2005–06 Feyenoord season

Feyenoord were once again the Eredivisie's top scorers and they improved on last's seasons results to finish 3rd, but the team was still some way off challenging for the title. The club also suffered elimination at the first hurdle in both the domestic and UEFA cups. The club's last chance for glory was to win the Eredivise's UEFA play-offs to qualify for the Champions League, but they were knocked out at the first stage again after an embarrassing 7-2 aggregate loss to an Ajax side who had finished 11 points behind the Rotterdam club.

Kits

Feyenoord's kits were manufactured by Italian company Kappa and sponsored by Belgian financial company Fortis.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[1]

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	Maikel Aerts
4	DF	André Bahia
5	DF	Pascal Bosschaart
7	FW	Dirk Kuyt
9	FW	Pierre van Hooijdonk
10	MF	Nicky Hofs
14	MF	Sebastián Pardo
15	DF	Patrick Mtiliga
16	MF	Alfred Schreuder
17	DF	Patrick Paauwe
18	DF	Serginho Greene
19	FW	Ali Boussaboun

No.	Position	Player
20	DF	Ron Vlaar
21	FW	Salomon Kalou
28	MF	Romeo Castelen^{[notes 1]}
29	MF	Tim Vincken
30	GK	Patrick Lodewijks
32	GK	Sherif Ekramy
33	MF	Jonathan de Guzmán^{[notes 2]}
34	DF	Christian Gyan
35	MF	Diego Biseswar
36	DF	Ivan Bandalovski (on loan from Litex Lovech)
37	DF	Royston Drenthe
39	DF	Pieter Collen

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
2	DF	Alexander Östlund (to Southampton)
3	DF	Karim Saidi (on loan to Lecce)
6	MF	Hossam Ghaly (to Tottenham Hotspur)
8	MF	Shinji Ono (to Urawa Red Diamonds)
9	FW	Danko Lazović (on loan to Bayer Leverkusen and Partizan Belgrade)
20	MF	Leonardo (to NAC Breda)

No.	Position	Player
23	DF	Ferne Snoyl (on loan to Aberdeen)
24	MF	Edwin de Graaf (on loan to ADO Den Haag)
25	DF	Cory Gibbs (on loan to ADO Den Haag)
26	FW	John Owoeri (on loan to Westerlo)
27	DF	Timothy Derijck (on loan to NAC Breda)
31	DF	Gianni Zuiverloon (on loan to RKC Waalwijk)

Results

UEFA Cup

First round

15 September 2005	Feyenoord	1–1	Rapid București	De Kuip, Rotterdam
19:00	Kuyt 40'	Report	Vasilache 74' (pen.)	Referee: Vladimír Hriňák (Slovakia)

29 September 2005	Rapid București	1–0	Feyenoord	Stadionul Giulești-Valentin Stănescu, Bucharest
18:00	Buga 12'	Report		Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)

Rapid București won 2-1 on aggregate.

References

↑ http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/holland/2005-2006/ere/feyen.htm

Notes

↑ Castelen was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, but also qualified to represent the Netherlands internationally and made his international debut for the Netherlands in August 2004.
↑ De Guzmán was born in Scarborough, Canada, but would later become qualified to represent the Netherlands internationally after gaining citizenship in 2008 and would make his international debut for the Netherlands in January 2013.

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