JCT FC
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| Full name | Jagatjit Cotton & Textile Mills FC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Millmen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Ludhiana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Samir Thapar |
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| Manager | Parminder Singh |
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| League | NFL India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006-07 | NFL Premier Division 8th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[edit] JCT FC
JCT Football Club, found in 1971, is an Indian professional football club based in Phagwara, Punjab (India). They are sponsored by Jagatjit Cotton and Textile Mills under the leadership of ‘’’Samir Thapar’’’ and have emerged as one of the most successful Punjabi football clubs in recent years. They play in the NFL Premier Division and Punjab State Super League.
JCT FC has long been synonymous with football in Punjab and northern India. Like the other two institutional teams from the state, Border Security Force SC and FC Punjab Police, JCT have played a pivotal role in raising the standard of football in Punjab.
JCT have won many prestigious tournaments and brought laurels to the State of Punjab. They won the inaugural edition of the National Football League in 1996. The success of the outfit can be attributed to the fact that their owners, the Thapars, apart from being business moguls, are also keen followers of the game.
[edit] History
Jagatjit Cotton and Textile Mills constituted the football club in 1971. However, the club got recognition from 1974 onwards when several players joined the club from the Leader Club of Jalandhar. Included among these players was Inder Singh, who had captained the Indian national team in previous years and won the Arjuna Award in 1969. The Leader Club, started by Lala Dwarka Das Sehgal had played a major role in popularizing football in Northern India in the 1960s and 1970s. Though the Leader Club is no more, JCT Mills have since taken the mantle and become the biggest and most successful football club in this part of India.
JCT Limited has been involved in the Punjab Football Association (PFA) for the last three decades. JCT won the innagural NFL title in the 1996-1997 season.
In January of 2007, the JCT managment decided to change the club name from JCT Mills FC to JCT FC.
[edit] Academy
JCT Limited set up the JCT Football Academy at Phagwara in 2000 to train budding players. It funds their studies in colleges, especially at the Guru Nanak College, Phagwara.
[edit] Facts
JCT was the first Indian club to hire a foreign coach.
JCT was the first Indian team outside Kolkata to win the IFA Shield.
JCT is a part of the flagship JCT group that was started by the late Karam Chand Thapar.
[edit] Current Season
JCT won the Punjab State Super League in 2006 and reached the final of the Durand Cup. Later they won the 9th Punjab State Shaheed-e-azam S.Bhagat Singh Memorial Football Trophy. They played in the 28th Federation Cup in Kolkata in December 2006. JCT are playing in the 11th National Football League this year. Also, they played Sao Paulo FC of Brazil in a prestigious friendly game on February 11th at the Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi.
Currently, they are at the 8th position in NFL Premier Division.
[edit] Players
[edit] Current Roster
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[edit] Notable former players
- Inder Singh
- Jarnail Singh
- Parminder Singh
- Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi
[edit] Team Management
| Name | Position |
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| Samir Thapar |
Chairman |
| Parminder Singh |
Manager |
| Sukhvinder Singh |
Coach |
| Harjinder Singh |
Assistant Coach |
| Ramesh Arora |
Doctor |
| Dr. Gagan Kapoor |
Physio |
[edit] Transfers
[edit] Retained
Kalyan Chaubey, Karanjit Singh, Mukhwinderjit Singh, Harpreet Singh, Taranjit Singh, Narinder Singh, Harish Sharma, Daljit Singh, KV Dhanesh, Jaspal Singh, Shivraj Singh, Sunil Kumar, Ram Pal, P Renedy Singh, Sukhjinder Singh, Baldeep Singh Sr, Bimanyu Bimal Barua, Yadvinder Singh Bajwa, Jaswinder Singh, Parminder Singh, Praveen Kumar, Sunil Chetri, Charanjit Kumar, Sakatar Singh
[edit] New
Rakinderjit Singh, Anwar Ali (both Punjab Police), Chidi Edeh (Sporting Clube de Goa), Ramanjeet Singh (Hindustan Club), Mandeep Singh Brar (Indian Nationals FC), Tajinder Singh (Punajb State Electricity Board), Amrinder Singh (Sultan Singh SC, Rajasthan), N Rakesh Singh (Juvenile Association, Manipur), Tajinder Singh (International SC, Punjab), Sunday Ambrose (NIGERIA) 2nd Transfer Period: Adebayo Tokunbo Adewusi (Sporting Clube de Goa), Baldeep Singh Jr (JCT Football Academy)
‘’’on loan:’’’ Gurwinder Singh (JCT Football Academy)
[edit] Left
Julius Irabor Akpele (Salgaocar SC), Gyan Moin Thapa (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC), Surjit Singh (Border Security Force), Kuldeep Singh (Rail Coach Factory), Krishna Kumar (Ageya Chalo, Tripura), Marcos Pereira (BRAZIL), Jagjit Singh Randhawa, Sukhwinder Singh, Johnson Segun Banner
[edit] Honours
1996/97 National League Title
2x Federation Cup
1995, 1996
9x Punjab Football League
1987, 1990/91, 1991, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
10xGurdarshan Memorial Cup
1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2002
5x Durand Cup
1976, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996
4x Sait Nagjee Cup
1976, 1979, 1985, 1995
1978 Madura Coats Trophy
1995 Scissors Cup
1996 IFA Shield
1997 Rovers Cup
2002 Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Memorial Trophy
2005 Principal Harbhajan Singh Memorial Football Trophy
[edit] References
- Football Clubs – JCT FC
- Indian Football – JCT FC
- Season ending Transfers 2006 (NFL India)
- NFL 2006/2007 League Table
- JCT Mills
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