Kerala Blasters FC Reserves

On 20 February 2018, it was announced by the All India Football Federation, the organising body for Indian football, that the Kerala Blasters, along with six other Indian Super League sides, would field a reserve team in the I-League 2nd Division, India's third division football league.[1]

The first ever match competitive match for the reserves were against Ozone F.C on 16 March 2018 in which they suffered a defeat.[2] But they managed to become the table toppers of Group B by winning seven games from ten matches.[3]However ,as per the rules, reserve teams of the clubs were not eligible for advancing into the final round.In the same year itself, the side also started to participate in the Kerala Premier League, which is the top division league for the clubs from Kerala.[4]During their first season in KPL ,they finished the group stage in third place behind Sports Academy Tirur by one point thus missing the play-offs.

In 2018-19 ,they finished the I-League 2nd Division in third place of the group[5].In KPL they became the semi finalists during the 2018-19 season.

In the following 2019-2020 season,they won the Kerala Premier League after defeating the reserve side of their rivals Gokulam Kerala FC in a Penalty shootout.[6]In the I-League 2nd Division ,they finished the season in fifth place.

As of 1 February 2020[7]

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 Lovepreet Singh 2 DF Leminlun Doungel 6 FW Abhishek K 9 DF Rumais K 10 FW Ajay 11 FW Sajith S 12 FW Mabir Singh 13 FW Pulak Baruah 19 FW Ronaldo Oliveira 23 FW Abdullah KS 24 DF Pritam Kumar Singh 26 GK Sujith Sasikumar

No. Position Player 30 DF Narayan Chettri (Captain) 31 MF Jothish K Jayan 32 DF Lalthakima 34 FW Suraj Rawat 35 MF Hrishi Dhath 36 DF Basit Ahmed 37 MF Jacob John Katookaren 38 DF MD Esha 39 DF Satgouthang Konoung 40 MF Zayed Bin Waleed 41 MF Pragyan Sundar Gogoi 42 MF Abhijith K 99 GK Ayush Das

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player – DF Nidhin Krishna (to South United F.C.) – FW Riswan Ali Edakkavil (to South United F.C.)

• Kerala Premier League

Winners (1):2019-20

The Kerala Blasters youth system known as KBFC Young Blasters currently consists of 3 teams from 3 different age groups, the Under-18 ,Under-15 and Under-13 [8].The U-18 team participates in the Elite league which is the top division of youth football in India. [9]. The U-15 participates in the Hero Juniors League and the Junior most team ,the U-13 plays at the Hero Sub-Juniors League respectively. The U-15 side also participates in the Kerala U-15 Academy League, a regional youth league.The young talents from the Under-18 team playing in the Elite League are promoted into the reserve team based on their performance.

• Kerala Blasters FC
• Kerala Blasters Youth and Academy

• Official website