2016–17 Yeovil Town F.C. season

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Yeovil Town
2016–17 season
Chairman John Fry
Manager Darren Way
Stadium Huish Park
League Two TBD
FA Cup First round
League Cup First round
FL Trophy TBD
Home colours
Away colours
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 season is the 14th season in the Football League played by Yeovil Town Football Club, an English football club based in Yeovil, Somerset.

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Main article: 2015–16 Yeovil Town F.C. season

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See also: List of Yeovil Town F.C. seasons

The 2015–16 season saw Yeovil compete in the fourth tier of English football following their successive relegations from the Championship and then League One. The season started poorly with the club suffering a series of injury crises and only winning two league matches by the end of November. With a third consecutive relegation a real possibility the club sacked manager Paul Sturrock, and replaced him with first-team coach Darren Way.[1][2] After his appointment, Yeovil's form improved including a run of four consecutive 1–0 wins in March and eight clean-sheets in nine matches and safety was confirmed with four matches to spare as Yeovil finished the season in 19th place. Yeovil reached the third round of the FA Cup, for the third consecutive season for the first time in the club's history, losing in a penalty shootout to Carlisle United.[3] The club also reached the southern area semi-finals of the Football League Trophy, losing to Oxford United.[4]

The end of the season saw Way release eight players, including Jack Compton, Jordan Gibbons, Simon Gillett, Shaun Jeffers, Marc Laird, Leroy Lita, Jakub Sokolík and Chris Weale, while the club terminated the contracts of Mark Beck and Wes Fogden a year early.[5] Six players were offered new contracts including Ryan Dickson, Artur Krysiak, Nathan Smith, Omar Sowunmi, Ben Tozer and François Zoko.

Club

The club's management team and backroom staff remained largely the same as the end of the 2015–16 season, with manager Darren Way having signed a new three-year contract in April 2016,[6] with assistant Terry Skiverton and physio Mike Micciche stayed in their current roles. While player-goalkeeper coach Chris Weale was released at the end of the season,[5] having rejected Way's offer of a new contract solely as a goalkeeper coach and was replaced by academy goalkeeping coach Sam Shulberg.[7] The end of the season also saw the departure of head of youth David Byrne after a year in the role.[8]

A new home kit was once again introduced, having been chosen by the fans in October 2015, the new kit featured green and white hoops with grey sleeves.[9] While the away kit was maintained for a second season.[10] The kits continued to feature Thatchers Cider as the new rear shirt sponsor.

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References

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