Friends Club

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Friends Club
Friends Club logo.png
Full nameFriends Club [1]
Founded16 May 1972;51 years ago (1972-05-16) [2]
Ground Pulchowk Campus,[ citation needed ]
Lalitpur, Nepal
Capacity10,000
ChairmanRajiv Raj Poudyal
Head coach Urjan Shrestha
League Martyr's Memorial A-Division League
2023 12th of 14

Friends Club is a Nepali professional football club from the Kopundole neighborhood of Lalitpur. The club is known for nurturing young talent of Nepalese Football. Friends Club has produced more than 200 national football players to date.[ citation needed ] It also organized certain social activities like reading room facilities, blood donations, bicycle rallies against drug abuse etc.

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Since the late 1980s, it has implemented different training activities for women and children. The team practices on the grounds of Pulchok Campus. National players like Raju Tamang, Bharat Khawas, Sagar Thapa, Nirajan Khadka or Deepak Bhusal are all products of Friends Club Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.[ citation needed ]

History

Friends club was established in 1972 as a children's club with reading room facility in Kopundol. After couple of year of its establishment, the club diversified its social activities with a motto of "better health through sports among the people of Kopundol." Eventually Friends Club established itself as a well reputed local sports club and for next several years, it remained only as a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like reading room facility, blood donation, bicycle rally against drugs abuse etc. It was since late eighties that the Club started implementing various training activities for women and children. It also started a health clinic and Pathology laboratory which eventually, became very popular among the people of Kopundol and surrounding community. The club has come a long way since 1972 until now from a sports club to a sport-cum social club.[ citation needed ]

In 1996, the club toured to Bangladesh and took part in Bangabandhu Cup. [3]

Achievements

Head coaching record

updated on 14 May 2020

NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%
Ramesh MaharjanFlag of Nepal.svg  Nepal 20182019133371325023.08
Marcos Filipe Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 20192020134271219030.77

League finishes

The season-by-season performance of FC since 2000:

SeasonLeaguePosition
2000 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League 11th
2001–2002League not held
2003-04 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League 5th
20045th
2005–200612th
2006–20077th
2008–2009League not held due to conflicts between ANFA and the clubs
2010 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League 8th
20116th
2011–12 Nepal National League 7th
2012–13 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League 4th
2013–14 8th
2015 Nepal National League banned by ANFA [4]
2017–2018No league held
2018–19 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League 11th
2019–202011th
2021

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References

  1. "Friends draw with Satdobato as A Division League begins". All Nepal Football Association (ANFA). 19 November 2021. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Team profile: NIBL FRIENDS CLUB (Estd 1972 AD). the-anfa.com. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. Schöggl, Hans (12 May 2016). "Bangabandhu Cup 1996/97". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. "ANFA Releases First Installment Of Rs 5 Lakhs To All Nine National League Participating Teams". GoalNepal.com. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.