PIFA Sports FC

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PIFA Sports
PIFA Sports FC.svg
Full namePIFA Sports FC
Nickname(s)Mumbai's Pride
Short namePSFC
Founded2006;18 years ago (2006)
Ground Cooperage Ground
Capacity5,000
OwnerPIFA Sports Private Limited
ChairmanNirvan Shah
Head coachAnjali Shah
League MFA Elite Division

PIFA Sports Football Club, or simply PIFA, [1] is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra that competes in the Mumbai Football League, [2] [3] [4] They also participated in I-League 2. [5] [6]

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Players

2019 senior team squad

As of 1 January 2019 [7] [8]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of India.svg  IND Tejas Jadhav
2 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Andreas D'Souza
3 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Parth Shetty
4 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Satish Tevar
5 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Vaibhav Tandel
6 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Omkar Dalvi
7 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Gaurav Shinde
8 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Divyanshu Patil
9 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Ravi Bagdi
10 FW Flag of India.svg  IND Omkar Shinde
11 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Aloysius Fernandes
No.Pos.NationPlayer
15 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Anant Gadekar
16 FW Flag of India.svg  IND Ivan Reddy
17 FW Flag of India.svg  IND Kaiwalya Tare
18 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Chetan Tandel
19 MF Flag of India.svg  IND Vandan Meher
20 FW Flag of India.svg  IND Lalit Patil
21 FW Flag of India.svg  IND Akash Valmiki
23 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Neel Shah
24 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Kalpesh Nijap
12 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Anderson M.
30 GK Flag of India.svg  IND Faiz Thakkar

Honours

Men's team

Women's team

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