Coomar Rangers

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Coomar Rangers is a team based in West Midlands, England. The team is owned by leeon2045 and has been in existance since 27th July 2004. They play their home matches at The Bernard Brow Stadium.

History

Coomar Rangers had existed for a number of years as a minor league team with very little funding until a chance meeting in February 2004 changed their fortunes. On a dark evening with the rain lashing down, the then Coomar manager Stan Hepplethwaite was driving home from a training session when he came across a broken down BMW. Stan stopped to see if he could help and being a bit of an amateur mechanic, soon had the BMW running again. The grateful driver offered to buy Stan dinner, and the two of them went to a nearby pub. The discussion soon got round to football and Stan's passion for the game was obvious. The BMW driver, named Henry Winkleburger, turned out to be a huge football fan as well and offered to fund Stan's team in repayment for Stan's Samaritan act. With funding in place, Coomar applied to join the Hattrick league and were accepted into league VI on 27th July 2004. Henry was installed as Chairman and Stan as Manager. The ground was brought up to Hattrick standards and renamed the Bernard Brow Stadium in honour of the landlord of the pub where that first meeting took place.

Joining the league halfway through Season 23, Coomar did well to finish 4th and promotion beckoned. However, league VI.154 proved to be a difficult league and promotion was to be elusive for several seasons. The next few seasons saw Coomar finding their feet and finishing mid-table. This period also saw the first major disagreement between Stan and Henry when one of the scouts discovered a prodigeous youth talent by the name of Kevin Graham. Stan wanted to keep him and train him up to be a future star for the team, but Henry wanted to put the club on a more secure financial footing by cashing in on the player. Henry prevailed and his decision was soon justified when a bid of £500,000 was received within an hour of Kevin going on the market. He eventually sold for £816,000, money that was used to strengthen the squad for a promotion push. Sadly for Kevin, his career did not progress as the club he went to went out of business and he left the game disillusioned.

Coomar's first league title came in Season 27 and with it great scenes of celebration in the town. The euphoria was short lived however as Coomar were soundly beaten 6-0 in the playoffs. Automatic promotion had to wait until the second league title in Season 29 when the team was promoted to V.109. This, however, proved to be a difficult league and after just one season the club were relegated to VI.851. The experienced Coomar squad were able to steamroller this weak league and won every game, scoring 103 goals and conceding just 2. Automatic promotion to V.28 followed, where Coomar were able to hold their own finally in level V, finishing 2nd in their first season. A fourth league title followed the season after, but again playoff defeat proved a disappointment for the fans. However, season 34 saw a fifth league title and automatic promotion to IV.14. Coomar spent 8 seasons in this league, collecting two more league titles in Season 38 and Season 40. Both were followed with playoff heartache. Season 42 proved to be a difficult one and a run of defeats together with some bizarre team selections saw Stan Hepplethwaite replaced as manager by Danny Dickinson. The appointment was not enough to stave off relegation and the team found themselves in V.20 for Season 43. However, the stay in V was shortlived as Coomar bounced straight back by securing auto promotion in their first season in V.20 by winning 13 straight games before finally losing in the last game of the season after promotion had already been secured. They were promoted to IV.35 for season 44.

During Season 45 the club was sold and new investors took charge. Outgoing Chairman Henry Winkleburger had decided to pursue other business interests and sold his shares to Patrick Winter who took over as Club Chairman. No new funds were injected into the club, but the new board retained the services of Danny Dickinson as first team manager. Club Secretary Jonathan Blenkinsop also left along with Henry Winkleburger and was replaced by Zach Snape. The new board also appointed Darryl Crow as Youth Coach.

Two 4th place finishes in IV.35 were followed in Season 46 by another league title and direct promotion to level III for the first time in the club's history. For Season 47, Coomar were placed in league III.5.

Past Performances

Honours

Season	League	Honour
27	VI.154
29	VI.154
31	VI.851
33	V.28
34	V.28
38	IV.14
40	IV.14
43	V.20
46	IV.35

Seasons

Season	Series	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Cup	Top Scorer	League Goals	Cup/Qual Goals
23	VI.154	4th	9	7	0	2	27	8	+19	21	n/a	Steve Andrews	4	0
24	VI.154	3rd	14	11	0	3	56	22	+34	31	Round 1	Steve Andrews	23	0
25	VI.154	4th	14	8	1	5	51	31	+20	25	Round 2	Peter Faivre	17	2
26	VI.154	2nd	14	11	0	3	65	15	+50	33	Round 1	Pedro Elizalde	18	0
27	VI.154	1st	14	12	0	2	72	10	+62	36	Round 4	Niklas Robbins	24	3
28	VI.154	2nd	14	10	3	1	67	11	+56	33	Round 3	Niklas Robbins	13	4
29	VI.154	1st	14	13	0	1	63	5	+58	39	Round 3	Niklas Robbins	11	0
30	V.109	7th	14	4	4	6	32	25	+7	16	Round 2	Janco van Helmond	7	1
31	VI.851	1st	14	14	0	0	103	2	+101	42	Round 3	Janco van Helmond	18	1
32	V.28	2nd	14	9	1	4	45	24	+21	28	Round 4	Henn Maandi	12	3
33	V.28	1st	14	11	1	2	73	11	+62	34	Round 3	Henn Maandi	13	0
34	V.28	1st	14	11	0	3	50	21	+29	33	Round 3	Henn Maandi	12	0
35	IV.14	4th	14	8	0	6	47	21	+26	24	Round 4	Kevin Zandstra	11	0
36	IV.14	3rd	14	9	1	4	40	30	+10	28	Round 4	Mark Mavir	7	0
37	IV.14	2nd	14	8	4	2	40	27	+13	28	Round 3	Kevin Zandstra	11	1
38	IV.14	1st	14	10	1	3	47	30	+17	31	Round 3	Mark Mavir	9	0
39	IV.14	3rd	14	9	3	2	32	15	+17	30	Round 5	Kevin Zandstra	8	2
40	IV.14	1st	14	9	3	2	43	15	+28	30	Round 4	Mark Mavir	12	0
41	IV.14	3rd	14	7	4	3	39	21	+18	25	Round 5	Mauro Colaci	8	9
42	IV.14	8th	14	2	2	10	17	40	-23	8	Round 4	Mauro Colaci	5	0
												Arnie Ainslie	3	2
												Scott Hunter	0	5
43	V.20	1st	14	13	0	1	59	17	+42	39	Round 4	Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky	11	0
44	IV.35	4th	14	8	0	6	36	33	+3	24	Round 3	Mauro Colaci	6	5
45	IV.35	4th	14	5	3	6	33	33	0	20	Round 3	Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky	9	3
46	IV.35	1st	14	10	2	2	62	22	+40	34	Round 5	Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky	13	6
47	III.5	2nd	14	8	1	5	37	31	+6	25	Round 6	Arnie Ainslie	10	7
48	III.5	2nd	10	6	0	4	37	26	+11	18	Round 4	Arnie Ainslie	8	8

Current

Squad

Name	Age	Nationality	Pos	Apps	Goals
Wolter Bovelander	26		GK	85	0
Axel Gunnarsson	30		GK	25	0
Noah Duijf	30		Def	62	12
Mervyn Stanley	31		Def	17	3
Aleu Zamarromalo	24		Def	0	0
Robbie Tyas	27		Def	61	11
Michel Andre	22		Def	21	7
Oliver Kelly	22		Def	24	4
Gabriel Pelzer	27		Wing	78	26
Mimis Takounidis	28		Wing	71	12
Fedon Asproulias	23		Wing	32	2
Andrzej Zak	32		MF	115	24
Daniel Calado	31		MF	78	26
Ludvic Honka	30		MF	61	11
Beorn Brocaar	23		MF	0	0
Allen Steel	19		MF	9	2
Andy Danas	19		MF	9	4
Mauro Colaci	28		Fwd	106	69
Arnie Ainslie	26		Fwd	82	62
Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky	29		Fwd	71	61
Kieran Shearwood	17		Fwd	1	0
John Cockayne	17		Fwd	0	0

Youth Hot Prospects

Name	Age	Position
Alec Trudgian	17	IM
Richard Banya	16	Fwd
Doug Rowe	16	GK

Staff

Chairman Patrick Winter
Manager Danny Dickinson
Club Secretary Zach Snape
Coach Roberto Cremonini
Youth Coach Darryl Crow
Doctor Dr Neil Allott
Physio Carl Williams
Finance Director David Truman
Media Relations Alison Wyatt

Club records

Team

Best League Finish
2nd in Series III - Season 47
Most Season Points
42 - Season 31
Best Cup Run
Round 6 - Season 47
Biggest League Win
11-0 v Lancaster Tigers (H) - 24/7/11 & v Lancaster Tigers (A) - 9/10/11
Biggest Cup Win
12-0 v Cal United (A) - 12/7/11
Biggest Attendance
60,000 - First achieved v Brow of the Hill South 7/9/08

Players

Highest Transfer Fee Paid
£2,566,667 for Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky - 24/5/10
Highest Transfer Fee Received
£2,200,000 for Julio Cesar Estevez - 29/7/10
Most Career Goals
93 - Mark Mavir
Most Goals in a Season
27 - Niklas Robbins - Season 27
Most Goals in a League Match
4 - Steve Andrews v Williams Raders - 31/10/04, Pedro Elizalde v Reading URZ - 17/7/05, Niklas Robbins v Maranello 1979 - 30/10/05, Niklas Robbins v Maranello 1979 - 6/11/05, Janco van Helmond v Arsenal 1960 - 17/12/06, Janco van Helmond v One Inch Men - 11/3/07, Henn Maandi v Gonnas Gonads - 17/6/07, Kevin Zandstra v Tarsier United - 13/4/08
Most Goals in a Cup Match
5 - Mauro Colaci v WKS - 7/12/10
Most Appearances
205 - Mark Mavir

Top Goalscorers

Name	Goals	Apps	Ratio
Mark Mavir	93	205	0.45
Niklas Robbins	80	76	1.05
Henn Maandi	78	90	0.87
Mauro Colaci	69	106	0.65
Arnie Ainslie	62	82	0.76
Pedro Elizalde	62	53	1.17
Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky	61	71	0.86
Kevin Zandstra	59	97	0.61
Janco van Helmond	56	58	0.97
Ulises Tarki	53	176	0.30
Claudio Lazarte	41	146	0.28
John MacRitchie	33	130	0.26
Eduardo Fassini	31	130	0.24
Marino Valenza	30	138	0.22
Lasse Mikkelinen	29	32	0.91
Steve Andrews	28	21	1.33
Gabriel Pelzer	26	78	0.33
Stan Johnson	25	43	0.58
Daniel Calado	26	78	0.33
Andrzej Zak	24	115	0.21
Enrique Tezanos	24	58	0.41
Peter Faivre	22	16	1.38

Most appearances (competitive matches)

Name	Appearances
Mark Mavir	205
Ulises Tarki	176
Claudio Lazarte	146
Marino Valenza	138
Eduardo Fassini	130
John MacRitchie	129
Gary Wickham	124
Andrzej Zak	115
Lukas van Rossum	113
Mauro Colaci	106
Giuseppe Lanzafame	102
Mattias Orenbratt	102
Kevin Zandstra	97
Henn Maandi	90
Wolter Bovelander	85
Arnie Ainslie	82
Roberto Dagostino	78
Juan Carlos Castro	77
Niklas Robbins	76
Rudolf-Heinz Podolsky	71
Mimis Takounidis	71
Raul Galvez	65
Stefanis Mikedis	64
Michael Wordsworth	62
Noah Duijf	62
Robbie Tyas	61
Sylwester Bors	60

Hall of Fame

Niklas Robbins

Niklas had a long and distinguished career as both goalscorer and later club coach. He was, at date of induction, the club's record goalscorer with 80 goals in 76 first team matches. He was twice awarded the Golden Boot for being the league top scorer including a club single season record of 27 goals in season 27. Niklas is now pursuing a career as an agent.

Jordan Peart

The first Coomar playmaker. Jordan marshalled the midfield in 41 appearances for the club in the early days and was a firm favourite with the fans.

Mark Mavir

Mark spent his entire career at the club, coming up through the youth system and on to a distinguished first team career. He spent most of his career as an attacking midfielder, but later used his technical ability and pinpoint passing to great effect as a deep lying forward. To date of induction, Mark holds the club records for most appearances (205 competitive matches) and goals scored (93). He was the team's top scorer in a season three times during his carer.
He is now pursuing his ambition to become a Michelin starred chef with his own restaurant.

Ulises Tarki

Ulises joined from FC Michus in Bolivia as a promising 17 year old midfielder. After spending time as an apprentice learning the ropes, he went on to establish himself in the first team and played 176 competitive matches for the club, second on the all time list of appearances. When his playing days were over, he turned his hand to coaching and spent some years as a successful first team coach for the club. He has now retired to pursue a career as a Sports Journalist and we wish him well.

Claudio Paul Lazarte

Claudio was a stalwart of the Coomar defence for 12 seasons, racking up a total of 146 competitive matches and scoring 41 goals for the club. He is now pursuing a career in PR.