2014 Atlético de Kolkata season

Atlético de Kolkata
2014 season
Head Coach Spain Antonio López Habas
Stadium Salt Lake Stadium
ISL Champions
Top goalscorer Ethiopia Fikru Teferra (5 goals)
Highest home attendance 65,000 (vs Mumbai City, 12 October 2014)[1]
Lowest home attendance 21,550 (vs Pune City, 7 November 2014)[2]
Average home league attendance 45,171
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The 2014 season was Atlético de Kolkata's inaugural season in existence in the Indian Super League. They ended their first season as the champions of the inaugural edition of the competition.

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 cricket tournament.[3] On 13 April 2014, it was announced that Sourav Ganguly, Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjiv Goenka, Utsav Parekh, and Spanish La Liga side Atletico Madrid had won the bidding for the Kolkata franchise.Shahrukh Khan also submitted bid's for the fanchisee but lost out[4] The Kolkata franchise turned out to be the most expensive franchise, being purchased for 18 crore.[4]

On 7 May 2014, during an official launch, it was announced that the name of the team would be Atlético de Kolkata.[5] Indian Super League (ISL) Opening Ceremony Match will started with Atlético de Kolkata Vs Mumbai City FC which will be the First Match[6]

Signings

The first ever signing by the team was made on 3 July 2014, when former Real Madrid midfielder Borja Fernández was signed. He is also the first ever player signing in league history.[7] Then, five days later, on 8 July 2014 it was confirmed that former Liverpool midfielder, Luis García, as their marquee for the 2014 season as well as the signing of Botswana international Ofentse Nato.[8] The club then signed 14 Indian players between 22 July and 23 July during the 2014 ISL Inaugural Domestic Draft.[9] This was followed by 6 foreigners from the Foreign Player Draft.

Atlético de Kolkata then began the month of August by signing Ethiopia international Fikru Teferra.[10] and Spanish Goalkeeper Basilio Sancho Agudo.

In September Atletico signed Bangladesh captain Mamunul Islam[11]

Foreign signings

# Position: Player Last club Date Source
MF Spain Borja Fernández Spain Getafe 3 July 2014 [7]
MF Spain Luis García Mexico Pumas UNAM 8 July 2014 [8]
MF Botswana Ofentse Nato South Africa Bidvest Wits 8 July 2014 [8]
FW Ethiopia Fikru Teferra South Africa Milano United 11 August 2014 [10]
MF Bangladesh Mamunul Islam Bangladesh Dhanmondi Club 5 September 2014 [12]

Drafted domestic players

Round Position Player I-League club
1 FW India Cavin Lobo East Bengal
2 DF India Arnab Mondal East Bengal
3 DF India Denzil Franco Churchill Brothers
4 DF India Rakesh Masih Mohammedan
5 MF India Mohammed Rafique East Bengal
6 FW India Mohammed Rafi Mumbai
7 DF India Biswajit Saha Mohun Bagan
8 MF India Sanju Pradhan East Bengal
9 DF India Kingshuk Debnath Mohun Bagan
10 MF India Lester Fernandez Pune
11 GK India Subhasish Roy Chowdhury Dempo
12 FW India Baljit Sahni East Bengal
13 MF India Climax Lawrence Mumbai
14 DF India Nallappan Mohanraj Sporting Goa

Drafted foreign players

Round Position Player Last Club
1 MF Spain Borja Fernández (retained) Getafe
2 MF Spain Jofre Mateu Girona
3 DF Spain Josemi Xanthi
4 FW Spain Arnal Llibert Alcorcon
5 DF France Sylvain Monsoreau Troyes
6 MF Czech Republic Jakub Podany Prague
7 GK Armenia Apoula Edel Tel Aviv

Players

Player squad

As of 19 October 2014

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

No. Position Player
1 India GK Subhasish Roy Chowdhury
2 India DF Biswajit Saha
3 India DF Nallappan Mohanraj
4 India DF Kingshuk Debnath
5 India DF Arnab Mondal
6 India FW Baljit Sahni
7 India MF Cavin Lobo
8 Spain MF Borja Fernández
9 Ethiopia FW Fikru Teferra
10 Spain MF Luis García (captain)
11 Spain MF Jofre Mateu
12 India DF Denzil Franco
13 Spain GK Basilio Agudo
No. Position Player
14 India FW Mohammed Rafi
15 India MF Sanju Pradhan
16 India MF Climax Lawrence
17 Spain DF Josemi
18 India FW Mohammed Rafique
19 Bangladesh MF Mamunul Islam
20 India MF Rakesh Masih
21 Czech Republic MF Jakub Podaný
22 India MF Lester Fernandez
23 Botswana MF Ofentse Nato
24 Spain FW Arnal Llibert
25 Armenia GK Apoula Edel
26 France DF Sylvain Monsoreau

Technical staff

As of October 2014.[13]
Position Name
Head coach Spain Antonio López Habas
Assistant coach Brazil Jose Ramirez Barreto
Fitness coach Spain Miguel Martinez

Pre-season and friendlies

Atletico de Kolkata trained in Spain in Los Angeles de San Rafael under manager Antonio Lopez Habas.

Competitions

Indian Super League

League Table 2014

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Chennaiyin 14 6 5 3 24 20 +4 23 2014 Indian Super League Semi-finals
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
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) play-off match

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
9 4 4 1 11 7  +4 16 2 3 1 6 5  +1 2 1 0 5 2  +3

Last updated: 7 November 2014.
Source: Matches

Results by round

Round1234567891011121314
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Result W W D W D D L D W L D D L D

Last updated: 7 November 2014.
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Player statistics

Statistics

As of 3 November 2014
No. Pos Nat Player TotalISL
Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK India Subhasish Roy Chowdhury 3 0 3+0 0
5 DF India Arnab Mondal 4 0 4+0 0
2 DF India Biswajit Saha 4 0 4+0 0
12 DF India Denzil Franco 4 0 4+0 0
4 DF India Kingshuk Debnath 0 0 0+0 0
DF India Nallappan Mohanraj 0 0 0+0 0
10 MF Spain Luis García 3 2 3+0 2
23 MF Botswana Ofentse Nato 4 0 4+0 0
MF India Climax Lawrence 0 0 0+0 0
22 MF India Lester Fernandez 0 0 0+0 0
20 MF India Rakesh Masih 1 0 0+1 0
15 MF India Sanju Pradhan 4 0 0+4 0
8 MF Spain Borja Fernández 3 1 3+0 1
MF Bangladesh Mamunul Islam 0 0 0+0 0
9 FW Ethiopia Fikru Teferra 4 3 4+0 3
6 FW India Baljit Sahni 4 0 4+0 0
7 FW India Cavin Lobo 1 2 1+0 2
14 FW India Mohammed Rafi 0 0 0+0 0
FW India Mohammed Rafique 0 0 0+0 0
25 GK Armenia Apoula Edel 1 0 1+0 0
GK Spain Basilio Sancho Agudo 0 0 0+0 0
26 DF France Sylvain Monsoreau 1 0 0+1 0
17 DF Spain Josemi 4 0 4+0 0
11 MF Spain Jofre Mateu 4 1 4+0 1
21 MF Czech Republic Jakub Podaný 3 1 1+2 1
24 FW Spain Arnal Llibert 4 1 0+4 1
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Goals

As of 4 November 2014

This includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Rank Player Pos ISL Other Total
1 India Cavin Lobo FW 2 0 2
Ethiopia Fikru Teferra FW 3 0
2 Spain Borja Fernández MF 1 0 1
Spain Arnal Llibert FW 1 0
Czech Republic Jakub Podaný MF 1 0
Spain Jofre Mateu MF 1 0
India Baljit Sahni FW 1 0
Spain Luis García MF 2 0
Own goals 0 0 0
Total 10 0 10

Discipline

N P Nat. Name ISL Others Total Notes
8 MF Spain Borja Fernández 2 1 2 1
20 MF India Rakesh Masih 1 1 1 1
9 FW Ethiopia Fikru Tefera 2 2

23 MF Botswana Ofentse Nato 1 1
24 FW Spain Arnal Llibert 1 1
2 DF India Biswajit Saha 1 1
7 FW India Cavin Lobo 1 1

Last updated: 3 November 2014
Source: Matches
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Indian Super League". Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Indian Super League". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Indian Super League sees interest from 30 franchise bidders". Business Standard. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 Basu, Saumyajit. "Stars embrace soccer through Indian Super League". Times of India. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Indian Super League football: Sourav Ganguly-backed Atletico de Kolkata launched". NDTV Sports. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Hero Indian Super League 2014 Schedule". Indian. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Borja Fernández se va a la Superliga india". Lavozde Galicia. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 "Luis Garcia heads to India". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  9. ↑ Ghoshal, Amoy. "ISL domestic players draft analysis: Atletico de Kolkata". Yahoo News. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  10. 1 2 "Chansa enticed to Indian Super League". Kick-off. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Atletico sign Mamunul Islam". Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  12. ↑ de Kolkata sign Bangladesh captain Mamunul Islam
  13. ↑ "Squad". Indian Super League. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
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