September 2005 in Sports - 15 September 2005

15 September 2005

• Football (soccer): UEFA Cup – First round – first leg (UEFA.com)
  • Middlesbrough 2 – 0 Xanthi
  • PAOK 1 – 1 Metalurh Donetsk
  • Litex Lovech 2 – 2 KRC Genk
  • Sevilla 0 – 0 Mainz
  • Germinal Beerschot 0– 0 Marseille
  • Viking FK 1 – 0 Austria Vienna
  • Vitória Guimarães 3 – 0 Wisła Kraków
  • FC Basel 5 – 0 Široki Brijeg
  • Bolton Wanderers 2 – 1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
  • Grazer AK 0 – 2 Strasbourg
  • Maccabi Petach Tikva 0 – 2 Partizan Belgrade
  • Brann 1 – 2 Lokomotiv Moscow
  • Dinamo Bucureşti 5 – 1 Everton
  • Baník Ostrava 2 – 0 Heerenveen
  • Bayer Leverkusen 0 – 1 CSKA Sofia
  • Brøndby 2 – 0 FC Zürich
  • APOEL 0 – 1 Hertha BSC Berlin
  • Feyenoord 1 – 1 Rapid Bucureşti
  • Auxerre 2 – 1 Levski Sofia
  • Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – 1 Debrecen
  • Krylya Sovetov Samara 5 – 3 AZ Alkmaar
  • Grasshopper 1 – 1 MyPa
  • Palermo 2 – 1 Anorthosis
  • Roma 5 – 1 Aris
  • CSKA Moskva 3 – 1 Midtjylland
  • Hibernian 0 – 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
  • Teplice 1 – 1 Espanyol
  • Hamburg 1 – 1 FC København
  • Zenit St. Petersburg 0 – 0 AEK
  • Lens 1 – 1 Dyskobolia Grodzisk
  • VfB Stuttgart 2 – 0 Domžale
  • Halmstads BK 1 – 2 Sporting Lisbon
  • Red Star Belgrade 0 – 0 Braga
  • Vitória Setúbal 1 – 1 Sampdoria
  • Beşiktaş 0 – 1 Malmö
  • Rennes 3 – 1 Osasuna
  • AS Monaco 2 – 0 Willem II
  • Vålerenga 0 – 3 Steaua Bucharest
  • Slavia Praha 2 – 0 Cork City
  • Tromsø 1 – 0 Galatasaray
• Cycling:
  • After hinting that he may come out of retirement, seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong announces that he will remain retired, indicating that he is now preoccupied with addressing recent allegations that he used EPO during his first Tour win in 1999. (AP/Yahoo!)
• Rugby Union: Frank Hadden is appointed as the new coach of the Scotland national team.
• NFL: Nine players, five from the Atlanta Falcons and four from the Philadelphia Eagles, are fined amounts between US $2,500 and $5,000 for their roles in a fight before the team's Monday night game on September 12. The Falcons' Chad Lavalais is fined US $7,500 for a helmet-first hit on Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who suffered a bruised sternum on the play. (NFL.com)