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Reading F.C.
	2009–10 season
Manager	Brendan Rodgers
Chairman	John Madejski
Football League Championship	21st
Football League Cup	2nd Round
Top goalscorer	League: Rasiak (3); All: Rasiak (3)
Highest home attendance	19,640 (v's Nottm Forest)
Lowest home attendance	5,576 (v's Barnsley)

Reading Football Club will play the 2009–10 season in the Football League Championship, having lost 3-0 on aggregate to now Premier League side Burnley in the Championship playoff semi-final. Reading have a new manager, Brendan Rodgers from Watford.

[edit] Review & Events

[edit] Pre Season - July

Reading travelled to Didcot Town for their first Pre-Season match where they ran out 5-1 winners with goals from Sigurdsson, Bignall, Henry, Harper and Church. Reading then lost 2-1 at Kettering Town with Church (11') scoring the only goal for the Berkshire side. Reading drew 2-2 with Premier League side, Chelsea in their final Pre-Season match, with goals from Jimmy Kebe and Scott Davies. However between the defeat to Kettering Town and draw with Chelsea Reading embarked on a tour of Sweden

[edit] Tour of Sweden

Reading beat Jonsereds 8-0 with Robson-Kanu scoring a hat trick, Church and Davies scoring braces and a goal from Gunnarsson. The Royals' next game was against Tolo IF whom they beat 4-0 with Shane Long scoring all four of Reading's goals. Reading played Qviding in their 3rd and final game of the tour, winning 2-1, with both goals scored by Noel Hunt after Reading were 1-0 down.

[edit] Reading XI, Reserve and Other Matches

A Reading XI beat Tooting & Mitcham 3-0. Later on in the preseaon campaign another Reading XI visited Farnborough where the Hampshire side were eventual 3-2 winners. Reading also played a 'Champions XI' in a Testimonial match, for former player Graeme Murty, winning the match 3-2.

[edit] August

With the kick-off to the 2009-10 Championship season beginning on Saturday 8 August, Reading played Notts Forest and just like the season before, drew. Other fixtures in August were the heavy defeats to Newcastle and Sheffield United. However a draw away at Swansea and a convincing win at Barnsley were positives. Top scorer at the end of August is Noel Hunt

[edit] September

First match of the month saw Reading draw at home to Doncaster Rovers 0-0. The Royals then lost at home to Cardiff 1-0. The defeat was followed up by a loss to Peterborough. Despite the Royals being 2-0 up at half time, the lead was lost and Peterborough ended up winning 3-2. The month ended with further disappointment at the Madejski Stadium where, despite again taking the lead through an early goal from Grzegorz Rasiak, Reading could only draw 1-1 with Watford.

[edit] October

Leroy Lita returned to the Madejski Stadium on 2 October and scored the visitors second goal, as Middlesbrough won 2-0, extending Reading's winless run at home to 14 league games.

[edit] Transfers

[edit] In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
2009-07-17	DF	Ryan Bertrand	Chelsea	Season-long Loan
2009-08-05	DF	Matthew Mills	Doncaster	£2 million
2009-08-27	MF	Jobi McAnuff	Watford	£300,000
2009-08-27	MF	Grzegorz Rasiak	Southampton	Undisclosed
2009-09-01	DF	Shaun Cummings	Chelsea F.C.	Undisclosed
2009-09-01	DF	Darren O'Dea	Celtic	4 Month Loan
2009-09-02	MF	Brian Howard	Sheffield United	Undisclosed

[edit] Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
2009-07-01	FW	Leroy Lita	Middlesbrough	Free
2009-07-01	GK	Marcus Hahnemann	Wolves	Free
2009-07-01	DF	Graeme Murty	Southampton	Free
2009-07-01	DF	Michael Duberry	Wycombe	Free
2009-07-01	FW	Kevin Doyle	Wolves	£6.5million
2009-08-11	MD	Stephen Hunt^[1]	Hull City	Undisclosed
2009-08-18	DF	André Bikey	Burnley	Undisclosed

[edit] Out On Loan

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Loan Length
2009-07-17	MF	Oliver Bozanic	Cheltenham Town	6 Months
2009-08-05	GK	Alex McCarthy	Yeovil Town	6 Months
2009-08-31	FW	Nicholas Bignall	Stockport County	4 Months
2009-09-01	GK	Mikkel Andersen	Bristol Rovers	4 Months
2009-09-02	RB	Liam Rosenior	Ipswich Town	Season-long
2009-09-02	MF	James Harper	Sheffield United	Season-long
2009-09-10	MF	James Henry	Millwall	Until 2009-12-29

[edit] Squad

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Adam Federici
3	DF	Chris Armstrong
4	MF	Kalifa Cissé
5	DF	Matthew Mills
6	MF	Brynjar Gunnarsson
7	MF	Jay Tabb
8	MF	Marek Matějovský
9	FW	Shane Long
10	FW	Noel Hunt
11	MF	Jobi McAnuff
12	FW	Dave Mooney
14	MF	Jimmy Kébé
16	DF	Ívar Ingimarsson (club captain)^[2]
17	MF	James Henry
18	FW	Simon Church

No.	Position	Player
19	MF	Hal Robson-Kanu
20	MF	Jem Karacan
21	GK	Ben Hamer
22	DF	Julian Kelly
23	FW	Grzegorz Rasiak
24	DF	Ryan Bertrand (on loan from Chelsea)
25	MF	Gylfi Sigurðsson
26	DF	Alex Pearce (vice-captain)^[2]
27	MF	Scott Davies
28	MF	Michail Antonio
32	FW	Radoslav Vasilev
33	MF	Mitchell Bryant
34	MF	Brian Howard
35	DF	Shaun Cummings
48	DF	Darren O'Dea (on loan from Celtic)

[edit] Match Results

[edit] Championship

Kick Off	Opponents	H / A	Result	Scorers	Referee	Attendance	Position	Report
2009-08-08 15:00	Nottingham Forest	H	0 – 0		Phil Crossley	19,640	18th	[1]
2009-08-15 17:20	Newcastle United	A	0 – 3		Anthony Taylor	36,944	23rd	[2]
2009-08-18 19:45	Swansea City	A	0 – 0		Simon Hooper	12,775	19th	[3]
2009-08-22 15:00	Sheffield United	H	1 – 3	Mills 13'	Mick Russell	16,025	21st	[4]
2009-08-29 15:00	Barnsley	A	3 – 1	Pearce 29', Hunt 53' pen, 54'	Michael Oliver	11,116	18th	[5]
2009-09-08 15:00	Doncaster Rovers	H	0 – 0		Phil Gibbs	15,697	17th	[6]
2009-09-16 20:00	Cardiff	H	0 – 1		Paul Taylor	16,687	18th	[7]
2009-09-19 15:00	Peterborough	A	2 – 3	Sigurðsson 30', Church 42'	Chris Sarginson	8,521	21st	[8]
2009-09-26 15:00	Watford	H	1 – 1	Rasiak 7'	Mark Haywood	18,147	21st	[9]
2009-09-29 19:45	Preston North End	A	2 – 1	Church 33', Kébé 42'	Andy Penn	10,987	19th	[10]
2009-10-03 15:00	Middlesbrough	H	0 – 2		Neil Swarbrick	17,638	20th	[11]
2009-10-17 15:00	West Brom	A	1 – 3	Mills 6'	Anthony Taylor	20,935	21st	[12]
2009-10-20 15:00	QPR	A	1 – 4	Howard 86'	Andy Hall	11,400	21st	[13]
2009-10-26 20:00	Leicester City	H	0 – 1		Keith Hill	16,192	22nd	[14]
2009-10-31 15:00	Coventry City	A	3 – 1	Rasiak 1', 72', McAnuff 54'	Eddie Ilderton	15,165	21st	[15]

[edit] League Cup

Kick Off	Opponents	H / A	Result	Scorers	Referee	Attendance	Report
2009-08-11 20:00	Burton Albion	H	5 – 1	Mooney 6', 77', Bignall 7', 9', Sigurðsson 27'	Gavin Ward	5,893	[16]
2009-08-25 20:00	Barnsley	H	1 – 2	Kozluk 89' (og)	Graham Horwood	5,576	[17]

[edit] FA Cup

[edit] Player details

No.	Nat.	Position	Player	Total		Championship		FA Cup		League Cup
No.	Nat.	Position	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1		GK	Adam Federici	15	0	15	0	0	0	0	0
21		GK	Ben Hamer	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
2		DF	Liam Rosenior	6	0	5	0	0	0	1	0
3		DF	Chris Armstrong	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
5		DF	Matthew Mills	8	2	7	2	0	0	1	0
16		DF	Ivar Ingimarsson	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
22		DF	Julian Kelly	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
24		DF	Ryan Bertrand	15	0	14	0	0	0	1	0
26		DF	Alex Pearce	12	1	10	1	0	0	2	0
35		DF	Shaun Cummings	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0
48		DF	Darren O'Dea	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0
4		MF	Kalifa Cissé	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0
6		MF	Brynjar Gunnarsson	8	0	7	0	0	0	1	0
7		MF	Jay Tabb	8	0	7	0	0	0	1	0
8		MF	Marek Matějovský	7	0	5	0	0	0	2	0
11		MF	Jobi McAnuff	7	1	7	1	0	0	0	0
14		MF	Jimmy Kébé	12	1	12	1	0	0	0	0
15		MF	James Harper	5	0	3	0	0	0	2	0
17		MF	James Henry	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
19		MF	Hal Robson-Kanu	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
20		MF	Jem Karacan	13	0	13	0	0	0	0	0
25		MF	Gylfi Sigurðsson	11	2	10	1	0	0	1	1
27		MF	Scott Davies	5	0	4	0	0	0	1	0
28		MF	Michail Antonio	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
34		MF	Brian Howard	10	1	10	1	0	0	0	0
9		FW	Shane Long	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0
10		FW	Noel Hunt	12	2	10	2	0	0	2	0
12		FW	David Mooney	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	2
16		FW	Simon Church	11	2	11	2	0	0	0	0
23		FW	Grzegorz Rasiak	9	3	9	3	0	0	0	0
29		FW	Nicholas Bignall	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	2

Last updated: 10:37, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] League Table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	West Bromwich Albion	13	7	3	3	24	13	+11	24	Promotion to Premier League
2	Newcastle United	13	7	3	3	19	8	+11	24	Promotion to Premier League
3	Cardiff City	13	7	2	4	26	12	+14	23	Qualification to League Championship playoffs
4	Middlesbrough	13	7	2	4	20	13	+7	23
5	Blackpool	13	6	4	3	19	13	+6	22
6	Preston North End	13	6	4	3	20	17	+3	22
7	Nottingham Forest	13	6	4	3	15	12	+3	22
8	Leicester City	13	5	6	2	15	11	+4	21
9	Bristol City	13	5	6	2	14	11	+3	21
10	Queens Park Rangers	12	5	5	2	21	11	+10	20
11	Swansea City	13	4	6	3	9	10	−1	18
12	Watford	13	4	6	3	18	20	−2	18
13	Sheffield United	13	4	5	4	20	21	−1	17
14	Scunthorpe United	13	5	2	6	19	23	−4	17
15	Sheffield Wednesday	13	4	4	5	20	18	+2	16
16	Crystal Palace	12	4	4	4	12	14	−2	16
17	Coventry City	13	4	4	5	16	20	−4	16
18	Doncaster Rovers	13	2	8	3	14	15	−1	14
19	Derby County	13	4	2	7	15	21	−6	14
20	Barnsley	13	4	2	7	14	22	−8	14
21	Reading	13	2	4	7	11	22	−11	10
22	Peterborough United	13	1	5	7	14	23	−9	8	Relegation to League One
23	Plymouth Argyle	13	2	2	9	12	25	−13	8
24	Ipswich Town	13	0	7	6	14	26	−12	7

Updated to games played on 20 October 2009
Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.