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The 2012–13 season was the 114th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers. The club competed in the second tier of the English football system, the Football League Championship. They had returned to the second level having been relegated from the Premier League after three seasons during the previous season. Norwegian manager Ståle Solbakken was appointed to begin the season as the club's manager,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves appoint Norwegian Stale Solbakken as new manager )〕 but he was sacked on 5 January with the team in 18th place and having been eliminated from the FA Cup by a non-league club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves sack manager Stale Solbakken after FA Cup exit )〕 He was swiftly replaced by former Doncaster Rovers manager Dean Saunders who oversaw the remaining twenty games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dean Saunders: Wolves appoint Doncaster Rovers boss )〕 After Saunders failed to bring any upturn, the club suffered relegation for a second successive season to drop into the third level for the first time since 1988–89. This made them the only club to ''twice'' experience back-to-back relegations from the top flight, having already suffered this previously in the mid 1980s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves relegated to League One )〕 Three days after their relegation was confirmed, Saunders was fired having held the post for only four months. ==Season review== Having been relegated from the Premier League after three seasons, the club sought to put a new playing style in place under new manager Ståle Solbakken who officially became the permanent replacement for Mick McCarthy on 1 July.〔 In contrast to McCarthy's preference for British and Irish players, the Norwegian used the foreign market for all of his summer signings, with Bakary Sako,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves sign Bakary Sako from St Etienne on three-year deal )〕 Razak Boukari,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves sign winger Razak Boukari from Rennes )〕 Björn Sigurðarson and Georg Margreitter〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves sign Austrian defender Georg Margreitter )〕 signing permanent deals as well as the loan captures of Tongo Doumbia and Sławomir Peszko. Despite these incomings, the transfer window saw the sale of several key players with leading goalscorer Steven Fletcher exiting for a club record £14 million fee, and both Matt Jarvis and Michael Kightly also remaining in the Premier League with new clubs. The players began pre-season training on 9 July, which featured a week at a training camp in Ireland. After four pre-season matches, their first competitive game of the campaign saw the team narrowly win a League Cup tie against Aldershot after a penalty shootout.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves 1–1 Aldershot )〕 League football began on 18 August with a 0–1 defeat at Leeds,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leeds 1–0 Wolves )〕 before the team registered their first victory at Molineux in nine months by beating Barnsley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves 3–1 Barnsley )〕 After an inconsistent start September brought a run of four consecutive victories to lift the team up the table. Victory at fellow newly relegated club Blackburn in early October placed Wolves in third place, which was to be their highest position of the season. These results came at a price as their injury list grew with Razak Boukari, Stephen Hunt and Sławomir Peszko all sidelined with long-term problems. Winger Jermaine Pennant was therefore loaned to help but the team hit a poor run of form and failed to win any of their next ten fixtures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19924304 )〕 December began with a halting of this poor sequence as three wins were recorded from four games, but their three games over the festive period were all lost, leading Solbakken to declare that they were "in a crisis". When the following game - a loss at Luton - brought their first exit from the FA Cup to a non-league side since 1986, he was fired as manager after six months in the role.〔 He later expressed disappointment at owner Steve Morgan offering him such a limited period of time to oversee a reshaping of the club's playing culture and identity. In contrast to the club's criticised two-week-long recruitment process after the dismissal of Mick McCarthy, Solbakken's replacement was swiftly announced within two days as former Doncaster Rovers' manager Dean Saunders was unveiled on 7 January as Wolves' fourth different manager within twelve months.〔 Steve Morgan defended the changes and stated that he hoped Saunders would be with the club "for a long period of time". At the time of Saunders' first game at the helm, the team sat in 18th position six points clear of the relegation zone and nine points from the play-off places. He said that, while he believed promotion still remained possible, "the more likely scenario is we’re going to creep up the league." He soon used the January transfer window to make two loan signings as defenders Kaspars Gorkšs and Jack Robinson were brought in from the top flight.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves: Reading defender Kaspars Gorkss signs on loan )〕 The manager's first game brought a 1–1 draw against Blackburn, which was to be the first of nine winless games under his command.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves 1–1 Blackburn )〕 Saunders' first win arrived at the start of March, by which time the team had slumped into the Championship relegation zone for the first time since October 1999. An upturn in form brought four wins from five games but the form of the other relegation-battling sides meant that Wolves were never any more than a single point above the relegation zone. Injuries to both of their leading goalscorers, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Bakary Sako, further endangered their risk of losing their Championship status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wolves trio Carl Ikeme, Bakary Sako and Dave Edwards ruled out for the season )〕 Shorn of attacking options, their final six games brought five defeats which meant relegation for a second consecutive season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brighton 2–0 Wolves )〕 A home loss to Burnley in their penultimate match effectively consigned the club to their fate, and led to some supporters storming the pitch at full-time to show their anger at the situation. Only victory on the final day, coupled with defeats for both Barnsley and Peterborough and a five-goal swing in goal difference would have prevented relegation, but in the event, Wolves lost their game at Brighton to become the first club to twice be relegated from the top division to the third level within two years. Although Saunders initially spoke of his hopes to be allowed to rebuild the team in League One, three days later it was announced that he had become the fourth Wolves manager in fifteen months to leave his post.〔 The club announced it would be taking an indefinite time to seek a "head coach" rather than a manager as it sought to restructure in preparation for their first season outside the top two divisions since 1988–89. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2012–13 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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