2015–16 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season

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Western Sydney Wanderers
2015–16 season
Chairman Paul Lederer
Manager Tony Popovic
Stadium Pirtek Stadium, Parramatta
A-League 2nd
A-League Finals Series Runners-up
FFA Cup Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer League: Mitch Nichols, Brendon Šantalab (10 goals)
All: Brendon Šantalab (11 goals)
Highest home attendance 19,627 vs Sydney FC
16 January 2016
Lowest home attendance 9,860 vs Brisbane Roar
5 December 2015
Average home league attendance 14,297
Home colours
Away colours
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season was the club's fourth season since its establishment in 2012. The club participated in the A-League for the fourth time and the FFA Cup for the second time.

Players

Squad information

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

No. Position Player
2 Australia DF Shannon Cole
3 Australia DF Scott Jamieson
4 Australia DF Nikolai Topor-Stanley (captain)
5 Australia DF Brendan Hamill
6 Australia MF Mitch Nichols
7 Netherlands FW Romeo Castelen
8 Spain MF Dimas
9 Italy FW Federico Piovaccari
10 Australia MF Dario Vidošić
11 Australia FW Brendon Šantalab
12 Australia DF Scott Neville
13 Australia MF Matt Sim
14 Australia FW Golgol Mebrahtu
15 Australia MF Kearyn Baccus
No. Position Player
16 Australia FW Jaushua Sotirio
17 Spain MF Alberto
18 Spain MF Andreu
19 Australia FW Mark Bridge (vice-captain)
20 Australia GK Andrew Redmayne
21 Australia MF Jacob Pepper
22 Australia DF Jonathan Aspropotamitis
23 Australia DF Shayne D'Cunha
30 Australia GK Liam Reddy
31 Australia MF Alusine Fofanah
32 Australia DF Daniel Alessi
33 Australia FW Josh Macdonald
36 Australia FW Liam Youlley
Australia MF Jackson Bandiera

From youth squad

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Notes

Transfers in

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving from
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Ends
 Transfer
fee		 Ref.
3 DF Australia Scott Jamieson 26 Perth Glory Transfer Pre-season 2017 Free [1]
12 DF Australia Scott Neville 26 Newcastle Jets Transfer Pre-season 2017 Free [2]
21 MF Australia Jacob Pepper 23 Newcastle Jets Transfer Pre-season 2017 Free [2]
20 GK Australia Andrew Redmayne 26 Melbourne City Transfer Pre-season 2017 Free [3]
18 MF Spain Andreu 32 Racing Santander Transfer Pre-season 2016 Free [4]
6 MF Australia Mitch Nichols 26 Cerezo Osaka Transfer Pre-season 2017 Free [5]
9 FW Italy Federico Piovaccari 30 Free agent Transfer Pre-season 2016 Free [6]
8 MF Spain Dimas 32 Free agent Transfer Pre-season 2016 Free [7]
17 MF Spain Alberto 31 Free agent Transfer Pre-season 2016 Free [8]
10 MF Australia Dario Vidošić 28 Sion Transfer Pre-season 2017 Free [9]
30 GK Australia Liam Reddy 34 Central Coast Mariners Transfer Round 10 2016 Free [10]
MF Australia Jackson Bandiera 17 FFA Centre of Excellence Transfer Round 18 2018 Free [11]
13 MF Australia Matt Sim 27 Central Coast Mariners Transfer Round 18 2016 Free [11]

Transfers out

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving to
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Transfer
fee		 Source
15 MF Australia Yianni Perkatis 21 Blacktown City Released Pre-season [12]
1 GK Australia Ante Covic 39 End of contract Pre-season [13]
6 DF Australia Antony Golec 24 End of contract Pre-season [13]
9 FW Australia Tomi Juric 23 End of contract Pre-season [13]
12 FW Australia Nikita Rukavytsya 27 End of contract Pre-season [13]
14 FW Australia Kerem Bulut 23 End of contract Pre-season [13]
18 MF Italy Iacopo La Rocca 30 End of contract Pre-season [13]
22 MF Australia Nick Ward 30 End of contract Pre-season [13]
23 MF Australia Jason Trifiro 26 End of contract Pre-season [13]
33 MF Australia Nick Kalmar 27 End of contract Pre-season [13]
42 DF Australia Adrian Madaschi 32 End of contract Pre-season [13]
3 DF Japan Yūsuke Tanaka 29 End of contract Pre-season [14]
10 FW Japan Yojiro Takahagi 28 End of contract Pre-season [14]
38 FW Australia Steve Kuzmanovski 18 Melbourne City Transfer Pre-season Free [15]
13 DF Australia Matthew Spiranovic 27 Hangzhou Greentown Transfer Pre-season $1,000,000 [16]
7 FW Australia Labinot Haliti 29 Newcastle Jets Transfer Pre-season Free [17]
8 MF Croatia Mateo Poljak 25 Newcastle Jets Transfer Pre-season Free [17]
25 DF Australia Sam Gallaway 23 Released Pre-season [18]
1 GK Australia Dean Bouzanis 25 Melbourne City Transfer Round 14 Free [19]

Technical staff

Position Name
Head Coach Australia Tony Popovic
Assistant Coach Spain Andrés Carrasco
Assistant Coach Australia Hayden Foxe
Goalkeeping Coach Australia Zeljko Kalac
Strength & Conditioning Coach Australia Scott Smith
Physiotherapist Australia David Hughes

Statistics

Squad statistics

N P Nat. Name Total A-League FFA Cup
Apps Goals Yellow card Second yellow card Red card Apps Goals Yellow card Second yellow card Red card Apps Goals Yellow card Second yellow card Red card
2 DF Australia Shannon Cole 4 0 0 0 0 0+4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 DF Australia Scott Jamieson 32 0 5 0 0 29 0 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 0
4 DF Australia Nikolai Topor-Stanley 28 0 10 0 0 27 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
5 DF Australia Brendan Hamill 8 1 2 0 0 4+2 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
6 MF Australia Mitch Nichols 32 10 6 0 0 29 10 6 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
7 FW Netherlands Romeo Castelen 30 7 0 0 0 20+8 7 0 0 0 1+1 0 0 0 0
8 MF Spain Dimas 28 2 12 0 0 26 0 11 0 0 2 2 1 0 0
9 FW Italy Federico Piovaccari 14 2 2 0 0 10+2 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0
10 MF Australia Dario Vidošić 29 4 3 0 0 17+11 4 3 0 0 0+1 0 0 0 0
11 FW Australia Brendon Šantalab 24 11 8 0 0 5+18 11 8 0 0 0+1 0 0 0 0
12 DF Australia Scott Neville 29 1 7 0 0 28 1 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
13 MF Australia Matt Sim 1 0 0 0 0 0+1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 FW Australia Golgol Mebrahtu 8 1 1 0 0 1+6 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
15 MF Australia Kearyn Baccus 15 0 1 0 0 2+11 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
16 FW Australia Jaushua Sotirio 22 1 4 0 0 13+6 1 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
17 MF Spain Alberto 25 1 5 0 1 23 1 5 0 1 2 0 0 0 0
18 MF Spain Andreu 29 3 7 0 0 26+1 3 7 0 0 1+1 0 0 0 0
19 FW Australia Mark Bridge 26 9 3 0 0 21+3 9 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
20 GK Australia Andrew Redmayne 26 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
21 MF Australia Jacob Pepper 14 0 1 0 0 5+6 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
22 DF Australia Jonathan Aspropotamitis 5 0 1 0 1 4+1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
23 DF Australia Shayne D'Cunha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 GK Australia Liam Reddy 6 0 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 MF Australia Alusine Fofanah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 DF Australia Daniel Alessi 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
33 FW Australia Josh Macdonald 5 0 1 0 0 0+2 0 0 0 0 0+3 0 1 0 0
34 FW Australia Mario Shabow 1 0 0 0 0 0+1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
36 FW Australia Liam Youlley 3 0 0 0 0 0+1 0 0 0 0 0+2 0 0 0 0
MF Australia Jackson Bandiera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Players no longer at the club:
1 GK Australia Dean Bouzanis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall

Competition Started round Final
position / round		 First match Last match
A-League — 2nd 8 October 2015 10 April 2016
A-League Finals Semi-finals Runners-up 24 April 2016 1 May 2016
FFA Cup Round of 32 Quarter-finals 11 August 2015 29 September 2015

A-League

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Main article: 2015–16 A-League

League table

Pos Team
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Adelaide United (C) 27 14 7 6 45 28 +17 49 Qualification to AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series
2 Western Sydney Wanderers 27 14 6 7 44 33 +11 48
3 Brisbane Roar 27 14 6 7 49 40 +9 48 Qualification to AFC Champions League qualifying play-off and Finals series
4 Melbourne City 27 13 5 9 63 44 +19 44 Qualification to Finals series
5 Perth Glory 27 13 4 10 49 42 +7 43
6 Melbourne Victory 27 11 8 8 40 33 +7 41
7 Sydney FC 27 8 10 9 36 36 0 34
8 Newcastle Jets 27 8 6 13 28 41 −13 30
9 Wellington Phoenix[lower-alpha 1] 27 7 4 16 34 54 −20 25
10 Central Coast Mariners 27 3 4 20 33 70 −37 13
Updated to match(es) played on 1 May 2016. Source: A-League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.
Notes:
  1. ↑ Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for the 2017 AFC Champions League as they are not recognised as an AFC club.


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
27 14 6 7 44 33  +11 48 8 2 3 23 17  +6 6 4 4 21 16  +5

Last updated: 10 April 2016.
Source: ultimatealeague.com

Results by round

Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Ground H A A H A A H A H H A H H A H A H A H A H A A H A H A
Result L D L W W W W W W W D W D L L W W D L D W L W D L W W
Position 10 9 10 7 6 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 4 3 2

Last updated: 10 April 2016.
Source: ultimatealeague.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.
       Win       Draw       Loss

Matches

Finals series

FFA Cup

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Main article: 2015 FFA Cup

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