2004–05 Nottingham Forest F.C. season


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 team's form and league position went downhill. With fans getting 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. But that target was made all the more difficult to achieve at the end of the 2004–05 season, when Forest finished second from bottom in the Coca-Cola Championship and were relegated to League One. This made them the first former winners of the European Cup to suffer relegation to the third tier of their domestic league.

Final league table

Results

Nottingham Forest's score comes first

Legend

Football League Championship

FA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R38 January 2005Queens Park RangersA3-011,140Reid, Commons, Folly
R429 January 2005Peterborough UnitedH1-016,774King
R512 February 2005Tottenham HotspurA1-135,640Taylor
R5R2 March 2005Tottenham HotspurH0-328,062

League Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R125 August 2004Scunthorpe UnitedH2-07,344Taylor, King
R222 September 2004Rotherham UnitedH2-111,168Taylor
R326 October 2004Doncaster RoversA2-09,261King, Perch
R410 November 2004FulhamH2-49,252King, Reid

Squad

Left club during season

Appearances