2004–05 AJ Auxerre season

During the 2004–05 French football season, AJ Auxerre competed in Ligue 1.

AJ Auxerre
2004–05 season
ChairmanJean-Claude Hamel
ManagerGuy Roux
Ligue 18th
Coupe de FranceWinners
Coupe de la LigueQuarter-finals
UEFA CupQuarter-finals
Top goalscorerLeague:
Benjani Mwaruwari (11)
All:
Bonaventure Kalou (18)
Average home league attendance11,232[1]

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.[2]

First-team squad
Squad at end of season[3]

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 Richard Suriano
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 Baptiste Chabert
36 FW  FRA Garra Dembélé[notes 2]
37 MF  FRA Kévin Lejeune
38 MF  FRA Ferdinand Bitangane
39 DF  FRA Mickaël Bertrand
40 GK  FRA Mickaël Castejon
41 MF  FRA David Dareglosse
42 MF  FRA Nicolas Gourio
43 MF  FRA Karim Hraiba
44 MF  FRA Cédric Kisamba[notes 3]
45 MF  FRA Alexis Lafon
46 DF  FRA Baptiste Martin
47 DF  FRA David Pierre
48 GK  FRA Stéphane Veron
49 DF  ALG Karim Ziouane
50 MF  SEN Ousmane Cissokho
51 MF  FRA Damien Dufour
52 GK  FRA Arnaud Sauvage
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

Competitions

Ligue 1
Main article: 2004–05 Ligue 1

League table
Pos Team 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[lower-alpha 1]
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:
  1. Auxerre was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de France.

Coupe de France
Main article: 2004–05 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: Bruno Derrien

Coupe de la Ligue
Main article: 2004–05 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
Main article: 2004–05 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
Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Cup group stage § Group F
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
AZ 4 3 0 1 6 3 +3 9
Auxerre 4 2 1 1 7 3 +4 7
GAK 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7
Rangers 4 2 0 2 8 3 +5 6
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: Fernando Carmona Méndez (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: Georgios Douros (Greece)
15 December 2004 4 Rangers 0–2 Auxerre Glasgow, Scotland
20:45 (CET) Report Kalou  9', 46' Stadium: Ibrox Stadium
Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (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: Jaroslav Jára (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
(4–2 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  1. "Ligue 1 2004/2005 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. "Auxerre name Santini as new coach". BBC Sport. 7 June 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  3. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/france/2004-2005/ligue1/auxerre.htm
  4. "Liverpool tie up Cissé deal". BBC Sport. 26 May 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2008.
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