ONGC F.C.

ONGC

Full name	Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Football Club
Founded	2006
Ground	Cooperage Ground (Capacity: 12,000)
Owner	Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Manager	Irinio Vaz
League	I-League 2nd Division
2010–11	I-League, 13th (Relegated)
Current season

ONGC Football Club also known as ONGC F.C. is an Indian Football club from Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. The ONGC stands for "Oil and Natural Gas Corporation". The club, established by the public sector undertaking ONGC Ltd, currently plays in the I-League 2nd Division.

The Club

ONGC FC is promoted by the public sector giant ONGC Ltd. Incidentally, ONGC is also the title sponsor of the Indian Football League. The club is registered with The Western India Football Association (WIFA) which is also under the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

Stadium

ONGC FC has access to Mumbai Port Sports Council’s BPT Ground for practice purposes. The club's home ground for comepetitive matches is Cooperage Ground.

History

2006-2010

ONGC FC took part in the second tier of the Indian Football League system, the 2nd Division NFL I-League in 2006-07 and secured the 6th place. For the 2007-08 season, it took part in the I-League 2nd Division, but failed to move beyond the Group stages. However after the 2010 I-League 2nd Division it has managed to qualify for the I-League.

I-League

ONGC FC won the 2010 I-League 2nd Division and qualified for 2010–11 I-League. ^[1] On Fedruary 12th 2011 they shocked league leaders East Bengal F.C. with a 1-0 win. That win could not help them though as at the end of the season ONGC FC finished in 13th place and were relegated to the I-League 2nd Division again.

2011-present

After relegation from the I-League another relegated club JCT FC disbanded themselves due to financial reasons which then brought up rumors that ONGC would also disband there football club because they released most of the 2010-11 players and told them to find new clubs but ONGC confirmed that ONGC FC would not be disbanding its football club in July 2011 and even said that they will participate in the 2011 Indian Federation Cup.

Current squad

2010-11 Season [1] 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 10 FW Babatunde Rabiu GK Prasenjit Ghosh GK Bilifang Narzary GK Rajat Ghosh Dastidar DF Kamal Thapa DF Arun Malhotra DF Robin Gurung DF Shabbas Salil DF Rickey Joy DF Bimal Minz DF K. V. Lalu DF Bidyut Halder DF Dharmesh Patel DF Krishna Shirodkar DF Gaur Naskar DF Peter Odafe MF Tapan Maity

No. Position Player MF Bhola Prasad MF Parminder Singh MF Jatin Singh Bisth MF Sandip Sagha MF Jotin Singh MF F.Lalmanpuia MF Koushik Bose MF A.Naresh MF Vikash Jain MF Dhanesh MC MF Kailash Patil MF Katsumi Yusa FW Tarif Ahmed FW Surojit Bose FW Kailash Patil FW Rueben Dsouza

The coaching staff of the team is headed by Chief Coach Irinio Vaz. He is supported by Assistant Coaches S Chakraborty & CT Joseph. BK Bhowmik is the manager of the team.

Also See

• 2010–11 I-League
• 2010 Indian Federation Cup

Sponsors

Promoters: ONGC Ltd.

References

1. ^ http://www.footballindia.com/news/ONGC_Football_Club_wins_promotion_to_I-League/news-2010-may-news_20100524_1176/news_article.aspx

External links

• Official AIFF Website