2014 Boston Breakers season

The 2014 Boston Breakers season, is the club's ninth overall year of existence, fifth consecutive year, and second year as a member of the National Women's Soccer League.

Boston Breakers
2014 season
OwnerBoston Women's Soccer, LLC
Head coachTom Durkin
StadiumHarvard Stadium
Boston, MA
NWSL8th
Highest home attendance4,191 vs. Portland
(August 10, 2014)
Lowest home attendance1,263 vs. Sky Blue FC
(April 27, 2014)
Average home league attendance2,437
← 2013
2015 →

Club

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Kits

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Type Shirt Shorts Socks Info
Primary
Secondary

Executive staff

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Ownership Group Boston Women's Soccer, LLC
Managing Partner Michael Stoller
General Manager Lee Billiard
Ground (capacity and dimensions) Harvard Stadium (30,323 / Unknown)

Updated to match played March 7, 2013
Source: [1]

Coaching staff

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Position Staff
Head Coach Tom Durkin
Assistant Coach Cat Whitehill
Goalkeeper Coach Ashley Phillips

Roster

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   USA Alyssa Naeher
2 GK   USA Jami Kranich
3 FW   USA Courtney Jones
4 DF   USA Cat Whitehill
5 DF   USA Jazmyne Avant
7 DF   CAN Jazmine Reeves
8 DF   USA Julie King
9 MF   USA Heather O'Reilly
10 FW   ENG Lianne Sanderson
11 MF   USA Joanna Lohman
12 FW   USA Katie Schoepfer
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 FW   AUS Lisa De Vanna
15 FW   USA Bianca D’Agostino
17 DF   USA Chelsea Stewart
18 MF   USA Maddy Evans
19 MF   USA Kristie Mewis
20 FW   USA Mollie Pathman
21 FW   USA Ashley Grove
22 FW   CAN Nkem Ezurike
23 MF   CAN Kaylyn Kyle

[1]

Competitions

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  Win   Tie   Loss

Preseason

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March 24, 2014 1 Northeastern Huskies 0–6 Boston Breakers Brookline, Massachusetts
Report De Vanna   1'
Schoepfer  ,  
Pathman  
Evans  ,  
Stadium: Parsons Field
April 5, 2014 4 Connecticut Huskies 0–6 Boston Breakers Taunton, Massachusetts
Report Evans   5', 20', 55'
Schoepfer   7'
Stewart  ,  
Stadium: ForeKicks

Regular season

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April 13, 2014 1 Seattle Reign 3–0 Boston Breakers Seattle, Washington
16:00 (PDT) Little   49' (pen.),   54'
Winters   59'
Rapinoe   82',   88'
Report Avant   43'
Jones   56'
Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 3,021 [2]
Referee: Katja Koroleva
April 20, 2014 2 Boston Breakers 2–3 Houston Dash Boston, Massachusetts
17:30 (PDT) O'Reilly   1'   85'
Naeher   58'
Lohman   70'
Jones   79'
Summary Masar   50'
Noyola   81'   85' (pen.)
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 2,018
Referee:   Josh Wilkens
April 27, 2014 3 Boston Breakers 3–2 Sky Blue FC Boston, Massachusetts
18:00 (PDT) King   14'
Ashley Grove   40'
Sanderson   42'   60'
Summary Ocampo   30'
Nick   90+3'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 1,263
Referee:   Juliana Duncan
May 3, 2014 4 Sky Blue FC 1–0 Boston Breakers Piscataway, New Jersey
18:00 (PDT) Ocampo   14' Summary De Vanna   89' Stadium: Yurcak Field
Attendance: 1,294
Referee:   Mark Allatin
May 15, 2014 5 Boston Breakers 1–3 Chicago Red Stars Boston, Massachusetts
18:00 (PDT) Jones   19'   56'
Lohman   42'
Summary Chalupny   44'
Leon   47'
Wenino   52'
Hoy   67'
Mautz   77'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 1,696
Referee:   Mark Allatin
May 18, 2014 6 Boston Breakers 1–4 Chicago Red Stars Boston, Massachusetts
17:30 (PDT) O'Reilly   35' (pen.) Summary Wenino   23'
Hoy   50'
Chalupny   57'
Bywaters   85'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 2,123
Referee:   Kristen Salazar
May 25, 2014 7 Boston Breakers 0–2 FC Kansas City Boston, Massachusetts
18:00 (PDT) Summary Phillips   62'
Rodriguez   82'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 2,622
Referee:   Katja Koroleva
May 28, 2014 8 Boston Breakers 4–1 Portland Thorns FC Boston, Massachusetts
18:30 (PDT) Nkem Ezurike   2'
Jazmine Reeves   25'   45'   59'
Jones   38'
Whitehill   64'
D'Agostino   73'
Summary Tarr   42'
Shim   58'
Sinclair   62'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 1,556
Referee:   Boris Senic
June 1, 2014 9 Boston Breakers 2–3 Washington Spirit Boston, Massachusetts
17:30 (PDT) Sanderson   29'   37' Summary Nairn   33'
Taylor   49'   74'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 2,876
Referee:   Karen Abt
June 7, 2014 10 FC Kansas City 2–0 Boston Breakers Kansas City, Missouri
19:00 (PDT) Holiday   13' (pen.)   35' (pen.) Summary Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium
Attendance: 1,457
Referee:   Greg Dopka
June 11, 2014 11 Boston Breakers 2–0 Washington Spirit Boston, Massachusetts
18:00 (PDT) Schoepfer   42'
Jones   43'
Summary Adams   60' Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 1,429
Referee:   Timon Berry
June 19, 2014 12 Boston Breakers 0–2 Seattle Reign FC Boston, Massachusetts
18:00 (PDT) Summary Goebel   4'
Winters   25'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 2,714
Referee:   David Mon
June 22, 2014 13 Sky Blue FC 1–1 Boston Breakers Piscataway, New Jersey
12:00 (PDT) O'Hara   2'
Levin   48'
schmidt   51'
Nikki Stanton   65'
Summary Jazmine Reeves   31'
Evans   85'
Stadium: Yurcak Field
Attendance: 1,212
Referee:   Greg Dopka
June 27, 2014 14 Western New York Flash 2–1 Boston Breakers Rochester, New York
18:30 (PDT) Lloyd   59'   83' Summary Nkem Ezurike   71' Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium
July 2, 2014 15 Washington Spirit 3–3 Boston Breakers Washington, D.C.
18:00 (PDT) Taylor   28'   56'
De Vanna   30'
Kreiger   87'
Matheson   90+1' (pen.)
Report O'Reilly   4' (pen.)   7' (pen.)   19'
Jazmine Reeves   44'
Lohman   45+1'
Evans   70'
Sierra   90'
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex
Attendance: 2,673
Referee:   Dimitar Chavdarov
July 6, 2014 16 Seattle Reign FC 3–2 Boston Breakers Seattle, Washington
21:00 (PDT) Kawasumi   55'   83'
Little   76'
Report Jones   19'
Schoepfer   78'   90+1'
Stadium: Memorial Stadium (Seattle)
Attendance: 3,705
Referee:   Mark Allatin
July 11, 2014 17 Houston Dash 2–1 Boston Breakers Houston, Texas
20:00 (PDT) Ohai   56'   60'
Edwards   73'
Summary Schoepfer   5'
Jones   90+3'
Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium
Attendance: 4,063
Referee:   Bernhard Hosu
July 20, 2014 18 Portland Thorns FC 6–3 Boston Breakers Portland, Oregon
22:00 (PDT) Long   21' (pen.)
Sinclair   35'   42'   46'
Morgan   52'
McDonald   88'
Summary Schoepfer   14'
Washington   32'
O'Reilly   39' (pen.)
Stadium: Providence Park
Attendance: 14,383
Referee:   Maraget Domka
July 25, 2014 19 Western New York Flash 2–4 Boston Breakers Rochester, New York
18:30 (PDT) Spencer   14'
Lloyd   54'
Kerr   89'
Summary Sanderson   27'   51'
O'Reilly   30' (pen.)   86'
Reeves   39'
Jones   89'
Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium
Attendance: 3,081
Referee:   Timon Berry
August 3, 2014 20 Boston Breakers 3–4 Western New York Flash Boston, Massachusetts
17:30 (PDT) Mewis   28', 76'
Reeves   74'
Summary Wambach   8'   48'
Kerr   66'
Allen   70'
Bermúdez   90+2'
Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 3,754
Referee:   Hernan Aguilar
August 6, 2014 21 FC Kansas City 2–1 Boston Breakers Kansas City, Missouri
20:00 (PDT) Rodriquez   7'
Hagen   26'
Summary O'Reilly   16' (pen.) Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium
Attendance: 1,212
Referee:   David Mon
August 10, 2014 22 Boston Breakers 2–0 Portland Thorns FC Boston, Massachusetts
17:30 (PDT) Rachel Wood   14'
O'Reilly   28'
King   53'
Summary Sinclair   29' Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 4,191
Referee:   Karen Abt
August 17, 2014 24 Boston Breakers 1–0 Houston Dash Boston, Massachusetts
17:30 (PDT) Mewis  77' Summary Stadium: Harvard Stadium
Attendance: 3,006
Referee:   Karen Abt

Standings

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Seattle Reign FC 24 16 6 2 50 20 +30 54 NWSL Shield
2 FC Kansas City (C) 24 12 5 7 39 32 +7 41 NWSL Playoffs
3 Portland Thorns FC 24 10 6 8 39 35 +4 36
4 Washington Spirit 24 10 5 9 36 43 −7 35
5 Chicago Red Stars 24 9 8 7 32 26 +6 35
6 Sky Blue FC 24 9 7 8 30 37 −7 34
7 Western New York Flash 24 8 4 12 42 38 +4 28
8 Boston Breakers 24 6 2 16 37 53 −16 20
9 Houston Dash 24 5 3 16 23 44 −21 18
Source: NWSL
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(C) Champions

Results summary

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Overall Home Away
Pld Pts W L T GF GA GD W L T GF GA GD W L T GF GA GD
24 20 6 16 2 37 53  −16 5 7 0 21 24  −3 1 9 2 16 29  −13

Last updated: August 3, 2015
Source: [citation needed]
Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference

Squad statistics

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

N Pos Player GP GS Min G A WG Shot SOG Cro CK Off Foul FS YC RC
5 DF Jazmyne Avant 12 9 778 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 11 11 2 0
15 MF Bianca D'Agostino 16 6 679 0 0 0 7 6 0 3 0 13 2 1 0
14 FW Lisa De Vanna 6 5 448 0 1 0 12 3 1 0 14 3 6 0 1
27 MF Kim DeCesare 1 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 MF Maddy Evans 17 8 730 0 3 0 8 2 2 0 3 11 3 1 1
22 FW Nkem Ezurike 11 6 503 2 0 0 7 5 1 0 1 6 9 0 0
21 DF Ashley Grove 9 7 586 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 0 2 1 1 0
3 DF Courtney Jones 18 13 1296 3 1 0 22 10 7 27 5 23 9 6 0
8 DF Julie King 17 17 1530 1 1 0 7 5 2 0 0 10 9 1 0
23 MF Kaylyn Kyle 2 2 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0
11 MF Joanna Lohman 17 14 1231 1 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 17 8 2 0
19 MF Kristie Mewis 17 15 1191 3 2 1 20 9 2 1 1 9 10 0 0
9 MF Heather O'Reilly 22 21 1874 9 5 0 53 34 9 37 10 14 10 3 0
20 MF Mollie Pathman 21 18 1519 0 1 0 4 2 11 5 1 7 6 0 0
7 FW Jazmine Reeves 17 13 1151 7 1 2 23 12 11 0 13 13 10 1 0
10 MF Lianne Sanderson 19 17 1524 5 3 1 27 13 5 11 6 13 14 2 1
12 FW Katie Schoepfer 17 12 989 4 0 1 26 8 2 3 1 9 9 0 0
23 DF Bianca Sierra 11 9 798 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 11 1 1 0
17 DF Chelsea Stewart 10 7 512 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0
26 DF Nikki Washington 15 10 939 1 0 0 5 4 6 1 2 7 5 1 0
4 DF Cat Whitehill 24 24 2101 0 1 0 11 3 2 0 1 15 6 1 0
24 DF Rachel Wood 7 7 585 1 1 1 6 2 0 0 0 6 1 0 0
N Pos Goal keeper GP GS Min W L T Shot SOG Sav GA GA/G Pen PKF SO
1 GK Alyssa Naeher 24 24 2115 6 16 2 326 159 106 53 2.208 6 9 3

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2014 Breakers Media Guide". Boston Breakers Soccer. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Mayers, Joshua (April 13, 2014). "Reign FC gets 3–0 victory in season debut". The Seattle Times. Retrieved April 14, 2014.