VB Sports Club

VB Sports Club

Full name	VB Sports Club
Nickname(s)	VB
Founded	1987 (as Orchid Sports Club)
Ground	Galolhu Stadium, Maldives (Capacity: 12,000)
Chairman	Hamid Ismail
Manager	Bahtiyar Can Vanlı
League	Dhivehi League
2010	Dhivehi League, 1
Home colours Away colours

VB Sports Club is a professional Maldivian football club based in Malé, Maldives. VB Sports Club is the former Island Football Club acquired by a leading entity and renamed on 8 November 2006.

The club was founded in 1987. The club originally evolved from Orchid Sports Club, a team which was formed by the staffs of Bandos Island Resort. Orchid was later bought by the owners of Club Lagoons and renamed as New Lagoons which later was undertaken by a group of businessmen from Addu Atoll and was changed to the name of ‘Island Football Club’ which was later acquired by a leading entity. The team was then transformed into VB sports on 8 November 2006.

The transition & formation of VB sports club is all very new, but the name VB & the team won’t be a surprise to the Maldivian football community as the team comes with the most gifted & famous players in the nation. VB holds the position of a legend & followed like a cult. It has become one of the most anticipated moments in the history of Maldivian football. The team holds its grounds not only with individual skills, national performance benchmarks or score charts.

Performance in AFC competitions

AFC Cup: 3 appearances

2009: Group Stage

2010: Group Stage

2011:

Current squad

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 Mohamed Shinan 2 MF Hussain Afzal 3 DF Cicero 4 DF Douglas 5 DF Abdulla Haneef 6 MF Mohamed Arif 7 FW Ali Ashfaq 9 FW Ashad Ali 10 FW Ali Umar 11 MF Shamweel Qasim 12 MF Adam Imran 13 DF Fairooz Adam Sameer

No. Position Player 14 DF Ahmed Saeed 16 MF Mohamed Hussain 17 FW Adam Lareef 18 DF Faruhadh Ismail 19 MF Ismail Mohamed 21 MF Hassan Adham 23 FW Ismail Easa 24 FW Hussain Habib 25 GK Imran Mohamed 26 FW Abu Desmond Mansaray 27 MF Adam Fazeeh 30 DF Hussein Shuaib

Notable players

• Ali Ashfaq
• Mohamed Arif
• Imran Mohamed
• Shamweel Qasim
• Mohamed Rihan
• Ali Umar

Honors under the name VB sports

• Dhivehi League: 2

2009, 2010

• Maldives FA Cup: 1

2008

• Charity Shield: 2

2010, 2011

• President's Cup: 1

2010

External links

• Club Official Website
• Football Association of Maldives