2011 Sky Blue FC season

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Sky Blue FC
2011 season
President & CEO Flag of Germany.svg Thomas Hofstetter
Head Coach Flag of the United States.svg Jim Gabarra
Stadium Yurcak Field
Regular Season 5th
Playoffs Did not qualify
Women's U.S. Open CupDid not enter
Top goalscorer Casey Loyd (5)
  2010
2013  

The 2011 Sky Blue FC season was the team's third season of existence. Sky Blue played the 2011 season in Women's Professional Soccer, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.

Contents

Review

Match results

Regular season

Playoffs

Standings

Final regular season standings.

Blue denotes regular season champion, and top seed in 2011 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs.
Green denotes team has spot in 2011 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs.

PlaceTeam Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Western New York Flash 1813324018+2242
2 Philadelphia Independence 1811343118+1336
3 magicJack 189272929028*
4 Boston Breakers**185491924-519
5 Sky Blue FC 185492429-519
6 Atlanta Beat 181413732-257

Source: WPS standings
*magicJack was docked one point on 12 May for various violations of league standards.
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**Boston wins head-to-head 2-1-1 over Sky Blue.

Team

Roster

2011 roster [2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
0 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Kristin Arnold
4 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Kendall Fletcher
5 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Anita Asante
6 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Angie Kerr
7 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Lindsey Johnson
8 FW Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Adriana Martin Santamaria
9 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Heather O'Reilly
10 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Allie Long
11 MF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Therese Sjögran
14 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Brittany Taylor
15 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Danielle Johnson
No.Pos.NationPlayer
16 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Michelle Wenino
17 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Tobin Heath
18 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Eniola Aluko
19 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Carrie Dew
21 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Laura Österberg Kalmari
22 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Erin Guthrie
25 DF Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Petra Hogewoning
27 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Casey Nogueira
31 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Carolyn Blank
33 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Alyssa Mautz
41 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jenista Clark

Statistics

Transfers

In

Out

Awards

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References

  1. "WPS Imposes Punishment on magicJack with Point Deduction, Loss of Draft Picks". allwhitekit.com. 12 May 2011.
  2. "Sky Blue FC players". SkyBlueFC.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-30. Retrieved 3 July 2011.