Prayag United S.C.

Not to be confused with Chirag United Club.

Prayag United

Full name	Prayag United Sports Club
Founded	1927 as Eveready Association
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium (Capacity: 120,000)
Owner	Prayag Group
Coach	Sanjoy Sen
League	I-League
2010-11	I-League, 8th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Prayag United S.C. is an Indian football Club from Kolkata in West Bengal, India. The club currently plays in the I-League.

History

1927-2009

Prayag United S.C. was originally established in 1927 as Eveready Association. In 2006, it was renamed as United Sports Club to attract title sponsor and the football division owned by United Sport Football Team Private Ltd.^[1] With the inflow of sponsorship, the club clinched promotion to the first division of the I-League in 2007.

2010-Present

For the 2010-11 I-League season United SC played at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. On Indian Transfer deadline day United SC made the biggest headline news by signing India national football team striker Sunil Chhetri till the end of the season. In June 2011 after the I-League season ended old sponsors Chirag choose to cut ties with United SC and thus Chirag United SC became United Sports Club. Even though the team has lost a lot in terms of sponsorship money the club is still able to sign and retain there current players. On August 3rd 2011 it was announced that United Sports Club has signed a sponsorship deal with Prayag Group and on August 7th 2011 United Sports Club officially changed there name to Prayag United S.C. ^[2]

Crest

The Prayag United crest is designed in the shape of a blue and white circle. The logo includes the words United Sports Club in the blue strip of the crest. This is to show United Sports Club as the main name of the club. Inside the crest is a peacock on top of a football.

Colors

While the crest is Blue and White the official colors of Prayag United are purple and yellow. While still sponsored and owned by Chirag Computers, United Sports Club's official colors were purple and white. The home kit for Prayag includes a purple and yellow jersey with purple shorts and white socks while the away kit is all white with red socks.

Stadium

Prayag United Sports Club currently play at the 120,000 seater Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. At first though Prayag United Sports Club said that they would move on the Siliguri but now it seems that they might stay in Kolkata for the 2011-12 season and will move during the 2012-13 season. ^[3]

The Salt Lake Stadium which East Bengal uses for most matches

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Kit manufacturers

• 2007-2011: none
• 2011-present: None

Shirt sponsor

• 2007-2011: Chirag Computers
• '2011-present: Prayag Group

Players

First-team squad

As of 6 November 2011.^[4]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Abijit Mondal 2 DF Chinta Chandrashekar Rao 3 DF Bapi Saha 4 DF Justin Stephen 5 DF Subhasish Chowdhury 6 DF Bello Razaq 7 MF Denson Devadas 8 MF Lalkamal Bhowmick (captain) 9 FW Kayne Vincent 10 FW Josimar 11 MF Subhash Sumbhu Chakrobarty 12 MF Gouranga Biswas 13 MF James Singh 14 FW Mohammed Rafique

No. Position Player 15 MF Snehashish Dutta 16 DF Arnab Mondal 17 DF Deepak Mondal 18 DF Sukhen Dey 19 MF Jayanta Sen 20 MF Crispin Chettri 21 GK Jagroop Singh 25 FW Shankar Oraon 26 FW Yusif Yakubu 28 MF Shylo Tulunga 29 DF Anupam Sarkar 30 MF Joychandra Singh 31 GK Somnath Khara 36 DF Narugopal Haith

Honors

Domestic

• I-League 2nd Division

Winners (1): 2008

• Durand Cup

Winners (1): 2010

Runners-up (1): 2011

References

1. ^ http://the-aiff.com/pages/club/index.php?Aboutclub=41&ClubDetail=41
2. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/1064/i-league/2011/08/03/2602615/i-league-united-sports-club-to-be-rechristened-as-prayag
3. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/1064/i-league/2011/08/03/2602615/i-league-united-sports-club-to-be-rechristened-as-prayag
4. ^ "First Team Players". goal.com. http://www.goal.com/en-india/teams/india/1276/prayag-united. Retrieved 6 November 2011. 

External links

• Official Prayag United website