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ONGC FC
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Football Club (known simply as ONGC FC) was an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai. The club was an institutional arm of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), and part of its multi-sports club. Nicknamed "The Oilmen", they competed in both the domestic top tiers National Football League, and I-League, alongside the regional competition named MDFA Elite League. The club also operated a non-professional football section that participates in regional corporate tournaments, including All-India Public Sector League. History 2006–2010: I-League 2nd Division In 2006, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation revived its football section and renamed it as ''ONGC F.C.'', in hope of expanding their involvement in Indian football, which included title sponsoring the old National Football League, Durand Cup and Nehru Cup. In 2007, ONGC reached final of the prestigious Bordoloi Trophy, in which they were beaten by Port Authority of Thailan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooperage Ground
The Cooperage Football Ground is a Association football, football stadium located in Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is predominantly home to multiple Mumbai Football League clubs. The Western India Football Association has operated from the Cooperage Ground since 1969, and the Mumbai District Football Association holds a small office. It was a venue for one of India's premier national leagues, the I-League. Mahindra United FC, Kenkre FC, and Mumbai FC used the stadium as home ground in both the National Football League (India), NFL and the I-League, while Ambernath United Atlanta FC hosted its I-League 2nd Division games. History Cooperage Ground was the primary venue for Rovers Cup, the third oldest football tournament in India after Durand Cup, Durand and Trades Cup. The stadium was occupied by the British Indian Army during the World War I. In April 2011, plans were announced for the Cooperage Football Ground to be renovated when FIFA announced that they would give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 I-League 2nd Division
The 2012 I-League 2nd Division was the fifth season of the then second tier of Football in India, using promotion and relegation with the I-League. Stadiums The 2012 I-League 2nd Division was played in 4 stadiums. Three of the stadiums were used for the Group Stage and one for the Final Stage. The stadiums used in the group stage were the Barabati Stadium (Orissa), Ambedkar Stadium (New Delhi) and the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium (Assam). Team overview Teams and locations Personnel and sponsoring Managerial Changes Group stage Group A Group A will take place at the Barabati Stadium in Orissa. Group B Group B will take place at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi. Group C Group C will take place at the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium in Assam. Final round The final round of the 2012 I-League 2nd Division will take place between six teams from the group stage and the team relegated from I-League ONGC in a single table format in which each team plays each other once a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirag United Club Kerala
Viva Kerala Football Club (also known as Chirag United Club Kerala) was an Indian professional association football, football club based in the city of Kochi, Kerala. The club was originally formed in 2004 as ''Viva Kerala''. They participated in the National Football League (India), National Football League, and later in the I-League, then the top tier of Indian football league system, alongside the Kerala Premier League. The club was dissolved in 2012. Described as one of the most talented and youngest sides in I-League, Viva Kerala was one of the unluckiest sides in domestic league history. The club was briefly managed by noted Indian coach T. K. Chatunni. They got dissolved in 2012. History Formation and journey Chirag United Club Kerala was formed on 8 August 2004 in Kochi. The club officially took off on 19 August in a ceremony at the FACT grounds. The team was predominantly formed by a group of businessmen who felt the need for the state's representation in country's dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Lake Stadium
The Salt Lake Stadium, officially known as Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), is a multi-purpose stadium, used mostly for football matches, located in Salt Lake City, Greater Kolkata, with a capacity of 68,000 spectators. Named after Swami Vivekananda, the stadium is one of the home grounds of East Bengal FC and Mohun Bagan SG. The stadium hosted the final match of the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, alongside other matches of the tournament. The stadium switched back to natural grass from artificial turf, unveiled in a Kolkata Derby match between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan during the 2016 Calcutta Premier Division match. About The stadium was established in 1984 because the club grounds in the Maidan area, each with capacity around 20,000, were proving too small for the huge crowd that occupied the grounds on matchdays. And while the Eden Gardens was there to handle some of the bigger games, like the Kolkata Derby, the pressure of handling both cricket and football wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bengal F
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India National Football Team
The India national football team represents India in men's international Association football, football and is governed by the All India Football Federation, the governing body for Football in India, football in India. It is a member of FIFA, Asian Football Confederation, AFC and the South Asian Football Federation, SAFF. The team, which is considered as the best team in South Asia, won two gold medals at the Football at the 1951 Asian Games, 1951 and Football at the 1962 Asian Games, 1962 Asian Games while finishing fourth at the Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956 1956 Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics. India has never participated in the FIFA World Cup, although they did qualify by default for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950 World Cup after all other nations in their qualification group withdrew. However, India withdrew prior to the beginning of the tournament. The team has also appeared four times in the AFC Asian Cup, Asia's top football championship and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badmus Babatunde
Ayomide Babatunde Badmus (28 February 1986) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward. Babatunde has played for ONGC F.C. in 2010–11 I-League, scoring11 goals before his club was relegated. Career ONGC F.C. Badmus Babatunde was a star scorer, as he guided ONGC F.C. to promotion after finishing undefeated in the Final Round of the 2010 I-League 2nd Division. They finished runners-up to the Sanquelim-based SESA Football Academy in Group-B, but in the Final Round, ONGC's unbeaten run meant they won the 2010 I-League 2nd Division and were promoted to the 2010-11 I-League. Babatunde had scored against Vasco S.C. in the 1-0 win, then against Malabar United in the 3-1 win, against Oil India in the 4-1 win, against HAL in 2-1 win, once in these consecutive matches. In the 2010-11 I-League, he scored a brace in the 2-5 loss against Dempo S.C. in September 2010. In December, he scored against AIFF XI at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in the 1-1 draw. He scored a brace again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Opara
Nbusiyu David Opara (born 14 December 1985) is a Nigerian football player, who plays for Laxmi Prasad S.C. in the Goa Professional League The Goa Football League is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of Goa, organised by the Goa Football Association as part of the state leagues. It was formed in 1951 as the Goa Primeira Divisão or Goa First Division, and .... References External links goal.com * 1985 births Living people Nigerian men's footballers Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in India Expatriate men's footballers in India I-League players Churchill Brothers FC Goa players Air India FC players ONGC FC players Mumbai FC players Men's association football forwards 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen {{Nigeria-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight years after Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name '' The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''The'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his Tamil Nadu press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of '' The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I-League 2010-11
The I-League is the men's second professional football division of the Indian football league system behind the Indian Super League. Administered by the All India Football Federation, it is currently contested by 13 clubs. It operates as a system of promotion and relegation with the Indian Super League (ISL) and the I-League 2. The competition was founded in 2007 as the successor to the National Football League, with the first season starting in November 2007. The league was launched as India's first top-tier professional football league with the aim to increase the player pool for the India national team. I-League operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the I-League 2 and at first only promotion system with the ISL, from the 2022–23 season. Since the inception of the I-League, a total of ten clubs have been crowned champions. Dempo have won the most titles in league history, being crowned champions three times. Churchill Brothers, Mohun Bagan, Bengaluru and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
