2018–19 NorthEast United FC season

The 2018–19 NorthEast United FC season will be the club's fifth season since its establishment in 2014 and their fifth season in the Indian Super League.

NorthEast United

2018–19 season
Owner	John Abraham
Head Coach	Eelco Schattorie
Stadium	Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati
ISL	4th (Semi-finalists)
Super Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Bartholomew Ogbeche (12) All: Bartholomew Ogbeche (12)
Highest home attendance	22,567
Lowest home attendance	9,134
Average home league attendance	17,656
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Squad

Current squad

Squad no.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)
Goalkeepers
13	Rehenesh TP		GK	13 February 1993
1	Pawan Kumar		GK	1 July 1990
31	Gurmeet Singh		GK	3 December 1999
Defenders
12	Reagan Singh		RB / CB	1 April 1991
19	Robert Lalthlamuana		LB / RB / LM	4 September 1988
5	Provat Lakra		LB / RB	12 August 1997
4	Pawan Kumar		CB / RB	12 May 1995
16	Gurwinder Singh		CB / DM	16 April 1986
20	Keegan Pereira		LB	7 November 1987
3	Mislav Komorski		CB / LB / DM	17 April 1992
18	Mato Grgić		CB	27 September 1987
TBD	Shouvik Ghosh		LB	5 November 1992
Midfielders
7	Fanai Lalrempuia		CM	11 May 1996
9	Federico Gallego		AM / RW / LW	13 June 1990
6	José David Leudo		CM	9 November 1993
21	Rupert Nongrum		RM / RB / CM	21 August 1996
11	Simranjit Singh		RM / CM / RB / CB / DM	25 January 1992
32	Lalthathanga Khawlhring		CM / DM	30 March 1998
22	Redeem Tlang		RM / RW / AM	22 February 1995
14	Rowllin Borges		DM	5 June 1992
TBD	Seityasen Singh		RM / LM	12 March 1992
27	Panagiotis Triadis		LW / SS / RW	9 September 1992
23	Nikhil Kadam		RW / LW	23 June 1993
Strikers
15	Kivi Zhimomi		CF / SS	3 May 1996
8	Girik Khosla		CF / LW / RW	4 January 1995
24	Juan Cruz Mascia		CF	3 January 1994
10	Bartholomew Ogbeche (C)		CF / LW / RW	1 October 1984

Transfers

Loan return and Retained players

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Type	Ref.
28 July 2018	MF	Lalthathanga Khawlhring	Aizawl F.C.	Loan return	[1]
21 July 2018	MF	Rowllin Borges	–	Retained	[2]
21 July 2018	MF	Rehenesh TP	–	Retained
21 July 2018	MF	Fanai Lalrempuia	–	Retained
21 July 2018	MF	Reagan Singh	–	Retained
9 August 2018	MF	Robert Lalthlamuana	–	Retained	[3]

In

No.	Pos.	Name	From	Date	Type	Ref.
TBD	MF	Seityasen Singh	Delhi Dynamos	1 August 2018	Free	[4]	[5]
22	MF	Redeem Tlang	Shillong Lajong	31 July 2018	Free	[6]
23	MF	Nikhil Kadam	Mohun Bagan	24 July 2018	Free	[7]
1	GK	Pawan Kumar	Chennaiyin	25 July 2018	Free	[8]
5	DF	Provat Lakra	Pathachakra	6 August 2018	Free	[9]
16	DF	Gurwinder Singh	East Bengal	25 July 2018	Free	[10]
4	DF	Pawan Kumar	FC Pune City	25 July 2018	Free	[11]
15	FW	Kivi Zhimomi	Gokulam	24 July 2018	Free	[12]
8	FW	Girik Khosla	Minerva Punjab	3 August 2018	Free	[13]
11	MF	Simranjit Singh	Delhi Dynamos	16 August 2018	Free	[5]
21	MF	Rupert Nongrum	ATK	16 August 2018	Free	[14]
10	FW	Bartholomew Ogbeche	Willem II	26 August 2018	Free	[15]
24	FW	Juan Cruz Mascia	Plaza Colonia	27 August 2018	Free	[16]
17	MF	Augustine Okrah	Al-Hilal	30 August 2018	Free	[17]
6	MF	José David Leudo	Atlético Huila	29 August 2018	Free	[18]
18	DF	Mato Grgić	NK Inter Zaprešić	1 September 2018	Free	[19]
3		Mislav Komorski
9	MF	Federico Gallego	Boston River	5 September 2018	Loan	[20]
27	MF	Panagiotis Triadis	Apollon Smyrnis	17 January 2019	Free	[21]
TBD	DF	Shouvik Ghosh	Mumbai City FC	18 January 2019	Free	[22]

Pre-season and friendlies

NorthEast United was rumoured to travel to Sweden for its preseason.[23] The tour was cancelled and the club continued their preparations in India itself playing against teams like I-League champion Minerva Punjab and runner up NEROCA.

3 September 2018 1	NorthEast United	6–0	Guwahati Town	Guwahati, Assam
	Borges Ogbeche Mascia Khosla Simranjit	Report

8 September 2018 2	NorthEast United	4–0	Laban S.C.	Guwahati, Assam
	Ogbeche Borges Okrah Mascia	Report

15 September 2018 3	NEROCA	1–0	NorthEast United	Imphal, Manipur
14:00	Aryn  25'	Report		Stadium: Khuman Lampak Main Stadium

21 September 2018 4	Rainbow	0–4	NorthEast United	Kolkata, West Bengal
15:30		Report	Gallego  13' Ogbeche  16'  21' Leudo  44'	Stadium: Salt Lake training ground

25 September 2018 5	NorthEast United	1–0	Minerva Punjab	Guwahati, Assam
15:00 IST	Mascia  71' (p)	Report		Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

6 October 2018 6	NorthEast United	5–1	Assam Police Blues	Guwahati, Assam
15:00 IST	Puia Mascia Khosla Okrah	Report		Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

16 November 2018 7	NorthEast United	2-0	Morning Star	Guwahati, Assam
15:00 IST	Okrah  28' Khosla  88'	Report		Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

Indian Super League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	Goa	18	10	4	4	36	20	+16	34[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to Indian Super League Playoffs
3	Mumbai City	18	9	3	6	25	20	+5	30
4	NorthEast United	18	7	8	3	22	18	+4	29
5	Jamshedpur	18	6	9	3	29	21	+8	27
6	ATK	18	6	6	6	18	22	−4	24

Source: Indian Super League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) fair play ranking; 6) drawing of lots
Notes:

1. Head-to-head standings: Bengaluru 6 pts, Goa 0 pts.

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
18	7	8	3	22	18	+4	29	2	6	1	9	8	+1	5	2	2	13	10	+3

Last updated: 01 March 2019.
Source: Matches

1st Half: Results by round

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

Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

2nd Half: Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	L	D	W	D	D

Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

1st Half: Matches

1 October 2018 1	NorthEast United	2–2	Goa	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Gallego  8' Bart  53' Pereira  56' Tlang  90'	Report	Coro  14', 39' Jahouh  30'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 18,321 Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: Ferran Corominas (Goa)

4 October 2018 2	ATK	0–1	NorthEast United	Kolkata
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Halder  9' Ralte  19'  32' Johnson  55' Lanza  76'	Report	Leudo  20' Grgiç  44' Borges  89'	Stadium: Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Attendance: 19,853 Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: John Johnson (ATK)

18 October 2018 3	Chennaiyin	3–4	NorthEast United	Chennai
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Borges  5' (og) Thoi  15', 32' Calderón  82'	Report	Gallego  23' Bart  29', 37', 39' Borges  54'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 14,293 Referee: Umesh Bora Man of the Match: Bartholomew Ogbeche (NEUFC)

25 October 2018 4	NorthEast United	1-1	Jamshedpur	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Bart  20' Borges  29' Komorski  45' Tlang  61'	Report	Farukh  49'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 16,992 Referee: R Palmson Moses Man of the Match: Farukh Choudhary (Jamshedpur)

30 October 2018 5	Delhi Dynamos	0-2	NorthEast United	Delhi
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Tebar  59' Kotal  64'	Report	Gallego  82' Bart  90+3'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 12,342 Referee: Senthil Nathan S Man of the Match: Federico Gallego (NEUFC)

9 November 2018 6	NorthEast United	0-1	Mumbai City	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Robert  45' Grgić  68'	Report	Issoko  4' Goian  9' Singh  15' Bose  85' Mirabaje  90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 13,941 Referee: A Rowan Man of the Match: Arnold Issoko (MCFC)

23 November 2018 7	NorthEast United	2-1	Kerala Blasters	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Reagan  39' Ogbeche  90+3' Mascia  90+5'	Report	Pešić  35' Poplatnik  73'  88' Dheeraj  88' Lalruatthara  90+4'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 9,134 Referee: R Gupta Man of the Match: Sandesh Jhingan (KBFC)

27 November 2018 8	Pune City	0-2	NorthEast United	Pune
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Marcelinho  55' Ashutosh Mehta  61' Sahil Panwar  90'	Report	Bartholomew Ogbeche  23' Provat Lakra  75' Mascia  90+1'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Attendance: 2,941 Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari Man of the Match: Federico Gallego (NEUFC)

1 December 2018 9	Jamshedpur	0-0	NorthEast United	Jamshedpur
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)		Report	Mislav Komorski  42' Redeem Tlang  45'	Stadium: JRD Tata Sports Complex Attendance: 21,847 Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: José David Leudo (NEUFC)

5 December 2018 10	NorthEast United	1-1	Bengaluru	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Federico Gallego  64' Bartholomew Ogbeche  71'	Report	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu  66' Chencho Gyeltshen  90+2'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 12,371 Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Chencho Gyeltshen (Bengaluru)

8 December 2018 11	NorthEast United	0-0	ATK	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Reagan Singh  72'	Report	Ankit Mukherjee  10'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 10,231 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: José David Leudo (NEUFC)

14 December 2018 12	Goa	5-1	NorthEast United	Goa
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Ferran Corominas  59', 84' Edu Bedia  69' Hugo Boumous  71' Miguel Palanca  90+1'	Report	Robert Lalthlamuana  24' Reagan Singh  34' Rowllin Borges  43' Bartholomew Ogbeche  90'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 17,385 Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Ferran Corominas (FC Goa)

2nd Half: Matches

26 January 2019 13	NorthEast United	1-0	Chennaiyin	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Komorski  12' Ogbeche  87'	Report	Orlandi  6'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 8,563 Referee: Mb Santhosh Kumar Man of the Match: Bartholomew Ogbeche (NEUFC)

30 January 2019 14	Bengaluru	2-1	NorthEast United	Bengaluru
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Komorski  14' (og) Chencho  71' Bheke  74'	Report	Grgić  28' Leudo  45' Gallego  60'	Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium Attendance: 11,970 Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (Bengaluru)

7 February 2019 15	NorthEast United	1-1	Delhi Dynamos	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Robert  61' Ogbeche  71' (pen)	Report	Tebar  67' Gianni  90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 6,873 Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Panagiotis Triadis (NEUFC)

13 February 2019 16	Mumbai City	0-2	NorthEast United	Mumbai
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Bastos  45' Rafique  45' Milan  69'	Report	Borges  4' Ogbeche  33' Ogbeche  37' Leudo  56' Gallego  81'	Stadium: Mumbai Football Arena Attendance: 3,627 Referee: Adham Mohammad Tumah Makhadmeh Man of the Match: Rowllin Borges (NEUFC)

20 February 2019 17	NorthEast United	1-1	Pune City	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Gurwinder Singh  22' Borges  47' José David Leudo  88' José David Leudo  89' Mato Grgić  90'	Report	Martín Díaz  53' Adil Khan  54' Adil Khan  69' Sahil Panwar  90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 11,473 Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Rowllin Borges (NEUFC)

1 March 2019 18	Kerala Blasters	0-0	NorthEast United	Kochi
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Jhingan  32' Prasanth  84'	Report	Gurwinder  23'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Attendance: 6,651 Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: Lalthathanga Khawlhring (NEUFC)

Leg-1

7 March 2019 1	NorthEast United	2-1	Bengaluru	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Tlang  20'  61' Mascia (P)  90+4'	Report	Miku  41' Xisco  82' Khabra  90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 21,768 Referee: Mb Santhosh Kumar Man of the Match: Jose Leudo (NEUFC)

Leg-2

11 March 2019 2	Bengaluru	3-0 (Agg 4-2)	NorthEast United	Bengaluru
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Bheke  63' Miku  72' Dimas  79'  87' Luisma  86' Chhetri  90'	Report	Tlang  90'	Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium Attendance: 21,636 Referee: Hamad Ali Yousef Abdulla Alali Man of the Match: Miku (Bengaluru)

Indian Super Cup

Round of 16

April 2019 1	NorthEast United	Walkover	NEROCA	Bhubaneswar, Odisha
20:30 IST (UTC+5:30)				Stadium: Kalinga Stadium

Quarter-finals

April 2019 2	NorthEast United	1-2	Chennaiyin	Bhubaneswar, Odisha
20:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Borges  9'	Report	Mailson  33' Thapa  40'	Stadium: Kalinga Stadium

Management

As of 17 August 2018.

Position	Name
Head Coach	Eelco Schattorie[24]
Assistant Coach	Shaun Ontong
Goalkeeping Coach	Joseph Sidy
Technical Advisor	Avram Grant[25]
Strength and conditioning coach	Mauro André Claro Martins
Physiotherapist	Arvind Yadav

Squad statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League		Indian Super Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Pawan Kumar	13	0	12+1	0	0	0
2	DF		Janeiler Rivas	2	0	0+1	0	1	0
4	DF		Pawan Kumar	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF		Provat Lakra	6	0	2+4	0	0	0
6	MF		José David Leudo	18	0	17	0	1	0
7	MF		Fanai Lalrempuia	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	FW		Girik Khosla	2	0	1	0	0+1	0
9	MF		Federico Gallego	17	4	17	4	0	0
10	FW		Bartholomew Ogbeche	17	12	17	12	0	0
11	DF		Simranjit Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	MF		Reagan Singh	17	0	15+1	0	1	0
13	GK		Rehenesh TP	5	0	5	0	0	0
14	MF		Rowllin Borges	18	5	17	4	1	1
16	DF		Gurwinder Singh	11	0	5+6	0	0	0
18	DF		Mato Grgić	18	0	17	0	1	0
19	DF		Robert Lalthlamuana	13	0	12+1	0	0	0
20	DF		Keegan Pereira	15	0	5+9	0	0+1	0
21	MF		Rupert Nongrum	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF		Redeem Tlang	17	0	15+2	0	0	0
23	MF		Nikhil Kadam	9	0	4+4	0	1	0
24	FW		Juan Cruz Mascia	13	2	4+8	2	1	0
27	MF		Panagiotis Triadis	6	0	3+2	0	1	0
31	GK		Gurmeet	1	0	0	0	1	0
32	MF		Lalthathanga Khawlhring	17	0	9+7	0	1	0
-	MF		Seityasen Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF		Shouvik Ghosh	3	0	1+1	0	1	0
Players who left NorthEast United during the season:
3	DF		Mislav Komorski (Injury)	10	0	10	0	0	0
15	FW		Kivi Zhimomi (on loan at TRAU F.C.)	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF		Augustine Okrah (Injury)	4	0	0+4	0	0	0

Top scorers

Rnk	No.	Nation	Player	Pos	Indian Super League	Indian Super Cup	Total
1	10		Bartholomew Ogbeche	FW	12	0	12
2	9		Federico Gallego	MF	4	0	4
3	14		Rowllin Borges	MF	4	1	5
4	24		Juan Cruz Mascia	MF	3	0	3
5	22		Redeem Tlang	MF	1	0	1
Totals					24	1	25

Disciplinary record

No.	Nation	Player	Pos	Yellow Card	Red Card
20		Keegan Pereira	DF	1	0
19		Robert Lalthlamuana	DF	3	0
12		Reagan Singh	DF	3	0
14		Rowllin Borges	MF	2	0
22		Redeem Tlang	MF	5	0
9		Federico Gallego	MF	2	0
5		Provat Lakra	DF	1	0
6		José David Leudo	MF	4	1
6		Bartholomew Ogbeche	FW	2	0
18		Mislav Komorski	DF	2	1
18		Mato Grgić	DF	4	0
16		Gurwinder Singh	DF	1	1
Totals				30	3

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