September 2005 in Sports - 29 September 2005

29 September 2005

• Major League Baseball playoff races
  • American League
    • Chicago White Sox 4, Detroit Tigers 2
      • White Sox clinch the AL Central title, their first since 2000.
    • New York Yankees 8, Baltimore Orioles 4
    • Boston Red Sox 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4
      • Yankees lead in AL East remains one game with a magic number of 4.
    • Cleveland Indians 6, Tampa Bay Devil Rays 0
      • Indians, Red Sox still tied for AL Wild Card lead.
      • Clinched: Los Angeles Angels (AL West)
  • National League Wild Card
    • Philadelphia Phillies: idle
    • Chicago Cubs 3, Houston Astros 2
      • The Astros' magic number to clinch the NL wild card remains at 2.
      • Clinched: Atlanta Braves (NL East); St. Louis Cardinals (NL Central); San Diego Padres (NL West).
  • World Baseball Classic: Major League Baseball announces San Diego's PETCO Park will host the event's semifinals and championship game next March.
• Football (soccer): UEFA Cup 2005-06, first round, second leg. Teams progressing to the group stage shown in bold:
  • Xanthi 0 – 0 Middlesbrough
  • Metalurh Donetsk 2 – 2 PAOK (PAOK win on away goals)
  • KRC Genk 0 – 1 Litex Lovech
  • Mainz 0 – 2 Sevilla
  • Marseille 0 – 0 Germinal Beerschot (After extra time; Marseille win 4–1 on penalties)
  • Austria Vienna 2 – 1 Viking Stavanger (Viking win on away goals)
  • Wisła Kraków 0 – 1 Vitória Guimarães
  • Široki Brijeg 0 – 1 FC Basel
  • Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1 – 2 Bolton Wanderers
  • Strasbourg 5 – 0 Grazer AK
  • Partizan Belgrade 2 – 5 Maccabi Petach Tikva
  • Lokomotiv Moscow 3 – 2 Brann
  • Everton 1 – 0 Dinamo Bucharest
  • Heerenveen 5 – 0 Baník Ostrava
  • CSKA Sofia 1 – 0 Bayer Leverkusen
  • FC Zürich 2 – 1 Brøndby
  • Hertha BSC Berlin 3 – 1 APOEL
  • Rapid Bucureşti 1 – 0 Feyenoord
  • Levski Sofia 1 – 0 Auxerre (Levski win on away goals)
  • Debrecen 0 – 2 Shakhtar Donetsk
  • AZ Alkmaar 3 – 1 Krylya Sovetov Samara (AZ win on away goals)
  • MyPa 0 – 3 Grasshopper
  • Anorthosis 0 – 4 Palermo
  • Aris 0 – 0 Roma
  • FC Midtjylland 1 – 3 CSKA Moscow
  • Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 5 – 1 Hibernian
  • Espanyol 2 – 0 Teplice
  • FC København 0 – 1 Hamburg
  • AEK 0 – 1 Zenit St. Petersburg
  • Dyskobolia Grodzisk 2 – 4 Lens
  • Domžale 1 – 0 VfB Stuttgart
  • Sporting Lisbon 2 – 3 Halmstads BK (After extra time; Halmstads win on away goals)
  • Braga 1 – 1 Red Star Belgrade (Red Star win on away goals)
  • Sampdoria 1 – 0 Vitória Setúbal
  • Malmö 1 – 4 Beşiktaş
  • Osasuna 0 – 0 Rennes
  • Willem II 1 – 3 AS Monaco
  • Steaua Bucharest 3 – 1 Vålerenga
  • Cork City 1 – 2 Slavia Prague
  • Galatasaray 1 – 1 Tromsø
• See also UEFA Cup 2005-06.