2004–05 Bundesliga

Bundesliga

Season	2004–05
Champions	Bayern Munich 18th Bundesliga title 19th German title
Relegated	Bochum Hansa Rostock Freiburg
Champions League	Bayern Munich Schalke 04 SV Werder Bremen
UEFA Cup	Hertha BSC Stuttgart Bayer Leverkusen Mainz
Intertoto Cup	Borussia Dortmund Hamburger SV Wolfsburg
Matches played	306
Goals scored	890 (2.91 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marek Mintál (21 goals)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 Bundesliga was the 42nd season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league.

Team overview

Hertha BSC

Bielefeld

Bochum

Bremen

Dortmund

Freiburg

Hamburg

Hannover

Kaiserslautern

Leverkusen

Mainz

Mönchengladbach

Bayern

Nuremberg

Rostock

Schalke

Stuttgart

Wolfsburg

Location of teams in Bundesliga 2004–05

Club	Location	Ground[1]	Capacity[1]
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	76,000
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	SchücoArena	26,600
VfL Bochum	Bochum	Ruhrstadion	36,000
SV Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	42,100
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	68,600
SC Freiburg	Freiburg	badenova-Stadion	25,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	AOL Arena	62,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	AWD-Arena	60,400
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	41,500
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	22,500
1. FSV Mainz 05	Mainz	Stadion am Bruchweg	20,300
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Monchengladbach	Stadion im Borussia-Park	54,067
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Olympiastadion	63,000
1. FC Nuremberg	Nuremberg	Frankenstadion	44,700
F.C. Hansa Rostock	Rostock	Ostseestadion	25,850
FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Arena AufSchalke	61,973
VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	53,700
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	24	5	5	75	33	+42	77	2005–06 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Schalke 04	34	20	3	11	56	46	+10	63
3	Werder Bremen	34	18	5	11	68	37	+31	59	2005–06 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Hertha BSC	34	15	13	6	59	31	+28	58	2005–06 UEFA Cup First round
5	VfB Stuttgart	34	17	7	10	54	40	+14	58
6	Bayer Leverkusen	34	16	9	9	65	44	+21	57	2005–06 UEFA Cup First round ^1
7	Borussia Dortmund	34	15	10	9	47	44	+3	55	2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
8	Hamburger SV	34	16	3	15	55	50	+5	51	2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
9	VfL Wolfsburg	34	15	3	16	49	51	−2	48
10	Hannover 96	34	13	6	15	34	36	−2	45
11	Mainz 05	34	12	7	15	50	55	−5	43	2005–06 UEFA Cup First qualifying round ^2
12	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	12	6	16	43	52	−9	42
13	Arminia Bielefeld	34	11	7	16	37	49	−12	40
14	1. FC Nürnberg	34	10	8	16	55	63	−8	38
15	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	8	12	14	35	51	−16	36
16	VfL Bochum (R)	34	9	8	17	47	68	−21	35	2. Fußball-Bundesliga
17	Hansa Rostock (R)	34	7	9	18	31	65	−34	30
18	SC Freiburg (R)	34	3	9	22	30	75	−45	18

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Since DFB Cup winners Bayern Munich and finalists Schalke 04 both qualified for the Champions League, the UEFA Cup place for the cup-winners was given to 6th placed Bayer Leverkusen.
²UEFA awarded another UEFA Cup place to the Bundesliga via a random draw among the fairest associations in 2004–05. The place was given to Mainz 05 for winning the national Fair-play competition in this season.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Marek Mintál	Nuremberg	24
2	Roy Makaay	Bayern Munich	22
3	Dimitar Berbatov	Bayer Leverkusen	20
4	Marcelinho	Hertha BSC	18
5	Miroslav Klose	Werder Bremen	15
	Delron Buckley	Arminia Bielefeld
	Jan Koller	Borussia Dortmund
	Andriy Voronin	Bayer Leverkusen
9	Aílton	Schalke 04	14
10	Michael Ballack	Bayern Munich	13
	Kevin Kurányi	VfB Stuttgart

Champion squad

1.

FC Bayern Munich

Goalkeepers: Oliver Kahn (32); Michael Rensing (4). Defenders: Lúcio (32 / 3); Willy Sagnol (22 / 1); Robert Kovač (22); Bixente Lizarazu (13); Thomas Linke (11); Samuel Kuffour (7); Andreas Görlitz (7); Tobias Rau (5). Midfielders: Torsten Frings (29 / 3); Hasan Salihamidžić (29 / 2); Michael Ballack (27 / 13); Owen Hargreaves (27 / 1); Bastian Schweinsteiger (26 / 3); Sebastian Deisler (23 / 4); Martín Demichelis (23); Zé Roberto (22 / 1); Mehmet Scholl (20 / 3); Jens Jeremies (7). Forwards: Roy Makaay (33 / 22); Claudio Pizarro (23 / 11); José Paolo Guerrero (13 / 6); Vahid Hashemian (9); Roque Santa Cruz (4); Alexander Zickler (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Felix Magath. On the roster but have not played in a league game: Jan Schlösser, Piotr Trochowski. Transferred out during the season: Piotr Trochowski (to Hamburger SV).

References

1. Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.