Rangers played a total of 51 competitive matches during the 2004–05 season. They went into the season looking to recapture theirScottish Premier League crown, whichCeltic had won the season before. ManagerAlex McLeish made several summer signings, with the signature of FrenchmanJean-Alain Boumsong being his biggest coup. Others included strikersDado Prso andNacho Novo, as well as the experienced midfielderAlex Rae and future Ibrox favouriteMarvin Andrews.
Rangers League form began poorly picking up only 8 points from their first 5 matches. Rangers lost the first Old Firm derby of the season 1–0 at Celtic Park and fell behind Celtic in the league. Rangers form improved following the loss to Celtic and they weren't to lose again in the league until April. This run of form included two wins over Celtic in November, once in theLeague Cup and the other in the League. They also ended a poor run of results atCeltic Park, with a 2–0 victory in February. A 2–1 loss to Celtic at home in April left Rangers five points behind with just four games left of the season. Celtic led by two points on the final day of the season and were winning 1–0 againstMotherwell, but two late goals for Motherwell coupled with Rangers 1–0 win overHibernian saw Rangers win the title,Helicopter Sunday.
Rangers also won theLeague Cup this season, with a 5–1 victory over Motherwell in thefinal. Rangers were beaten in theScottish Cup however, losing 2–1 to Celtic in the third round.
After losing to CSKA Moscow in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, Rangers entered theUEFA Cup. Rangers managed to qualify for the newly formed group stages with a penalty shoot-out win overMaritimo. Rangers failed to progress beyond the group stages however, a 2–0 loss at home toAuxerre seeing them fail to stay in Europe beyond Christmas.
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Dragan Mladenović
Jean-Alain Boumsong
Dado Pršo
Alex Rae
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Marvin Andrews
Nacho Novo
Bojan Djordjic
Thomas Buffel
Feyenoord
Sotirios Kyrgiakos
Christian Nerlinger
Emerson
Nuno Capucho
Henning Berg
Al Rayyan
Craig Moore
Paolo Vanoli
£8,450,000
£10,825,000
CSKA Moscow
Amica Wronki
Grazer AK
Auxerre
