Machhindra F.C.

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Machhindra FC
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Full nameMachhindra Football Club
Founded1973;51 years ago (1973)
Ground Dasarath Rangasala Stadium
Capacity15,000
Head coach Kishor Kumar KC [1]
League Martyr's Memorial A-Division League
2023 2nd of 14

Machhindra FC (formally known as Machhindra Bahal Club) [2] is a Nepali professional football club from the central Kathmandu, neighborhood of Keltole, playing in the Martyr's Memorial A-Division League. [3] [4]

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History

Machhindra FC was established in 1973. [5] For sponsorship reasons, it was named Machhindra Bahal Club in 2004, [6] and Machhindra Energizer FC in 2006. [7] The club was promoted to Nepal's top football division in 2004. The team was one of the first teams in Nepal to appoint a foreign coach, Johan Kalin, in 2013, claiming that he was the highest qualified coach in Nepalese football history. [8] He led the team to a second-place finish in the league, and was praised for his tactics. [9]

The beginning of the 2020s started the clubs most successful time with two consecutive league championships.

On 5 April, Machhindra appeared in the 2022 AFC Cup qualifying play-off match against Blue Star of Sri Lanka, [10] at the Dasharath Rangasala Stadium but bowed out of the tournament losing 2–1. [11]

Current squad

As of 28 October 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
5 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Diwakar Chaudary
6 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Utsav Rai
7 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Dipesh Ghale
9 FW Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Shilen Rajiv Bhandari
10 FW Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Bimal Gharti Magar
12 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Abhishek Gurung
13 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Prashant Awasthi
14 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Nisen Subba
15 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Pujan Uperkoti
16 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Ashish Shrestha
No.Pos.NationPlayer
17 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Saurav Limbu
19 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Devendra Tamang
20 GK Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Bishal Shrestha
23 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Ranjit Dhimal
24 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Tshering Gurung
25 DF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Sagar Thapa
26 GK Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Nabin Silwal
30 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Sanjay Sindhu
31 GK Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Pradip Bhandari
33 FW Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Bijya Bhujel
88 MF Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Anuj Sandeep Singh
— FW Flag of Nepal.svg    NEP Ayush Ghalan

Record by season

ChampionsRunners-upThird place Promoted Relegated
SeasonLeaguePosition AFC Cup
2003–04 [6] B-Division 3rd—
2004 [12] B-Division 2nd
2005–06 [7] A-Division 13th
2006–07 [13] A-Division 6th
2010 A-Division 6th
2011–12 National League DNP
2012–13 A-Division 6th
2013–14 A-Division 2nd
2015 National League Banned [14]
2018–19 A-Division 13th
2019–20 A-Division 1st
2021–22 [15] A-Division 1stRound 1
2023 A-Division 2nd—

Honours

National

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