2013–14 Churchill Brothers FC Goa season

Churchill Brothers

2013–14 season
Technical Director	Sukhwinder Singh
Head coach	Mariano Dias
Stadium	Fatorda Stadium, Margao
I-League	12th
Federation Cup	Winner
Home colours Away colours

The 2013–14 Churchill Brothers S.C. season will be the club's seventh season in the I-League, the top division of Indian football. Churchill Brothers enter this season as the reigning I-League champions after winning the 2012–13 I-League.

I-League

Matches

Churchill Brothers v Salgaocar

21 September 2013 Match 1	Churchill Brothers	0 – 1	Salgaocar	Margao
17:00	Fernandes  73' Rodrigues  90+1'	Summary	Wali  36' Duffy 41' Colaco  57'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerji

Churchill Brothers v Mohun Bagan

28 September 2013 Match 2	Churchill Brothers	0 – 0	Mohun Bagan	Mapusa
17:00	Fernandes  62' Singh  66' Balan  90'	Summary	Khongjee  34'	Stadium: Duler Stadium Referee: Cr Srikrishna

Churchill Brothers v Mumbai

5 October 2013 Match 3	Churchill Brothers	0 – 2	Mumbai	Mapusa
16:00	Singh  35' Henri Antchouet  48' Singh  73'	Summary	Pereira  36' Orok Essien 46' Lawrence 87'	Stadium: Duler Stadium Referee: Mb Santosh Kumar

Rangdajied United v Churchill Brothers

10 October 2013 Match 4	Rangdajied United	1 – 1	Churchill Brothers	Shillong
16:00	Lyngdoh 25'	Summary	Singh 27'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Shillong Referee: Ph Singh

Pune v Churchill Brothers

19 October 2013 Match 5	Pune	1 – 0	Churchill Brothers	Pune
20:15	Edathodika  29' Angus 52' Meyer  61' Izumi  77'	Summary	Franco  49'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Pranjal Banerji

Shillong Lajong F.C. v Churchill Brothers

28 October 2013 Match 6	Shillong Lajong F.C.	2 – 2	Churchill Brothers	Shillong
11:00	Singh 21' (pen.) Singh  32' Uilliams 34' Matsugae  38' Singh  56' Passah  88'	Summary	Balan 6'  90+2' Hamed Adesope  20' Ravanan  21' Singh  51' Hugo Machado 90'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Shillong Referee: Subrata Barman

United S.C. v Churchill Brothers

2 November 2013 Match 7	United S.C.	3 – 2	Churchill Brothers	Kalyani, West Bengal
12:30	Vineeth 55' Martins 77', 88'	Summary	Singh 25', 47' Fernandes  75' Franco  89'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Referee: Vishnu Chauhan

Dempo v Churchill Brothers

6 November 2013 Match 8	Dempo	1 – 0	Churchill Brothers	Mapusa
10:00	Lalpekhlua 15' Das  16' Roy  85'	Summary	Singh  31' Pereira  90+4'	Stadium: Duler Stadium Referee: Mb Santosh Kumar

Mohammedan v Churchill Brothers

23 November 2013 Match 9	Mohammedan	0 – 0	Churchill Brothers	Kolkata
12:30	Masih  85'	Summary	Fernandes  12'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna

Churchill Brothers v Sporting Goa

28 November 2013 Match 10	Churchill Brothers	3 – 2	Sporting Goa	Mapusa
14:00	Shabana 2' Singh 37' Raju  86' Vales 90+5'  90+5'	Summary	Karpeh 5' Martins  83' Shirodkar 89'	Stadium: Duler Stadium Referee: Vishnu Chauhan

Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
9	Mumbai	24	5	13	6	31	32	−1	28
10	United (R)	24	5	11	8	22	32	−10	26	Excluded[a]
11	Rangdajied United (R)	24	6	7	11	29	38	−9	25
12	Churchill Brothers (R)	24	6	7	11	25	37	−12	25
13	Mohammedan (R)	24	6	6	12	27	35	−8	24	Relegation to 2015 I-League 2nd Division

Source: IndiaFooty.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored; 5) taking lots^[2]
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. United, Rangdajied United and Churchill Brothers were barred from I-League they failed to meet Asian Football Confederation's licensing criteria.^[1]

Competitions

Federation Cup

Main article: 2013–14 Indian Federation Cup

Group stage

Main article: 2013–14 Indian Federation Cup Group Stage § Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Churchill Brothers	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3	9
Eagles	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
United	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
Pune	3	0	1	2	3	5	−2	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Churchill Brothers v United

14 January 2014	Churchill Brothers	2–1	United	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi
	Shabana 5' Singh 17'	Report	Martins 43'

Eagles v Churchill Brothers

17 January 2014	Eagles	1–2	Churchill Brothers	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi
	Sakibo 83'	Report	Singh 74' Shabana 86'

Churchill Brothers v Pune

20 January 2014	Churchill Brothers	3–2	Pune	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi
	Wolfe 8', 74' Rodrigues 24'	Report	Fernandes 19', 53'

Semifinal

Churchill Brothers v Mohun Bagan

23 January 2014	Churchill Brothers	2–1	Mohun Bagan	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi
	Singh 4' Wolfe 14'	Report	Okolie 33'

Final

Churchill Brothers v Sporting Goa

25 January 2014	Churchill Brothers	3–1	Sporting Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi
	Singh 21' Sawant 47' Shabana 67'	Report	Fernandes 62'

AFC Cup

Main article: 2014 AFC Cup

Group stage

Main article: § 2014 AFC Cup group stage#Group E

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Persipura Jayapura	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11
Churchill Brothers	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10[a]
Home United	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10[a]
New Radiant	6	1	0	5	2	12	−10	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. Tiebreakers: Churchill Brothers and Home United are ranked on head-to-head record.

Persipura Jayapura v Churchill Brothers

25 February 2014	Persipura Jayapura	2–0	Churchill Brothers	Mandala Stadium, Jayapura
16:00 UTC+9	Solossa 48' Pahabol 62'	Report		Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Win Cho (Myanmar)

Churchill Brothers v New Radiant

11 March 2014	Churchill Brothers	3–0	New Radiant	Fatorda Stadium, Margao
17:30 UTC+5:30	Lagos 31', 75' Wolfe 53'	Report		Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab (Malaysia)

Churchill Brothers v Home United

18 March 2014	Churchill Brothers	3–1	Home United	Fatorda Stadium, Margao
17:30 UTC+5:30	Wolfe 16' Raju 26' B. Singh 90+1'	Report	Qiu Li 10'	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Adham Makhadmeh (Jordan)

Home United v Churchill Brothers

2 April 2014	Home United	2–1	Churchill Brothers	Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore
19:30 UTC+8	Nawaz 25' Daud 72'	Report	Precious 27' (o.g.)	Attendance: 1,020 Referee: Ma Ning (China PR)

Churchill Brothers v Persipura Jayapura

9 April 2014	Churchill Brothers	1–1	Persipura Jayapura	Fatorda Stadium, Margao
17:30 UTC+5:30	B. Singh 84'	Report	Solossa 78'	Attendance: 200 Referee: Ng Kai Lam (Hong Kong)

New Radiant v Churchill Brothers

23 April 2014	New Radiant	1–2	Churchill Brothers	Galolhu National Stadium, Malé
18:30 UTC+5	Umair 40'	Report	Kumar 64' Wolfe 67'	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Ali Shaban (Kuwait)

First-team squad

As of 2 Jan 2014^[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Arindam Bhattacharya 3 DF  IND Charles Fernandes 4 MF  IND William Colaco 5 DF  IND Gurpreet Singh 6 DF  IND Sudhakaran Kumar 9 MF  EGY Abdelhamid Shabana 10 MF  IND Micky Fernandes 11 MF  IND Sanjay Balmuchu 12 DF  IND Denzil Franco 13 DF  IND Dharmaraj Ravanan (vice-captain) 14 MF  IND Israil Gurung 15 MF  IND Tirthankar Sarkar 16 MF  IND Amandeep Singh 17 FW  IND Balwant Singh 18 DF  IND Thangjam Singh

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  IND Anthony Barbosa 20 GK  IND Lalit Thapa 21 GK  IND Presley Mascarenhas 22 FW  IND Jaison Vales 24 MF  IND Lenny Rodrigues 26 DF  IND Yumnam Raju 28 MF  IND Bikramjit Singh 29 DF  IND Satish Singh 31 MF  IND Ashley Fernandes 32 DF  IND Lionel Rodrigues 33 MF  IND Richard Costa 35 FW  IND Bineesh Balan 39 DF  IND Dannies Fernandes 45 FW  IND Biswajit Biswas — MF  IND Alesh Sawant — MF  TRI Anthony Wolfe — FW  CRC Cristian Lagos

Transfers

In

#	Position:	Player	From	Date	Source
—	MF	Micky Fernandes	Air India	21 May 2013	[4]
—	MF	Tirthankar Sarkar	Pailan Arrows	21 May 2013	[4]
—	MF	Shingo Nejime	Roasso Kumamoto (Free Agent)	7 June 2013	[5]
—	GK	Arindam Bhattacharya	Mohun Bagan	16 June 2013	[6]

Out

Position:	Player	Moved to	Date	Source
MF	Beto	Dempo	26 May 2013	[7]
FW	Sunil Chhetri	Sporting Portugal B (loan return)	1 June 2013	[8]
FW	Balal Arezou	Asker (loan return)	1 June 2013	[8]
DF	Lamine Tamba	Released	1 June 2013	[8]
MF	Steven Dias	Released	1 June 2013	[8]
GK	Sandip Nandy	Released	1 June 2013	[8]
MF	Tomba Singh	Released	1 June 2013	[8]
FW	Xavier Vijay Kumar	Released	1 June 2013	[8]
DF	Gurtej Singh	Released	1 June 2013	[8]
GK	Felix D'Souza	Salgaocar	12 June 2013	[9]

Player statistics

As of 23 June 2014

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		I-League		Federation Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
6	DF	IND	Sudhakaran Kumar	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
7	FW	IND	Ajay Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW	GAB	Henri Antchouet	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
27	DF	NGA	Hammed Adesope	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
11	MF	IND	Sanjay Balmuchu	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
12	DF	IND	Denzil Franco	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
13	DF	IND	Dharmaraj Ravanan	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
14	MF	IND	Israil Gurung	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
16	MF	IND	Amandeep Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
18	DF	IND	Thangjam Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
19	GK	IND	Lalit Thapa	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
22	FW	IND	Jaison Vales	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
24	MF	IND	Lenny Rodrigues	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
26	DF	IND	Yumnam Raju	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
28	MF	IND	Bikramjit Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
29	DF	IND	Satish Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
31	MF	IND	Ashley Fernandes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
33	MF	IND	Richard Costa	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
35	FW	IND	Bineesh Balan	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
39	DF	IND	Dannies Fernandes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
45	FW	IND	Biswajit Biswas	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	GK	IND	Arindam Bhattacharya	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	MF	IND	Micky Fernandes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	MF	IND	Tirthankar Sarkar	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	MF	JPN	Shingo Nejime	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

• Source: ^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Mergulhao, Marcus. "Three football clubs barred from I-League". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
2. "Airtel I-League 2013-14 Standings". Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. "Squad". goal.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
4. Deep Singh, Kunwar (21 May 2013). "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, May 21". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
5. "Indian Football Transfer Gossip: Former J-League player Shingo Nejime signs for Churchill, Ranti Martins get offers outside India". Kick Off India. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
6. "Indian Football Transfer Gossip: Lalkamal Bhowmick all set to switch loyalties, Arindam Bhattacharya heads to Churchill". Kick off India. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
7. George, Joseph (26 May 2013). "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, May 26". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
8. George, Joseph (2 June 2013). "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, June 2". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
9. George, Joseph (12 June 2013). "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, June 12". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 12 June 2013.