2020 HFX Wanderers FC season

The 2020 HFX Wanderers FC season was the second season in the club's history, as well as second season in Canadian Premier League history. The Wanderers were CPL runners-up, having been defeated by Forge FC in the 2020 CPL Final.

HFX Wanderers

2020 season
President	Derek Martin
Head coach	Stephen Hart
Stadium	Wanderers Grounds
Canadian Premier League	Runners-up
Canadian Championship	Did not qualify
Top goalscorer	Akeem Garcia (6 goals)
Home colours Away colours

Current squad

As of July 31, 2020[1]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Date of Birth (Age)	Previous Club
Goalkeepers
1	Jason Beaulieu		GK	February 12, 1994 (aged 26)	Montreal Impact
50	Christian Oxner		GK	July 29, 1996 (aged 24)	Saint Mary's Huskies
Defenders
2	Peter Schaale		CB	June 14, 1996 (aged 24)	CBU Capers
3	Jems Geffrard		CB	August 26, 1994 (aged 26)	Fresno FC
6	Chrisnovic N'sa		CB / CM	January 28, 1999 (aged 21)	Montreal Impact Academy
13	Daniel Kinumbe		LB	March 15, 1999 (aged 21)	Montreal Impact
14	Mateo Restrepo		RB	April 29, 1997 (aged 23)	UC Santa Barbara Gauchos
16	Luke Green		CB	December 12, 2002 (aged 18)	Suburban FC
20	Jake Ruby		RB	June 4, 2000 (aged 20)	Trinity Western Spartans
24	Alex De Carolis		LB / CB	September 24, 1992 (aged 28)	Umeå FC
31	Eriks Santos[upper-alpha 1]		CB	February 23, 1996 (aged 24)	Dila Gori
Midfielders
5	Louis Béland-Goyette		DM / CM	September 15, 1995 (aged 25)	Valour FC
8	Omar Kreim		MF	February 10, 1995 (aged 25)	Montreal Carabins
10	Alessandro Riggi		LW / RW	November 30, 1993 (aged 27)	Phoenix Rising
15	Scott Firth		CM	March 2, 2001 (aged 19)	Suburban FC
17	Aboubacar Sissoko		DM	October 9, 1995 (aged 25)	Montreal Carabins
18	Andre Rampersad		CM	February 2, 1995 (aged 25)	Santa Rosa
22	João Morelli		AM	March 11, 1996 (aged 24)	FCI Levadia
Forwards
7	Alex Marshall		LW / CF	February 24, 1998 (aged 22)	Cavalier
9	Ibrahima Sanoh		CF	April 11, 1994 (aged 26)	Holland College Hurricanes
11	Akeem Garcia		CF / RW	September 11, 1996 (aged 24)	Santa Rosa
23	Cory Bent		LW / ST	May 14, 1997 (aged 23)	CBU Capers

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee/notes	Date	Source
8	MF	Omar Kreim	Montreal Carabins	Free transfer	November 28, 2019	[2]
17	MF	Aboubacar Sissoko	Montreal Carabins	Free transfer	November 28, 2019	[2]
9	FW	Ibrahima Sanoh	Holland College Hurricanes	Free transfer	December 3, 2019	[3]
2	DF	Peter Schaale	CBU Capers	Free transfer	December 12, 2019	[4]
10	MF	Alessandro Riggi	Phoenix Rising	Free transfer	December 18, 2019	[5]
5	MF	Louis Béland-Goyette	Valour FC	Free transfer	January 8, 2020	[6]
13	DF	Daniel Kinumbe	Montreal Impact	Free transfer	January 15, 2020	[7]
14	DF	Mateo Restrepo	UC Santa Barbara Gauchos	Free transfer	January 22, 2020	[8]
7	MF	Alex Marshall	Cavalier	Free transfer	January 29, 2020	[9]
1	GK	Jason Beaulieu	Montreal Impact	Free transfer	February 6, 2020	[10]
3	DF	Jems Geffrard	Fresno FC	Free transfer	February 18, 2020	[11]
31	DF	Eriks Santos	Dila Gori	Free transfer	February 25, 2020	[12]
22	MF	João Morelli	FCI Levadia	Free transfer	February 25, 2020	[12]
23	MF	Cory Bent	CBU Capers	Selected 1st overall in the 2019 CPL–U Sports Draft	May 4, 2020	[13]
20	DF	Jake Ruby	Trinity Western Spartans	Selected 14th overall in the 2019 CPL–U Sports Draft	July 31, 2020	[14]
16	DF	Luke Green	Suburban FC	Free transfer	July 31, 2020	[14]

Draft picks

HFX Wanderers selected the following players in the 2019 CPL–U Sports Draft on November 11, 2019.[15] Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in.

Round	Selection	Pos.	Player	Nationality	University
1	1	LW	Cory Bent	England	CBU Capers
2	14	RB	Jake Ruby	Canada	Trinity Western University

Out

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee/notes	Date	Source
21	GK	Jan-Michael Williams	Retired		December 10, 2019	[16]
23	DF	Matthew Arnone	York9 FC	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
3	DF	André Bona		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
7	MF	Juan Diego Gutiérrez	Oriente Petrolero	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
4	DF	Chakib Hocine	Valour FC	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
9	MF	Kodai Iida	OKC Energy FC	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
5	MF	Elton John		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
12	MF	Mohamed Kourouma	Atlético Ottawa	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
14	FW	Vincent Lamy		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
20	DF	Ndzemdzela Langwa		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
16	DF	Duran Lee	FC Edmonton	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
13	MF	Kouamé Ouattara		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
10	FW	Luis Alberto Perea	Carlos Stein	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
8	MF	Elliot Simmons	Cavalry FC	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
17	FW	Tomasz Skublak		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
25	DF	Zachary Sukunda	Ekenäs IF	Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]
22	MF	Abd-El-Aziz Yousef		Contract expired	December 14, 2019	[17]

Canadian Premier League

Match times are Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC−3).

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cavalry	7	4	1	2	10	7	+3	13	Advance to group stage
2	HFX Wanderers	7	3	3	1	12	7	+5	12[lower-alpha 1]
3	Forge	7	3	3	1	13	9	+4	12[lower-alpha 1]
4	Pacific	7	3	2	2	10	8	+2	11
5	York9	7	2	4	1	8	7	+1	10
6	Valour	7	2	2	3	8	9	−1	8[lower-alpha 2]
7	Atlético Ottawa	7	2	2	3	7	12	−5	8[lower-alpha 2]
8	FC Edmonton	7	0	1	6	5	14	−9	1

Source: CanPL.ca
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal differential; 4) goals for; 5) total wins; 6) U-21 minutes; 7) coin toss or drawing of lots.[18]
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: HFX Wanderers 1, Forge 1. Goal differential: HFX Wanderers +5, Forge +4
2. Head-to-head points: Valour 3, Atlético Ottawa 0.

Results by match

Match	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Result	D	D	L	W	D	W	W
Position	3	4	5	4	6	4	2

Updated to match(es) played on September 6, 2020. Source: #Matches
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

August 15 1	HFX Wanderers FC	2–2	Pacific FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
4:00pm AT	Morelli  12' (pen.) Béland-Goyette  65' Sanoh  86' (pen.)	Report	Haynes  44' Baldisimo  66' Verhoven  68' Bustos  75'	Stadium: Alumni Field

August 19 2	HFX Wanderers FC	1–1	Forge FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
9:00pm AT	Beaulieu  15' Béland-Goyette  44' Garcia  47' Schaale  90+4'	Report	Sabal  16' (pen) Zajac  48' Cela  90'	Stadium: Alumni Field

August 23 3	Cavalry FC	2–1	HFX Wanderers FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
9:00pm AT	Mavila  29' Brown  90' Wheeldon  90+2'	Report	Restrepo  72' Schaale  85' Garcia  90+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Alumni Field

August 26 4	FC Edmonton	1–3	HFX Wanderers FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
9:00pm AT	Esua  37' Velado-Tsegaye  87'	Report	Garcia  35' Morelli  45', 76' Geffrard  64'	Stadium: Alumni Field

August 29 5	HFX Wanderers FC	1–1	York9 FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
4:00pm AT	Morelli Marshall  57' Schaale  74' Rampersad  86' Kreim  91'	Report	Aparicio  21' Segawa  35' Telfer  61' Gasparotto  64' Di Chiara  86'	Stadium: Alumni Field

September 2 6	Valour FC	0–2	HFX Wanderers FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
2:00pm AT	Galán  35' Levis  73'	Report	De Carolis  36'  67' Bent  40' Oxner  90+4'	Stadium: Alumni Field

September 6 7	HFX Wanderers FC	2–0	Atlético Ottawa	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1:00pm AT	Garcia  15' Riggi  60' Béland-Goyette  81'	Report	McKendry  45+1'	Stadium: Alumni Field

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Forge	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Advance to final
2	HFX Wanderers	3	1	1	1	3	7	−4	4
3	Cavalry	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Pacific	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3

Source: CanPL.ca
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal differential; 4) goals for; 5) total wins; 6) U-21 minutes; 7) coin toss or drawing of lots.[19]

Results by round

Round	1	2	3
Result	D	W	L
Position	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on September 15, 2020. Source: #Matches
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

September 9 1	HFX Wanderers FC	1–1	Forge FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1:00pm	Garcia  2' Ruby  56'	Report	Sabak  43',  56' (pen) Edgar  71'	Stadium: Alumni Field

September 12 2	Cavalry FC	1–2	HFX Wanderers FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
4:00pm	Córdova  80'	Report	Garcia  12' (pen) Morelli  41' (pen)	Stadium: Alumni Field

September 15 3	HFX Wanderers FC	0–5	Pacific FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
9:00 PM		Report	Terran Campbell  8' Marco Bustos  29' Alejandro Díaz Liceága  44' Marco Bustos  46' Victor Blasco  81'	Stadium: Alumni Field

Final

September 19 2020 CPL Final	Forge FC	2–0	HFX Wanderers FC	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
3:00pm	Grant  58' Achinioti-Jönsson  60' Edgar  65' Tissot  90'	Report		Stadium: Alumni Field

Statistics

Squad and statistics

As of September 20, 2020

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Canadian Premier League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Jason Beaulieu	4	0	4+0	0
2	DF		Peter Schaale	10	0	10+0	0
3	DF		Jems Geffrard	11	0	11+0	0
5	MF		Louis Béland-Goyette	10	0	7+3	0
6	DF		Chrisnovic N'sa	9	0	8+1	0
7	FW		Alex Marshall	11	0	5+6	0
8	MF		Omar Kreim	10	1	4+6	1
9	FW		Ibrahima Sanoh	5	1	2+3	1
10	MF		Alessandro Riggi	8	1	6+2	1
11	FW		Akeem Garcia	10	6	8+2	6
13	DF		Daniel Kinumbe	4	0	3+1	0
14	DF		Mateo Restrepo	10	0	6+4	0
15	MF		Scott Firth	2	0	1+1	0
16	DF		Luke Green	1	0	1+0	0
17	MF		Aboubacar Sissoko	10	0	8+2	0
18	MF		Andre Rampersad	11	0	9+2	0
20	DF		Jake Ruby	8	0	3+5	0
22	MF		João Morelli	9	4	8+1	4
23	FW		Cory Bent	10	1	5+5	1
24	DF		Alex De Carolis	6	1	5+1	1
50	GK		Christian Oxner	7	0	7+0	0

Top scorers

Rank	Nat.	Player	Pos.	Canadian Premier League	TOTAL
1		Akeem Garcia	FW	6	6
2		João Morelli	MF	4	4
3		Ibrahima Sanoh	FW	1	1
		Omar Kreim	FW	1	1
		Alex De Carolis	DF	1	1
		Cory Bent	FW	1	1
		Alessandro Riggi	FW	1	1
Totals				15	15

Updated to match played September 20, 2020
Source: Canadian Premier League

Top assists

Rank	Nat.	Player	Pos.	Canadian Premier League	TOTAL
1		Andre Rampersad	MF	2	2
		Alex Marshall	FW	2	2
3		Alessandro Riggi	MF	1	1
		João Morelli	MF	1	1
Totals				6	6

Updated to match played September 20, 2020
Source: Canadian Premier League

Clean sheets

Rank	Nat.	Player	Canadian Premier League	TOTAL
1		Christian Oxner	2	2
Totals			2	2

Updated to match played September 20, 2020
Source: Canadian Premier League

Disciplinary record

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Player	Canadian Premier League		TOTAL
1	GK		Jason Beaulieu	1	0	1	0
2	DF		Peter Schaale	3	0	3	0
3	DF		Jems Geffrard	1	0	1	0
5	MF		Louis Béland-Goyette	3	0	3	0
7	FW		Alex Marshall	1	0	1	0
14	DF		Mateo Restrepo	1	0	1	0
18	MF		Andre Rampersad	2	0	2	0
20	MF		Jake Ruby	1	0	1	0
22	MF		João Morelli	0	1	0	1
24	DF		Alex De Carolis	1	0	1	0
50	GK		Christian Oxner	2	0	2	0
Totals				16	1	16	1

Updated to match played September 20, 2020
Source: Canadian Premier League

Notes

1. Player is signed, but hasn't been added to the 2020 roster because of difficulties getting into Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic

References

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13. "HFX Wanderers sign 2019 CPL-U SPORTS 1st overall pick Cory Bent". canpl.ca. CanPL. May 4, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
14. "Wanderers add youth, competition to back-line with signing of defenders Jake Ruby and local teenager Luke Green". hfxwanderersfc.canpl.ca. HFX Wanderers. July 31, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
15. "Wanderers pick 'brightest prospect' Cory Bent first and add Jake Ruby in CPL-U SPORTS Draft". HFXWanderersfc.canpl.ca. HFX Wanderers FC. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
16. "Wanderers goalkeeper Williams retires, joins coaching staff". canpl.ca. December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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18. Thompson, Marty [@martythompson_] (August 12, 2020). "Confirmed: #CanPL tiebreakers for The Island Games... 1. Head-to-head 2. Goal diff. 3. Goals for 4. Total # of wins 5. *Most U-21 minutes* in round 6. Coin toss or drawing of lots" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
19. Thompson, Marty [@martythompson_] (August 12, 2020). "Confirmed: #CanPL tiebreakers for The Island Games... 1. Head-to-head 2. Goal diff. 3. Goals for 4. Total # of wins 5. *Most U-21 minutes* in round 6. Coin toss or drawing of lots" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

• 2020 HFX Wanderers FC season at Official Site