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United Sikkim

2012–13 season
Chairman	Baichung Bhutia
Manager	Nathan Hall
I-League	13th
Federation Cup	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: 3 players on 1 goal All: 3 players on 1 goal
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The 2012–13 United Sikkim F.C. season will be the club's third season since their formation in 2008 and their first season ever in the I-League which is India's top football league.

Background

The road to the 2012 I-League 2nd Division did not start well for United Sikkim. On 11 June 2011 it was announced that Johnny Menyongar would leave the club to join I-League team Shillong Lajong as well as Indian internationals Renedy Singh and NS Manju in January 2012. However, after firing coach Stanley Rozario, United Sikkim signed Belgian Philippe De Ridder as coach of the team. The club the re-signed Nigerian Daniel Bedemi and Quinton Jacobs for the season. The club then began there charge for the I-League for the second season in a row with a 3–2 victory over Bhawanipore F.C. at the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium in Assam on 2 February 2012. The club then went on to win three more matches during the first round of the I-League 2nd Division against Eagles, Southern Samity, and Ar-Hima in order to qualify for the 2012 I-League 2nd Division final round in which the club won promotion on the last day of the season on 17 April 2012 at the Paljor Stadium in Gangtok, Sikkim in front of 30,000 fans as United Sikkim drew Mohammedan 1–1 with Daniel Bedemi scoring the goal for United Sikkim.

Transfers

In

#	Position	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Ref
	FW	Salau Nuruddin	Green Valley	Free	23 August 2012
	FW	Budhiram Tudu	East Bengal	Free	24 May 2012
	DF	Anwar Ali	Mohun Bagan	Free	5 August 2012
	FW	Nima Tamang	Sikkim Football Academy	Free	5 August 2012
	DF	Mobin Rai	Sikkim Football Academy	Free	5 August 2012
	DF	Shabbir Ali	Prayag United	Free	5 August 2012
	DF	Mashangva Zenith	Shillong Lajong	Free	5 August 2012
	DF	Ashish Chettri	Royal Wahingdoh	Free	5 August 2012
	MF	Lineker Machado	Union Bank of India	Free	5 August 2012
	DF	Rahul Jaiswal	Unattached	Free	5 August 2012
	MF	Raju Debnath	Unattached	Free	5 August 2012
	MF	Yoon Tae	Unattached	Free	5 August 2012
	MF	Michael Rodríguez	Herediano	Free	12 September 2012
	FW	Sogan Kokou	Unattached	Free	12 September 2012

Out

#	Position	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Ref
	MF	Quinton Jacobs	Salgaocar	Free	6 May 2012
	MF	John Babatunde	Released	Free	8 June 2012
	GK	Basant Singh	Shillong Lajong	Free	8 June 2012
	DF	Govin Singh	Shillong Lajong	Free	8 June 2012
	FW	Karan Atwal	Salgaocar	Free	9 June 2012
	GK	Arnab Das Sharma	Mohammedan	Free	2 July 2012
	MF	Mumtaz Akhtar	Pune	Free	8 July 2012
	DF	Baldeep Singh	Air India	Free	16 August 2012
	FW	Daniel Bedemi	Released	Free	1 September 2012

Competitions

Federation Cup

United Sikkim entered the 2012 Indian Federation Cup automatically following promotion to the I-League. They were placed in Group D along with Salgaocar, Pune, and Prayag United and their matches were played in Jamshedpur. The tournament did not end well for United Sikkim as they lost all three of their matches, finishing with 0 points, 0 goals scored and 6 conceded.

20 September 2012 Group Stage	Pune	1 – 0	United Sikkim	Jamshedpur, Orissa
15:00 IST	Lalpekhlua 51'	Report		Stadium: Keenan Stadium

22 September 2012 Group Stage	United Sikkim	0 – 3	Salgaocar	Jamshedpur, Orissa
15:00 IST		Report	Guirado 2' Colaco 81' D'Souza 85'	Stadium: JRD Tata Sports Complex

24 September 2012 Group Stage	Prayag United	2 – 0	United Sikkim	Jamshedpur, Orissa
15:00 IST	Rafique 6', 14'	Report		Stadium: Keenan Stadium

I-League

United Sikkim began their first I-League campaign of 2012–13 at home on 6 October 2012 against the champions of the 2010-11 season, Salgaocar and took the victory 3–2 in what is considered an early upset in the season.

Results summary

Last updated: 19 January 2013.
Source: United Sikkim F.C results

Position by round

6 October 2012 Round 1	United Sikkim	3 – 2	Salgaocar	Gangtok, Sikkim
15:00 IST	Nuruddin 53' Machado 67' Jhingan 73'	Report	Guirado 49' Gonsalves 57'	Stadium: Paljor Stadium

11 October 2012 Round 2	United Sikkim	0 – 1	East Bengal	Gangtok, Sikkim
14:30 IST		Report	Ralte 82'	Stadium: Paljor Stadium

28 October 2012 Round 3	United Sikkim	1 – 2	Dempo	Gangtok, Sikkim
14:30 IST	Nuruddin 59'	Report	Sakibo 20' Sueoka 90+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Paljor Stadium

10 November 2012 Round 5	Prayag United	10 – 1	United Sikkim	Kolkata, West Bengal
14:00 IST	Martins 3', 16', 39', 77', 79' Hernández 22', 35' Tulunga 71' Rafique 90+1' Rodríguez 90+2' (o.g.)	Report	Tamang 5'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Referee: N. Sundi

5 January 2013 Round 14	United Sikkim	1 - 2	Pune	Gangtok, Sikkim
14:00 IST	Tamang 63'	Report	Arata 23' Moga 90+1'	Stadium: Paljor Stadium Referee: P. Dhar

13 January 2013 Round 16	Churchill Brothers	2 - 1	United Sikkim	Mapusa, Goa
15:45 IST	Beto 4' Antchouet 72' (pen.)	Report	Matkin 77'	Stadium: Duler Stadium Referee: R. Dsa

19 January 2013 Round 17	Dempo	7 – 0	United Sikkim	Mapusa, Goa
15:45 IST	Abranches 5' Miranda 35', 77' Sakibo 56', 59', 90+4' Ferrao 84'	Report		Stadium: Duler Stadium Referee: A. Meetei

Appearances and goals

As of 11 October 2012

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		I-League		Federation Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK	KOR	Yoon Tae	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0
	GK	IND	Monotosh Ghosh	4	0	0+1	0	3+0	0
	DF	IND	Mashangva Zenith	3	0	0+0	0	3+0	0
	DF	IND	Munmun Lugun	5	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
	DF	IND	Anwar Ali	5	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
	DF	CRC	Michael Rodríguez	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0
	DF	IND	Sandesh Jhingan	5	1	2+0	1	3+0	0
	DF	IND	Rahul Jaiswal	5	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
	DF	IND	Mobin Rai	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
	MF	IND	Nim Lepcha	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
	MF	IND	Ashish Chettri	5	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
	MF	TOG	Sogan Kokou	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
	MF	IND	Shahensha Ansari	4	0	1+1	0	1+1	0
	MF	IND	Raju Debnath	2	0	0+0	0	2+0	0
	MF	IND	Lineker Machado	5	1	2+0	1	3+0	0
	MF	IND	Shabbir Ali	3	0	0+1	0	2+0	0
	FW	IND	Baichung Bhutia	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
	FW	IND	Budhiram Tudu	5	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
	FW	IND	Tenzin Bhutia	1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
	FW	IND	Nima Tamang	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
	FW	NGA	Salau Nuruddin	3	1	2+0	1	1+0	0

• Source:

Goalscorers

Place	Position	Nationality	Name	I-League	Federation Cup	Total
1	FW		Salau Nuruddin	1	0	1
	MF		Lineker Machado	1	0
	DF		Sandesh Jhingan	1	0
			TOTALS	3	0	3

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