DFC Delhi Football Club
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Delhi United FC, found in 1987, is an India
India
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n professional football club based in Delhi
Delhi
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, New Delhi. They are sponsored by Adidas
Adidas
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 under the management of dsa and have enjoyed some success in the Delhi Football and the NFL India. They play in the NFL Premier Division
National Football League (India)
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 and Delhi Super Division.

Recently, FC Delhi has seen a much better outcome in their game play and they have bagged a good amount of trophies under their belt with two recent trophies - Sikkim Governor's Gold Cup and Nadkarni Cup. They used to play in NFL 2nd Division but got promoted to Premier Division and have maintained their position there till now.

Current roster

Team management

  Manager Gagan Chopra  Assistant Manager   Coach   Sports Official Pinge Dilip  Senior Manager Dr. Narmada Sinha  Physio

Retained

Raju Ekka, Ethesham Ahmed, Haobijam Napoleon Singh, Santosh Koli, Subhas Mondal, Uttam Leishangthem Singh, Abiodun Kolawole Martins, Vijith Shetty, Benoy Kuruvilla, Hamza Zaheer Abbas, Hringsolal Thomte, Javed Ansari, Noel Fernandes, Paresh Shivalkar, Sumit Thapa, Bashiree Mohammed Abbas, T Narender Meetei, Anthony Fernandes, Neil Gaikwad

New

Prakash Koley, Goutam Debnath (both Mohammedan Sporting Club
Mohammedan Sporting Club
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), Amar Deb (East Bengal Club
East Bengal Club
Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club are an Indian professional football club based at Kolkata. They are known to be one of the best footballing sides in India. They have won the most IFA Shields in Indian Football and are tied for the most National Football League and Durand Cup championships with...

), Kumar Samson Singh (Salgaocar SC), Alex Mario Ambrose (Fransa-Pax FC), Subhashish Banerjee (Wari AC, Calcutta), Femi Joseph Adeola (Dragons FC, Nigeria), Bimal Minz, Nirmal Chetri in the season: Suley Musah 2nd Transfer Period: Sanju Pradhan (Sikkim Sports Academy) on loan: Hirohito Elangbam (Tata Football Academy
Tata Football Academy
Tata Football Academy is a football club in Jamshedpur, India, sponsored by Tata Steel.Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata envisaged not only Asia's first fully integrated Steel Plant but also the model township of Jamshedpur. He advised his son, Sir Dorab Tata, to earmark "areas for Football, hockey and...

), Swarup Das (George Telegraph SC, Calcutta)

Left

Appa Rao Chiman (Mahindra United), Sheikh Sanjib (George Telegraph SC, Calcutta), Henry Picardo (Western Railway, Mumbai), Lawrence Dias (Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers, Mumbai), Sagolsem Santa Singh (USA, Manipur), F Stephen Hmar (All-Moirang FA, Manipur), Mohammed Yousuf Ansari (retired, Air-India assistant coach), Suprith Jathanna (retired), Sunder Raj Rajan, Eldin Bothello, Diago Fernandes in the season: Femi Joseph Adeola (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC), Anup Baria (London Tigers), David Selby (London Tigers), Atul Anand (New Delhi Heroes FC)

Honours

  • 1999/2000 2nd Division National League

  • 5x Delhi Super Division

1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2011
  • 4x Indian Champions Cup

2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
  • 2x Sikkim Governor's Gold Cup

1996, 2006
  • 2x Nadkarni Cup

2005, 2006
  • 3x Yangese Cup

2007, 2008, 2009
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