2018–19 FC Pune City season

FC Pune City
2018–19 season
Manager	Phil Brown
Stadium	Balewadi Sports Complex
ISL	7th of 10
Super Cup	Round of 16

The 2018–19 FC Pune City season is the club's fifth season since its establishment in 2014 and their fifth season in the Indian Super League.

Background

Transfers

Contract Extension

No.	Position	Player	Date	Ref
9	FW	Emiliano Alfaro	11 June 2018	[1]
10	FW	Marcelinho	13 June 2018	[2]
5	MF	Adil Khan	25 June 2018	[3]
17	MF	Rohit Kumar	29 June 2018	[4]
20	FW	Diego Carlos	4 July 2018	[5]
15	MF	Marko Stanković	4 July 2018	[5]
3	DF	Gurtej Singh	19 July 2018	[6]
1	GK	Kamaljit Singh	19 July 2018	[6]
31	DF	Lalchhuanmawia	19 July 2018	[6]

In

No.	Position	Player	Previous club	Transfer fee	Date	Ref
11	MF	Gabriel Fernandes	East Bengal	Free agent	9 July 2018	[7]
16	MF	Shankar Sampingiraj	ATK	Free agent	9 July 2018	[7]
–	FW	Robin Singh	ATK	Free agent	23 July 2018	[8]
27	MF	Nikhil Poojari	East Bengal	Free agent	26 July 2018	[9]
–	MF	Alwyn George	Bengaluru FC	Free agent	26 July 2018	[9]
32	DF	Keenan Almeida	Chennaiyin	Free agent	30 July 2018	[10]
–	FW	Iain Hume	Kerala Blasters	Free agent	2 August 2018	[11]
21	DF	Martín Díaz	NorthEast United	Free agent	17 August 2018	[12]
–	DF	Matt Mills	Barnsley	Free agent	21 August 2018	[13]
–	MF	Jonathan Vila	Recreativo	Free agent	23 August 2018	[14]
–	DF	Ashutosh Mehta	ATK	Free agent	23 August 2018	[15]

Out

No.	Position	Player	Outgoing club	Ref
19	MF	Kean Lewis	Bengaluru FC	[16]
7	MF	Jonatan Lucca	C.F. Os Belenenses	[17]
	DF	Sebastian Thangmuansang	NEROCA	[18]
4	MF	Rafa	CF Rayo Majadahonda
6	MF	Marcos Tébar	Delhi Dynamos	[19]
11	FW	Ajay Singh	Gokulam Kerala
23	FW	Jewel Raja	Mohammedan
21	DF	Lolo	unattached

Pre-season and friendlies

FC Pune City kicked -off their pre-season preparations by participating in the second edition of the AWES Cup in Goa from 29 August 2018.

In the last edition of AWES Cup, FC Pune City Reserves squad went up to semifinals before losing to Dempo Sports Club 1–0. But this time around, the club has decided to participate in the event with their entire first team squad. FC Pune City is placed along with Dempo SC, Salgaocar FC and FC Goa in Group A. [20]

29 August 2018 AWES Cup 2018	Salgaocar	2–0	FC Pune City	Vasco da Gama, Goa, India
16:00 IST	Ronaldo Olivera 23' Devendra Murgaokar 60'	Report		Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium

30 August 2018 Friendly[21]	Indian Arrows	1–1	FC Pune City	Old Goa, India
15:30 IST		Source		Stadium: Dempo S.C. training ground

6 September 2018 AWES Cup 2018	FC Pune City	3–3[22]	FC Goa(R)	Vasco da Gama, Goa, India
16:00 IST	Matt Mills 15' Diego Carlos 36' Emiliano Alfaro 90+2'	Report	Hayden Fernandes ?' Opa Ralte ?', ?' [23]	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium

9 September 2018 AWES Cup 2018	Dempo	3–1	FC Pune City	Vasco da Gama, Goa, India
16:00 IST	Velito Cruz 56' Jessel Carneiro Latesh 68'	Report	Jakob Vanlalhimpuia	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium

16 September 2018 Friendly[24]	Churchill Brothers	1–2	FC Pune City	Old Goa, India
	Willis Plaza	Report	Emiliano Alfaro	Stadium: Dempo S.C. training ground

17 September 2018 Friendly	Gokulam Kerala	2–3	FC Pune City	Old Goa, India
	Erisa[25]	Report	Abhishek Halder R.Singh Marko Stanković (p)	Stadium: Dempo S.C. training ground

26 September 2018 Friendly	Pune City FC	1–1	Chennai City
IST		Report	Néstor Gordillo

Players

As of 31 August 2018

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		ISL		Super Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Kamaljit Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	GK		Vishal Kaith	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	GK		Anuj Kumar	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
18	DF		Ashutosh Mehta	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF		Gurtej Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF		Sahil Panwar	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF		Matt Mills	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	DF		Sarthak Golui	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF		Nim Dorjee Tamang	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	DF		Lalchhuanmawia	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	DF		Martín Díaz	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Keenan Almeida	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF		Jonathan Vila	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF		Shankar Sampingiraj	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	MF		Rohit Kumar	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	MF		Adil Khan	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF		Marko Stanković	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		Abhishek Halder	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	MF		Alwyn George	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	MF		Nikhil Poojari	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Abhijit Sarkar	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
23	FW		Robin Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW		Marcelinho	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	FW		Diego Carlos	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	FW		Jakob Vanlalhimpuia	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Gabriel Fernandes	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Iain Hume	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: soccerway

Competitions

Indian Super League

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	Jamshedpur	18	6	9	3	29	21	+8	27
6	ATK	18	6	6	6	18	22	−4	24
7	Pune City	18	6	4	8	24	30	−6	22
8	Delhi Dynamos	18	4	6	8	23	27	−4	18
9	Kerala Blasters	18	2	9	7	18	28	−10	15

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

Matches

League stage

22 October 2018 3	FC Pune City	0–3	Bengaluru FC	Pune
19:30 IST	Kuruniyan 10' Panwar 59'		Chhetri 41', 43' Khabra 47' Miku 64'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Attendance: 8,193 Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Sunil Chhetri (Bengaluru FC)

Technical staff

Position	Name
Manager	Phil Brown
Assistant Coach	Gonzalo Yarza
Technical Director	Pradyum Reddy
Assistant Coach	TBD
Goalkeeping Coach	Ali Uzunhasanoglu
Team Physiotherapists	TBD
Team Physiotherapists	Sumedh Desai
Team Doctor
Team Operations Manager	Ankur Paliwal
Team Masseur	Ramkishan Singh
Kit Manager
Youth Team – Head Coach	Anshul Katiyar
Youth Team – Assistant Coach

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