2004–05 Bundesliga

The 2004–05 Bundesliga was the 42nd season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 6 August 2004 and concluded on 21 May 2005.

Bundesliga

Season	2004–05
Dates	6 August 2004 – 21 May 2005
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
Matches played	306
Goals scored	890 (2.91 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marek Mintál (24 goals)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the 2. Bundesliga. The promoted teams were 1. FC Nürnberg, Arminia Bielefeld and 1. FSV Mainz 05. 1. FC Nürnberg and Arminia Bielefeld returned to the top flight after an absence of one year while 1. FSV Mainz 05 played in the top flight for the first time in history. They replaced Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Köln (both teams relegated after a season's presence) and 1860 Munich (ending their top flight spell of ten years).

Team overview

Hertha BSC

Bielefeld

Bochum

Bremen

Dortmund

Freiburg

Hamburg

Hannover

Kaiserslautern

Leverkusen

Mainz

Mönchengladbach

Bayern

Nuremberg

Rostock

Schalke

Stuttgart

Wolfsburg

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Location of teams in Bundesliga 2004–05

Club	Location	Ground	Capacity
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	Mönchengladbach	Stadion im Borussia-Park	54,067
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Olympiastadion	63,000
1. FC Nürnberg*	Nuremberg	Frankenstadion	44,700
FC 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

(*) Promoted from 2. Bundesliga.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Arminia Bielefeld	Frank Geideck	Uhlsport	Krombacher
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Klaus Augenthaler	Adidas	RWE
FC Bayern Munich	Felix Magath	Adidas	Deutsche Telekom
VfL Bochum	Peter Neururer	Nike	DWS
Borussia Dortmund	Bert van Marwijk	Nike	E.ON
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Horst Köppel	Lotto	Jever/Kyocera
SC Freiburg	Volker Finke	Jako	Suzuki
Hamburger SV	Thomas Doll	Nike	Abu Dhabi Investment Group
Hannover 96	Ewald Lienen	Uhlsport	TUI Group
FC Hansa Rostock	Jörg Berger	Jako	Vita Cola
Hertha BSC	Falko Götz	Nike	Arcor
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Hans-Werner Moser	Kappa	Deutsche Vermögensberatung
1. FSV Mainz 05	Jürgen Klopp	Lotto	DBV-Winterthur
1. FC Nürnberg	Wolfgang Wolf	Adidas	mister*lady Jeans
FC Schalke 04	Ralf Rangnick	Adidas	Victoria Versicherung
VfB Stuttgart	Matthias Sammer	Puma	Debitel
SV Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Kappa	KiK
VfL Wolfsburg	Eric Gerets	Nike	Volkswagen/Volkswagen GTI

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	Qualification to 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	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Hertha BSC	34	15	13	6	59	31	+28	58	Qualification to 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
7	Borussia Dortmund	34	15	10	9	47	44	+3	55	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Hamburger SV	34	16	3	15	55	50	+5	51	Qualification to 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	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
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	Relegation to 2. 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.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	BSC	DSC	BOC	SVW	BVB	SCF	HSV	H96	FCK	B04	M05	BMG	FCB	FCN	ROS	S04	VFB	WOB
Hertha BSC	—	3–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	3–1	4–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	6–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	0–0	3–1
Arminia Bielefeld	1–0	—	1–2	2–1	1–0	3–1	3–4	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–2
VfL Bochum	2–2	1–1	—	1–4	2–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–6	3–0	1–3	3–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	5–1
Werder Bremen	0–1	3–0	4–0	—	2–0	4–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	4–1	3–2	1–0	1–2	1–2
Borussia Dortmund	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	2–0	0–2	1–1	4–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–2
SC Freiburg	1–3	2–3	1–1	0–6	2–2	—	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–3	0–0	2–3	2–0	1–0
Hamburger SV	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–3	4–0	—	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–2	4–3	3–0	1–2	2–1	3–1
Hannover 96	0–1	0–1	3–0	1–4	1–3	2–2	2–1	—	3–1	0–3	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–0
1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–2	—	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–4	1–3	2–1	2–0	2–3	0–0
Bayer Leverkusen	3–3	3–2	4–0	2–1	0–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	—	2–0	5–1	4–1	2–2	3–0	0–3	1–1	2–1
Mainz 05	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	2–0	3–2	2–0	—	1–1	2–4	0–1	3–1	2–1	2–3	0–2
Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	2–3	3–2	1–3	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–0
Bayern Munich	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	5–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	4–2	2–1	—	6–3	3–1	0–1	2–2	2–0
1. FC Nürnberg	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–0	1–3	1–1	1–3	2–4	1–2	0–0	2–2	—	3–0	0–2	1–1	4–0
Hansa Rostock	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	0–6	1–3	2–3	0–2	2–0	0–0	0–2	0–2	—	2–2	2–1	1–2
Schalke 04	1–3	2–1	3–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–3	2–1	3–2	1–0	4–1	0–2	—	3–2	3–0
VfB Stuttgart	1–0	2–1	5–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	4–2	1–0	1–3	2–4	4–0	3–0	—	0–0
VfL Wolfsburg	2–3	5–0	3–0	2–3	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–3	2–1	0–3	0–1	4–0	3–0	3–0	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall

• Most wins – Bayern Munich (24)
• Fewest wins – SC Freiburg (3)
• Most draws – Hertha BSC (13)
• Fewest draws – Schalke 04, Hamburger SV and VfL Wolfsburg (3)
• Most losses – SC Freiburg (22)
• Fewest losses – Bayern Munich (5)
• Most goals scored – Bayern Munich (75)
• Fewest goals scored – SC Freiburg (30)
• Most goals conceded – SC Freiburg (75)
• Fewest goals conceded – Bayern Munich (33)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Marek Mintál	Nürnberg	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

External links

• 2004–05 Bundesliga on kicker.de