Mahindra United FC was an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Founded in 1962, the club competed in the I-League, then top tier of Indian football league system, before closing down at the end of 2009–10 season. Affiliated with Mumbai Football Association, the club participated in both the National Football League, and MDFA Elite League.
Dempo Sports Club is an Indian professional football club based in Panjim, Goa. The club currently competes in Goa Professional League. Dempo is owned and sponsored by the Dempo Mining Corporation Limited. Known popularly as "The Whites" and "Golden Eagles", the club has been a constant participant in the National football championships, and gained immense popularity in the last four decades of its existence.
Clube de Desportos Vasco da Gama is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Vasco da Gama, Goa, known for its association football team. Incorporated in 1951, the club is nicknamed "the port towners", and competes in Goa Professional League.
Churchill Brothers Football Club Goa, or simply known as Churchill Brothers, is an Indian professional football club based in Margao, Goa, that competes in the I-League, alongside Goa Professional League. Founded in 1988 in Margao, the club usually participated in the National Football League, then top tier of Indian football league system.
Tata Football Academy is an association football academy based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India, sponsored by Tata Steel, which owns ISL outfit Jamshedpur FC. It is one of the renowned and leading football academies in the country.
Tollygunge Agragami FC is an Indian professional multi-sports club known for its football section. It is based in Tollygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1943 as "Russa Agragami Samity", the club competes in Calcutta Premier Division League.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Sporting Club is an Indian institutional multi-sports club based in Bangalore, known for its association football team. It was named after the company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The club competed in the top tier of Karnataka football — the Bangalore A Division and from 2001, the Bangalore Super Division.
FC Kochin was an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala. In the late 1990s, it was the only football club from Kerala to participate in National Football League, then top tier of Indian football league system.
Air India Football Club is a football section of the same-named Indian institutional multi-sports club. Founded by Anand Prajapati in 1952, the club is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Sponsored by Air India, the club previously played in the Mumbai Football League, and now in the MFA Elite Corporate League.
Bengal Mumbai Football Club, known by its abbreviation BMFC, was an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Founded in 1998, they have competed in the National Football League II, alongside the MDFA Elite League. It is the second professionally founded football club in India and the first in Mumbai. The team was dissolved in 2011.
Syed Nayeemuddin, known as Nayeem, is an Indian football coach and former player. He played for and captained the India national team. He later managed Mahindra United, Brothers Union, Dhaka Mohammedan, and Bangladesh national team.
United Sports Club is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was founded as Eveready Association in 1927. Affiliated with the Indian Football Association (IFA), the club competes in Calcutta Premier Division A, the highest division of Asia's oldest league CFL and also in the I-League 2, the third division of Indian football.
Emil Vartazarian is an Armenian-Iranian retired rugby and association football player who played in the India national rugby union team from 1998 to 2006. He has also played professional football for Bengal Mumbai FC in the Mumbai Super Division League alongside Mohammedan Sporting in the Calcutta Football League.
Kalyan Chaubey is an Indian politician of Bharatiya Janata Party and a former professional football goalkeeper. He is the current president of the All India Football Federation.
Soccor Velho was an Indian footballer who last played for Air India in the I-League. He previously played for Cabral, Golden Gunners and Central Railway.
Mohammed Monwar Hossain is a Bangladeshi football coach and former player. He represented the Bangladesh national football team from 1998 to 2006.
Derrick Pereira is an Indian association football manager and former player, who managed then I-League 2nd Division club FC Goa Reserves and the India national under-23 football team. He is also the technical director of Indian Super League club FC Goa.
Shabbir Ali is an Indian football manager and former player. He was awarded the Dhyan Chand Award, the highest award in Indian sports for lifetime achievement, given by Government of India in 2011. He is the first footballer to be named for the Dhyan Chand Award.
T. K. Chathunni is an Indian football coach and a former player from Chalakudy, Kerala. He has managed most of football clubs in India like FC Kochin, Dempo S.C., Salgaocar F.C., Mohun Bagan A.C., Churchill Brothers S.C., Chirag United Club Kerala, Josco FC etc. He was the coach for various clubs in the National Football League (India) from 1997–98. He represented both Kerala and Goa in the Santosh Trophy.
Roberto Fernandes is a former Indian football player who played as a defender. He appeared in 29 international matches for India national team. Fernandes spent his majority of career by playing for Goan club Salgaocar FC.
