Club: | Chivas USA |
Season: | 2005 |
League: | MLS |
League Result: | Conference: 6th Overall: 12th |
Chrtitle: | Owner |
Mgrtitle: | Manager |
Manager: | Thomas Rongen (until May 2005) Javier Ledesma Interim (May–June 2005) Hans Westerhof (from June 2005) |
Cup1: | MLS Cup Playoffs |
Cup1 Result: | Did not qualify |
Cup2: | U.S. Open Cup |
Cup2 Result: | Fourth round |
Cup3: | SuperClasico |
Cup3 Result: | Runners-up |
Season Topscorer: | Three players (4) |
League Topscorer: | Héctor Cuadros (4) |
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Nextseason: | 2006 |
The 2005 Chivas USA season was the club's first season of existence, and their first in Major League Soccer, the top flight of American soccer. The club competed in the MLS's Western Conference, where they finished in sixth place, or last place, in the Conference.
Thomas Rongen was appointed as Chivas USA's head coach in September 2004, and coached the team until May 2005, when he was replaced with Javier Ledesma on an interim basis. At the end of June, Hans Westerhof was appointed as the permanent manager until the end of the season.
See main article: 2004 MLS Expansion Draft and 2005 MLS SuperDraft.
Date | Number | Position | Player | New club | Fee/notes | Ref | |
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November 24, 2004 | DF | Jeff Stewart | Real Salt Lake | Trade | |||
March 8, 2005 | FW | Jamil Walker | D.C. United | Trade | [2] | ||
June 27, 2005 | 3 | DF | Ryan Suarez | MetroStars | Waived | ||
August 29, 2005 | 1 | GK | Martín Zúñiga | Retired | |||
4 | DF | Aaron Lopez | |||||
47 | DF | Alfonso Loera | CD Tapatio | ||||
DF | Craig Ziadie | ||||||
MF | Antonio de la Torre |
See main article: 2005 Major League Soccer season.
See main article: 2005 U.S. Open Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from Chivas USA on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Chivas USA during the season:|}
width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | MLS | width=150 | U.S. Open Cup | width=80 | Total |
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1 | MF | 10 | Héctor Cuadros | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
FW | 99 | Thiago Martins | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
MF | 7 | Ramón Ramírez | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
4 | DF | 5 | Ezra Hendrickson | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
FW | 15 | Francisco Palencia | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
DF | 27 | Douglas Sequeira | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
FW | 9 | Isaac Romo | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
8 | MF | 16 | Antonio Martínez | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
FW | 19 | Matt Taylor | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
DF | 22 | Arturo Torres | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
DF | 20 | Esteban Arias | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
13 | DF | 3 | Ryan Suarez | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
MF | 44 | Juan Pablo García | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
TOTALS | 31 | 5 | 36 |
Number | Nation | Position | Name | MLS | U.S. Open Cup | Total | |||||
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2 | DF | Orlando Perez | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||
3 | DF | Ryan Suarez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
4 | DF | Aaron Lopez | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||
5 | DF | Ezra Hendrickson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
6 | MF | Francisco Mendoza | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
7 | MF | Ramón Ramírez | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
8 | MF | Francisco Gomez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
9 | FW | Isaac Romo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
10 | MF | Héctor Cuadros | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
15 | FW | Francisco Palencia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
16 | MF | Antonio Martínez | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
18 | GK | Brad Guzan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
19 | FW | Matt Taylor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
20 | DF | Esteban Arias | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
22 | DF | Arturo Torres | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
23 | DF | Armando Begines | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
26 | MF | Jesús Ochoa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
27 | DF | Douglas Sequeira | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
44 | MF | Juan Pablo García | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
47 | DF | Alfonso Loera | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||
99 | FW | Thiago Martins | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
TOTALS | 69 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 4 |