Friends Club

Full name	Friends Club
Founded	16 May 1972; 49 years ago (1972-05-16)
Ground	Pulchowk Campus[citation needed], Lalitpur, Nepal
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Rajiv Raj Poudyal
Coach	Marcos Filipe
League	Nepal A- Division League
Home colours

Friends Club is a Nepali football club from the neighborhood of Lalitpur. The club is known for nurturing young talent of Nepalese Football. Friends Club has produced more than 200 national football players to date. It remained only a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like reading room facilities, blood donations, bicycle rallies against drug abuse etc.

Since the late 1980s, it has implemented different training activities for women and children. It is also running a clinic and a pathology laboratory which are very popular among the people of Kopundole. The club has come a long way since 1972 to the present day, evolving from a sports club to a sport-cum-social-club.The team practices on the grounds of Pulchok Campus and has a huge fan following in the college. The students are planning to form a fan club and aim to work together with the club to promote Nepalese football. This season the club is aiming for a top 3 spot. The club has a unique way of celebrating victory by sacrificing a 'khasi' and enjoying a feast. The players believe in the hanuman god situated near their club office. The club plays in the Nepalese first division. This year the club signed Nepali National Team captain Sagar Thapa along with other national players Nirajan Khadka and Deepak Bhusal. Current national player Raju Tamang, Bharat Khawas, Sagar Thapa, Nirajan Khadka, Deepak Bhusal are all products of Friends Club Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.^{[citation needed]}

History[]

Friends club was established in 1972 as a children's club with reading room facility in Kopundol. After couple of year of its establishment, the club diversified its social activities with a motto of "better health through sports among the people of Kopundol." Eventually Friends Club established itself as a well reputed local sports club and for next several years, it remained only as a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like reading room facility, blood donation, bicycle rally against drugs abuse etc. It was since late eighties that the Club started implementing various training activities for women and children. It also started a health clinic and Pathology laboratory which eventually, became very popular among the people of Kopundol and surrounding community. The club has come a long way since 1972 until now from a sports club to a sport-cum social club.^{[citation needed]}

Current Affairs[]

The club has currently made to the super-8 round in the A-Division league.^[1]

Achievements[]

• Tribhuvan Challenge Shield (3): 1985, 1986, Unknown
• (2): Unknown
• Birthday Cup runner up (1): 2042 (BS)
• Birthday Cup (1): 2002
• Birgunj (2): Unknown
• Martyrs’ Memorial League runner-up (1): Unknown
• Tillotama Gold Cup runner-up (1): Unknown
• Itahari Gold Cup runner-up (1): Unknown
• Sahid Smarak League runner-up (6): Unknown

Current squad[]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  BRA 8 MF  BRA 9 FW  BRA 20 MF    NEP Jagjit Shrestha 23 MF    NEP 25 DF    NEP 27 FW  IND Uttam Rai

Head Coach's Record[]

updated on 14 May 2020

Name	Nationality	From	To	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Win%
Ramesh Maharjan	Nepal	2018	2019	13	3	3	7	13	25	023.08
	Brazil	2019	Present	13	4	2	7	12	19	030.77

League finishes[]

The season-by-season performance of FC since 2000:

References[]

• Friends Club at friendsclub.org.np