Mumbai City FC
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| Full name | Mumbai City Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) |
Aamchi Mumbai Blue Army |
| Founded | 30 August 2014 ; (2 Years ago) |
| Ground | Mumbai Football Arena, Andheri |
| Capacity | 18,000 (can be limited to 7,960 for safety reasons) |
| Owner |
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| Manager | Alexandre Guimarães |
| League | Indian Super League |
| 2016 | Regular season: 1st Finals: Semi-finals |
| Website | Club home page |
Aamchi Mumbai
Mumbai City Football Club is an Indian professional football franchise based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which competes in Indian Super League. The club was launched in August 2014 during the ISL's inaugural season. The team is co-owned by Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal Parekh, a Chartered Accountant.
Former England international Peter Reid managed the club and Freddie Ljungberg was the marquee player for the first season. For the second season it was announced that Nicolas Anelka will don the position of marquee player as well as manager of the club. In 2016 Diego Forlan played as the marquee player while Alexandre Guimaraes took over as the new manager. For the first time Mumbai City topped the league table.
In early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, the National Federation for Football in India, and IMG-Reliance would be accepting bids for ownership of eight of nine selected cities for the upcoming Indian Super League, an eight-team franchise league modeled along the lines of the Indian Premier League, the country's professional cricket league.
" Football has always been a fierce passion and owning a club has been a lifelong dream. For now I have got my hands full with Mumbai City FC and my ambition for the club over the next five years is to make it the most professionally run club in Asia. Having said that, I am willing to step in and contribute towards the growth of football in any which way needed because the growth of the football ecosystem goes hand in hand with the growth of Mumbai City FC."
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