MLS Expansion team to join in 2015 Season (Not Orlando or NYCFC then who?)

[FM2014Fan]

I have downloaded Pr0’s updated 1.2 verison roster nad made some changes to it.

Just a bit of history of myself

Growing up in Hamilton, Ontario Canada I was a soccer fan SWMM scouting and Manager course I knew what it would take to run a successful franchise. After finding out that a possible soccer MLS franchise was coming to Canada I knew I had to get in for a interview for the Head Coachs job. It was announced that MLS decided not to go with Orlando but will go with a already made 24,000 field above the boarder in Hamilton, Ontario. With the new built Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton Ontario Canada the ownership jumped on the opportunity to get into the league. So I decided to take my management skills and apply them to a soccer team. So here I am sitting in my Hamilton apartment as i just finished my smww soccer scouting and manager course I have decided to give my dream job to become a Head coach of a soccer club. Whomever takes over the club has their work cut out for themselves as there is no players as they will have to bring in players before the league starts. As I look at the possible ideas to help build a successful club in Hamilton in the MLS, I decided to fax my resume to the ownership of Hamilton FC and after a few interviews as a canadate for the Head Coach position I got a few phone calls later to find out that out of all of the managers that they interviewed i was the best one for the job so now I have been named as the new Hamilton FC Team Coach.

Just so people know my selected nations are:

I have decided to with USA, Italy, Holland and England as far as selected nations, however when it comes to Database I have gone with Advanced and then selected North America, South America, Holland, Italy, and then Canada and USA . We have an approximate 34,000 player count.

We are going with England because of the July 2014 start date that way we have half a year to prep for MLS Expansion draft, Supplemental Draft, Re-entry draft, and Wavier Draft.

Our club will be built from our feeder club, our reserves and the players from our expansion draft, wavier draft, supplemental draft and re-entry draft. We will not be able to acquire any picks or international slots until MLS season 2, our season 1 that way our club will be built through the draft.

July 2014

In what may have been as a surprise appointment, the Hamilton FC board has named a virtually unknown Canadian Coach as their new boss. Rick Stevens who turns 28 next birthday was introduced to fans and journalists alike at the Tim Hortons Field this morning.

I was given a 1 yr deal until December 2015 worth $5,000 p/w

Our club is setup to have a Hamilton FC (Main squad), Hamilton Reserves (Reserve squad who aren’t ready for our main squad) and our Academy (Feeder Team)

Information about our club:

Professional Status: Professional
Reputation: National
Chairman Status: -
Finances: Okay
Estimated Value: $87M
Stadium: Tim Horton’s Field
Stadium Capacity: 24000 (22,500 seated with 1500 as standing)
Training Facilities: Impressive Training Facilities
Youth Facilities: Good Youth facilities
Region: North America
Continental Competition: -
Rivals: Toronto FC (100 all Hamilton/Toronto sports teams have a huge rival), Montreal Impact (65)

My Managerial Styles will be set as Suggested badges based on Hamilton FC:

Attacking: 6
Defending: 2
Fitness – 6
Goalkeepers: 2
Tactical Coaching: 2
Technique Coaching: 2
Mental Coaching: 2
Working with Youngsters: 12
Adaptability: 1
Determination: 2
Player Knowledge: 9
Youngster Knownledge: 15
Level of Discipline: 2
Man Management: 5
Motivating: 5

As far as our staff goes I have decided to use the Orlando SC staff

Owner:
President – Phil Rawlins
Director: Brett Lashbrook
Manager: Myself

So we will be looking for a Director of Football, Head of Youth, Reserves Manager, Assistant Manager, 3 other Hamilton FC staff and 3 scouts

Our Tactic that we will be going with is a 4-2-1-3 formation and our alternate tactic is 2-3-2-1-2... I will list tactic we will be using which game.

Our main expansion club will be playing in MLS, our Reserve squad will be playing in American Third Division aka USL Pro and our Academy (Feeder Team) will be playing in ADL

Basically the rules that I will be using for this story is that I will be going with it until 2028-2029 hopefully.. The only players I can bring in are players through my Feeder Club or clubs if I get anymore as also the drafts no other players we can bring in through trades or free transfers or anything so it keeps it kind of challenging

July 8th​

Just a recap so far what has happen this season as far as trades and where teams are in the season so far. There has been no trades so far this season however Philadelphia is leading the East with 12 wins 2 draws and 4 loses in 12 games for 22 goals for and 9 goals against for 38 pts. In 2nd​ place of the East is New York Red Bulls with 30 pts with a 9-3-5 record 26 GF 17 GA, followed by Toronto FC with a 8-3-3 record. Outside of a wild card spot in the east is DC United with 19 pts as 5th​ place montreal has 20 pts. Behind DC United is Columbus with 18 pts, Chicago with 17, KC with 15 and New England with 14.

In the West Conference so far it’s Portland leading the way with a 9-7-2 record 33 GF 15 GA for 34 pts. In second place in San Jose with a 7-6-2 record with 27 pts, Los Angeles 24, Seattle 24 and Real Salt Lake with 22 rounds out the top 5 in the west. Outside of the Wild Card is Colorado in 6th​ place with 21 pts, FC Dallas with 20 pts, Vancouver with 15 pts and Chivas USA with 14 pts.

July 9th​

We have hired 41 yr old American Diego Gutierrez as a member of our scouting staff, we have also added 45 yr old coach Tony Meola as our new goalie coach for 1,100 per week until September 31st​ 2018

There were 3 trades today:

Trade #1 – Portland traded their 2nd​ in 2016 superdraft to D.C. United for International Slot 2 years

Trade #2 – Portland traded their 2nd​ in 2017 superdraft to Columbus for International Slot – 2 yrs

Trade #3 – NYCFC trades 80k in allocation money to Chicago for Alex and Hunter Jumper

July 10th​

Our board has hired Paul Robson as our new head of youth development coach as he will be with us until September 31st​ 2015 at 1,000 per week.

We have hired Rick Guter a 49 yr old USA physio who was with previously the New York Red bulls before getting released.

A few trades went down today:

Trade #1 – NYCFC traded their 2015 Supplemental 1st​ round pick and 300K allocation money to Philadelphia for Antoine Hoppenot and Ray Gaddis

Trade #2 – NYCFC traded their 4th​ round in 2015 supplemental draft to New England for Dmitry Imbongo and Bobby Shuttleworth

Trade #3 – NYCFC traded future considerations to Chicago Fire for Matt Watson

July 11th​

More trades were announced:

Trade #1 – NYCFC traded future considerations to Chivas USA for Ryan Finleu

Trade #2 – FC Dallas traded their 3rd​ round pick in the 2015 Supplemental draft and 300k allocation money to D.C. United for 2 yrs worth of International Slot

Trade #3 – NYCFC traded future considerations to Toronto FC for Ashtone Morgan

July 13th​

Two trades were made today:

Trade #1 – NYCFC traded futures to New England for Andy Dorman

Trade #2 – NYCFC traded futures to Colorado for John Berner

July 15th​

Chivas USA’s Bobby Burling was named MLS Player of the Week

Montreal Impact paid the price for a international slot for 2 yrs to Toronto FC as they sent their 2015 1st​, 2016 2nd​ and 2016 3rd​ all 3 picks in the Supplemental draft to Toronto FC for that International Slot for 2 yrs.

July 20th​

D.C. United has traded Real Salt Lake’s 2015 2nd​ round in the Supplemental draft and 300k in allocation money to Columbus for International Slot for 2 yrs.

D.C. United traded their 2015 3rd​ round in the Supplmental pick and 300 of allocation money to New England for 2 yrs of International Slot.

July 22nd​

Chicago Fire’s Robert Earnshaw has been named the MLS Player of the week

Montreal Impact has traded their 2nd​ round of the 2016 superdraft to Toronto FC for 2 yrs of International Slot. Montreal also sent their 2017 superdraft 2nd​ round pick to KC for 2 yrs of International slot

July 28th​

D.C. United traded their 1st​ round in 2015 Supplemental and 2nd​ round in 2016 Supplemental drafts to KC for Eric Kronberg.

July 29th​

LA Galaxy’s Landon Donovan was named MLS Player of the Week

 

[FM2014Fan]

August 1st


LA Galaxy’s Robbie Keane was named the MLS Player of the month for July.


FC Dallas traded their 2nd round pick in 2016 superdraft to New England for International Slot for 2 yrs


Chivas USA has sent 230k of allocation money to San Jose for 1 yr of International Slot.


August 5th


Houston’s Will Bruin was named MLS Player of the Week


San Jose sent their 2nd in 2015 super draft and their 1st round pick in the 2015 Supplemental draft to Toronto FC for Joseph Bendik and 2 yrs of International Slot.


August 9th


Chivas USA has sent 230k in allocation money to Vancouver for 1 yr of International Slot. They have also sent another 230k in allocation money to Montreal Impact for 1 yr of International slot.


August 16th


NYCFC sent futures to Real Salt Lake for Olmes Garcia


August 18th


We have named 31 yr old coach Keith Anderson as our new Reserve Manager. He will be with our organization until December 31st 2016 at 1,000 per week


August 19th


Montreal Impact’s Marco Di Vaio was named the MLS Player of the Week


August 20th


We have named Eramso Solorzano from Mexico who is a 29 yr old coach to our coaching staff. We have also named Armando Begines who is a 31 yr old coach from Mexico as our new Assistant Manager. Solorzano deal was worth 600 per week until December 31st 2016 and Begines was worth 2,100 until December 31st 2017


August 22nd


NYCFC traded futures to Colorado for Gale Agbossoumonde


August 25th


NYCFC traded futures to San Jose for Brandon Barklage


August 26th


Toronto FC’s Dominic Oduro was named MLS Player of the Week


September 1st


Toronto FC’s Gilberto was named Player of the Month for August


We have named another scout Jeff Cunningham to our scouting staff


September 9th


Montreal’s Marco Di Vaio was named MLS Player of the Week


September 15th


New England send their 2nd in the 2015 superdraft and MLS 2017 supplemental draft 2nd round to Houston for Corey Ashe


September 16th


KC’s Claudio Bieler named as the MLS Player of the Week


September 17th


Vancouver Whitecaps traded 230k in allocation money to Montreal for 1 yr of International slot, Vancouver then sent 230k of allocation money as they get 1 yr old international slot from Real Salt Lake


September 23rd


LA Galaxy’s Robbie Keane was named MLS Player of the week


With New York Red Bulls having 53 pts and is in 1st place with 5th place only having 36 pts in the East which is New England, the Red Bulls have secured themselves a playoff spot.


In the East currently with 28 or 29 games played, New York has a record of 15-8-6 for 37 GF 23 GA 53pts, 2nd place currently is Philadelphia in 29 games has a record of 15-5-9 for 35 GF 23 GA 50 Pts, 3rd place is Toronto FC in 28 games has 15-4-9 55 GF 36 GA for 49 pts.


In the 2 wild card spots is Houston in 28 games has a record of 12-8-8 39 GF 32 GA for 44 pts. In 5th is New England with 10-6-13 25 GF 42 GA 36pts in 29 games.


Outside of the playoffs in the East is Chicago Fire in 28 games has a record of 8-9-11 40 GF 40 GA in a 3 way tie with Columbus (8-9-12 29 GF 39 GA 33pts), KC (7-12-10 26 GF 36 GA 33pts) as Chicago has the tie breaker with 1 less game played.


Rounding out the 10 teams in the east is Montreal who is 9th with a 8-7-14 record 36 GF 46 GA for 31 pts and D.C United last place in the East with a record of 7-7-15 31 GF 46 GA 28pts.


In the West Currently, LA Galaxy has a record of 15-6-8 48 GF 34 GA for 51pts in 1st place, 2nd place is San Jose with a record of 13-10-5 46 GF 34 GA 49pts in 28 pts, Real Salt Lake 12-7-10 34 GF 27 GA for 43pts in 3rd place with 29 games. In the 2 wild card spots currently is Colorado (29gp 11-9-9 35 GF 32 GA 42pts) & Portland (10-12-7 49 GF 40 GA 42pts in 29 gp).


Outside of the playoffs looking in, Seattle is 6th place (10-8-10 in 28gp 36 GF 37 GA 38pts), 7th place Vancouver (9-9-11 33 GF 38 GA 36 Pts), Chivas USA is 8th with (5-11-13 38 GF 51 GA 26pts) and last place is FC Dallas with a record of (4-11-14 in 29 games 22 GF 38 GA 23pts)


September 27th


Philadelphia has guaranteed themselves a playoff spot


September 30th


Montreal Impact’s Ignacio Piatti was named the MLS Player of the week.

 

[FM2014Fan]

October 1st


Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco was named the MLS Player of the Month for September.


October 4th


Toronto FC has secured a playoff spot as Houston is 4 pts behind them with 5 games left


October 5th


San Jose has secured a playoff spot in the West.


October 7th


Columbus Crew’s Elias was named the MLS Player of the Week


October 12th


We have decided that our pre-season will begin on January 19th as the Supplemental draft takes place on around January 15th.


October 14th


Montreal Impact’s Heath Pearce was named the MLS Player of the week


October 16th


Houston has secured a playoff spot, with that being said in the East we have 1 wild card spot left as New England currently holds it with 40 pts as Chicago is right behind them with 39 pts however Chicago has played 1 less game as NE has 33gp and Chicago has 32.


In the West Only LA and San Jose have only qualified for the playoffs so far as Colorado has 49 pts in 3rd and Portland has 46 pts in 4th place and then Real Salt Lake has 44 pts and Seattle and Vancouver each have 43 pts. All west teams have played 32 games each


October 17th


Philadelphia Union have named Victor Manuel Vucetich as their new club Manager. He previously served as the Mexico Manager from September 12th 2013 to October 17th 2013. Before that he served as Monterrey Manager from January 8th in 2009 until August 25th in 2013.


October 21st


Montreal’s Marco Di Vaio won the MLS Player of the Week


October 25th


Chicago Fire has secured the final Wild card spot in the East as they won their last 3 games to finish the season with 45 pts and New England will have 40 pts going into their last regular season game and will miss the playoffs.


Later on in the day Portland and Real Salt Lake secure the Wild Card spots in the West.


Final Player Stats:

Final League Standings:

October 27th


Let the unemployment begin as 4 Managers got sacked today


Columbus Crew have fired their Manager Gregg Berhalter


FC Dallas have fired their Manager Oscar Pareja


D.C. United have fired their Manager Ben Olsen


Seattle have fired their Manager Sigi Schmid


October 28th


Chicago’s Mike Magee was named as MLS Player of the week


October 29th


Real Salt Lake are through to the MLS Semi Finals after a 2-1 win after extra time over Portland


October 30th


Chicago is off to the MLS East Semi Finals with a 2-1 win over Houston


November 1st


Chicago’s Florent Sinama-Pongolle was named as the Player of the Month for October. He had 5 goals in 6 appearances.


Today will see the first leg of the semi finals as Chicago is up against Philadelphia in the other first leg of the semi finals it’s Toronto FC up against New York Red Bulls


Chicago and Philadelphia battled to a 0-0 draw as Toronto FC beat Red bulls by a score of 4-2


November 2nd


Real Salt Lake won 2-0 over Los Angeles as Colorado beat San Jose by a score of 3-1 in the West 1st leg Semi Finals


November 4th


Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco was named MLS Player of the Week.


November 6th


FC Dallas have hired FC Edmonton’s Colin Miller as their new Manager as FC Edmonton was given 110k in compensation


November 8th


Chicago are through to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 2-0 win over Philadelphia. Toronto beat New York again by a score of 4-2 and will meet Chicago Fire in the next round.


Columbus Crew have named Marc Dos Santos from Ottawa Fury as Ottawa now begins their search for a new Manager and was given 90k compensation


November 9th


Real Salt Lake win 3-1 over LA Galaxy and will move onto the West Conference Final, Colorado move onto the Conference Final against Real salt Lake as Colorado won 3-2 aggregate win over San Jose.


November 11th


Chicago’s Mike Magee was named MLS Player of the week


November 12th


Toronto FC’s Michael Bradley was named the USA Player of the Year


D.C. United have hired Colin Clarke from Carolina Railhawks as their new Manager. D.C. United has given them 14k in compensation.


November 13th


Seattle Sounders have hired Ryan Nelsen as their new Manager.


November 13th


Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco named as the MLS Newcomer of the Year. In this years MLS season Giovinco had 22 goals in 36 season games with an average rating of 7.42 rating


November 22nd


Chicago Fire beat Toronto FC by a score of 2-1 in the first leg of the East Final


November 23rd


Colorado beat Real Salt Lake by a score of 3-1


November 25th


Colorado’s Zat Knight was named the MLS Player of the week


November 29th


Chicago is off to the MLS Finals with a 4-1 win over Toronto FC


November 30th


Colorado beat Real Salt Lake by a score of 4-2 to meet Chicago Fire in the MLS Finals


With the loss to Chicago Fire in the East Finals the Toronto FC have sacked their Manager Greg Vanney

 

[SamPeters]

Interesting, never really see MLS stories so will follow!

 

[FM2014Fan]

December 1st


We have a very busy month coming up as the MLS league is having the 2014 MLS Expansion draft of which NYCFC and us will be drafting our first 10 players. After that we will be having a re-entry draft with the 1st half on the 12th of December and the 2nd half on the 19th of December. Also on the 8th of December is the Wavier Draft


December 7th


Chicago has won the MLS Championship beating Colorado by a score of 1-0


December 8th


The MLS season end Award winners:


Xbox 360 Individual Fair Play Award (The player with the least amount of Yellow and Red Cards): Sebastian Jamie (Real Salt Lake/Winner); Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC/2nd Place); Ned Grabavoy (Real Salt Lake/3rd Place)


Xbox 360 Team Fair Play Award (The Team with least amount of Yellow and Red Cards): Houston Dynamo were the winners and other mentions goes to D.C. United and Philadelphia


Volkswagen MVP (League MVP): Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy) scoring 22 goals in 30 games with an AvR of 7.50. Other mentions go to Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco and Toronto FC’s Michael Bradley


Humanitarian of the Year (Known for their on the field and in the community work): Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake), other mentions go to Brad Davis from Houston and Chicago’s Logan Pause


MLS Golden Boot Award (MLS Top Striker): Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy) scoring 22 goals; other mentions go to Sebastian Giovinco from Toronto and Marco Di Vaio from Montreal Impact


MLS Rookie of the Year (Top Rookie): Chivas USA’s Thomas McNamara who scored 3 goals in 19 games with an AvR of 6.72, other mentions go to Colorado’s Marion Hairston and Vancouver’s Ethen Sampson


MLS Goalie of the Year Award (Top Goalkeeper): Philadelphia’s Rais M’Bolhi had a solid year with an AvR of 7.08 in 29 games; other mentions go to Nick Rimando of Real Salt Lake and Jamie Penedo of LA Galaxy


VISA Defender of the Year (Top Defender): D.C. United’s Samuel Inkoom who had 5 goals in 30 games with a AvR of 7.09; other mentions go to San Jose’s Clarence Goodson and KC’s Matt Besler


MLS Top Referee Award (Really lol): Mark Geiger officiated 25 games and gave out 57 yellow cards and 3 red cards; other mentions go to Jose Carlos Rivero and Edvin Jurisevic


MLS Coach of the Year (Top Coach): Chicago’s Frank Yallop was named top coach followed by Pabio Mastroeni of Colorado and San Jose’s Mark Watson


Today begins the start of the Domestic transfer window and the Loan Transfer window also the MLS December Wavier Draft


Because we are officially in the league until the 10th of December due to the expansion team we will not be able to participate in todays wavier draft


December 10th


Today is the MLS expansion draft. The draft will consist of 10 rounds with 165 players available to be selected. Each non expansion team can lose up to two players from their non protected roster. This means that once two selections from the same team are made, all remaining non protected players from that team’s roster will be protectedand therefore unavailable to the Expansion teams.


If a team passes, it may no longer participate in the rest of the draft


Hamilton FC has the 1st overall pick in today’s draft


Expansion Draft Results


1st overall pick Hamilton FC selects Eriq Zavaleta – D(C) / ST (C) from Seattle


2nd overall pick NYCFC selects 23 yr old centre back Steve Birnbaum from D.C. United


3rd overall pick Hamilton FC selects GK Donovan Ricketts from Portland


4th overall pick NYCFC selects 24 yr old striker Chandler Hoffman from LA Galaxy


5th overall pick Hamilton FC selects 31 yr old DM/M Paulo Nagmura from Sporting KC


6th overall pick NYCFC selects 26 yr old goalkeeper Joe Willis from Real Salt Lake


7th overall pick Hamilton FC selects Seth Sinovic 27 yr old full back from Sporting KC


8th overall pick NYCFC selects Luis Silva 26 yr old midfielder from D.C United


9th overall pick Hamilton FC selects 27 yr old full back Zach Lloyd from FC Dallas


10th overall pick NYCFC selects 28 yr old DM Adam Moffat from FC Dallas


11th overall pick Hamilton FC selects 31 yr old M/AM Marvin Chavez from Chivas USA


12th overall pick NYCFC selects 22 yr old centre-back nick Hagglund from Toronto FC


13th overall pick Hamilton FC select 30 yr old centre-back Hassoun Camara from Montreal Impact


14th overall pick NYCFC select 21 yr old midfielder Luis Gil from Real Salt Lake


15th overall pick Hamilton FC selects Jorge Villafana who is a 25 yr old M/AM from Portland


16th overall pick NYCFC selects 23 yr old full back Chris Duvall from New York Red Bulls


17th overall pick Hamilton FC selected 24 yr old M/AM Kyle Bekker from Toronto FC


18th overall pick NYCFC selects 22 yr old DM J.J. Koval from San Jose


19th overall and final pick Hamilton FC selects 20 yr old centreback/defensive midfielder and midfielder Bryce Alderson from Vancouver


20th overall pick NYCFC selects 33 yr old goalkeeper Troy Perkins from Montreal Impact


Hamilton FC Expansion Review:


1st round (1st overall) – D (C) / ST (C) Eriq Zavaleta

2nd round (3rd overall) – GK Donovan Ricketts

3rd round (5th overall) – DM / M (C) – Paulo Nagamura

4th round (7th overall) – D (L) Seth Sinovic

5th round (9th overall) – D (RL) Zach Lloyd

6th round (11th overall) – M / AM (RL) Marvin Chavez

7th round (13th overall) – D (RC) Hassoun Camara

8th round (15th overall) – M (L) / D / AM (L) Jorge Villafana

9th round (17th overall) – M/AM Kyle Bekker

10th round (19th overall) – D (C) / DM / M (C) Bryce Alderson

Here is the staff members for our club for the upcoming season:


Manager: Myself


Reserves Manager: Armando Begines

Coach: Eramso Solorzano

Goalie Coach: Tony Meola

Head of Youth Development: Paul Robson

Physio: Rick Guter

Scout: Diego Gutierrez

Scout: Jeff Cunningham

With the 10 selections from the expansion draft we have used up 4 of our possible 10 international slots for the upcoming season.


December 12th


Today is the stage 1 of the re-entry draft as since we are the expansion team we are not able to take part in the draft.


Trade – Real Salt Lake has traded their 2016 1st, 2nd and 300k of allocation money to Los Angeles Galaxy for Robbie Rogers


Trade #2 – Vancouver sent their 1st pick in the MLS 2015 superdraft 10th overall pick and 300k allocation money to Chicago for Harry Shipp


Trade #3 – FC Dallas has sent 3rd pick in the 2015 supplemental draft 2nd round and 1 yr of international slot to New York Red Bulls for Armando


December 13th


Columbus trades their 2015 1st 6th overall, the 6th pick in the 2nd round both superdraft picks and Seattle’s 11th pick in the 1st round of the supplemental draft and 300k of allocation money to New York Red Bulls for Eric Alexander


Colorado trades their pick 20th pick in the 1st round of the supplemental draft to LA for Marcelo Sarvas


December 14th


Vancouver trades their 1st round and 2nd round picks in 2016 super draft and 240k of allocation money to Sporting Kansas City for Soony Saad


FC Dallas has sent 3rd overall in the 2015 MLS supplemental draft and their 2016 3rd round pick in supplemental draft to Portland for Norberto Paparatto


December 15th


LA Galaxy sent the 17th overall pick MLS superdraft picks in round 1 and 2 and 300k in allocation money to Dallas FC for Hendry Thomas


Colorado sent their 2nd round pick in 2016 supplemental draft and 3rds in 2017 supplemental draft to FC Dallas for Michel Garbini


December 17th


Toronto FC has announced Tim Hankinson as their new Manager. He previously served as the Manager of San Antonio Scorpions from September 13th 2011 to August 28th 2013


December 18th


We have announced that we have made a profit of $600k for the last financial year, a staggering 36 percent of their turnover. The profits were boosted by impressive season ticket sales, which ranked in a total of $1.5M last year. Hamilton FC reported total turnover for the period was 1.6M.


December 19th


Today is the MLS stage 2 of the re-entry draft of which we will not be taking part in


Trade #1 – Columbus sends 140k of allocation money to LA for Rob Friend


Trade #2 – D.C United sent 5th overall in round 1, 2nd round pick in 2016 and Vancouver’s 1st round pick of Supplemental draft to FC Dallas for Matt Hedges


December 20th


The new MLS season schedule will be announced on December 27th with the regular season rumored to be beginning on February 28th


Trade – FC Dallas trade their 2016 superdraft 1st round pick and 300k in allocation money to Toronto FC for Justin Morrow


December 21st


It was announced that we have the 2nd overall pick in each round of the Super draft and the 2nd overall pick in each round of the supplemental draft


Trade #1 – Montreal has sent 1 yr of International slot and 170k in allocation money to Seattle for Stefan Frei


Trade #2 – Columbus sent their 1st round pick in 2016 superdraft, 2nd round pick in 2016 super draft and 300k in allocation money to Real Salt Lake for Joao Plata


Trade #3 – Real Salt Lake sent their 2017 1st round pick in superdraft and supplemental picks to FC Dallas for Victor Ulloa


December 22nd


Trade #1 – Chicago trades their 1st round pick in 2016 super draft and their 1st in 2016 supplemental draft and 300k allocation money to Colorado for Gabriel Torres


Trade #2 – New England have sent their 1st in 2016 superdraft and supplemental draft and 300k allocation money to Houston for Tally Hall


December 23rd


Trade #1 – Columbus trades their 1st in 2017 superdraft to New England for Kevin Alston


Trade #2 – Seattle trades their 1st 2016 superdraft pick to FC Dallas for Chris Seitz


December 24th


MLS Trades on xmas eve


Trade #1 – Montreal Impact sent their 2017 super draft 1st round pick and 300k in allocation money to FC Dallas for Raul Fernandez


Trade #2 – Chicago sent their 2017 1st supplemental pick and their 2nd in 2016 to Red bulls for International slot for 2 yrs


December 25th


We have triggered the automatically 1 yr contract extention with M/AM 31 yr old Marvin Chavez for 2.2k for 1 season, and we have also resigned 30 yr old full back from france Hassoun Camara to a 1 yr extension worth 3.3k


Trades on Xmas day:


Trade #1 – Real Salt Lake sent their 2017 3rd round in supplemental, 4th in 2015 supplemental draft to Philadephia for Conor Casey


Trade #2 – Seattle sent Chicago’s 21st pick in the MLS 2015 supplemental draft 1st round to Houston for Tyler Deric


December 26th


Paulo Nagamura and Seth Sinovic did not like our offers so their agents have decided to not renew with us as they will become free transfers on the 31st of December.


League Trades:


Trade #1 – Real Salt Lake sent their 2016 supplemental 2nd rounder to Columbus for Agustin Viana


December 27th


Chivas USA board have announc3d that the club will suspend operations immediate effect. Chivas USA will therefore no longer compete in MLS and all players and staff contracts to the club will be released.


Hamilton FC will kick off the 2015 MLS season at home to FC Dallas on March 8th. Hamilton FC’s first away game is scheduled for March 11th against US Cup Semi Finalists LA Galaxy.


Our first home game against our Arch Rivals Toronto FC is scheduled for May 16th before we head to Toronto for a game at BMO field on September 26th.


Hamilton FC’s last game of the season is scheduled for October 24th against Columbus Crew


League Trades:


Vancouver sent D.C. United’s 5th pick in the 2014 superdraft and 1 yr of International slot to LA for Leonardo and 75k in allocation money


Montreal sent their 2015 1st round in super draft to Houston for Jermaine Taylor


Montreal has sent their 8th pick in the 2014 super draft 1st round to Portland along with 300k in allocation money for Michael Harrington


December 28th


We have added Jorge Candia as our 3rd scout and the board added a director of Football by the name of Eric Wynalda. Jorge Candia is from Mexico, while Ertic is from USA


Jorge Candia

Eric Wynalda

Jorge Candia first task as a member of our scouting staff is to go off and scout for the MLS Combine for the upcoming MLS Super draft


D.C United sent their 1st round pick and 2nd round picks in 2015 superdraft and 300k allocation money to New England for Lee Nguyen


December 29th


Houston sent their 1st, 2nd round picks in 2015 super draft to Columbus along with 300k in allocation money for Steve Clark and Ethan Finlay


December 30th


Houston sent the 12th pick their 2nd round pick in the 2014 super draft along with their second round pick in the supplemental draft to Seattle for Lamar Neagle


December 31st


Hertha Berlin’s John Brooks has won the USA Young Player of the year award


Seth Sinovic and Paulo Nagamura both contracts have expired as they were not willing to deal a new reasonable contract so they have left as free transfers


FC Dallas sent 300k in allocation money to LA Galaxay for 2 yrs of international slot


Houston sent their 2nd round pick in 2016 superdraft to Portland for Ben Zemanski

 

[FM2014Fan]

January 1st


The Group stages were announced today as (in brackets is what they are ranked in the world:
)


USA U20 (21st), Barbados U20 (160th), Cuba U20 (112th), Guatemala U20 (118th), Honduras U20 (53rd) and Mexico U20 (23rd) were in 1 Group


In the other group it was Canada U20 (117th), Costa Rica U20 (25th), El Salvador U20 (106th), Haiti U20 (98th), Jamaica U20 (84th) and Trinidad & Tobago U20 (94th)


The North America U20 Championship is hosted by Jamaica and the Holders are Mexico


We have two big dates coming up on the 8th of January is the 2014 MLS Superdraft and on the 15th is the MLS Supplemental draft


We have announced that we have a 2 year sponsorship deal is estimated to be worth at 1.6M per annum.


F.C. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has won the World Golden Ball award. Messi had 11 goals in 18 games with a AvR of 8.03, in 2nd place was Yaya Toure of Man City and Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale who were the top 3 voted players.


The board has gone on to say that they are satisfied with my job so far. A major contributing factor has been the atmosphere in and around the dressing room. They are disappointed with the depareture of Seth SInovic but the money we had to offer him he wasn’t willing to go with so we had to let him go.


The club made a profit of 1.26M last month. The financial outlook for the club is looking relativiely stable for the foreseeable future. Merchandise income for the month amounted to 8.13k with a total of 116 shirts being sold.


January 3rd


Our scouts head down to the Combine today as they prepare to make myself, my assistant manager and the scouts as list of possible players to take in the Superdraft.


January 5th


One of the prospects we were pushing for took a big hit in the combine today as we could maybe try to acquire another pick to maybe select them.


January 8th


Today is the 2015 Super Draft (I will post the top 10 picks):


1st overall pick NYCFC selects: 21 yr old from South Africa AM (L) / ST (C) Lawrence Mofokeng
2014 Season: 19gp 12 Gls 1 Asts 2 PoM 7.29 AvR (SW Florida Adrenaline) Southeast Division


2nd overall pick Hamilton FC selects 21 yr old from Norway AM (C) Robert Heggestad
2014 Season: 18gp 8 Gls 5 Asts 2 PoM 7.16 AvR (Baltimore Bohemians) Mid Atlantic Division


3rd overall pick Colorado Rapids selects 19 yr old American AM (RC) Juan Ignacio Ruiz
2014 Season: 19gp 3 Gls 8 Asts 2 PoM 7.29 AvR (from US Develoopment Academy) Lower Leagues


4th overall pick FC Dallas select 20 yr old Midfielder (RL) Lee Llave
2014 Season: 19gp 1 Gls 8 Asts 5 PoM 7.40 AvR – Washington Crossfire (Northwest Division)


5th overall pick New York Red Bulls select 22 yr old Centreback Robson Carlos
2014 Season: 12gp 0 Gls 4 Asts 7 PoM 7.84 AvR – NJ-LUSO (Mid Atlantic Division)


6th overall pick Sporting Kansas City selects 20 yr old centre-back Hector Mejia
2014 Season:9 gp 0 Gls 0 Asts 0 PoM 6.59 AvR – Long Island Rough Riders (Mid Atlantic Division)


7th overall Portland selects 22 yr old Striker Nick Arce
2014 season: 17gp 8 Gls 2 Asts 1 PoM 6.84 AvR – Fresno Fuego (Southwest Division)


8th overall pick Sporting Kansas City selects 20 yr old Striker Bruno Moreira
2014 Season: 17gp 5 Gls 3 Asts 0 PoM 6.66 AvR – Des Moines Menace (Hertland Division)


9th overall pick Chicago selects 21 yr old Midfielder Michael Hull
2014 Season: 19gp 2 Gls 2 Asts 0 PoM 6.45 AvR – Ventura County Fusion (Southwest Division


10th overall pick New England selects 21 yr old centreback Terry Latham
2014 Season: 16gp 0 Gls 1 Asts 1 PoM 7.31 AvR – Ocala Stampede (Southeast Division)


2nd round pick 22nd overall Hamilton FC selects AM (RC) Terrance Johnson
2014 Season: 13gp 2 Gls 5 Asts 4 PoM 7.56 – San Jose under 23


The Harrison (NJ) Soccer post published the grades for the response for the Annual Superdraft for MLS


B: New York
B-: Seattle, Houston, Chicago, San Jose, Hamilton FC, NYCFC, Montreal Impact, D. C United, New England, Los Angeles, FC Dallas
C+: Philadelphia, Vancouver, Columbus, Colorado
C: Portland, Toronto FC, Real Salt Lake, Sporting Kansas City


Hamilton FC Super Draft 2015 Review:


1st Round (2nd overall) – AM (C) / ST (C) – Robert Heggestad

2nd round (22nd overall) – AM (C) / AM (R), M (C) – Terrance Johnson

January 11th


We were told from our board that we could sign 1 Reserve Assistant Manager, 6 more staff members as well as other Reserve staff and 5 more scouts


January 12th


We have named a new staff member to our club in 31 yr old American Scout Joe Zewe. He will be making 1,200 per week until December 31st 2016

We have also signed Martin Zunlga who is a 44 yr old scout from Mexico, the deal is worth 1,000 per week until December 31st 2016

We have added Pat McMahon who is a 32 yr old American Manager of which we have signed him to a 2,100 until December 31st as a main squad coach

We continue to add a few staff members as we signed 29 yr old Mexican coach Ruben Omar Reyes to a 1,400 per week contract until December 31st 2016 to be our Reserve Manager.

We added another staff member to our Reserves squad as we have hired 32 yr old American coach Scott Palguta as a reserve coach. His deal is worth 2,100 per week until December 31st 2016

We have added another physio in Michael Gerhardt who is a 35 yr old physio from USA

We continue to add more staff LOL as we have signed Nelson Pizarro who is a 29 yr old scout from USA.

January 13th


We have added 61 yr old fitness coach Pascual Sandoval to our coaching staff. He is signed to a 1.7k until December 31st 2017

We have added Chris Murray from USA who is a 30 yr old to a main club coach

January 15th


Neale Veach won the Tom Fitzgerald Combine MVP at the combine. He was one who stood out and caught many an eye with his play.


Today is the MLS Supplemental draft. Like the 2015 Superdraft I will be posting the top 10 picks.


1st overall – LA Galaxy selects 21 yr old AM Michael Lalas
2014 Season: 6gp 1 Gls 2 Asts 1 PoM 7.55 AvR – St. Louis Lions (Heartland Division)


2nd overall – Hamilton FC selects 21 yr old ST (C) Neale Veach
2014 Season: 19gp 4 Gls 2 Asts 0 PoM 6.56 AvR – Venture County Fusion (Southwest Division)


3rd overall – Portland selects 21 yr old M (R) Mark Pacheco
2014 Season: 10gp 3 Gls 0 Asts 0 PoM 6.78 AvR – Chicago Inferno (Heatland Divison)


4th overall – Sporting Kansas City selects 22 yr old AM (C) Daniel Pereira
2014 Season: 7gp 5 Gls 0 Asts 1 PoM 7.03 AvR – Springfield Demize (Heatland Division)


5th overall – Columbus Crew selects 21 yr old DM Oliver Robinson
2014 Season: 9gp 2 Gls 3 Asts 1 PoM 7.11 AvR – Sockers FC (Mid South Division)


6th overall – Sporting Kansas City selects 21 yr old AM (C) – Will Leitch
2014 Season: 12gp 1 Gls 3 Asts 0 PoM 6.81 AvR – Bradenton Academics (Southeast Division)


7th overall – Toronto FC selects 21 yr old midfielder John Brown
2014 season: 13gp 1 Gls 2 Asts 0 PoM 6.56 AvR – Kitsap Pumas (Northwest Division)


8th overall – New England selects 21 yr old Midfielder Owen Kalis
2014 Season: 12gp 0 Gls 5 Asts 2 PoM 7.26 AvR – Sockers FC (Mid South Division)


9th overall – Los Angeles selects 21 yr old midfielder Max Roach
2014 Season: 16gp 2 Gls 0 Asts 1 PoM 6.72 AvR – Springfield Demize (Heartland Division)


10th overall – New York Red Bulls select 21 yr old Striker Michael Aceves
2014 Season: 19gp 6 Gls 2 Asts 1 PoM 6.99 AvR – Westchester Flames (Northeast Division)


Rest of Hamilton FC’s Picks:


2nd round (22nd overall) – AM (L) / ST (C) – Bastian Meisenheimer
2014 Season: 18gp 5 Gls 1 Asts 0 PoM 6.79 AvR – Portland Phoenix (Northeats Division)


3rd round (42nd overall) – GK Osmar Franco
2014 Season: 18 gp 21 Conc 0 Gls 5 Cln 0 PoM 6.82 AvR – Jersey Express (Mid South Division)


4th round (62nd overall) – D/WB (L) – Javier Alvial
2013/2014 Season: N/A – San Luis (No Division)


After the draft we have offered or were offered the following contracts:


1st round (2nd overall) – Neale Veach – he wants a reserve type contract and a 700 p/w until December 2016, I am ok with that offer so I suggested it and finalized the deal.

Our 2nd round pick Bastian Meisenheimer who was the player we were looking with our 1st pick in the superdraft who’s stock dropped at the Superdraft combine that i mentioned so when I seen i could draft him i went for it. He wants a reserve type contract as well worth the same 700 p/w until December 2016.

Our 3rd round pick we went to go discuss Goalkeeper Osmar Franco from USA with the next pick. He wants a reserve type contract which works out to being a 700 p/w contract until December 2016 contract

Our last pick in the supplemental draft we selected defender/wing back Javier Alvial. The 23 yr old American wanted a reserve contract worth 700 p/w until December 2016 of which we were happy to agree too

January 18th


I know i was only going to sign players from the feeder club, and all of the drafts but with 2 months still away from season we still need 3 defenders and 3 midfielders so if there is no more drafts coming up between now and the start of season i will have to sign a few free transfers but that will be the only time that I do it.


January 19th


Our players return from their off-season holidays today as they start to prepare for the upcoming pre-season


January 22nd


We got word that our club has scheduled some friendly games scheduled via our assistant manager:


January 24th @ Rochester Rhinos
January 28th vs. Sparta Prague
January 31st @ San Antonio Scorpions
February 18th @ Charleston Battery
February 21st @ Fort Lauderdale Strikers


January 24th


We have our first ever friendly game as a franchise as we are on the road against Rochester Rhinos. Our squad won by a score of 1-0 over Rochester Rhinos. Kyle Bekker scored the lone goal


January 26th


We have singed one of those few players we still needed as we sign 24 yr old Juan Cruz Gotta who is 6`5 205lbs centre back from Argentina. Last season he played for Boyaca Chico FC. He signed until December 31st 2016 for $950 per week.


We went to the board to look for a possible Affiliated Club as the only club we have right now is a feeder club but we cant sign anyone from them as they are too young. They start the search today with it to be completed on February 6th 2015.


We have signed 22 yr old midfielder Alejandro Aguilar from USA. He was a prospect we were looking at the superdraft/supplemental draft and when we couldn’t acquire any picks from the draft we decided to sign him as a free transfer. He is signed as a reserve/hot prospect worth $700 per week until December 31st 2016


We have also added 22 yr old American Brook Maggio who is a centreback. Also like Aguilar, Maggio was a player we were scouting for the drafts but couldn’t acquire any other picks for us to draft him so we signed him as a free transfer. He is also signed as a reserve @ 700 per week until December 31st 2016


We have signed 22 yr old Canadian midfielder Josh Janniere who was signed out of Toronto FC academy back in 2011. He signed for a reserve spot and 700 per week until December 31st 2016


We have added some veteran talent to our club as we have signed 30 yr old fullback Fredrik Stoor from Sweden. The defender last played for Viborg FF in the 2013/2014 season. He was signed for $6,750 per week until December 31st 2017


January 27th


We have added another vet to help these young players develop as we sign 29 yr old Canadian midfielder Tyler Hemming to a Senior Minimum salary contract at 925 per week until December 31st 2016


January 28th


We are scheduled to play our second friendly game this time it’s on our home pitch as we take on Sparta Prague. Our main squad lost by a score of 6-0


We also got a trade offer from Montreal Impact that they offered us their 1st round pick in the Supplemental draft in 2016 and their 2nd in 2017 supplemental draft along with rights to Stefan Vukovic who is a 21 yr old Canadian in exchange for 2 yrs of international slots and 75k allocation money.


Like I said I want to work on building through the draft and i don’t like to give up international slots however we get 2 more draft picks in the future so we agree to the trade.


Trade Recap: Hamilton FC sents 2 yrs of International Slots (until December 31st 2016) and 75k of allocation money to Montreal Impact for their 1st round pick in 2016 supplemental draft, Montreal’s 2nd round pick in the 2017 supplemental draft and rights to 21 yr old striker Stefan Vukovic


January 29th


Our main squad has signed 21 yr old American Ben Trejo who is a centreback who we were scouting in the draft who went undrafted in this years superdraft. He was signed to a reserve contract at 700 per week until December 31st 2016


January 31st


With the start of the MLS just 35 days away, ESPNFC.com focuses on Hamilton FC in today’s “MLS Team Watch”


Hamilton FC have a squad extremely capable of putting together a good season but the name of enthusiastic midfielder Robert Heggestad has increasingly been spoken of as one to watch, whilst winger Jorge Villafana is also emerging as a very handy player.


Heggestad has 2 caps at youth level for Norway and has never been capped by the senior side. The new Hamilton FC signing has already made it known in recent days that he is pleased to be part of the setup at Tim Horton’s Field. He was drafted to the MLS in 2015 by Hamilton FC, as a 1st round (2nd overall) in the superdraft.


Rage have a fairly well balanced squad in terms of numbers and with no obvious weaknesses, they appear to be ready for the big kick off.


Our main squad is scheduled to take on San Antonio Scorpions in friendly action on the road. Our main squad won by a score of 4-1, Marvin Chavez scored 1 goal as Bastian Meisenheimer scored a hat trick for 3 goals.


Two players from our feeder club Nico Louwers who i have been following very close and goalkeeper Nicholas Maroccia helped Canada U20 lift the U20 Championship with a 2-0 win over USA U20 in the Championship final.

 

[FM2014Fan]

February 1st


The club made a profit of 891k last month. Merchandise income for the month amounted to 22.95k with a total of 179 shirts being sold. Revenue through the use of corporate hospitality facilities amounted to 2.4k with match day commercial and retail activity generating 8.37k


February 2nd


Our reserve squad has a game against Liga de Quito U19 in the Youth Club Invitational.


February 4th


Our reserve squad has a game against Catania U20. Our Reserve squad drew a 2-2 tie in the Youth Club Invitational Group 1.


February 5th


One of our full backs 30 yr old Fredrik Stoor will be out for 8 to 10 days with a strained wrist


We have added another coach as we signed former 29 yr old Manager Jerson Monteiro from Angola who will help our other coaches with our attacking as he is 19 in attacking


February 6th


Our Board came back with their verdict on our possible Affiliate club.


We have 3 clubs to choose from


Option #1 – Tigers from Liga MX
Option #2 – Atlas from Liga MX
Option #3 – Veracruz from Liga MX


After looking through all 3 teams we have decided to go with Atlas as our Affiliation club because of the great training facilities and great youth facilities. So the board will consider our recommendation and will return with a verdict as soon as possible.


Our reserve squad has a game against Novara U20. Our reserve squad lost by a score of 2-1


We have also added our last possible Hamilton FC staff member we could sign with former 35 yr old manager Birahim Diop from Senegal. He is known for his excellent defending coaching which will help our defense.


February 18th


Our main squad has their second to last pre-season friendly game as we take on Charleston Battery on the road. The game ended in a 0-0 draw.


February 21st


Our main squad has our last friendly game before the regular season begins as we take on Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Our main squad won by a score of 3-1. Tyler Hemming, Ben Trejo and Neale Veach all pick up the goals.


February 23rd


We have added Alejandro Aguliar and Brook Maggio to the possible players for the upcoming March Wavier draft.


February 24th


Today is the March Wavier Draft. We have been given the second overall pick in the draft.


1st overall pick – NYCFC has decided to pass on the pick


2nd overall Pick – Hamilton FC selects 27 yr old goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth
2014-2015 Season: 18 Apps 24 Conc 0 Gls 5 Cln 0 PoM 6.49 AvR – with NYCFC
2014-2015 Season: 7 Apps 12 Conc 0 Gls 2 Cln 0 PoM 6.41 AvR – With New England (MLS)


3rd overall pick – D.C. United selected 18 yr old winger Jose Luis Martinez
2014-2015 Season: 9 Apps 0 Gls 1 Asts 0 PoM 6.79 AvR – Dallas Jrs


4th overall pick – FC Dallas have passed


5th overall pick – Columbus has passed


6th overall pick – Sporting Kansas City – has passed


7th overall pick Montreal has passed


8th overall pick – Vancouver Whitecaps has passed


9th overall pick – New England has passed


10th overall pick – Seattle has passed


Rest of Hamitlon FC’s Picks:


22nd overall – Hamilton FC selects 23 yr old AM (L) / ST Patrick Mullins
2014 Season: 17 Apps 3 Gls 2 Asts 0 PoM 6.68 AvR – With New England (MLS)


With the newest waiver draft picks we have moved the following players down to our reserve squad:


21 yr old GK – Osmar Franco


February 26th


We continue to add a few more players before the start fo the regular season as we sign 24 yr old forward Jimmy Delgado from Aucas from Ecuador. 15,000 will be deducted from our transfer budget of 725k. The 24 yr old will be signed for 1.2k per week until December 31st 2017.


Former Cuniburo player Delgado is said to have welcomed the chance of a fresh start with his new club. Hamilton FC support spokesperson Jason De Grandpre feels the fans are keen to see how Delgado fares after making the leap to a much bigger club but are prepared to let him play a few games first.

 

[FM2014Fan]

March 2nd


21 yr old centreback Ben Trejo has suffered bruised ribs and will be out 5 to 7 days


March 7th


We have contacted New York Red Bulls about a possible trade for 27 yr old DM/M/AM Dax McCarty


Opening day of the MLS season has 8 games on schedule as Montreal is in Houston, Toronto takes on Portland, Colorado up against KC, NYCFC up against LA, NE vs CBS, NYRB vs RSL, Chicago vs Vancouver and DC vs Seattle


Montreal and Houston drew a 0-0
Toronto FC beat Portland 3-1
KC beat Colorado 1-0
NYCFC beat LA 3-2
New England and Columbus drew a tie 1-1
New York Red Bulls lost to Real Salt Lake 2-0
Chicago beat Vancouver by a score of 3-1 and Seattle beat D.C United by a score of 2-1


March 8th


We kick off our regular season as we play host to the FC Dallas. Before the game we sent Alejandro Aguilar and Josh Janniere down to our reserve squad. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


FC Dallas (8th west) @ Hamilton FC (8th East)


Marvin Chavez scores his 1st of the season and Franchise’s 1st goal (14); Marvin Chavez scored his 2nd goal of the season (45); Jimmy Delgado scores his 1st of the season and 1st as a member of Hamilton FC (51); Robert Heggestad our 1st round pick from the superdraft from Norway scored his 1st career goal in a Hamilton FC kit and 1st goal of the season (88); Hassoun Camara picks up 1 assist, Neale Veach picks up 2 assists


Final: 4-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – FC Dallas
Goals: 4 - 1
Shots: 29 - 14
Shots on Target: 8 - 6
Fouls: 5 - 13
Yellow Cards: 0 - 2
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 7.46 – 6.45
Possession: 49 % - 51 %
Passing %: 75 % - 72 %
Player of the Match: Marvin Chavez (Hamilton FC) – 2 goals 9.2 rating


After the game we made a trade with New York Red Bulls as we sent them our 4th round pick in the 2017 supplemental draft to the Red Bulls for Dax McCarty.


Trade Recap: Hamilton FC sends their 4th in 2017 supplemental draft to New York Red Bulls for 27 yr old Dax McCarty.


March 10th


Hamilton FC’s Marvin Chavez has won the MLS Player of the Week award.


Marvin Chavez and Eriq Zavaleta were both named to the MLS Team of the week


March 11th


Our main squad is on the road as we head to Los Angeles to face the Galaxy. Dan McCarty will make his Rage debut. Bobby Shuttleworth will get the start in goal.


Hamilton FC @ Los Angeles Galaxy


Jimmy Delgado scores his 2nd goal of the season (90+3); Dax McCarty picks up the lone assist


Final: 3-1 L


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Los Angeles
Goals: 1 - 3
Shots: 10 - 20
Shots on Target: 4 - 6
Fouls: 8 - 7
Yellow Cards: 2 - 0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 7.61 – 6.65
Possession: 43 % - 57 %
Passing %: 65 % - 77 %
Player of the Match: A. Bance (LAG) 3 goals 9.5 rating


March 15th


Our club returns home as we take on San Jose on our home pitch. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


San Jose (6th West) @ Hamilton FC (4th East)


Dax McCarty scores his 1st goal of the season and 1st goal in a Hamilton FC kit (19); Marvin Chavez scores his 3rd goal of the season (32); Tyler Hemming scores his 1st goal of the season (71); Marvin Chavez has 3 assists; Robert Heggestad picks up an assist


Final: 3-0 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – San Jose
Goals: 3 - 0
Shots: 23 - 12
Shots on Target: 10 - 7
Fouls: 9 - 10
Yellow Cards: 0 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 7.53 – 6.56
Possession: 57 % - 43 %
Passing %: 80 % - 69 %
Player of the Match: Donovan Ricketts (Hamilton FC) 0 Conc 8.8 rating


March 17th


LA’s Aristide was named the MLS Player of the Week


Donovan Ricketts was named to the MLS Team of the Week


March 20th


Some of our Academy players were named to the Canada U20 squad.


GK – Nicholas Maroccia
D (L) – Adam Malkowski
D (L) – Tyler Gomez
D (R) – Fabio Stella
AM (C) / M (C) – Mario Colasimone
ST (C) – Nico Louwers


Kyle Bekker who is a member of our MLS roster has been called up to International team for Canada for their game against Ecuador on the 27th of March.


We have assigned two more players down to our reserve squad in 24 yr old Juan Cruz Gotta and 21 yr old prospect Ben Trejo


March 21st


Our main squad is on the road against Portland. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


Hamilton FC (2nd East) @ Portland (7th West)


Jorge Villafana scores his 1st goal of the season (82); Bastian Meisenheimer scores his 1st goal of the season (83); Kyle Bekker and Jorge Villafana pick up the assists


Final: 4-2 L


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Portland
Goals: 2 - 4
Shots: 15 - 11
Shots on Target: 4 - 5
Fouls: 12 - 17
Yellow Cards: 0 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Dax McCarty (Hamilton FC), Diego Chara (Portland)
Average Rating: 6.71 – 7.18
Possession: 54 % - 46 %
Passing %: 77 % - 73 %
Player of the Match: R. Wallace (Portland) – 2 goals 8.8 rating


March 22nd


Our reserve squad is up against Chicago Fires Reserves. Our reserve squad lost by a score of 4-3


March 24th


Real Salt Lake’s Javier Morales won the MLS Player of the Week


Jorge Villafana was named to the MLS Team of the week


March 26th


Canada U20 beat Grenada U20 by a score of 4-0, Nico Louwers scored 2 goals and Allan Guichard from Montreal’s Academy scored the other goal as the 4th goal was from Grenada scoring on their own net.


March 28th


Our main club is on home pitch today against Real Salt Lake. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


Real Salt Lake @ Hamilton FC


Marvin Chavez scores his 4th goal of the season (pen 24); Tyler Hemming scores his 2nd goal of the season (42); Robert Heggestad picks up both assists; Fredrik Stoor scored on our own goal


Final: 2-2 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Real Salt Lake
Goals: 2 - 2
Shots: 13 - 12
Shots on Target: 4 - 4
Fouls: 16 - 8
Yellow Cards: 0 - 0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Marvin Chavez (Hamilton FC/Knock); Alvaro Saborio (RSL/Knock)
Average Rating: 6.75 – 6.70
Possession: 57 % - 43 %
Passing %: 82 % - 72 %
Player of the Match: Tyler Hemming (Hamilton FC) – 1 goal 7.1 rating


Marvin Chavez who is our leading goal scorer with 4 so far this season will be out for 2 weeks with a Thigh Strain


March 29th


Our reserve squad has another friendly game against Chicago Fire Reserves. Our reserve squad lost 2-1, Alejandro Aguilar will be out for 2 weeks with a thigh injury.


March 31st


FC Dallas’s Blas Perez was named the MLS Player of the Week


One of our centreback’s Juan Cruz Gotta suffered a pulled hamstring and will be out for 3 weeks. We will place him on the DL

 

[FM2014Fan]

April 1st


Marvin Chavez will be out for another 8 to 10 days so he will miss our upcoming two games tomorrow against Vancouver and on the 4th against Philadelphia however he will be back on the 11th on the road against Seattle.


Houston’s Mark Sherrod was named the MLS Player of the Month as he scored 7 goals in 5 games.


April 2nd


Our Reserve squad has a friendly game against Montreal Impact on the 5th of April.


Our main squad has a game against Vancouver Whitecaps on the road. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


Hamilton FC (5th East) @ Vancouver Whitecaps (9th West)


Jimmy Delgado scored his 3rd goal of the season (12); Robert Heggestad picked up the lone assist


Final: 1-1 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Vancouver
Goals: 1 - 1
Shots: 18 - 16
Shots on Target: 5 - 2
Fouls: 8 - 15
Yellow Cards: 0 - 0
Red Cards: 0 -0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 6.89 – 6.97
Possession: 52 % - 48 %
Passing %: 70 % - 66 %
Player of the Match: S. Beitashour (Vancouver) – 1 assist 7.9 rating


April 4th


We head back home to take on Philadelphia on our home pitch. Bobby Shuttleworth gets the start in goal.


Philadelphia (2nd East) @ Hamilton FC (3rd East)


Final: 0-0 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Philadelphia
Goals: 0 - 0
Shots: 20 - 4
Shots on Target: 10 - 1
Fouls: 10 - 11
Yellow Cards: 2 - 3
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Josh Janniere (Hamilton FC)
Average Rating: 6.79 – 6.72
Possession: 57 % - 43 %
Passing %: 79 % - 67 %
Player of the Match: Kyle Bekker (Hamilton FC) – 7.5 rating


We get news that we will be signing Bahia’s 21 yr old forward Ze Roberto on a loan until the end of the season.


April 5th


We have put Ze Roberto in our Reserve line up to get some match fitness before we play our next main squad game. Our Reserve squad drew a 3-3 tie. Ben Trejo and Ze Roberto each scored a goal and Marco Molina who is an unknown scored the other goal.


April 7th


San Jose’s Atiba Harris was named the MLS Player of the Week.


April 8th


Group A has been announced for the North American Gold Cup scheduled for July 7th to July 26th 2015. Canada (118th ranked in the world), USA (23rd ranked in the world), Nicaragua (157th ranked in the world), Costa Rica (26th ranked in the world)


Two of our league games were rescheduled to the tournament in USA. Our game against Portland has been rescheduled for the 12th of July, while our game against NYCFC was rescheduled for July 19th.


April 9th


Our reserve squad has a friendly game against Columbus Crew reserves for the 16th of April


April 10th


Marvin Chavez has fully recovered from his injury that has kept him out for 2 weeks.


April 11th


Our main squad has a road game against Seattle as Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal and Ze Roberto will make his Hamilton FC debut.


Hamilton FC (3rd East) @ Seattle (1st West)


Ze Roberto scores his 1st goal of the season (49); Hassoun Camara scores his 1st goal of the season (75); Kyle Bekker scores his 1st goal of the season (83); Kyle Bekker, Robert Heggestad both pick up assists


Final: 3-2 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Seattle
Goals: 3 - 2
Shots: 14 - 15
Shots on Target: 8 - 4
Fouls: 9 - 13
Yellow Cards: 1 - 4
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 7.04 – 6.81
Possession: 55 % - 45 %
Passing %: 79 % - 73 %
Player of the Match: Kyle Bekker (Hamilton FC) 1g 1a 9.0 ratings


April 14th


Portland’s Fanendo Adi was name the MLS Player of the week


Kyle Bekker was named to the MLS Team of the team


We have lost 22 yr old centreback Ben Trejo for 6-7 weeks with strained knee ligaments. We have placed him on the season ending disabled list.


April 16th


Our reserve squad has a friendly game against Columbus Reserves. Our reserve squad lost 2-1 as Neale Veach scored the lone goal.


April 18th


We head home for a home game against Columbus Crew on our home pitch. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


Columbus Crew (7th East) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)


Marvin Chavez scores his 5th goal of the season (pen 28); Jimmy Delgado scores his 4th goal of the season (70); Robert Heggestad and Jimmy Delgado pick up the assists


Final: 2 – 1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Columbus
Goals: 2 - 1
Shots: 21 - 8
Shots on Target: 10 - 3
Fouls: 12 - 15
Yellow Cards: 1 - 3
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Dax McCarty (Hamilton FC/Knock), Jorge Villafana (Hamilton FC/Knock),
Average Rating: 6.89 – 6.62
Possession: 54 % - 46 %
Passing %: 80 % - 71 %
Player of the Match: T. Tchani (Columbus) 7.7 rating


Dax McCarty will be out 4 to 5 days with a whiplash


April 20th


When we played LA Galaxy earlier in the season their striker Aristide Bance scored 3 goals against us and now today he is being waived by Galaxy.


April 21st


Seattle’s Kenny Cooper was named MLS Player of the Week


April 22nd


We are on the road as we head to Boston to take on New England.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ New England (3rd East)


Ze Roberto scores his 2nd goal of the season (3); Robert Heggestad picks up the assist


Final: 2-1 L


Stats:
Hamilton FC – New England
Goals: 1 - 2
Shots: 11 - 16
Shots on Target: 6 - 4
Fouls: 11 - 13
Yellow Cards: 0 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Corey Ashe (New England/Knock)
Average Rating: 6.78 – 6.79
Possession: 58 % - 42 %
Passing %: 79 % - 67 %
Player of the Match: Kyle Bekker (Hamilton FC) – 7.4 rating


April 23rd


Our reserve squad has a friendly game against D.C. United on the 26th of April.


April 24th


Canada U20 has been drawn in the Group C of the U20 World Cup along with Australia U20, Serbia U20 and Venezuela U20 as the U20 World Cup will be hosted by New Zealand as France will be the Holders. The tournament will run from May 30th 2015 until June 21st 2015.


April 25th


Our main squad has a home game against D.C. United


D.C. United (6th East) @ Hamilton FC (2nd East)


Dax McCarty scores his 2nd goal of the season (33); Tyler Hemming scores his 3rd goal of the season (59); Ze Roberto scores his 3rd goal of the season (68); Eriq Zavaleta scores his 1st goal of the season (73); Robert Heggestad scored his 2nd goal of the season (82); Zach Lloyd, Ze Roberto, Patrick Mullins each picked up 1 assist as Robert Heggestad picks up 2 assists


Final: 5-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – D.C. United
Goals: 5 - 1
Shots: 21 - 16
Shots on Target: 13 - 10
Fouls: 6 - 12
Yellow Cards: 2 - 2
Red Cards: 1 – 0 (Bryce Alderson/Hamilton FC)
Injuries: Jorge Villafana (Hamilton FC);
Average Rating: 7.88 – 6.47
Possession: 54 % - 46 %
Passing %: 81 % - 72 %
Player of the Match: Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC) – 1g 2a 9.2 rating


Due to him getting a red card Bryce Alderson will miss our next game. We have given him a 2 week fine for the incident so we will be saving 3.6k for that fine.


After the game we have removed Juan Cruz Gotta off the DL


April 26th


Our Reserve squad goes up against D.C. United Reserves. Neale Veach and Bryce Alderson score in the 3-2 loss.


April 28th


Sporting KC’s Dom Dwyer was named MLS Player of the Week


Dax McCarty’s goal was named #1 of the AT&T goal of the week against D.C. United


Eriq Zavaleta and Zach Loyd were named to the MLS Team of the Week


April 30th


Our reserve squad has challenged New England Reserves for a friendly game on May 7th


I forgot to post the photo of Ze Roberto when we signed him on loan

 

[FM2014Fan]

May 1st


Sporting KC’s Claudio Bieler was named the MLS Player of the Month for April. He had five goals in 5 games.


It’s Decision time as Joseph Milton the Canada U20 manager will name for U20 roster for team Canada for the U20 Cup coming up on the 11th of May.


We get our month update from the board:


They are very pleased on my overall leadership so far this season, they said that the teams fantastic overall performance in the MLS has been a particular highlight.


Some fans have voiced their concern over Jorge Villafana’s performance


The club recorded a loss of 390k last month but the club is looking relatively stable for the foreseeable future.


Merchindise income for the month amounted to 19.34k with a total of 181 shirts sold.


Revenue numbers have came in as we got 231k with match day commercial and retail activity generating 138k


May 2nd


We open the month of May with a road game against Montreal Impact


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ Montreal Impact (6th East)


Ze Roberto scores his 4th and 5th goals of the season (1, 8); Jimmy Delgado scores his 5th goal of the season (85); Robert Heggestad picks up 2 assists as Fredrik Stoor picks up the other assist


Final: 3-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Montreal
Goals: 3 - 1
Shots: 22 - 10
Shots on Target: 9 - 3
Fouls: 10 - 19
Yellow Cards: 1 - 1
Red Cards: None
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 7.46 – 6.38
Possession: 54 % - 46 %
Passing %: 75 % - 69 %
Player of the Match: Robery Heggestad (Hamilton FC) – 2 assists 9.0 rating


I apologize I forgot to post a few screenshots for some of my players/staff when they were signed so here they are:


Jerson Monteiro

Birahim Diop

Jimmy Delago

Dax McCarty

May 4th


Zach Loyd will be out of action for about 9 to 12 days with a strained wrist


May 5th


Vancouver Whitecaps Ayoze was named the MLS Player of the Week


Fredrik Stoor and Robert Heggestad were both named to the MLS Team of the Week


May 7th


Our Reserve squad is up against New England Reserves in friendly action. Our Reserve squadfinally winds a game beating New England reserves by a score of 5-0. Neale Veach picks up 2 goals, Bryce Alderson picks up 1, Bastian Meisenheimer picked up 1 and Josh Janniere picked up the other goal.


May 9th


Our main club is at home to take on Chicago Fire in a home game.


Chicago Fire (10th East) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)


Jimmy Delgado scores team leading 6th goal of the season (90+3); Bastian Meisenheimer picks up the assist


Final: 1-1 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Chicago
Goals: 1 - 1
Shots: 21 - 7
Shots on Target: 5 - 2
Fouls: 13 - 17
Yellow Cards: 0 - 2
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Patrick Mullins (Hamilton FC)
Average Rating: 6.83 – 6.85
Possession: 63 % - 37 %
Passing %: 82 % - 63 %
Player of the Match: J. Leveron (Chicago) – 1 goal 8.3 rating


Based on just the possession % we dominated this game and we should have scored more goals and won this game but that wasn’t the case.


Patrick Mullins will be out for 5 to 6 weeks with fractured ribs and will be placed on the DL.


May 11th


The Canada U20 squad was announced today for the U20 World Cup


Goalkeepers: Marco Carducci (Vancouver), Nicholas Maroccia (Hamilton FC Academy), Michael Fronzo (Whitecaps Residency)


Defenders: Jon Morgado (TFC Academy), Steve Stephens (Whitecaps Residency), Pat Sulentic (Vancouver), Tyler Gomez (Hamilton FC Academy), Adam Malkowski (Hamilton FC Academy), Francisco Javier Marin (Impact Academy)


Midfielders: Atiba Paulin (TFC Academy), Ryan Alderson (TFC Academy), Steve Poole (Whitecaps Residency), Hanson Boakal (FC Edmonton), Manny Aparicio (Toronto FC), Bozo Kardum (Whitecaps Residency), Edwin Moreau (Impact Academy)


Forwards: Evan Paterson (TFC Academy), John Ling (Vancouver), Nico Louwers (Hamilton FC Academy), Stefano Di Matteo (TFC Academy), Nikolas Budalic (Hamilton FC Academy)


The following are the Groups for the U20 World Cup:


Groups A-C

Groups C - F

May 12th


FC Dallas Joao Plata was named MLS player of the week


May 14th


Our reserve squad has scheduled a game against D.C. United for the 17th of May.


Donovan Ricketts will be out of action for 2-3 days with a stubbed finger


May 15th


Hamilton FC’s 22 yr old central defender Ben Trejo has left his agent Marc Brown. LOL I guess his agent wasn’t doing his job to get him more money when Ben Trejo signed .


May 16th


We take on our Archi Rivals from down the QEW on our home pitch as we place host to Toronto FC. Bobby Shuttleworth will get the start in goal as Donovan Ricketts is only 76 % as he will be on the club bench however will dress for today’s game. Zach Lloyd also returns to the starting 11 after missing the past few games with his injury.


Toronto FC (6th East) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)


Ze Roberto scored his 6th goal of the season (15); Marvin Chavez scored his 6th goal of the season (32); Robert Heggestad scored his 3rd goal of the season (44); Fredrik Stoor, Dax McCarty, and Kyle Bekker have picked up assists


Final: 3-2 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Toronto FC
Goals: 3 - 2
Shots: 26 - 14
Shots on Target: 10 - 6
Fouls: 11 - 19
Yellow Cards: 0 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Dax McCarty (Hamilton FC/ Knock), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC/Knock)
Average Rating: 7.14 – 6.82
Possession: 62 % - 38 %
Passing %: 80 % - 64 %
Player of the Match: Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC) – 2g 8.8 rating


Dax McCarty is out for 5 to 7 days with bruised ribs


May 17th


Our reserve squad has a friendly game against D.C. United. Our reserve squad lost by a score of 1-0


May 19th


New York Red Bulls Paulo Nagamura was named the MLS Player of the Week.


Kyle Bekker was named to the MLS Team of the Week


May 22nd


We have made a trade with Columbus that we would send them 300k in allocation money along with our 2nd in 2016 supplemental draft and our 2nd in 2018 superdraft to Columbus for Chicago’s 1st in 2016 superdraft


Trade Recap: Hamilton FC sends $300k in allocation money, their 2nd in 2016 supplemental draft and their 2nd in 2018 superdraft to Columbus Crew for Chicago’s 1st round pick in 2016 superdraft


May 23rd


We head on the road to brotherly love as we play Philadelphia. Donovan Ricketts will make his return as the starting goalkeeper.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ Philadelphia (3rd East)


Ze Roberto scored his 7th goal of the season (64); Jimmy Delgado scored his 7th goal of the season (88); Robert Heggestad picks up the lone assist


Final: 2-2 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Philadelphia
Goals: 2 - 2
Shots: 21 - 15
Shots on Target: 7 - 5
Fouls: 11 - 11
Yellow Cards: 1 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Kenny Walker (Philadelphia/Knock)
Average Rating: 6.83 – 6.86
Possession: 61 % - 39 %
Passing %: 82 % - 69 %
Player of the Match: C. Maidana (Philadelphia) – 1g 1a 8.2 rating


May 26th


Canada U20 got some bad news today as 17 yr old centreback from Vancouver Reserves will be out for 5 weeks with a sports hernia and will miss the tournament. The Manager for U20 Canada will now have to name a replacement.


San Jose’s Chris Wondoloski was named MLS player of the week


May 27th


Ben Trejo has fully recovered from his injury that has kept him out for 6 weeks with strained knee ligaments


May 30th


We head home to take on our Expansion brothers in NYCFC as Donovan Ricketts gets the start in goal.


NYCFC (3rd East) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)


Jimmy Delgado scores his 8th goal of the season (14); NYCFC scores on their own goal (16); Kyle Bekker scores his 2nd and 3rd goals of the season (29, 81); Eriq Zavaleta scores his 2nd goal of the season (57); Bastian Meisenheimer scored his 2nd goal of the season (68); Jimmy Delgado picked up 1 assist, Robert Heggestad picked up 2; Ze Roberto had 1 assist, Terrance Johnson had 1 assist


Final: 6-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – NYCFC
Goals: 6 - 1
Shots: 20 - 11
Shots on Target: 9 - 5
Fouls: 13 - 14
Yellow Cards: 2 - 2
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC/Knock)
Average Rating: 8.01 – 6.15
Possession: 52 % - 48 %
Passing %: 84 % - 79 %
Player of the Match: Kyle Bekker (Hamilton FC) 2g 9.4 rating


May 31st


We have set a new franchise record for six unbeaten games.


USA U20 has drew a 1-1 tie against Germany U20 in the U20 World Cup.

 

[FM2014Fan]

June 1st


Kyle Bekker has been named the MLS Player of the Month for the month of May. The 24 yr old central Midfielder has been a central figure for his club over the past four weeks, making five appearances and playing exceptionally well.


Canada U20 drew a 1-1 draw with Venezuela U20. Atiba Paulin (TFC Academy) scored the lone goal


June 2nd


Four Hamilton FC players were named to the MLS Team of the Week:


D(C) – Hassoun Camara
D(C) – Eriq Zavaleta
D(R) – Fredrik Stoor
M (C) / M (RL), AM (C) – Kyle Bekker


June 4th


Before the reserve game the Hamilton FC board has decided to discuss possible renewal contract talks after posting 1st place in 2 ½ months into the season.


It says:


Hamilton FC Chairman Brett Lashbrok has invited your to enter into contract renewal talks with the club’s board.


Before contracts talks begin, the club’s board would like to give you the opportunity to propose modifications to the current club vision. If the board agrees to the suggested changes they will take effect once your renew your contract.


The board are pleased that you have managed to meet this season’s expectations and would be willing to allow you to increase them if you wish to do so.


The board wish to make clear that they reserve the right to adjust the transfer and wage budget in the future and without prior consultation.


The currently agreed vision is as follows:


League Expectations: Be Competitive
Transfer Budget: $400,000
Wage Budget: $500,000 per week
No agreed philosophies
No agreed board requests.


They have offered me a 1 yr contract extension for 5.25k per week. I have decided to propose a 4 yr contract extension plus drop my wage down to 4k p/w to save the money to sign possible players.


They wouldn’t draw pass a 1 yr deal so contracts have broken off for now until the end of the season. I wanted atleast 2 yrs and they weren’t willing to do that so if they don’t meet those terms I will move on at the end of the season.


I was going through the board section and it looks like they have given more more staff members as they increased it from 9 to 15 and from 6 scouts to 11


Our reserve squad has a friendly against Columbus reserves drew a 1-1 tie with Columbus Crew Reserves. Josh Janniere scored the lone goal for our reserve squad.


Canada U20 drew a 1-1 tie with Australia U20. Ryan Alderson from TFC Academy scored the lone goal at the 80th minute as Jon Christensen scored the tying goal from Australia U20 at the 89th mark.


June 6th


We have a road game against Sporting KC. It’s the Battle of the top teams from each Conference. Donovan Ricketts will get the start in goal.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ Sporting KC (1st West)


Final: 5-0 L


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Sporting KC
Goals: 0 - 5
Shots: 8 - 13
Shots on Target: 2- 9
Fouls: 12 - 10
Yellow Cards: 0 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Zach Loyd (Hamilton FC/Knock)
Average Rating: 6.23 – 8.25
Possession: 52 % - 48 %
Passing %: 79 % - 74 %
Player of the Match: C. Bieler (SKC) – 2g 2a 9.6 rating


Zach Loyd will be out of action for 12 days to 2 weeks with a damaged elbow


After the game we got word that Kyle Bekker and Bryce Alderson have been named to Team Canada for their games against Sint Maarten and French Guiana on June 12th and 16th respectively. We have asked that each player play atleast 45 mins per game.


June 7th


Canada U20 won their last round robin game by a score of 4-1 over Serbia U20. Nico Louwers who is a member of our Academy squad scored a hat trick for 3g as Serbia scored on their own goal for the 4th goal. With the win Canada has secured their spot onto the second round with a 1 pt lead over Serbia.


Here is the standings after the round robin:


Groups A-C

Group D-F

June 9th


San Jose Bradley Wright-Phillips was named MLS Player of the Week


We got word that Ze Roberto will miss the next 3 to 4 months with a hip injury. He was doing so well for our club on a loan. He will be treated by our physios and we will place him on DL.


June 10th


We have asked our board for a possible trail day to maybe bring in some possible future young stars for our club and our reserve club. Our board has agreed and will arrange a open trail day for the club.


June 11th


Our Reserve squad has a friendly game against New York City Red Bulls. Our reserve squad won by a score of 1-0


Today we will see Canada U20 take on Mexico U20 and the winner of that game will play USA or Serbia U20 in the quarter finals.


The other U20 quarter finals has Brazil U20 up against Morocco U20, Portugal against Uruguay, Germany or Iran will play South Korea or Hungary.


Our board has scheduled a trail date for tomorrow as a total of 34 players will be attending as well I and our scouting staff will be attending the game as well.


June 12th


Canada U20 has lost to Mexico U20 by a score of 1-0, as USA beat Serbia U20 by a score of 1-0


Today is our trail day as Hamilton FC Trail Team 1 takes on Team 2. Trail 2 squad beat Trail 1 by a score of 3-0.


We didn’t sign anyone from our trail teams as there is a few players we will keep a close eye on and scout


June 14th


Our main squad is on the road as we take on Colorado.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ Colorado (9th West)


Terrance Johnson scores his 1st goal of the season (32); Marvin Chavez picks up the assist


Final: 1-1 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Colorado
Goals: 1 - 1
Shots: 11 - 16
Shots on Target: 3 - 6
Fouls: 13 - 10
Yellow Cards: 2 - 3
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 6.83 – 6.69
Possession: 52 % - 48 %
Passing %: 73 % - 70 %
Player of the Match: Eriq Zavaleta (Hamilton FC) 7.6 rating


June 15th


We have removed Patrick Mullins off DL as he has fully recovered from his fractured ribs


Mexico U20 have beat USA U20 by a score of 2-1 in the quarter finals


June 16th


Montreal Impact Justin Mapp was named MLS Player of the Week


Eriq Zavaleta was named to the MLS Team of the Week


We have loaned Neale Veach 22 yr old striker and 22 yr old Midfielder Terrance Johnson to our Affiliate club Atlas for 6 months. This way they can get first club fitness and pitch time to develop.


June 17th


Canada’s main squad won 3-0 over French Guiana as they prepare for the Gold Cup Goup A against USA on July 7th.


June 18th


Zach Loyd has fully recovered from his damaged elbow that has kept him out for 12 days


June 20th


Our squad is on the road as we play FC Dallas.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ FC Dallas (7th West)


Jorge Villafana scores his 2nd goal of the season (32); Jimmy Delgado scores his 9th goal of the season (55); Robert Heggestad scored his 4th goal of the season (62); Marvin Chavez, Robert Heggestad, and Jimmy Delgado all pick up assists


Final: 3-0 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – FC Dallas
Goals: 3 - 0
Shots: 29 - 14
Shots on Target: 14 - 8
Fouls: 11 - 22
Yellow Cards: 1 - 3
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Joao Plata (FC Dallas)
Average Rating: 7.54 – 6.53
Possession: 56 % - 44 %
Passing %: 82 % - 70 %
Player of the Match: Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC) 1g 1a 9.0 rating


After the game we have offered Robert Heggestad a new contract. His current one is until December 2016 at 4.8k per week as a Generation Adidas Player and a Back up status.


Our offer is:


Senior type contract, listed as a Key Player, his agent gets 4.6k, the contract would start Immediate and the deal is worth 2,000 per week until December 2019. He does have a fee release clause of 10M however with how well he is doing we don’t plan to release him. The deal works out to being 1.6k after taxes.


So far this season Heggestad has


16 (2) Apps 4 Gls 0 Pens 15 Asts 3 PoM 1 Yel 0 Red 1.16 Tck 80 % Pas R 4.32 Drb 48 % Sh Tar 6 Fouls 54 Fls Ag 7.35 AvR


June 21st


Our club gets some much R & R as our next game isn’t for 13 days on the 4th of July against San Jose.


June 23rd


Brazil beat Mexico U20 by a score of 2-1 for Third place in the U20 World Cup 2015 as Uruguay beat Germany by a score of 2-0 to win the U20 World Cup


Philadelphia’s Quincy Amarikwa was named the MLS player of the week


Donovan Ricketts, Fredrik Stoor and Robert Heggestad were all named to the MLS Team of the week


June 25th


Robert Heggestad has signed his new 5 yr deal worth 475k


June 26th


We have hired another goalie coach to help out with the training from Mexico 49 yr old goal coach Trini Caballero. The deal is worth 3k per week until December 31st 2016

We have also signed another scout in Fernando Gutierrez who is from Mexico. His deal is worth 2k per week until December 31st 2016

June 27th


Kyle Bekker has been named to Team Canada for the North American Gold Cup squad as he will be away from July 7th until July 26th.


June 30th


With how well our captain Marvin Chavez has came into this expansion team and developed Robert Heggestad and helped him through the ropes and what not we have decided to offer Marvin Chavez. His current contract is until December 2015 at 2.9k per week. His new contract would be until December 2017 and the amount would be for 5,250.00 per week of which we agree to offer it to him.


With it being the end of June it is time for the Mid Season Review


MLS Mid-Season Standings:

MLS Mid-Season League Stats

Hamilton FC Team Stats:

Hamilton FC 1st half Schedule:

Hamilton FC 2nd half Schedule:

 

[FM2014Fan]

July 1st


San Jose Braldey Wright-Philips was named the MLS Player of the Month for June. In 3 games he scored 5 goals


July 2nd


With how well Kyle Bekker has done this season we have triggered his option for a 2 yr extention so with his contract running out in December of this year we have cashed in on the 2 yr option extention so now he is signed until December 30th 2017


Will Johnson who made team Canada for the Gold Cup will now miss the tournament as he will be out for 3 months with a injury. Team Canada has named Patrice Bernier was named as his replacement as he has been playing for Montreal Impact this season where he has 2 goals in 20 games for the DM/M


July 4th


Before the game we have announced that Marvin Chavez has officially signed his contract extension that will keep him in Hamilton until December 31st 2017


We continue the road trip we are on as we head to San Jose.


Hamilton FC (2nd East) @ San Jose (5th West)


Hassoun Camara scores his 2nd goal of the season (80); Marvin Chavez scores his 7th goal of the season (85); Jimmy Delgado and Bastian Meisenheimer pick up the assists


Final: 2-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – San Jose
Goals: 2 -1
Shots: 26 - 13
Shots on Target: 9 - 6
Fouls: 7 - 9
Yellow Cards: 0 - 0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Tommy Thompson (San Jose/Knock); Billy Schuler (San Jose)
Average Rating: 7.07 – 6.75
Possession: 57 % - 43 %
Passing %: 77 % - 67 %
Player of the Match: Marvin Chavez (Hamilton FC) – 1g 8.2 rating


July 5th


Hamilton FC has decided to come back to me with a new contract renewal offer with the same objectives as last time with the transfer budget and such but as far as my contract extension goes this time they are offering me until December 2017 and for 5.25k. I will decide to agree to terms as it gives me more then one year and renew my contract


Hamilton FC chairman Brett Lashbrook has declared himself delighted that you have agreed to renew your contract with the club. Lashbrook feels you have shown fantastic commitment to the club by signing a new deal which he is sure will please the players and fans alike.


In the last 3 days our affiliate club has sold a few of their players:


24 yr old Centreback Luis Manuel Ramos to Atlante for 82,000
28 yr old Forward Flavio Santos to UdeG for 400,000
24 yr old full back to Puebla for 175,000


And now they have sold 23 yr old winger Edson Rivera to Tigers for 3.3M


July 7th


Philadelphia’s Kalilou Traore won the MLS player of the week


Hassoun Camara was named to the MLS Team of the week


Kyle Bekker has officialy left for the Gold Cup with Canada and will be unavailable to our club until July 26th


In their first game of the 2015 North American Cup Canada and USA drew a 1-1 draw. Kyle Bekker finished with a 6.5 rating in 61 mins. USA dominated the game as they had 25-3 in shots over Canada as USA had only 6 on target compared to Canada’s 1


July 10th


USA loses 1-0 to Costa Rica as Mayron George scores the lone goal in the game, Canada draws a 1-1 tie with Nicaragua of which Olivier Occean who is a Canadian that plays in the Germany league scored the lone goal for Canada as Efren Guerrero scored the lone goal for Nicaragua


Kyle Bekker played a whole 90 minutes and finished with a 6.8 rating


July 12th


Our main squad plays host to Portland on our home pitch. Donovan Ricketts gets the start in goal.


Portland (2nd West) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)


Marvin Chavez scored his 8th goal of the season (18); Jimmy Delgado scores his 10th goal of the season (67); Robert Heggestad scored his 5th and 6th goals of the season (70, 73); Dax McCarty, Robert Heggestad, Jimmy Delgado, and Patrick Mullins pick up the assists


Final: 4-2 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Portland
Goals: 4 - 2
Shots: 18 - 19
Shots on Target: 9 - 9
Fouls: 9 - 13
Yellow Cards: 1 - 0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Diego Valeri (Portland/Knock)
Average Rating: 7.29 – 6.93
Possession: 59 % - 41 %
Passing %: 80 % - 71 %
Player of the Match: Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC) 2g 1a 9.1 rating


July 13th


Canada lost to Costa Rica by a score of 2-1, Mayron George and Elias Aguilar score the goals for Costa Rica as Michael Klukowski score the lone goal for Canada


USA drew a 0-0 draw with Nicaragua


With the loss Canada still makes it onto the quarter finals of the North American Cup as USA has officially been eliminated.


July 14th


Robert Heggestad was named the MLS Player of the Week


Donovan Ricketts and Robert Heggestad were named to the MLS Team of the week


Kyle Bekker played 90 mins in yesterdays loss to Costa Rica where he had a 6.5 rating in the end.


July 17th


It was announced today that I have been selected to manager MLS All-stars in the forthcoming ALL-stars match against Everton.


The following is the 22 Man roster for the MLS All-stars squad


Manager: Myself


Goalkeepers: Rais M’Bolhi (Philadelphia), Miguel Pinto (Colorado)


Defenders: Liam Ridgewell (Portland), Thiaguinho (Sporting Kansas City), Carlos Valdes (Philadelphia), Omar Gonzalez (Los Angeles), Manuel Pogatetz (Columbus), Samuel Inkoom (D.C. United), Oguchi Onyewu (Houston)


Midfielders: Frank Lampard (NYCFC), Diego Valeri (Portland), Ignacio Piatti (Montreal), Stefan Ishizaki (Los Angeles), Clint Dempsey (Seattle), Matias Perez Garcia (San Jose), Juninho (Los Angeles)


Forwards: Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC), David Villa (NYCFC), Obafemi Martins (Seattle), Robbie Keane (Los Angeles), Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC)


The game is scheduled for July 22nd


July 18th


Canada plays Mexico in the quarter finals as the winner will play Gatemaia in the semi finals


Our affiliate club CD Atlas won their first game 4-2 over America (MEX) however Terrance Johnson and Neale Veach are not on their bench as they currently are just practicing with the club until they make subs squad for the club.


July 19th


Our main squad is on the road as we take on our expansion brother in NYCFC. Donovan Ricketts gets the start in goal.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ NYCFC (2nd East)


Jimmy Delgado scored his 11th goal of the season (23); NYCFC scored on their own goal (58); Robert Heggestad and Jorge Villafana pick up the assists


Final: 3-2 L


Stats:
Hamilton FC – NYCFC
Goals: 2 - 3
Shots: 21 - 11
Shots on Target: 7 - 6
Fouls: 11 - 16
Yellow Cards: 3 - 3
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 6.78 – 7.23
Possession: 52 % - 48 %
Passing %: 75 % - 76 %
Player of the Match: Luis Silva (NYCFC) – 1g 1a 9.0 rating


Canada lost by a score of 3-2 to Mexico as Olivier Occean scored the 2 goals for Canada and Oribe Peralta scored 1 goal for Mexico and Javier Hernandez scored the other 2. I am very happy with the fact that Canada as a country was able to make it to the quarter finals.


Kyle Bekker had 90 mins of play and had a rating of 6.5


We got word from FA that with Hassoun Camara from our club being 1 yellow card away from a ban with him playing 3 consecutive games without being booked, they have decided to take away one of his yellow cards as it will nwo take 2 yellow cards to get a ban now.


The good behaviour rule is only valid once per player per son as Camara is no longer eligible for the remainder of the season.


July 21st


New England Stephen McCarthy won the MLS Player of the Week award


The MLS Allstars vs Everton game will be played at BBVA Compass Stadium which is the home of the Houston MLS franchise. They are expecting 22,000 fans for the game tomorrow against Everton.


American side MLS All-stars face a neal impossible task in this extremely tough encounter against a vastly superior opposition in the shape of English team Everton, according to the American Soccer Daily.


MLS All-stars go into this season’s all-star bidding to be as successful as possible for a team of their stature.


Ze Roberto an update on his injury as he will still be out for 6 weeks to 2 months with his hip injury


Ben Trejo who is a 22 yr old centre back with our main club will be out 3 to 4 days with a dead leg.


July 22nd


We have decided to go with our tactic that i use with Hamilton FC for our game against Everton.


We have decided to start Rais M;Bolhi in goal, Inkoom, Gonzalez, Valdes and Pogatetz as our defenders, Juninho and Lampard as our midfielders, Villa and Ishizaki as our wingers, with Garcia as our shadow striker and our beloved Jimmy Delgado as advanced forward.


The rest of the roster will be on our line up as subs.


Everton @ MLS All-stars


Everton:


Ross Barkley scored his 1st goal of the game (14); Caner Erkin scored his 1st and 2nd goals of the game (33, 41)


MLS All-stars:


Juninho scored his 1st goal of the game (17); Frank Lampard scored his 1st goal of the game (37); Juninho picked up 1 assist, Matias Garica picked up the other assist.


Final: 3-2 L


Stats:
MLS All-Stars – Everton
Goals: 2 - 3
Shots: 13 - 24
Shots on Target: 5 - 9
Fouls: 17 - 4
Yellow Cards: 0 - 0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Aiden McGready (Everton); Darren Gibson (Everton/Knock)
Average Rating: 6.64 – 6.97
Possession: 44 % - 56 %
Passing %: 73 % - 81 %
Player of the Match: Caner Erkin (Everton) 2g 8.7 rating


Considering that 75-85% of my roster came to today’s game at 80% condition or less I am very happy with today’s results even though we did end up losing.


With the game over our club can now focus on our home game against Sporting KC on the 26th of July. Kyle Bekker will be returning to the line up when we play Sporting KC as well as does Dax McCarty will be back from his injury.


July 26th


Donovan Ricketts gets the start in goal against SPC.


Sporting KC (1st West) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)


Jimmy Delgado scores his 12th and 13th goals of the season (3, 21); Robert Heggestad picks up 1 assist


Final: 2-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Sporting Kansas City
Goals: 2 - 1
Shots: 12 - 12
Shots on Target: 5 - 3
Fouls: 12 - 14
Yellow Cards: 0 - 1
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC); Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC); Fredrik Stoor (Hamilton FC/Knock)
Average Rating: 6.83 – 6.85
Possession: 57 % - 43 %
Passing %: 79 % - 68 %
Player of the Match: Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC) 2g 8.6 rating


Fredrik Stoor will be out 2-3 weeks with a twisted knee, Jimmy Delgado will be out 2-3 weeks with a twisted knee as Robert Heggestad will not miss any games.


Guatemala won the 2015 North American Gold Cup


Our Manager has sent an offer of 97k to Internacional for Augusto. The deal works out to being until December 2018 at 2.3k per week, 25k signing on fee, 40k agent fee and 4.4M minium fee release clause and he gets a senior type contract. He has no additional bonuses as he will get paid 1.8k p/w after tax.


July 27th


In the end Augusto has decided to agree to our contract and will join our club. However his agent is depending 31.5k for his 20% stake of Augusto as we have to purchase all of Augusto for him to play in all matches, so we have decided to purchase all of the 22 yr old midfielder from Brazil.

July 28th


Montreal’s Ignacio Piatti was named MLS Player of the Week.


Jimmy Delgado was named to the MLS Team of the Week


July 31st


Bad news for Adam Malkowski who is a 17 yr old goalkeeper for our feeder club Hamilton FC Academy as he will be out 2 months with a dislocated shoulder

 

[FM2014Fan]

August 1st


Philadelphia’s Kalilou Traore won the MLS Player of the Month for July with 3 goals in 3 games


It’s a few quiet few days as our next game is not until the 15th of August against Colorado


We have asked the board for another Affiliate club as they will come back to our on the 18th of August as to a possibility of another Affiliate club.


August 4th


Sporting KC’s C.J Sapong has won the MLS Player of the week award


We get some bad news as our rookie of the year canadiate Robert Heggestad will be out of action for 3-4 weeks with a twisted ankle.


As we were looking at our injures we found out that our recently signee Augusto will be out of action for 3-4 weeks with a sports Hernia.


August 6th


We don’t play our next game for another 9 days so hopefully some of our injured players will be back in time.


August 11th


D.C. United’s Conor Doyle won the MLS Player of the Week


The board has came back to say they were unable to find a suitable club to form a link with well I will give it some time and go back at the board next season with this idea.


Fredrik Stoor has fully recovered from his twisted knee injury that has kept him out for 2 weeks.


Jimmy Delgado has fully recovered from his twisted knee that has kept him out for 2 weeks


August 15th


We play host to Colorado at home as Donovan Ricketts gets the start in goal.


Colorado(10th West) @ Hamilton FC (2nd East)


Jimmy Delgado scored his 14th goal of the season (18)


Final: 1-1 Draw


Stats:
Hamilton FC – Colorado
Goals: 1 - 1
Shots: 11 - 10
Shots on Target: 4 - 4
Fouls: 15 - 20
Yellow Cards: 1 - 2
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Patrick Mullins (Hamilton FC)
Average Rating: 6.73 – 6.73
Possession: 54 % - 46 %
Passing %: 82 % - 78 %
Player of the Match: M. Sarvas (Colorado) – 1g 7.0 rating


Patrick Mullins will be out of action for 3 months with a torn hamstring as he will placed on the season end DL as the season ends in October.


August 18th


Chicago’s Razvan Cocis was named the MLS Player of the Week


Hamilton FC Injury Update:


Robert Heggestad (Twisted ankle) will be out for another 5 to 10 days
Augusto (Sports Hernia) will be out for another 4 to 10 days
Patrick Mullins (Torn Hamstring) will be out for another 3 months
Ze Roberto (Hip Injury) will be out for another 10 days to 4 weeks


August 20th


25 yr old centreback Juan Cruz Gotta will be out 5 to 8 days with a concussion


August 22nd


We are at home again this time we play New England as Donovan Ricketts gets the start in goal.


New England (4th East) @ Hamilton FC (2nd East)


Marvin Chavez scored his 9th goal of the season (55); Jimmy Delgado scored his 15th goal of the season (84); Tyler Hemming and Bastian Meisenheimer pick up the assists


Final: 2-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – New England
Goals: 2 - 1
Shots: 14 - 20
Shots on Target: 5 - 8
Fouls: 19 - 12
Yellow Cards: 3 - 0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: None
Average Rating: 6.87 – 6.79
Possession: 54 % - 46 %
Passing %: 77 % - 72 %
Player of the Match: Marvin Chavez (Hamilton FC) – 1g 8.4 rating


August 25th


Houston’s Oscar Garcia was named as MLS Player of the Week


August 26th


Canada U20 Manager Joseph Milton has named his squad for the matches against Saint Kitts and Nevis U20 and US Virgin Islands U20


GK: Marco Carducci (Vancouver); Nicholas Maroccia (Hamilton FC Academy); Michael Fronzo (Whitecaps Residency)


Defenders: Jon Morgado (TFC Academy), Pat Sulentic (Charleston Battery), Steve Stephens (Whitecaps Residency), Tyler Gomez (Hamilton FC Academy), Nolan Maheu (TFC Academy), Francisco Javier Marin (Impact Academy), Dave Melvin (Whitecaps Residency), Alija Arifovic (Hamilton FC Academy)


Midfielders: Atiba Paulin (TFC Academy), Ryan Alderson (TFC Academy), Steve Poole (Whitecaps Residency), Michael Petrasso (Gillingham), Bozo Kardum (Whitecaps Residency), Edwin Moreau (Impact Academy), Lucas Gray (TFC Academy)


Forwards: Evan Paterson (TFC Academy), Nico Louwers (Hamilton FC Academy), John ling (Vancouver), Nikolas Budalic (Hamilton FC Academy), Stefano Di Matteo (TFC Academy)


Hamilton FC Academy Players so far this season:


GK – Nicholas Maroccia


21 Apps 33 Conc 0 Gls 6 Cln 0 PoM 6 Yel 0 Red 0.33 Tck 1.83 Con 34 % Pas R 28 Fouls 0 Fls Ag


D (L) – Tyler Gomez


13 (2) Apps 0 Gls 0 Pens 1 Asts 1 PoM 2 Yel 0 Red 2.86 Tck 65 % Pas R 0 Drb 33 % Sh Tar 15 Fouls 0 Fls Ag 6.59 AvR


D (R) – Alija Arifovic


16 (4) Apps 0 Gls 0 Pens 0 Asts 0 PoM 10 Yel 2 Red 4.17 Tck 67 % Pas R 0.35 Drb 35 % Sh Tar 42 Fouls 7 Fls Ag 6.26 AvR


ST (C) – Nico Louwers


17 (1) Apps 7 Gls 0 Pen 0 Asts 2 PoM 0 Yel 0 Red 0.85 Tck 67 % Pas R 2.71 Drb 45 % Sh Tar 5 Fouls 0 Fls Ag 6.99 AvR


ST (C) / AM (RL) – Nikolas Budalic


8 Apps 6 Gls 0 Pens 3 Asts 1 PoM 0 Yel 0 Red 0.27 Tck 55 % Pas R 2.25 Drb 61 % Sh Tar 3 Fouls 0 Fls Ag 7.31 AvR


We also have Kyle Bekker being called up for International duties for September 5th and 9th for Canada and Marvin Chavez has international duties coming up for Honduras for September 2nd and 4th.


August 27th


Canada U20 has lost Francisco Javier Marin for 3 weeks as he is out with a calf strain


We get good news today as Robert Heggestad and Augusto have both returned to full training as they have both fully recovered from their injury.


August 29th


We are on the road as we take on D.C. United as Augusto makes his long awaited Hamilton FC debut.


Hamilton FC (2nd East) @ D.C. United (6th East)


Jimmy Delgado scores his 16th and 17th goals of the season (2, 24); Augusto scores his 1st goal of the season (52); Jorge Villafana scores his 3rd goal of the season (79); Marvin Chavez picks up 2 assists, Jorge Villafana and Robert Heggestad both each pick up 1 assist


Final: 4-1 W


Stats:
Hamilton FC – D.C. United
Goals: 4 - 1
Shots: 21 - 12
Shots on Target: 9-3
Fouls: 12- 19
Yellow Cards: 1 -0
Red Cards: 0 - 0
Injuries: Diego Chara (DC United/Knock)
Average Rating: 7.46 – 6.37
Possession: 53 % - 47 %
Passing %: 76 % - 69 %
Player of the Match: Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC) – 2g 9.0 rating

 

[FM2014Fan]

September 1st


Jimmy Delgado was named the MLS Player of the Week


Augusto and Jimmy Delgado were named to the MLS Team of the Week


NYCFC’s David Villa was named the MLS Player of the month for Month of August


September 2nd


Canada U20 beat Saint Kitts and Nevis U20 by a score of 3-2

Michael Petrasso

Michael Petrasso

Evan Paterson


September 3rd


Canada U20 beat US Virgin Islands by a score of 2-0

Evan Paterson

Nico Louwers


September 4th


Honduras won 1-0 over Venezuela, Marvin Chavez had 0 goals and 7.1 rating


September 5th


We are at home as we take on Montreal Impact


Montreal Impact (8th East) @ Hamilton FC (2nd East)

Augusto scored his 2nd (14)

– Dax McCarty


Final: 2-1 L

– Felipe (Montreal) 2a 8.2 rating


September 6th


In the 3-0 win over Dominica, Kyle Bekker had 0 goals and a 7.7 rating in 90 minutes of play


September 8th


NYCFC Frank Lampard was named MLS Player of the Week


NYCFC has secured a playoff spot for the MLS Championship


September 9th


With Canada’s 3-0 win over Dominica in the 1st leg of the World Cup North American Qualfying Section, they beat Dominica in the 2nd leg today by a score of 3-0.

Randy Edwini-Bonsu (Canada) scored all 3


Hamilton FC midfielder Kyle Bekker had a 6.9 rating with 0 goals in 90 mins


September 11th


Ze Roberto has fully recovered from his hip injury that has kept him out for the last 3 months.


September 12th


We have a road game against Chicago Fire


Hamilton FC (2nd East) @ Chicago Fire (10th East)

Jimmy Delgado scored his 18th (4)

Eriq Zavaleta scores his 3rd (17)

Bastian Meisenheimer scores his 3rd (pen 85)

Zach Loyd (Hamilton FC)


Final: 3-1 W

Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC) – 1g 1a 8.9 rating


Osmar Franco who is our 22 yr old goalkeeper on our reserve squad was injured during training and will be out of action for 2 to 3 weeks with damaged shoulder.


Sporting KC has secured a playoff spot


September 15th


Sporting KC’s Graham Zusi was named MLS Player of the Week


Donovan Ricketts, Fredrik Stoor, Eriq Zavaleta, Zach Loyd, Jimmy Delgado were all named to MLS Team of the Week


September 19th


We head back to as we take on New York Red Bulls


New York Red Bulls (5th East) @ Hamilton FC (2nd East)

Robert Heggestad scores his 7th (22)

Jimmy Delgado scores his 19, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd (25, 29, 48, 49, 67)


Final: 6-0 W

Dax McCarty (Hamilton FC), Wendel (NY)

Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC) – 5g 10.0 rating


This is the first time I have had a player get a 10.0 rating. I’ve always seen like a 9.6-9.8 but never a 10.0


With the win we have secured our first ever franchise playoff spot. We are 1 pt behind NYCFC for 1st in East with 1 extra game to play for our club as Sporting KC is 1st in the West with 58 pts as we are 3 pts behind them.


September 20th


Hamilton FC’s 6-0 win at home over New York is a new record win. Their previous record was at home against NYCFC earlier this season.


Jimmy Delgado’s 5 goals is a new franchise record as the previous record as held by Marvin Chavez earlier this season with 2 goals at home against FC Dallas.


Real Salt Lake has secured a playoff spot, with that being said NYCFC and Hamtil FC have the top 2 tops in East locked down and Sporting KC and Real Salt Lake have the top 2 spots in the West locked down.


That leaves 3 spots in east and 3 spots in west with 2 of them being wild card games.


September 22nd


Jimmy Delgado was named MLS Player of the Week


We took 9 out of a possible 11 positions in the MLS Team of the Week:


GK – Donovan Ricketts
D (L) – Zach Loyd
D (C) – Eriq Zavaleta
D (C) – Hassoun Camara
D (R) – Fredrik Stoor
M/AM (L) – Jorge Villafana
AM (C) – Robert Heggestad
AM (R) – Marvin Chavez
ST (C) – Jimmy Delgado


Other mentions go to:
M (C) – P.Morales (Vancouver)
ST (C) – C. Dempsey (Seattle)


September 26th

We head down the QEW as we take on our arch rivals Toronto FC in a away game.


Hamilton FC (2nd East) @ Toronto FC (9th East)

Jorge Villafana scores his 4th (6)

Marvin Chavez scores his 10th (13)

Robert Heggestad scores his 8th (38)

Jimmy Delgado scores his 24th (60)


Final: 4-3 W

Augusto (Hamilton FC) (43)

Hassoun Camara (Hamilton FC); Eriq Zavaleta (Hamilton FC)

C. Warner (Toronto FC) – 1g 8.3 rating


With the win we move into 1st place in the East and a 2 way tie with Sporting KC for 1st in the league.


We find out from our physios after the game that Augusto will be out 3-4 months with a torn calf muscle and will miss the rest of the season, playoffs and championship game if we make it that far.


Also with the win we qualify for the Semi Finals


Hassoun Camara will miss our next game after he collected 5 yellow cards to get an automatic 1 game ban


September 29th


D.C. United’s Sean Franklin was named MLS Player of the Week


Robert Heggestad was named to the MLS Team of the Week


September 30th


Kyle Bekker has been called up to International duty for Canada for the 9th and 13th of October as Marvin Chavez was called up for Honuras for October 7th

 

[FM2014Fan]

October 1st


With 4 games left for our club in the regular season, we are scheduled for a home game against Houston on the 4th, a road game against NY Red bulls on the 10th, home game against Los Angeles on the 17th and our season finale is the 24th against Columbus on the road.


The MLS Wild Card is scheduled for the 28th of October


Jimmy Delgado of Hamilton FC won the MLS Player of the month for September. In 4 games he scored 7 goals.


October 2nd


With how well our club has done this season the media predicted us to finish 20th and we are 1st in the East, we have sent a possible contract extention to our goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts. He is 38 yr old currently making 5k per week and he wanted 3k so we will agree to the 2k in savings as we sent his agent an offer for 3k for 1 yr.


We need him for atleast 1 more year to help develop our possible back p goalie next season or our future goalie that will take over for Ricketts when he retires.


October 3rd


With Jimmy Delgado signing that contract extension earlier in the season our assistant is telling us to maybe improve the contract in the near future so that the player does not become unhappy with his contract situation. I am ok with that


He is signed until December 2017 at 1.2k per week and he would like a contract until December 2018. With how well he has done as of late we are happy to increase his salary to 2.8k more a week.


Philadelphia secures a playoff spot


With San Jose beating Sporting KC, we have a game in hand and moved to 1st in the League as we hold the tie breaker against KC.


October 4th


We are at home to take on Houston


Houston (6th West) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)

Jimmy Delgado scores his 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th (15, 40, 43, 45+1)

Dax McCarty scored his 3rd (pen 64)

Marvin Chavez (10)


Final: 5-2 W

Jorge Villafana (Hamilton FC)

Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC) 4g 1a 9.9 rating


Portland has secured a playoff spot


October 5th


Jimmy Delgado has set a new MLS record for scoring goals with 28 as the previous record was held by Roy Lassiter in 1996 with 27


Our goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts has signed his new 1 yr contract extension


October 6th


Jimmy Delgado has been named MLS Player of the Week


Robert Heggestad, Dax McCarty and Jimmy Delgado were named to the MLS Team of the Week


October 7th


Jimmy Delgado has signed his new contract extension worth 3 yrs at 675k over the 3 years.


October 9th


The Shortlist for the MLS Rookie of the year came out today as I have the chance to vote for a player but can’t vote for my own.


There is only 3 players up for MLS Rookie of the year:


AM (C) / ST (C) – Robert Heggestad – Hamilton FC: 28 Apps 8 Gls 23 Asts 4 PoM 7.53 AvR
AM (L) / ST (C) – Lawrence Mofokeng – NYCFC: 19 Apps 7 Gls 9 Asts 0 PoM 7.14 AvR
M (RL) – Lee Llave – FC Dallas: 21 Apps 0 Gls 3 Asts 0 PoM 6.79 AvR


Also VISA Defender of the Year Shortlist was also released today:


D (C) Ethan White – Real Salt Lake: 19 Apps 5 Gls 1 Asts 2 PoM 7.25 AvR
D (C) Elias – Portland: 30 Apps 4 Gls 0 Asts 3 PoM 7.14 AvR
D (C) Matt Besler – SKC: 28 Apps 2 Gls 0 Asts 2 PoM 7.15 AvR
D/WB (R), DM, M (C) – Thiagunho – SKC: 30 Apps 0 Gls 1 Ast 0 PoM 7.05 AvR
D (C) – Carlos Valdes – Philadelphia: 29 Apps 0 Gls 0 Asts 1 PoM 7.09 AvR


October 10th


We are on the road as we play New York Red Bulls


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ NY Red Bulls (5th East)

Hassoun Camara scores his 3rd (20)

Jimmy Delgado scores his 29th and 30th (46, 85)

Robert Heggestad scores his 9th (78)


Final: 4-0 W

Hassoun Camara (Hamilton FC)

Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC) – 2g 9.2 rating


Kyle Bekker was in for Canada in a 2-1 win over Surinam as he had 0g 1a with a rating of 7.7


Seattle has secured a playoff spot


October 11th


Seattle has secured a playoff spot


October 13th


Toronto FC’s Gilberto was named MLS Player of the Week


Six of our clubs players were named to Team of the Week, Donovon Ricketts (GK), Zach Loyd (D), Eriq Zavaleta (D), Hassoun Camara (D), Robert Heggestad AM (C), Jimmy Delgado ST (C)


Canada gets beat in the 2nd round of the World Cup Qualifying by a score of 4-2 to Surinam


Kyle Bekker played 90 mins in the loss and had a rating of 7.5 with 1 assist


October 17th


We play our last home game of the season today as we play host to Los Angeles Galaxy


Los Angeles (9th West) @ Hamilton FC (1st East)

Robert Heggestad scored his 10th ()

Hassoun Camara scored his 4th ()

Dax McCarty scored his 4th ()

Jimmy Delgado scores his 31st ()


Final: 4-0 W

Hassoun Camara (Hamilton FC) 1g 8.7 rating


October 18th


Hamilton FC has set a new record for the number of goals scored in a season in the MLS with their tally of 87 goals. The previous was set by LA Galaxy at 85


Colorado Rapids have sacked their Manager Pablo Mastroeni. With 1 more game to play Colorado finished last in the West with a record of 5 wins 8 draws and 20 loses for 27 GF and 52 GA for a goal difference of -25 for 23 Pts


The West is set as San Jose is playing Portland in the Wild Card for the West


October 19th


The Volkswagen MVP Shortlist was announced today as Managers have 3 votes


ST (C) – Jimmy Delago – Hamilton FC: 32 Apps 31 Gls 8 Asts 6 PoM 7.56 AvR
AM (L) / ST (C) – David Villa – NYCFC: 32 Apps 22 Gls 4 Asts 6 PoM 7.21 AvR
AM (LC) / ST (C) – Sebastian Giovinco – Toronto FC: 33 Apps 19 Gls 5 Asts 7 PoM 7.24 AvR
AM (RC) / ST (C) – Clint Dempsey: 27 Apps 15 Gls 6 Asts 6 PoM 7.25 AvR
AM (C) / ST (C) – Robert Heggestad: 30 Apps 10 Gls 24 Asts 4 PoM 7.60 AvR


We have added another coach in Carlos Liamosa who is a 46 yr old American Coach that was recommended me by
my fellow coaches. He will be with us until December 31st 2017 for 2,100 per week.

Ze Roberto will be out 5 to 8 days with a bruised shin


October 20th


Vancouver’s Ayoze won MLS Player of the Week


Donovan Ricketts, Zach Loyd, Hassoun Camara, Fredrik Stoor were all named to MLS Team of the Week


October 24th


We end our 1st year of our franchise as we play our last game of the season on the road against Columbus Crew.


Hamilton FC (1st East) @ Columbus (4th East)

Jimmy Delgado scored his 32nd ()

Marvin Chavez scored his 11th ()

Bastian Meisenheimer scores his 4th ()

Kyle Bekker scores his 4th ()


Final: 4-2 W

Jimmy Delgado (Hamilton FC)

Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC) – 2a 8.7 rating


Jimmy Delgado will be out of action for 2 to 3 weeks with a twisted knee, Robert Heggestad will be out for action for 5 to 8 days with a Facial Injury


News:


Hamilton FC has won the MLS Supporters Shield title


Hamilton FC fans are ecstatic at winning MLS Supporters Shield, declaring immediately that they hoped Rick Stevens would remain in charge for the foreseeable future.


A spokesperson for the official supports club added that it truly an hour to have a manager like Stevens in charge


The Hamilton FC board have issued a statement declaring that they are very happy with victory in the MLS supporters shield and are greatful to manager Rick Stevens for doign the club proud.


They stated their surprise at this achievement and wished to thank Stevens for leading the club to this unexpected success


Hamilton FC has been award an Allocation fund of 200k for winning the supports shield. That brings the total of 513k


The following are the stats for the following things


Final Standings:

Final League Stats:

Hamilton Teams Stats

Reserves Stats:

Academy Stats

Hamilton FC Schedule

Hamilton FC Reserve Schedule

Club Staff:

October 25th


Hamilton FC has set a new record for the number of points accrued in a season in the MLS, with their total of 70 pts. Previous record was held by LA Galaxy of 68


October 26th


Let the unemployement begin:


Los Angeles have sacked their Manager Bruce Arena. The Galaxy finished 9th in the West with a record of 7 wins 11 draws and 16 loses with 40 GF 63 GA -23 32 Pts. They won the MLS Supporters Shield Last year.


Montreal Impact have sacked their Manager Frank Klopas. Montreal finished 9th in the East with a record of 9 wins 9 draws and 16 losses with 48 GF 60 GA and a -12 for 36 Pts


Chicago Fire have fired their Manager Frank Yallop. Chicago Fire finished last place 10th in the East with a record of 9 wins 9 draws and 16 losses with a 39 GF 51 GA -12 and 36 Pts


Toronto FC have sacked their Manager Tim Hankinson. Toronto FC have finished 8th in the East with a record of 9 wins 9 draws and 16 losses with a 52 GF 68 GA -16 and 36 pts


The Wildcards are set as the West has Portland taking on San Jose on the 28th of October as the East has Columbus against New England on the 29th of October.


October 27th


Portland’s Darlington Nagbe has won the MLS Player of the Week


Robert Heggestad was named to the MLS Team of the week


Hamilton FC Injury Update:


AM (C) – Robert Heggestad (Facial Injury) – 2 to 4 days
ST (C) – Patrick Mullins (Torn Hamstring) – 1 to 4 days
ST (C) – Jimmy Delgado (Twisted Knee) – 12 days to 2 weeks
M (C) – Augusto (Torn Calf Muscle) – 2 to 3 months


October 28th


Portland beat Seattle by a score of 4-0


October 29th


Allstate Goalkeeper of the Year shortlist was announced today as each Manager gets 1 vote


GK – Rais M’Bolhi – Philadelphia: 25 Apps 27 Conc 1 PoM 6.94 AvR
GK – Donovan Ricketts – Hamilton FC: 31 Apps 44 Conc 1 PoM 7.09 AvR
GK – Nick Rimando – Real Salt Lake: 34 Apps 1 Ast 41 Conc 0 PoM 6.81 AvR


The East Wild Card is today as Columbus takes on New England. New England won by a score of 2-1 over Columbus in extra time.


We have drawn New England in the one East Conference Semi Final set for October 31st. The first leg is set for in New England as we will host the 2nd leg.


October 31st


We have a road game against New England in the 1st Leg of the Playoffs


Hamilton FC @ New England (1st Leg West Conference Semi Finals)

Eriq Zavaleta scored his 4th of the season (14)

Bastian Meisenheimer scored his 5th and 6th of the season (pen 67, 83)


Final: 3-0 W

Donovan Ricketts (Hamilton FC)

Tyler Hemming (Hamilton FC)

Marvin Chavez (Hamilton FC) – 1a 7.8 rating


Kyle Bekker’s agent came to us and wanted to discuss a possible contract increase as they wanted 6k until December 2018. I agree his current contract at 1.5k until December 2017 isn’t alot of how well he has done with Hamilton FC and Team Canada.


We decided to lower it to 4.3k per week until December 2018 however we have added a 2.3 Minmum Fee Release clause.


Philadelphia beat NYCFC by a score of 2-1 in their first leg of their Semi Final game.

 

[FM2014Fan]

November 2015


November 1st


We got word that owner Greg Brick will be retiring as Club Owner next season and has give us word that they will find a new owner before he retires.


Hamilton FC’s Jimmy Delgado wasnamed the Player of the Month for October as he scored eight goals in four games


The second leg isn’t until the 7th of November which is 6 days away as Delgado is to be out for 5 to 9 days so he might be back in time for that 2nd leg.


West Conference has their first leg today as Sporting Kansas City beats Portland by a score of 2-1 and Real Salt Lake beats Seattle by a score of 1-0


Colorado Rapids have hired Sigi Schmid as their new Manager. He previously served as Seattle’s Manager from December 12th 2008 until October 27th 2014.


November 3rd


Donovan Ricketts, Fredrik Stoor, Zach Loyd and Eriq Zavaleta were all named to MLS Team of the Week


Kyle Bekker signed his new contract offer worth 3 yrs at 700k over the 3 yrs.


November 4th


Four of our players have been called to international duties as Kyle Bekker is joined once again by Bryce Alderson for Team Canada for dates November 11th and 17th as Marvin Chavez will joine Houduras for November 13th and November 17th as Jimmy Delgado will join Ecuador for the 13th and 17th.


November 6th


Our ticket staff have told us that the game against New England tomorrow has been sold out and that over 23,200 fans will be attending when we take on New England in the second leg.


Chicago Fire has hired Frank Klopas as their new Manager. He previously served as Chicago Fires manager from 1998-1999 then left for Montreal Impact in 1999 until January 1st 2000 and then from January 1st 2000 until October 30th 2013 he was their coach/manager and then got fired. He then became the Manager of Montreal Impact on July 7th 2014, then got canned on the 26th of October 2015 and then was hired back on as their Manager by Chicago Fire today.


November 7th


Today is the 2nd leg of the MLS East Conference Semi Finals 2nd leg as we are at home against England. Keep in mind we have a 3-0 lead going into today and Jimmy Delgado is day to day and will not start however he will be on our line up as a sub.


New England @ Hamilton FC (Hamilton has a 3-0 lead in the leg)

Marvin Chavez scores his 12th goal (28)


Final: 2-1 L (4-2 HAM on Goals)

Josh Janniere (Hamilton FC)

Robert Heggestad (Hamilton FC); Hassoun Camara (Hamilton FC)

D.Barnes (New England) – 9.0 rating


Hamilton FC advances onto the MLS East Semi Finals as they win 4-2 aggregate win over New England as we will be joined my NYCFC in the MLS Semi Finals.


NYCFC made it to the MLS Eats Semi Finals with a 5-2 aggregate win over Philadelphia.


Josh Janniere will be out of action for 3-4 weeks with a pulled hamstring


The first leg between Hamilton FC and NYCFC will be at Yankee Stadium


November 8th


Montreal Impact has hired Ben Olsen as their Manager. He previously served as D.C. United’s Manager between August 4th 2010 and October 27th 2014 before he got sacked.


Sporting KC beat Portland by a score of 3-2 which gives them a 5-3 score after both legs as SKC moves to the West Semi Final who will play either Seattle or Portland.


Real Salt Lake drew a 2-2 tie with Portland as Real Salt Lake finished with a 3-2 score and will move on to play SKC in the west semi finals.


November 9th


Jimmy Delgado has fully recovered from his injury and will be 100% for our first leg game against NYCFC.


November 10th


NYCFC’s Steve Birnbaum has won the MLS Player of the Week


Robert Heggestad was named to the MLS Team of the Week


Canada U20 lost to Kuwait U20 by a score of 2-0


Toronto FC has named Giovanni Savarese from New York Cosmos as their new manager


Greg Vanney was named as Los Angeles Galaxy’s new Manager


November 12th


Seattle’s Clint Dempsey was named USA Player of the Year. He had 19 goals in 31 games with a AvR of 7.26


Our 23 yr old midfielder Terrance Johnson has left his agent Jeff Peters, reasons are unknown


November 13th


25 yr old defender Juan Cruz Gotta is complaining that I havnt kept my promise, once I get the chance that I can release him he will be gone.


November 15th


Jimmy Delgado was named MLS Newcomer of the Year. 25 yr old Jimmy Delgado put in a string of amazing performances this year, scoring 32 goals in 34 games with an average rating of 7.55


NYCFC David Villa came in a very close 2nd place and Frank Lampard of NYCFC took 3rd


November 16th


Canada U20 beat Ivory Coast U20 by a score of 3-1


Canada U20 – Marco Bustos 1g; Edin Husic 1g, John Ling 1g
Ivory Coast U20 – Moussa Sanoh 1g


November 21st


We head on the road as we take on NYCFC in the 1st leg of the East Semi Finals.


Hamilton FC @ NYCFC (1st Leg East Semi finals)

Jorge Villafana scored his 5th (43)

Robert Heggestad


Final: 1-1 Draw

Jorge Villafana (Hamilton FC) – 1g 8.6 rating


With the 2nd leg being held at our pitch we will have the home town fans on our side and also which ever team scores the most goals in the 2nd leg will advance to the MLS Finals


We got some bad news as Robert Heggestad will be out of action for 3-4 weeks with a twisted ankle


November 22nd


The first leg in the West Semi Finals went down as Sporting Kansas City won by a score of 6-2 over Real Salt Lake


November 23rd


Juan Cruz Gotta missed practice so he was given a 2 week fine


November 24th


Sporting Kansas City’s Dom Dwyer was named MLS Player of the week


November 28th


We are on our home pitch today as we take on NYCFC in the 2nd leg of the East Semi Finals. Our sales reps have announced that today’s game is sold out with 24,200 tickets sold even though our stadium only holds 24,000


NYCFC @ Hamilton FC (2nd Leg East Semi Finals)

Jorge Villafana scored his 6th and 7th (33, 35)

Marvin Chavez scored his 13th and 14th (64, pen 94)

Jimmy Delgado scores his 33rd goal (113)

Dax McCarty (Hamilton FC)


Final: 5-3 W (Extra Time)

Jorge Villafana (Hamilton FC) 2g 1a 9.3 rating


We move onto the MLS Finals as we take the East Semi Finals against NYCFC 6-4 in aggregate win


Dax McCarty will be out 3 to 4 days with a dead leg


We have given our squad 3 days off


With our 5-3 win over NYCFC the game has set a new MLS record for a high scoring game.


November 29th


Today is the 2nd leg of the West Semi Finals as Real Salt Lake needs more than 6 goals to score to advance over Sporting Kansas City.


Sporting Kansas City won by a score of 2-0 to take a 8-2 aggregate win over Real Salt Lake as it will be 1st Place East vs 1st place West in the MLS Finals.


We got word that we got 1.6 million from our corporate and hospitality facilities and a further 961k through match day commercial and retail acility.


Total Merchindise sales for the season were over 220k with non domestic sales of 22.05k of this total.


We sold a total of 1,973 shirts with the top 5 sellers being.


Jimmy Delgado – 1
Marvin Chavez – 2
Kyle Bekker – 3
Robert Heggestad – 4
Jorge Villafana – 5


The MLS Cup will be hosted on December 6th 2015 on our home pitch as we were the higher seeded team due to winning the tie breaker.