2022–23 Crawley Town F.C. season

In April 2022, the club was taken over by American cryptocurrency investment group WAGMI United,^[5] whose stated goal was "to reinvent broken legacy sports management models" and wanted to turn the club into "the internet's team".^[6] Upon taking over the club they set the target of achieving promotion to EFL League One by the end of their second season.^[5] After manager John Yems was suspended by the club in April 2022, and later banned from football for 18 months for racist abuse of his own playing squad,^[7] Lewis Young took charge of the club on a caretaker basis for the final four matches of the 2021–22 season.^[8][9]

Crawley brought in Kevin Betsy as manager ahead of the 2022–23 season,^[10] who wanted to implement a possession-based style of football and instilled new training methods to the club, such as the use of a drone to record training sessions, and collecting urine samples from players to monitor hydration levels.^[11] Betsy was sacked on 9 October 2022 however, with the club bottom of League Two and having won one of 12 league matches,^[12] and his assistant manager Lewis Young took over on an interim basis. Young's tenure at Crawley saw the club pick up 12 points from seven matches, but despite his expectation to be given the manager role on a permanent basis, the club instead decided to appoint Matthew Etherington as manager on an 18-month contract, with co-owner Eben Smith later explaining in a thread on Twitter that he felt the club's underlying statistics were much worse than the results they picked up, and that "there was a better chance we'd be relegated with him than without him".^[13][14] However Etherington was sacked a month later, having managed just three matches as manager, and Darren Byfield took over from him on an interim basis.^[15] Byfield was joined in the dugout by co-chairman Preston Johnson for an away defeat to Stevenage, with Johnson the subject of ridicule online when he was overheard asking the fourth official how substitutions work.^[16][14] Swindon Town manager Scott Lindsey took over as manager on 11 January 2023 alongside his assistant Jamie Day, with the club 21st in the league.^[17] Lindsey won his first match as manager of Crawley, a 3–2 win at home to Salford City,^[18] but were winless in their following 8 matches.^[6] Despite this, a 2–0 win away to relegation rivals Hartlepool United on 22 April left the club needing a single point from their remaining two matches to confirm safety,^[19] which they picked up in the following match with a 0–0 draw against Walsall.^[20]

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Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Crawley.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

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Players included in matchday squads

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League Two		FA Cup		EFL Cup		EFL Trophy		Total
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Glenn Morris †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF	ENG	Kellan Gordon	14 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14 (1)	0
3	DF	ENG	Dion Conroy	25	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	26	2
4	MF	ENG	George Francomb †	9 (2)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	12 (2)	0
4	MF	ENG	Jordon Mutch	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
5	DF	ENG	Tony Craig †	14 (2)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	18 (2)	0
6	DF	WAL	Joel Lynch	17 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	0	0	18 (3)	0
7	FW	ENG	James Tilley	24 (11)	5	0	0	0	0	2 (1)	0	26 (12)	5
8	MF	ENG	Jack Powell	40 (5)	4	1	0	2 (1)	0	1 (1)	1	44 (7)	5
9	FW	ENG	Tom Nichols †	19	2	1	0	2 (1)	2	0	0	22 (1)	4
10	FW	ENG	Ashley Nadesan	36 (6)	7	1	0	2 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	40 (8)	7
11	DF	ENG	Brandon Mason	8 (4)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	10 (4)	0
12	DF	ENG	Harry Ransom	15 (5)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	19 (5)	0
13	GK	ENG	Ryan Schofield *	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
14	FW	SWE	Moe Shubbar †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	DF	FRA	Ludwig Francillette	19 (8)	1	0	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	21 (9)	1
16	DF	ENG	Tobi Omole	4	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	4 (1)	0
17	DF	NGA	Manny Adebowale †	2 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	2 (4)	0
18	MF	ENG	Jayden Davis	0 (6)	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	4 (6)	1
19	FW	ENG	Dom Telford	35 (8)	12	0 (1)	0	1	1	2	2	38 (9)	15
20	MF	ENG	James Balagizi *†	12 (2)	2	0	0	1 (1)	1	0	0	13 (3)	3
20	MF	ENG	Ben Gladwin	11 (3)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11 (3)	1
21	FW	GHA	Kwesi Appiah †	1 (3)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2 (3)	0
22	DF	IRL	Ben Wells	2 (3)	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	3	0	6 (4)	0
23	DF	ENG	Travis Johnson	21 (4)	0	1	0	2 (1)	0	3	0	27 (5)	0
24	FW	ENG	Aramide Oteh	16 (14)	5	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	2	18 (17)	7
25	DF	CYP	Nick Tsaroulla	28	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	30	2
26	MF	ENG	Szymon Kowalczyk †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF	MAR	Rafiq Khaleel	5 (9)	1	0	0	0	0	0 (3)	0	5 (12)	1
28	MF	ENG	Teddy Jenks *	12 (5)	1	0	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	14 (7)	1
29	FW	ENG	Mustafa Hussein †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF	CYP	Jack Roles	2 (7)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 (7)	0
30	MF	ENG	Kaan Kevser-Junior †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	ENG	Ronan Silva †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	ENG	Florian Kastrati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	FW	SUI	Davide Rodari	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	GK	JAM	Corey Addai	31 (1)	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	33 (1)	0
35	DF	SCO	Owen Gallacher †	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	MF	ENG	Zaid Al Hussaini †	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
37	GK	ENG	Ellery Balcombe *†	10	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	12	0
38	FW	ENG	Tom Fellows *	23 (15)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	25 (15)	0
39	MF	ENG	Jake Hessenthaler †	20 (1)	0	1	1	2 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	24 (3)	1
40	GK	ENG	Roshan Greensall	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	GK	WAL	David Robson *†	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
41	MF	ENG	Jack Spong *	1 (4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (4)	0
42	FW	ENG	David Bremang †	0 (3)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	2	1	2 (4)	1
42	FW	ENG	Jedidiah Brown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	DF	IRL	Mazeed Ogungbo *	15 (8)	1	0	0	2	0	1 (1)	0	18 (9)	1
45	MF	JAM	Mark Marshall †	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	2 (1)	1	2 (2)	1
45	MF	JAM	Anthony Grant	2 (8)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 (8)	0
50	FW	ENG	Caleb Chukwuemeka *	5 (5)	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	7 (7)	0

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