2011–12 Fulham F.C. season

Fulham
2011–12 season
Chairman Mohamed al-Fayed
Manager Martin Jol
Stadium Craven Cottage
Premier League 9th
Europa League Group stage (3rd in group K)
FA Cup 4th round
League Cup 3rd round
Top goalscorer League:
Clint Dempsey (17)
All:
Clint Dempsey (23)
Highest home attendance 25,700
Lowest home attendance 14,110
Average home league attendance 22,611
Biggest win 6-0 QPR
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

The 2011–12 season is Fulham's 114th professional season and their 11th consecutive season in the top flight of English football, the Premier League. They will also compete in the Europa League, League Cup and the FA Cup. Fulham finished the season in 9th place after their last league match against Tottenham Hotspur resulted in a 0-2 defeat on 13 May 2012.[1]

Premier League

Results

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
38 14 10 14 48 51 −3 52 10 5 4 36 26 +10 4 5 10 12 25 −13

Last updated: 13 May 2012..
Source: http://www.premierleague.com/page/Results

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
Result D L L D D D W L L W L D D W L W L D D W L W D L W W W L L L W W D W L W W L
Position 9 15 16 18 18 17 12 12 17 15 16 16 15 13 14 11 13 13 13 13 14 12 13 14 12 11 8 10 11 13 11 10 9 9 9 9 8 9

Last updated: 13 May.
Source: http://www.premierleague.com/page/Results
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

League table

Team
Pld W D L F A GD Pts
C Manchester City 38 28 5 5 93 29 +64 89
2 Manchester United 38 28 5 5 89 33 +56 89
3 Arsenal 38 21 7 10 74 49 +25 70
4 Tottenham Hotspur 38 20 9 9 66 41 +25 69
5 Newcastle United 38 19 8 11 56 51 +5 65
6 Chelsea 38 18 10 10 65 46 +19 64
7 Everton 38 15 11 12 50 40 +10 56
8 Liverpool 38 14 10 14 47 40 +7 52
9 Fulham 38 14 10 14 48 51 -3 52
10 West Bromwich Albion 38 13 8 17 45 52 -7 47
11 Swansea City 38 12 11 15 44 51 -7 47
12 Norwich City 38 12 11 15 52 66 -14 47
13 Sunderland 38 11 12 15 45 46 -1 45
14 Stoke City 38 11 12 15 36 53 -17 45
15 Wigan Athletic 38 11 10 17 42 62 -20 43
16 Aston Villa 38 7 17 14 37 53 -16 38
17 Queens Park Rangers 38 10 7 21 43 66 -23 37
R Bolton Wanderers 38 10 6 22 46 77 -31 36
R Blackburn Rovers 38 8 7 23 48 78 -30 31
R Wolverhampton Wanderers 38 5 10 23 40 82 -42 25
Premier League Champions
Qualifies for 2012–13 UEFA Champions League
Qualifies for 2012–13 UEFA Europa League
Relegation to Championship
Last updated: 20:00, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying

Fulham entered at the First Qualifying Round having qualified through the UEFA Fair Play League.[3] The First and Second Qualifying Round draws took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 20 June 2011, while the Third Qualifying Round and Play-off draws were also held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, on 15 July 2011 and 5 August 2011 respectively.

Group Stage — Group K

Key to colours in group table
Group winner and runner-up advance to the round of 32
Third and fourth placed teams cannot advance to the round of 32
Fulham's group positioning
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Netherlands Twente 6411147+713
Poland Wisła Kraków 6303813−59
England Fulham 622296+38
Denmark Odense 6114914−54

Football League Cup

FA Cup

Main article: 2011–12 FA Cup

Statistics

Appearances & goals

Last updated 5 May 2012[5]
No. Pos Nat Player TotalPremier League FA Cup League Cup Europa League
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Australia Mark Schwarzer 42 0 29+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 12+0 0
2 DF Republic of Ireland Stephen Kelly 33 0 20+3 0 2+0 0 1+0 0 7+0 0
3 DF Norway John Arne Riise 42 0 34+1 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 5+0 0
4 MF England Steve Sidwell 27 3 12+2 1 0+2 0 0+1 0 4+6 2
5 DF Norway Brede Hangeland 52 0 37+0 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 13+0 0
6 DF Northern Ireland Chris Baird 27 0 13+6 0 1+0 0 1+0 0 6+0 0
7 FW Russia Pavel Pogrebnyak 11 6 11+0 6 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
8 FW England Andy Johnson 33 11 13+7 3 1+0 0 0+0 0 11+1 8
9 FW Portugal Orlando Sá 12 1 3+4 1 0+0 0 1+0 0 1+3 0
10 MF Switzerland Pajtim Kasami 16 0 3+3 0 0+1 0 1+0 0 3+5 0
11 FW Costa Rica Bryan Ruiz 30 2 17+10 2 2+0 0 1+0 0 0+0 0
12 GK England David Stockdale 10 0 8+0 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
13 MF England Danny Murphy 47 6 32+3 2 2+0 1 0+0 0 10+0 3
14 DF Switzerland Philippe Senderos 25 1 21+0 1 1+0 0 1+0 0 1+1 0
15 MF Czech Republic Marcel Gecov 5 0 0+2 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 2+0 0
16 MF Republic of Ireland Damien Duff 42 6 22+5 2 1+1 1 0+0 0 11+2 3
17 MF Norway Bjørn Helge Riise 4 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+4 0
18 DF Northern Ireland Aaron Hughes 27 1 17+1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 8+0 1
19 MF Mali Mahamadou Diarra 10 1 7+3 1 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
20 MF Nigeria Dickson Etuhu 33 0 9+13 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 9+2 0
21 MF Switzerland Kerim Frei 24 1 5+10 0 1+0 0 1+0 0 2+5 1
22 GK Hungary Csaba Somogyi 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
23 MF United States Clint Dempsey 45 22 37+0 16 2+0 3 0+0 0 6+0 3
24 FW Finland Lauri Dalla Valle 2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+2 0
26 DF Czech Republic Zdeněk Grygera 7 0 5+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
28 DF England Matthew Briggs 14 1 1+1 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 10+1 1
29 MF Wales Simon Davies 6 0 2+3 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
30 FW Belgium Mousa Dembélé 43 1 32+3 1 1+0 0 0+1 0 4+2 0
31 MF Sweden Alexander Kačaniklić 4 0 2+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
32 DF Algeria Rafik Halliche 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
34 MF England Tom Donegan 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
38 GK Philippines Neil Etheridge 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
42 FW Italy Marcello Trotta 2 0 0+1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0

Top scorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Last updated on 5 May 2012
Position Nation Number Name Premier League FA Cup League Cup Europa League Total
1 United States 23 Clint Dempsey 17 3 0 3 23
2 England 8 Andy Johnson 3 0 0 8 11
3 England 25 Bobby Zamora 5 0 0 2 7
4 England 13 Danny Murphy 2 1 0 3 6
Republic of Ireland 16 Damien Duff 2 1 0 3 6
6 Russia 7 Pavel Pogrebnyak 6 0 0 0 6
7 England 4 Steve Sidwell 1 0 0 2 3
8 Costa Rica 11 Bryan Ruiz 2 0 0 0 2
Belgium 30 Mousa Dembélé 2 0 0 0 2
10 Portugal 9 Orlando Sá 1 0 0 0 1
Northern Ireland 18 Aaron Hughes 0 0 0 1 1
Mali 19 Mahamadou Diarra 1 0 0 0 1
Switzerland 21 Kerim Frei 0 0 0 1 1
England 28 Matthew Briggs 0 0 0 1 1
Switzerland 14 Philippe Senderos 1 0 0 0 1
/ / / Own Goals 4 0 0 0 4
/ / / TOTALS 47 5 0 24 76

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches.

Last updated 5 May 2012
Number Nation Position Name Premier League FA Cup League Cup Europa League Total
Red card Red card Red card Red card Red card
6 Northern Ireland DF Chris Baird 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
13 England MF Danny Murphy 6 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 8 0
14 Switzerland DF Philippe Senderos 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 0
20 Nigeria MF Dickson Etuhu 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 7 0
4 England MF Steve Sidwell 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 0
30 Belgium FW Mousa Dembélé 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 1
4 Norway DF Brede Hangeland 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
8 England FW Andy Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 1
23 United States MF Clint Dempsey 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
25 England FW Bobby Zamora 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0
16 Republic of Ireland MF Damien Duff 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
26 Czech Republic DF Zdeněk Grygera 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
3 Norway DF John Arne Riise 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
21 Switzerland MF Kerim Frei 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0
1 Australia GK Mark Schwarzer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
7 Russia FW Pavel Pogrebnyak 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
15 Czech Republic MF Marcel Gecov 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
28 England DF Matthew Briggs 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
TOTALS 49 0 2 0 1 0 22 2 74 2

Transfers

Players in

Date Pos. Name From Fee
1 July 2011 DF England Dan Burn England Darlington Undisclosed[6]
1 July 2011 MF England Tom Donegan England Everton Undisclosed[7]
8 July 2011 GK Hungary Csaba Somogyi Hungary Rákospalotai Free[8][9]
13 July 2011 DF Norway John Arne Riise Italy Roma Undisclosed[10]
20 July 2011 MF Czech Republic Marcel Gecov Czech Republic Slovan Liberec Undisclosed[11][12]
25 July 2011 MF Switzerland Pajtim Kasami Italy Palermo Undisclosed[13]
31 August 2011 DF Czech Republic Zdeněk Grygera Italy Juventus Undisclosed
31 August 2011 FW Costa Rica Bryan Ruiz Netherlands Twente £10.6 million[14]
31 August 2011 FW Portugal Orlando Sá Portugal F.C. Porto Free[15]
31 January 2012 FW Russia Pavel Pogrebnyak Germany VfB Stuttgart Undisclosed[16]
31 January 2012 MF Australia Ryan Williams England Portsmouth Undisclosed[17]
16 February 2012 MF Mali Mahamadou Diarra Free Agent

Players out

Date Pos. Name To Fee
1 July 2011 MF Hungary Zoltán Gera England West Bromwich Albion Free[18]
1 July 2011 FW United States Eddie Johnson Mexico Puebla Free
1 July 2011 FW Senegal Diomansy Kamara Turkey Eskişehirspor Free[19]
1 July 2011 DF Ghana John Pantsil England Leicester City Free[20]
1 July 2011 MF England Matthew Saunders Free
1 July 2011 GK Switzerland Pascal Zuberbühler Retired
4 July 2011 MF South Africa Kagisho Dikgacoi England Crystal Palace Undisclosed[21][22]
18 July 2011 MF England Jonathan Greening England Nottingham Forest Undisclosed[23][24]
21 November 2011 MF England Keanu Marsh-Brown Released[25]
31 January 2012 FW England Bobby Zamora England QPR Undisclosed[26]
7 March 2012 DF Mexico Carlos Salcido Mexico Tigres de la UANL Undisclosed[27]

Loans out

Date Pos. Name To Date Returned
24 July 2011 FW Netherlands Danny Hoesen Netherlands Fortuna Sittard End of season[28]
26 July 2011 GK England David Stockdale England Ipswich Town End of season (recalled in December)[29]
17 August 2011 DF Mexico Carlos Salcido Mexico Tigres End of season[30]
24 August 2011 FW Finland Lauri Dalla Valle Scotland Dundee United 16 January 2012[31]
30 August 2011 MF England Keanu Marsh-Brown Scotland Dundee United January 2012[32]
26 September 2011 MF Norway Bjørn Helge Riise England Portsmouth 17 November 2011[33]
24 November 2011 FW Italy Marcello Trotta England Wycombe Wanderers 2 January 2012[34]

References

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