2015 Sky Blue FC season

Sky Blue FC
2015 season
President and CEO	Thomas Hofstetter
Head coach	Jim Gabarra
Stadium	Yurcak Field
NWSL	8th
Top goalscorer	Sam Kerr; Nadia Nadim (6)
Highest home attendance	5,547; (Aug. 22 vs. Portland)
Lowest home attendance	743; (Apr. 26 vs. Washington)
Home colors	Away colors
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The 2015 Sky Blue FC season was the team's sixth season of existence. Sky Blue played the 2015 season in National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.

Team

Roster

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	USA	Brittany Cameron
2	MF	USA	Shawna Gordon
4	DF	AUS	Caitlin Foord
6	MF	USA	Taylor Lytle
8	FW	MEX	Mónica Ocampo
9	FW	DEN	Nadia Nadim
10	MF	USA	Katy Freels
11	FW	USA	Maya Hayes
13	DF	USA	Kristin Grubka
14	MF	USA	Sarah Killion


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	FW	CAN	Jonelle Filigno
17	DF	USA	Hayley Haagsma
18	DF	USA	Lindsi Lisonbee Cutshall
19	DF	USA	Kelley O'Hara
20	FW	AUS	Samantha Kerr
21	GK	USA	Aubrey Bledsoe
32	DF	USA	Meg Morris
33	DF	USA	Shade Pratt
42	MF	USA	Lo'eau LaBonta
44	MF	USA	Nikki Stanton

Match results

Preseason

March 14, Sat 1	Sky Blue FC	3–0	St. John's Red Storm	Scotch Plains, New Jersey
EDT (UTC−04)	Freels 50' (pen.) Killion 56' Hayes 77'	Report		Stadium: Wexler Field

March 21, Sat 2	Sky Blue FC	1–0	North Carolina Tar Heels	West Windsor, New Jersey
EDT (UTC−04)	Freels 6'	Report	Nielson 61'	Stadium: Mercer County Community College

March 26, Thu 3	Penn State Nittany Lions	0–2	Sky Blue FC	Palmyra, Pennsylvania
EDT (UTC−04)		Report	Hayes 13' Nadim 46'	Stadium: In the Net Sports Complex

March 29, Sun 4	Sky Blue FC	2–0	Rutgers Scarlet Knights	Toms River, New Jersey
EDT (UTC−04)	Freels 14' Diederich 79'	Report		Stadium: Toms River High School North

Regular season

April 12, Sun 1	FC Kansas City	0–1	Sky Blue FC	Kansas City, Kansas
16:00 EDT (UTC−04)		Report^[1]	Nadim 29' (Morris) O'Hara 90'	Stadium: Sporting Park Attendance: 8,489 Referee: Chris Spivey

April 18, Sat 2	Sky Blue FC	1–1	Houston Dash	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Freels 14' (O'Hara), 90'	Report^[2]	McDonald 52' (Brian)	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 1,742 Referee: Elvis Mahmutovic

April 26, Sun 3	Sky Blue FC	1–3	Washington Spirit	Piscataway, New Jersey
18:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Freels 62' (Nadim)	Report^[3]	Dunn 6' (Ordega) 40' Nairn 48' (Ordega)	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 743

May 2, Sat 3	Chicago Red Stars	1–0	Sky Blue FC	Lisle, Illinois
18:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Colaprico 55' (unassisted)	Report	Nadim 86'	Stadium: Village of Lisle-Benedictine University Sports Complex Attendance: 1,402

May 9, Sat 5	Sky Blue FC	1–1	Seattle Reign FC	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Nadim 78', 90' (pen.) Grubka 82'	Report	Barnes 76' Fishlock 90'	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 1,562

May 16, Sat 6	Washington Spirit	1–0	Sky Blue FC	Germantown, Maryland
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Ordega 92+' (Dunn)	Report^[4]		Stadium: Maureen Hendricks Field Maryland SoccerPlex

May 22, Fri 7	Boston Breakers	1–1	Sky Blue FC	Boston
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	McCaffrey 60' (unassisted)	Report^[5]	Freels 8' (Nadim)	Stadium: Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,861

May 31, Sun 8	Sky Blue FC	1–1	Houston Dash	Piscataway, New Jersey
3:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Haagsma 11' (Grubka) DeCesare 86'	Report	Bailey 86' (unassisted)	Stadium: Yurcak Field

June 6, Sat 9	Seattle Reign FC	3–0	Sky Blue FC	Seattle
22:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Winters 8' (Fishlock) Fishlock 28' (Cox) Little 77' (penalty)	Report		Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 2,225 Referee: Greg Dopka

June 28, Sun 10	Sky Blue FC	0–3	Chicago Red Stars	Piscataway, New Jersey
18:00 EDT (UTC−04)		Report	DiBernardo 6' (Huerta) Hoy 34' (Huerta) Mautz 62' (Hoy)	Stadium: Yurcak Field

July 3, Fri 11	Portland Thorns FC	2–1	Sky Blue FC	Portland, Oregon
22:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Kyle 54' Long 70' (penalty) Farrelly 79' (Kleiner)	Report	Freels 27' (Lytle) Stanton 56' Levin 69' Foord 80'	Stadium: Providence Park Attendance: 12,223 Referee: Levi Rippy

July 11, Sat 12	Sky Blue FC	1–0	Portland Thorns FC	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Kerr 54' (Hayes)	Report		Stadium: Yurcak Field

July 19, Sun 13	Western New York Flash	3–3	Sky Blue FC	Rochester, New York
3:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Spencer 2' Hinkle 25' Heyman 50'	Report	Nadim 39' (O'Hara) Katy Freels 60' (O'Hara) Christie Rampone 62' (Freels) Taylor Lytle 94'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 3,161

July 25, Sat 14	Sky Blue FC	3–1	Boston Breakers	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	O'Hara 13' (Freels), 36' (Kerr) Kerr 52' (Haagsma)	Report	Lauren Lazo 84' (Rafinha)	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 2,067 ^[6] Referee: Tori Penso

August 1, Sat 15	Sky Blue FC	1–2	Western New York Flash	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)				Stadium: Yurcak Field

August 7, Fri 16	Houston Dash	0–2	Sky Blue FC	Houston
8:30 EDT (UTC−04)				Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium

August 12, Wed 17	Chicago Red Stars	1–1	Sky Blue FC	Lisle, Illinois
14:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Leon 15' (Gilliland) Chalupny 64'	Report	Kerr 36' (unassisted) Filigno 86'	Stadium: Village of Lisle-Benedictine University Sports Complex

August 22, Sat 18	Sky Blue FC	1–0	Portland Thorns FC	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Nadim 19' (O'Hara)	Report		Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 5,547

August 29, Sat 19	Seattle Reign FC	1–1	Sky Blue FC	Seattle
22:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Winters 68' Fishlock 90' (Little)	Report	Nadim 6' Haagsma 62'	Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 4,471 Referee: Greg Dopka

September 2, Wed 20	Sky Blue FC	2–3	FC Kansas City	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT (UTC−04)	Kerr 39' (O'Hara), 72' (Killion)	Report	Hagen 5' (Rodriguez) Rodriguez 42' (O'Reilly), 52' (Moros) Becky Sauerbrunn 92'	Stadium: Yurcak Field Referee: Levi Rippy

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Seattle Reign FC	20	13	4	3	41	21	+20	43	NWSL Shield
2	Chicago Red Stars	20	8	9	3	31	22	+9	33	NWSL Playoffs
3	FC Kansas City (C)	20	9	5	6	32	20	+12	32
4	Washington Spirit	20	8	6	6	31	28	+3	30
5	Houston Dash	20	6	6	8	21	26	−5	24
6	Portland Thorns FC	20	6	5	9	27	29	−2	23
7	Western New York Flash	20	6	5	9	24	34	−10	23
8	Sky Blue FC	20	5	7	8	22	28	−6	22
9	Boston Breakers	20	4	3	13	22	43	−21	15

Source: NWSL
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(C) Champions

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	Pts	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
20	22	5	8	7	22	28	−6	3	4	3	12	15	−3	2	4	4	10	13	−3

Last updated: September 26, 2015
Source: Soccerway
Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Stadium	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H
Result	W	D	L	L	D	L	D	D	L	L	L	W	D	W	L	W	D	W	D	L

Updated to match(es) played on September 26, 2015. Source: nwslsoccer.com
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Squad statistics

Source: NWSL

Key to positions: FW – Forward, MF – Midfielder, DF – Defender, GK – Goalkeeper

N	Pos	Player	GP	GS	Min	G	A	WG	Shot	SOG	Cro	CK	Off	Foul	FS	YC	RC
18	DF	Lindsi Lisonbee Cutshall	18	18	1571	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	1	7	3	0	0
12	MF	Kim DeCesare	9	4	395	0	0	0	6	3	0	1	1	8	3	1	0
^{[n 1]}44	MF	Theresa Diederich	3	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
16	FW	Jonelle Filigno	5	1	98	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	4	2	0	0
4	DF	Caitlin Foord	10	10	895	0	0	0	5	1	1	0	1	9	11	1	0
10	MF	Katy Freels	20	20	1754	5	2	0	33	14	1	26	2	15	25	1	0
25	DF	CoCo Goodson	3	0	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	MF	Shawna Gordon	13	10	768	0	0	0	7	3	1	10	3	4	10	0	0
13	DF	Kristin Grubka	14	14	1214	0	1	0	5	3	0	1	0	6	4	1	0
17	DF	Hayley Haagsma	16	15	1339	1	1	0	15	2	0	1	0	15	6	2	0
11	FW	Maya Hayes	13	10	899	0	1	0	8	4	1	0	2	5	7	0	0
20	FW	Samantha Kerr	9	9	766	6	2	1	38	15	1	0	8	4	5	0	0
14	MF	Sarah Killion	17	13	1233	0	1	0	3	1	2	4	0	10	15	3	0
42	FW	Lo'eau LaBonta	6	0	80	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
22	DF	Cami Levin	19	18	1605	0	1	0	5	3	4	0	4	10	11	0	1
6	MF	Taylor Lytle	15	11	962	0	1	0	18	6	3	1	3	4	2	1	0
32	MF	Meg Morris	9	4	453	0	1	0	7	2	0	1	3	7	3	0	0
9	FW	Nadia Nadim	18	18	1551	6	1	3	51	26	2	0	24	34	15	2	0
19	DF	Kelley O'Hara	11	11	989	3	5	1	26	14	0	29	2	8	13	1	0
33	DF	Shade Pratt	1	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
3	DF	Christie Rampone	11	11	962	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	2	4	0	0
44	MF	Nikki Stanton	9	3	352	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	10	4	1	0
34	MF	Maruschka Waldus	1	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

^ Number 44 was later assigned to Nikki Stanton

N	Pos	Goal keeper	GP	GS	Min	W	L	T	Shot	SOG	Sav	GA	GA/G	Pen	PKF	SO
21	GK	Aubrey Bledsoe	1	0	8	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0
1	GK	Brittany Cameron	20	20	1792	5	8	7	263	114	87	27	1.35	2	3	4

References

^ "SKY BLUE FC BEAT FC KANSAS CITY, 1–0". nwslsoccer.com.
^ "SKY BLUE FC DRAWS WITH DASH, 1–1". nwslsoccer.com.
^ "SKY BLUE FC FALLS TO SPIRIT, 3–1; Washington's Crystal Dunn records brace in road win". nwslsoccer.com.
^ "SPIRIT DEFEAT SKY BLUE FC, 1–0; Francisca Ordega's stoppage-time goal snags Spirit home victory". nwslsoccer.com.
^ "SKY BLUE FC AND BOSTON FIGHT TO 1–1 DRAW; Sky Blue FC Scores Early, Breakers Equalize in Second Half". nwslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
^ "The Lowdown: Six weeks to go; who stands where? – Equalizer Soccer".

External links

Official website

[7] Number 44 was later assigned to Nikki Stanton

[1] "SKY BLUE FC BEAT FC KANSAS CITY, 1–0". nwslsoccer.com.

[2] "SKY BLUE FC DRAWS WITH DASH, 1–1". nwslsoccer.com.

[3] "SKY BLUE FC FALLS TO SPIRIT, 3–1; Washington's Crystal Dunn records brace in road win". nwslsoccer.com.

[4] "SPIRIT DEFEAT SKY BLUE FC, 1–0; Francisca Ordega's stoppage-time goal snags Spirit home victory". nwslsoccer.com.

[nwsl_20150523-5] "SKY BLUE FC AND BOSTON FIGHT TO 1–1 DRAW; Sky Blue FC Scores Early, Breakers Equalize in Second Half". nwslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 23, 2015.

[6] "The Lowdown: Six weeks to go; who stands where? – Equalizer Soccer".

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