PIFA Sports FC

PIFA Sports Football Club, or simply PIFA,^[1] is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra that competes in the Mumbai Football League,^[2][3][4] They also participated in I-League 2.^[5][6]

PIFA Sports

Full name	PIFA Sports FC
Nickname(s)	Mumbai's Pride
Short name	PSFC
Founded	2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Ground	Cooperage Ground
Capacity	5,000
Owner	PIFA Sports Private Limited
Chairman	Nirvan Shah
Head coach	Anjali Shah
League	MFA Elite Division

Players

2019 senior team squad

As of 1 January 2019^[7][8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Tejas Jadhav 2 DF  IND Andreas D'Souza 3 DF  IND Parth Shetty 4 MF  IND Satish Tevar 5 DF  IND Vaibhav Tandel 6 DF  IND Omkar Dalvi 7 MF  IND Gaurav Shinde 8 DF  IND Divyanshu Patil 9 MF  IND Ravi Bagdi 10 FW  IND Omkar Shinde 11 MF  IND Aloysius Fernandes

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  IND Anant Gadekar 16 FW  IND Ivan Reddy 17 FW  IND Kaiwalya Tare 18 MF  IND Chetan Tandel 19 MF  IND Vandan Meher 20 FW  IND Lalit Patil 21 FW  IND Akash Valmiki 23 DF  IND Neel Shah 24 DF  IND Kalpesh Nijap 12 DF  IND Anderson M. 30 GK  IND Faiz Thakkar

Honours

Men's team

• Nadkarni Cup^[9]
  • Runners-up (3): 2011, 2016, 2017

Women's team

• WIFA Women's Football League^[10]
  • Champions (1): 2021–22
  • Runners-up (1): 2022–23

References

1. "2nd Division I-League: focus on Hindustan FC". i-league.org. 19 March 2015. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
2. "PIFA MP United". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
3. "MFA announce teams for Super Division". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
4. Shetty, Chittu (4 November 2021). "MFA announce teams for Super Division". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
5. Change in format for I-League 2nd division Archived 29 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine Sportskeeda.com. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
6. "I-league 2nd Division second phase". Goalie365.com. 7 June 2015. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
7. "Mumbai's PIFA Sports FC squad announced for MDFA Elite Division". Football Counter.^{[permanent dead link]}
8. "Results & Fixtures: 2nd Division I-League". Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
9. Neil Morrison. "India - List of Nadkarni Cup Finals". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
10. "PIFA Win WIFA Women's League Title, Qualifies For IWL – Final Round". WIFA. 10 February 2022. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

Further reading

• Shetty, Chittu (29 October 2023). "Mumbai Premier League 2023–24: Mumbai's Best Teams Ready to Compete". footballcounter.com. Mumbai: Football Counter India. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.