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Line 28: }} [[FC Winterthur]] are a Swiss football team based in [[Winterthur]]. The '''2014–15 season''' was their 118th season since their foundation in 1896. In this campaign they competed in two competitions, the [[2014–15 Swiss Challenge League]] and the [[2014–15 Swiss Cup]]. The ~~first team~~club played their home games in the [[Stadion Schützenwiese]]~~, which has been their home ground since the club's foundation~~. == Overview == The club's chairmann was Hannes W. Keller. It was his 14th and last season as club chairmann and he was in office longer than any club president before him.<ref name="nzz-2015-07-01">{{cite web \| last = Hansjörg Schifferli \| date = 1 July 2015 \| url = https://www.nzz.ch/sport/fussball/abgang-eines-eigenwilligen-1.18572840 \| title = Abgang eines Eigenwilligen \| work = Departure of an idiosyncratic \| publisher = Neue Zürcher Zeitung \| accessdate = 2015-07-01}}</ref> 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> ===Pre-season=== Line 41 ⟶ 43: ===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 capacity of the stadium had been reduced to approximately 5,000 spectators, due to the renovation of the opposite grandstand~~. 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]]. Subsiquently, however, the team slackened and only two more victories were achived before the winter break in the remaining eight games. The gap to the top of the table grew to 9 points and the club over wintered in 4th position. The team were along way from being a promotion candidate. Despite everything, the preliminary round was stronger than the previous season and this left a good impression of the coach. In the individual criticism captain [[Patrick Bengondo]] emerged best, because he was involved in each second goal. ===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. ~~However,~~Then the team collapsed ~~after that~~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 ~~their~~the ~~table~~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 ~~from~~achieved in the ~~last~~final six games didn't help to correct the affect of this slump either.<ref name="Landbote-2015-05-02">{{cite web \| first = \| last = Hansjörg Schifferli \| authorlink = \| coauthors = \| year = 2 May 2015 \| url = https://www.landbote.ch/sport/lokalsport/eine-jahrzehntserie--allerdings-negativ-/story/11087728 \| title = Eine Jahrzehntserie – allerdings negativ \| format = \| work = A decade series - albeit negative\| publisher = landbote.ch \| accessdate = 2020-12-06}}</ref> 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". What was remarkable about the 2014–15 season was the home strength and at the same time away weakness of the team. While they were the second-best team in the "home" table, four points behind newly promoted Lugano, on the other hand they were the second-worst team in the league "away" table, with just one point more than the bottom of the table [[FC Biel-Bienne\|Biel-Bienne]]. [[Servette FC\|Servette]] did not obtain a license for the [[2015–16 Swiss Challenge League\|2015-16 Challenge League]] season, due to the fact that they did not provide the necessary financial documents and guarantees. Servette was therefore relegated to the Promotion League. Because Servette had their license revoked [[FC Biel-Bienne\|Biel-Bienne]] escaped relegation.<ref name="rsssf-Switzerland Challenge League 2014/15">{{cite web \| last = Karel Stokkermans \| url = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesz/zwit2015.html#challenge \| title = Switzerland Challenge League 2014/15\| publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation \| accessdate = 2020-11-16}}</ref>

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