The 2014 season is New Radiant Sports Club's 35th year in existence as a football club. New Radiant also participate in the AFC Cup this season, qualifying directly for the group stage by finishing first in the 2013 Dhivehi League.
Background New Radiant finished as champions of last year's in the Dhivehi League, FA Cup, President's Cup and Charity Shield with a quadruple and 100% winning record. So they will be participating in the 2014 AFC Cup directly from the group stage. Ángel Pérez García was announced as the new head coach on 25 November 2013 and later on 4 March 2014 the agreement was terminated on mutual consent. Assistant coach Ismail Anil acted as the caretaker coach following the departure of coach García until the arrival of coach Simon McMenemy. Simon was at the job from 13 March 2014 to 10 May 2014. Before the local season began, club appointed the assistant coach Ismail Anil as the head coach on 10 June 2014. On 6 August 2014, New Radiant assigned Mika Lönnström as the new head coach for the club and Ismail Anil continued as the assistant manager.
Ismail Wisham was appointed as the club manager and Ibrahim Ibthisham as the club's Director of Administration. Ibthishaam was the club manager during the 2013 season. Ismail Anil was named as the assistant coach of the club on 12 February 2014.
Three foreign players Kingsley Chukwudi Nkurumeh, Mansa Sylla and Yusif Nurudeen were released by the club as their contract duration were over. New Radiant accepted the transfer request for Moosa Yaamin from the rival side Maziya on 30 December 2013.
Mohamed Umair, Ali Fasir, Ahmed Abdulla, Ahmed Niyaz, Imran Mohamed renewed their contract after the end of 2013 season.
Mukhthar Naseer, Ibrahim Fazeel, Shafiu Ahmed, Hamza Mohamed, Shamweel Qasim and Mohamed Rasheed were the local signings by the club for the 2014 football season.
Evans Mensah, Jonathan Quartey, were the foreign signings for the 2014 season. But Evans Mensah was released by the club, along with Ismail Easa on 16 February 2014 and Jonathan Quartey was also released by the club after the 2014 AFC Cup group stage.
Blues also signed a Brazilian striker Joelton Jonathan Sampaio but later terminated the contract due to a serious injury in a life-threatening car accident and was required to undergo several surgeries. So the agreement was terminated on mutual understanding between his agent and the club.
Before the local football season started, New Radiant signed three foreign players, David Carmona, Jamal Dibi and Dane Milovanović but on 10 August 2014, Dibi was released by the club on mutual understandings.
Club
Coaching staff
Manager: Ismail Wisham Head coach: Mika Lönnström Assistant coach: Ismail Anil Kit Manager: Abdul Sattar Ahmed Official: Hussain Abdulla Official: Ahmed Rasheed Official: Ibrahim Shareef
Other information Chairman: Ali Waheed Vice Chairman: Hassan Shujau Director of Football: Anwar Ali Director of Administrations: Ibrahim Ibthisham Board Director: Aishath Leesha Board Director: Adheel Ismail Board Director: Ahmed Zareer Board Director: Adam Ziyad Board Director: Ali Shareef Board Director: Ahmed Rameez Board Director: Mohamed Shafeeq
Kit Supplier: Sports Power / Sponsor: Milo
New Radianst kits for the 2014 season were unveiled during the New Radiant night on 11 January 2014. Kits were supplied by the local brand Sports Power.
On 15 January 2014, New Radiant signed with two co-sponsors; with Tropic Investments Private Limited to market their brand Maldives Shipyard and the other with Timber House.
Pre-season New Radiant preceded their 2014 campaign with the 2014 Milo Tour to Hinnavaru and played against Naifaru, Kuredu Resort and Hinnavaru.
DateOpponentsResultF–AScorers3 February 2014Naifaru4–0Umair (2), Fazeel (2)5 February 2014Kuredu Resort9–0Umair (2), Fasir (2), Mensah (2), Easa, Abdulla, Fazel 7 February 2014HinnavaruMensah (2), Umair (2), Fasir (3), Mukhthar11 February 2014 Northern DynamoFasir 76'
Competitions
Overall
Competition Started round Finalposition / round First match Last match AFC Cup Group stage Group stage 25 February 2015 23 April 2014 FA Charity Shield Final Winner 10 June 2014 Dhivehi League — Winner 16 June 2014 9 November 2014 FA Cup Quarter-finals Runners-up 14 October 2014 19 November 2014 President's Cup Semi final 1 Winner 23 November 2014 30 November 2014
Competition record
CompetitionRecordGWD*LGFGAGDWin % AFC Cup FA Charity Shield Dhivehi League FA Cup President's Cup Total *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
AFC Cup
Group stage
DateOpponentsH / AResultF–AScorersAttendance25 February 2014Home UnitedH1–0Umair 53' (pen.)5,20011 March 2014Churchill BrothersA0–31,50018 March 2014Persipura JayapuraA0–39,8662 April 2014Persipura JayapuraH0–22,4009 April 2014Home UnitedA0–21,34823 April 2014Churchill BrothersH1–2Umair 40'1,500
FA Charity Shield
DateOpponentsResultF–AScorers10 June 2014Maziya3–1Shamweel (2) 28', 40', Fasir 59'
Dhivehi League
League table PosTeamQualification or relegation1New Radiant SC191711578+49522015 AFC Cup group stage2Maziya S&RC1914326119+42452015 AFC Cup Play-off3Club Eagles1911264022+18354Victory Sports Club198293033-3235Club Valencia1945101533-1817 Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Matches
DateRoundOpponentsResultF–AScorersLeagueposition16 June 20141Club AYL7–0David (2) 9', 28', Umair (2) 11', 84' (pen.), Fasir 47', Milovanović 72', Abdulla 90+2'1st23 June 20141Victory3–0Fazeel 14', Dibi 57', Hamza 90+1'1st7 July 20141Mahibadhoo4–0Fazeel 14', Fasir (2) 55', 84', Rasheed 65'1st14 July 20141Eagles4–1Milovanović 6' (pen.), Fasir (2) 47', 89', Fazeel 79'1st20 July 20141Valencia3–0Umair 39', Fasir 75', Shamweel 86'1st28 July 20141BG Sports6–0Dibi 12', 78', Fasir (3) 15', 67', 82' (pen.), Shamweel 87'1st3 August 20141Maziya0–12nd7 August 20142Maziya1–0Milovanović 31' (pen.)1st11 August 20142Eagles2–0David 11', Umair 32'1st15 August 20142Victory1–0Umair 72'1st21 August 20142Valencia3–1David 30', Umair 62' (pen.), Fasir 64'1st26 August 20142Club AYL4–0Milovanović 3', Ahmed 27', Umair 48', Suhail 67'1st30 September 20142BG Sports5–1David 35', Umair 45', Fasir (2) 70', 90+3' (pen.), Milovanović 80'1st9 October 20142Mahibadhoo3–1Fazeel 19', Akram 47', David 75'1st22 October 20143Valencia2–1Hamza 82', Fasir 90+4'1st26 October 20143Victory1–0Fasir 12'1st1 November 20143Eagles1–0Akram 11'1st5 November 20143Mahibadhoo6–1Fasir (5) 6', 21', 30', 65', 69' (pen.), David 14'1st9 November 20143Maziya1–1Shifan 15'1st
FA Cup
DateRoundOpponentsResultF–AScorers14 October 2014Quarter-finalsMahibadhoo6–3Fasir (2) 20', 33', David (2) 49', 52', Akram 50', Fazeel 68'14 November 2014Semi-finalsEagles1–0Umair 70'19 November 2014FinalMaziya0–0 (aet)(3–4p)
President's Cup
DateRoundOpponentsResultF–AScorers23 November 2014Semi final 1Maziya2–1David 14', Hamza 22'30 November 2014FinalEagles1–0 (aet)Fasir 106'
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