2014 FC Goa season

FC Goa

2014 season
President	Dattaraj Salgaocar[1]
Head Coach	Zico
Stadium	Fatorda Stadium
ISL	2nd
Finals	Semi-finalist
Top goalscorer	League: Miroslav Slepička (5) All: Miroslav Slepička (5)
Highest home attendance	19,752 vs. Kerala Blasters (26 November 2014)
Lowest home attendance	16,652 vs. Chennaiyin FC (15 October 2014)
Average home league attendance	18,066
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The 2014 Season is FC Goa's 1st season in existence in the Indian Super League.

Background

In early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, the national federation for football in India, and IMG-Reliance would be accepting bids for ownership of eight of nine selected cities for the upcoming Indian Super League, an eight-team franchise league modeled along the lines of the Indian Premier League and Major League Soccer in the United States.^[2] On 13 April 2014, it was announced that Venugopal Dhoot had won the bidding for the Goa franchise along with Dattaraj Salgaocar and Shrinivas Dempo. On 23 September 2014 Virat Kohli Indian Cricketer was unveiled as one of the co-owners.^[3] The brand ambassador of the club is Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan. FC Goa is the first Indian sports club to launch a satellite TV Channel - FC Goa TV on Videocon D2H. On 20 September 2014 FC Goa officially confirmed Arsenal legend Robert Pires as their marquee player.

Season summary

FC Goa lost four out of their first six matches but came back strongly in the second half of the tournament with five victories from their last eight encounters keeping five clean sheets in their 14 matches. Overall, Zico has done a remarkable job with six wins, four defeats and three draws, which took them to the second spot of the standings with 22 points.

Match 1 lost to Chennayin FC 2-1 at home Balwant Singh (32') and Elano Blumer (42') gave the southerners a two-goal cushion in the first half, while Gregory Arnolin (65') managed to pull one back for the Goan franchise.

Match 2 drew to NorthEast United FC away Gregory Arnolin scored his second goal in as many matches to put FC Goa in an advantageous position only for the referee to award a controversial penalty which saw Koke convert from the spot to equalize in the first half for NorthEast United.

Match 3 lost to A de Kolkata 2-1 at home Andre Santos had put FC Goa ahead in the first half before Cavin Lobo struck twice in the second session for the Kolkata outfit.

Match 4 lost to Pune City FC 2-0 away A goal each from Kostas Katsouranis and David Trezeguet aided FC Pune City in their 2-0 victory over FC Goa.

Match 5 defeated Delhi Dynamos 2-1 away Tolgay Ozbey and Jewel Raja came to FC Goa’s rescue as they scored twice in the second half to help their side down Delhi Dynamos 2-1 after trailing by a Mads Junker goal for most of the game.

Match 6 lost to Kerala Blasters 1-0 away Milagres Gonsalves and Andrew Barisic combined brilliantly to give Kerala a win in their maiden home game with the former scoring the all-important goal in the 63rd minute.

Match 7 drew goalless to Mumbai at home Both sides created chances but failed to get off the mark as Mumbai moved up the table to fourth with the point.

Match 8 defeated Delhi Dynamos 4-1 away A brace by Youness Bengelloun, a Robert Pires spot-kick and a top strike by Tolgay Ozbey were enough to seal their first three points on the road. Gustavo Marmentini did pull one back for the home side after a penalty was awarded in the 73rd minute.

Match 9 drew goalless to Mumbai away Yet another goalless draw between the teams, this time in Mumbai. May be we might get a result between the two in the second edition of the tournament.

Match 10 defeated Pune City FC 2-0 home. FC Goa took the lead early in the fifth minute through Romeo Fernandes and sealed the victory in injury time courtesy substitute Miroslav Slepicka.

Match 11 beat Kerala Blasters 3-0 at home Zico’s side avenged their away defeat as they trounced their opponents with a brace by Miroslav Slepicka while Andre Santos added the icing on the cake. All goals came in the second period.

Match 12 beat NorthEast United 3-0 at home Romeo Fernandes and Miroslav Slepicka put ahead FC Goa ahead in the first half while Andre Santos sealed three points after change of ends.

Match 13 defeated Channaiyin FC 3-1 away The hosts were handed their first defeat of the campaign of home soil by in-form FC Goa who scored again through ‘The Three Musketeers’ Romeo Fernandes, Andre Santos and Miroslav Slepicka. Jean-Eudes Maurice did pull one back for Chennaiyin Fc in stoppage time.

Match 14 drew 1-1 to A de Kolkata away The Kolkata giants could have been knocked out of the tournament if Edgar Marcelino’s wonder strike in the 27th minute would have remained. But, Atletico de Kolkata relied on little help from match referee B Toledo as Fikru equalized through the controversial penalty at the cost of Bruno Pinheiro’s sending off.

Signings

Foreign signings

#	Position:	Player	Last club	Date	Source
7	MF	Robert Pirès	Retirement	2 September 2014	[4]
18	DF	Zohib Islam Amiri	loan from Dempo	26 September 2014
25	FW	Ranti Martins	loan from East Bengal
26	FW	Tolgay Özbey	loan from Dempo	26 September 2014
27	DF	André Santos	Flamengo	29 September 2014	[5]

Drafted domestic players

Round	Position	Player	I-League club
1	GK	Laxmikant Kattimani	Dempo
2	DF	Debabrata Roy	Dempo
3	MF	Gabriel Fernandes	Dempo
4	MF	Clifford Miranda	Dempo
5	MF	Jewel Raja	Dempo
6	MF	Alwyn George	Dempo
7	DF	Narayan Das	Dempo
8	MF	Mandar Rao Desai	Dempo
9	MF	Romeo Fernandes	Dempo
10	MF	Peter Carvalho	Dempo
11	FW	Holicharan Narzary	Dempo
12	MF	Pronay Halder	Dempo
13	DF	Prabir Das	Dempo
14	DF	Rowilson Rodrigues	Dempo

Drafted foreign players

Round	Position	Player	Last Club
1	FW	Miroslav Slepička	1. FK Příbram
2	GK	Jan Šeda	Mladá Boleslav
3	DF	Bruno Pinheiro	Niki Volos
4	DF	Youness Bengelloun	Mulhouse
5	FW	Miguel Herlein	Vilaverdense
6	DF	Grégory Arnolin	Paços de Ferreira
7	MF	Edgar Marcelino	Al-Seeb

Players and staff

Squad

As of 15 October 2014.^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Jan Šeda 2 DF Debabrata Roy 3 DF Narayan Das 4 DF Rowilson Rodrigues 5 DF Youness Bengelloun 6 MF Peter Carvalho 7 MF Robert Pirès (Marquee player) 8 MF Alwyn George 9 FW Miguel Herlein 10 MF Edgar Marcelino 11 FW Holicharan Narzary 12 MF Bikramjit Singh 13 GK Gurpreet Chabal 14 MF Gabriel Fernandes

No. Position Player 15 DF Grégory Arnolin 16 DF Bruno Pinheiro 17 MF Mandar Rao Desai 18 DF Zohib Islam Amiri 19 MF Romeo Fernandes 20 FW Miroslav Slepička 21 GK Laxmikant Kattimani 22 DF Prabir Das 23 MF Jewel Raja 24 MF Clifford Miranda 25 FW Ranti Martins 26 FW Tolgay Ozbey 27 DF André Santos

Coaching staff

Zico manager of FC Goa

Position	Name
Head coach	Zico
Assistant coach	Arthur Papas
Conditioning coach	Hussein Skenderovic
Head of Youth Development	Mariano Dias
Physiotherapist	R Venkatesh
Assistant Physiotherapist	Russell Pinto
Kit Manager	Rajesh Malgi

Indian Super League

Regular Season

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Chennaiyin	14	6	5	3	24	20	+4	23	2014 Indian Super League Semi-final
2	Goa	14	6	4	4	21	12	+9	22
3	Atlético de Kolkata	14	4	7	3	16	13	+3	19
4	Kerala Blasters	14	5	4	5	9	11	−2	19
5	Delhi Dynamos	14	4	6	4	16	14	+2	18
6	Pune City	14	4	4	6	12	17	−5	16
7	Mumbai City	14	4	4	6	12	21	−9	16
8	NorthEast United	14	3	6	5	11	13	−2	15

Updated to games played on 10 December 2014.
Source: Indian Super League standings
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
14	6	4	4	21	12	+9	22	4	1	2	12	5	+7	2	3	2	9	7	+2

Last updated: 17 September 2015.
Source: Matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	H	A	A
Result	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	D

Last updated: 17 September 2015.
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Goa v Chennaiyin

15 October 2014 1	Goa	1 – 2	Chennaiyin	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	N.Das  45' Grégory  65'	Report	Das  17' B.Singh  32' Elano  38' 42' Devadas  51'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Chris Penso

NorthEast United v Goa

19 October 2014 2	NorthEast United	1 – 1	Goa	Guwahati
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Chansa  16' Koke  36' (pen.) Do  82'	Report	Grégory  17'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Referee: David Gantar

Goa v Atlético de Kolkata

23 October 2014 3	Goa	1 – 2	Atlético de Kolkata	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Santos  21' 52' G.Fernandes  47' Martins  69'	Report	Borja  12' Teferra  33' Lobo  52' 72', 84' Saha  76'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Chris Penso

Pune City v Goa

26 October 2014 4	Pune City	2 – 0	Goa	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Katsouranis  14' 42' Bolado  54' Trezeguet  81'	Report		Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Pratap Singh

Goa v Delhi Dynamos

1 November 2014 5	Goa	2 – 1	Delhi Dynamos	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Grégory  14' Roy  67' Raja  73' Amiri  90+1' Özbey  90+3'	Report	Junker  7' Houben  20' Khan  60' Marmentini  90+6'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: David Gantar

Kerala Blasters v Goa

6 November 2014 6	Kerala Blasters	1 – 0	Goa	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Jhingan  52' Gonsalves  64' Orji  88'	Report		Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Jarred Gillett

Goa v Mumbai City

9 November 2014 7	Goa	0 – 0	Mumbai City	Goa
16:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	N.Das  24' Bengelloun  45+5' Singh  66'	Report	Costa  27' Štohanzl  74'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Jarred Gillett

Delhi Dynamos v Goa

13 November 2014 8	Delhi Dynamos	1 – 4	Goa	Delhi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Raymaekers  45+2' Van Hout  52' Marmentini  73' (pen.)	Report	Bengelloun  18', 48' Singh  45' Pirès  53' (pen.) Özbey  60'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Arumughan Rowan

Mumbai City v Goa

17 November 2014 9	Mumbai City	0 – 0	Goa	Mumbai
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Čmovš  73'	Report	Desai  28' Grégory  71'	Stadium: DY Patil Stadium Referee: Muringothumalil Bhaskaran Santosh Kumar

Goa v Pune City

22 November 2014 14	Goa	2 – 0	Pune City	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	R.Fernandes  6' Desai  30' Santos  69' Amiri  81' Slepička  90+4' Miranda  90+5'	Report	Ravanan  50' Rodrigues  54' Wadoo  90+1'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Hettikankanamge Chrishantha Dilan Perera

Goa v Kerala Blasters

26 November 2014 11	Goa	3 – 0	Kerala Blasters	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Santos  31' 69' Singh  48' Slepička  63', 79' Miranda  88'	Report	Franco  12' Romey  28' Hume  62'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Ranjit Bakshi

Goa v NorthEast United

1 December 2014 12	Goa	3 – 0	NorthEast United	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	R.Fernandes  34' Slepička  45+1' 45+1' Santos  74' Das  79' Roy  90+6'	Report	Sambou  36'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Muringothumalil Bhaskaran Santosh Kumar

Chennaiyin v Goa

5 December 2014 13	Chennaiyin	1 – 3	Goa	Chennai
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Mendy  14' Cristian  14' Maurice  90+3'	Report	Amiri  18' R.Fernandes  23' Singh  25' Santos  41' Slepička  62'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Baldomero Toledo

Atlético de Kolkata v Goa

10 December 2014 10	Atlético de Kolkata	1 – 1	Goa	Kolkata
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Sahni  72' Teferra  68' (pen.)	Report	Marcelino  27' Pinheiro  66'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Referee: Baldomero Toledo

Indian Super League finals

Atlético de Kolkata v Goa

14 December 2014 Semifinal 1st leg	Atlético de Kolkata	0 – 0	Goa	Kolkata
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)		Report	Slepička  28'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 53,173 Referee: Santosh Kumar

Goa v Atlético de Kolkata

17 December 2014 Semifinal 2nd leg	Goa	0 – 0 (aet) (0 – 0 agg.) (2 – 4 p)	Atlético de Kolkata	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Desai  64'	Report	Jofre  74' Borja  85'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 19,012 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov
		Penalties
	Santos Özbey Amiri Miranda		Josemi Rafi Jofre Borja

Squad Statistics

As of Match played 10 December 2014

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League		Indian Super League finals
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Jan Šeda	14	0	12	0	2	0
2	DF		Debabrata Roy	15	0	13	0	2	0
3	DF		Narayan Das	14	0	13	0	1	0
4	DF		Rowilson Rodrigues	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
5	DF		Youness Bengelloun	13	2	10+2	2	1	0
6	MF		Peter Carvalho	8	0	6	0	1+1	0
7	MF		Robert Pirès	8	1	8	1	0	0
8	MF		Alwyn George	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
9	FW		Miguel Herlein	5	0	3+2	0	0	0
10	MF		Edgar Marcelino	3	1	2+1	1	0	0
11	FW		Holicharan Narzary	3	0	1+2	0	0	0
12	MF		Bikramjit Singh	9	0	7	0	2	0
14	MF		Gabriel Fernandes	8	0	5+3	0	0	0
15	DF		Grégory Arnolin	15	2	13	2	2	0
16	DF		Bruno Pinheiro	14	0	9+4	0	1	0
17	MF		Mandar Rao Desai	11	0	9	0	2	0
18	DF		Zohib Islam Amiri	9	0	4+3	0	2	0
19	MF		Romeo Fernandes	11	3	7+2	3	2	0
20	FW		Miroslav Slepička	10	5	4+4	5	2	0
21	GK		Laxmikant Kattimani	2	0	2	0	0	0
22	DF		Prabir Das	1	0	1	0	0	0
23	MF		Jewel Raja	9	1	3+4	1	0+2	0
24	MF		Clifford Miranda	11	0	3+7	0	0+1	0
25	FW		Ranti Martins	7	0	4+3	0	0	0
26	FW		Tolgay Özbey	9	2	5+3	2	0+1	0
27	DF		André Santos	12	4	10	4	2	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Indian Super League	Indian Super League finals	Total
1	FW		20	Miroslav Slepička	5	0	5
2	DF		27	André Santos	4	0	4
3	MF		19	Romeo Fernandes	3	0	3
4	DF		15	Grégory Arnolin	2	0	2
	FW		26	Tolgay Özbey	2	0	2
	DF		5	Youness Bengelloun	2	0	2
7	MF		23	Jewel Raja	1	0	1
	MF		7	Robert Pirès	1	0	1
	MF		10	Edgar Marcelino	1	0	1
				TOTALS	21	0	21

Disciplinary Record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Indian Super League		Indian Super League finals		Total
2		DF	Debabrata Roy	2	0	0	0	2	0
3		DF	Narayan Das	3	0	0	0	3	0
5		DF	Youness Bengelloun	1	0	0	0	1	0
12		MF	Bikramjit Singh	4	0	0	0	4	0
14		MF	Gabriel Fernandes	1	0	0	0	1	0
15		DF	Grégory Arnolin	2	0	0	0	2	0
16		DF	Bruno Pinheiro	0	1	0	0	0	1
17		MF	Mandar Rao Desai	2	0	1	0	3	0
18		DF	Zohib Islam Amiri	3	0	0	0	3	0
20		FW	Miroslav Slepička	1	0	1	0	2	0
24		MF	Clifford Miranda	2	0	0	0	2	0
25		FW	Ranti Martins	1	0	0	0	1	0
27		DF	André Santos	3	0	0	0	3	0
			TOTALS	25	1	2	0	27	1

See also

• FC Goa
• 2014 Indian Super League season

References

1. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Club-objects-to-name-of-FC-Goa-in-ISL/articleshow/42286166.cms
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4. "Mumbai, Goa to settle for Arsenal legends". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
5. "Indian Super League Side FC Goa Snap Up Second Former Arsenal Player In Andre Santos". Inside Futbol.
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