2014 FC Pune City season

Pune City
2014 season
Chairman	Gaurav Modwel
Head Coach	Franco Colomba
Stadium	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex
ISL	6th
Top goalscorer	Kostas Katsouranis ; (4)
Average home league attendance	7,859
	2015 →

Last updated August 02, 2025

The 2014 Season was Pune City's 1st season in existence in the Indian Super League. They ended their first season on 6th as position of the inaugural edition of the Indian Super League.

Background

Signings

Foreign signings

#	Position:	Player	Last club	Date	Source
4	DF	Daniele Magliocchetti	Ascoli
9	MF	Davide Colomba	Ascoli
10	MF	John Goossens	Feyenoord	October 2014	^[2]
17	FW	David Trezeguet	Newell's Old Boys	30 July 2014	^[3]
21	MF	Kostas Katsouranis	PAOK	1 October 2014	^[4]
23	FW	Dudu	East Bengal	29 September 2014	^[5]
31	MF	Krisztián Vadócz	OB	14 November 2014	^[6]^[7]
32	MF	Jermaine Pennant	Stoke City	6 November 2014	^[8]

Drafted domestic players

Round	Position	Player	I-League/Previous club
1	MF	Lenny Rodrigues	Churchill Brothers
2	DF	Dharmaraj Ravanan	Churchill Brothers
3	DF	Ashutosh Mehta	Mumbai
4	FW	Joaquim Abranches	East Bengal
5	DF	Pritam Kotal	Mohun Bagan
6	MF	Manish Maithani	Mohammedan
7	MF	Israil Gurung	Mohammedan
8	DF	Deepak Devrani	Sporting Goa
9	MF	Tapan Maity	United Sports Club
10	GK	Arindam Bhattacharya	Churchill Brothers
11	DF	Anupam Sarkar	United Sports Club
12	MF	Pratik Shinde	Houston Hurricanes
13	GK	Lalit Thapa	Churchill Brothers
14	DF	Mehrajuddin Wadoo	Mohammedan

Drafted foreign players

Round	Position	Player	Last Club
1	DF	Bruno Cirillo	AEK Athens
2	GK	Emanuele Belardi	Pescara
3	FW	Iván Bolado	Real Avilés
4	DF	Saïdou Panandétiguiri	Chippa United
5	MF	Omar Andrés Rodríguez	Águilas Doradas
6	DF	Andrés González	Junior
7	DF	Park Kwang-il	Matsumoto Yamaga

Players and staff

Squad

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	Lalit Thapa
2	DF	COL	Andrés González
3	MF	KOR	Park Kwang-il
4	DF	ITA	Daniele Magliocchetti
5	DF	ITA	Bruno Cirillo
6	MF	IND	Manish Maithani
7	MF	IND	Pratik Shinde
8	MF	IND	Tapan Maity
9	MF	ITA	Davide Colomba
10	MF	NED	John Goossens
11	MF	IND	Ashutosh Mehta
12	DF	IND	Anupam Sarkar
13	DF	IND	Dharmaraj Ravanan
14	MF	IND	Israil Gurung
15	MF	COL	Omar Andrés Rodríguez


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	DF	IND	Deepak Devrani
17	FW	FRA	David Trezeguet (Captain)
18	DF	BFA	Saïdou Panandétiguiri
19	DF	IND	Pritam Kotal
20	FW	EQG	Iván Bolado
21	MF	GRE	Kostas Katsouranis
22	FW	IND	Joaquim Abranches
23	FW	NGA	Dudu
24	MF	IND	Lenny Rodrigues
25	GK	ITA	Emanuele Belardi
26	MF	IND	Mehrajuddin Wadoo
27	GK	IND	Arindam Bhattacharya
31	MF	HUN	Krisztián Vadócz
32	MF	ENG	Jermaine Pennant

Coaching staff

Role	Name	Nation
Head coach	Franco Colomba	Italy
Assistant coach	Giovanni Mei ^[9]	Italy
Physical trainer	Juri Bartoli^[9]	Italy
Goalkeeping coach	Pietro Spinosa^[9]	Italy
Fitness and conditioning coach	Lena Fallkvist^[10]	Sweden

Indian Super League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
4	Kerala Blasters	14	5	4	5	9	11	−2	19	Advance to ISL Play-offs
5	Delhi Dynamos	14	4	6	4	16	14	+2	18
6	Pune City	14	4	4	6	12	17	−5	16
7	Mumbai City	14	4	4	6	12	21	−9	16
8	NorthEast United	14	3	6	5	11	13	−2	15

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) play-off match

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
14	4	4	6	12	17	−5	16	3	2	2	8	5	+3	1	2	4	4	12	−8

Last updated: 27 August 2015.
Source: Matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Ground	A	A	H	H	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	H	H	A
Result	D	L	W	L	W	W	D	D	L	L	D	W	L	L

Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

14 October 20141	Delhi Dynamos	0 – 0	Pune City	Delhi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)		Report		Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerji

18 October 20142	Mumbai City	5 – 0	Pune City	Mumbai
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Costa 3' Moritz 12', 27', 71' Singh 37' Štohanzl 51' Letzelter 85'	Report	Rodrigues 4' Kotal 49' Cirillo 70' Rodríguez 85'	Stadium: DY Patil Stadium Referee: Chris Penso

26 October 20144	Pune City	2 – 0	Goa	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Katsouranis 14'42' Bolado 54' Trezeguet 81'	Report		Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Pratap Singh

30 October 20144	Pune City	1 – 2	Kerala Blasters	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Maity 3' Trezeguet 15'	Report	Chettri 5' Sabeeth 41' Jhingan 43' Orji 65' James 89'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar

3 November 20145	Pune City	1 – 0	NorthEast United	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Kotal 47' Goossens 88'	Report	Yanes 90+5'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Muringothumalil Bhaskaran Santosh Kumar

7 November 20146	Atlético de Kolkata	1 – 3	Pune City	Kolkata
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Nato 29' Borja 34' Josemi 70' Teferra 84' (pen.)	Report	Kotal 15' Dudu 35' Katsouranis 55' Gurung 67' Bhattacharya 83' Colomba 89'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Referee: Muringothumalil Bhaskaran Santosh Kumar

11 November 20147	Pune City	1 – 1	Chennaiyin	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Katsouranis 9' Magliocchetti 15' Cirillo 28'	Report	Silvestre 45+2' Mendoza 58'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Jarred Gillett

15 November 20148	NorthEast United	0 – 0	Pune City	Guwahati
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Gurung 90+3'	Report	Katsouranis 31'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerji

19 November 20149	Chennaiyin	3 – 1	Pune City	Chennai
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Pelissari 58'70' Mendoza 62' Mendy 72' Djemba-Djemba 74' Djordjic 90+3' Lalpekhlua 90+4'	Report	Djemba-Djemba 70' (o.g.) Sarkar 80' Ravanan 88'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Ravshan Irmatov

22 November 201410	Goa	2 – 0	Pune City	Goa
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Fernandes 6' Desai 30' Santos 69' Fakhruddin 81' Slepička 90+4' Miranda 90+5'	Report	Ravanan 50' Rodrigues 54' Wadoo 90+1'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Hettikankanamge Chrishantha Dilan Perera

29 November 201411	Pune City	1 – 1	Atlético de Kolkata	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Katsouranis 45+1' 86'	Report	Podaný 11' Masih 24' Teferra 75'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Umesh Bora

3 December 201412	Pune City	2 – 0	Mumbai City	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Cirillo 39' Rodrigues 61' Dudu 66', 80'	Report	Ribeiro 64' Friedrich 64'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Baldomero Toledo

6 December 201413	Pune City	0 – 1	Delhi Dynamos	Pune
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Rodrigues 17' Bhattacharya 34' Belardi 90+3'	Report	Marmentini 32'88'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Referee: Ranjit Bakshi

9 December 201414	Kerala Blasters	1 – 0	Pune City	Kochi
19:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Hume 23' Gonsalves 66' Nandy 90+10'	Report	Cirillo 87' Katsouranis 90' Bhattacharya 90+9'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Samchrista Doss

Squad statistics

As of Match played 9 December 2014

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	COL	Andrés González	4	0	1+3	0
3	DF	KOR	Park Kwang-il	8	0	4+4	0
4	DF	ITA	Daniele Magliocchetti	8	0	8	0
5	DF	ITA	Bruno Cirillo	14	0	14	0
6	MF	IND	Manish Maithani	2	0	2	0
8	MF	IND	Tapan Maity	1	0	1	0
9	MF	ITA	Davide Colomba	6	1	6	1
10	MF	NED	John Goossens	4	1	2+2	1
11	MF	IND	Ashutosh Mehta	7	0	4+3	0
12	DF	IND	Anupam Sarkar	7	0	6+1	0
13	DF	IND	Dharmaraj Ravanan	13	0	12+1	0
14	MF	IND	Israil Gurung	9	0	7+2	0
15	MF	COL	Omar Andrés Rodríguez	1	0	0+1	0
17	FW	FRA	David Trezeguet	6	2	6	2
18	DF	BFA	Saïdou Panandétiguiri	7	0	1+6	0
19	DF	IND	Pritam Kotal	10	0	10	0
20	FW	EQG	Iván Bolado	7	0	3+4	0
21	MF	GRE	Kostas Katsouranis	14	4	14	4
22	FW	IND	Joaquim Abranches	2	0	0+2	0
23	FW	NGA	Dudu	12	3	9+3	3
24	MF	IND	Lenny Rodrigues	10	0	10	0
25	GK	ITA	Emanuele Belardi	4	0	4	0
26	DF	IND	Mehrajuddin Wadoo	10	0	8+2	0
27	GK	IND	Arindam Bhattacharya	11	0	10+1	0
31	MF	HUN	Krisztián Vadócz	6	0	5+1	0
32	MF	ENG	Jermaine Pennant	7	0	7	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	Indian Super League	Total
1	MF	21	Kostas Katsouranis	4	4
2	FW	23	Dudu	3	3
3	FW	17	David Trezeguet	2	2
4	MF	10	John Goossens	1	1
	MF	9	Davide Colomba	1	1
			Own goal	1	1
			TOTALS	12	12

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name
Number	Nation	Position	Name	Indian Super League		Total
4		DF	Daniele Magliocchetti	1	0	1	0
5		DF	Bruno Cirillo	4	0	4	0
8		MF	Tapan Maity	1	0	1	0
12		DF	Anupam Sarkar	1	0	1	0
13		DF	Dharmaraj Ravanan	2	0	2	0
14		MF	Israil Gurung	1	0	1	0
15		MF	Omar Andrés Rodríguez	1	0	1	0
19		DF	Pritam Kotal	3	0	3	0
20		FW	Iván Bolado	1	0	1	0
21		MF	Kostas Katsouranis	4	0	4	0
24		MF	Lenny Rodrigues	4	0	4	0
25		GK	Emanuele Belardi	1	0	1	0
26		DF	Mehrajuddin Wadoo	1	0	1	0
27		GK	Arindam Bhattacharya	3	0	3	0
			TOTALS	28	0	28	0

References

↑ https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/ind-indian-super-league-2014/1/
↑ "India in plaats van Feyenoord: Niet gedacht dat dit mijn volgende stap zou zijn". www.voetbalprimeur.nl/ (in Dutch). voetbalprimeur. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "Indian Super League: Ex-Juventus and Monaco striker David Trezeguet joins FC Pune City". Sky Sports. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
↑ "Greece's Kostar Katsouranis joins FC Pune City". The Hindu. 1 October 2014.
↑ "FC Pune City sign Dudu Omagbemi on loan from East Bengal". www.goal.com/en-india/. goal.com. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "Hungarian Krisztian Vadocz replaces injured John Goossens at FC Pune City". Firstpost. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
↑ "Former Osasuna midfielder Krisztian Vadocz joins FC Pune City replacing John Goossens". Sportskeeda. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
↑ "Home Press Releases Jermaine Pennant signed by FC Pune City Jermaine Pennant signed by FC Pune City". Indian Super League. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
1 2 3 "Colomba vola in India: "Cambio vita e il calcio"". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
↑ "Lena wants to inspire in India". SkySports. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] ttps://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/ind-indian-super-league-2014/1/

[2] "India in plaats van Feyenoord: Niet gedacht dat dit mijn volgende stap zou zijn". www.voetbalprimeur.nl/ (in Dutch). voetbalprimeur. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.

[3] "Indian Super League: Ex-Juventus and Monaco striker David Trezeguet joins FC Pune City". Sky Sports. Retrieved 31 July 2014.

[4] "Greece's Kostar Katsouranis joins FC Pune City". The Hindu. 1 October 2014.

[5] "FC Pune City sign Dudu Omagbemi on loan from East Bengal". www.goal.com/en-india/. goal.com. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.

[6] "Hungarian Krisztian Vadocz replaces injured John Goossens at FC Pune City". Firstpost. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[7] "Former Osasuna midfielder Krisztian Vadocz joins FC Pune City replacing John Goossens". Sportskeeda. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.

[8] "Home Press Releases Jermaine Pennant signed by FC Pune City Jermaine Pennant signed by FC Pune City". Indian Super League. Retrieved 7 November 2014.

[Assistant_Coaches_Announced-9] 1 2 3 "Colomba vola in India: "Cambio vita e il calcio"". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 23 July 2014.

[10] "Lena wants to inspire in India". SkySports. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]