Ratnam Sports Club

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Ratnam SC

Full name

Ratnam Sports Club

Founded

1950

Ground

Sugathadasa Stadium
Colombo, Sri Lanka
(Capacity 25,000)

Manager

Fernando Navean

League

Sri Lanka Premier League

2006/07





Home colours





Away colours

Ratnam SC is a Sri Lankan football club based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The club founded in 1950, is a force to reckon within Sri Lankan football and have several achievements to their name.

Their cramped trophy cabinet includes the FA Cup (2000, 2004) and the Champion of Champions Cup in 2004, among others.

The team mainly revolves around national star Kasun Jayasuriya, who had guided Sri Lanka to a runners-up finish in the inaugural AFC Challenge Cup in Bangladesh in 2006 and recently became the top-scorer of Sri Lanka's Kit Premier League with 21 goals to his credit. Other national team players in the Ratnam side include Chatura Maduranga, Raumy Mohideen, Nadeeka Pushpa Kumara, Fasul Rahman, Dammika Senarath and L. Tharusha.

In the second edition of the tournament in Malaysia last year, Ratnam defeated Nepalese outfit Manang Marshyangdi Club 2-0 before going down 0-3 to Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn (Kyrgyzstan) and 1-2 to Vakhsh Qughonteppa (Tajikistan).

Ratnam retained their Premier League-title from 2006 by winning against Saunders in the Premiership-final in november 2007. This year had been a change in the way of playing the league. The league was divided into two groups and the first and second best team in each group played each other in a playoff.

1 Achievements
2 Performance in AFC Competitions
3 Squad 2008
4 External links

[edit] Achievements

Sri Lankan Premier League: 4
- Winner: 1998, 2000, 2006, 2007

Sri Lanka FA Cup: 4
- Winner: 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006

Champion of Champions Trophy: 2
- Winner: 2004, 2006

[edit] Performance in AFC Competitions

Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

1995: Preliminary Round

AFC President's Cup: 3 appearances

2006: Group Stage

2007: Semi-Final

2008: Group Stage

Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance

1995/96: First Round

[edit] Squad 2008

No.	Position	Player
12	DF	Asanka Arachchige
3	DF	Camillus Francis
18	FW	Chandradasa Payagalage
10	FW	Channa Ediribandanage
8	MF	Chathura Hettige
1	GK	Dhammika Manameldurage
23	DF	Duddley Steinwall
6	MF	Fazlur Abdul Azeez
22	GK	Harisdeen Junaideen
4	MF	Jagodage Perera
15	GK	Joseph Silveira
11	FW	Kasun Jayasuriya

No.	Position	Player
19	MF	Mohammed Asmeer
20	DF	Mohamed Mazahir
17	MF	Mohamed Naufer
14	MF	Mohamed Mohideen
9	FW	Pasqual Pushpakumara
5	DF	Rizwan Mohamed
13	DF	Sanjaya Arachchige
16	DF	Shiwanka Bala Gamage
7	MF	Siyaguna Weerasinghe
21	GK	Sugath Dammika Thilakaratne
2	MF	Tharusa Arachchige Lesly