# 2004–05 Coventry City F.C. season

This article describes Coventry City Football Club's progress in the 2004–05 season, during which the Sky Blues competed in the Football League Championship, the FA Cup (entering in the Third Round) and the League Cup (entering from the First Round). The 2004–05 season was the last season in which the club played their home games at Highfield Road before their move to the Ricoh Arena.

## Championship data
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 17 | Plymouth Argyle | 46 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 52 | 64 | −12 | 53 |
| 18 | Watford | 46 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 52 | 59 | −7 | 52 |
| 19 | Coventry City | 46 | 13 | 13 | 20 | 61 | 73 | −12 | 52 |
| 20 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 46 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 40 | 65 | −25 | 51 |
| 21 | Crewe Alexandra | 46 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 66 | 86 | −20 | 50 |

### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 8 May 2005. Source: CCFC Championship Results

### Round by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 |
| Ground | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | L | D | L | W | W | L | D | D | D | L | L | D | D | L | W | D | L | W | W | L | D | L | W | L | L | W | L | L | L | L | L | W | L | D | W | D | D | L | W | W | L | D | D | W | L |
| Position | 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 19 |

### Scores Overview

| Opposition | Home Score | Away Score | Double |
| Brighton & Hove Albion | 2–1 | 1–1 | N |
| Burnley | 0–2 | 2–2 | N |
| Cardiff City | 1–1 | 1–2 | N |
| Crewe Alexandra | 0–1 | 1–2 | N |
| Derby County | 6–2 | 2–2 | N |
| Gillingham | 2–2 | 1–3 | N |
| Ipswich Town | 1–2 | 2–3 | N |
| Leeds United | 1–2 | 0–3 | N |
| Leicester City | 1–1 | 0–3 | N |
| Millwall | 0–1 | 1–1 | N |
| Nottingham Forest | 2–0 | 4–1 | Y |
| Plymouth Argyle | 2–1 | 1–1 | N |
| Preston North End | 1–1 | 2–3 | N |
| Queens Park Rangers | 1–2 | 1–4 | N |
| Reading | 3–2 | 2–1 | Y |
| Rotherham United | 0–0 | 2–1 | N |
| Sheffield United | 1–2 | 1–1 | N |
| Stoke City | 0–0 | 0–1 | N |
| Sunderland | 2–0 | 0–1 | N |
| Watford | 1–0 | 3–2 | Y |
| West Ham United | 2–1 | 0–3 | N |
| Wigan Athletic | 1–2 | 1–4 | N |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2–2 | 1–0 | N |

## Season statistics
### Stats and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Championship | Championship | League Cup | League Cup | FA Cup | FA Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | SCO | Scott Shearer | 9 | 0 | 8+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Andy Whing | 19 | 1 | 9+7 | 1 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | IRL | Steve Staunton | 37 | 1 | 32+3 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | ENG | Lloyd Dyer | 6 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | WAL | Ady Williams | 23 | 2 | 21+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ENG | Stephen Hughes | 44 | 5 | 39+1 | 4 | 2+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | WAL | Richard Duffy | 15 | 0 | 14+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | NGA | Dele Adebola | 26 | 6 | 19+6 | 5 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | ENG | Gary McSheffrey | 41 | 14 | 31+6 | 12 | 1+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | IRL | Graham Barrett | 26 | 4 | 13+11 | 4 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | ENG | Andy Morrell | 38 | 7 | 24+10 | 6 | 2+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ENG | Tim Sherwood | 11 | 0 | 10+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | FRO | Claus Bech Jørgensen | 20 | 3 | 11+6 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ENG | Eddie Johnson | 29 | 5 | 22+4 | 5 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | IRL | Michael Doyle | 49 | 3 | 43+1 | 2 | 3+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | ENG | Neil Wood | 16 | 0 | 6+7 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | JAM | Trevor Benjamin | 12 | 1 | 6+6 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | ENG | Richard Shaw | 37 | 0 | 30+3 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | ENG | Dean Leacock | 16 | 0 | 12+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | TRI | Stern John | 33 | 12 | 25+5 | 11 | 1+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 |
| 25 | MF | ENG | Isaac Osbourne | 9 | 0 | 7+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ENG | Stuart Giddings | 15 | 0 | 11+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | ENG | Marcus Hall | 10 | 0 | 10+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | WAL | Rob Page | 9 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | BER | Shaun Goater | 6 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | ENG | Luke Steele | 36 | 0 | 32+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| Players who featured for Coventry but left before the end of the season: ||||||||||||
| | GK | ENG | Ian Bennett | 6 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Louis Carey | 27 | 0 | 23+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| | DF | ENG | Calum Davenport | 7 | 0 | 6+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | DF | FRA | Éric Deloumeaux | 3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | DF | FRA | Florent Laville | 6 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | DF | ENG | Matt Mills | 5 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | MF | ISL | Bjarni Guðjónsson | 13 | 0 | 3+7 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | MF | FRA | Christian Negouai | 2 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| | MF | ENG | Rohan Ricketts | 6 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| | FW | CMR | Patrick Suffo | 25 | 5 | 2+19 | 3 | 1+2 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

| No. | Pos | Name | Championship | League Cup | FA Cup | Total |
| 10 | FW | Gary McSheffrey | 12 | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| 24 | FW | Stern John | 11 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| 12 | FW | Andy Morrell | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 | FW | Dele Adebola | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | MF | Stephen Hughes | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 16 | FW | Eddie Johnson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| | FW | Patrick Suffo | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | FW | Graham Barrett | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 17 | MF | Michael Doyle | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | MF | Claus Bech Jørgensen | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | DF | Ady Williams | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | FW | Trevor Benjamin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | Steve Staunton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | DF | Andy Whing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

### Overall

| Games played | 51 (46 Championship, 3 League Cup, 2 FA Cup) |
| Games won | 16 (13 Championship, 2 League Cup, 1 FA Cup) |
| Games drawn | 13 (13 Championship, 0 League Cup, 0 FA Cup) |
| Games lost | 22 (20 Championship, 1 League Cup, 1 FA Cup) |
| Goals scored | 70 (61 Championship, 5 League Cup, 4 FA Cup) |
| Goals conceded | 80 (73 Championship, 4 League Cup, 3 FA Cup) |
| Goal difference | −10 |
| Best result | W 6–2 (H) v Derby County – Championship – 30 April 2005 |
| Worst result | L 1–4 (A) v Queens Park Rangers – Championship – 28 September 2004 L 1–4 (A) v Wigan Athletic – Championship – 23 October 2004 |
| Most appearances | Michael Doyle (49 appearances) |
| Top scorer | Gary McSheffrey (14 goals) |
| Points | 52 / 138 (37.68%) |