FC Pune City (FCPC) is an Indian professional football club based in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, which plays in the Indian Super League. The club was formed in 2014 with a philosophy to provide stimulus to the growth and development of football in the state of Maharashtra and to participate in the inaugural season of the Indian Super League. [1] The team is owned by Rajesh Wadhawan Group, its promoters Mr. Kapil Wadhawan and Mr. Dheeraj Wadhawan and actor Arjun Kapoor. [2] [3]
The philosophy behind the inception of the club was to promote and develop the game of football in the city of Pune right from the grassroots levels onwards. FC Pune City aims to be the club which players passionately aspire to be a part of and a club to whom fans pledge their loyalties.
In 2016, FC Pune City became the only professional football club in India to have teams which participated at all levels of professional football; Senior Team (ISL), U-18 Team (I-League U-18), U- 16 Team, U-14 Team and the Women’s Team. [4]
| Year | ISL Regular season | Finals | Top Scorer(s) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Pos. | Player(s) | Goals | |||
| 2014 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 6th | DNQ |  Kostas Katsouranis | 4 | |
| 2015 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 15 | 7th | DNQ |  Kalu Uche  Adrian Mutu | 4 | |
| 2016 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 6th | DNQ |  Aníbal Zurdo | 5 | |
| 2017-18 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 3rd | Semi finals |  Emiliano Alfaro | 6 | |
| Name | Nationality | From | To | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franco Colomba |  Italy | 22 June 2014 [5] | 20 December 2014 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 28.57 |
| David Platt |  England | 2 June 2015 [6] | 20 December 2015 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 28.57 |
| Antonio López Habas |  Spain | 25 April 2016 [7] | 15 September 2017 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 28.57 |
| Miguel Martinez Gonzalez (Caretaker) | Spain | 3 October 2016 | 3 October 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
| Ranko Popović |  Serbia | 25 September 2017 [8] | 31 May 2018 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 50.00 |
| Miguel Ángel Portugal | Spain | 1 June 2018 [9] | 26 October 2018 [10] | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0.00 |
| Pradyum Reddy (Interim-Manager) |  India | 26 October 2018 | 24 December 2018 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 33.33 |
| Phil Brown | England | 24 December 2018 [11] | 27 August 2019 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 42.86 |
| Marcos Paqueta |  Brazil | 1 June 2018 | 27 August 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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