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Mumbai

2012–13 season
Chairman	Henry Picardo
Manager	Khalid Jamil
I-League	6th
Federation Cup	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Yusif Yakubu (6 goals) All: David Opara (7 goals)
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The 2012–13 Mumbai F.C. season will be the club's sixth season since their formation in 2007 and their fifth season ever in the I-League which is India's top football league.

Background

The club played their first season in the I-League during the 2008–09 I-League season. The club played their first ever I-League match against historic club Mohun Bagan on 27 September 2008 in which Abel Hammond scored the first ever I-League goal for Mumbai FC as Mumbai went on to win 2–1 at the Barasat Stadium. Mumbai then completed a double against the two giant Kolkata clubs after they defeated East Bengal F.C. at the Salt Lake Stadium 1–0 with Felix Aboagye scoring the only goal. Mumbai then played their first ever home match in their history at the Cooperage Ground on 11 October 2008 with Kalia Kulothungan scoring the only goal in the match. Half-way through the season Mumbai was placed in sixth place in the table. The club, however, could not last in the I-League and finished in 7th place which currently remains their best position to date.

Transfers

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  IND William Colaco (from Dempo) — DF  GHA Evans Quao (Free Agent) — GK  IND Kunal Sawant (from Air India) — DF  IND Justin Stephen (from Prayag United) — DF  IND Kamaljeet Kumar (from Pune) — DF  IND James Singh (from Mohun Bagan) — FW  IND Gabriel Fernandes (from Sporting Goa) — FW  NGA David Opara (from Churchill Brothers) — FW  GHA Yusif Yakubu (from Prayag United) — GK  IND Luis Barreto (on loan from Dempo) — MF  IND Chhangte Malsawmkima (Free Agent)

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  IND Ishan Debnath (to Prayag United) — FW  IND Cavin Lobo (to East Bengal) — MF  IND Chhangte Malsawmkima (to Salgaocar) — DF  IND Keegan Pereira (to Salgaocar) — FW  NGA Gbeneme Friday (to Shillong Lajong) — FW  NGA Ebi Sukore (to Shillong Lajong) — MF  NGA Kingsley Chioma (released) — MF  LBR Eric Brown (to ONGC) — DF  IND Dhanachandra Singh (to Prayag United)

Federation Cup

Mumbai entered the 2012 Indian Federation Cup automatically as they were already in the I-League. They were placed in Group A along with defending I-League champions Dempo, Pailan Arrows, and Shillong Lajong and their matches were played in Jamshedpur. The tournament did not end well for Mumbai as they lost two of their matches and drew one, finishing with 1 point, 3 goals scored and 7 conceded.

19 September 2012 Group Stage	Mumbai	1 – 2	Shillong Lajong	Jamshedpur, Orissa
15:00 IST	Opara 45'	Report	Menyongar 43' Friday 90'	Stadium: Keenan Stadium

21 September 2012 Group Stage	Pailan Arrows	2 – 2	Mumbai	Jamshedpur, Orissa
15:00 IST	Ganeshan 45' Devrani 78'	Report	Opara 12', 62'	Stadium: Keenan Stadium

23 September 2012 Group Stage	Mumbai	0 – 4	Dempo	Jamshedpur, Orissa
15:00 IST		Report	Miranda 23' Sakibo 43', 79', 90'	Stadium: JRD Tata Sports Complex

I-League

Mumbai began their first I-League game of 2012–13 away from home on 6 October 2012 against Pailan Arrows in which the team lost 3–2. The next match was not any better as Mumbai lost 3–2 to Pune at the Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune on 11 October 2012. After the defeat Mumbai had a two-week break before their next match on 27 October 2012 against Churchill Brothers at the Fatorda Stadium in Margao, Goa but when the match came Mumbai failed to secure yet another point as they lost their third game on the trot by a score of 3–1 with Ghanaian Yusif Yakubu scoring his first goal for Mumbai.

Mumbai started November with yet another lost as they stumbled to former champions Salgaocar at the Balewadi Sports Complex 1–0 after a 9th-minute goal for Francis Fernandes. This was Mumbai's fourth loss in a row and thus meant that after the first four matches of season, Mumbai had managed to win 0 points. However Mumbai finally won their first match of the season in their fifth attempt as they came back from 2–0 down to win 3–2 on 9 November 2012 at the Balewadi Sports Complex with Gabriel Fernandes, Justin Stephen, and Afghani international Zohib Islam Amiri scoring the goals for Mumbai. Mumbai then won their second game in a row on 17 November 2012 against Sporting Clube de Goa at the Balewadi Sports Complex Nicholas Rodrigues, Gabriel Fernandes, Justin Stephen, and David Opara providing the goals for Mumbai. Mumbai then drew their first match of the season in a surprising 1–1 draw on 25 November 2012 with Mohun Bagan at the Balewadi Sports Complex after former Indian international Abhishek Yadav scored the equalizer for Mumbai in the 62nd minute after three-time I-League top scorer Odafe Onyeka Okolie gave Bagan the lead in the 21st minute. The club then ended the month of November with their third win in four games on 28 November 2012 against ONGC F.C. at the Balewadi Sports Complex (this was Mumbai's 5th home game in a row) after Ghanaian Evans Quao gave Mumbai the winner in the 73rd minute.

The club then began the month of December with a major upset over new rich-boys Prayag United S.C. at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata after Evans Quao scored a 52nd-minute equalizer for Mumbai after Ranti Martins gave Prayag the lead in the 29th minute; Mumbai then scored two more goals with Abhishek Yadav and Yusif Yakubu being the scorers in the 82nd and 94th minute to award Mumbai a special 3–2 victory. The club then went from major upsetters to the team that was getting the upset against them after the club lost 4–1 to relegation fighters Air India FC at the Balewadi Sports Complex. This was Mumbai's first loss in 6 games. The club then regrouped and went back onto the winning track after they defeated newly promoted side United Sikkim at the Balewadi Sports Complex on 15 December 2012 with David Opara being the only goalscorer for Mumbai in the 45th minute as the club won 1–0. The club then came up as the surprise winners again after they defeated Kolkata giants East Bengal F.C. at the Balewadi Sports Complex 2–1 thanks to goals from Gabriel Fernandes and Yusif Yakubu in the 64th and 94th minutes respectively; this result pushed Mumbai into fifth place, ahead of Prayag United, eight rounds after they found themselves in last place in the I-League and staring relegation in the face. Mumbai then ended the month of December and 2012 with a draw against the reigning champions of the I-League, Dempo S.C. at the Balewadi Sports Complex on 30 December 2012.

Then to begin the month of January and the year 2013 Mumbai took on United Sikkim at the Paljor Stadium on 9 January 2013 in Round 15 after their Round 14 clash with Mohun Bagan was canceled due to Bagan being expelled from the league. Mumbai drew the match late on by a score of 2–2 after Yusif Yakubu scored the equalizer for the club four minutes into second half stoppage time but not before he gave Mumbai the lead in the 11th minute before United Sikkim scored two goals in the 15th and 18th minutes of the match. The club then succumbed to their first loss of the season on 13 January 2013 when the club lost to East Bengal at the Kalyani Stadium in West Bengal by a score of 2–0 with Edeh and Lalrindika Ralte scoring the goals for East Bengal. However Mumbai did not let that loss get to them as they went back to winning ways on 19 January 2013 against Prayag United at the Balewadi Sports Complex when the club beaten them by a score of 2–1 with Gabriel Fernandes scoring the goal for Mumbai in the 30th minute before C.K. Vineeth equalized for Prayag in the 47th minute but Mumbai then won the match three minutes later in the 50th minute when Bello Razaq scored an own-goal and thus award the victory to Mumbai. The club then played their final match of January 2013 on 24 January 2013 against Churchill Brothers in which the club drew the match 0–0.

6 October 2012 Round 1	Pailan Arrows	3 – 2	Mumbai	Kolkata, West Bengal
14:30 IST	Narzary 34', 76' Singh 54'	Report	Opara 39' Singh 45'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium

11 October 2012 Round 2	Pune	3 – 2	Mumbai	Pune, Maharashtra
18:30 IST	Nishiguchi 6', 52' Lalpekhlua 75'	Report	Quao 17' Opara 25'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Attendance: 3014 Referee: Vishnu Chauhan

27 October 2012 Round 3	Churchill Brothers	3 – 1	Mumbai	Margao, Goa
17:30 IST	Yadav (o.g.) 17' Moghrabi 33' Beto 69' (pen.)	Report	Yakubu 62'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium

3 November 2012 Round 4	Mumbai	0 – 1	Salgaocar	Pune, Maharashtra
15:00 IST		Report	Fernandes 9'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: P. Dhar

9 November 2012 Round 5	Mumbai	3 – 2	Sporting Goa	Pune, Maharashtra
15:00 IST	G. Fernandes 26' Stephen 45+2' Amiri 89'	Report	Obiora 13' D. Fernandes 18'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: C.R. Srikrishna (Tamil Nadu)

17 November 2012 Round 6	Mumbai	4 – 1	Shillong Lajong	Pune, Maharashtra
15:00 IST	Rodrigues 18' Fernandes 20' Stephen 82' Opara 90+2'	Report	Singh 75'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: T. Nagvenkar

25 November 2012 Round 7	Mumbai	Cancelled	Mohun Bagan	Pune, Maharashtra
19:00 IST	Yadav 62'	Report	Okolie 21'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: T. Nagvenkar

28 November 2012 Round 8	Mumbai	1 – 0	ONGC	Pune, Maharashtra
15:00 IST	Quao 73'	Report		Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: P. Dhar

2 December 2012 Round 9	Prayag United	2 – 3	Mumbai	Kolkata, West Bengal
14:00 IST	Martins 29' Oraon 90+2'	Report	Quao 52' Yadav 82' Yakubu 90+4'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Referee: A. Costa

9 December 2012 Round 10	Air India	4 – 1	Mumbai	Pune, Maharashtra
15:00 IST	Ezeh 36' Fernandes 40' Shetty 72' Chakraborty 90+2'	Report	Yakubu 45+1'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: A. Arjunan

15 December 2012 Round 11	Mumbai	1 – 0	United Sikkim	Pune, Maharashtra
19:00 IST	Opara 45+1'	Report		Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: A. Meetei

23 December 2012 Round 12	Mumbai	2 – 1	East Bengal	Pune, Maharashtra
19:00 IST	Fernandes 64' Yakubu 90+4'	Report	Edeh 90+7'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: A. Costa

9 January 2013 Round 15	United Sikkim	2 – 2	Mumbai	Gangtok, Sikkim
15:00 IST	Bhutia 15' Machado 18'	Report	Yakubu 11', 90+4'	Stadium: Paljor Stadium Referee: R. Singh

13 January 2013 Round 16	East Bengal	2 – 0	Mumbai	Kalyani, West Bengal
14:00 IST	Chidi 11' Ralte 53'	Report		Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Referee: Santosh Kumar

19 January 2013 Round 17	Mumbai	2 – 1	Prayag United	Pune, Maharashtra
19:00 IST	Fernandes 30' Razaq 50' (o.g.)	Report	Vineeth 47'	Stadium: Balewadi Sports Complex Referee: A. Arjunan

Results summary

Last updated: 19 January 2013.
Source: I-League table

Position by round

Players

First-team squad

As of 23 December 2012.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Sanjiban Ghosh 3 DF  IND William Colaco 4 DF  IND Peter Costa 5 DF  IND Justin Stephen 6 MF  IND Ashutosh Mehta 7 MF  IND Nicholas Rodrigues 8 MF  IND James Singh 9 FW  IND Abhishek Yadav 10 FW  GHA Yusif Yakubu 11 MF  IND Subhas Chakraborty 12 MF  IND Sampath Kuttimani 13 GK  IND Sharath Kuniyil 14 FW  IND Gabriel Fernandes

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  IND Darren Caldeira 16 GK  IND Luis Barreto (on loan from Dempo) 17 DF  IND Kamaljeet Kumar 18 DF  AFG Zohib Amiri (captain) 19 DF  IND Faizal Rehman 20 FW  IND Jayesh Rane 23 DF  IND Dane Pereira 24 DF  GHA Evans Quao 28 FW  NGA David Opara 29 MF  IND John Coutinho 31 GK  IND Kunal Sawant 36 DF  IND Ritesh Perambra — MF  IND Rohit Mirza — MF  IND Chhangte Malsawmkima

Goalscorers

Place	Position	Nationality	Name	I-League	Federation Cup	Total
1	FW		David Opara	4	3	7
2	FW		Yusif Yakubu	6	0	6
3	FW		Gabriel Fernandes	4	0	4
4	DF		Evans Quao	3	0	3
5	DF		Justin Stephen	2	0	2
	FW		Abhishek Yadav	2	0	2
7	MF		James Singh	1	0	1
	MF		Nicholas Rodrigues	1	0	1
	DF		Zohib Amiri	1	0	1
			TOTALS	19	3	22

References

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