Rajasthan Perfect FC

Rajasthan Perfect

Full name	Rajasthan Perfect Football Club
Nickname(s)	RPFC
Founded	2018;6 years ago (2018) (as AU Rajasthan FC)
Ground	Maharaja Umaid Singh Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Owner	Spordy Ventures Private Limited
Head coach	Mangesh Desai
League	R-League A Division
Home colours Away colours

Rajasthan Perfect Football Club (formerly as AU Rajasthan Football Club), is an Indian professional football club based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that competes in the R-League A Division, ^[1] and previously participated in the I-League 2nd Division. Founded in 2018, the club first competed professionally when they were part of the 2019–20 season of I-League 2nd Division, the second tier of Indian football league system.

History

AU Rajasthan FC is the first premier professional football club and academy based out of Jaipur. The club was founded in the year of 2018 and comes under the banner of Spordy Ventures Private Limited. In its first year of inception, the club has managed to qualify for the Hero Youth leagues and also win the first-ever Rajasthan Women's League. The club aims to provide a pathway of progressive growth from the grassroots level to competing at the highest professional level.^{[ citation needed ]}

The club is in collaboration with Palamós CF, one of the oldest clubs in Spain, founded in 1898, and its academy Perfect Football is the technical partner of AU Rajasthan FC. The club plans to train players with use of global training methodology in partnership with Perfect Football. AU Rajasthan is the first club from Rajasthan to play in I-League 2nd Division. ^[2] Rajasthan FC organised Christmas Cup 2020 in Purnima University and Heritage Cup in February 2021, which was won by ARA FC.

AU Rajasthan participated in the inaugural Rajasthan State Men's League 2019 and finished as runners-up with 15 points from 7 matches, behind champion Rajasthan United. ^[3]

AU Rajasthan FC has launched a premier football residential academy in Jaipur, in collaboration with Poornima University. The club handpicked players from all the major cities of India through trials. ^[4]

Rajasthan FC rebranded themselves as Rajasthan Perfect FC ahead of R-League A Division 2021. ^[5]

Stadiums

AU Rajasthan used the Maharaja Umaid Singh Stadium in Jodhpur as their home stadium for I-League 2nd Division of 2019–20 season matches. They played at the University Sports Complex during the inaugural season of R-League A Division. ^[6]

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2019—2020	AIO Sports	AU Small Finance Bank
2021—present		Perfect Football

Personnel

Current technical staff (as of 20 January 2020 ^[update] )

Position	Name
Team manager	Mangesh Shreekant Desai
Technical director	Gurpratap Singh
Head coach	Praveen Kumar
Assistant coach	Nitish Dimri
Physio	Mohammed Shahid

Players

2022 squad

As of 5 April 2022 ^[7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Nitin Meel 2 DF   IND Abhyuday Motwani 3 DF   IND Tushar Negi 4 DF   IND Aravind Sharma 5 DF   IND Spandan Sharma 6 MF   IND Pranendra Singh Thakur 7 MF   IND Kamran Panwar 8 MF   IND Shiv Pratap Singh Ranawat 9 FW   IND Ishaan Sahi 10 MF   IND Bhupendru Singh Meena 11 MF   IND Utkrsh Koushik 15 DF   IND Shorayav Bhardwaj 17 DF   IND Prashant Narayan Choudhary

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   IND Robot Atkan 19 MF   IND Ashen Henna Metel 20 MF   IND Martand Raina 21 MF   IND DM Rakeveiche 22 DF   IND Prateek Choudhary 23 MF   IND Mumtaz Akhtar 24 MF   IND Deepak Sai Thukral 25 FW   BRA Eliel da Cruz Guardiano 26 DF   IND Prithu Sharma 27 MF   IND Rudra Pratap Singh Bist 45 FW   IND Rahul Sharma 46 FW   BRA Pedro Augusto Araujo Pinheiro 99 GK   IND Maninder Singh

Team record

Season	Div.	Tms.	Pos.	Attendance/G	Federation Cup / Super Cup	AFC Champions League	AFC Cup
2019–20	IL2	18	Group stage	–	DNP	DNP	DNP

Key

• Tms. = Number of teams
• Pos. = Position in league
• Attendance/G = Average league attendance

Head coaching record

updated on 20 July 2020

Name	Nationality	From	To	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Win%
Mangesh Shreekant Desai	India	2020		6	1	2	3	4	7	016.67

Affiliated clubs

The following clubs are currently affiliated with AU Rajasthan FC:

• Palamós CF (2018–present)

References

1. "R-League A Division 2021". Twitter. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
2. "Eighteen teams to compete in Hero Second Division League 2019–20". Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
3. "First Ever Rajasthan State Men's League 2019 Started". udaipurkiran. 21 September 2019. Archived from the original on 1 October 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
4. "Rajasthan United FC launched their residential academy in Rajasthan". Football Express. 3 June 2021. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
5. "Rajasthan Perfect Football Club". www.the-aiff.com. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
6. "Rajasthan State Men's League". 21 July 2021. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
7. "Squad". I-league.org. Archived from the original on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2020.

External links

• Rajasthan Perfect FC on Facebook
• Rajasthan Perfect FC at the-aiff.com