Original Puma football tank top S.S. Lazio 2004/05

The precarious economic situation in which the company found itself led to an impoverishment of the staff, starting with the dismantling of the backlog: Stam was sold to Milan, with Mihajlović and Favalli transferred to Inter. Coach Roberto Mancini in turn settled on the Nerazzurri bench, while Fiore and Corradi moved to Valencia. The acquisition of the club by the Roman entrepreneur Claudio Lotito contributed to averting the risk of bankruptcy, and was granted a twenty-year installment payment for the payment of the debt.

Back in the biancoceleste after a first experience from 1987 to 1990, Di Canio contributed to the salvation in the league.
Chosen Caso as a coach, the Capital welcomed Di Canio back after 14 years: among the new faces in pink stood out Sevilla, Dabo, the twins Filippini and Rocchi. Defeat by Milan in the Italian Super Cup for a hat-trick by Ševčenko - who, during the year, scored another 3 goals for the biancocelesti - the team entered the main draw of the UEFA Cup by eliminating the Ukrainian Metalurh Donetsk: after a draw with Villarreal debut in the group stage, the knock-out remedied in Middlesbrough compromised the qualification.

The Romans then impacted with Partizan and Egaleo, abandoning the event in the first round. An initial glimpse of the championship lived in the slums led to the exemption of Caso, with 17 points obtained in 16 days: the technical guide was replaced by Papadopulo, victorious in the derby on 6 January 2005 in his debut. Appearing able to escape relegation at the halfway point, Lazio surrendered to Cagliari in the first knockout round of the Italian Cup.

A series of uncertainties in the final round plunged the Capitoline back into unsafe scenarios, involving among other things a connection in the standings by Lecce after the daring 5-3 suffered in Salento. Once the return derby against an equally troubled Roma was filed without goals, the team then drew with Fiorentina: the result is linked to the episode of a handball committed by Zauri in an attempt to foil a possible goal with the director of race that did not however recognize the incorrectness.

Arithmetically saved on the last day, the team - reached the thirteenth place with 44 points - even knew the qualification for the Intertoto for the renunciation expressed by Messina and the application presented by Livorno outside the deadline.