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{{Infobox football club season
| club = [[FC Winterthur]]
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== Overview ==
The club's
The first team played their home games in the [[Stadion Schützenwiese]], which has been their home ground since the club's foundation. To match the [[Swiss football league system|Swiss Football League's]] license requirements introduced in the 2012/13 season, the stadium was modernized in three stages. The first stage contained improvements to the lighting, security, and catering systems, completed by 2013. This was followed by a rebuild of the eastern standing terrace in the second half of 2014 and early 2015. The capacity of the stadium for the 2014–15 season was reduced to approximately 5,000 spectators, due to this renovation. On Monday evening, 2 March 2015, for the championship match against [[FC Schaffhausen]], the new eastern standing terraces ware officially inaugurated and taken into operation. The final renovation of the main stands was to take place 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winterthur-glossar.ch/app/default/pub/fw.action/wine.article?ce_id=137&ce_name=Building|title=Sportplatz Schützenwiese - Winterthur Glossar|website=www.winterthur-glossar.ch|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref>
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The most important issue in the preparation of the new season was only achieved two weeks before the start of the championship, although the change in the position of the head-coach had been announced some time in advance. After five years as boss, but because of the previous disappointing season, coach [[Boro Kuzmanovic]] had been dismissed. [[Jürgen Seeberger]] was hired a new coach. In his last job in Switzerland he led [[FC Schaffhausen]] from the third highest league to the Super League. His previous employer, [[SV Darmstadt 98]], had separated themselves from him in December 2012.
On the transfer front it was soon clear that central defender [[Sead Hajrović]], brother of [[Izet Hajrovic]], would join the club coming from [[Grasshopper Club Zürich|Grasshopper Club]]. Other important signings were [[João Paiva]], who had been [[FC Wohlen]]s' top scorer the previous season, center-back [[Dennis Iapichino]], who had spent the previous two season in the [[Major League Soccer]], by [[Montreal Impact (MLS)|Montreal Impact]] and [[D.C. United]] and [[Marco Köfler (footballer, born 1990)|Marco Köfler]] from [[Kapfenberger SV]]. Furthermore [[Kristian Nushi]] joined from [[FC St. Gallen|St. Gallen]], [[Amin Tighazoui]] joined from [[FC Vaduz|Vaduz]] and [[Christian Fassnacht]] was signed from [[FC Tuggen]].<ref name="sfl-homepage-summer 2014/15">{{cite web | last = Swiss Football League (SFL) | year = 2020 | url = https://www.sfl.ch/challengeleague/transfers/archiv/saison-201415/sommer-201415/ | title = Transfers Challenge League 2014/15 (Summer) | publisher = Swiss Football League (SFL) homepage | accessdate = 2020-07-30 | archive-date = 2021-06-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204641/https://www.sfl.ch/challengeleague/transfers/archiv/saison-201415/sommer-201415/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
The three most prominent departures were that of 33-year-old Sawas Exouzidis, who could no longer find a place in the team that [[Jürgen Seeberger]] had
===First half of season===
The first half of the season started for Winterthur on July 21, 2014 in the [[Stadion Schützenwiese|Schützenwiese]] with a home match against [[FC Wil]]. The 4–0 win against Wil was the beginning of a first good third of the championship for the club. By the end of September, six of ten games had been ended victorious and only three had ended in a defeat. Winterthur was in second position in the table at that time, five points behind the surprise leader [[FC Wohlen]].
===Second half of season===
In the second half of the season, Winterthur did bot start as well as in the first half of the season. The first six games after the winter break were an up and down with three wins, two defeats and one draw. Then the team collapsed completely and managed just one single point in the following six games. This was the worst run of results that the club had achieved since the 2003–04 season. Although FCW was able to hold the fourth position in the table despite this victoryless phase, the gap to the leader increased from 11 to 33 points and they lost all contact to the extended top group. The 14 points achieved in the final six games didn't help to correct the
Winterthur finally finished the season with 53 points in 4th place, 21 points behind the division champions and promotion winners [[FC Lugano|Lugano]]. In the end, ''[[Der Landbote]]'' reported a "decent season" for the FCW, but once again missed the "necessary winner mentality".<ref>{{
===Swiss Cup===
Winterthur entered into the [[2014–15 Swiss Cup]] on 23 August 2014 in an away game in the first round against lower tier FC Eschenbach. A tenth minute goal from youngster Mario Budimir put the team on the right track. However, Eschenbach equalised in the 68th minute and Winterthur had to increase the pace. Which they did and [[Tunahan Cicek]] and [[Amin Tighazoui]] both scored, so that the team could continue to the next round.
In the second round Winterthur were drawn at home to reigning Swiss Champions [[FC Basel|Basel]]. The match was played on 21 September in the [[Stadion Schützenwiese|Schützenwiese]] in front of a full capacity 5,050 spectators. After a short period of testing, in which the hosts kept up well, FCB took over dictation of the game. [[Mohamed Elneny]] brought his colors into the lead after half an hour with a remarkable drop kick from outside the penalty area. This was the start of a final phase of the first half in which the Basel team won the game. [[Breel Embolo]] scored twice before the break. After the break, he crowned his performance with his third personal goal, a beautiful lifting ball from a tight angle. This 4–0 also meant the final result. Basel's victory was deserved, but FC Winterthur also played a courageous game and would have deserved a goal for the good performance. The defense in front of Basel's goalkeeper [[Germano Vailati]] held things tight and so after the first half hour, there was no longer any doubt as to which of the two teams would reach the next round.<ref name="fcb-homepage-winterthur-fcb-2014-09-21">{{cite web | first = Caspar Marti | last = FC Basel 1893 |
FC Basel continued as far as the final, but here they were beaten by [[FC Sion]]. This was the 13th cup win for FC Sion in their 13th final.<ref name="rsssf-Switzerland Cup 2014/15">{{cite web | last = Karel Stokkermans | url =
== Players ==
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=== Swiss Challenge League ===
{{main|2014–15 Swiss Challenge League}}
====Matches====
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|team2=[[FC Chiasso|Chiasso]]
|goals1=[[João Paiva]] {{goal|26}}<br>[[Patrick Bengondo|Bengondo]] {{yel|51}}<br>[[Tunahan Cicek|Cicek]] {{yel|65}}
|goals2=Michele Monighetti {{yel|16}}<br>[[Drissa Diarra (footballer, born 1985)|Diarra]] {{yel|30}}<br>Emmanuele Sembroni {{yel|49}}
|stadium=[[Stadion Schützenwiese]]
|location=[[Winterthur]]
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|location=[[Lausanne]]
|attendance=1,450
|referee={{flagicon|SWI}}
}}
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|location=[[Winterthur]]
|attendance=2,000
|referee={{flagicon|SWI}}
}}
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|referee={{flagicon|SWI}} Roland Huwiler
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====League standings====
{{#invoke:Sports table|main|style=football
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==Sources==
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==External links==
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