Salgaocar F.C.

Salgaocar

Full name	Salgaocar Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Greens
Founded	1956
Ground	Tilak Maidan Stadium
Ground Capacity	12,000
Owner	Shivanand Salgaocar
Manager	Malky Thomson
League	Goa Professional League
2015–16	I-League, 7th (withdrew)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Salgaocar Football Club is a professional football club who currently play in the I-League in India. They are based in Vasco, Goa and are owned by the V. M. Salgaocar Group of Companies.

Salgaocar have won 19 Goa League Champions Cups, 3 Federation Cups, 2 Super Cups, 2 Durand Cups and won the National Football League in 1998–99 and I-League in 2010–11. They became the first Goan side to win the NFL in 1998–99 under the guidance of coach Shabbir Ali.

Salgaocar pulled out of I-League 2016-17 citing AIFF bias against I-League.^[1]

History

1956-2009

The club was founded in 1956.^[2]

It was founded by VM Salgaocar, founder President of the VM Salgaocar Group of Companies, to give a platform to the Goan youth to showcase their talent to the country, and to the world.

In 1962, Salgaocar Sports Club became the first Goan team to be extended an invitation to play in the prestigious Durand Cup in New Delhi, and such was the joy of a Goan team’s participation in the Durand Cup, that the Late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru felicitated the team at his residence.

Salgaocar successfully annexed all possible trophies on the Indian circuit thereby etching their name amongst the top teams in the country. A National League triumph in 1999, 3 Federation Cups in 1988, 1989 and 1997, the Super Cup in 1997 and 1999, the prestigious Rovers Cup, Mumbai, in 1989, 1996 and 1999, the Durand Cup, Delhi, twice in 1999 and 2003, the Sait Nagjee, Calicut, in 1987 and TFA shield at Madurai, in 1979. Salgaocar Sports Club have also been crowned Goa State Champions for a record 19 times including winners for 3 consecutive years of the Goa Professional League in 2002–03, 2003–04 and 2004–05. The Club also won the Governor’s Cup in the years 1999 and 2001. The late 1980s and the 1990s saw Salgaocar SC consistently bag trophies such as the Federation Cup, the National League, the Durand Cup, Rovers Cup and the Super Cup.

The last few years, one may describe as one that has seen the glory years seem light years away. Relegation, a successful promotion, and then again relegation has left the Salgaocar faithfully shattered. Critics have been swift in writing the club off, but managed to make the first division of the NFL in 2003 and staying their till the beginning of the I-League. In 1996 Salgaocar became one of the original 12 clubs in the National Football League and finished 3rd in Group A but finished 7th in the Final Round.^[3]

2010–present

In the 2010–11 season Salgaocar played in the I-League which is India's biggest football competition. After 26 rounds, Salgaocar SC won the title and they qualified for the 2012 Asian Champions League qualifying round.

On 29 September 2011, Salgaocar won their second trophy in four months by winning the 2011 Indian Federation Cup by beating East Bengal in the Final 3–1.^[4] This was the first time in Salgaocar history that they had completed a double of league and cup win.

Salgaocar started the 2011–12 I-League as the defending champion. But they had a rather disappointing season where they finished their campaign at 6th position.^[5] Salgaocar started the 2012–13 campaign with Karim Bencherifa as their head coach. But he left to take over the reins at Mohun Bagan after two games into the new season. He was replaced by David Booth, who had previously coached Mahindra United and Mumbai.^[6] More disappointments followed in the season as they were close to the drop at one time. They finished the season at 7th position.^[7] Salgaocar replaced Booth with Derrick Pereira who had been the coach of Pune for the past four seasons and had led them to two consecutive top-5 finishes in the I-League. Salgaocar started the 2013–14 I-League brightly and at one time led the table for six game weeks, but a rough patch of 8 games, which included four straight losses, derailed their campaign and saw them lose the title to Bengaluru FC. Salgaocar finished their campaign at third place, which was a marked improvement over their past two campaign finishes.^[8][9]

Colours

The colours of Salgaocar are green and white. The home kit very much shows this as the jersey and socks are green while the shorts are white. The away kit has a set of red jerseys and socks while also having blue/purple shorts.

Stadiums

View from Outside of Fatorda Stadium

Salgaocar SC play their home games at Fatorda Stadium and Tilak Maidan Stadium. They used Tilak Maidan for the 2013–14 season. They will use Fatorda Stadium or Tilak Maidan Stadium for the 2014–15 season.

The Salgaocar players also practice at the BITS Pilani Campus grounds. The team has its in house gym with modern equipment and professional trainers.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Honours

Domestic

• National Football League (until 2006) and I-League

Winners (2): 1998–99, 2010–11

Runners-up (1): 2002–03

• Federation Cup

Winners (4): 1988, 1989, 1997, 2011

Runners-up (3): 1987, 1990, 1993

• Indian Super Cup

Winners (2): 1998, 1999

• Durand Cup

Winners (3): 1999, 2003, 2014

Players

First-team squad

As of 29 August 2016^[10]

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

No. Position Player 12 FW Umesh Harijan 17 DF Lenny Pereira 19 DF Nicolau Colaco 22 DF Pawan Kumar 28 FW Aslon Oliveira 33 FW James Fernandes 34 MF Brian Mascarenhas 36 DF Rosario Mendes 37 MF Gilbert Oliveira (Captain) 45 DF Sudhakaran Kumar GK Bruno Colaco

No. Position Player DF Don Fernandes DF Jovel Martins DF Sanson Pereira MF Daniel Rebello MF Mackroy Peixote MF Souvik Das FW Balwinder Singh FW Liston Colaco FW Narohari Shreshta FW Ronaldo Oliveira

U19 Squad

As of 24 August 2015^{[11] [12]}

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Jeet S. Gupta 2 MF Bipin Mallick 3 DF Samuel Gregorio Costa 6 MF Lalit Tariyal 8 MF Denil D. Rebello 9 FW Alston Mendes 10 DF Dominic Joao Soares 11 MF Yamnursab R. Pinjar 12 MF Dominic Roy Soares 14 MF Snako Dias 15 DF Saurabh S Patil 16 FW Liston Colaco 17 MF Harmanjot Singh 18 MF Brian Furtado 19 DF Raja Rawat 20 DF Godfrey Mascarenhas

No. Position Player 21 FW Jason Barbosa 22 GK Chinmaya Sekhar Behera 24 MF Samson Furtado 25 FW Stefen Fernandes 26 FW Myron Borges 27 DF Sanson Pereira 28 DF Constancio Rodrigues 29 FW Naro Hari Shrestha 30 DF Gurba Gagrai 31 GK Savio Paes 32 DF Stendly Miranda 35 MF Klins Mendes 37 DF Schubert M. D'Costa 40 MF Rufflan Fernandes — GK Rohan Viegas — DF Frazer Afonso

Team Management

As of 24 August 2015

Position	Name
Head Coach	Santosh Kashyap
Manager	Sanjeev Nagvenkar
Assistant Coach	Mario Soares
Goalkeeping coach	Virender Singh
Fitness coach	Sunil Karmalker
Physiotherapist	J. Dileep Kumar
Kit manager	Carmo Velho
Youth team coach U18/19/20	Anthony Pereira
Manager U18/19/20	Oscar Rebello

Affiliated Clubs

• Celtic F.C.

References

External links

• Salgaocar Website

NFL and I-League Champions
National Football League	1996–97: JCT 1997–98: Mohun Bagan 1998–99: Salgaocar 1999–2000: Mohun Bagan 2000–01: East Bengal 2001–02: Mohun Bagan 2002–03: East Bengal 2003–04: East Bengal 2004–05: Dempo 2005–06: Mahindra United 2006–07: Dempo
I-League	2007–08: Dempo 2008–09: Churchill Brothers 2009–10: Dempo 2010–11: Salgaocar 2011–12: Dempo 2012–13: Churchill Brothers 2013–14: Bengaluru FC 2014–15: Mohun Bagan 2015–16: Bengaluru FC