| Season: | 2019–20 |
| Mgrtitle: | Head Coach |
| Chairman: | Viren D' Silva |
| Chrtitle: | CEO |
| League Result: | 7th |
| Cup1 Result: | Tournament Suspended |
| League Topscorer: | Bartholomew Ogbeche (15 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Bartholomew Ogbeche (15 goals) |
| Average Attendance: | 17,500 |
| Highest Attendance: | 36,298 (20 October 2019) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 7,754 (15 February 2020) |
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| Nextseason: | 2020–21 |
The 2019–20 season was the sixth season in Kerala Blasters FC's existence, as well as their sixth season in Indian Super League.[1] [2]
See also: 2019–20 Indian Super League season.
Kerala Blasters started their 2019–20 Hero Indian Super League campaign with 2 consecutive home matches. They managed to come back for a 2–1 victory over ATK in the inaugural match,[3] but lost against Mumbai City in very next match by conceding a late goal.
They continued their winless run after the first match, by losing their first away match of the season against Hyderabad FC after took lead and a goal less draw against Odisha FC. In this match, most of the time they played with 6 local players and only 2 foreign players because of injuries. During the international break after the match, they signed Vlatko Drobarov as a replacement for injured Jairo Rodrigues.
Kerala Blasters managed to climb to 6th position on the table after winning by their highest margin till the date of 5–1 against Hyderabad FC. They also defeated their rivals Bengaluru FC and ATK. Their last match in the season was against Odisha FC which ended in 4-4. This was the highest scoring match in the history of ISL till that date. Finally, the Blasters ended their season by finishing in 7th place in the table.
| Position | No. | Player | From club |
|---|---|---|---|
| MF | 19 |  Halicharan Narzary | Chennaiyin FC |
| MF | 55 | Jeakson Singh | Indian Arrows |
| FW | 13 | C. K. Vineeth | Chennaiyin FC |
| Exit date | Position | No. | Player | To club | Fee | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 March 2019 | DM | 7 |  Cyril Kali |  Panserraikos F.C. | Released | |
| 1 March 2019 | DM | 6 |  Nikola Krcmarevic | Kerala Blasters (B) | Released | |
| 1 March 2019 | DF | 4 | Nemanja Lakić-Pešić | FK Voždovac | Released | |
| 1 March 2019 | MF | 99 |  Courage Pekuson | Kerala Blasters (B) | Released | |
| 1 March 2019 | MF | 8 | Slaviša Stojanović | Kerala Blasters (B) | None | |
| 1 March 2019 | MF | 17 |  Kizito Keziron | KCCA FC | Released | |
| 1 June 2019 | MF | 9 | | Goa | None | |
| 9 June 2019 | GK | 1 | Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem | ATK | None | |
| 1 July 2019 | DF | 15 | Anas Edathodika | ATK | None | |
| 17 July 2019 | MF | 22 | Zakeer Mundampara | — | Released | |
| 26 August 2019 | FW | 13 | C.K. Vineeth | Jamshedpur | Released | |
| 2 September 2019 | MF | 45 | Deependra Negi | Hyderabad | Released | |
| Start date | End date | Position | No. | Player | To club | Fee | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2018 | End of season | FW | — | Shaiborlang Kharpan | Ozone FC | None | – |
| 25 June 2019 | End of season | MF | — | Nongdamba Naorem | Mohun Bagan | None | – |
| 31 July 2019 | End of season | FW | 10 | Matej Poplatnik |  Kaposvári Rákóczi FC | None | [23] |
The Kerala Blasters traveled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for their pre-season tour ahead of the new season.[24] There, the club was set to play friendlies with top division UAE Pro League club.[25]
The team traveled to UAE on September 4 and played one game vs Dibba Al-Fujairah. The event organisers Michi Sports did not provide the club with proper training and other facilities in the UAE, so the club decided to pull out of the tour.
The club was scheduled to face Ajman Club on 12 September, Emirates Club on 20 September and finally Al-Nasr on the 27th. But all the three games were cancelled. The club returned to India on 11 September and had a preseason at home training facility.[26]
Kerala Blasters restarted their preseason on their home training facility turf at the Panampilly Nagar Ground. The club faced I-League 2nd Division club South United, I-League club Real Kashmir FC and they also faced the Kerala Santhosh Trophy team, the Kerala State Football Team. The Blasters even had a preseason game against their own reserve side, the Kerala Blasters (B). They Finished their preseason with a draw against Indian Arrows.
See main article: 2019–20 Indian Super League season.
As of 17 March 2020.[27]
|-! colspan=10 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers|-! colspan=10 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders |-! colspan=10 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders|-! colspan=10 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards|}
| League | Others | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games Played | 18 | 0 | 18 | |
| Games Won | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Games Drawn | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Games Lost | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Goals Scored | 29 | 0 | 29 | |
| Goals conceded | 32 | 0 | 32 | |
| Goal Difference | -3 | 0 | -3 | |
| Clean Sheets | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Goals by Substitutes | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Yellow Cards | 41 | 0 | 41 | |
| Red Cards | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nation | Name | League | Others | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | FW | 15 | 0 | 15 | |||
| 2 | 28 | FW |  | Raphaël Messi Bouli | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
| 3 | 19 | MF | | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 17 | MF | | Rahul KP | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8 | MF | | Seityasen Singh | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 22 | MF | Sergio Cidoncha | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 33 | DF | Vlatko Drobarov | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| TOTAL | 29 | 0 | 29 | |||||
Note: This list features only the top 5 players with most assists in the season
| Rank | Pos. | Nation | Name | League | Others | Total Appearance | Total Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DF | | Jessel Carneiro | 5 | 0 | 18 | 5 |
| 2 | MF |  | Sergio Cidoncha | 3 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
| 3 | DF | Gianni Zuiverloon | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | |
| 4 | MF | | Halicharan Narzary | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
| 5 | MF | | Sahal Samad | 2 | 0 | 18 | 2 |
| No. | Nation | Name | League | Others | Total Clean Sheets | Games Played | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Bilal Khan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| 13 | | Rehenesh TP | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | |
| TOTAL | 3 | 0 | 3 | 18 | |||
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Name | League | Others | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | DF |  | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7 | MF |  | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2 | DF | | Mohammad Rakip | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 24 | DF | | Abdul Hakku | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 28 | FW | | Messi Bouli | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | MF | | Sahal Samad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 33 | DF | Vlatko Drobarov | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 22 | MF | Sergio Cidoncha | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 55 | MF | | Jeakson Singh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 51 | DF |  | Gianni Zuiverloon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | MF | Mario Arques | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8 | MF | | Seityasen Singh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | DF | | Raju Gaikwad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | FW | Bartholomew Ogbeche | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14 | DF | | Jessel Carneiro | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | MF | | K Prasanth | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 39 | DF | | Lalruatthara | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 17 | MF | | Rahul KP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | GK | | Bilal Khan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| TOTAL | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 0 | ||||
