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Association football-related events during 2005
Overview of the events of 2005 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 2005 throughout the world.
Events
January 21 – German
referee
Robert Hoyzer admits to having accepted large sums of money from a gambling syndicate to
fix matches . The resulting scandal was a major embarrassment to Germany as it prepared to host the
2006 FIFA World Cup . Eventually Hoyzer would be sentenced to two years and five months in prison.
February 3 – Dutch club
Fortuna Sittard has three points deducted for financial mismanagement (failure to settle tax debts); an additional deduction of three points on April 29 was confirmed after an appeal on June 13.
February 4 –
Swiss
AXPO Super League – Club
Servette FC was declared bankrupt. It had run debts of over 10 million Swiss francs. As a consequence of the bankruptcy the club will be demoted two divisions.
March 20 – Dutch club
Go Ahead Eagles has three points deducted for financial mismanagement.
March 26 –
Chelsea won the
League Cup after beating
Liverpool 3–2
April 23 –
PSV wins its 18th national title in the Dutch
Eredivisie .
April 30 – National Football title assignment in two major European tournaments. In England,
Chelsea wins for the second time in the
FA Premier League ; in Germany,
Bundesliga is won for the 19th time by
Bayern Munich . In France,
RC Strasbourg won second
League Cup .
May 8 –
Ligue 1 –
Lyon win its fourth French title in 2000s (decade).
May 14 – Spain
Liga –
FC Barcelona won its 17th league title.
May 18 –
UEFA Cup
Final –
CSKA Moscow became the first
Russian club to win a major
European club competition, defeating
Sporting CP 3–1 at
Sporting's home field in Lisbon.
May 20 – Italian
Serie A –
Juventus won its 28th title ("scudetto") without playing following a 3–3 draw between
A.C. Milan and
Palermo .
May 21 – Manager
Gert Aandewiel receives the Rinus Michels Award for the best coach in Dutch amateur football.
May 21 –
Arsenal wins the
FA Cup
Final by defeating
Manchester United 5–4
on penalties after regular time and
extra time ended 0–0.
May 25 –
2004–05 UEFA Champions League
Final –
Liverpool come from three goals down, and beat
A.C. Milan 3–2 on penalties after a 3–3 draw in
Istanbul to win Europe's top prize for the 5th time.
May 26 – Dutch club
Sparta Rotterdam fires manager
Mike Snoei and names former international
Adri van Tiggelen as interim-coach.
June 8 – Goalkeeper and captain
Edwin van der Sar plays his 100th international match for the
Netherlands , when the side defeats
Finland (0–4) in
Helsinki .
July 9 – Spain's
Basque Country wins the
fourth
UEFA Regions' Cup , beating Bulgaria's
South-West Sofia 1–0 in
Proszowice .
July 14 –
2005 Copa Libertadores is won by
São Paulo FC after defeating
Clube Atlético Paranaense on an aggregate score of 5–1.
August 5 –
Ajax wins the
Johan Cruijff Schaal , the annual opening of the new season in the
Eredivisie , by a 2–1 win over
PSV in the
Amsterdam ArenA .
August 26 – The first match of the inaugural
Hyundai A-League in Australia was played.
August 31 –
Boca Juniors (
Argentina ) won the
Recopa Sudamericana 2005 4–3 on aggregate over
Once Caldas (
Colombia ). (First leg in
Buenos Aires 3–1, second leg in
Manizales 1–2)
November 21 – Head coach
Robert Maaskant is fired by
Willem II .
December 9 –
2006 FIFA World Cup group assignments for the finals in Germany announced.
December 11 – Opening game of the second
FIFA World Club Championship , a six team tournament replacing the former
Intercontinental Cup . In the
final one week later Brazilian team
São Paulo FC won the competition narrowly beating
UEFA Champions
Liverpool 1–0.
December 18 –
Boca Juniors defeated
UNAM Pumas on penalties after the second leg game for the
Copa Sudamericana
2005 .
December 19 – Manager
Cees Lok leaves
NEC and is replaced by another former player of the Dutch Club,
Ron de Groot .
December 19 –
Ronaldinho (Brazil, for male footballer) and
Birgit Prinz (Germany, for female footballer) were elected
FIFA World Player of the Year .
December 31 –
Mark Wotte resigns as technical director of
Feyenoord .
Winners national championships
National club championships in Africa (CAF)
National club championships in Asia (AFC)
National club championships in Europe (UEFA)
National club championships in North and Central America (CONCACAF)
National club championships in Oceania (OFC)
Australia:
New Zealand:
National club championships in South America (CONMEBOL)
National club championships in non-FIFA-affiliated French dependencies
Guadeloupe (CONCACAF)
Premier League – Association Sportive Le Gosier
(CONCACAF)
Premier League – ASC Le Geldar Kourou
French Polynesia (AFC)
Premier League – AS Tefana Faa'a
Cup – AS Manu Ura Paea
Martinique (CONCACAF)
Premier League and Cup – Club Franciscain Le François
New Caledonia (OFC)
Premier League and Cup – AS Magenta Nickel Nouméa
Réunion (CAF):
Premier League – US Stade Tamponnaise Le Tampon
Réunion Cup – SS Excelsior Saint-Joseph
International tournaments
February 3–12:
CEMAC Cup 2005 – Winner:
Cameroon (Participating countries:
Cameroon ,
Chad ,
Gabon ,
Congo ,
Equatorial Guinea and
Central African Republic )
February 8–9:
Cyprus International Tournament 2005 – Winner:
Finland (Participating countries:
Finland ,
Cyprus ,
Latvia ,
Austria )
February 9:
Carlsberg Cup 2005 – Winner:
Brazil (Participating countries: Brazil and
Hong Kong )
UNCAF Nations Cup in
Guatemala City, Guatemala (February 19 – 27, 2005)
Costa Rica
Honduras
Guatemala
February 20–24:
CONCACAF Gold Cup 2005 Caribbean Preliminary Competition – Winners:
Cuba ,
Jamaica and
Trinidad and Tobago (Participating Countries:
Barbados ,
Cuba ,
Jamaica and
Trinidad and Tobago )
February 26 – August 14:
Cosafa Castle Cup 2005 (Participating countries: Group A: South Africa, Mauritius,
Madagascar and
Seychelles Group B:
Botswana , Namibia,
Mozambique and
Zimbabwe Group C:
Lesotho , Malawi,
Swaziland and
Zambia )
March 5–13:
East Asian Football Championships 2005 Preliminary Competition – Winner:
North Korea (Participating Countries:
North Korea ,
Hong Kong ,
Chinese Taipei , Mongolia and
Guam )
Baltic Cup in
Kaunas (May 21, 2005)
Lithuania
Latvia
UEFA Women's Championship in England (June 5–19, 2005)
Germany
Norway
FIFA U-20 World Cup in Netherlands (June 10 – July 2, 2005)
Argentina
Nigeria
Brazil
FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany (June 15–29, 2005)
Brazil
Argentina
Germany
CONCACAF Gold Cup in United States (July 6–24, 2005)
United States
Panama
East Asian Football Championship in
Chinese Taipei &
South Korea
China
Japan
FIFA U-17 World Championship in Peru (September 16 – October 2, 2005)
Mexico
Brazil
Netherlands
2005 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup in
Pakistan (7 Dec 2005 – 17 Dec 2005)
India
Bangladesh
Qualifying for 2006 World Cup
Note: for fuller coverage, see:
2006 FIFA World Cup (qualification)
October 2004 – October 2005:
Africa Qualifying
Qualified teams :
Angola ,
Ghana ,
Ivory Coast ,
Togo ,
Tunisia
Participating countries:
Algeria ,
Angola ,
Benin ,
Botswana ,
Burkina Faso ,
Burundi ,
Cameroon ,
Cape Verde ,
Central African Republic ,
Chad ,
Congo ,
Congo DR ,
Djibouti ,
Egypt ,
Equatorial Guinea ,
Eritrea ,
Ethiopia ,
Gabon ,
Gambia ,
Ghana ,
Guinea ,
Guinea-Bissau ,
Ivory Coast ,
Kenya ,
Lesotho ,
Liberia ,
Libya ,
Madagascar ,
Malawi ,
Mali ,
Mauritania ,
Mauritius ,
Morocco ,
Mozambique ,
Namibia ,
Niger ,
Nigeria ,
Rwanda ,
Senegal ,
Seychelles ,
Sierra Leone ,
Somalia ,
South Africa ,
Sudan ,
Swaziland ,
São Tomé e Príncipe ,
Tanzania ,
Togo ,
Tunisia ,
Uganda ,
Zambia and
Zimbabwe
November 2003 – August 2005:
Asia Qualifying
Qualified teams:
Iran ,
Japan ,
Saudi Arabia ,
South Korea
Participating countries:
Afghanistan ,
Bahrain ,
Bangladesh ,
Bhutan ,
Brunei ,
Cambodia ,
China ,
Chinese Taipei ,
Guam ,
Hong Kong ,
India ,
Indonesia ,
Iran ,
Iraq ,
Japan ,
Jordan ,
North Korea ,
South Korea ,
Kuwait ,
Kyrgyzstan ,
Laos ,
Lebanon ,
Macau ,
Malaysia ,
Maldives ,
Mongolia ,
Myanmar ,
Nepal ,
Oman ,
Pakistan ,
Palestine ,
Philippines ,
Qatar ,
Saudi Arabia ,
Singapore ,
Sri Lanka ,
Syria ,
Tajikistan ,
Thailand ,
Turkmenistan ,
UAE ,
Uzbekistan ,
Vietnam and
Yemen
February 2004 – October 2005:
CONCACAF Qualifying
Qualified teams :
USA ,
Mexico ,
Costa Rica ,
Trinidad and Tobago (defeated Bahrain in an inter-regional playoff)
Participating countries:
Anguilla ,
Antigua and Barbuda ,
Aruba ,
Bahamas ,
Barbados ,
Belize ,
Bermuda ,
British Virgin Islands ,
Canada ,
Cayman Islands ,
Costa Rica ,
Cuba ,
Dominica ,
Dominican Republic ,
El Salvador ,
Grenada ,
Guatemala ,
Guyana ,
Haiti ,
Honduras ,
Jamaica ,
Mexico ,
Montserrat ,
Netherlands Antilles ,
Nicaragua ,
Panama ,
Puerto Rico ,
St. Kitts and Nevis ,
St. Lucia ,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines ,
Surinam ,
Trinidad and Tobago ,
Turks and Caicos ,
US Virgin Islands and
USA
August 2004 – October 2005:
Europe Qualifying
Automatic qualifiers:
Germany (as hosts)
Qualified teams : Group winners
Croatia ,
England ,
France ,
Italy ,
Netherlands ,
Portugal ,
Serbia and Montenegro ,
Ukraine ; two best second-place sides
Poland ,
Sweden ; playoff winners
Czech Republic ,
Spain ,
Switzerland
Participating countries:
Albania ,
Andorra ,
Armenia ,
Austria ,
Azerbaijan ,
Belarus ,
Belgium ,
Bosnia-Herzegovina ,
Bulgaria ,
Croatia ,
Cyprus ,
Czech Republic ,
Denmark ,
England ,
Estonia ,
Faroe Islands ,
Finland ,
France ,
Germany ,
Georgia ,
Greece ,
Hungary ,
Iceland ,
Republic of Ireland ,
Israel ,
Italy ,
Kazakhstan ,
Latvia ,
Liechtenstein ,
Lithuania ,
Luxembourg ,
Republic of Macedonia ,
Malta ,
Moldova ,
Netherlands ,
Northern Ireland ,
Norway ,
Poland ,
Portugal ,
Romania ,
Russia ,
San Marino ,
Scotland ,
Serbia and Montenegro ,
Slovakia ,
Slovenia ,
Spain ,
Sweden ,
Switzerland ,
Turkey ,
Ukraine and
Wales
May 2004 – September 2005:
Oceania Qualifying
Qualified team:
Australia (defeated Uruguay on penalty kicks in an inter-regional playoff)
Participating countries:
American Samoa ,
Australia ,
Cook Islands ,
Fiji ,
New Caledonia ,
New Zealand ,
Papua New Guinea ,
Samoa ,
Solomon Islands ,
Tahiti ,
Tonga and
Vanuatu
September 2003 – October 2005:
South America Qualifying
National team results
Europe
South America
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Deaths
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
September 8 –
Noel Cantwell (72), Northern Ireland footballer and coach
September 12 –
Alain Polaniok (47), French footballer and coach
September 13 –
Toni Fritsch (60), Austrian footballer (later an American football placekicker)
September 27 –
Karl Decker (84), Austrian footballer and coach
September 28 –
Enric Gensana (69), Spanish footballer
October
November
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