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2010–11 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. season

109th season in existence of Brighton & Hove Albion

Field	Value
club	Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
season	2010–11
manager	Gus Poyet
chairman	Tony Bloom
stadium	Withdean Stadium
league	League One
league result	Champions
cup1	FA Cup
cup1 result	Fifth round
cup2	League Cup
cup2 result	First round
cup3	League Trophy
cup3 result	First round
league topscorer	Glenn Murray (22)
season topscorer	Glenn Murray (22)
highest attendance	8,416 (30 April 2011 vs Huddersfield Town, League One)
lowest attendance	6,474 (28 August 2010 vs Walsall, League One)
average attendance	7,351
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nextseason	2011–12

The 2010–11 season was Brighton & Hove Albion's fourth consecutive season in the League One. It was their last season at the Withdean Stadium before moving to Falmer Stadium. Brighton won League One in this season, gaining promotion to the Football League Championship for the 2011–12 season.

Key dates

2010

7.5.10: Swansea defender Marcos Painter agrees to a two-year pre-contract which he later signs.
11.6.10: Albion sign goalkeeper Michael Poke from fellow League One side Southampton.
28.6.10: Argentinean Club Comunicaciones players Agustín Battipiedi and Cristian Baz both sign one-year contracts.
29.6.10: After spending over a decade at Scunthorpe United Midfielder Matt Sparrow signs a three-year contract.
8.7.10: Albion acquires young gun Ashley Barnes from Plymouth Argyle with the striker signing a two-year contract.
11.7.10: Speculation is ended when it is announced Gordon Greer is transferring from Swindon Town to take up a three-year contract with the seagulls.
16.7.10: Brighton sign former Bulgarian international Radostin Kishishev on a one-year deal. 2011
28.1.11: Chairman Tony Bloom confirms that Elliott Bennett has submitted a transfer request. He told seagulls.co.uk "Nothing has changed. We do not want to sell Elliott, we don't need to sell the player."
12.4.11: Promotion to Championship secured with 4–3 win over Dagenham & Redbridge.

League table

First team

As of 29 January 2011.

No.	Name	Position	Previous club	Notes
1	Peter Brezovan	GK	Swindon Town
13	Mitch Walker	GK	Youth team graduate
16	Casper Ankergren	GK	Leeds United
19	Michael Poke	GK	Southampton
3	Gordon Greer	CB	Swindon Town	Club captain
4	Tommy Elphick	CB	Youth team graduate
6	Adam El-Abd	CB	Youth team graduate
14	Iñigo Calderón	RB	Deportivo Alavés
22	Marcos Painter	LB	Swansea City
27	Mauricio Taricco	LB	A.S. Villasimius	Assistant manager
30	Steve Cook	CB/RB	Youth team graduate
32	James Tunnicliffe	CB	Stockport County	on loan at Bristol Rovers
33	Jimmy McNulty	LB	Stockport County
37	Lewis Dunk	CB	Youth team graduate
5	Agustín Battipiedi	CM	Club Comunicaciones
7	Elliott Bennett	RM	Wolverhampton Wanderers
8	Alan Navarro	CM	MK Dons
10	Matt Sparrow	CM	Scunthorpe United
11	Cristian Baz	LM/FW	Club Comunicaciones
12	Kazenga LuaLua	LW	Newcastle United	loaned from Newcastle United
15	Gary Hart	RM/FW	Stansted
18	Gary Dicker	CM	Stockport County
24	Jamie Smith	CM	Crystal Palace
25	Radostin Kishishev	CM	Litex Lovech
26	Liam Bridcutt	CM	Chelsea
28	Jake Forster-Caskey	CM	Youth team graduate
29	Yaser Kasim	MF	Tottenham Hotspur
31	Craig Noone	LW	Plymouth Argyle
36	Ryan Thomson	CM	Youth team graduate
9	Ashley Barnes	FW	Plymouth Argyle
17	Glenn Murray	FW	Rochdale
20	Chris Holroyd	FW	Cambridge United
21	Francisco Sandaza	FW	Dundee United
23	Torbjørn Agdestein	FW	Stord IL
39	Chris Wood	FW	West Bromwich Albion	loaned from West Bromwich Albion

Matches

Pre-season friendlies

Tate Brotherton

Birmingham Midtgarden

Treleaven Kishishev own goal

Ivanildo

League One

Bennett Painter Murray Barnes Sandaza Murray Lualua Sparrow Calderón Calderón Barnes Liddle Poole Wood Painter McCombe Jones Barnes Barnes Bennett

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Bolger
Murray report 2 Murray
Noone Wood Sandaza Barnes Bridcutt Marshall Arter Murray Murray Jones Dicker Bennett Murray
Bridcutt
Barnes Nurse
Green Murray Bennett Fonte Sparrow Ward

;Notes

FA Cup

As they were playing in League One, Albion entered the 2010–11 FA Cup at the first round proper. report 2 report 2 Sagbanmu Bennett Faulconbridge Hammond Sparrow Battipiedi Baz report 2 report 2 Calderón Bennett Sparrow report 2 Barnes Sandaza report 2 report 2 Walters Shawcross

Football League Cup

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League Trophy

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Statistics

Appearances, goals and cards

:As of Fixture vs Notts County(7 May 2011). :(Substitute appearances in brackets)

No.	Pos.	Name	League	FA Cup	League Cup	League Trophy	Total	Apps	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Peter Brezovan	1 (1)	0	7	0	0	0	8 (1)	0	0	0
3	DF	Gordon Greer	32	0	4	0	0	0	36	0	4	2
4	DF	Tommy Elphick	22 (5)	1	6	0	1	1	30 (5)	1	8	0
5	DF	Agustín Battipiedi	3 (5)	0	1 (3)	0	1	0	5 (8)	0	2	0
6	DF	Adam El-Abd	36 (1)	1	2	0	1	1	40 (1)	1	9	0
7	MF	Elliott Bennett	45 (1)	6	5	2	0 (1)	1	51 (2)	8	4	0
8	MF	Alan Navarro	2 (2)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	2 (3)	0	0	0
9	FW	Ashley Barnes	31 (11)	18	6	2	0	1	38 (11)	20	7	0
10	MF	Matt Sparrow	21 (8)	4	5	2	1	1	28 (8)	6	4	1
11	MF	Cristian Baz	0 (7)	0	2 (3)	0	1	0 (1)	3 (11)	0	0	0
12	MF	Kazenga LuaLua	7 (4)	4	0	0	0	0	7 (4)	4	1	0
13	GK	Mitch Walker	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	DF	Iñigo Calderón	44	7	5	1	0	1	50	8	4	1
15	MF	Gary Hart	0 (3)	0	1 (3)	0	1	0 (1)	2 (7)	0	0	0
16	GK	Casper Ankergren	45	0	0	0	0	1	46	0	2	0
17	FW	Glenn Murray	38 (4)	22	6 (1)	0	0	1	45 (5)	22	6	0
18	MF	Gary Dicker	38 (8)	3	4	0	1	1	44 (8)	3	5	0
19	GK	Michael Poke	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	FW	Chris Holroyd	0 (3)	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	1 (4)	0	0	0
21	FW	Fran Sandaza	3 (12)	2	1 (3)	2	0	0	4 (15)	4	1	0
22	DF	Marcos Painter	46	1	6	0	1	1	54	1	5	0
23	FW	Torbjorn Agdestein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	MF	Jamie Smith	3 (5)	0	0 (2)	0	0 (1)	0 (1)	3 (9)	0	0	0
25	MF	Radostin Kishishev	21 (11)	0	4	0	0	0	25 (11)	0	3	0
26	MF	Liam Bridcutt	31 (6)	2	5 (1)	0	0	1	37 (7)	2	5	1
27	DF	Mauricio Taricco	2 (2)	0	3	1	0	0	5 (2)	1	1	1
28	MF	Jake Forster-Caskey	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
29	MF	Yaser Kasim	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
30	DF	Steve Cook	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Craig Noone	10 (13)	2	0	0	0	0	10 (13)	2	1	0
33	DF	Jimmy McNulty	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	MF	Ryan Thomson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	DF	Lewis Dunk	2 (3)	0	2 (1)	0	0	0	4 (4)	0	0	0
39	FW	Chris Wood	22 (7)	8	2	1	0	0	24 (7)	9	1	0
		Own Goals	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0

Formation

Formation	League	FA Cup	League Cup	League Trophy	Total
4–4–2	33	5	1	1	40
4–5–1	2	0	0	0	2
4–3–3	5	2	0	0	7
		40	7	1	1	49

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month	Player of the Month	Notes	Manager	Player
September	Gus Poyet	Casper Ankergren	{{cite news	title=POYET NAMED MANAGER OF THE MONTH	url=http://www.football-league.co.uk/league1/news/20101007/poyet-named-manager-of-the-month_2248206_2177331
March	Gus Poyet	Casper Ankergren	{{cite news	title=POYET NAMED MANAGER OF THE MONTH	url=http://www.football-league.co.uk/league1/news/20110408/poyet-named-manager-of-the-month_2293324_2333745

Team of the Year

League One

Pos.	Player	Club
GK	Kelvin Davis	Southampton
DF	Iñigo Calderón	Brighton & Hove Albion
DF	Dan Harding	Southampton
DF	Gordon Greer	Brighton & Hove Albion
DF	José Fonte	Southampton
MF	Anthony Pilkington	Huddersfield Town
MF	Elliott Bennett	Brighton & Hove Albion
MF	Adam Lallana	Southampton
MF	Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain	Southampton
FW	Craig Mackail-Smith	Peterborough United
FW	Bradley Wright-Phillips	Charlton Athletic

Transfers

In

Date	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
11 June 2010	Michael Poke	Southampton	Free
July 2010	Marcos Painter	Swansea City	Free
28 June 2010	Agustín Battipiedi	Club Comunicaciones	Free	title=Brighton sign Matt Sparrow from Scunthorpe	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/brighton/8772235.stm	work=BBC Sport	date=29 June 2010	access-date=9 May 2010}}
28 June 2010	Cristian Baz	Club Comunicaciones	Free
29 June 2010	Matt Sparrow	Scunthorpe United	Free
8 July 2010	Ashley Barnes	Plymouth Argyle	Undisclosed
16 July 2010	Radostin Kishishev	Litex Lovech	Free
11 July 2010	Gordon Greer	Swindon Town	£250,000
1 September 2010	Francisco Sandaza	Dundee United	Free
28 August 2010	Liam Bridcutt	Chelsea	Free
31 December 2010	Craig Noone	Plymouth Argyle	Undisclosed

Out

Date	Name	To	Fee
May 2010	Michel Kuipers	Crawley Town	Free
June 2010	Nicky Forster	Brentford	Free
July 2010	Craig Davies	Chesterfield	Free
July 2010	Andrew Crofts	Norwich	£300,000
July 2010	Jake Wright	Oxford United	Free
July 2010	Liam Dickinson	Barnsley	Undisclosed
July 2010	Steve Brinkhurst	Eastbourne Borough	Undisclosed
13 November 2010	Kazenga LuaLua	Newcastle United	Loan Return
7 January 2011	Andy Whing	Leyton Orient	Free

Loan in

Date	Name	From	Length of Loan	Ref.
31 August 2010	Kazenga LuaLua	Newcastle United	Four-Month Loan
19 November 2010	Chris Wood	West Bromwich Albion	Two-Month Loan	{{cite news

Loan out

Date	Name	To	Length of Loan	Ref.
July 2010	James Tunnicliffe	Bristol Rovers	Season-Long Loan	last=Owen	first=Brian	date=16 July 2010	title=Poyet to keep tabs on loan duo	language=en	work=The Argus	url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/8275584.poyet-to-keep-tabs-on-loan-duo/	access-date=1 May 2020}}
July 2010	Jimmy McNulty	Scunthorpe United	Six-Month Loan
September 2010	Steve Cook	Eastbourne Borough	One-Month Loan
September 2010	Chris Holroyd	Stevenage	Three-Month Loan
October 2010	Steve Cook	Mansfield Town	Three-Month Loan
October 2010	Andy Whing	Leyton Orient	Two-month Loan
January 2011	Mitch Walker	Welling United
March 2011	Chris Holroyd	Bury	One-Month Loan

Trialists

Date	Name	Position	Club	Ref.
July 2010	Eric Midtgarden	Forward
July 2010	Filipe Morais	Winger	Oldham Athletic
August 2010	Diego Camacho	Defensive midfielder	Albacete
January 2011	Emmanuel Ledesma	Attacking midfielder	Walsall
April 2011	Kosta Barbarouses	Striker	Brisbane Roar	{{cite news	title=Kosta cutting trials short for training

References

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(11 June 2010). "Brighton bring in goalkeeper Poke". BBC Sport.
(24 May 2010). "Painter: I turned down other offers to play for Albion". The Argus.
(29 June 2010). "Brighton sign Matt Sparrow from Scunthorpe". BBC Sport.
(8 July 2010). "Brighton confirm Barnes signing". BBC Sport.
Owen, Brian. (16 July 2010). "Kishishev signs for a season". The Argus.
(13 July 2010). "Greer completes Brighton transfer". BBC Sport.
(12 July 2010). "Gordon Greer in £250,000 Brighton transfer". The Scotsman.
(1 September 2010). "Brighton & Hove Albion sign striker Francisco Sandaza". BBC Sport.
(28 August 2010). "Former Chelsea Midfielder Signs".
(31 December 2010). "Noone Signs".
Talbot, Bruce. (19 May 2010). "Crawley land Kuipers". The Argus.
(17 June 2010). "Brentford re-sign striker Forster". BBC Sport.
Owen, Brian. (7 July 2010). "Poyet offers hope as Davies goes". The Argus.
(21 May 2010). "Crofts completes Norwich move". The Argus.
(30 June 2010). "Oxford seal permanent Wright deal". BBC Sport.
Griggs, Howard. (9 July 2010). "Poyet targets at least three more signings". The Argus.
Hollis, Steve. (25 June 2010). "Brinkhurst: I've made right decision to join Borough". The Argus.
(15 November 2010). "LuaLua Injury Blow".
(7 January 2011). "Whing Leaves Albion".
(31 August 2010). "Poyet's Delighted by LuaLua Return".
Owen, Brian. (16 July 2010). "Poyet to keep tabs on loan duo". The Argus.
(16 September 2010). "Cook an added ingredient for Borough". The Argus.
(24 September 2010). "Holroyd makes Boro loan move".
Naylor, Andy. (18 October 2010). "Cook heads for Mansfield". The Argus.
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(14 January 2011). "Stewart departs & Walker joins".
(11 March 2011). "Holroyd off on loan".
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(17 July 2010). "Final Score: Bognor 2 Albion 2".
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Naylor, Andy. (9 February 2011). "Seagulls sentence Zamora to a defeat". The Argus.

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