2012–13 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season
Date Player From Fee
22 June 2012 Frank Nouble West Ham United Free
17 July 2012 Björn Sigurðarson Lillestrøm £2.4 million
24 August 2012 Georg Margreitter Austria Vienna £500,000
27 August 2012 Razak Boukari Rennes Undisclosed
29 August 2012 Bakary Sako Saint-Étienne £2.7 million
13 November 2012 Tongo Doumbia Rennes £2 million
28 March 2013 Marián Kello Unattached Free
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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, 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. He was swiftly replaced by former Doncaster Rovers manager Dean Saunders who oversaw the remaining twenty games. 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. Three days after their relegation was confirmed, Saunders was fired having held the post for only four months.