2016–17 Mumbai FC season
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| 2016–17 season | |||
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| Chairman | Amit Goenka | ||
| Manager | Santosh Kashyap | ||
| Stadium | Cooperage Ground, Mumbai, Maharashtra | ||
| Top goalscorer | League: 3 Goals Karan Sawhney All: 3 Goals Karan Sawhney | ||
| Highest home attendance | 3624 | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 3126 | ||
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The 2016–17 season was Mumbai F.C.'s eighth season in the I-League since its establishment in 2007. Mumbai were relegated to I-League 2nd division at the end of the season.
Background
[edit]The club narrowly avoided relegation last season finishing with 19 from their 16 outings with four wins, seven draws and five losses. Following the disappointing campaign the club also parted company with former player and long-time head coach Khalid Jamil.
Transfers
[edit]Keepers Sanjiban Ghosh and Pawan Kumar(Mohun Bagan) headed for the exit. They are joined by defenders Srikanth Ramu, Thiyam Chingkheinganba and Ashutosh Mehta who has joined Aizawl FC. Midfielders Malemngamba Meetei (to NEROCA FC), Taisuke Matsugae, Eric Brown, Asif Kottayil, Darren Caldeira(to Bengaluru FC and later Chennai City FC and Arata Izumi ( NEROCA FC) have moved on. The frontline will also have a new look to it with the departures of Rohit Mirza, Ryuki Kozawa, Jayesh Rane and Cletus Paul.
In
[edit]| No. | Position | Player | Previous club | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FW |  Farukh Choudhary
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Kerala Blasters | |||
| DF | Reagan Singh
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NorthEast United | |||
| DF | Lalchhawnkima
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Delhi Dynamos | |||
| DF | Munmun Lugun
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Mumbai City FC | |||
| FW | Victorino Fernandes
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Sporting Goa | |||
| FW | Pratik Chowdhary
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Kerala Blasters | |||
| FW | Asheer Akhtar
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Free Agent | |||
| FW | Mehrajuddin Wadoo
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Free agent | |||
| FW | Chinta Chandrashekhar Rao
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Free Agent | |||
| FW | Laxmikant Kattimani
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Dempo FC | |||
| FW | Pratesh Shirodkar
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FC Goa | |||
| FW | Sukhdev Patil
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| FW | Victorino Fernandes
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Sporting Clube de Goa | |||
| FW | Nikhil Kadam
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DSK Shivajians | |||
| FW |  Alex Willian
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Free Agent | |||
| FW | Anderson Silva
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| FW |  Densill Theobald
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Competitions
[edit]Overall
[edit]| Competition | Started round | Current position |
Final position |
First match | Last match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I-League | — | — | — | 8 January 2017 | — |
| Federation Cup | — | — | — | — | — |
I-League
[edit]Matches
[edit]| 8 January 2017 Match 1 | Mumbai | 1–0 | DSK Shivajians | Mumbai |
| 19:00 IST | Singh  21' |
Report | Stadium: Cooperage Ground Attendance: 3,200 |
| 15 January 2017 Match 2 | Churchill Brothers | v | Mumbai | Goa |
| 16:30 IST | Report | Stadium: Tilak Maidan |
Table
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Churchill Brothers | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 26 | −2 | 20 | |
| 7 | DSK Shivajians | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 30 | −8 | 18 | |
| 8 | Chennai City | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 29 | −14 | 17 | |
| 9 | Minerva Punjab | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 33 | −16 | 13[a] | |
| 10 | Mumbai (R) | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 28 | −19 | 13[a] | Relegation to I-League 2nd Division |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
(R) Relegated
Notes:
Results summary
[edit]| Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 7 January 2017.
Source: soccerway
See also
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