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| Full name | Forca Kochi Football Club | ||
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| Short name | FKFC | ||
| Founded | May 2024 | ||
| Ground | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 41,000 | ||
| Owner | Nasly Mohammed Prithviraj Sukumaran Supriya Menon | ||
| Head coach | Mário Lemos | ||
| League | Super League Kerala | ||
Forca Kochi Football Club, also known as Kochi Forca, is a professional franchise football club based in Kochi, Kerala, India, participating in the Super League Kerala. The club was founded in May 2024. [1] [2]
Actor-director Prithviraj Sukumaran and his wife Supriya Menon acquired majority stake of Forca Kochi FC. The club participates in the inaugural edition of the Super League Kerala (SLK), which commenced on 7 September 2024. The league features six teams from various regions of Kerala, including Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Thrissur, Malappuram and Kannur. Forcacruz is the official supporters club. [3]
The Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, also locally known as Kaloor Stadium, is a football stadium in Kochi, Kerala, India.Initially, it had a capacity 80,000 to 100,000 spectators, which was limited since 2017 for the Indian Super League (ISL), after it hosted 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup under FIFA security guidelines. It is the home ground of the ISL club Kerala Blasters FC. The stadium is touted to have hosted one of the loudest audiences for association football matches in the world.
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Viva Kerala Football Club was an Indian professional football club based in the city of Kochi, Kerala. The club was originally formed in 2004, as Viva Kerala. They participated in the National Football League, and later in the I-League, then the top tier of Indian football league system, alongside the Kerala Premier League. The club was dissolved in 2012.
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Kerala Blasters Football Club Reserves and Academy, also known as Kerala Blasters B, are the reserve team and academy of the Kochi based Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters. The reserve team of the Blasters most recently competed in the Kerala Premier League, the top division of Kerala football and the RF Development League. The club's youth system also called as KBFC Young Blasters consists of three teams, Under-17, Under-15 and Under-13 age groups that competes in their respective age divisions of the Youth League. The youth teams of the Blasters has previously played in the Elite League, the top tier of the youth football system in India.
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The Super League Kerala (SLK) (officially known as the Mahindra Super League Kerala due to sponsorship reasons) is a men's professional franchise football league in the state of Kerala, India, organised by the Kerala Football Association, Scoreline Sports and the Unifed Football Sports Development Pvt. Ltd. It featured 6 clubs in the inaugural season, with matches being played at four venues across Kerala. The league operates outside the Indian football league system as an independent franchise league and does not follow promotion and relegation. The inaugural season of the league began on 7 September 2024.
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