2004–05 Ipswich Town F.C. season

Ipswich missed automatic promotion in the 2004–05 season, finishing third, only two points behind second-placed Wigan Athletic. Again, they lost to West Ham United in the play off semi-finals, this time by a 4–2 aggregate score.^[1]

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

Ipswich Town's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 2004	Gillingham	H	2-1	23,130	Naylor, Bowditch
11 August 2004	Nottingham Forest	A	1-1	21,125	Bent
14 August 2004	Derby County	A	2-3	22,234	Miller, Bowditch
21 August 2004	Cardiff City	H	3-1	21,828	Bent, Miller, Westlake
28 August 2004	Rotherham United	A	2-0	5,504	Kuqi (2)
30 August 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	2-1	24,590	Bent, Miller
12 September 2004	Millwall	H	2-0	26,790	Bent, Couñago
14 September 2004	Stoke City	A	2-3	23,029	Westlake, de Vos
18 September 2004	West Ham United	A	1-1	28,812	Couñago
25 September 2004	Plymouth Argyle	H	3-2	23,270	de Vos, Kuqi (2)
28 September 2004	Reading	H	1-1	23,167	Kuqi
3 October 2004	Coventry City	A	2-1	12,608	Bowditch, Mills (own goal)
16 October 2004	Burnley	H	1-1	23,183	Richards
19 October 2004	Leicester City	A	2-2	22,497	Westlake, Heath (own goal)
23 October 2004	Watford	A	2-2	15,894	Westlake, Bent
30 October 2004	Preston North End	H	3-0	23,745	Kuqi, Miller, Bent
2 November 2004	Sheffield United	H	5-1	22,977	Miller, Kuqi (2), Naylor, Westlake
6 November 2004	Burnley	A	2-0	11,969	Bent (2)
13 November 2004	Leeds United	H	1-0	29,955	Bent
21 November 2004	Sunderland	A	0-2	31,723
27 November 2004	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	1-0	26,269	Kuqi
4 December 2004	Crewe Alexandra	A	2-2	7,236	Naylor, Bent
11 December 2004	Queens Park Rangers	A	4-2	18,231	de Vos, Bent, Currie, Kuqi
21 December 2004	Wigan Athletic	H	2-1	28,286	Naylor, Bent
26 December 2004	Millwall	A	1-3	14,532	Kuqi
28 December 2004	Stoke City	H	1-0	26,217	Kuqi
1 January 2005	West Ham United	H	0-2	30,003
3 January 2005	Plymouth Argyle	A	2-1	17,923	Currie (2)
15 January 2005	Coventry City	H	3-2	23,670	Bent (2), Kuqi
22 January 2005	Reading	A	1-1	23,203	Bent
5 February 2005	Sheffield United	A	2-0	20,680	Unsworth, Kuqi
12 February 2005	Leicester City	H	2-1	27,392	de Vries (own goal), Kuqi
18 February 2005	Preston North End	A	1-1	14,418	Miller
22 February 2005	Watford	H	1-2	23,993	Miller
26 February 2005	Queens Park Rangers	H	0-2	29,008
5 March 2005	Wigan Athletic	A	0-1	16,744
12 March 2005	Nottingham Forest	H	6-0	25,765	Naylor, Westlake, Miller (2), Kuqi, Bent
15 March 2005	Cardiff City	A	1-0	11,768	Miller
19 March 2005	Gillingham	A	0-0	9,311
2 April 2005	Derby County	H	3-2	28,796	Magilton, Bent, Miller
5 April 2005	Rotherham United	H	4-3	26,017	Westlake, Bent (2), Magilton
9 April 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0-2	25,882
17 April 2005	Sunderland	H	2-2	29,230	Naylor, Bent
23 April 2005	Leeds United	A	1-1	29,607	Kuqi
30 April 2005	Crewe Alexandra	H	5-1	28,244	Kuqi, Magilton, Miller (2), Couñago
8 May 2005	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	1-1	6,848	Kuqi

Championship play-offs


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
SF 1st Leg	14 May 2005	West Ham United	A	2-2	33,723	Walker (own goal), Kuqi
SF 2nd Leg	18 May 2005	West Ham United	H	0-2	30,010

FA Cup

Main article: 2004–05 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 2005	Bolton Wanderers	H	1-3	20,080	Miller

League Cup

Main article: 2004–05 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	24 August 2004	Brentford	H	2-0	10,190	Westlake, Miller
R2	21 September 2004	Doncaster Rovers	A	0-2	6,020

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	Kelvin Davis
2	DF	Fabian Wilnis
3	DF	Matt Richards
4	DF	Jason de Vos
5	DF	Drissa Diallo^[2]
6	DF	Richard Naylor
7	MF	Jim Magilton
8	MF	Tommy Miller
9	FW	Pablo Couñago
10	MF	Darren Currie
11	MF	Kevin Horlock^[3]

No.	Position	Player
14	FW	James Scowcroft (on loan from Leicester City)
16	DF	David Unsworth (on loan from Portsmouth)
17	FW	Dean Bowditch
18	FW	Darren Bent
21	DF	Scott Mitchell
22	FW	Darryl Knights
26	DF	Scott Barron
32	FW	Shefki Kuqi^[4]
33	MF	Ian Westlake
34	GK	Lewis Price^[5]

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
10	MF	Tony Dinning (on loan from Wigan Athletic)
12	FW	Daniel Karbassiyoon (on loan from Arsenal)
19	FW	Antonio Murray (to Hibernian)

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Craig Reid (to Coventry City)
		DF	Chris Hogg (to Hibernian)

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
15	MF	Dean McDonald
19	MF	Jimmy Juan (on loan from AS Monaco)
20	DF	Aidan Collins
23	MF	Owen Garvan
24	FW	Billy Clarke

No.	Position	Player
27	MF	Adem Atay
28	DF	Gerard Nash
29	DF	Ben Patten
30	DF	Jerome Sobers
31	GK	Shane Supple

References

↑ "Ipswich 0–2 West Ham". BBC Sport. 18 May 2005. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
↑ Diallo was born in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, but also qualifies to represent Guinea internationally and has represented them at international level.
↑ Horlock was born in Erith, England, but also qualifies to represent Northern Ireland internationally and made his international debut for Northern Ireland in April 1995.
↑ Kuqi was born in Vučitrn, Yugoslavia (now Kosovo), but also qualifies to represent Finland internationally and made his international debut for Finland in 1999.
↑ Price was born in Bournemouth, England, but also qualifies to represent Wales internationally and made his international debut for Wales in November 2005.

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