2016 Boston Breakers season

The 2016 Boston Breakers season, is the club's eleventh season overall, its seventh consecutive season, and fourth year as a member of the National Women's Soccer League.

Boston Breakers
2016 season
OwnerBoston Women's Soccer, LLC
Head coachMatt Beard
StadiumJordan Field
Boston, Massachusetts
Highest home attendance4,007
(June 10 vs. Washington)
Lowest home attendance3,288
(May 22 vs. Kansas City)
Average home league attendance3570
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Club

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Coaching staff

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Position Staff
Head Coach Matt Beard
Assistant Coach Dushawne Simpson
Assistant Coach Cat Whitehill
Goalkeeper Coach Ashley Phillips

Last updated: May 5, 2016
Source: [1]

First-team squad

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As of July 12, 2016

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
0 MF   FRA Ghoutia Karchouni
1 GK   USA Libby Stout
2 GK   USA Jami Kranich
3 FW   USA Elisa Krieghoff
4 DF   USA Whitney Engen
5 DF   USA Kassey Kallman
7 MF   USA Sinead Farrelly
8 DF   USA Julie King
9 FW   ENG Natasha Dowie
10 MF   SWE Louise Schillgard
11 FW   USA Brittany Ratcliffe
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 GK   USA Abby Smith
17 FW   AUS Kyah Simon
19 MF   USA Kristie Mewis
20 DF   USA Mollie Pathman
21 DF   USA Christen Westphal
22 MF   USA Stephanie Verdoia
23 DF   USA Brooke Elby
24 DF   USA Rachel Wood
26 MF   USA Angela Salem
88 MF   USA Katie Schoepfer
99 FW   GER Eunice Beckmann

Competitions

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Key

  Win   Tie   Loss

Preseason

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As in previous seasons, Breakers spent time in Florida during preseason.[2]

Sun Mar 20 Northeastern Huskies 0–7 Boston Breakers Brookline, Massachusetts
6:00 p.m. EST Report Mewis   12'
Schoepfer   30'
Marlborough   38'
King   42'
Ratcliffe   52'
Wood   67'
Krieghoff   78'
Stadium: Parsons Field
Note: Played in three 30-minute periods
Fri Mar 25 Florida State Seminoles 1–0 Boston Breakers Tallahassee, Florida
7:00 p.m. EST Connolly   80' Report Stadium: Seminole Soccer Complex
Note: Played in three 30-minute periods
Sun Apr 3 Boston Breakers Cancelled Connecticut Huskies Massachusetts
Summary
Note: Cancelled due to inclement weather.
Sun Apr 3 Boston Breakers Cancelled Boston College Eagles Massachusetts
Summary
Note: Cancelled due to inclement weather.

Regular season

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Sat Apr 16 1 Washington Spirit 1–0 Boston Breakers Boyds, Maryland
7:00 p.m. Lohman   3'
Megan Oyster   86'
Report Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex
Attendance: 3,578
Referee: Margaret Domka
Sun Apr 24 2 Boston Breakers 0–3 Seattle Reign FC Boston, Massachusetts
Brittany Ratcliffe   60'
McCall Zerboni   81'
Report Manon Melis   10' (Kim Little)
Rachel Corsie   39' (Kim Little)
Hope Solo   50'
Kim Little   79' (Beverly Yanez)
Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 3,743
Referee: Matthew Franz
Sun May 1 3 Boston Breakers 0–1 Portland Thorns FC Boston, Massachusetts
Schillgard   38'
King   78'
Ratcliffe   90'
Report Dagný Brynjarsdóttir   79' (Heath) Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 3,698
Referee: Brandon Artis
Sat May 7 4 Boston Breakers 0–1 Chicago Red Stars Boston, Massachusetts
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Jen Hoy   7'
Christen Press   60' (unassisted)
Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 3,622
Referee: Margaret Domka
Fri May 13 5 Sky Blue FC 1–0 Boston Breakers Piscataway, New Jersey
Kassey Kallman   41' (own goal)
Tasha Kai   60'
Nikki Stanton   75'
Report Stadium: Yurcak Field
Attendance: 1,275
Referee: Guido Gonzales, Jr.
Sun May 22 6 Boston Breakers 1–0 FC Kansas City Boston, Massachusetts
Whitney Engen   19' (Kristie Mewis)
Whitney Engen   91+'
Report Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 3,288
Referee: Chris Spivey
Fri Jun 10 8 Boston Breakers 1–1 Washington Spirit Boston, Massachusetts
Louise Schillgard   15' (pen.) Report Katie Stengel   13' Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 4,007
Referee: Margaret Domka
Sat Jun 18 9 Chicago Red Stars 3–0 Boston Breakers Bridgeview, Illinois
Sofia Huerta   3' (Vanessa DiBernardo), 57' (Alyssa Mautz)
Sofia Huerta   56'
Casey Short   62' (Vanessa DiBernardo)
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Louise Schillgard   55'
Eunice Beckmann   61'
Kyah Simon   94+'
Stadium: Toyota Park
Attendance: 2,553
Referee: Danielle Brzezesinski-Chesky
Sat Jul 2 11 Seattle Reign FC 2–0 Boston Breakers Seattle
Nahomi Kawasumi   14' (Manon Melis), 62' (Keelin Winters) Report Julie King   40'
Brittany Ratcliffe   72'
Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 4,327
Referee: Farhad Dadkho
Sun Jul 10 12 Orlando Pride 2–1 Boston Breakers Orlando, Florida
Jasmyne Spencer   21'
Kristen Edmonds   90', 93+' (Leah Fortune)
Report Mollie Pathman   5'
Brooke Elby   34'   89'
Louise Schillgard   49'
Jami Kranich   93+'
Stadium: Camping World Stadium
Attendance: 5,842
Referee: 5,842
Sun Jul 17 13 Boston Breakers 2–3 Sky Blue FC Boston, Massachusetts
Angela Salem   3' (unassisted)
Julie King   85' (Louise Schillgard)
Report Sarah Killion   28' (penalty)
Leah Galton   37' (Tasha Kai)
Erica Skroski   74' (unassisted)
Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 3,743
Referee: Matthew Franz
Sun Jul 31 14 Boston Breakers 1–0 Orlando Pride Boston, Massachusetts
Natasha Dowie   10' (unassisted)
Louise Schillgard   29'
Report Toni Pressley   90' Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 4,379
Referee: Leszek Stalmach
Sun Aug 28 15 FC Kansas City 0–2 Boston Breakers Kansas City, Missouri
Report Katie Schoepfer   38' (Brooke Elby)
Kristie Mewis   81' (unassisted)
Stadium: Swope Soccer Village
Attendance: 2,206
Referee: Christina Unkel
Wed Aug 31 16 Boston Breakers 1–3 Houston Dash Boston, Massachusetts
Natasha Dowie   91+' Report Kealia Ohai   3' (C Lloyd), 33' (unassisted)
Carli Lloyd   62'
Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 3,762
Referee: Jasmine Peralta
Sun Sep 4 17 Portland Thorns FC 5–1 Boston Breakers Portland, Oregon
Christine Sinclair   14' (N Nadim)
Allie Long   48' (C Sinclair)
Nadia Nadim   41' (pk), 79' (A Long)   90'
Report Julie King   84' (Eunice Beckmann) Stadium: Providence Park
Attendance: 17,152
Referee: Jon Freemon
Thu Sep 8 18 Boston Breakers 2–2 Western New York Flash Boston, Massachusetts
Kyah Simon   4' (J King)
Natasha Dowie   9';   51' (Louise Schillgard)
Julie King   61'
Eunice Beckmann   68'
Report Jessica McDonald   38' (Samantha Mewis)
Lynn Williams   76' (Makenzy Doniak)
Stadium: Jordan Field
Attendance: 1,435
Referee: Cuauhtemoc Delgadillo
Sun Sep 11 19 Houston Dash 4–1 Boston Breakers Houston
Janine Beckie   26' (Carli Lloyd)
Kealia Ohai   35' (Janine Beckie)
Andressa Machry   55'
Carli Lloyd   78' (Kealia Ohai)
Carli Lloyd   81' (penalty)
Report Elise Krieghoff   76' (unassisted) Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium
Attendance: 6,107
Referee: Levi Rippy

Standings

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Portland Thorns FC 20 12 5 3 35 19 +16 41 NWSL Shield
2 Washington Spirit 20 12 3 5 30 21 +9 39 NWSL Playoffs
3 Chicago Red Stars 20 9 6 5 24 20 +4 33
4 Western New York Flash (C) 20 9 5 6 40 26 +14 32
5 Seattle Reign FC 20 8 6 6 29 21 +8 30
6 FC Kansas City 20 7 5 8 18 20 −2 26
7 Sky Blue FC 20 7 5 8 24 30 −6 26
8 Houston Dash 20 6 4 10 29 29 0 22
9 Orlando Pride 20 6 1 13 20 30 −10 19
10 Boston Breakers 20 3 2 15 14 47 −33 11
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 11 3 15 2 14 47  −33 3 5 2 9 15  −6 0 10 0 5 32  −27

Last updated: September 11, 2016
Source: NWSLsoccer.com standings
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
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ResultLLLLLWLDLLLLLWWLLDLL
Updated to match(es) played on September 24, 2016. Source: May reports
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Squad statistics

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Source: NWSL

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

N Pos Player GP GS Min G A PK Shot SOG SOG% Cro CK Off Foul FS YC RC
99 FW Eunice Beckmann 11 8 658 0 1 0 16 5 31% 5 0 3 18 8 3 0
9 FW Natasha Dowie 7 7 605 3 0 0 21 10 48% 0 0 7 8 5 1 0
23 DF Brooke Elby 13 11 919 0 0 0 3 2 67% 3 0 0 6 6 1 1
4 DF Whitney Engen 14 14 1260 1 1 0 1 1 100% 2 0 0 0 9 2 0
5 DF Kassey Kallman 20 20 1800 0 0 0 1 0 0% 0 0 0 10 15 0 0
29 MF Ghoutia Karchouni 3 1 100 0 0 0 1 0 0% 0 1 0 0 4 0 0
8 DF Julie King 18 17 1523 2 1 0 11 5 45% 6 0 1 16 6 5 0
2 GK Jami Kranich 9 9 810 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0
3 FW Elisa Krieghoff 6 0 143 1 0 0 3 2 67% 0 0 1 1 1 0 0
15 FW Morgan Marlborough 1 0 24 0 0 0 2 1 50% 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
9 FW Stephanie McCaffrey 12 10 921 0 0 0 15 8 53% 4 0 7 7 5 0 0
19 MF Kristie Mewis 14 13 1122 1 1 0 27 7 26% 4 26 2 14 20 0 0
20 DF Mollie Pathman 13 12 1055 1 0 0 3 2 67% 9 1 0 1 9 0 0
11 FW Brittany Ratcliffe 15 5 545 0 0 0 7 2 29% 4 0 1 4 4 3 0
26 MF Angela Salem 19 19 1699 1 0 0 14 6 43% 4 5 0 17 19 1 0
10 MF Louise Schillgard 18 16 1429 1 2 1 9 6 67% 9 31 2 27 5 4 0
88 MF Katie Schoepfer 12 8 597 1 0 0 14 5 36% 0 0 1 6 2 1 0
17 FW Kyah Simon 17 14 1293 1 1 0 29 7 24% 8 0 9 19 12 1 0
14 GK Abby Smith 2 2 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 GK Libby Stout 10 9 868 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
30 DF Kylie Strom 7 3 344 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 3 0 0
22 MF Stephanie Verdoia 10 5 453 0 0 0 6 3 50% 0 0 1 1 8 0 0
21 DF Christen Westphal 13 7 579 1 0 0 2 1 50% 3 0 0 2 1 0 0
24 DF Rachel Wood 7 2 260 0 0 0 2 0 0% 0 0 1 4 4 0 0
77 MF McCall Zerboni 8 8 670 0 0 0 4 1 25% 1 0 0 15 12 1 0
Team Total 20 19799 14 7 1 191 74 39% 65 65 38 181 169 24 1
N Pos Goal keeper GP GS Min GA GA/G PKA PKF Shot SOG Sav Sav% YC RC
2 GK Jami Kranich 9 9 810 25 2.78 3 3 130 64 39 61% 1 0
14 GK Abby Smith 2 2 122 1 0.50 0 0 19 8 7 88% 0 0
1 GK Libby Stout 10 9 868 21 2.10 2 2 139 62 42 68% 0 0
Team Total 20 1800 47 2.35 5 5 288 134 88 66% 1 0

References

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  1. ^ "Coaching Staff". bostonbreakerssoccer.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  2. ^ "BREAKERS HEADING TO FLORIDA FOR 2016 PRESEASON; The club will spend eight days in Florida, departing Boston on March 23 and returning March 31". nwslsoccer.com. February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2016.

See also

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