Guwahati F.C.

Guwahati FC

Full name	Guwahati Football Club
Nickname(s)	Sunrise FC
Founded	December 2014 (2014)[1]
Ground	Nehru Stadium, Guwahati, Northeast Frontier Railway Stadium
Capacity	15,000
Owners	Sanjive Narain
General Manager	sir Denizino
Head Coach	Manuel Retamero Fraile
League	I-League 2nd Division, Assam State Premier League
2015–16 (I-League 2nd Div.) 2015 (ASPL)	Eastern Conference, 4th Regular season: 4th; Lower Zone Finals: Quarter-finals
Home colours Away colours

Guwahati Football Club is a professional Indian football team based in Guwahati, Assam, that competed in the I-League 2nd Division and Assam State Premier League. The team was launched in December 2014.^[1]

History

After breaking away from his stake in the Indian Super League franchise, NorthEast United, Sanjive Narain Co-founded Guwahati Football Club in December 2014.^[1] The team was formerly launched on 27 May 2015 with Spanish coach, Anxo Valcarcel, signed as the teams' first head coach.^[1] Upon launching the team, Narain said that the main goal of the team was not earn promotion to the I-League and thus give Assam a club in India's top football competition.^[1][2]

The Team is jointly owned by Sanjive Naraine, Jayanta Barua, Bipul Saikia, Casper Investment (Assam) Private Limited, Dadul Chodhury, Kamal Chandra Das, Pulak Goswami^[2]

The team played their first competition in May 2015 when they participated in the revamped Assam State Premier League. Their first match was against Tezpur United in which the match ended 0–0.^[3] Guwahati barely qualified for the finals as they ended their regular season campaign in fourth place in the Lower Assam Zone.^[4] They were knocked-out in the first-round of the finals by Baarhoongkha on away goals, 3–3.^[5]

On 1 October 2015, it was confirmed that Guwahati would participate in the I-League 2nd Division Eastern Conference.^[6][7]

Guwahati Fc started off with their I-league 2nd Div Eastern Conference campaign on 14 November in Barasat Stadium against Mohammedan Club. Their group comprised with Mohammedan, Gangtok Himalayan, NEROCA FC & Fateh Hyderabad. Guwahati Fc finished 4th in the group ahead of Fateh Hyderabad and failed to Qualify to the next round. Guwahati Fc did not participate in the 2016-17 season of I-League 2nd Division. Guwahati Fc did not even participate in Guwahati Sports Association's League in 2016-2017 season

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Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Senior team squad

As of 14 November 2015.^[10]

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 Dennis Salvation 2 GK Chuckwudi Emmanuel 3 MF Pranit Lama Tamang 4 DF Raphael Emmanuel 5 DF Khelemba Meitei 6 MF Snehashish Dutta 7 MF Kallol Pal 8 MF James Singh 9 MF Khaidem Vicky Meitei 10 FW Durga Boro 11 DF Elminhao Kilong

No. Position Player 13 DF Prosenjit Chakroborty 14 MF Kaushik Biswas 15 DF Jeanga Rongmei 17 DF Saurav Dasgupta 18 DF Heman Singh 19 FW Oluwaunmi Somide 23 MF Lalrin Fela 24 GK Suvam Sen 26 DF Gopal Pathak 27 MF Prayashu Halder 31 FW Royal Basumatary

Current technical staff

As of 1 April 2015

Zoran Janković,Guwahati F.C's head coach

Position	Name
Manager	Zoran Janković
Coach	Anxo Valcarcel
Assistant coach
Club physio

References

External links

• Facebook page
• Twitter account