2004–05 Juventus FC season explained

Club:	Juventus
Season:	2004–05
Manager:	Fabio Capello
Chairman:	Franzo Grande Stevens
Chrtitle:	President
Stadium:	Stadio delle Alpi
League:	Serie A
League Result:	1st (stripped of the title)
Cup1:	Coppa Italia
Cup1 Result:	Round of 16
Cup2:	UEFA Champions League
Cup2 Result:	Quarter-finals
League Topscorer:	Zlatan Ibrahimović (16)
Season Topscorer:	Alessandro Del Piero (17)
Average Attendance:	26,429^[1]
Pattern La1:	_juve1
Leftarm1:	FFFFFF
Pattern B1:	_juve0405h
Body1:	FFFFFF
Pattern Ra1:	_juve1
Rightarm1:	FFFFFF
Pattern Sh1:	_juve0405h
Shorts1:	FFFFFF
Pattern So1:	_juve1213h
Socks1:	FFFFFF
Pattern La2:	_juve0405a
Leftarm2:	122432
Pattern B2:	_juve0405a
Body2:	122432
Pattern Ra2:	_juve0405a
Rightarm2:	122432
Pattern Sh2:	_juve0405a
Shorts2:	122432
Pattern So2:	_juve0405a
Socks2:	122432
Pattern La3:	_juve0405t
Leftarm3:	e8c62a
Pattern B3:	_juve0405t
Body3:	e8c62a
Pattern Ra3:	_juve0405t
Rightarm3:	e8c62a
Pattern Sh3:	_juve0405t
Shorts3:	0a35b2
Pattern So3:	_juve0405t
Socks3:	0a35b2
Prevseason:	2003–04
Nextseason:	2005–06

The 2004–05 season was Juventus FC's 107th in existence and 103rd consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. Juventus won the league title for the 28th time in this season; the following year, Juventus were stripped of this title and sent to Serie B due to the Calciopoli scandal.

Season summary

Juventus Football Club returned to domestic glory in the first season under Fabio Capello's reign. The former Juventus midfielder had a positive influence on the Juventus squad, and it seemed as though he had led the club to its 28th league title. However, that was all to change a year afterwards when Calciopoli sent Juventus to Serie B.

On the pitch in 2004–05, Swedish signing Zlatan Ibrahimović was the biggest positive surprise. Not known as an outright goalscorer at previous club Ajax, Ibrahimović hit the back of the net 16 times in his debut Serie A season. Another signing, Fabio Cannavaro, gave the team the stability it had lacked in the 2003–04 season, and helped the defense to be rock-solid. Juventus conceded just 27 goals throughout the league season and this, combined with the 67 goals scored, gave the club both the best defence and best attack of 2004–05 in Italy.

The lowest point of the season was not being able to get past Liverpool in the quarter-finals Champions League. Sami Hyypiä and Luis García scored early goals at Anfield, from which Juventus could not recover, despite a second half goal by Fabio Cannavaro that meant they could go through to a semi-final showdown with Chelsea if they won the return leg in Turin just 1–0. In this second leg, Ibrahimović missed a golden chance when all he had to do was turn in a Gianluca Zambrotta cross. After that, Juventus failed to pose any threat to the well-organized English side. Liverpool would go on to win the competition.

Players

Transfers

In
width=3%	Pos.	width=32%	Name	width=30%	from	width=35%	Type
MF			€28 million
FW			€16 million
DF			€10 million
DF			free
FW			free
MF			loan ended
GK			loan ended
MF			loan ended
FW			loan ended
MF			loan ended
DF			loan ended

Out
width=3%	Pos.	width=32%	Name	width=30%	to	width=35%	Type
FW			€11 million
GK			€10 million
MF			free
MF			retired
FW			€7 million
MF			loan
DF			loan
FW			free

Winter

In
width=3%	Pos.	width=32%	Name	width=30%	from	width=35%	Type
FW			free

Out
width=3%	Pos.	width=32%	Name	width=30%	to	width=35%	Type
DF			loan
DF			loan
DF			loan

Reserve squad

Competitions

Serie A

See main article: 2004–05 Serie A.

Matches

Coppa Italia

See main article: 2004–05 Coppa Italia.

Round of 16

UEFA Champions League

See main article: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League.

Group stage

+Group C
width=175	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	D	width=20	L	width=20	GF	width=20	GA	width=20	GD	width=20	Pts
Juventus	6	5	1	0	6	1	+5	16
Bayern Munich	6	3	1	2	12	5	+7	10
Ajax	6	1	1	4	6	10	-4	4
Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	1	1	4	4	12	-8	4