2004–05 Serie B

Serie B TIM
Season	2004–05
Promoted	Empoli (1st title); Ascoli; Treviso
Relegated	Genoa; Perugia; Salernitana; Venezia (to C2)
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,098 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gionatha Spinesi (22 goals)
	← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 Serie B is the 73rd season since its establishment in 1929. It is the second highest football league in Italy.

Serie B 2004-05 team distribution

Teams

Arezzo, Catanzaro, Cesena and Crotone had been promoted from Serie C, while Perugia, Modena, and Empoli had been relegated from Serie A, and Ancona had lost their national professional licence.

Events

Following the long-standing consequences of the “Caso Catania”, the league included 22 teams, while promotions decreased to three spots.

Promotion playoffs were also introduced.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Empoli (P, C)	42	19	17	6	72	44	+28	74	Promotion to Serie A
2	Torino[lower-alpha 1] (O, D)	42	21	11	10	49	31	+18	74	Declined from promotion
3	Perugia[lower-alpha 2] (D, E, R)	42	21	11	10	56	34	+22	74	Revival in Serie C1
4	Treviso[lower-alpha 3] (P)	42	18	10	14	58	48	+10	64	Promotion to Serie A
5	Ascoli[lower-alpha 3] (P)	42	17	11	14	51	52	−1	62	Promotion to Serie A
6	Hellas Verona	42	15	16	11	60	47	+13	61
7	Modena[lower-alpha 4]	42	16	14	12	47	37	+10	61
8	Ternana	42	14	15	13	51	54	−3	57
9	Piacenza	42	16	8	18	44	46	−2	56
10	Bari[lower-alpha 4]	42	13	17	12	41	37	+4	55
11	AlbinoLeffe	42	14	13	15	55	51	+4	55
12	Catania	42	13	16	13	42	44	−2	55
13	Salernitana[lower-alpha 2] (E, R)	42	12	15	15	50	57	−7	51	Revival in Serie C1
14	Arezzo	42	12	15	15	51	52	−1	51
15	Cesena	42	12	14	16	47	61	−14	50
16	Crotone[lower-alpha 5]	42	13	14	15	48	45	+3	50
17	Vicenza[lower-alpha 6]	42	12	13	17	59	67	−8	49	Relegation play-offs
18	Triestina[lower-alpha 7]	42	12	12	18	43	54	−11	48	Relegation play-offs
19	Pescara[lower-alpha 8] (T)	42	10	16	16	43	61	−18	46	Spared from relegation
20	Venezia[lower-alpha 9] (R, E, D)	42	7	14	21	33	58	−25	35	Revival in Serie C2
21	Catanzaro[lower-alpha 8] (T)	42	5	11	26	40	82	−42	26	Spared from relegation
22	Genoa[lower-alpha 10] (D, R)	42	19	19	4	72	44	+28	76	Relegation to Serie C1

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2006, Panini Edizioni, Modena, November 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (E) Eliminated; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Notes:

Promoted to Serie A after play-off but later not admitted for financial problems.
Relegated to Serie C1 for financial problems.
Promoted to Serie A in place of Torino and Perugia.
1 point deducted.
3 points deducted.
Vicenza was restored in Serie B following Genoa conviction.
Saved after relegation play-off.
Relegated to Serie C1 and later readmitted.
Dissolved due to bankruptcy. A new entity was admitted to Serie C2 by Lodo Petrucci. The team was also involved in Caso Genoa.
Put in the last place by the FIGC because of match fixing in the Caso Genoa.

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	ARE	ASC	BAR	CTN	CTZ	CES	CRO	EMP	GEN	MOD	PER	PES	PIA	SAL	TER	TOR	TRV	TRI	VEN	HEL	VIC
AlbinoLeffe	—	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–0	0–1	4–0	3–0	1–2	3–1	2–1	2–2	3–3	1–0	1–1	2–1
Arezzo	1–1	—	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–0
Ascoli	2–3	2–2	—	3–1	1–2	1–0	4–0	0–2	1–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0
Bari	1–1	1–0	0–1	—	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	4–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–0
Catania	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	—	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–3	1–3	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0
Catanzaro	0–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	2–3	—	2–2	2–2	2–3	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	1–3	3–0	1–4	1–1	1–4	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1
Cesena	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	1–0	3–3	1–1	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–4	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–3
Crotone	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	3–0	0–1	—	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	4–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	4–2	2–0	2–2	0–1
Empoli	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	—	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	5–2	1–0	2–1
Genoa	3–2	3–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	3–3	1–0	3–2	—	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	5–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	3–2	1–1	5–2
Modena	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1
Perugia	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	0–0	—	4–1	0–1	0–1	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–0
Pescara	1–3	2–2	0–2	2–2	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–4	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	—	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	4–0
Piacenza	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–3	2–2	1–0	2–4	0–1	—	0–1	0–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0
Salernitana	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	6–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	2–2	0–2	0–2	3–2	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–3	0–0	1–2	3–1
Ternana	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	—	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–1
Torino	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–3	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	—	1–2	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–1
Treviso	0–2	1–4	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	—	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0
Triestina	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	3–4	0–0	0–2	0–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	—	1–1	1–2	1–1
Venezia	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–3	0–0	2–4	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–3	0–3	1–2	1–2	—	3–2	2–0
Hellas Verona	3–2	5–3	2–2	0–0	4–0	4–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	5–3
Vicenza	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	5–0	4–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	0–0	4–2	4–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	—

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2006, Panini Edizioni, Modena, November 2005
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-off

Promotion play-off

(later became a relegation play-off)

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ascoli	1-3	Torino	0-1	1-2
Treviso	0-3	Perugia	0-1	0-2

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Perugia	2-2	Torino	1-2	1-0

Torino Calcio promoted to Serie A, but later it went bankrupt and it was restored in 2005–06 Serie B by the Lodo Petrucci. Perugia Calcio also went bankrupt and it was restored in 2005–06 Serie C1 by the Lodo Petrucci.

This promotion play-off consequently became a relegation play-off.

Relegation play-off

(later annulled)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Triestina	4-0	Vicenza	2-0	2-0

Vicenza Calcio was lucky because its relegation was annulled following the Caso Genoa.

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[table_note_TOR0.071683747727277-1] Promoted to Serie A after play-off but later not admitted for financial problems.

[table_note_PER0.071683747727277-2] Relegated to Serie C1 for financial problems.

[table_note_TRV0.071683747727277-3] Promoted to Serie A in place of Torino and Perugia.

[table_note_MOD0.071683747727277-4] 1 point deducted.

[table_note_CRO0.071683747727277-5] 3 points deducted.

[table_note_VIC0.071683747727277-6] Vicenza was restored in Serie B following Genoa conviction.

[table_note_TRI0.071683747727277-7] Saved after relegation play-off.

[table_note_PES0.071683747727277-8] Relegated to Serie C1 and later readmitted.

[table_note_VEN0.071683747727277-9] Dissolved due to bankruptcy. A new entity was admitted to Serie C2 by Lodo Petrucci. The team was also involved in Caso Genoa.

[table_note_GEN0.071683747727277-10] Put in the last place by the FIGC because of match fixing in the Caso Genoa.

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