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Friends Club

FieldValue
clubnameFriends Club
fullnameFriends Club
founded
imageFriends_Club_logo.png
groundPulchowk Campus,
Lalitpur, Nepal
capacity10,000
chairmanBishwas Bikram Shah
mgrtitleHead coach
managerUrjan Shrestha
leagueMartyr's Memorial A-Division League
season2023
position11th of 14

Lalitpur, Nepal

Friends Club is a Nepali professional football club from the Kopundole neighborhood of Lalitpur. The club is known for nurturing young talent of Nepalese football. Friends Club has produced more than 200 national football players to date. It also organized certain social activities like reading room facilities, blood donations, bicycle rallies against drug abuse etc.

Since the late 1980s, the club has implemented different training activities for women and children. The team practices on the grounds of Pulchok Campus. National players like Raju Tamang, Bharat Khawas, Sagar Thapa, Nirajan Khadka or Deepak Bhusal are all products of Friends Club Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.

History

Friends Club was established in 1972 as a children's club with a reading-room facility in Kopundol. After a couple of years of its establishment, the club diversified its social activities with a motto of "better health through sports among the people of Kopundol." Eventually, Friends Club established itself as a well-reputed local sports club and for the next several years, it remained only as a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like a reading room facility, blood donation, bicycle rally against drugs abuse etc. It was since late eighties that the Club started implementing various training activities for women and children. It also started a health clinic and Pathology laboratory which eventually, became very popular among the people of Kopundol and surrounding community. The club has come a long way since 1972 until now from a sports club to a sport-cum social club.

In 1996, the club toured to Bangladesh and took part in Bangabandhu Cup.

Achievements

  • Tribhuvan Challenge Shield (3): 1985, 1986,* Unknown*
  • Mahendra Gold cup (2): Unknown
  • Birthday Cup runner up (1): 2042 (BS)
  • Birthday Cup (1): 2002
  • Birgunj (2): Unknown
  • Martyr's Memorial League runner-up (1): Unknown
  • Tillotama Gold Cup runner-up (1): Unknown
  • Itahari Gold Cup runner-up (1): Unknown
  • Sahid Smarak League runner-up (6): Unknown

Head coaching record

updated on 14 May 2020

NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%
Ramesh Maharjan20182019
Marcos Filipe20192020

League finishes

The season-by-season performance of FC since 2000:

ChampionsRunners-upThird placePromotedRelegated
SeasonLeaguePosition
2000Martyr's Memorial A-Division League11th
2001–2002League not held
2003-04Martyr's Memorial A-Division League5th
20045th
2005–200612th
2006–20077th
2008–2009League not held due to conflicts between ANFA and the clubs
2010Martyr's Memorial A-Division League8th
20116th
2011–12Nepal National League7th
2012–13Martyr's Memorial A-Division League4th
2013–148th
2015Nepal National Leaguebanned by ANFA
2017–2018No league held
2018–19Martyr's Memorial A-Division League11th
2019–2011th
2020-21Not held due to COVID-19
2021–2212th
202311th

References

References

  1. (19 November 2021). "Friends draw with Satdobato as A Division League begins".
  2. [https://the-anfa.com/club/3 Team profile: NIBL FRIENDS CLUB (Estd 1972 AD)]. ''the-anfa.com''. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. (12 May 2016). "Bangabandhu Cup 1996/97". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
  4. (16 January 2015). "ANFA Releases First Installment Of Rs 5 Lakhs To All Nine National League Participating Teams". GoalNepal.com.
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