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2004–05 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Field	Value
club	Nottingham Forest
season	2004–05
manager	Joe Kinnear (until 16 December)
Gary Megson (from 10 January)
chairman	Nigel Doughty
stadium	City Ground
league	Football League Championship
league result	23rd (relegated)
cup1	FA Cup
cup1 result	Fifth round
cup2	League Cup
cup2 result	Fourth round
league topscorer	Gareth Taylor (7)
season topscorer	Gareth Taylor (11)
average attendance	23,565
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prevseason	2003–04
nextseason	2005–06

Gary Megson (from 10 January) During the 2004–05 English football season, Nottingham Forest competed in the Football League Championship.

Season summary

Manager Joe Kinnear was hoping to push for promotion from the newly named Coca-Cola Championship in 2004–05, but the start to the season was poor. Despite a promising draw with Wigan on the first day of the season (the game which started a run of four consecutive draws), the team's form and league position went downhill. With fans becoming restless, and the threat of demonstrations against the team management, Kinnear resigned in December after a 3–0 defeat to arch-rivals Derby County at Pride Park left Forest struggling at the foot of the Championship. Following Mick Harford's brief reign as caretaker, in January 2005, Gary Megson was named as Nottingham Forest's new manager. He had previously won promotion to the Premiership twice with West Bromwich Albion, having taken over at a time when they were on the verge of relegation to League One, and it was hoped that he could achieve the same success with Forest. After a loss to Millwall in Megson's first match in charge, a six-game unbeaten run gave the fans hope that survival might be on the cards. However, Forest would win only one more league game all season after that, and they finished second from bottom in the Coca-Cola Championship and were relegated to League One. This made them the first former European Cup winners to suffer relegation to the third tier of their domestic league.

Final league table

Main article: 2004–05 Football League Championship

Results

Nottingham Forest's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 2004	Wigan Athletic	A	1–1	12,035	Taylor
11 August 2004	Ipswich Town	H	1–1	21,125	Evans
14 August 2004	Crewe Alexandra	H	2–2	24,201	Taylor, King
21 August 2004	Leeds United	A	1–1	31,808	Reid
28 August 2004	Coventry City	H	1–4	23,041	Johnson
30 August 2004	Plymouth Argyle	A	2–3	17,538	Jess (2)
11 September 2004	Cardiff City	H	0–0	21,607
14 September 2004	Sunderland	A	0–2	23,540
18 September 2004	Stoke City	A	0–0	21,115
26 September 2004	West Ham United	H	2–1	25,615	Evans, King
29 September 2004	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	0–1	20,109
3 October 2004	Millwall	A	0–1	11,233
15 October 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1–0	21,865	Reid
19 October 2004	Sheffield United	A	1–1	19,445	Johnson
23 October 2004	Preston North End	A	2–3	12,439	King (2)
30 October 2004	Watford	H	1–2	24,473	Reid
3 November 2004	Rotherham United	H	2–2	21,619	Johnson, King (pen)
6 November 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1–2	27,605	Johnson
13 November 2004	Burnley	A	0–1	11,622
20 November 2004	Reading	H	1–0	21,138	Taylor
27 November 2004	Gillingham	A	1–2	8,784	Taylor
4 December 2004	Queens Park Rangers	H	2–1	26,099	Reid, Lester
11 December 2004	Derby County	A	0–3	30,793
17 December 2004	Leicester City	H	1–1	21,415	Dawson
26 December 2004	West Ham United	A	2–3	32,270	Johnson (2)
28 December 2004	Sunderland	H	1–2	27,457	Reid
1 January 2005	Stoke City	H	1–0	22,051	Bopp
3 January 2005	Cardiff City	A	0–3	15,545
15 January 2005	Millwall	H	1–2	25,949	Commons
22 January 2005	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	0–0	6,704
5 February 2005	Rotherham United	A	0–0	8,448
23 February 2005	Preston North End	H	2–0	19,209	Evans, Commons
26 February 2005	Derby County	H	2–2	26,160	Evans (pen), Taylor
5 March 2005	Leicester City	A	1–0	27,277	Taylor
8 March 2005	Watford	A	2–0	12,118	Commons (2)
12 March 2005	Ipswich Town	A	0–6	25,765
16 March 2005	Leeds United	H	0–0	27,101
19 March 2005	Wigan Athletic	H	1–1	24,008	Taylor
2 April 2005	Crewe Alexandra	A	1–1	8,458	Dobie
6 April 2005	Coventry City	A	0–2	22,221
9 April 2005	Plymouth Argyle	H	0–3	28,887
12 April 2005	Sheffield United	H	1–1	21,903	Commons
16 April 2005	Reading	A	0–1	17,905
23 April 2005	Burnley	H	1–0	24,165	Commons
30 April 2005	Queens Park Rangers	A	1–2	17,834	Bopp
8 May 2005	Gillingham	H	2–2	24,800	Morgan, Bopp

FA Cup

Main article: 2004–05 FA Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 2005	Queens Park Rangers	A	3–0	11,140	Reid, Commons, Folly
R4	29 January 2005	Peterborough United	H	1–0	16,774	King
R5	12 February 2005	Tottenham Hotspur	A	1–1	35,640	Taylor
R5R	2 March 2005	Tottenham Hotspur	H	0–3	28,062

League Cup

Main article: 2004–05 Football League Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	25 August 2004	Scunthorpe United	H	2–0	7,344	Taylor, King
R2	22 September 2004	Rotherham United	H	2–1	11,168	Taylor (2)
R3	26 October 2004	Doncaster Rovers	A	2–0	9,261	King, Perch
R4	10 November 2004	Fulham	H	2–4	9,252	King, Reid

Squad

Left club during season

Appearances

References

(16 December 2004). "Kinnear resigns as Forest manager". BBC Sport.
(10 January 2005). "Forest appoint Megson as manager". BBC Sport.
"Nottingham Forest 2004-2005 Home - statto.com".
Powell was born in [[England]].
Evans was born in [[England]].
King was born in [[Southwark]], [[England]].

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