2004–05 Football League
| Season | 2004–05 |
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| Champions | Sunderland |
| Promoted |
Sunderland Wigan Athletic West Ham United |
| Relegated |
Kidderminster Harriers Cambridge United |
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| Season | 2004–05 |
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| Champions | Sunderland (4th second tier title) |
| Direct promotion to FA Premier League |
Sunderland, Wigan Athletic |
| Promoted to FA Premier League through play-offs | West Ham United |
| Relegated |
Gillingham, Nottingham Forest, Rotherham United |
| Matches played | 552 |
| Goals scored | 1,342 (2.43 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Nathan Ellington (Wigan Athletic), 24 |
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| Season | 2004–05 |
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| Champions | Luton Town (1st third tier title) |
| Direct promotion |
Luton Town, Hull City |
| Promoted through play-offs | Sheffield Wednesday |
| Relegated |
Peterborough United, , Torquay United, Wrexham |
| Matches played | 552 |
| Goals scored | 1,550 (2.81 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Stuart Elliott (Hull City), 27 Dean Windass (Bradford City), 27 |
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| Season | 2004–05 |
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| Champions | Yeovil Town (1st fourth tier title) |
| Direct promotion |
Yeovil Town, Scunthorpe United, Swansea City |
| Promoted through play-offs | Southend United |
| Relegated to Conference |
Cambridge United, Kidderminster Harriers |
| New club in the league |
Chester City, Shrewsbury Town |
| Matches played | 552 |
| Goals scored | 1,347 (2.44 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Phil Jevons (Yeovil Town), 27 |
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The 2004–05 Football League (known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th completed season of The Football League.
This season the league was contested through three divisions. 2004–05 was the first season to feature the rebranded Football League. The First Division, Second Division and Third Division were renamed the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League Two respectively. Coca-Cola replaced the Nationwide Building Society as title sponsor.
Wigan Athletic reached the Premiership as Championship runners-up. They had been elected to the Football League only 27 years earlier, had been the league’s fourth lowest club 11 years earlier and until 2 years before reaching the Premiership they had never played in the upper half of the English league.
Nottingham Forest were relegated from the Championship to League One, becoming the first former European Cup winners to slide into the third tier of their domestic league – having won two straight European Cups a quarter of a century earlier. Just ten years ago they had finished third in the Premiership and reached the following season’s UEFA Cup quarter finals.
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website, with home and away statistics separated. Play-off results are from the same website.
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