2004–05 Rangers F.C. season

Rangers
2004–05 season
Chairman	John McClelland; (until 1 September); David Murray; (from 1 September)
Manager	Alex McLeish
Ground	Ibrox Stadium
Scottish Premier League	1st (champions)
Scottish Cup	Third round
League Cup	Winners
Champions League	Third qualifying round
UEFA Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: ; Nacho Novo (19); All: ; Nacho Novo (25)
Highest home attendance	50,143 vs Hibernian ; (12 February)
Lowest home attendance	46,278 vs Kilmarnock ; (3 October)
	← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 season was the 125th season of competitive football by Rangers.

Overview

Rangers played a total of 51 competitive matches during the 2004–05 season. They went into the season looking to recapture their Scottish Premier League crown, which Celtic had won the season before. Manager Alex McLeish made several summer signings, with the signature of Frenchman Jean-Alain Boumsong being his biggest coup. Others included strikers Dado Prso and Nacho Novo, as well as the experienced midfielder Alex Rae and future Ibrox favourite Marvin Andrews.

Rangers League form began poorly picking up only 8 points from their first 5 matches. Rangers lost the first Old Firm derby of the season 1–0 at Celtic Park and fell behind Celtic in the league. Rangers form improved following the loss to Celtic and they weren't to lose again in the league until April. This run of form included two wins over Celtic in November, once in the League Cup and the other in the League. They also ended a poor run of results at Celtic Park, with a 2–0 victory in February. A 2–1 loss to Celtic at home in April left Rangers five points behind with just four games left of the season. Celtic led by two points on the final day of the season and were winning 1–0 against Motherwell, but two late goals for Motherwell coupled with Rangers 1–0 win over Hibernian saw Rangers win the title, Helicopter Sunday.

Rangers also won the League Cup this season, with a 5–1 victory over Motherwell in the final. Rangers were beaten in the Scottish Cup however, losing 2–1 to Celtic in the third round.

After losing to CSKA Moscow in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, Rangers entered the UEFA Cup. Rangers managed to qualify for the newly formed group stages with a penalty shoot-out win over Maritimo. Rangers failed to progress beyond the group stages however, a 2–0 loss at home to Auxerre seeing them fail to stay in Europe beyond Christmas.

Players

Squad information

N	Pos.	Name	Age	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK	Stefan Klos (captain)	33	1998	296	0	2007	£0.7m
2	DF	Fernando Ricksen	28	2000	254	20	2009	£3.75m
3	DF	Craig Moore	29	1999 (Winter)	252	14	2006	Free	left on 3 January
4	DF	Jean-Alain Boumsong	25	2004	28	2	2009	Free	left on 2 January
4	MF	Thomas Buffel	24	2005 (Winter)	18	5	2009	£2.3m
5	DF	Marvin Andrews	29	2004	38	4	2007	Free
6	MF	Barry Ferguson	27	2005 (Winter)	255	38	2010	£4.5m
7	FW	Shota Arveladze	32	2001	132	57	2005	£2m
8	MF	Alex Rae	37	2004	32	1	2006	Free
9	FW	Dado Pršo	30	2004	46	21	2007	Free
10	FW	Nacho Novo	26	2004	48	26	2008	£0.45m
11	MF	Gavin Rae	27	2004 (Winter)	11	2	2007	£0.25m
12	DF	Bob Malcolm	24	1997	115	3	2007	Youth system
14	MF	Dragan Mladenović	29	2004	9	0	2008	£1.1m
15	DF	Zurab Khizanishvili	23	2003 (Winter)	63	0	2008	Free
16	DF	Paolo Vanoli	32	2003	42	1	2005	Free
16	DF	Sotirios Kyrgiakos	25	2005 (Winter)	17	2	2005	Loan
17	MF	Chris Burke	21	2000	44	5	2007	Youth system
18	DF	Michael Ball	25	2001	72	2	2006	£4m
19	FW	Steven Thompson	21	2003 (Winter)	64	20	2006	£0.2m
20	DF	Alan Hutton	20	2002	24	1	2007	Youth system
21	DF	Maurice Ross	24	2000	107	3	2007	Youth system
22	GK	Allan McGregor	23	2001	11	0		Youth system
23	MF	Bojan Djordjic	23	2005 (Winter)	5	0	2005	Free
24	DF	Grégory Vignal	23	2004	42	3	2005	Loan
25	GK	Ronald Waterreus	34	2005 (Winter)	15	0	2006	£0.05m
26	FW	Peter Løvenkrands	25	2000	135	36	2006	£1.3m
27	MF	Stephen Hughes	22	1999	90	7		Youth system	left 31 January
31	MF	Hamed Namouchi	21	2003	35	6		Free
37	DF	Steven Smith	19	2002	4	0	2008	Youth system
40	MF	Charlie Adam	19	2003	3	0		Youth system	out on season loan
42	FW	Robert Davidson	19	2004	2	0	2007	Youth system
45	FW	Ross McCormack	18	2003	3	1	2007	Youth system

Last updated: 22 May 2005
Source: Players transfer, Wikipedia players' articles
Ordered by position on pitch.

Transfers

In

Date	Player	From	Fee
25 June 2004	Dragan Mladenović	Red Star Belgrade	£1,000,000^[1]
1 July 2004	Jean-Alain Boumsong	Auxerre	Free^[2]
	Dado Pršo	AS Monaco	Free^[3]
	Alex Rae	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free^[4]
	Marvin Andrews	Livingston	Free^[5]
6 July 2004	Nacho Novo	Dundee	£450,000^[6]
5 August 2004	Grégory Vignal	Liverpool	Loan^[7]
18 August 2004	Derek Carcary	Queen's Park	Free^[8]
1 January 2005	Bojan Djordjic	Manchester United	Free^[9]
5 January 2005	Thomas Buffel	Feyenoord	£2,300,000^[10]
20 January 2005	Sotirios Kyrgiakos	Panathinaikos	£500,000 (on loan)^[11]
31 January 2005	Ronald Waterreus	Manchester City	£100,000^[12]
31 January 2005	Barry Ferguson	Blackburn Rovers	£4,500,000^[13]

Out

Date	Player	To	Fee
3 May 2004	Christian Nerlinger	Kaiserslautern	Free^[14]
18 May 2004	Emerson	Vasco da Gama	Free^[15]
18 May 2004	Nuno Capucho	Celta Vigo	Free^[16]
1 June 2004	Henning Berg	Retired^[17]
	Michael Mols	FC Utrecht	Free^[18]
	Ronald de Boer	Al Rayyan	Free^[19]
	Billy Gibson	Partick Thistle	Free^[20]
23 June 2004	Frank de Boer	Al Rayyan	Free^[21]
25 June 2004	Darryl Duffy	Falkirk	Free^[22]
7 July 2004	Steven MacLean	Sheffield Wednesday	£125,000^[23]
8 July 2004	Peter Leven	Kilmarnock	Free^[24]
10 July 2004	Mikel Arteta	Real Sociedad	£2,600,000^[25]
13 July 2004	Paul McHale	Cowdenbeath	Free^[26]
26 July 2004	Andy Dowie	Partick Thistle	Free^[27]
11 August 2004	Allan McGregor	St Johnstone	Loan^[28]
31 August 2004	Charlie Adam	Ross County	Loan^[29]
31 August 2004	Tom Brighton	Scunthorpe United	Loan^[30]
2 January 2005	Jean-Alain Boumsong	Newcastle United	£8,000,000^[31]
3 January 2005	Craig Moore	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Free^[32]
18 January 2005	Paolo Vanoli	Vicenza	Free^[33]
20 January 2005	Bajram Fetai	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	Loan^[34]
31 January 2005	Stephen Hughes	Leicester City	£250,000^[35]
11 February 2005	Dragan Mladenović	Real Sociedad	Loan^[36]

Expenditure: £8,950,000
Income: £10,975,000
Total loss/gain: £2,025,000

Squad statistics

				Total			SPL		SC		SL Cup		UCL		UC
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Sts	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls
1	GK		Stefan Klos	34	34		23		1		2		2		6
2	DF		Fernando Ricksen	51	51	9	38	4	1	1	4	3	2		6	1
3	DF		Craig Moore	6	6		3				1		1		1
4	MF		Thomas Buffel	15	18	5	15	4	1		2	1
4	DF		Jean-Alain Boumsong	28	28	2	18	2			2		2		6
5	DF		Marvin Andrews	37	38	4	30	4	1		2		1		4
6	MF		Barry Ferguson	14	15	2	13	2			2
7	FW		Shota Arveladze	17	33	9	24	6			2	1	2		5	2
8	MF		Alex Rae	22	32	1	25	1	1		3		1		2
9	FW		Dado Pršo	44	46	21	34	18	1		3	2	2		6	1
10	FW		Nacho Novo	45	48	25	35	19	1		4	3	2	1	6	2
12	DF		Robert Malcolm	25	28	1	21	1			2				5
14	MF		Dragan Mladenović	8	9		7						1		1
15	MF		Zurab Khizanishvili	23	25		16		1		2		1		5
16	DF		Sotirios Kyrgiakos	17	17	2	15				2	2
16	DF		Paolo Vanoli	5	7		5				1				1
17	MF		Chris Burke	11	16		12				1				3
18	DF		Michael Ball	15	18		14				2				2
19	FW		Steven Thompson	10	33	10	24	5	1		4	3	2	1	2	1
20	DF		Alan Hutton	9	12		10				1				1
21	DF		Maurice Ross	19	19	1	14				2	1	1		2
22	GK		Allan McGregor	2	2		2
23	MF		Bojan Djordjic	5	5		4		1
24	DF		Grégory Vignal	40	42	3	30	3	1		4		2		5
25	GK		Ronald Waterreus	15	15		13				2
27	MF		Peter Løvenkrands	18	24	4	17	3			1		2		4	1
27	MF		Stephen Hughes	7	15	2	11	2	1				1		2
31	MF		Hamed Namouchi	17	26	3	20	2	1		1				4	1
37	DF		Steven Smith	2	4		4
40	MF		Charlie Adam		1		1
42	FW		Robert Davidson		1		1
45	FW		Ross McCormack		1		1

Last updated: 26 August 2015
Source: Wikipedia article
Ordered by position
0 shown as blank

Disciplinary record

Club

Board of directors

Position	Staff
Chairman	John McClelland (until 1 September)^[37] David Murray (from 1 September)^[37]
Honorary chairman	David Murray (until 1 September)
Vice-chairman	John McClelland (from 1 September)
Chief executive	Martin Bain (from 11 February)^[38]
Director of Football Business	Martin Bain (until 11 February)^[38]
Director of Retail	Nick Peel (until 21 March)^[39]
Director of Finance	David Jolliffe
Company Secretary	Campbell Ogilvie
Non-executive director	John Greig
Non-executive director	Alastair Johnston
Non-executive director	Daniel Levy (until 27 August)
Non-executive director	Dave King
Non-executive director	Donald Wilson

Source: Wikipedia article^{[circular reference]}

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Alex McLeish
Assistant Manager	Andy Watson
First-team coach	Jan Wouters
Fitness coach	Frank Nuttall (from June)
Goalkeepers coach	Billy Thomson

Source: Wikipedia article^{[circular reference]}

Other staff

Position	Staff
Physiotherapist	Davie Henderson
Doctor	Dr Iain McGuiness
Chief scout	Ewan Chester (until 29 June)
Team analyst	Steve Harvey
Massuer	David Lavery
Kit controller	Jimmy Bell

Source: Wikipedia article^{[circular reference]}

Matches

Friendlies

Game

Date

Tournament

Round

Ground

Opponent

Score¹

Report

1

18 July 2004

Friendly

A

SC Fürstenfeld

4–0

SC Fürstenfeld	Rangers
Report	Report link
Kick off	TBC BST
	McCormack Novo (2) Løvenkrands

2

20 July 2004

Friendly

N

Roma

4–1

Roma	Rangers
Report	Report link
Kick off	TBC BST
Attendance	200
de Rossi	Novo (2) Pršo (pen.) Rae

3

24 July 2004

Friendly

A

Fulham

1–0

Fulham	Rangers
Report	Report link
Kick off	TBC BST
Attendance	14,173
	Pršo

4

28 July 2004

Walter Tull Memorial Cup

H

Tottenham Hotspur

2–0

Rangers	Tottenham Hotspur
Report	Report link
Kick off	19:45 BST
Attendance	35,750
Novo Pršo

5

31 July 2004

Gateshead Cup

A

Newcastle United

2–4

Newcastle United	Rangers
Report	Report link
Kick off	15:00 BST
Attendance	31,554
Referee	Mark Halsey
11' (pen.) Shearer 29' Bellamy 37' Bernard 90' Dyer	43' Pršo 85' Ricksen

6

1 August 2004

Gateshead Cup

N

Feyenoord

0–0
(8-7 pen.)

Report	Report link
Kick off	BST
Attendance	24,000
Referee	Mark Halsey

Last updated: 9 January 2005
Source: Wikipedia article
¹Rangers goals come first.
National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.

Scottish Premier League

Game

Date

Tournament

Round

Ground

Opponent

Score¹

Report

1

7 August 2004

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Rangers (C)	38	29	6	3	78	22	+56	93	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	Celtic	38	30	2	6	85	35	+50	92	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	Hibernian	38	18	7	13	64	57	+7	61	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
4	Aberdeen	38	18	7	13	44	39	+5	61
5	Heart of Midlothian	38	13	11	14	43	41	+2	50

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AZ	AUX	GAK	RAN	AMC
1	AZ	4	3	0	1	6	3	+3	9	Advance to knockout stage	—	2–0	—	1–0	—
2	Auxerre	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4	7		—	—	0–0	—	5–1
3	GAK	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7		2–0	—	—	—	3–1
4	Rangers	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5	6		—	0–2	3–0	—	—
5	Amica Wronki	4	0	0	4	3	16	−13	0		1–3	—	—	0–5	—

2004–05 Rangers F.C. season

Overview

Players

Squad information

Transfers

In

Out

Squad statistics

Disciplinary record

Club

Board of directors

Coaching staff

Other staff

Matches

Friendlies

Scottish Premier League

Scottish League Cup

Scottish Cup

UEFA Champions League

UEFA Cup

Competitions

Overall

Scottish Premier League

Standings

UEFA Cup table

References