Kenkre F.C.

Kenkre

Full name	Kenkre Football Club
Founded	2000
Ground	Cooperage Ground, Mumbai
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Sir Adib Kenkre
Coach	Ekendra Singh
League	I-League 2nd Division
Home colours Away colours

Kenkre Football Club, is a professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. They participate in the I-League 2nd Division.

The club is one of the popular football clubs in Mumbai and is known for nurturing young players into skillful and mature players.

History

The Club was founded in 2000 as Kenkre FC under the patronage of former footballer and football coach Sir Adib Kenkre and the CEO of the club Joshua Lewis.

Kenkre FC were crowned champions of the Maha League 2010 for the first time in the club's history after defeating Bengal Mumbai FC 3-0 thanks to goals from Nigerian striker Mathew Odje, Francisco Salin and Charanjeet Singh. After achieving this result, Kenkre FC were granted admission into the second-tier of the I-League called the I-League 2nd Division.

Kenkre FC made its debut on this national stage by playing in Group B of the I-League 2nd Division in Jamshedpur, between April 4–17, 2011. The club marked its debut by finishing a creditable third on goal difference. The group of seven teams was topped by Mohammedan Sporting Club, Kolkata and Ar-Hima, Meghalaya.

Players

Senior Team Squad

As of 4 March 2017^[1]

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 Melroy Fernandes 2 DF Sandeep Upadhyay 3 DF Aditya Gole 4 DF Nitesh Aswani (Captain) 6 DF Boubacar Keita 7 MF Bilal Mohammad 8 MF Rajib Ghorui 9 FW Yash Mhatre 10 FW Yao Kouassi Bernard 11 MF Jayesh Kadam 12 MF Shunhan Pheiray

No. Position Player 15 MF Siddhart Colaco 16 DF Assumption Soares 17 MF Deepak Tirkey 18 GK Joe Paul 20 DF Arish Sutaria 22 MF Aravindraj Rajan (Captain) 23 MF Kenneth Fernandes 27 MF Abuzar Beg 29 MF Yogesh Kadam

Current technical staff

As of 6 Feb 2014

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