2015 Kerala Blasters FC season

Kerala Blasters
	2015 season
General Manager	Viren D'Silva
Head Coach	Peter Taylor; (until 1 November); Terry Phelan; (from 1 November)
Stadium	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Top goalscorer	Chris Dagnall (6) Antonio German (6)
Highest home attendance	62,013
Lowest home attendance	32,313
Home colours	Away colours
← 2014

The 2015 season will be Kerala Blasters' second season in Hero Indian Super League since its inception in 2014. The club were the runner-up in the 2014 ISL tournament where they lost to Atlético de Kolkata 0-1 in the final.^[2] The team management appointed former England-U20 manager Peter Taylor as its new manager for the 2015 season after the departure of David James.^[3]

Players and staff

Squad

As of 31 December 2015.^[4]

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

No.	Position	Player
4	DF	Ramandeep Singh
7	MF	Cavin Lobo (on loan from East Bengal)
8	MF	João Coimbra
11	MF	Ishfaq Ahmed
12	MF	Shankar Sampingiraj (on loan from Bengaluru FC)
13	MF	C.K. Vineeth (on loan from Bengaluru FC)
14	MF	Mehtab Hossain (on loan from East Bengal)
15	DF	Sandesh Jhingan
16	DF	Gurwinder Singh (on loan from East Bengal)
17	FW	Manandeep Singh
18	DF	Deepak Mondal
20	FW	Mohammed Rafi

No.	Position	Player
21	FW	Antonio German
22	GK	Shilton Paul (on loan from Mohun Bagan)
23	DF	Bruno Perone
24	GK	Sandip Nandy
29	DF	Saumik Dey (on loan from East Bengal)
30	DF	Marcus Williams
43	GK	Stephen Bywater
44	DF	Rodrigo Arroz
66	MF	Peter Carvalho
85	MF	Pulga
99	MF	Josu
	DF	Nirmal Chettri

Coaching staff

As of 28 October 2015^[4]

Position	Name
Head coach	Terry Phelan
Assistant coach	Trevor Morgan
Head of Grassroots Development	Terry Phelan
Goalkeeping Coach	Neil Young

Transfers

In

Pre-Season

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
9	ST	Chris Dagnall	Leyton Orient	Free	1 July 2015	^[5]
17	ST	Manandeep Singh	Delhi Dynamos	Free	1 July 2015
20	ST	Mohammed Rafi	Mumbai F.C.	Free	1 July 2015
8	CM	João Coimbra	Rapid București	Free	3 August 2015	^[6]
10	LW	Sanchez Watt	Colchester United	Free	4 August 2015	^[7]
23	CB	Bruno Perone	Grêmio Novorizontino	Free	18 August 2015	^[8]
5	CB	Peter Ramage	Crystal Palace	Free	24 August 2015	^[9]
43	GK	Stephen Bywater	Doncaster Rovers	Free	24 August 2015	^[10]
21	ST	Antonio German	Gillingham	Free	26 August 2015	^[11]
6	CB	Carlos Marchena	Deportivo La Coruña	Free	28 August 2015	^[12]
30	LB	Marcus Williams	Scunthorpe United	Free	29 August 2015	^[13]
99	AM	Josu	Górnik Łęczna	Free	6 August 2015	^[14]

During the Season

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
44	CB	Rodrigo Arroz	S.E.R. Caxias do Sul	Free	26 November 2015	^[15]

Out

Pre-Season

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
9	ST	Pedro Gusmão	Atlético Paranaense	Loan Return	31 December 2014
12	ST	Chinadorai Sabeeth	Mohun Bagan	Loan Return	31 December 2014
32	CB	Colin Falvey	Charleston Battery	Loan Return	31 December 2014
44	CB	Erwin Spitzner	Atlético Paranaense	Loan Return	31 December 2014
70	GK	David James		Retired	31 December 2014
30	GK	Luis Barreto	East Bengal	Loan Return	1 January 2015
13	CM	Duleep Menon	Free Agent	Free	1 January 2015
23	RB	Avinabo Bag	Free Agent	Free	1 January 2015
27	ST	Andrew Barisic	Melbourne Knights	Free	1 January 2015
88	ST	Milagres Gonsalves	Salgaocar F.C.	Free	1 January 2015
18	CM	Penn Orji	Shillong Lajong	Free	15 January 2015	^[16]
3	LB	Jamie McAllister	Exeter City	Free	16 January 2015	^[17]
21	RM	Godwin Franco	Royal Wahingdoh	Free	5 February 2015
25	CM	Stephen Pearson	Motherwell	Free	19 January 2015	^[18]
22	CB	Raphaël Romey	FC Istres	Free	25 January 2015
10	ST	Iain Hume	Tranmere Rovers	Free	29 January 2015	^[19]
8	ST	Michael Chopra	Alloa Athletic	Free	17 March 2015	^[20]
2	RB	Cédric Hengbart	NorthEast United	Free	3 July 2015	^[21]
7	DM	Sushanth Mathew	FC Pune City	Free	10 July 2015

During the Season

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
6	CB	Carlos Marchena	CD Gerena	Free	19 November 2015
10	LW	Sanchez Watt	Free Agent	Free	26 November 2015	^[22]
9	ST	Chris Dagnall	Hibernian F.C.	Free	23 December 2015	^[23]

Loan in

Pre-Season

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned From	Start	End
14	DM	Mehtab Hossain	East Bengal	1 July 2015	31 December 2015
16	CB	Gurwinder Singh	East Bengal	1 July 2015	31 December 2015
22	GK	Shilton Paul	Mohun Bagan	1 July 2015	31 December 2015
29	LB	Saumik Dey	East Bengal	1 July 2015	31 December 2015
7	LM	Cavin Lobo	East Bengal	10 July 2015	31 December 2015
12	CM	Shankar Sampingiraj	Bengaluru	10 July 2015	31 December 2015
13	CM	C.K. Vineeth	Bengaluru	10 July 2015	31 December 2015
66	DM	Peter Carvalho	Dempo S.C.	10 July 2015	31 December 2015

During the Season

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned From	Start	End	Source
2	RB	Rahul Bheke	East Bengal	13 September 2015	31 December 2015

Loan Out

Pre-Season

No.	Pos	Player	Loaned To	Start	End	Source
6	LM	Renedy Singh	CSKA Sofia	27 February 2015	30 June 2015	^[24]

Pre-season

10 September 2015 (2015-09-10) Friendly	Kerala Blasters	10-2	KSEB	Thiruvananthapuram
				Stadium: Green Field Stadium

22 September 2015 (2015-09-22) Friendly	Kerala Blasters	7-0	SBT	Thiruvananthapuram
		Official Facebook Post		Stadium: Green Field Stadium

24 September 2015 (2015-09-24) Friendly	Kerala Blasters	2-0	Southern Samity	Thiruvananthapuram
				Stadium: Green Field Stadium

26 September 2015 (2015-09-26) Friendly	Kerala Blasters	0-0	Southern Samity	Thiruvananthapuram
				Stadium: Green Field Stadium

29 September 2015 (2015-09-29) Friendly	Kerala Blasters	7-0	AG's Office, Thiruvananthapuram	Thiruvananthapuram
		Report		Stadium: Green Field Stadium

Indian Super League

League Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Goa	14	7	4	3	29	20	+9	25	2015 Indian Super League Semi-final
2	Atlético de Kolkata	14	7	2	5	26	17	+9	23
3	Chennaiyin	14	7	1	6	25	15	+10	22
4	Delhi Dynamos	14	6	4	4	18	20	−2	22
5	NorthEast United	14	6	2	6	18	23	−5	20
6	Mumbai City	14	4	4	6	16	26	−10	16
7	Pune City	14	4	3	7	17	23	−6	15
8	Kerala Blasters	14	3	4	7	22	27	−5	13

Updated to games played on 6 December 2015.
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	3	4	7	22	27	−5	13	2	2	3	9	11	−2	1	2	4	13	16	−3

Last updated: 3 December 2015.
Source: Matches

Results by round

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

Last updated: 3 December 2015.
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

6 October 2015 1	Kerala Blasters	3 – 1	NorthEast United	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Carvalho 37' Josu 49' Rafi 68' Watt 71' Bywater 90+7'	Report	Hanghal 21' Pradhan 54' Vélez 82' Silas 83'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 60,017 Referee: Ramaswamy Srikrishna

10 October 2015 2	Kerala Blasters	0 – 0	Mumbai City	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)		Report	Bertin 52'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 61,483 Referee: Pranjal Banerjee

13 October 2015 3	Atlético de Kolkata	2 – 1	Kerala Blasters	Kolkata
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Izumi 6' Lara 53'	Report	Josu 44' R.Singh 46' Hossain 63', 89' Dagnall 80'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 61,237

18 October 2015 4	Kerala Blasters	0 – 1	Delhi Dynamos	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Vineeth 82'	Report	Gadze 87'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 62,087

22 October 2015 5	Goa	2 – 1	Kerala Blasters	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Sabrosa 40' Moura 45+1' 89' Arnolin 83'	Report	Rafi 24' Williams 44'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 18,927

27 October 2015 6	Pune City	3 – 2	Kerala Blasters	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Uche 16', 23' Lyngdoh 60' Tuncay 72'	Report	Rafi 1', 30'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex

31 October 2015 7	Kerala Blasters	1 – 1	Chennaiyin	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Dagnall 46' Perone 75'	Report	Elano 34' (pen.) M. Wadoo 59' Mailson 63'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 47,852

4 November 2015 8	Kerala Blasters	2 – 0	Pune City	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Dagnall 45+1' Watt 60' Ahmed 73'	Report	Zokora 59'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 40,125 ^[25]

10 November 2015 9	Kerala Blasters	2 – 3	Atlético de Kolkata	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	German 42' (pen.), 85' Hossain 52'	Report	Mohanraj 28' 68' Franco 41' Izumi 84', 90+3'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 60,251 ^[26]

15 November 2015 10	NorthEast United	1 – 4	Kerala Blasters	Guwahati
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	López 40' Hanghal 59' Vélez 90+1'	Report	Dagnall 1', 76' 59' Lobo 21' Bywater 28' Ramage 31' Dey 45+3' German 75'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

21 November 2015 11	Chennaiyin	4 – 1	Kerala Blasters	Chennai
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	D.Singh 4' 69' Mendoza 16', 80', 81' Blasi 89'	Report	Hossain 69' German 90'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 20,483

26 November 2015 12	Mumbai City	1 – 1	Kerala Blasters	Mumbai
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Subrata Pal 41' Aguilera 25' Čmovš 61' Cristian Bustos 79'	Report	German 88'	Stadium: DY Patil Stadium Attendance: 25,317

29 November 2015 13	Kerala Blasters	1 – 5	Goa	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Pulga 2' Josu 45'	Report	Jofre 12' Reinaldo 29', 50', 61' Mandar 64' Léo Moura 82'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 32,313

3 December 2015 14	Delhi Dynamos	3 – 3	Kerala Blasters	Delhi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Marmentini 7' Nabi 40' Greene 57' S.Singh	Report	Dagnall 9' Coimbra 30' Jhingan 31' German 39' Hossain 48' Ahmed 75'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Squad Statistics

As of Match played 3 December 2015^[27]

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF		Rahul Bheke	12	0	11+1	0
4	DF		Ramandeep Singh	1	0	0+1	0
5	DF		Peter Ramage	14	0	14	0
7	MF		Cavin Lobo	6	1	5+1	1
8	MF		João Coimbra	11	1	6+5	1
9	FW		Chris Dagnall	13	6	13	6
11	MF		Ishfaq Ahmed	7	0	2+5	0
12	MF		Shankar Sampingiraj	3	0	2+1	0
13	MF		C.K. Vineeth	9	0	3+6	0
14	MF		Mehtab Hossain	13	0	12+1	0
15	DF		Sandesh Jhingan	10	0	10	0
16	DF		Gurwinder Singh	3	0	2+1	0
17	FW		Manandeep Singh	2	0	2	0
18	DF		Deepak Mondal	2	0	2	0
20	FW		Mohammed Rafi	9	4	7+2	4
21	MF		Antonio German	11	7	7+4	7
23	DF		Bruno Perone	10	0	7+3	0
24	GK		Sandip Nandy	2	0	2	0
29	DF		Saumik Dey	8	0	8	0
30	DF		Marcus Williams	5	0	5	0
43	GK		Stephen Bywater	12	0	12	0
44	DF		Rodrigo Arroz	1	0	1	0
66	MF		Peter Carvalho	2	0	2	0
85	MF		Pulga	11	2	8+3	2
99	MF		Josu	11	1	9+2	1
Players who left Kerala Blasters due to injury during the season:
10	FW		Sanchez Watt	9	2	5+4	2
Players who left Kerala Blasters during the season:
6	DF		Carlos Marchena	1	0	1	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	Indian Super League	Total
1	FW	21	Antonio German	6	6
1	FW	9	Chris Dagnall	6	6
3	FW	20	Mohammed Rafi	4	4
4	FW	10	Sanchez Watt	2	2
5	MF	99	Josu	1	1
	MF	7	Cavin Lobo	1	1
	MF	85	Pulga	1	1
	MF	8	João Coimbra	1	1
TOTALS				22	22

Disciplinary Record

Number	Nation	Position	Name
Number	Nation	Position	Name	Indian Super League		Total
4		DF	Ramandeep Singh	1	0	1	0
5		DF	Peter Ramage	2	0	1	0
9		FW	Chris Dagnall	1	0	1	0
11		MF	Ishfaq Ahmed	2	0	2	0
13		MF	C.K. Vineeth	1	0	1	0
14		MF	Mehtab Hossain	5	1	5	1
15		DF	Sandesh Jhingan	1	0	1	0
23		DF	Bruno Perone	0	1	0	1
29		DF	Saumik Dey	1	0	1	0
30		DF	Marcus Williams	1	0	1	0
43		GK	Stephen Bywater	2	0	2	0
66		MF	Peter Carvalho	1	0	1	0
99		MF	Josù	1	1	1	1
			TOTALS	19	3	19	3

Home Stadium Attendances

As of 29 November 2015

Pos	Date	Opponent	Stadium Attendance
1	06 Oct 2015	NorthEast United FC	60,017
2	10 Oct 2015	Mumbai City FC	61,483
3	18 Oct 2015	Delhi Dynamos FC	62,013
4	31 Oct 2015	Chennaiyin FC	47,852
5	04 Nov 2015	FC Pune City	40,125
6	10 Nov 2015	Atlético de Kolkata	60,251
7	29 Nov 2015	FC Goa	32,313

References

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2015 Kerala Blasters FC season

Contents

Players and staff

Squad

Coaching staff

Transfers

In

Pre-Season

During the Season

Out

Pre-Season

During the Season

Loan in

Pre-Season

During the Season

Loan Out

Pre-Season

Pre-season

Indian Super League

League Table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Squad Statistics

Appearances and goals

Goal scorers

Disciplinary Record

Home Stadium Attendances

References

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