Air India (football club)

Infobox Football club
clubname = FC Air India


fullname = Football Club Air India
nickname = The Pilots
founded = 1952
ground = The Cooperage Ground,
Mumbai, Maharashtra
capacity = 12,000
chairman = flagicon|England Haroon Jamakra
manager = flagicon|India T. K. Singh
league = I-League
season = 2007-08
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FC Air India, found in 1952, is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. They are sponsored by Air India under the management of T.K. Singh and have enjoyed some success in the Maharashtrian Football and the NFL India. They play in the NFL Premier Division and Mumbai Super Division.

Recently, FC Air India has seen a much better outcome in their game play and they have bagged a good amount of trophies under their belt with two recent trophies - Sikkim Governor's Gold Cup and Nadkarni Cup. They used to play in NFL 2nd Division but got promoted to Premier Division and have maintained their position there till now.

Players

Current Roster

Team Management

Transfers

Retained

Raju Ekka, Ethesham Ahmed, Haobijam Napoleon Singh, Santosh Koli, Subhas Mondal, Uttam Leishangthem Singh, Abiodun Kolawole Martins, Vijith Shetty, Benoy Kuruvilla, Hamza Zaheer Abbas, Hringsolal Thomte, Javed Ansari, Noel Fernandes, Paresh Shivalkar, Sumit Thapa, Bashiree Mohammed Abbas, T Narender Meetei, Anthony Fernandes, Neil Gaikwad

New

Prakash Koley, Goutam Debnath (both Mohammedan Sporting Club), Amar Deb (East Bengal Club), Kumar Samson Singh (Salgaocar SC), Alex Mario Ambrose (Fransa-Pax FC), Subhashish Banerjee (Wari AC, Calcutta), Femi Joseph Adeola (Dragons FC, NIGERIA), Bimal Minz, Nirmal Chetri in the season: Suley Musah 2nd Transfer Period: Sanju Pradhan (Sikkim Sports Academy)on loan: Hirohito Elangbam (Tata Football Academy), Swarup Das (George Telegraph SC, Calcutta)

Left

Appa Rao Chiman (Mahindra United), Sheikh Sanjib (George Telegraph SC, Calcutta), Henry Picardo (Western Railway, Mumbai), Lawrence Dias (Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers, Mumbai), Sagolsem Santa Singh (USA, Manipur), F Stephen Hmar (All-Moirang FA, Manipur), Mohammed Yousuf Ansari (retired, Air-India assistant coach), Suprith Jathanna (retired), Sunder Raj Rajan, Eldin Bothello, Diago Fernandes in the season: Femi Joseph Adeola (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC), Anup Baria (London Tigers), David Selby (London Tigers)

Honours

1999/2000 2nd Division National League

4x Mumbai Super Division
1994, 1996, 1997, 1999

4x Air-India Millennium Cup
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

2xSikkim Governor's Gold Cup
1996, 2006

2xNadkarni Cup
2005, 2006

References

* [http://www.rediff.com/sports/nfl07.html 11th National Football League India]
* [http://www.indianfootball.com/team/airindia.html Indian Football – FC Air India]
* [http://www.indianfootball.com/transfers2006.html Season ending Transfers 2006 (NFL India)]
* [http://www.soccerway.com/national/india/first NFL 2006/2007 League Table]
* [http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=club&Id=739&cont=&cln=Air-India FC Air India]