# 2011–12 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. season

The 2011–12 season was Brighton & Hove Albion's first year in the Championship, returning after being promoted as champions of League One during the 2010–11 season. It was also Brighton's first season at their new home, the Falmer Stadium.
The season was a successful one for the club, finishing 10th in the league, and reaching the Third Round of the League Cup and Fifth Round of the FA Cup (coincidentally being knocked out by eventual League Cup Champions and FA Cup runners up Liverpool on both occasions). Ashley Barnes was top scorer in both the league and across all competitions.

## League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 8 | Hull City | 46 | 19 | 11 | 16 | 47 | 44 | +3 | 68 |
| 9 | Leicester City | 46 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 66 | 55 | +11 | 66 |
| 10 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 46 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 66 |
| 11 | Watford | 46 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 56 | 64 | −8 | 64 |
| 12 | Derby County | 46 | 18 | 10 | 18 | 50 | 58 | −8 | 64 |

## Squad statistics
### Statistics

    As of 29 April 2012
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Championship | Championship | FA Cup | FA Cup | League Cup | League Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | SVK | Peter Brezovan | 24 | 0 | 20+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Joe Mattock | 15 | 1 | 14+1 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Gordon Greer | 47 | 1 | 42+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ENG | Tommy Elphick | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ENG | Lewis Dunk | 36 | 0 | 31+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ENG | Adam El-Abd | 25 | 0 | 21+2 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | ENG | Will Hoskins | 9 | 1 | 2+5 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ENG | Alan Navarro | 39 | 1 | 24+9 | 1 | 3+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ENG | Ashley Barnes | 52 | 14 | 36+7 | 11 | 4+1 | 1 | 2+2 | 2 |
| 10 | MF | ENG | Matt Sparrow | 21 | 2 | 15+3 | 2 | 2+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ENG | Craig Noone | 37 | 2 | 18+15 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | SCO | Craig Mackail-Smith | 50 | 10 | 41+4 | 9 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 1 |
| 13 | MF | ISR | Gai Assulin | 7 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | ESP | Iñigo Calderón | 39 | 4 | 30+2 | 4 | 4+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | ESP | Vicente Rodríguez | 19 | 3 | 11+6 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | DEN | Casper Ankergren | 22 | 0 | 19+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | ENG | Ryan Harley | 18 | 2 | 13+3 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | IRL | Gary Dicker | 19 | 0 | 17+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | FRA | Romain Vincelot | 20 | 1 | 10+5 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | COL | David González | 2 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | IRL | Marcos Painter | 20 | 0 | 18+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | NOR | Torbjørn Agdestein | 6 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | WAL | Sam Vokes | 12 | 3 | 6+5 | 3 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | COD | Kazenga LuaLua | 30 | 2 | 10+16 | 1 | 2+0 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | ENG | Liam Bridcutt | 49 | 0 | 43+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | ARG | Mauricio Taricco | 12 | 0 | 9+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | CIV | Abdul Razak | 6 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | NED | Roland Bergkamp | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | ENG | Will Buckley | 35 | 8 | 16+13 | 8 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | ENG | Grant Hall | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | IRQ | Yaser Kasim | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | ENG | George Barker | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | ENG | Ben Sampayo | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | ENG | Jake Forster-Caskey | 6 | 2 | 3+1 | 1 | 2+0 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | CHI | Gonzalo Jara | 14 | 0 | 14+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | ENG | Anton Rodgers | 1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players currently out on loan: ||||||||||||
| 19 | GK | ENG | Michael Poke | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players featured for club who have left: ||||||||||||
| | GK | ENG | Steve Harper | 5 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |

### Starting 11

    These are the most used starting players in the most used formation throughout the complete season
Formation: 4–4–2

### Top scorers

| Place | Position | Nation | Number | Name | Championship | FA Cup | League Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | | 9 | Ashley Barnes | 11 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | FW | | 12 | Craig Mackail-Smith | 9 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | MF | | 30 | Will Buckley | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | DF | | 14 | Iñigo Calderón | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | MF | | 15 | Vicente Rodríguez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | FW | | 24 | Sam Vokes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 |
| 6 | MF | | 35 | Jake Forster-Caskey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | | 17 | Ryan Harley | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | | 25 | Kazenga LuaLua | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | | 11 | Craig Noone | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | | 10 | Matt Sparrow | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | DF | | 3 | Gordon Greer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | FW | | 7 | Will Hoskins | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | | 2 | Joe Mattock | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | | 8 | Alan Navarro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | | 20 | Romain Vincelot | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Own Goals | Own Goals | Own Goals | Own Goals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| | | | | TOTALS | 56 | 4 | 3 | 63 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Championship | Championship | FA Cup | FA Cup | League Cup | League Cup | Total | Total |
| 10 | MF | Matt Sparrow | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | DF | Lewis Dunk | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Liam Bridcutt | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Gordon Greer | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Ashley Barnes | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 36 | GK | Gonzalo Jara | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 22 | DF | Marcos Painter | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 27 | DF | Mauricio Taricco | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 20 | DF | Romain Vincelot | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | Adam El-Abd | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Alan Navarro | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | Iñigo Calderón | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | Gary Dicker | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | Craig Noone | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | Kazenga LuaLua | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | Casper Ankergren | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | Craig Mackail-Smith | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | Torbjørn Agdestein | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | GK | Peter Brezovan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | Yaser Kasim | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Vicente Rodríguez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | Ben Sampayo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 93 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 109 | 8 |

## Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

### Championship
#### Result round by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 |
| Ground | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | D | W | W | L | D | L | L | D | D | L | D | L | W | L | W | W | W | L | L | L | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | D | W | D | D | W | L | W | D | D | L | L | L | D | D | D |
| Position | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 |

### League Cup
## Transfers

Players transferred in :
| Date | Pos. | Name | From | Fee | Ref. |
| 20 May 2011 | FW | Will Hoskins | Bristol Rovers | Undisclosed | |
| 29 May 2011 | DF | Ben Sampayo | Chelsea | Free | |
| 29 May 2011 | MF | Anton Rodgers | Chelsea | Free | |
| 6 June 2011 | MF | Will Buckley | Watford | £1,000,000 | |
| 1 July 2011 | FW | Roland Bergkamp | SBV Excelsior | Undisclosed | |
| 4 July 2011 | FW | Craig Mackail-Smith | Peterborough United | Undisclosed | |
| 15 July 2011 | DF | Romain Vincelot | Dagenham & Redbridge | Undisclosed | |
| 15 July 2011 | GK | Daniel East | Wolverhampton Wanderers | Free | |
| 22 August 2011 | MF | Ryan Harley | Swansea City | Undisclosed | |
| 2 September 2011 | MF | Vicente | Free agent | Free | |
| 21 November 2011 | MF | Kazenga LuaLua | Newcastle United | Undisclosed | |
| 19 January 2012 | GK | David González | Free agent | Free | |
| 20 January 2012 | FW | Ben Dickenson | Dorchester Town | Undisclosed | |
| Players transferred out ||||||
| Date | Pos. | Name | To | Fee | Ref. |
| 24 May 2011 | FW | Glenn Murray | Crystal Palace | Free | |
| 29 May 2011 | MF | Ryan Thomson | Free agent | Free | |
| 29 May 2011 | GK | Mitch Walker | Free agent | Free | |
| 29 May 2011 | GK | Josh Pelling | Free agent | Free | |
| 29 May 2011 | MF | Cristian Baz | Free agent | Free | |
| 31 May 2011 | MF | Agustin Battipiedi | Free agent | Free | |
| 14 June 2011 | MF | Elliott Bennett | Norwich City | Undisclosed | |
| 20 June 2011 | FW | Chris Holroyd | Rotherham United | Free | |
| 22 June 2011 | DF | James Tunnicliffe | Wycombe Wanderers | Free | |
| 24 June 2011 | DF | Jimmy McNulty | Barnsley | Undisclosed | |
| 3 July 2011 | MF | Radostin Kishishev | Chernomorets Burgas | Free | |
| 23 July 2011 | MF | Gary Hart | Eastbourne Borough | Free | |
| 25 July 2011 | FW | Francisco Sandaza | St Johnstone | Free | |
| 3 January 2012 | DF | Steve Cook | Bournemouth | Undisclosed | |
| Players loaned in ||||||
| Date from | Pos. | Name | From | Date to | Ref. |
| 16 July 2011 | MF | Kazenga LuaLua | Newcastle United | January 2012 | |
| 21 October 2011 | DF | Gonzalo Jara | West Bromwich Albion | 20 December 2011(recalled) | |
| 24 October 2011 | GK | Steve Harper | Newcastle United | November 2011 | |
| 30 January 2012 | FW | Sam Vokes | Wolverhampton Wanderers | June 2012 | |
| 31 January 2012 | DF | Gonzalo Jara | West Bromwich Albion | June 2012 | |
| 31 January 2012 | DF | Joe Mattock | West Bromwich Albion | June 2012 | |
| 17 February 2012 | MF | Gai Assulin | Manchester City | May 2012 | |
| 17 February 2012 | MF | Abdul Razak | Manchester City | May 2012 | |
| Players loaned out ||||||
| Date from | Pos. | Name | To | Date to | Ref. |
| 1 January 2012 | GK | Michael Poke | Bristol Rovers | 1 February 2012 | |