   the 2004â05 season was the 125th season of competitive football in england. ==overview== *2004â05 was the first season to feature the rebranded football league. the first division, second division and third division were renamed the football league championship, football league one and football league two respectively. coca-cola replaced the nationwide building society as title sponsor. *the former wimbledon fc was reformed and competed in league one, under their new name of milton keynes dons. *there were also changes in the football conference with the introduction of two new regional divisions below conference national: conference north and conference south. furthermore, the national conference cup returned, now featuring the teams from the new divisions. *unlike the football league and the conference, the fa premier league did not undergo any restructuring, but barclays bank replaced their subsidiary barclaycard as title sponsors. *wigan athletic reached the premiership as championship runners-up. they had been elected to the football league only 27 years earlier, had been the league's fourth lowest club 11 years earlier and until 2 years before reaching the premiership they had never played in the upper half of the english league. *nottingham forest were relegated from the championship to league one, becoming the first former european cup winners to slide into the third tier of their domestic league â having won two straight european cups a quarter of a century earlier. just ten years ago they had finished third in the premiership and reached the following season's uefa cup quarter finals. ==diary of the season== *1 july 2004 â chelsea pay Â£13.2million for fc porto's paulo ferreira and Â£12million for psv eindhoven's arjen robben. liverpool buy djibril cissÃ© from auxerre for Â£14million. *7 july 2004 â the sun newspaper issues an apology to liverpool fans over its infamous front page story about the hillsborough disaster 15 years ago, but the apology is not welcomed by many of the club's supporters; a poll on the club's official website shows an 87% disapproval rate of the newspaper's apology. *8 july 2004 â middlesbrough sign [[leeds united a.f.c.|leeds u
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