The following are the association football events of the year 2005 throughout the world.
Events January 21 – German referee Robert Hoyzer admits to having accepted large sums of money from a gambling syndicate to fix matches. The resulting scandal was a major embarrassment to Germany as it prepared to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Eventually Hoyzer would be sentenced to two years and five months in prison. February 3 – Dutch club Fortuna Sittard has three points deducted for financial mismanagement (failure to settle tax debts); an additional deduction of three points on April 29 was confirmed after an appeal on June 13. February 4 – Swiss AXPO Super League – Club Servette FC was declared bankrupt. It had run debts of over 10 million Swiss francs. As a consequence of the bankruptcy the club will be demoted two divisions. March 20 – Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles has three points deducted for financial mismanagement. March 26 – Chelsea won the League Cup after beating Liverpool 3–2 April 23 – PSV wins its 18th national title in the Dutch Eredivisie. April 30 – National Football title assignment in two major European tournaments. In England, Chelsea wins for the second time in the FA Premier League; in Germany, Bundesliga is won for the 19th time by Bayern Munich. In France, RC Strasbourg won second League Cup. May 8 – Ligue 1 – Lyon win its fourth French title in 2000s (decade). May 14 – Spain Liga – FC Barcelona won its 17th league title. May 18 – UEFA Cup Final – CSKA Moscow became the first Russian club to win a major European club competition, defeating Sporting CP 3–1 at Sporting's home field in Lisbon. May 20 – Italian Serie A – Juventus won its 28th title ("scudetto") without playing following a 3–3 draw between A.C. Milan and Palermo. May 21 – Manager Gert Aandewiel receives the Rinus Michels Award for the best coach in Dutch amateur football. May 21 – Arsenal wins the FA Cup Final by defeating Manchester United 5–4 on penalties after regular time and extra time ended 0–0. May 25 – 2004–05 UEFA Champions League Final – Liverpool come from three goals down, and beat A.C. Milan 3–2 on penalties after a 3–3 draw in Istanbul to win Europe's top prize for the 5th time. May 26 – Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam fires manager Mike Snoei and names former international Adri van Tiggelen as interim-coach. June 8 – Goalkeeper and captain Edwin van der Sar plays his 100th international match for the Netherlands, when the side defeats Finland (0–4) in Helsinki. July 9 – Spain's Basque Country wins the fourth UEFA Regions' Cup, beating Bulgaria's South-West Sofia 1–0 in Proszowice. July 14 – 2005 Copa Libertadores is won by São Paulo FC after defeating Clube Atlético Paranaense on an aggregate score of 5–1. August 5 – Ajax wins the Johan Cruijff Schaal, the annual opening of the new season in the Eredivisie, by a 2–1 win over PSV in the Amsterdam ArenA. August 26 – The first match of the inaugural Hyundai A-League in Australia was played. August 31 – Boca Juniors (Argentina) won the Recopa Sudamericana 2005 4–3 on aggregate over Once Caldas (Colombia). (First leg in Buenos Aires 3–1, second leg in Manizales 1–2) November 21 – Head coach Robert Maaskant is fired by Willem II. December 9 – 2006 FIFA World Cup group assignments for the finals in Germany announced. December 11 – Opening game of the second FIFA World Club Championship, a six team tournament replacing the former Intercontinental Cup. In the final one week later Brazilian team São Paulo FC won the competition narrowly beating UEFA Champions Liverpool 1–0. December 18 – Boca Juniors defeated UNAM Pumas on penalties after the second leg game for the Copa Sudamericana 2005. December 19 – Manager Cees Lok leaves NEC and is replaced by another former player of the Dutch Club, Ron de Groot. December 19 – Ronaldinho (Brazil, for male footballer) and Birgit Prinz (Germany, for female footballer) were elected FIFA World Player of the Year. December 31 – Mark Wotte resigns as technical director of Feyenoord.
Winners national championships
National club championships in Africa (CAF) : Algerian Championnat National – USM Alger Algerian Cup – ASO Chlef : Girabola – Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança Angolan Cup – Atlético Sport Aviação : Benin Premier League – not playing : Mascom Premier League and FA Challenge Cup – Township Rollers Gaborone : Burkinabé Premier League – Rail Club du Kadiogo Burkina Faso Cup – Union Sportive de Ouagadougou : Burundi Premier League – InterStar Bujumbura : Cameroon Premiere Division – Cotonsport Garoua Cameroon Cup – Imports FC Yaoundé : Premier League – Derby FC Mindelo : Central African Republic League – Anges de Fatima : Chad Premier League – Renaissance FC : Comoros Premier League – Coin Nord Mitsamiouli : Congo Premier League – not assigned Congolan Cup – Diables Noirs Brazzaville : Linafoot – DC Motema Pembe Republic of Congo Cup – AS Vita Kabasha : Premier League – AS Compagnie Djibouti-Ethiopie Djiboutian Cup – Poste de Djibouti : Egyptian Premier League and Super Cup – Al-Ahly Egyptian Soccer Cup – ENPPI Equatorial Guinea Equatoguinean Premier League – Renacimiento FC : Premier League – Red Sea FC Asmara : Premier League – Saint George SA Addis Abeba Ethiopian Cup – Awassa Kenema : Premier League and Cup – AS Mangasport Moanda : Premier League – Wallidan Banjul Gambian Cup – Bakan United : Ghana Telecom Premier League – Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club Ghanaian Cup – Asante Kotoko : Premier League – Satellite FC Conakry Guinean Cup – AS Kaloum Stars Conakry : Premier League – Sporting Clube de Bissau : Premier League and Cup – ASEC Mimosas : Premier League – Ulinzi Stars Kenyan Cup – World Hope : Premier League – Likohpo Masem : Premier League and Cup – LPRC Oilers Monrovia : Premier League and Cup – Al Ittihad : Premier League and Cup – USCA Foot : Premier League – not playing : Premier League – Stade Malien Bamako Malian Cup – AS Bamako : Mauritanean Premier League – ASC Nasr de Sebkha Mauritanean Cup – ASC Entente : Premier League and Cup – AS Port-Louis 2000 : Premier League – FAR Rabat Moroccan Cup – Raja Casablanca : Moçambola – Ferroviário de Maputo Taça de Moçambique – Ferroviário de Beira : Premier League – Civics FC Windhoek Namibian Cup – Ramblers Windhoek : Premier League – unknown : Premier League and Cup – Enyimba FC Aba : Premier League – APR FC Kigat Rwandan Cup – Rayon Sports Butare : Premier League – not held : Premier League – ASC Port Autonome Dakar Senegal Cup – AS Donanes Dakar : Premier League – La Passe FC Seychelles Cup – Seychelles Marketing Board : Premier League – East End Lions Freetown : Premier League – not held : Premier Soccer League – Kaizer Chiefs Football Club : Premier League – Al Hilal Omdurman : Premier League – Green Mamba Big Bend Swazilandian Cup – Hub Sundowns : Premier League – Young Africans Dar es Salaam : Premier League – AS Douanes Lomé Togolese Cup – Dynamic Tongolais Lomé : Premier League – Sfaxien FC Tunisian Cup – ES Zarzis : Premier League – Police FC Jinja Uganda Cup – Uganda Revenus Authority SC Kampala : Premier League – Zanaco Lusaka : Premier League – CAPS United Harare
National club championships in Asia (AFC) : Premier League – Riffa Club Bahrain Cup – Al Muharraq Club : Premier League – Mohammeddan SC Dhaka : Premier League – Transport United : Chinese Super League – Dalian Shide : HKFA Coolpoint Ventilation First Division League and HKFA Cup – Xiangxue Sun Hei : NFL – Dempo Sports Club Durand Cup – Mahindra United : Premier League – Persipura Jayapura Indonesian Cup – Arema Malang : Iran's Premier Football League – Foolad Ahvaz Azadegan League – Shahid Ghandi Yazd Hazfi Cup – Saba Battery Tehran : Iraq Super League – Al Quwa Al Jawiya : J.League Division 1 – Gamba Osaka J.League Cup – JEF United Ichihara Chiba Emperor's Cup – Urawa Reds (played 1 January 2006) : Premier League – Al Wahdat Al Quwaysinah Jordanian Cup – Al Faysali Amman : Premier League and Cup – Dordoy Dinamo Naryn : Premier League – Al Qadisiya Kuwaitian Cup – Al Arabi : Premier League – Vientiane FC : Premier League – Al Nejmeh Lebanon Cup – Al Ansar : Premier League – Policia de Segurança Pública : Super League – Perlis FA Kangar Premier League and Cup – Selangor MPPJ Kelana Jaya : Premier League – Khoromkon Ulan Baatov : Premier League – Finance and Revenue Yangon : Premier League and Cup – Dhofar Salala : Premier League – Pakistan Army Rawalpindi : Premier League – Al Gharrafa Qatarian Cup – Al Sadd : Premier League – Al Hilal Riyad : S.League – Tampines Rovers FC Singapore Cup – Home United FC : Premier League – Saunders SC Sri Lanka Cup – Ratnam SC : Samsung Hauzen 2005 K-League – Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i Samsung 2005 Hauzen Cup – Suwon Samsung Bluewings Korean FA Cup – Chonbuk Hyundai Motors : Premier League and Cup – Al Ittihad Alep : Premier League – Tatung : Premier League – Thailand Tobacco Monopoly : Premier League – Al Wahda Abu Dhabi UAE Cup – Al Ayn Club : Premier League and Cup – Paktakor Tashkent : Premier League and Cup – Gach Dong Tam Long An : Premier League – Al Tilal Aden Yemenites Cup – Al Hilal Hudaydah
National club championships in Europe (UEFA) : Superliga and Supercup – SK Tiranë Albanian Cup – KS Teuta Durrës : Primera División – UE Sant Julià Copa Constitució and Supercopa – FC Santa Coloma : Armenian Premier League – Pyunik Armenian Cup – Mika : Bundesliga – Rapid Wien Austrian Cup – Austria Wien : AFFA Supreme League – Neftchi Baku Azerbaijan Cup – FK Baku : Belarusian Premier League – FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk Belarusian Cup – MTZ-RIPO Minsk : for fuller coverage, see: 2004–05 in Belgian football Jupiler League and Supercup – Club Brugge Belgian Cup – Germinal Beerschot : Premier League – NK Zrinjski Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup – FK Sarajevo : Bulgarian A Professional Football Group – CSKA Sofia Bulgarian Cup and Supercup – PFC Levski Sofia : Prva HNL and Croatian Supercup – Hajduk Split Croatian Cup – NK Rijeka : Cypriot First Division – Anorthosis Famagusta Cypriot Cup and Supercup – Omonia Nicosia : Gambrinus liga – Sparta Prague Czech Cup – Baník Ostrava : for fuller coverage, see: 2004–05 in Danish football Superliga and DONG Cup – Brøndby : for fuller coverage, see: 2004–05 in English football Premiership and League Cup – Chelsea FA Cup – Arsenal : Meistriliiga – FC TVMK Tallinn Esiliiga – JK Vaprus Pärnu, FC Levadia Tallinn, FC Ajax Lasnamäe Estonian Cup – FC Levadia Tallinn : 1. Deild – B36 Tórshavn Faroe Islands Cup – GÍ Gøta : Veikkausliiga – MyPa 47 Anjalankoski Finnish Cup – FC Haka Valkeakoski Finnish League Cup – AC Allianssii Vantaa : Ligue 1 – Lyon French Cup – Auxerre French League Cup – Strasbourg : Georgian Premier League – FC Dinamo Tbilisi Georgian Cup – FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi : Bundesliga and German Cup – Bayern Munich : Greek National Division and Greek Cup – Olympiacos : Arany Ászok Liga – Debreceni VSC Hungarian Cup – Mátav FC Sopron : Icelandic Premier League – FH Icelandic Cup – Valur Icelandic League Cup – KR : League of Ireland and Munster Senior Cup – Cork City FAI Cup – Drogheda United League of Ireland Cup – Derry City : Israeli Football Leagues Israeli Premier League – Maccabi Haifa Liga Leumit – Hapoel Kfar Saba Liga Artzit – Hapoel Ashkelon Toto Cup – Hapoel Petah Tikva (Al), Maccabi Netanya (Leumit) and Hapoel Ashkelon (Artzit) Israel State Cup – Maccabi Tel Aviv : Serie A – Juventus (stripped of title on July 14, 2006) see also 2004–05 Serie A and 2006 Serie A scandal Italian Cup – Inter Milan Italian Super Cup – AC Milan : Kazakhstan Super League – FC Aktobe-Lento Kazakhstan Cup – FC Zhenis Astana : Virsliga – FK Liepājas Metalurgs Latvian Cup – FK Ventspils : Liechtenstein Football Cup – FC Vaduz : Lithuanian Premier League – FK Ekranas Lithuanian Cup – FBK Kaunas : Premier League – F91 Dudelange Cup – CS Pétange : Macedonian First League – FK Rabotnički Kometal Skopje Macedonian Cup – FK Bashkimi Kumanovo : Maltese Football League and Supercup – Sliema Wanderers