2018 Hamilton City SC season

The 2018 season was Hamilton City SC's second season in the Canadian Soccer League. The season marked the return of Hamilton after a season's absence in order to reorganize. Their season began on May 19, 2018 in an away match to FC Vorkuta.[1] Throughout the season Hamilton clinched an playoff berth after finishing fifth in the First Division. Their postseason journey came to a quick conclusion after a defeat to Scarborough SC in the Quarterfinals. The club's top goalscorer was Sani Dey with 13 goals, which made him the league's top goalscorer and was awarded the CSL Golden Boot.[2]

Hamilton City SC

2018 season
Manager	Kathleen Nurse
Head Coach	Sasa Vukovic
Canadian Soccer League	5th place (First Division)
CSL Championship	Quarterfinal
Top goalscorer	Sani Dey (13 goals)
Home colours Away colours

Summary

After a one year sabbatical Hamilton returned to the Canadian Soccer League under new management.[3] Former Brantford Galaxy head coach Sasa Vukovic was appointed in that capacity.[4] In preparation for the season the organization transferred their home venue to Heritage Green Sport Park. The roster assembled by Vukovic consisted of former players and talent from their previous reserve team.[5] Hamilton managed to produce an average season enough to secure a playoff berth with a fifth place standing in the First Division. In the postseason Hamilton faced Scarborough SC in the opening round, but were defeated in the opening round.[6]

Team

Roster

As of August 10, 2018[7]

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  CAN Stefan Avramovic [8] 2 DF  CAN Luke Rankin [9] 4 MF   Ahmed Mohamed 5 DF  CAN Borna Juracic [10] 6 DF  CAN Simo Vrakela [11] 7 MF   Vukasin Kovacevic 8 MF  CAN Lucas Raposo [12] 9 FW  GHA Sani Dey [13] 10 FW  SVN Timotej Zakrajsek [14] 11 MF   Joe Willingham 12 MF   Alexsander Lasic 14 DF   Justin Dargue [15] 15 DF   Stefan Stojanovic 16 MF   Kristian Pulic 17 DF  CAN Ivan Stojakovic [16]

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   Cvitan Jelcic 19 MF  CAN Miroslav Cabrilo 20 FW  COL Daniel Arcila 21 DF  CAN Arsen Platis [17] 22 MF   Pani Sarkis 23 DF   Borislav Kotev - MF   Stefan Blazic - DF   Marko Dzaric - FW   Marko Ferlez - FW  BIH Zoran Maletic [18] - MF   Filip Sekulic - DF  CAN Yousef Tabanja [19] - DF   Milos Voruna - DF   Alen Zakrajsek

Management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Sasa Vukovic
Assistant coach	Stefan Vukovic
Team trainer	Rajko Kunavc
Game Day manager	Kathleen Nurse
Media Relations	Kathleen Nurse

Last updated: August 10, 2018
Source: canadiansoccerleague.ca

In

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred From	Fee/Notes	Source
20	MF	Daniel Arcila	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	Free Transfer	[20]
19	MF	Miroslav Čabrilo	Brantford Galaxy	Free Transfer	[21]
9	FW	Sani Dey	Burlington SC	Free Transfer	[22]

Competitions

Canadian Soccer League

First Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Ukraine United (C)	16	12	2	2	60	16	+44	38	Playoffs
2	FC Vorkuta (O)	16	12	2	2	55	16	+39	38
3	SC Waterloo Region	16	9	2	5	34	33	+1	29
4	Scarborough SC	16	8	5	3	34	20	+14	29
5	Hamilton City SC	16	8	1	7	41	38	+3	25
6	Serbian White Eagles	16	5	4	7	20	20	0	19
7	SC Real Mississauga	16	3	2	11	14	42	−28	11
8	Brantford Galaxy	16	3	2	11	9	37	−28	11
9	CSC Mississauga	16	1	2	13	9	37	−28	5

Updated to match(es) played on September 27, 2018. Source: http://canadiansoccerleague.ca/2018-csl-first-division-standings/
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner.

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
16	8	1	7	41	38	+3	25	4	1	3	20	20	0	4	0	4	21	18	+3

Last updated: September 20, 2018.
Source: 2018 Canadian Soccer League season

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Ground	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	H	H	H
Result	L	L	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	L	L	L	W	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on September 26, 2018. Source: CSL
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

May 19	FC Vorkuta	3–0	Hamilton City SC	Vaughan, Ontario
	Ursulenko  37' Solonynko  43' Riabets  80'	Report		Stadium: Ontario Soccer Centre

May 27	Scarborough SC	5–1	Hamilton City SC	Toronto, Ontario
	Stojiljkovic  40',  55',  60',  80' Dimitrov  70'	Report	Luke Rajain  3'	Stadium: Birchmount Stadium

June 2	Brantford Galaxy	0–4	Hamilton City SC	Hamilton, Ontario
20:30		Report	Arsen Platis  8' Sani Dey  18',  39' Vukasin Kovacevic  50'	Stadium: Heritage Field

June 9	Hamilton City SC	1–3	FC Ukraine United	Hamilton, Ontario
18:30	Vukasin Kovacevic  75'	Report	Kucherenko  41' Malysh  81' Milishchuk  91'	Stadium: Heritage Field

June 23	Hamilton City SC	4–2	SC Waterloo Region	Hamilton, Ontario
18:30	Lucas Raposo  4' Sani Dey  65' Arsen Platis  74' Cabrilo  80'	Report	Vladimir Stankovic  15' Aleksander Mitic  67'	Stadium: Heritage Field

July 6	SC Real Mississauga	1–2	Hamilton City SC	Mississauga, Ontario
	Juan Dominquez  87'	Report	Lucas Raposo  4' Joe Willingham  39'	Stadium: Hershey Centre

July 14	Hamilton City SC	1–2	SC Real Mississauga	Hamilton, Ontario
	Timotej Zakrajsek  26'	Report	Miguel Angel Chavez Vejar  45' Morgan Copeland  53'	Stadium: Heritage Field

July 27	CSC Mississauga	0–9	Hamilton City SC	Mississauga, Ontario
21:00		Report	Krista Glasanovic  1',  90' Timotej Zakrajsek  4',  15',  33',  55' Sani Dey , ,	Stadium: Iceland Field

August 3	Serbian White Eagles	3–4	Hamilton City SC	Toronto, Ontario
19:00	Kamberovic  3' Luka Bojic  13' Vukomanovic  92'	Report	Lucas Raposo  24' Sani Dey  26',  75',  89'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium

August 18	Hamilton City SC	4–4	Scarborough SC	Hamilton, Ontario
18:30	Marko Ferlez , Kristian Puljic ,	Report	Bryan , , Hammud Ali Atif	Stadium: Heritage Field

August 31	SC Waterloo Region	3–0	Hamilton City SC	Waterloo, Ontario
20:30	Miodrag Kovacevic  45',  70' Adis Hasecic  50'	Report		Stadium: RIM Park

September 9	FC Ukraine United	3–1	Hamilton City SC	Toronto, Ontario
19:00	Hromyak  9' Falkovskyi  69',  80'	Report	Filip Seculik  85'	Stadium: Centennial Park Stadium

September 16	Hamilton City SC	1–5	FC Vorkuta	Hamilton, Ontario
18:30	Stefan Blazic  55'	Report	Haidarzhi Ivliev , , Kerchu Riabyi	Stadium: Heritage Field

September 18	Hamilton City SC	4–1	CSC Mississauga	Hamilton, Ontario
20:00	Sani Dey  35',  64' Marko Zelenica  63' Kristian Puljic  89'	Report	Pero Menalo  33'	Stadium: Heritage Field

September 23	Hamilton City SC	2–1	Brantford Galaxy	Hamilton, Ontario
19:00	Vukasin Kovacevic Stefan Blazic	Report	Dokic	Stadium: Heritage Field

September 25	Hamilton City SC	3–2	Serbian White Eagles	Hamilton, Ontario
	Sani Dey  18',  24' Vukasin Kovacevic  49'	Report	Mihailo Madzar  22' Bojan Vranic  59'	Stadium: Heritage Field

Postseason

September 29 Quarterfinal	Scarborough SC	4–1	Hamilton City SC	Toronto, Ontario
17:00	Angel Angelov  33' Atif Hammud Ali  42' Knežević  60' Radakovic  70'	Report	Peter Aleksic  46'	Stadium: Birchmount Stadium

Statistics

Goals

Correct as of September 30, 2018[23]

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