During the
2005–06 season,
Blackburn Rovers F.C. competed in the
FA Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...
.
Season summary
After relegation struggles during the two previous season, Mark Hughes marked his first full season in club management by taking Blackburn to sixth place - four points off
Champions League qualification - and reaching his second successive cup semi-final, in the League Cup, only to be knocked out by the eventual cup winners again, Hughes' old club
Manchester United
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...
. Blackburn had been in mid-table for much of the season before gathering momentum to put real pressure on
Arsenal
An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are mostly ...
and
Tottenham Hotspur in the race for the crucial fourth place, eventually finishing in a
UEFA Cup place. Rovers' good form was largely in part down to the good form of Welsh striker
Craig Bellamy, a summer signing from
Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...
, who scored 13 goals in the league. However, Bellamy would then exercise an option to enable him to move for £6 million to a
Champions League club, signing for
FA Cup winners
Liverpool. As his replacement Hughes signed South African striker
Benni McCarthy, who had helped fire
Porto to the Champions League title
two years earlier.
Final league table
Results
''Blackburn Rovers' score comes first''
Legend
FA Premier League
Results by matchday
FA Cup
League Cup
First-team squad
:''Squad at end of season''
Left club during season
Reserve squad
Statistics
Appearances and goals
, -
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center, Goalkeepers
, -
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center, Defenders
, -
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center, Midfielders
, -
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center, Forwards
, -
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center, Players transferred out during the season
Notes
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2005-06 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season
Blackburn Rovers F.C. seasons
Blackburn Rovers F.C.