2013–14 Churchill Brothers S.C. season

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.

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

I-League

Matches

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bengaluru FC (C)	24	14	5	5	42	28	+14	47	Qualification for 2015 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
2	East Bengal	24	12	7	5	39	23	+16	43	Qualification for 2015 AFC Cup group stage
3	Salgaocar	24	11	6	7	36	25	+11	39
4	Dempo	24	9	8	7	31	25	+6	35
5	Sporting Goa	24	9	7	8	34	34	0	34
6	Shillong Lajong	24	8	9	7	35	37	−2	33
7	Pune	24	7	8	9	28	32	−4	29
8	Mohun Bagan	24	6	10	8	23	24	−1	28
9	Mumbai	24	5	13	6	31	32	−1	28
10	United (R)	24	5	11	8	22	32	−10	26	Excluded[lower-alpha 1]
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

Updated to match(es) played on 28 April 2014. 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]
(C) Champion; (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

Group stage

Team	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:

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

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

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

Semifinal

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

Final

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

AFC Cup

Group stage

Team	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[lower-alpha 1]
Home United	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10[lower-alpha 1]
New Radiant	6	1	0	5	2	12	−10	3

Source:
Notes:

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 2nd Jan 2014[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. 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		Sudhakaran Kumar	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
7	FW		Ajay Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW		Henri Antchouet	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
27	DF		Hammed Adesope	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
11	MF		Sanjay Balmuchu	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
12	DF		Denzil Franco	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
13	DF		Dharmaraj Ravanan	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
14	MF		Israil Gurung	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
16	MF		Amandeep Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
18	DF		Thangjam Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
19	GK		Lalit Thapa	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
22	FW		Jaison Vales	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
24	MF		Lenny Rodrigues	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
26	DF		Yumnam Raju	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
28	MF		Bikramjit Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
29	DF		Satish Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
31	MF		Ashley Fernandes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
33	MF		Richard Costa	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
35	FW		Bineesh Balan	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
39	DF		Dannies Fernandes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
45	FW		Biswajit Biswas	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	GK		Arindam Bhattacharya	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	MF		Micky Fernandes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	MF		Tirthankar Sarkar	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
—	MF		Shingo Nejime	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

• Source:

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. "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, May 21". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
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. "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, May 26". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
8. George, Joseph. "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, June 2". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
9. George, Joseph. "Indian Football Transfers – Live Updates, June 12". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 12 June 2013.