Bengaluru FC
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| Full name | Bengaluru Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues |
| Founded | 20 July 2013 |
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Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| Capacity | 24,000 |
| Owner | JSW Group |
| Chairman | Sajjan Jindal |
| Head coach | Albert Roca |
| League | I-League |
| 2016–17 | I-League, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
Bengaluru Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The club participates in the I-League, India's top-tier football league. It is the first ever club to have won the I-League in its debut season. The team is currently owned by Mumbai-based company, JSW Group and its managing director is Sajjan Jindal. The club's home ground is the 24,000 seater Sree Kanteerava Stadium.
Formed in July 2013, the club has established itself as a premier footballing establishment in the country with a strong community focus, modeled on the lines of the football club structure in England and other European countries. The club has launched various programs for the football loving youth of the city. In April 2014, the club launched the first BFC Soccer School in the city with an aim to capture budding young football talent. Other initiatives include the BFC in the Community program which is mainly a social responsibility program for the club support around the city. The program is currently headed by John Killa.
Around the beginning of January 2013, word managed to get out that the Mumbai Tigers (then Dodsal FC) had failed to register on time for the upcoming 2013 I-League 2nd Division campaign and that they could instead get direct-entry into the I-League, India's top-tier football league, through a cash payment to the All India Football Federation, the main football association for the sport in India, and a promise to create a stadium within Mumbai, Maharashtra by 2017. Later that month on 12 January it was announced that the All India Football Federation had called for an executive meeting on the 15th to discuss the proposal of handing select companies direct-spots into the 2013–14 I-League. This news came following the uncertainly over the participation of institutional clubs, Air India FC and ONGC and the temporarily banned side Mohun Bagan for the 2013–14 season.
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