2004–05 AJ Auxerre season

Auxerre
2004–05 season
President	Jean-Claude Hamel
Head coach	Guy Roux
Stadium	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps
Ligue 1	8th
Coupe de France	Winners
Coupe de la Ligue	Quarter-finals
UEFA Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: ; Benjani Mwaruwari (11); All: ; Bonaventure Kalou (18)
Average home league attendance	11,232
	← 2003–04 →

The 2004–05 season was the 99th season in the existence of AJ Auxerre and the club's 25th consecutive season in the top-flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Auxerre participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue and UEFA Cup.^[2]

Season summary[]

Auxerre fell to 8th in the final table, but won the Coupe de France. Manager Guy Roux retired at the end of the season, after 36 years managing the club. He was replaced by Jacques Santini.^[3]

First-team squad[]

Squad at end of season^[4]^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	FRA	Fabien Cool
2	DF	FRA	Johan Radet
3	DF	FRA	Jean-Sébastien Jaurès
4	DF	SUI	Stéphane Grichting
6	MF	FRA	Philippe Violeau
7	MF	FRA	Benoît Cheyrou
8	MF	FRA	Yann Lachuer
9	FW	BEL	Luigi Pieroni
10	MF	FIN	Teemu Tainio
11	MF	CIV	Kanga Akalé
12	DF	FRA	Jean-Pascal Mignot
14	MF	FRA	David Vandenbossche
15	MF	CIV	Bonaventure Kalou
16	GK	FRA	Sébastien Hamel
17	MF	FRA	Hassan Yebda^{[notes 1]}
18	MF	FRA	Lionel Mathis
19	MF	FRA	Pierre Vignaud
20	MF	FRA	Arnaud Gonzalez
21	FW	ZIM	Benjani Mwaruwari
22	DF	FRA
23	DF	CZE	René Bolf
24	MF	FRA	Abou Diaby
25	DF	FRA	David Recorbet
26	DF	FRA	Younès Kaboul


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
27	DF	MLI	Mamoutou Coulibaly
28	DF	FRA	Michaël Ciani
29	DF	FRA	Bacary Sagna
30	GK	FRA
36	FW	FRA	Garra Dembélé^{[notes 2]}
37	MF	FRA	Kévin Lejeune
38	MF	FRA
39	DF	FRA
40	GK	FRA	Mickaël Castejon
41	MF	FRA
42	MF	FRA
43	MF	FRA
44	MF	FRA	Cédric Kisamba^{[notes 3]}
45	MF	FRA
46	DF	FRA	Baptiste Martin
47	DF	FRA
48	GK	FRA
49	DF	ALG
50	MF	SEN	Ousmane Cissokho
51	MF	FRA	Damien Dufour
52	GK	FRA
53	DF	TOG	Serge Akakpo
54	MF	FRA	Irélé Apo

Left club during season[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
28	FW	FRA	Romain Poyet (on loan to Clermont Foot)

Transfers[]

Out[]

Djibril Cissé - Liverpool, 1 July, £14,000,000^[5]

Competitions[]

Ligue 1[]

League table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Saint-Étienne	38	12	17	9	47	34	+13	53	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
7	Lens	38	13	13	12	45	39	+6	52	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
8	Auxerre	38	14	10	14	48	47	+1	52	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[a]
9	Paris Saint-Germain	38	12	15	11	40	41	−1	51
10	Sochaux	38	13	11	14	42	41	+1	50

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

^ Auxerre was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de France.

Coupe de France[]

10 May 2005 Semi-final	Auxerre	2–1	Nîmes	Auxerre
	Kalou 46' (o.g.) Tainio 78'	(Report)	Verschave 90+3'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps

4 June 2005 Final	Sedan	1–2	Auxerre	Saint-Denis
	Noro 63'		Benjani 37' Kalou 90'	Stadium: Stade de France Attendance: 78,721 Referee:

Coupe de la Ligue[]

10 November 2004 Round of 32	Rennes	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p)	Auxerre	Rennes
	Källström 54'	(Report)	Dudu Cearense 85' (o.g.)	Stadium: Stade de la Route de Lorient Attendance: 19,553 Referee: Laurent Duhamel
	Penalties
	Källström Dudu Cearense Mvuemba Sorlin		Cheyrou Benjani Vandenbossche Akalé Lachuer

22 December 2004 Round of 16	Auxerre	2–1	Nantes	Auxerre
	Pieroni 79' Benjani 87'	(Report)	Ahamada 20'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 10,472 Referee: Claude Colombo

19 January 2005 Quarter-final	Auxerre	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p)	Caen	Auxerre
	Pieroni 107'	(Report)	Watier 110'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 7,549 Referee: Éric Poulat
	Penalties
	Jaurès Cheyrou Kalou Benjani Pieroni Mignot		Askar Zubar Watier Hengbart Deroin Jovičić

UEFA Cup[]

First round[]

16 September 2004 First leg	Aalborg	1–1	Auxerre	Aalborg, Denmark
19:00	Borgersen 43'	Report	Benjani 38'	Stadium: Aalborg Stadion Referee: Milan Šedivý (Czech Republic)

30 September 2004 Second leg	Auxerre	2–0 (3–1 agg.)	Aalborg	Auxerre, France
20:45	Kalou 4' Benjani 74'	Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Referee: Peter Sippel (Germany)

Group stage[]

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

Source: RSSSF

21 October 2004 1	Auxerre	0–0	GAK	Auxerre, France
20:45 (CET)		Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Referee: (Spain)

4 November 2004 2	AZ	2–0	Auxerre	Alkmaar, Netherlands
21:15 (CET)	Huysegems 2', 18'	Report		Stadium: Alkmaarderhout Referee: Andy D'Urso (England)

2 December 2004 3	Auxerre	5–1	Amica Wronki	Auxerre, France
20:45 (CET)	Mignot 1' Pieroni 5', 24', 26' Kalou 56'	Report	Kryszałowicz 14'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Referee: (Greece)

15 December 2004 4	Rangers	0–2	Auxerre	Glasgow, Scotland
20:45 (CET)		Report	Kalou 9', 46'	Stadium: Ibrox Stadium Referee: (Germany)

Round of 32[]

16 February 2005 First leg	Ajax	1–0	Auxerre	Amsterdam, Netherlands
20:00 (CET)	Maxwell 36'	Report		Stadium: Amsterdam Arena Referee: (Czech Republic)

24 February 2005 Second leg	Auxerre	3–1 (3–2 agg.)	Ajax	Auxerre, France
20:45 (CET)	Kalou 31' Cheyrou 55' Mathis 86'	Report	Babel 36'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

Round of 16[]

10 March 2005 First leg	Lille	0–1	Auxerre	Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
20:30 (CET)		Report	Akalé 45'	Stadium: Stadium Lille Métropole Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

17 March 2005 Second leg	Auxerre	0–0 (1–0 agg.)	Lille	Auxerre, France
20:45 (CET)		Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Referee: Mike RIley (England)

Quarter-finals[]

7 April 2005 First leg	CSKA Moscow	4–0	Auxerre	Moscow, Russia
18:30 (CET)	Odiah 21' Ignashevich 63' (pen.) Vágner Love 71' Gusev 77'	Report		Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

14 April 2005 Second leg	Auxerre	2–0 (2–4 agg.)	CSKA Moscow	Auxerre, France
20:45 (CET)	Lachuer 9' Kalou 78' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Notes and references[]

Notes[]

^ Yebda was born in Saint-Maurice, France, and represented them at every youth level between U-16 and U-19, but also qualified to represent Algeria internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Algeria in October 2009.
^ Dembélé was born in Gennevilliers, France, and represented them at U-18 and U-19 level, but also qualified to represent Mali internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Mali in February 2011.
^ Kisamba was born in Kinshasa, DR Congo, but also qualified to represent France internationally through his parents and represented them at U-19 level.

References[]

^ "Ligue 1 2004/2005 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Auxerre 2004/2005". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^ "Auxerre name Santini as new coach". BBC Sport. 7 June 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
^ "FootballSquads - Auxerre - 2004/05". www.footballsquads.co.uk.
^ "Liverpool tie up Cissé deal". BBC Sport. 26 May 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2008.

[table_note_res_UCCF0.072540404308839-9] Auxerre was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de France.

[5] Yebda was born in Saint-Maurice, France, and represented them at every youth level between U-16 and U-19, but also qualified to represent Algeria internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Algeria in October 2009.

[6] Dembélé was born in Gennevilliers, France, and represented them at U-18 and U-19 level, but also qualified to represent Mali internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Mali in February 2011.

[7] Kisamba was born in Kinshasa, DR Congo, but also qualified to represent France internationally through his parents and represented them at U-19 level.

[attendance-1] "Ligue 1 2004/2005 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

[foot05-2] "Auxerre 2004/2005". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[3] "Auxerre name Santini as new coach". BBC Sport. 7 June 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

[4] "FootballSquads - Auxerre - 2004/05". www.footballsquads.co.uk.

[8] "Liverpool tie up Cissé deal". BBC Sport. 26 May 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2008.

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