ONGC FC

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ONGC FC

Full name	ONGC Football Club
Founded
Ground	Cooperage Ground, Mumbai (Capacity 12,000)
Chief Coach	Irinio Vaz
League	I-League 2nd Division
2008	Group Stage
Website	Club home page

ONGC Football Club also known as ONGC FC is an Indian Football Club from Mumbai in Maharastra, India. The club, established by the public sector undertaking ONGC Ltd, currently plays in the 2nd Division of the Indian Football League.^[1]

1 The Club
2 Stadium
3 Leagues
4 Current Squad
5 Sponsors
6 References
7 External links

[edit] The Club

ONGC FC is promoted by the public sector giant ONGC Ltd. Incidentally, ONGC is also the title sponsor of the Indian Football League. The club is registered with WIFA, Mumbai under the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

[edit] Stadium

ONGC FC has access to Mumbai Port Sports Council’s BPT Ground for practice purposes.^[2] The club's home ground for comepetitive matches is Cooperage Statdium ground.

[edit] Leagues

ONGC FC took part in the second tier of the Indian Football League system, the 2nd Division NFL I-League in 2006-07 and secured the 6th place. For the 2007-08 season, it took part in the I-League 2nd Division, but failed to move beyond the Group stages. It also plays in the Mumbai Elite Division Football League.^[3]

[edit] Current Squad

As of 30 April 2008 [1]

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Rajat Ghosh Dastidar
		GK	Bilifang Narzary
			Krishna Shirodkar
			C Pinho
			Dharmesh Patel
			Amit Mandal
			Sandip Das
			Tarif Ahmed
		MF	Jatin Bisht
		DF	Arun Malhotra
			Sunil Chowdhary
			Gulitang Rongmoi
			Prasenjit Ghosh
			Debkumar Sasmal
			Subhash Banerjee
			Amandeep Singh
			Antu Murmu
			Rupayi Hansdah

No.		Position	Player
			Kaushik Bose
			F. Lalmanpuia
			Rakshak Naik
			Clifford Kilmo
			Rovan Pereira
			Nitin Bisht
		FW	Sanjeeva Rongpi
			Jewel Raja
			Sujit MJ
			Subrata Mandal
			Dhanesh MC
			Gaur Naskar
			Salau Nurudeen Olawale
			Chukwukere NDurun Henry
			Atmas Afary Ken

The coaching staff of the team is headed by Chief Coach Irinio Vaz. He is supported by Assistant Coaches S Chakraborty & CT Joseph. BK Bhowmik is the Manager of the team.