2005 UEFA Cup final

The 2005 UEFA Cup Final was the final match of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, the 34th season of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second-tier club football tournament. The match was contested by Sporting CP and CSKA Moscow; CSKA won the match 3–1. Sporting CP opened the scoring in the first half from full-back Rogério, before Aleksei Berezutskiy equalised in the second half. Yuri Zhirkov would give the Russian side the lead nine minutes after CSKA's equalising goal, and the Moscow outfit would close out the scoring 15 minutes from the end after a quick CSKA counterattack saw Vágner Love become the youngest player to score in a UEFA Cup final at the age of 20 years, 341 days,^[4] firing the ball past Sporting goalkeeper Ricardo to give the Russian side a first UEFA Cup trophy.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

2005 UEFA Cup Final

Match programme cover
Event	2004–05 UEFA Cup
Sporting CP CSKA Moscow 1 3
Date	18 May 2005
Venue	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Man of the Match	Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow)^[1]^[2]
Referee	Graham Poll (England)^[3]
Attendance	47,085
Weather	Sunny 28 °C (82 °F) 56% humidity
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The match was played at the Estádio José Alvalade – home ground of finalists Sporting CP – in Lisbon, Portugal, on 18 May 2005.^[10] Until then, it was the third European football final to be held in Portugal, after the 1967 European Cup Final, which was held in another Lisbon venue, the Estádio Nacional,^[11][12] and the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, which was held at the Estádio da Luz.^[13]

Venue

José Alvalade Stadium was announced as the final venue on 5 February 2004, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland.^[14][15]

Route to the final

Sporting CP			Round	CSKA Moscow
Champions League/UEFA Cup
Opponent	Result	Legs	Qualifying phase	Opponent	Result	Legs
Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Cup group stage: Group D Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts   Newcastle United 4 3 1 0 8 1 +7 10   Sochaux 4 3 0 1 4 4 0 9   Sporting CP 4 2 1 1 9 3 +6 7   Panionios 4 1 0 3 6 8 −2 3   Dinamo Tbilisi 4 0 0 4 2 13 −11 0			Group stage	Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Champions League group stage: Group H Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts   Chelsea 6 4 1 1 10 3 +7 13   Porto 6 2 2 2 4 6 −2 8   CSKA Moscow 6 2 1 3 5 5 0 7   Paris Saint-Germain 6 1 2 3 3 8 −5 5
UEFA Cup
Opponent	Result	Legs	Final phase	Opponent	Result	Legs
Feyenoord	4–2	2–1 home; 2–1 away	Round of 32	Benfica	3–1	2–0 home; 1–1 away
Middlesbrough	4–2	3–2 away; 1–0 home	Round of 16	Partizan	3–1	1–1 away; 2–0 home
Newcastle United	4–2	0–1 away; 4–1 home	Quarter-finals	Auxerre	4–2	4–0 home; 0–2 away
AZ	4–4 (a)	2–1 home; 2–3 away	Semi-finals	Parma	3–0	0–0 away; 3–0 home

Match

Details

18 May 2005 (2005-05-18)

19:45 WEST

Sporting CP	1–3	CSKA Moscow
Rogério   29'	Report	A. Berezutskiy   56' Zhirkov   65' Vágner Love   75'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 47,085

Referee: Graham Poll (England)^[3]

Sporting CP

CSKA Moscow

GK 76   Ricardo RB 15   Miguel Garcia CB 22   Beto CB 14   Joseph Enakarhire LB 11   Rodrigo Tello RM 37   Rogério   80' CM 26   Fábio Rochemback CM 28   João Moutinho   88' LM 8   Pedro Barbosa (c)   14' CF 31   Liédson CF 10   Ricardo Sá Pinto   73' Substitutes: GK 1   Nélson DF 4   Ânderson Polga DF 27   Custódio MF 45   Hugo Viana   88' MF 23   Rui Jorge FW 9   Marius Niculae   73' FW 17   Roudolphe Douala   80' Manager:   José Peseiro

GK 35   Igor Akinfeev RB 24   Vasili Berezutski CB 4   Sergei Ignashevich (c) CB 6   Aleksei Berezutski LB 18   Yuri Zhirkov RM 15   Chidi Odiah CM 22   Evgeni Aldonin   86' LM 25   Elvir Rahimić AM 7   Daniel Carvalho   82' CF 9   Ivica Olić   67' CF 11   Vágner Love Substitutes: GK 1   Veniamin Mandrykin MF 2   Deividas Šemberas   82' MF 8   Rolan Gusev   86' MF 10   Osmar Ferreyra MF 19   Juris Laizāns MF 40   Aleksandr Salugin FW 17   Miloš Krasić   67' Manager:   Valery Gazzaev

Man of the Match: Daniel Carvalho (CSKA Moscow)^[1]^[2] Assistant referees:^[3] Michael Tingey (England) Glenn Turner (England) Fourth official:^[3] Steve Bennett (England)^[3]

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions

See also

• 2004–05 UEFA Cup
• 2004–05 UEFA Champions League
• 2005 UEFA Champions League Final
• 2005 UEFA Super Cup
• PFC CSKA Moscow in European football
• Sporting CP in European football

References

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8. "Daniel Carvalho: "Estive nos quatro golos"" [Daniel Carvalho: "I was involved in the four goals"]. Record. 19 May 2005. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
9. "Sporting-CSKA, 1-3: Como a final de sonho se tornou num pesadelo" [Sporting-CSKA, 1-3: Like the dream final turned into a nightmare]. Record. 19 May 2005. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
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11. "Celtic 2-1 Internazionale". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2013.
12. "Champions: Capitão do Celtic em 1967 lembra final do Jamor" [Champions: Celtic's captain in 1967 remembers the final in Jamor]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). 17 September 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
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14. "Turkey hosts 2005 Champions final". CNN. 5 February 2004. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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External links

• at UEFA.com