Sporting Clube de Goa

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Full name

Sporting Clube de Goa

Nickname(s)

Flaming Oranje

Founded

1999

Ground

Nehru Stadium, Goa
(Capacity 35,000)

Chairman

Peter Vaz and Edgar Afonso

Head Coach

Clifford Chukwuma

League

NFL Premier Division

2004-05

NFL Premier Division 2nd





Home colours





Away colours

Sporting Clube de Goa is a sports club based in the Indian state of Goa. It is renowned for its football team built on the lines of Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal and adopting a similar club crest.

The club Cidade de Goa (Portuguese for City of Goa) was purchased by Sporting's current owners and renamed as Sporting Clube de Goa in 1999.

Sporting made its debut in the 2003-04 season of the Indian Nationall Football League Premier Division, and were on the verge of winning their first league championship but lost out on the last day when Dempo Sports Club pipped them to the title. Their season was marred by a horrific bus accident which ruled out 4 key players for the whole season, while several others were injured. However, led by Nigerian import Dudu Omagbemi, they managed to complete their matches in a very short span of time after being given a few weeks off so that their players could recover, and heroically came second ahead of traditional powerhouses East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Salgaocar and Mahindra United.

[edit] Current Roster

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Felix D'Souza
2	DF	Parwinder Singh
3	DF	Matthew Gonsalves
4	DF	Chinta Chandrashekar Rao
6	DF	Felip Gomes
7	MF	Harnanjot Singh Kuabra
8	DF	Nongmaithem Rajesh Meetei
14	MF	Wilton Gomes
19	MF	Nicolas Rodrigues
22	MF	Joseph Pereira
26	DF	Seby Martins

No.	Position	Player
29	DF	N. Sumananda Singh
30	GK	Luis Xavier Barreto
32	GK	Christopher Afonso
36	MF	Bisheshwor Singh
-	MF	Mickey Fernandes
-	FW	Boniface Ambani
-	MF	Nicholas Muyuoti
-	MF	Joe Rodrigues
-	MF	Simon Borges
-	FW	Dudu Omangbemi