Madhya Bharat S.C.

Madhya Bharat
Full name	Madhya Bharat Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Yoddhas
Founded	2017
Ground	Tatya Tope Nagar Sports Complex
Capacity	25,000
CEO	Rishish Dubey
Head Coach	Dave Mackay
League	I-League
2017–18	Preliminary Round
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Last updated August 17, 2019

Madhya Bharat Sports Club is an Indian semi-professional football club based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, who plays in I-League 2nd Division.^[1]

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. Bhopal is known as the City of Lakes for its various natural and artificial lakes and is also one of the greenest cities in India. It is the 16th largest city in India and 131st in the world.

Madhya Pradesh is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain and Sagar being the other major cities. Nicknamed the "Heart of India" due to its geographical location, Madhya Pradesh is the second largest Indian state by area and the fifth largest state by population with over 75 million residents. It borders the states of Uttar Pradesh to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the southeast, Maharashtra to the south, Gujarat to the west, and Rajasthan to the northwest. Its total area is 308,252 km². Before 2000, when Chhattisgarh was a part of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh was the largest state in India and the distance between the two furthest points inside the state, Singoli and Konta, was 1500 km. Konta is presently in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh state.

History

Madhya Bharat Sports Club was founded in 2017 in collaboration with Celtic F.C. Academy.^[2]

The Celtic Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which plays in the Scottish Premiership. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigrant Irish population in the East End of Glasgow. They played their first match in May 1888, a friendly match against Rangers which Celtic won 5–2. Celtic established themselves within Scottish football, winning six successive league titles during the first decade of the 20th century. The club enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1960s and 70s under Jock Stein when they won nine consecutive league titles and the 1967 European Cup. Celtic have played in green and white for the entirety of its history, adopting hoops in 1903, those being used ever since.

On 21 February 2018, All India Football Federation announced that Madhya Bharat will participate in 2017–18 I-League 2nd Division.^[3] On 21 August 2018, All India Football Federation announced that Madhya Bharat will participate in 2018–19 I-League 2and Division.

The All India Football Federation, also simply known as the AIFF, is the governing body of association football in India. Formed in 1937, the federation was one of founding members of the Asian Football Confederation, the overseer of football in Asia.

The 2017–18 I-League 2nd Division was the 11th season of the I-League 2nd Division, the second division Indian football league, since its establishment in 2008. The season started with the preliminary rounds from 14 March to 15 May 2018. The final round of the league took place between 21 May to 30 May 2018 at FSV Arena, Bengaluru.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2018	Cosco	AMG
2018—present	Cosco	D B Corp Ltd.

Current Squad

As of 13 May 2018^[4]

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

As the governing body of association football, FIFA is responsible for maintaining and implementing the rules that determine whether an association football player is eligible to represent a particular country in officially recognised international competitions and friendly matches. In the 20th century, FIFA allowed a player to represent any national team, as long as the player held citizenship of that country. In 2004, in reaction to the growing trend towards naturalisation of foreign players in some countries, FIFA implemented a significant new ruling that requires a player to demonstrate a "clear connection" to any country they wish to represent. FIFA has used its authority to overturn results of competitive international matches that feature ineligible players.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Sanju Thapa
2	DF	Victor Kamhuka
4	DF	Vinay Vinay
6	DF	Gobin Kino
7	FW	Bright Middleton Mends
9	FW	Tshering Dorji
10	MF	Ben Lael Targain
11	FW	Bryan Shadap
12	GK	Vikas Sharma
14	DF	Kishan Pandey
17	FW	Abid Waheed Sheikh
18	MF	Seiboi Haokip
21	FW	Brilliant Chyne
22	DF	Rahul Anand Singh
23	MF	S.k Armaan
24	FW	Haileuyibe Iranggau
25	FW	Sandeep Thapa

No.	Position	Player
26	FW	Rana Talukdar
28	DF	Md. Imtiaz Alam
30	MF	Jayson Lucas
33	FW	Rohan Hande
37	FW	Denis Laitmon
38	DF	Shorayav Bhardwaj(Captain)
39	FW	Darshit Singh Bhadoriya
52	DF	Muhammed Sagar Ali
54	MF	Rohit Singh
55	MF	Manan Balooni
56	DF	Raunak Vivek Nagul
60	MF	Jordan Fernandes
62	GK	Nishith Vasavan Nair
63	FW	Noohil Bharatiya

Staffs

Position	Name
Technical Director	Jose Carlos Havia
Head Coach	Dave Mackay
Assistant Coach	Amit Rana
Phsio	Neeraj Mahorekar
Team Manager/Coach	Utkarsh Kaithwas

Head coach's record

updated on 28 May 2017

Name	Nationality	From	To	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Win%
Jose Carlos Havia	Spain	2017	2018	10	0	0	10	3	39	000.00
Dave Mackay	Scotland	2018	Present	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—

Team records

Seasons

As of 29 April 2018

Year	Division	League								Federation Cup
Year	Division	Pos.	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Federation Cup
2017–18	I-League 2nd Division	Group Stage	10	0	0	10	3	39	0	—

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[1] "The Club".

[2] "Madhya Bharat Sports Club publishes list of players selected from first round of trials".

[3] "Eighteen Teams Will Contest In Second Division League 2017–18".

[4] "Squad". I-league.org.

v t e I-League 2nd Division
Current teams	ARA Chhinga Veng Fateh Hyderabad Hindustan Lonestar Kashmir Mohammedan Ozone Rainbow South United TRAU
Reserve teams	ATK Reserves Bengaluru FC Reserves and Academy Chennaiyin FC Reserves and Academy FC Goa Reserves Jamshedpur FC Reserves Kerala Blasters FC Reserves
Seasons	2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
Final Rounds	2011 2012 2013 2014 2015–16 2016–17