Mumbai F.C.

Mumbai F.C.

Full name	Mumbai Football Club
Founded	May 28, 2007
Ground	Cooperage Ground (Capacity: 12,000)
Owner	Essel Group
Manager	Khalid Jamil
League	I-League
2010–11	I-League, 7th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Mumbai Football Club is an Indian football club based in Mumbai. The Club has many firsts to its credit and promises made have been duly fulfilled. Junior Champs Football Championship is such an example, where the community development program, youth development plan and fan-base development scheme were all woven into one phenomenal tournament by Mumbai.^[1]

One of their great successes was achieved in their first year in 2007 after they won the I-League 2nd Division and won promotion to the I-League.

History

The beginning

Essel Group envisioned the formation of a professional football club around the time when Zee Sports had bought the rights for broadcasting the I-League for a period of ten years from the All India Football Federation (AIFF). With Mr. Amit Goenka spearheading the project and with Mr. Sanjay Das given the Director’s role, they sought to develop a football club that the people of Mumbai can truly be a part of. Thus came about Mumbai Football Club’s formation on June 28, 2007, with the ideal of being a community based football club which focuses on the City’s youth and infrastructure development in a scientific and professional manner. The next step was to rope in Mukul Choudhari as the Business Development and Marketing Head and the experienced Henry Menezes was on board as the General Manager of the team. Mr. Menezes identified David Booth as the coach to take the reins of Mumbai FC’s senior team and acquiring his services confirmed the Club’s first steps in the right direction.^[2]

2007-present

Mumbai FC played and emerged victorious in its first ever competitive tournament, the invitational All India Abhijit Kadam Memorial Football Tournament in Pune. Top clubs from India competed with Mumbai FC beating Vasco SC in the final. That set the right tone for the rest of the season as the senior team finished runner up in the Mumbai Football League and topped that by being crowned Champions of the I-League 2nd Division.^[3] Sense then Mumbai FC has been participating in the I-League which is India's number one football league and have done quiet well ever sense with their recent campaign in the league ending with Mumbai FC in 7th place.

Crest

The Mumbai FC logo is meant to look like a professional logo with the words Mumbai FC at the top and a picture of person about to hit a football.

Colors

The official colors of Mumbai FC are yellow and club. The home jersey is yellow with blue shorts and socks while the Away jersey in orange with black shorts and socks.

Stadium

Mumbai FC play their home matches at the Cooperage Ground in southern Mumbai which has a capacity of 12,000. Right now the Western Indian Football Federation have said that they will be updating the stadium and that it will be completed by December.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Kit manufactures

• 2007-present: Adidas

Shirt sponsors

• 2007-2011: Dish TV
• 2011-present: TEN HD

Players

First-team squad

As of 31 October 2011.^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Sanjiban Ghosh 2 DF Kingsley Chioma 3 DF Peter Costa 4 DF Gautam Debnath 5 DF Dhanachandra Singh 6 MF Darren Caldeira 7 MF Nicholas Rodrigues 8 MF Noel Wilson 9 FW Abhishek Yadav 10 FW Gbeneme Friday 11 FW Cavin Lobo 12 MF Sampath Kuttimani 13 GK Nidhin Lal 14 DF Mintu Saha

No. Position Player 15 FW Ebi Sukore 16 MF Chhangte Malswamkima 17 MF Salil Usman 18 DF Zohib Islam Amiri 19 MF Faizal Rehman 20 MF Keegan Pereira 21 MF Ashutosh Mehta 23 DF Dane Pereira 24 DF Peter Siddique 25 DF Nihal Chandran 27 DF Karan Amin 28 MF Manuel D'Souza 29 MF John Coutinho 30 GK Ishan Debnath 39 FW P.C. Lalwampuia

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Neeraj Sharma DF Rolfred Coutinho DF Haroon Fakruddin DF Ritesh Perambra

No. Position Player MF Rohit Mirza FW Tushar Poojary FW Jayesh Rane

Current technical staff

As of 31 October 2011.

Position	Name
Manager	Khalid Jamil
Assistant manager
First team coach
Goalkeeping coach
Fitness coach
Club doctor

Honors

• I-League 2nd Division

Winners: 2008

References

1. ^ http://www.mumbaifc.com/Aboutus.aspx
2. ^ http://www.the-aiff.com/pages/club/index.php?History=48&ClubDetail=48
3. ^ http://www.the-aiff.com/pages/club/index.php?History=48&ClubDetail=48
4. ^ "First Team Players". goal.com. http://www.goal.com/en-india/teams/india/1217/mumbai-fc. Retrieved 31 August 2011. 

External links

• Official Website