to the 2005 play-off final for the first time since 2001, at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium but once again Preston ended up on the losing side, this time to West Ham United, losing 1-0.^[2]

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

Preston North End's score comes first^[3]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 2004	Watford	H	2-1	12,208	Cresswell, Healy (pen)
11 August 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	2-2	26,115	Lucketti, Healy
14 August 2004	Gillingham	A	1-2	7,073	Fuller
20 August 2004	Sheffield United	H	0-1	12,084
28 August 2004	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	0-1	5,996
30 August 2004	Rotherham United	H	2-0	11,439	Etuhu (2)
11 September 2004	Stoke City	H	3-0	12,759	Cresswell (2), Healy
14 September 2004	Reading	A	1-3	11,857	Healy
18 September 2004	Sunderland	A	1-3	24,264	Alexander (pen)
25 September 2004	Crewe Alexandra	H	1-0	11,823	Davidson
28 September 2004	Plymouth Argyle	H	1-1	11,445	Cresswell
2 October 2004	Leicester City	A	1-1	21,249	Lonergan
16 October 2004	Leeds United	A	0-1	30,458
19 October 2004	Queens Park Rangers	H	2-1	10,548	Healy, Cresswell (pen)
23 October 2004	Nottingham Forest	H	3-2	12,439	McKenna, Lucketti, Etuhu
30 October 2004	Ipswich Town	A	0-3	23,745
3 November 2004	Coventry City	A	1-1	12,478	Lewis
6 November 2004	Leeds United	H	2-4	18,531	Cresswell (2)
13 November 2004	Millwall	H	1-1	10,339	Lewis
19 November 2004	Cardiff City	A	1-0	10,950	Mawéné
27 November 2004	Derby County	H	3-0	12,702	Alexander (2, 1 pen), Cresswell
5 December 2004	Wigan Athletic	A	0-5	10,565
11 December 2004	Burnley	A	0-2	15,318
18 December 2004	West Ham United	H	2-1	13,451	Lewis
26 December 2004	Stoke City	A	0-0	20,350
28 December 2004	Reading	H	3-0	12,795	Agyemang, Hughes (own goal), Lewis
1 January 2005	Sunderland	H	3-2	16,940	Cresswell (3)
3 January 2005	Crewe Alexandra	A	2-1	8,667	Sedgwick, O'Neil
15 January 2005	Leicester City	H	1-1	12,677	McKenna
22 January 2005	Plymouth Argyle	A	2-0	13,663	Sedgwick, Agyemang
5 February 2005	Coventry City	H	3-2	13,691	Alexander (pen), Cresswell, Lucketti
12 February 2005	Queens Park Rangers	A	2-1	15,620	Nugent, Lucketti
18 February 2005	Ipswich Town	H	1-1	14,418	Nugent
23 February 2005	Nottingham Forest	A	0-2	19,209
26 February 2005	Burnley	H	1-0	18,202	Alexander (pen)
5 March 2005	West Ham United	A	2-1	26,442	Nugent, Agyemang
12 March 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	2-2	16,296	Cresswell, Alexander (pen)
15 March 2005	Sheffield United	A	1-1	18,647	Cresswell
19 March 2005	Watford	A	2-0	19,649	Nugent, McKenna
2 April 2005	Gillingham	H	1-1	15,054	Brown (own goal)
5 April 2005	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	3-0	14,234	Alexander (pen), Cresswell, Nugent
9 April 2005	Rotherham United	A	2-1	6,312	Sedgwick, Mawéné
16 April 2005	Cardiff City	H	3-0	15,141	Nugent (2), Cresswell
24 April 2005	Millwall	A	1-2	11,417	Nugent
30 April 2005	Wigan Athletic	H	1-1	20,221	O'Neil
8 May 2005	Derby County	A	1-3	31,237	Agyemang

Championship play-offs


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
SF 1st Leg	15 May 2005	Derby County	H	2-0	20,315	Nugent, Cresswell
SF 2nd Leg	19 May 2005	Derby County	A	0-0	31,310
F	30 May 2005	West Ham United	N	0-1	70,275

FA Cup

Main article: 2004–05 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 2005	West Bromwich Albion	H	0-2	13,005

League Cup

Main article: 2004–05 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	21 September 2004	Mansfield Town	A	4-0	3,208	Cresswell, Alexander, Daley, Lynch
R2	4 October 2004	Leicester City	A	3-2	6,751	Cresswell (3, 1 pen)
R3	27 October 2004	Everton	A	0-2	33,922

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	Andy Lonergan
2	DF	Graham Alexander
3	DF	Brian O'Neil
4	MF	Dickson Etuhu
5	DF	Callum Davidson
6	DF	Marlon Broomes
8	MF	Eric Skora
9	FW	Patrick Agyemang
10	FW	Andy Smith
11	MF	Chris Sedgwick
12	GK	Gavin Ward
14	FW	Simon Lynch
15	DF	Youl Mawéné
16	MF	Paul McKenna
17	MF	Eddie Lewis

No.	Position	Player
18	DF	Matt Hill
20	DF	Chris Lucketti (captain)
21	DF	David Elebert
22	DF	Claude Davis
24	DF	Tyrone Mears
25	FW	Richard Cresswell
27	MF	Alan McCormack
28	MF	Michael Brown
29	FW	Joe O'Neill
30	MF	Kieran Tracey
31	GK	Chris Neal
32	FW	Mark Jackson
33	GK	Carlo Nash
35	FW	David Nugent

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
9	FW	Ricardo Fuller (to Portsmouth)
11	FW	David Healy (to Leeds United)
9	FW	Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu (to Sheffield Wednesday)
18	DF	John Curtis (on loan from Portsmouth)
30	FW	Kelvin Langmead (to Shrewsbury Town)
33	MF	Ciarán Lyng (to Shrewsbury Town)
19	FW	Filipe Oliveira (on loan from Chelsea)

No.	Position	Player
33	DF	Robert Kozluk (on loan from Sheffield United)
23	GK	Jonathan Gould (to Bristol City)
26	DF	Darran Kempson (on loan from Morecambe)
33	GK	Chris Day (on loan from Queens Park Rangers)
7	MF	Omar Daley (on loan from Portmore United)
34	DF	Kyle Armstrong (to York City)
19	MF	Yoann Folly (on loan from Southampton)

Transfers

In

Callum Davidson: from Leicester City, Free
Gavin Ward: from Coventry City, Free
Youl Mawéné: from Derby County, Free
Patrick Agyemang: from Gillingham, £350,000
Chris Sedgwick: from Rotherham United, £400,000
Matt Hill: from Bristol City, £100,000
David Nugent: from Bury, Signed
Carlo Nash: from Middlesbrough, Signed

Out

Paul Carvill: to Accrington Stanley, Free
Ricardo Fuller: to Portsmouth, Signed
David Healy: to Leeds United, Signed
Kelvin Langmead: to Shrewsbury Town, Free
Ciarán Lyng: to Shrewsbury Town, Free
Jonathan Gould: to Bristol City, Free
Darran Kempson: to Morecambe, Free
Kyle Armstrong: to York City, Signed

References

↑ "Brown leaves Preston post". BBC Sport. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
↑ "West Ham 1-0 Preston". BBC Sport. 30 May 2005. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
↑ http://www.statto.com/football/teams/preston-north-end/2004-2005

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