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Gokulam Kerala FC
Indian association football club based in Kozhikode / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gokulam Kerala Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Malappuram, Kerala.[2] Founded in 2017,[3] the club competes in the I-League, the second tier of Indian football league system.[4][5][6] They won the 2020–21 I-League title to become the first club from Kerala to do so, and became the first team to defend the league title in 2021–22.[7][8] Gokulam is also the first and so far the only club from the state to qualify for a continental competition, AFC Cup, in 2022.[9][10]
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Full name | Gokulam Kerala Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Malabarians[1] | ||
Short name | GKFC | ||
Founded | January 2017; 7 years ago (2017-01) (as Gokulam FC) | ||
Ground | Kottappadi Football Stadium | ||
Capacity | 8,000 | ||
Owner | Sree Gokulam Group | ||
President | V. C. Praveen | ||
Head coach | Antonio Rueda | ||
League | I-League | ||
2023–24 | I-League, 3rd of 13 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Nicknamed Malabarians, Gokulam Kerala represents the state of Kerala, predominantly its Malabar region.[1][11][12] Affiliated with Kerala Football Association (KFA), club's reserve team competes in Kerala Premier League, and clinched titles in 2017–18,[13] and 2020–21.[14] They also won the 129th edition of the Durand Cup, becoming only the second side from Kerala to win that competition.[15] The women's section of the club participates in the Indian Women's League.[16]