2004–05 Serie B

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 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 →

AlbinoLeffe

Arezzo

Ascoli

Bari

Catania

Catanzaro

Cesena

Crotone

Empoli

Genoa

Modena

Perugia

Pescara

Piacenza

Salernitana

Ternana

Torino

Treviso
Venezia

Triestina

Verona

Vicenza

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.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	2003-04 season
AlbinoLeffe	Albino and Leffe	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia (Bergamo)	18th in Serie B
Arezzo	Arezzo	Stadio Città di Arezzo	Serie C1 Group A champions
Ascoli	Ascoli Piceno	Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca	11th in Serie B
Bari	Bari	Stadio San Nicola	21st in Serie B
Catania	Catania	Stadio Angelo Massimino	9th in Serie B
Catanzaro	Catanzaro	Stadio Nicola Ceravolo	Serie C1 Group B champions
Cesena	Cesena	Stadio Dino Manuzzi	Serie C1 Group A play-off winners
Crotone	Crotone	Stadio Ezio Scida	Serie C1 Group B play-off winners
Empoli	Empoli	Stadio Carlo Castellani	17th in Serie A
Genoa	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	16th in Serie B
Hellas Verona	Verona	Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi	19th in Serie B
Modena	Modena	Stadio Alberto Braglia	16th in Serie A
Perugia	Perugia	Stadio Renato Curi	15th in Serie A
Pescara	Pescara	Stadio Adriatico	22nd in Serie B
Piacenza	Piacenza	Stadio Leonardo Garilli	8th in Serie B
Salernitana	Salerno	Stadio Arechi	17th in Serie B
Ternana	Terni	Stadio Libero Liberati	7th in Serie B
Torino	Turin	Stadio delle Alpi	12th in Serie B
Treviso	Treviso	Stadio Omobono Tenni	15th in Serie B
Triestina	Trieste	Stadio Nereo Rocco	10th in Serie B
Venezia	Venice	Stadio Pierluigi Penzo	20th in Serie B
Vicenza	Vicenza	Stadio Romeo Menti	13th in Serie B

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AlbinoLeffe	Gianfranco Andreoletti	Elio Gustinetti	Legea	SCAME
Arezzo	Piero Mancini	Pasquale Marino	Legea	Banca Etruria
Ascoli	Roberto Benigni	Marco Giampaolo and Massimo Silva	Uhlsport	Carisap
Bari	Vincenzo Matarrese	Guido Carboni	Lotto	Pasta Ambra
Catania	Antonino Pulvirenti	Nedo Sonetti	Galex	SP Energia Siciliana, Regione Siciliana
Catanzaro	Claudio Parente	Bruno Bolchi	Asics	Catanzaro città tra due mari, Caffè Guglielmo
Cesena	Giorgio Lugaresi	Fabrizio Castori	Lotto	Solo Affitti
Crotone	Raffaele Vrenna	Gian Piero Gasperini	Devis	Sovreco (H)/Frais Monde (A)
Empoli	Fabrizio Corsi	Mario Somma	Asics	Computer Gross
Genoa	Enrico Preziosi	Serse Cosmi	Asics	Costa Cruises
Hellas Verona	Giambattista Pastorello	Massimo Ficcadenti	Legea	Clerman
Modena	Romano Amadei	Stefano Pioli	Erreà	Immergas, Alberti & Tagliazucchi
Perugia	Alessandro Gaucci	Stefano Colantuono	Galex	Mobili Paolo
Pescara	Dante Paterna	Giovanni Simonelli	Ennedue	Eurovision TV
Piacenza	Fabrizio Garilli	Giuseppe Iachini	Lotto	UNICEF
Salernitana	Aniello Aliberti	Angelo Gregucci	Devis	Centrale del Latte di Salerno/Caffè Motta
Ternana	Luigi Agarini	Claudio Tobia	Erreà	None
Torino	Attilio Romero	Renato Zaccarelli	Asics	Bavaria
Treviso	Ettore Setten	Giuseppe Pillon	Lotto	Segafredo, Provincia di Treviso
Triestina	Amilcare Berti	Attilio Tesser	Asics	Bossini
Venezia	Francesco Dal Cin	Andrea Manzo	Sportika	Boscolo Tours
Vicenza	Sergio Cassingena	Maurizio Viscidi	Biemme	Caffè Vero, Supermercati SISA

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[a] (O, D)	42	21	11	10	49	31	+18	74	Declined from promotion
3	Perugia[b] (D, E, R)	42	21	11	10	56	34	+22	74	Revival in Serie C1
4	Treviso[c] (P)	42	18	10	14	58	48	+10	64	Promotion to Serie A
5	Ascoli[c] (P)	42	17	11	14	51	52	−1	62
6	Hellas Verona	42	15	16	11	60	47	+13	61
7	Modena[d]	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[d]	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[b] (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[e]	42	13	14	15	48	45	+3	50
17	Vicenza[f]	42	12	13	17	59	67	−8	49	Relegation play-offs
18	Triestina	42	12	12	18	43	54	−11	48
19	Pescara[g] (T)	42	10	16	16	43	61	−18	46	Spared from relegation
20	Venezia[h] (R, E, D)	42	7	14	21	33	58	−25	35	Revival in Serie C2
21	Catanzaro[g] (T)	42	5	11	26	40	82	−42	26	Spared from relegation
22	Genoa[i] (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:

1. Promoted to Serie A after play-off but later not admitted for financial problems.
2. Relegated to Serie C1 for financial problems.
3. Promoted to Serie A in place of Torino and Perugia.
4. 1 point deducted.
5. 3 points deducted.
6. Vicenza was restored in Serie B following Genoa conviction.
7. Spared from relegation following Salernitana’s bankruptcy.
8. Dissolved due to bankruptcy. A new entity was admitted to Serie C2 by Lodo Petrucci. The team was also involved in Caso Genoa.
9. 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.