2017–18 Valencia CF Femenino season

Valencia CF Femenino
2017–18 season
Chairman Singapore Anil Murthy
Manager Spain Jesús Oliva
Stadium Antoni Puchades Stadium
Primera División Fifth
Copa de la Reina Quarterfinalist
Top goalscorer Spain María Paz Vilas (19)
Highest home attendance 1,600
Lowest home attendance 100
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

The Valencia CF Femenino 2017–18 season was the ninth season of the women's football section of Valencia CF. The team ended the championship in 5th position and was eliminated in the national cup's quarterfinals by league champion Atlético Madrid.

Season summary

The 2016–17 season had seen the team attain its best result in the championship yet, third position, and play for the first time in the club's main venue, the Mestalla Stadium. The ambitious project behind this successful season was reported as a personal initiative of president Lay Hoon Chan,[1] but she resigned in mid-season due to the disappointing season by the men's team. The departure of manager Cristian Toro after five seasons was reported in May with one game remaining,[2] and on 20 June, a few days after the team was eliminated in the Copa de la Reina's semifinals by FC Barcelona, his second in command Jesús Oliva was appointed his successor.[3] Oliva, a coach at Valencia Femenino since the team's establishment in 2009, had been the manager of the club's B team that topped the 2015–16 Segunda División's Group 7.[4]

Most of the previous season's key signings left the team, as Estefanía Banini and Yanara Aedo returned to Washington Spirit, and Christiane Endler was transferred to Paris Saint-Germain, with the €30,000 fee to Valencia the first paid transfer in Spanish women's football.[5] Another notable loss was the departure of Claudia Zornoza, who left for Real Sociedad. Jennifer Vreugdenhil, coming from the Eredivisie, replaced Endler as the team's first-choice goalkeeper, and Valencia signed Noelia Bermúdez, Marta Carro, Sandra Hernández and Anair Lomba within the Primera División market. After the championship was underway the team was joined by Nadezhda Karpova, the first Russian to play in the Primera División.

Facing a harsh championship start, the team suffered more defeats in the six first games than in the whole previous campaign against top teams Athletic Bilbao, Atlético Madrid and Barcelona, and wasn't able to dislodge them from the three top positions for the remainder of the season. The team suffered a chain of injuries,[6] and so in the winter window transfer Mandy van den Berg, who had finished her WSL campaign with Reading, was signed to make up for the long-time absences of Natalia Gaitán and Paula Nicart in the team's defense.

Unlike the previous season, the Valencia derby on 9 December was scheduled for the team's usual ground at the Ciudad Deportiva de Paterna rather than in the Mestalla, and it was reported in the media that the club intended to reserve its main venue for the male team.[7] All political parties in the Valencian Courts issued an institutional statement demanding the club to allow the team to play in Mestalla.[8] Hours later the club replied with a statement defending its social policies for gender equality and women's sport, regretting the criticisms as an alleged lack of awareness of its commitment and leaving an open door to eventual future appearances of the women's team in Mestalla.[9] Months later, the away derby fixture was staged in Levante's main venue, the Ciutat de València Stadium, before a crowd of 14,000.[10]

By mid-April, a seven games non-winning streak left Valencia in sixth position, with a 4 points advantage to defend in the last four games in order to qualify for the Copa de la Reina.[11] Valencia won all four games and surpassed Betis in the table, ending fifth. The Cup's draw matched Valencia with league champion Atlético, which resulted in defeats in both games. One week later Jesús Oliva was sacked, but he stayed in the women's team as its academy's coordinator, while Óscar Suárez succeeded him as the team's new manager.[12]

Transfers

InOut
DatePos.PlayerOriginDatePos.PlayerDestination
2017–07–04 [13]MFSpain Sandra HernándezSpain Barcelona2017–06–19 [14]MFArgentina Estefanía BaniniUnited States Washington Spirit
2017–07–06 [15]GKCosta Rica Noelia BermúdezSpain Levante2017–06–22 [16]MFSpain Esther RomeroRetirement
2017–07–06 [17]GKSpain Andrea EstebanSpain Levante2017–06–27 [18]FWChile Yanara AedoUnited States Washington Spirit
2017–07–11 [19]DFSpain Marta CarroSpain Madrid2017–06–29 [20]GKSpain Esther SullastresSpain Zaragoza
2017–07–14 [21]MFSpain Anair LombaSpain Espanyol2017–07–03 [22]DFSpain Sara MicóSpain Sporting Plaza de Argel
2017–07–18 [23]GKNetherlands Jennifer VreugdenhilNetherlands ADO Den Haag2017–07–05 [24]GKChile Christiane EndlerFrance Paris Saint-Germain
2017–09–22 [25]FWRussia Nadezhda KarpovaRussia Chertanovo2017–07–05 [26]MFSpain Claudia FlorentinoSpain Albacete
2018–01–08 [27]DFNetherlands Mandy van den BergEngland Reading2017–07–10 [28]MFSpain Claudia ZornozaSpain Real Sociedad
2017–07–28 [29]MFJapan Maya YamamotoSpain Zaragoza

Results

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre-season

Primera División

Final table
PosTeamPldWDLGFGAPtsQualification or relegation
3Athletic Bilbao3018210514156Qualification for the Copa de la Reina
4Granadilla301668483354
5Valencia301488493250
6Betis3014412403746
7Real Sociedad3010812423738

Copa de la Reina

Primera División statistics

No.Pos.BornSinceFIFAPlayerGamesGoalsDisciplinary record
NationalityFCYellow cardRed card
1GK19942017–18 Costa Rica2014Noelia Bermúdez2000
2DF19902017–18 Netherlands2010Mandy van den Berg14000
3DF19942014–15 Spain2015Paula Nicart11000
4DF19922010–11 SpainSalomé Navalón13020
5DF19942009–10 Spain2015Ivana Andrés29050
6MF19972017–18 Spain2018Sandra Hernández28330
7MF19882015–16 Brazil2017Joyce Borini26160
8MF19982016–17 SpainÁngeles Carrión7010
9FW19982016–17 SpainMarta Peiró23610
10FW19882013–14 Spain2008María Paz Vilas281940
11FW19902016–17 Argentina2014Marianela Szymanowski27710
13GK19952017–18 Netherlands2018Jennifer Vreugdenhil28000
14MF19912014–15 Spain2015Carol Férez21310
15DF19912017–18 Spain2018Marta Carro29130
16MF19892017–18 SpainAnair Lomba21430
17MF19892016–17 Spain2012Débora García20110
18DF19912015–16 Colombia2011Natalia Gaitán5000
19FW19952017–18 Russia2016Nadezhda Karpova22350
20MF19892013–14 SpainGeorgina Carreras25020
21FW19962017–18 SpainAndrea Esteban4000
26DF19982013–14 SpainCintia Montagut8000
27DF19972016–17 SpainNeus Llinares1000
29MF19982017–18 SpainPaula Sancho19000
30DF19992017–18 SpainCristina Cubedo19020
DF19972017–18 SpainLidia Navarro1000
MF20002017–18 SpainAlejandra Serrano10000
MF2017–18 SpainJulia Aguado1000

References

  1. ↑ Valencia Femenino, the personal project of Layhoon. Deporte Valenciano (in Spanish), 7 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Cristian Toro leaves the bench of Valencia CF Femenino. EFE (in Spanish), 19 May 2017.
  3. ↑ Jesús Oliva confirmed as Valencia Femenino's new manager. Levante-EMV (in Spanish), 20 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Femenino B, Segunda champion!! Diario de Mestalla (in Spanish), 16 May 2016
  5. ↑ Endler, who moves to PSG, is the first female player for whom a club pays a transfer. Levante-EMV (in Spanish), 20 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Plague of injuries in Valencia Femenino. BeSoccer (in Spanish), 2 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Women's football [is left] out of Mestalla. El Mundo (in Spanish), 30 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Les Corts reprimand València CF for expelling its women's team from Mestalla. El Diario (in Spanish), 1 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Valencia CF replies to Les Corts. Cadena SER (in Spanish), 1 December 2017.
  10. ↑ Galicia's Lombi decides a Valencian derby with 14,000 attendants. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish), 28 April 2018.
  11. ↑ Valencia Femenino, point-by-point closer to the Cup. Superdeporte (in Spanish), 15 April 2018
  12. ↑ Óscar Suárez replaces Jesús Oliva as the manager of Valencia CF Femenino. Levante-EMV (in Spanish), 1 June 2018.
  13. ↑ Sandra Henrández signs for Valencia Cf for two seasons. Diario AS (in Spanish), 4 July 2018.
  14. ↑ Argentina's Estefania Banini rejoins NWSL's Washington Spirit. The Washington Post (in English), 19 June 2017.
  15. ↑ Noelia Bermúdez, from Levante UD to Valencia CF. Las Provincias (in Spanish), 7 July 2018.
  16. ↑ . Las Provincias (in Spanish), 22 June 2017.
  17. ↑ Valencia signs Andrea Esteban and Noelia Bermúdez. Diario AS (in Spanish), 6 July 2018.
  18. ↑ . Vavel (in English), 28 June 2017.
  19. ↑ Valencia CF signs Marta Carro from Madrid CFF. Super Deporte (in Spanish), 11 July 2018.
  20. ↑ Esther Sullastres returns to Zaragoza CFF. Aragón Digital (in Spanish), 29 June 2017.
  21. ↑ Valencia CF signs 'Lombi', coming from RCD Espanyol. Las Provincias (in Spanish), 14 July 2018.
  22. ↑ Sara Micó, a deluxe reinforcement for Sporting Plaza de Argel. Diario Información (in Spanish), 3 July 2017.
  23. ↑ Valencia CF Femenino signs Dutch goalkeeper Jennifer Vreugdenhil. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish), 18 July 2017.
  24. ↑ Historic transfer of Christiane Endler to women's PSG. Vavel (in Spanish), 5 July 2017.
  25. ↑ Nadezhda Kárpova signs for VCF Femenino. Vavel (in Spanish), 22 September 2017.
  26. ↑ Funda makes its first signing. Aúpa Alba (in Spanish), 5 July 2017.
  27. ↑ Valencia CF Femenino signs Netherlands' Mandy van den Berg. Diario AS (in Spanish), 8 January 2018.
  28. ↑ Claudia Zornoza, third signing of Real Sociedad. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish), 10 July 2017.
  29. ↑ Zaragoza Femenino signs Japan's Maya Yamamoto. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish), 28 July 2017.
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