| Season: | 2015 |
| Manager: | Peter Taylor (until 1 November) Terry Phelan (from 1 November) |
| Mgrtitle: | Head Coach |
| Chrtitle: | General Manager |
| Chairman: | Viren D'Silva |
| League Topscorer: | Chris Dagnall (6) Antonio German (6) |
| Highest Attendance: | 62,013 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 32,313[1] |
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| Nextseason: | 2016 |
The 2015 season was the second season in Kerala Blasters FC's existence, as well as their second season in Indian Super League. The club were the runner-up in the 2014 ISL tournament where they lost to Atlético de Kolkata 0–1 in the final.[2] The club appointed former England-U20 manager Peter Taylor as its new manager for the 2015 season after the departure of David James.[3]
After the 2014 season, it was announced that David James would not return to the club as head coach and marquee player. On 12 May 2015 it was announced that former England U20 head coach Peter Taylor would take over as the Blasters head coach.[4] New foreign signings coming into the season included Peter Ramage, Stephen Bywater, Bruno Perone, Sanchez Watt, João Coimbra, and marquee signing Carlos Marchena.[5]
The first match of the season was played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, with the Kerala Blasters hosting NorthEast United. The Kerala Blasters won 3–1 through goals from Josu, Mohammed Rafi, and Sanchez Watt.[6] However, the Blasters followed that victory drawing their next match against Mumbai City and then losing their next four matches which eventually led to the dismissal of Peter Taylor as head coach.[7] Assistant coach Trevor Morgan was in charge for one match before Terry Phelan was named head coach for the rest of the season.[8] Fortunes failed to change for the Kerala Blasters as the club ended their second season in last place, failing to qualify for the Indian Super League finals.[9]
Source: Indian Super League 2015
See main article: List of 2015 Indian Super League season roster changes.
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Transferred From | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Fee | scope=col style="width:78px;" | Date | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Leyton Orient | Free | [10] | |||||||
| 17 |  Delhi Dynamos | Free | ||||||||
| 20 | Mumbai F.C. | Free | ||||||||
| 8 | Rapid București | Free | [11] | |||||||
| 10 | Colchester United | Free | [12] | |||||||
| 23 |  Grêmio Novorizontino | Free | [13] | |||||||
| 5 | Crystal Palace | Free | [14] | |||||||
| 43 | Doncaster Rovers | Free | ||||||||
| 21 | Gillingham | Free | [15] | |||||||
| 6 |  Deportivo La Coruña | Free | [16] | |||||||
| 30 | Scunthorpe United | Free | [17] | |||||||
| 99 |  Górnik Łęczna | Free | [18] | |||||||
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Transferred From | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Fee | scope=col style="width:78px;" | Date | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | S.E.R. Caxias do Sul | Free | [19] | |||||||
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Transferred To | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Fee | scope=col style="width:78px;" | Date | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Atlético Paranaense | Loan Return | ||||||||
| 12 | Mohun Bagan | Loan Return | ||||||||
| 32 |  Charleston Battery | Loan Return | ||||||||
| 44 | Atlético Paranaense | Loan Return | ||||||||
| 14 | Mehtab Hossain | East Bengal | Loan Return | |||||||
| 16 | Gurwinder Singh | East Bengal | Loan Return | |||||||
| 29 | Saumik Dey | Loan Return | ||||||||
| 30 | East Bengal | Loan Return | ||||||||
| 70 | Retired | |||||||||
| 13 | Free Agent | Free | ||||||||
| 23 | Free Agent | Free | ||||||||
| 27 |  Melbourne Knights | Free | ||||||||
| 88 | Salgaocar F.C. | Free | ||||||||
| 18 | Shillong Lajong | Free | [20] | |||||||
| 3 | Exeter City | Free | [21] | |||||||
| 21 | Royal Wahingdoh | Free | ||||||||
| 25 | Motherwell | Free | [22] | |||||||
| 22 |  FC Istres | Free | ||||||||
| 10 | Tranmere Rovers | Free | [23] | |||||||
| 8 | Alloa Athletic | Free | [24] | |||||||
| 2 | NorthEast United | Free | [25] | |||||||
| 7 | FC Pune City | Free | ||||||||
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Transferred To | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Fee | scope=col style="width:78px;" | Date | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | CD Gerena | Free | ||||||||
| 10 | Free Agent | Free | [26] | |||||||
| 9 | Hibernian F.C. | Free | [27] | |||||||
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Loaned From | scope=col style="width:100px;" | Start | scope=col style="width:78px;" | End | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | East Bengal | |||||||||
| 16 | East Bengal | |||||||||
| 18 | Deepak Mondal | East Bengal | ||||||||
| 22 | Mohun Bagan | |||||||||
| 29 | East Bengal | |||||||||
| 7 | East Bengal | |||||||||
| 12 | Bengaluru | |||||||||
| 13 | Bengaluru | |||||||||
| 66 | Dempo S.C. | |||||||||
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Loaned From | scope=col style="width:100px;" | Start | scope=col style="width:78px;" | End | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | East Bengal | |||||||||
| scope=col style="width:200px;" | Player | scope=col style="width:250px;" | Loaned To | scope=col style="width:100px;" | Start | scope=col style="width:78px;" | End | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | CSKA Sofia | [28] | ||||||||
See main article: 2015 Indian Super League season.
|-|colspan=14|Players who left Kerala Blasters due to injury during the season:|-|colspan=14|Players who left Kerala Blasters during the season:|-|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | Indian Super League | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 21 | Antonio German | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| FW | 9 | Chris Dagnall | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 | FW | | 20 | Mohammed Rafi | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 4 | FW | 10 | Sanchez Watt | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 5 | MF | | 99 | Josu | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| MF | | 7 | Cavin Lobo | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| MF | | 85 | Pulga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| MF | 8 | João Coimbra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 22 | 22 | |||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Indian Super League | Total | |||
| width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | width=60 style="background: #FFEE99" | width=60 style="background: #FF8888" | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | | DF | Ramandeep Singh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 5 | DF | Peter Ramage | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 9 | FW | Chris Dagnall | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 11 | | MF | Ishfaq Ahmed | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 13 | | MF | C.K. Vineeth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 14 | | MF | Mehtab Hossain | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| 15 | | DF | Sandesh Jhingan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 23 | | DF | Bruno Perone | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 | | DF | Saumik Dey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 30 | DF | Marcus Williams | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 43 | GK | Stephen Bywater | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 66 | | MF | Peter Carvalho | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 99 | | MF | Josù | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| TOTALS | 19 | 3 | 19 | 3 | ||||
| width=50 | Pos | width=100 | width=150 | width=150 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | align=center | 6 Oct 2015 | align=left | align=center | 60,017 | ||
| align=center | 2 | align=center | 10 Oct 2015 | align=left | align=center | 61,483 | ||
| align=center | 3 | align=center | 18 Oct 2015 | align=left | align=center | 62,013 | ||
| align=center | 4 | align=center | 31 Oct 2015 | align=left | align=center | 47,852 | ||
| align=center | 5 | align=center | 4 Nov 2015 | align=left | align=center | 40,125 | ||
| align=center | 6 | align=center | 10 Nov 2015 | align=left | align=center | 60,251 | ||
| align=center | 7 | align=center | 29 Nov 2015 | align=left | align=center | 32,313 |