Football Club Pune City

Football Club Pune City

Football Club Pune City is a private football team participating in the Indian Super League.

Football Club Pune City is an Indian Super League football franchise based in Pune, Maharashtra, the western Indian state.

Owner of Football Club Pune City
Football Club Pune City is owned and operated by Rajesh Wadhawan Group, Hrithik Roshan and ACF Fiorentina.

Home Ground of Football Club Pune City
Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex is the home ground of Football Club Pune City. Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex is located in Belewadi of Pune. The Sports Complex was built in the year 1994 for the National Games 1994, which was hosted by Pune. The 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games were hosted here. In the year 2008, World Junior Table Tennis Circuit was successfully held here. The 2009 FIVB Men's Junior World Championship was held here. It was won by Brazil. The city is also the host of FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women 2009.

Bidding of Football Club Pune City in 2014
In the early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the National Federation for Football in India, and IMG-Reliance would be accepting bids for ownership of eight of nine selected cities for the Indian Super League. Indian Super League is an eight-team franchise league modelled along the lines of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, English Premier League and Pro Kabaddi League. On 13th April 2014, it was announced that the Bollywood actor Salman Khan and the Wadhawan Group had won the bidding for the Pune franchise. After that this football team gained its name Football Club Pune City. The Italian football club ACF Fiorentina owns a 15 percent stake in the franchise of Pune football Club.

Players of Football Club Pune City in 2014
The players of Football Club Pune City are Emanuele Belardi, Arindam Bhattacharya, Lalit Thapa, Dharmaraj Ravanan, Pritam Kotal, Anupam Sarkar Kostas Katsouranis, Deepak Devrani, Andres Gonzalez, Bruno Cirillo, Daniele Magliocchetti, Saidou Panandetiguiri, Pratik Shinde, Lenny Rodrigues, Manish Maithani, Israil Gurung, Tapan Maity, Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Davide Colomba, Park Kwang-il, Omar Andres Rodriguez, Ashutosh Mehta, Joaquim Abranches, Dudu Omagbemi, David Trezeguet and Ivan Bolado.

Players of Football Club Pune City in 2015

No.	Countries	Position	Player
2	India	DF	Govin Singh
3	Argentina	DF	Diego Colotto
4	Ivory Coast	MF	Didier Zokora (Captain)
5	England	DF	Roger Johnson
6	India	MF	Manish Maithani
7	Costa Rica	FW	Yendrick Ruiz (on loan from Herediano)
8	England	MF	James Bailey
9	Nigeria	FW	Kalu Uche
10	Romania	FW	Adrian Mutu
11	India	FW	Jackichand Singh (on loan from Royal Wahingdoh)
12	India	DF	Pritam Kotal (on loan from Mohun Bagan)
13	India	DF	Dharmaraj Ravanan
14	India	MF	Israil Gurung
15	India	DF	Gurjinder Kumar (on loan from Salgaocar)
16	India	MF	Eugeneson Lyngdoh (on loan from Bengaluru FC)
17	Turkey	MF	Tuncay Sanli
19	India	DF	Gouramangi Singh
20	India	MF	Sushanth Mathew
22	England	DF	Nicky Shorey
23	India	MF	Bikash Jairu (on loan from East Bengal)
24	India	MF	Lenny Rodrigues
25	England	GK	Steve Simonsen
26	Netherlands	FW	Wesley Verhoek
27	India	GK	Arindam Bhattacharya
29	India	GK	Lalit Thapa
45	India	MF	Fanai Lalrempuia (on loan from Pune)

Players of Football Club Pune City in 2016

No.		Position	Player
1	India	GK	Vishal Kaith
2	India	DF	Rahul Bheke
3	India	DF	Augustin Fernandes
4	Mali	FW	Dramane Traore
5	Spain	MF	Bruno Arias
6	Equatorial Guinea	DF	Eduardo Ferreira
7	Brazil	MF	Jonatan Lucca
8	Spain	MF	Pitu
9	Mexico	FW	Anibal Zurdo
10	Spain	FW	Jesus Tato
11	Senegal	MF	Momar Ndoye
12	India	MF	Francis Fernandes
13	India	GK	Arindam Bhattacharya
14	India	MF	Eugeneson Lyngdoh
15	India	MF	Sanju Pradhan
16	India	DF	Zodingliana Ralte
17	India	DF	Yumnam Raju
18	India	DF	Dharmaraj Ravanan
19	India	DF	Gouramangi Singh
20	Argentina	FW	Gustavo Oberman
21	India	MF	Arata Izumi
22	Mali	MF	Mohamed Sissoko (captain)
23	Armenia	GK	Apoula Edel
24	India	MF	Lenny Rodrigues
25	India	DF	Narayan Das
26	India	MF	Manish Maithani
27	India	FW	Ashique Kuruniyan

Staffs of Football Club Pune City in 2016

Position	Name
Head Coach	Antonio Lopez Habas
Assistant Coach	Renedy Singh
Goalkeeping Coach	Angel Pindado
Technical Director	David Moliner
Team Physiotherapist 1	Alvaro Ramos Astolfi
Team Physiotherapist 2	Santiago Rodrigues Calleja
Team Doctor	Ajit Mapari
Youth Team - Head Coach	Roger Lamesa
Youth Team - Assistant Coach	Mohan Dass and Steve Charles

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