2016–17 Mumbai FC season explained

Club:Mumbai
Season:2016–17
Manager:Santosh Kashyap
Chairman:Amit Goenka
Stadium:Cooperage Ground, Mumbai, Maharashtra
League:I-League
Cup1:Federation Cup
Highest Attendance:3624
Lowest Attendance:3126
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Prevseason:2015–16

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

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

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

No.PositionPlayerPrevious clubDateRef
Farukh ChoudharyKerala Blasters
Reagan SinghNorthEast United
LalchhawnkimaDelhi Dynamos
Munmun LugunMumbai City FC
Victorino FernandesSporting Goa
Pratik ChowdharyKerala Blasters
Asheer AkhtarFree Agent
Mehrajuddin WadooFree agent
Chinta Chandrashekhar Rao Free Agent
Laxmikant KattimaniDempo FC
Pratesh ShirodkarFC Goa
Sukhdev Patil
Victorino Fernandes Sporting Clube de Goa
Nikhil KadamDSK Shivajians
Alex WillianFree Agent
Anderson Silva
Densill Theobald

Competitions

Overall

CompetitionStarted roundCurrent
position
Final
position
First matchLast match
I-League8 January 2017
Federation Cup

I-League

See main article: article and 2016-17 I-League.

Results summary

See also