The 2005 San Jose Earthquakes season was the tenth season of the team's existence and last before their move to Houston to become the Houston Dynamo. The season also marked the franchise's first Supporters' Shield.
| 2005 season | |||
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| Owner | AEG | ||
| Coach | Dominic Kinnear | ||
| Stadium | Spartan Stadium | ||
| Major League Soccer | Conference: 1st Overall: 1st | ||
| MLS Cup | Conference Semifinals | ||
| U.S. Open Cup | Quarterfinals | ||
| California Clásico | 1st | ||
| Top goalscorer | Dwayne De Rosario (9) | ||
| Average home league attendance | 15,431[1] | ||
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About edit
2004 was a disappointment after a strong finish to the 2003 season ending with a championship. Second year head coach Dominic Kinnear and assistant coach John Doyle hoped to return the Quakes back to the winning tradition in 2005. It was marked as the first year of the new generation for the Quakes after losing 9 key players in the off season from 2004-2005, and with the new roster expansion bringing in 18 players for the new season. The Earthquakes set a league record with an 18-4-10 record with 64 points on the year. They became the first MLS team to go undefeated at home during the regular season.
Change over from the 2004 team, key players lost in the off season, Ramiro Corrales and Landon Donovan left the squad in the off season to play abroad. Donovan would pull a swerve and return to MLS a short time later with rival Los Angeles Galaxy. A trade was set up to be in place with the Galaxy to obtain Carlos Ruiz but a deal was never reached. Ronnie Ekelund failed to resign, after both sides couldn't come to terms. Jamil Walker was picked up in the expansion draft by Chivas USA. Arturo Alvarez was traded to Dallas Burn for Brad Davis. Captain Jeff Agoos was traded to the Metrostars for Ricardo Clark and a draft pick. Chris Roner was lost due to injury and never returned, his rights were retained. Chris Brown was lost to Real Salt Lake in the expansion draft. Leighton o'brien player rights were traded to Real Salt Lake. Steve Cronin and Todd Dunivant were traded to the Galaxy for Aloisi and Claiff.
The first move Kinnear and Doyle made were bringing back veterans Wade Barrett and all time leader goal-scorer Ronald Cerritos were brought back into the team to add veteran leadership. They drafted key players Danny O'Rourke, Kevin Goldthwaite, future MLS Scoring Champion Chris Wondolowski, Robbie Fulton, Orlando Ramirez, Aaron Lanes, James Twellman and Brett Rodriguez. Wondolowski was the reserve league scoring champion during that season. Brad Davis, Ricardo Clark, Chris Aloisi, Kelly Gray, Mark Chung, Julian Nash, Alejandro Moreno, and Danny Califf were obtained through trades.
May 18, 2005 the Quakes would lose veteran and leader Troy Dayak to an injury that would force Dayak to announce his retirement at the end of the regular season. It made way for Danny Califf to step in and become one of the center back pairings in MLS history with Eddie Robinson. Veteran right back Craig Waibel was also lost to an injury in early June who was playing some of the best soccer of his career to a torn MCL and ACL. A trade was made with the Chicago Fire to bring in San Jose native Kelly Gray to challenge Chris Aloisi for the starting job. He eventually won and took it. Mark Chung was acquired when a rash of injures of happened when Ian Russell, Brad Davis, Brian Mullan spent time on the injury list in June and July.
Robinson, Califf both found January National Team call ups after a successful season, along with Brad Davis, Brian Mullan, Brian Ching, Wade Barrett, Kelly Gray and Ricardo Clark. Doyle lead the Reserve Team to a Championship its first year.
Chung announced his retirement from the Earthquake after coming to the mid-season via trade with the Colorado Rapids and contributing heavily to the ultimate success with the team. He opted out of moving along with the team to Houston Dyanmo after the 2005 season.
Ian Russell, Mark Chung, Jon Conway, Troy Dayak didn't move with the team to Houston. Russell was traded to Los Angeles, Conway to New York, Chung and Dayak retired. Danny Califf opted to try his luck in Europe.
Squad edit
Current squad edit
As of August 18, 2009.[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club edit
Management edit
| Position | Staff |
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| General Manager |  Kate McAllister
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| Head Coach | Dominic Kinnear
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| Assistant Coach | John Doyle
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| Goalkeeper Coach |  Tim Hanely
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| Head trainer | Bruce Morgan
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| Equipment manager |  Jose Vega
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Last updated: April 18, 2009
Source: San Jose Earthquakes
Other information edit
| Owner | AEG
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| Ground (capacity and dimensions) | Spartan Stadium (26,525 / 71x110 yards) |
Source: San Jose Earthquakes
Competitions edit
Major League Soccer edit
Matches edit
| April 2, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 2–2 | New England Revolution | San Jose, California |
Ching  13'Cerritos 21' |
Report | Noonan 52' Twellman 73' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 8,730 |
| April 9, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 3–3 | Chivas USA | San Jose, California |
| Davis 45' Dayak 75'Ching 79' |
Report | Martins 3' Cuadros 73'Sequeira 90' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 11,519 |
| April 16, 2005 | Chicago Fire | 2–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | Chicago |
| own goal 58' Thiago 91' |
Report | Moreno 82' |
Stadium: Soldier Field Attendance: 12,907 |
| April 23, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 3–2 | Kansas City Wizards | San Jose, California |
| Cerritos 14' Ching 40'De Rosario 57' |
Report | Sealy 5' Klein 34' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 8,028 |
| April 30, 2005 | Real Salt Lake | 2–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Kreis 21' Kreis 34' |
Report | Ching 11' Moreno 82' |
Stadium: Rice-Eccles Stadium Attendance: 16,254 |
| May 7, 2005 | MetroStars | 0–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | East Rutherford, New Jersey |
| Report | Cerritos 60' |
Stadium: Giants Stadium Attendance: 8,274 |
| May 14, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 0–0 | FC Dallas | San Jose, California |
| Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 11,067 |
| May 21, 2005 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 2–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | Carson, California |
| Kirovski 39' Vagenas 77' |
Report | Cerritos 69' |
Stadium: Home Depot Center Attendance: 22,207 |
| May 25, 2005 | Colorado Rapids | 0–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | Denver |
| Report | Moreno 76' |
Stadium: Invesco Field Attendance: 6,579 |
| May 28, 2005 | Kansas City Wizards | 1–0 | San Jose Earthquakes | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Jewsbury 59' |
Report | Stadium: Arrowhead Stadium Attendance: 8,526 |
| June 4, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 0–0 | D.C. United | San Jose, California |
| Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 11,989 |
| June 12, 2005 | Chivas USA | 1–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | Carson, California |
| Hendrickson 66' |
Report | Moreno 45' |
Stadium: Home Depot Center Attendance: 8,654 |
| June 18, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 3–0 | Real Salt Lake | San Jose, California |
| Chung 2' Gray 13'Barrett 35' |
Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 9,630 |
| June 25, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 3–0 | Los Angeles Galaxy | San Jose, California |
| Moreno 37' own goal 65'own goal 68' |
Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 15,917 |
| June 29, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 1–0 | Colorado Rapids | San Jose, California |
| De Rosario 88' |
Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 9,811 |
| July 2, 2005 | FC Dallas | 2–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Dallas, Texas |
| Alvarez 4' Gbandi 57' |
Report | Mullan 6' Clark 59' |
Stadium: Cotton Bowl Attendance: 8,719 |
| July 9, 2005 | Columbus Crew | 1–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Columbus, Ohio |
| Marshall 18' |
Report | Robinson 30' Cerritos 63' |
Stadium: Columbus Crew Stadium Attendance: 12,539 |
| July 15, 2005 | D.C. United | 3–0 | San Jose Earthquakes | Washington, D.C. |
| Gómez 25' Moreno 50'Gómez 70' |
Report | Stadium: RFK Stadium Attendance: 13,978 |
| July 20, 2005 | Colorado Rapids | 1–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Denver |
| Harris 81' |
Report | Mullan 20' Chung 73' |
Stadium: Invesco Field Attendance: 6,974 |
| July 23, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 2–1 | MetroStars | San Jose, California |
| Chung 33' De Rosario 53' |
Report | own goal 32' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 10,302 |
| August 6, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 2–1 | Columbus Crew | San Jose, California |
| De Rosario 13' Davis 54' |
Report | Henderson 78' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 9,465 |
| August 13, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 1–1 | Colorado Rapids | San Jose, California |
| Clark 48' |
Report | Peguero 57' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 9,103 |
| August 20, 2005 | Real Salt Lake | 0–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Report | Chung 41' |
Stadium: Rice-Eccles Stadium Attendance: 15,127 |
| August 27, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 2–1 | Los Angeles Galaxy | San Jose, California |
| Moreno 23' Califf 75' |
Report | Donovan 37' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 24,112 |
| September 3, 2005 | FC Dallas | 0–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Dallas, Texas |
| Report | Cerritos 50' Moreno 53' |
Stadium: Cotton Bowl Attendance: 8,023 |
| September 10, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 3–0 | Chivas USA | San Jose, California |
| Chung 47' Clark 74' Ching 87' |
Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 22,311 |
| September 17, 2005 | Chivas USA | 1–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Carson, California |
| Ramírez 52' |
Report | Califf 82' Moreno 93' |
Stadium: Home Depot Center Attendance: 10,342 |
| September 21, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 2–0 | Chicago Fire | San Jose, California |
| De Rosario 14' De Rosario 50' |
Report | Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 9,789 |
| September 24, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 1–1 | FC Dallas | San Jose, California |
| Ching 68' |
Report | Núñez 58' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 17,414 |
| October 1, 2005 | New England Revolution | 0–2 | San Jose Earthquakes | Foxborough, Massachusetts |
| Report | Ching 60' De Rosario 80' |
Stadium: Gillette Stadium Attendance: 14,316 |
| October 8, 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 2–2 | Real Salt Lake | San Jose, California |
| De Rosario 38' Nash 44' |
Report | Novak 64' Williams 73' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 19,407 |
| October 15, 2005 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 1–3 | San Jose Earthquakes | Carson, California |
| Donovan 68' |
Report | Chung 42' De Rosario 45'Mullan 77' |
Stadium: Home Depot Center Attendance: 27,000 |
MLS Cup Playoffs edit
| October 23, 2005 Conference Semifinal | Los Angeles Galaxy | 3–1 | San Jose Earthquakes | Carson, California |
| Gómez 13' Donovan 39'Donovan 87' |
Report | Clark 68' |
Stadium: Home Depot Center Attendance: 17,466 |
| October 29, 2005 Conference Semifinal | San Jose Earthquakes | 1–1 (2–4 agg.) | Los Angeles Galaxy | San Jose, California |
| Ching 42' |
Report | Grabavoy 1' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 17,824 |
U.S. Open Cup edit
| August 3, 2005 Fourth round | Portland Timbers  | 0–2 |  San Jose Earthquakes | Portland, Oregon |
| Report | Barrett 27' Mullan 83' |
Stadium: PGE Park Attendance: 6,607 |
| August 24, 2005 Quarterfinal | San Jose Earthquakes | 1–2 | LA Galaxy | San Jose, California |
| Cerritos 76' |
Report | Gómez 5' Gómez 31' |
Stadium: Spartan Stadium Attendance: 5,134 |
Source:[3]
Standings edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | San Jose Earthquakes | 32 | 18 | 4 | 10 | 53 | 31 | +22 | 64 | MLS Cup Playoffs |
| 2 | FC Dallas | 32 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 52 | 44 | +8 | 48 | |
| 3 | Colorado Rapids | 32 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 40 | 37 | +3 | 45 | |
| 4 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 32 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 45 | |
| 5 | Real Salt Lake | 32 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 30 | 65 | −35 | 20 | |
| 6 | Chivas USA | 32 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 31 | 67 | −36 | 18 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | San Jose Earthquakes (S) | 32 | 18 | 4 | 10 | 53 | 31 | +22 | 64 | |
| 2 | New England Revolution | 32 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 55 | 37 | +18 | 59 | CONCACAF Champions' Cup |
| 3 | D.C. United | 32 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 58 | 37 | +21 | 54 | |
| 4 | Chicago Fire | 32 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 49 | 50 | −1 | 49 | |
| 5 | Dallas Burn | 32 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 52 | 44 | +8 | 48 | |
| 6 | MetroStars | 32 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 53 | 49 | +4 | 47 | |
| 7 | Colorado Rapids | 32 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 40 | 37 | +3 | 45 | |
| 8 | Los Angeles Galaxy (C) | 32 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 45 | CONCACAF Champions' Cup |
| 9 | Kansas City Wizards | 32 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 52 | 44 | +8 | 45 | |
| 10 | Columbus Crew | 32 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 34 | 45 | −11 | 38 | |
| 11 | Real Salt Lake | 32 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 30 | 65 | −35 | 20 | |
| 12 | Chivas USA | 32 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 31 | 67 | −36 | 18 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head record; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (S) Supporters' Shield
References edit
- ^ "Major League Soccer Stats: Team Attendance - 2008". ESPN. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ http://web.mlsnet.com/players/index.jsp?club=t110[permanent dead link]
- ^ "San Jose Earthquakes Game Results". Retrieved April 8, 2014.