2018–19 NorthEast United FC season

NorthEast United
2018–19 season
Owner	John Abraham
Head Coach	Eelco Schattorie
Stadium	Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati
ISL	4th (semi-finalists)
Super Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Bartholomew Ogbeche (12); All: Bartholomew Ogbeche (12)
Highest home attendance	22,567
Lowest home attendance	9,134
Average home league attendance	17,656
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 NorthEast United FC season was the club's fifth season since its establishment in 2014 and their fifth season in the Indian Super League.

Players

Current squad

Squad no.	Name	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age)
Goalkeepers
13	Rehenesh TP	GK	(1993-02-13) 13 February 1993 (age 31)
1	Pawan Kumar	GK	(1990-07-01) 1 July 1990 (age 34)
31	Gurmeet Singh	GK	(1999-12-03) 3 December 1999 (age 24)
Defenders
2	Janeiler Rivas	CB	(1988-05-18) 18 May 1988 (age 36)
12	Reagan Singh	RB / CB	(1991-04-01) 1 April 1991 (age 33)
19	Robert Lalthlamuana	LB / RB / LM	(1988-09-04) 4 September 1988 (age 35)
5	Provat Lakra	LB / RB	(1997-08-12) 12 August 1997 (age 26)
4	Pawan Kumar	CB / RB	(1995-05-12) 12 May 1995 (age 29)
16	Gurwinder Singh	CB / DM	(1986-04-16) 16 April 1986 (age 38)
20	Keegan Pereira	LB	(1987-11-07) 7 November 1987 (age 36)
3	Mislav Komorski	CB / LB / DM	(1992-04-17) 17 April 1992 (age 32)
18	Mato Grgić	CB	(1987-09-27) 27 September 1987 (age 36)
TBD	Shouvik Ghosh	LB	(1992-11-05) 5 November 1992 (age 31)
Midfielders
7	Fanai Lalrempuia	CM	(1996-05-11) 11 May 1996 (age 28)
9	Federico Gallego	AM / RW / LW	(1990-06-13) 13 June 1990 (age 34)
6	José David Leudo	CM	(1993-11-09) 9 November 1993 (age 30)
21	Rupert Nongrum	RM / RB / CM	(1996-08-21) 21 August 1996 (age 27)
11	Simranjit Singh	RM / CM / RB / CB / DM	(1992-01-25) 25 January 1992 (age 32)
32	Lalthathanga Khawlhring	CM / DM	(1998-03-30) 30 March 1998 (age 26)
22	Redeem Tlang	RM / RW / AM	(1995-02-22) 22 February 1995 (age 29)
14	Rowllin Borges	DM	(1992-06-05) 5 June 1992 (age 32)
TBD	Seityasen Singh	RM / LM	(1992-03-12) 12 March 1992 (age 32)
27	Panagiotis Triadis	LW / SS / RW	(1992-09-09) 9 September 1992 (age 31)
23	Nikhil Kadam	RW / LW	(1993-06-23) 23 June 1993 (age 31)
Strikers
15	Kivi Zhimomi	CF / SS	(1996-05-03) 3 May 1996 (age 28)
8	Girik Khosla	CF / LW / RW	(1995-01-04) 4 January 1995 (age 29)
24	Juan Cruz Mascia	CF	(1994-01-03) 3 January 1994 (age 30)
10	Bartholomew Ogbeche (C)	CF / LW / RW	(1984-10-01) 1 October 1984 (age 39)

Transfers

Loan return and Retained players

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Type	Ref.
28 July 2018	MF	Lalthathanga Khawlhring	Aizawl F.C.	Loan return	^[1]
21 July 2018	MF	Rowllin Borges	–	Retained	^[2]
21 July 2018	MF	Rehenesh TP	–	Retained
21 July 2018	MF	Fanai Lalrempuia	–	Retained
21 July 2018	MF	Reagan Singh	–	Retained
9 August 2018	MF	Robert Lalthlamuana	–	Retained	^[3]

In

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No.	Pos.	Name	From	Date	Type	Ref.
TBD	MF	Seityasen Singh	Delhi Dynamos	1 August 2018	Free	^[4]	^[5]
22	MF	Redeem Tlang	Shillong Lajong	31 July 2018	Free	^[6]
23	MF	Nikhil Kadam	Mohun Bagan	24 July 2018	Free	^[7]
1	GK	Pawan Kumar	Chennaiyin	25 July 2018	Free	^[8]
5	DF	Provat Lakra	Pathachakra	6 August 2018	Free	^[9]
16	DF	Gurwinder Singh	East Bengal	25 July 2018	Free	^[10]
4	DF	Pawan Kumar	FC Pune City	25 July 2018	Free	^[11]
15	FW	Kivi Zhimomi	Gokulam	24 July 2018	Free	^[12]
8	FW	Girik Khosla	Minerva Punjab	3 August 2018	Free	^[13]
11	MF	Simranjit Singh	Delhi Dynamos	16 August 2018	Free	^[5]
21	MF	Rupert Nongrum	ATK	16 August 2018	Free	^[14]
10	FW	Bartholomew Ogbeche	Willem II	26 August 2018	Free	^[15]
24	FW	Juan Cruz Mascia	Plaza Colonia	27 August 2018	Free	^[16]
17	MF	Augustine Okrah	Al-Hilal	30 August 2018	Free	^[17]
6	MF	José David Leudo	Atlético Huila	29 August 2018	Free	^[18]
18	DF	Mato Grgić	NK Inter Zaprešić	1 September 2018	Free	^[19]
3	DF	Mislav Komorski	NK Inter Zaprešić	1 September 2018	Free	^[19]
9	MF	Federico Gallego	Boston River	5 September 2018	Loan	^[20]
27	MF	Panagiotis Triadis	Apollon Smyrnis	17 January 2019	Free	^[21]
TBD	DF	Shouvik Ghosh	Mumbai City FC	18 January 2019	Free	^[22]

Pre-season and friendlies

NorthEast United was rumoured to travel to Sweden for its preseason.^[23] The tour was cancelled and the club continued their preparations in India itself playing against teams like I-League champion Minerva Punjab and runner up NEROCA.

3 September 2018 1	NorthEast United	6–0	Guwahati Town	Guwahati, Assam
	Borges Ogbeche Mascia Khosla Simranjit	Report

8 September 2018 2	NorthEast United	4–0	Laban S.C.	Guwahati, Assam
	Ogbeche Borges Okrah Mascia	Report

15 September 2018 3	NEROCA	1–0	NorthEast United	Imphal, Manipur
14:00	Aryn 25'	Report		Stadium: Khuman Lampak Main Stadium

21 September 2018 4	Rainbow	0–4	NorthEast United	Kolkata, West Bengal
15:30		Report	Gallego 13' Ogbeche 16' 21' Leudo 44'	Stadium: Salt Lake training ground

25 September 2018 5	NorthEast United	1–0	Minerva Punjab	Guwahati, Assam
15:00 IST	Mascia 71' (p)	Report		Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

6 October 2018 6	NorthEast United	5–1	Assam Police Blues	Guwahati, Assam
15:00 IST	Puia Mascia Khosla Okrah	Report		Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

16 November 2018 7	NorthEast United	2-0	Morning Star	Guwahati, Assam
15:00 IST	Okrah 28' Khosla 88'	Report		Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium

Indian Super League

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	Goa	18	10	4	4	36	20	+16	34^[a]	Advance to ISL Playoffs
3	Mumbai City	18	9	3	6	25	20	+5	30
4	NorthEast United	18	7	8	3	22	18	+4	29
5	Jamshedpur	18	6	9	3	29	21	+8	27
6	ATK	18	6	6	6	18	22	−4	24

Source: Indian Super League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) fair play ranking; 6) drawing of lots
Notes:

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
18	7	8	3	22	18	+4	29	2	6	1	9	8	+1	5	2	2	13	10	+3

Last updated: 01 March 2019.
Source: Matches

1st Half: Results by round

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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

2nd Half: Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	L	D	W	D	D

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

1st Half: Matches

1 October 2018 1	NorthEast United	2–2	Goa	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Gallego 8' Bart 53' Pereira 56' Tlang 90'	Report	Coro 14', 39' Jahouh 30'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 18,321 Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: Ferran Corominas (Goa)

4 October 2018 2	ATK	0–1	NorthEast United	Kolkata
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Halder 9' Ralte 19' 32' Johnson 55' Lanza 76'	Report	Leudo 20' Grgiç 44' Borges 89'	Stadium: Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Attendance: 19,853 Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: John Johnson (ATK)

18 October 2018 3	Chennaiyin	3–4	NorthEast United	Chennai
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Borges 5' (og) Thoi 15', 32' Calderón 82'	Report	Gallego 23' Bart 29', 37', 39' Borges 54'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 14,293 Referee: Umesh Bora Man of the Match: Bartholomew Ogbeche (NEUFC)

25 October 2018 4	NorthEast United	1-1	Jamshedpur	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Bart 20' Borges 29' Komorski 45' Tlang 61'	Report	Farukh 49'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 16,992 Referee: R Palmson Moses Man of the Match: Farukh Choudhary (Jamshedpur)

30 October 2018 5	Delhi Dynamos	0-2	NorthEast United	Delhi
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Tebar 59' Kotal 64'	Report	Gallego 82' Bart 90+3'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 12,342 Referee: Senthil Nathan S Man of the Match: Federico Gallego (NEUFC)

9 November 2018 6	NorthEast United	0-1	Mumbai City	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Robert 45' Grgić 68'	Report	Issoko 4' Goian 9' Singh 15' Bose 85' Mirabaje 90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 13,941 Referee: A Rowan Man of the Match: Arnold Issoko (MCFC)

23 November 2018 7	NorthEast United	2-1	Kerala Blasters	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Reagan 39' Ogbeche 90+3' Mascia 90+5'	Report	Pešić 35' Poplatnik 73' 88' Dheeraj 88' Lalruatthara 90+4'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 9,134 Referee: R Gupta Man of the Match: Sandesh Jhingan (KBFC)

27 November 2018 8	Pune City	0-2	NorthEast United	Pune
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Marcelinho 55' Ashutosh Mehta 61' Sahil Panwar 90'	Report	Bartholomew Ogbeche 23' Provat Lakra 75' Mascia 90+1'	Stadium: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Attendance: 2,941 Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari Man of the Match: Federico Gallego (NEUFC)

1 December 2018 9	Jamshedpur	0-0	NorthEast United	Jamshedpur
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)		Report	Mislav Komorski 42' Redeem Tlang 45'	Stadium: JRD Tata Sports Complex Attendance: 21,847 Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: José David Leudo (NEUFC)

5 December 2018 10	NorthEast United	1-1	Bengaluru	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Federico Gallego 64' Bartholomew Ogbeche 71'	Report	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 66' Chencho Gyeltshen 90+2'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 12,371 Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Chencho Gyeltshen (Bengaluru)

8 December 2018 11	NorthEast United	0-0	ATK	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Reagan Singh 72'	Report	Ankit Mukherjee 10'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 10,231 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: José David Leudo (NEUFC)

14 December 2018 12	Goa	5-1	NorthEast United	Goa
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Ferran Corominas 59', 84' Edu Bedia 69' Hugo Boumous 71' Miguel Palanca 90+1'	Report	Robert Lalthlamuana 24' Reagan Singh 34' Rowllin Borges 43' Bartholomew Ogbeche 90'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 17,385 Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Ferran Corominas (FC Goa)

2nd Half: Matches

26 January 2019 13	NorthEast United	1-0	Chennaiyin	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Komorski 12' Ogbeche 87'	Report	Orlandi 6'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 8,563 Referee: Mb Santhosh Kumar Man of the Match: Bartholomew Ogbeche (NEUFC)

30 January 2019 14	Bengaluru	2-1	NorthEast United	Bengaluru
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Komorski 14' (og) Chencho 71' Bheke 74'	Report	Grgić 28' Leudo 45' Gallego 60'	Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium Attendance: 11,970 Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (Bengaluru)

7 February 2019 15	NorthEast United	1-1	Delhi Dynamos	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Robert 61' Ogbeche 71' (pen)	Report	Tebar 67' Gianni 90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 6,873 Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Panagiotis Triadis (NEUFC)

13 February 2019 16	Mumbai City	0-2	NorthEast United	Mumbai
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Bastos 45' Rafique 45' Milan 69'	Report	Borges 4' Ogbeche 33' Ogbeche 37' Leudo 56' Gallego 81'	Stadium: Mumbai Football Arena Attendance: 3,627 Referee: Adham Mohammad Tumah Makhadmeh Man of the Match: Rowllin Borges (NEUFC)

20 February 2019 17	NorthEast United	1-1	Pune City	Guwahati
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Gurwinder Singh 22' Borges 47' José David Leudo 88' José David Leudo 89' Mato Grgić 90'	Report	Martín Díaz 53' Adil Khan 54' Adil Khan 69' Sahil Panwar 90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 11,473 Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Rowllin Borges (NEUFC)

1 March 2019 18	Kerala Blasters	0-0	NorthEast United	Kochi
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Jhingan 32' Prasanth 84'	Report	Gurwinder 23'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Attendance: 6,651 Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: Lalthathanga Khawlhring (NEUFC)

Semi-finals

Leg-1

7 March 2019 1	NorthEast United	2-1	Bengaluru	Guwahati
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)	Tlang 20' 61' Mascia (P) 90+4'	Report	Miku 41' Xisco 82' Khabra 90'	Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Attendance: 21,768 Referee: Mb Santhosh Kumar Man of the Match: Jose Leudo (NEUFC)

Leg-2

11 March 2019 2	Bengaluru	3-0 (Agg 4-2)	NorthEast United	Bengaluru
19:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Bheke 63' Miku 72' Dimas 79' 87' Luisma 86' Chhetri 90'	Report	Tlang 90'	Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium Attendance: 21,636 Referee: Hamad Ali Yousef Abdulla Alali Man of the Match: Miku (Bengaluru)

Indian Super Cup

Round of 16

April 2019 1	NorthEast United	Walkover	NEROCA	Bhubaneswar, Odisha
20:30 IST (UTC+5:30)				Stadium: Kalinga Stadium

Quarter-finals

April 2019 2	NorthEast United	1-2	Chennaiyin	Bhubaneswar, Odisha
20:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Borges 9'	Report	Mailson 33' Thapa 40'	Stadium: Kalinga Stadium

Management

As of 17 August 2018^[update].

Position	Name
Head Coach	Eelco Schattorie^[24]
Assistant Coach	Shaun Ontong
Goalkeeping Coach	Joseph Sidy
Technical Advisor	Avram Grant^[25]
Strength and conditioning coach	Mauro André Claro Martins
Physiotherapist	Arvind Yadav

Squad statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League		Indian Super Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	IND	Pawan Kumar	16	0	15+1	0	0	0
2	DF	COL	Janeiler Rivas	5	0	3+1	0	1	0
4	DF	IND	Pawan Kumar	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	IND	Provat Lakra	6	0	2+4	0	0	0
6	MF	COL	José David Leudo	20	0	19	0	1	0
7	MF	IND	Fanai Lalrempuia	2	0	2	0	0	0
8	FW	IND	Girik Khosla	2	0	1	0	0+1	0
9	MF	URU	Federico Gallego	20	4	20	4	0	0
10	FW	NGA	Bartholomew Ogbeche	18	12	18	12	0	0
11	DF	IND	Simranjit Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	MF	IND	Reagan Singh	19	0	17+1	0	1	0
13	GK	IND	Rehenesh TP	5	0	5	0	0	0
14	MF	IND	Rowllin Borges	20	5	19	4	1	1
16	DF	IND	Gurwinder Singh	12	0	5+7	0	0	0
18	DF	CRO	Mato Grgić	20	0	19	0	1	0
19	DF	IND	Robert Lalthlamuana	14	0	13+1	0	0	0
20	DF	IND	Keegan Pereira	15	0	5+9	0	0+1	0
21	MF	IND	Rupert Nongrum	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	IND	Redeem Tlang	19	1	17+2	1	0	0
23	MF	IND	Nikhil Kadam	13	0	4+8	0	1	0
24	FW	URU	Juan Cruz Mascia	16	3	7+8	3	1	0
27	MF	GRE	Panagiotis Triadis	8	0	5+2	0	1	0
31	GK	IND	Gurmeet	1	0	0	0	1	0
32	MF	IND	Lalthathanga Khawlhring	21	0	13+7	0	1	0
-	MF	IND	Seityasen Singh	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	IND	Shouvik Ghosh	3	0	1+1	0	1	0
Players who left NorthEast United during the season:
3	DF	CRO	Mislav Komorski (Injury)	10	0	10	0	0	0
15	FW	IND	Kivi Zhimomi (on loan at TRAU F.C.)	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF	GHA	Augustine Okrah (Injury)	4	0	0+4	0	0	0

Top scorers

Rnk	No.	Player	Pos	Indian Super League	Indian Super Cup	Total
1	10	Bartholomew Ogbeche	FW	12	0	12
2	9	Federico Gallego	MF	4	0	4
3	14	Rowllin Borges	MF	4	1	5
4	24	Juan Cruz Mascia	MF	3	0	3
5	22	Redeem Tlang	MF	1	0	1
Totals				24	1	25

Disciplinary record

No.	Player	Pos	Yellow Card	Red Card
20	Keegan Pereira	DF	1	0
19	Robert Lalthlamuana	DF	3	0
12	Reagan Singh	DF	3	0
14	Rowllin Borges	MF	2	0
22	Redeem Tlang	MF	5	0
9	Federico Gallego	MF	2	0
5	Provat Lakra	DF	1	0
6	José David Leudo	MF	4	1
6	Bartholomew Ogbeche	FW	2	0
18	Mislav Komorski	DF	2	1
18	Mato Grgić	DF	4	0
16	Gurwinder Singh	DF	1	1
Totals			30	3

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