2005 San Jose Earthquakes season

San Jose Earthquakes

2005 season
Owner	AEG
Coach	Dominic Kinnear
Stadium	Spartan Stadium
Major League Soccer	Conference: 1st Overall: 1st
MLS Cup	Conference Semifinals
U.S. Open Cup	Quarterfinals
California Clásico	1st
Top goalscorer	Dwayne De Rosario (9)
Average home league attendance	15,431[1]
Home colors Away colors
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The 2005 San Jose Earthquakes season was the tenth season of the team's existence and last before their move to Houston to become the Houston Dynamo. The season also marked the franchise's first Supporters' Shield.

About[]

2004 was a disappointment after a strong finish to the 2003 season ending with a championship. Second year head coach Dominic Kinnear and assistant coach John Doyle hoped to return the Quakes back to the winning tradition in 2005. It was marked as the first year of the new generation for the Quakes after losing 9 key players in the off season from 2004-2005, and with the new roster expansion bringing in 18 players for the new season. The Earthquakes set a league record with an 18-4-10 record with 64 points on the year. They became the first MLS team to go undefeated at home during the regular season.

Change over from the 2004 team, key players lost in the off season, Ramiro Corrales and Landon Donovan left the squad in the off season to play abroad. Donovan would pull a swerve and return to MLS a short time later with rival Los Angeles Galaxy. A trade was set up to be in place with the Galaxy to obtain Carlos Ruiz but a deal was never reached. Ronnie Ekelund failed to resign, after both sides couldn't come to terms. Jamil Walker was picked up in the expansion draft by Chivas USA. Arturo Alvarez was traded to Dallas Burn for Brad Davis. Captain Jeff Agoos was traded to the Metrostars for Ricardo Clark and a draft pick. Chris Roner was lost due to injury and never returned, his rights were retained. Chris Brown was lost to Real Salt Lake in the expansion draft. player rights were traded to Real Salt Lake. Steve Cronin and Todd Dunivant were traded to the Galaxy for Aloisi and Claiff.

The first move Kinnear and Doyle made were bringing back veterans Wade Barrett and all time leader goal-scorer Ronald Cerritos were brought back into the team to add veteran leadership. They drafted key players Danny O'Rourke, Kevin Goldthwaite, future MLS Scoring Champion Chris Wondolowski, , Orlando Ramirez, Aaron Lanes, James Twellman and . Wondolowski was the reserve league scoring champion during that season. Brad Davis, Ricardo Clark, Chris Aloisi, Kelly Gray, Mark Chung, Julian Nash, Alejandro Moreno, and Danny Califf were obtained through trades.

May 18th, 2005 the Quakes would lose veteran and leader Troy Dayak to an injury that would force Dayak to announce his retirement at the end of the regular season. It made way for Danny Califf to step in and become one of the center back pairings in MLS history with Eddie Robinson. Veteran right back Craig Waibel was also lost to an injury in early June who was playing some of the best soccer of his career to a torn MCL and ACL. A trade was made with the Chicago Fire to bring in San Jose native Kelly Gray to challenge Chris Aloisi for the starting job. He eventually won and took it. Mark Chung was acquired when a rash of injures of happened when Ian Russell, Brad Davis, Brian Mullan spent time on the injury list in June and July.

Robinson and Califf both found January National Team call ups after a successful season, along with Brad Davis, Brian Mullan, Brian Ching, Wade Barrett and Ricardo Clark. Doyle lead the Reserve Team to a Championship its first year.

Chung announced his retirement from the Earthquake after coming to the mid-season via trade with the Colorado Rapids and contributing heavily to the ultimate success with the team. He opted out of moving along with the team to after the 2005 season.

Ian Russell, Mark Chung, Jon Conway, Troy Dayak didn't move with the team to Houston. Russell was traded to Los Angeles, Conway to New York, Chung and Dayak retired. Danny Califf opted to try his luck in Europe.

Squad[]

Current squad[]

As of August 18, 2009.^[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  USA Jon Conway 2 DF  USA Eddie Robinson 3 DF  USA Kevin Goldthwaite 4 DF  USA Danny Califf 5 MF  USA Ryan Cochrane 6 MF  USA Orlando Ramirez 7 MF  USA Ian Russell 8 DF  USA Brett Rodriguez 9 MF  USA Brian Mullan 11 FW  USA Brad Davis 12 MF  USA Mark Chung 13 MF  USA Ricardo Clark 14 MF  CAN Dwayne De Rosario 15 FW  VEN Alejandro Moreno 16 DF  USA Craig Waibel

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  USA Chris Aloisi 18 GK  CAN Pat Onstad 19 DF  USA Troy Dayak 20 FW  SLV Ronald Cerritos 21 DF  USA Tighe Dombrowski 23 MF  USA Roger Levesque 24 DF  USA Wade Barrett 25 FW  USA Brian Ching 26 MF  USA Kelly Gray 27 DF  USA Danny O'Rourke 29 FW  USA Chris Wondolowski 30 GK  USA Robby Fulton 32 MF  USA Aaron Lanes 33 FW  USA Julian Nash 34 DF  USA James Twellman

Club[]

Management[]

Position	Staff
General Manager	Kate McAllister
Head Coach	Dominic Kinnear
Assistant Coach	John Doyle
Goalkeeper Coach
Head trainer
Equipment manager

Other information[]

Owner	AEG
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Spartan Stadium (26,525 / 71x110 yards)

Source: San Jose Earthquakes

Competitions[]

Major League Soccer[]

Matches[]

MLS Cup Playoffs[]

U.S. Open Cup[]

Source:^[3]

Standings[]

Western Conference v t
Pos	Club	Pts	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
1	San Jose Earthquakes	64	32	18	4	10	53	31	+22
2	FC Dallas	48	32	13	10	9	52	44	+8
3	Colorado Rapids	45	32	13	13	6	40	37	+3
4	Los Angeles Galaxy	45	32	13	13	6	44	45	–1
5	Real Salt Lake	20	32	5	22	5	30	65	–35
6	Chivas USA	18	32	4	22	6	31	67	–36

	MLS Supporters' Shield, 2005 MLS Cup Playoffs
	2005 MLS Cup Playoffs

Pos	Club	Pts	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
1	San Jose Earthquakes (W1)	64	32	18	4	10	53	31	+22
2	New England Revolution (E1)	59	32	17	7	8	55	37	+18
3	D.C. United (E2)	54	32	16	10	6	58	37	+21
4	Chicago Fire (E3)	49	32	15	13	4	49	50	–1
5	FC Dallas (W2)	48	32	13	10	9	52	44	+8
6	MetroStars	47	32	12	9	11	53	49	+4
7	Colorado Rapids (W3)	45	32	13	13	6	40	37	+3
8	Los Angeles Galaxy	45	32	13	13	6	44	45	–1
9	Kansas City Wizards	45	32	11	9	12	52	44	+8
10	Columbus Crew	38	32	11	16	5	34	45	–11
11	Real Salt Lake	20	32	5	22	5	30	65	–35
12	Chivas USA	18	32	4	22	6	31	67	–36

	MLS Supporters' Shield, 2005 MLS Cup Playoffs
	MLS Supporters' Shield runner up, 2005 MLS Cup Playoffs
	2005 MLS Cup Playoffs

References[]

External links[]

• San Jose Earthquakes season stats | sjearthquakes.com
• San Jose Earthquakes Game Results | Soccerstats.us