Championship Season 2004-05 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gillingham - Nottingham Forest - Rotherham United

Rotherham United were relegated at the start of the year while Nottingham Forest were relegated following their loss to Queens Park Rangers, and Gillingham went down in the last game of the season, needing a win against Forest, they could only manage a draw and went down to League One on goal difference.

Answer: Sunderland & Wigan Athletic

Sunderland were champions after defeating Leicester City at the Stadium of Light in April, while Wigan Athletic were left until the last day of the season to beat Reading 3-1, and gain the remaining automatic premiership spot two points ahead of Ipswich Town.

Answer: Nathan Ellington

Wigan striker Nathan Ellington scored 24 goals for the season in the Championship, ahead of teammate Jason Roberts who finished on 21 goals.

Answer: Reading

They were also the second best team in terms of yellow cards as only 41 were given out. Rotherham and Ipwich both had one red card each with Wigan and Crewe and Wolverhampton receiving two red cards for the season.

Answer: 18

Wolverhampton Wanderers' run of 18 started out with a 4-2 home win against West Ham United in mid-January, and continued with the same result in the last game of the season against Sheffield United. The run included eight wins and 10 draws.

Answer: Wigan Athletic & Stoke City

Both Wigan and Stoke City kept 20 clean sheets during the Championship season. All up, Wigan conceded only 35 goals against while Stoke had 38 past them, and still managed a negative goal difference. Burnley and Reading each had 19 clean sheets with Sunderland next on 18.

Answer: Stadium of Light

Following the promotion of Sunderland, 47,350 fans packed into the Stadium of Light to witness the home side triumph over Stoke City, 1-0.

Answer: Reading

Preston and Derby had both clinched fourth and fifth spots behind Ipswich Town in April, but West Ham were left until the last game of the season against Watford to enter into the playoffs which they won 2-1. Reading required a win at Wigan and needed West Ham to lose by more than two goals to ensure them of a playoff spot which didn't eventuate.

Answer: Crewe Alexandra

Crewe had conceded a massive 86 goals against them at an average of just under two goals per game. Defeats at Ipswich (5-1), Sheffield United (4-0), and Reading (4-0) were just some of the games in which Crewe conceded more than three goals in a game. Wigan, Wolves, and Millwall also managed to score four against Crewe.

Answer: Coventry City

Crewe Alexandra managed to defeat Coventry City 2-1 to clinch 21st spot in the Championship for 2005-06. Gillingham required a win against Nottingham Forest but could only manage a 2-2 draw, which saw them relegated to League One.

Answer: 1 goal

Crewe's 2-1 win against Coventry and Gillingham's 2-2 draw with relegated Nottingham Forest was a 1 goal difference between safety and relegation. Both teams finished on the benchmark 50 points, but Crewe's goal difference of -20 edged out Gillingham who had -21.

Answer: True

On the 12th of March, Ipswich Town secured the biggest win of the Championship season in 2004-05 by defeating Nottingham Forest 6-0 at Portman Road. Tommy Miller picked up a double while Richard Naylor, Ian Westlake, Shefki Kuqi, and Darren Bent also found the back of the net. Leeds United's 6-1 win over QPR was the next biggest margin at five.

Answer: Rotherham United & Stoke City

Rotherham and Stoke both failed to score on 21 out of the 46 games during the season. Stoke were also the team to have the most clean sheets during the season but amazingly only six out of the 46 games finished without a goal. Burnley failed to score on 20 different occasions while Leeds and Cardiff failed to score in 17 of the 46 games in the Championship season.

Answer: Sean Gregan

Sean Gregan of Leeds United received the most yellow cards with 14, but seemed to learn his lesson after that as he did not get any red cards during the season. Frank Sinclair and Danny Tiatto both received 13 yellow cards in the Championship while Adam Virgo of Brighton was well behind on eight.

Answer: True

Leeds United had an aggregate crowd for the season of just under 672,000. West Ham United and Sunderland were next with 663,000 for the season, and Wolverhampton Wanderers' Molineaux held just over 612,000 people for the Championship season.