FC Chitwan is a Nepali professional franchise

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club based in Bharatpur. The club competes in the

Nepal Super League The Nepal Super League (), simply known as the NSL, is Nepal, Nepal's first professional Franchising, franchise club association football, football league organised by the ''Nepal Sports and Events Management'' (NSEM) with technical support of ...

, the top flight football league in Nepal.

History

2021

The club was founded in March 2021 before the commencement of

, the first ever franchise football league in Nepal under the control of

All Nepal Football Association The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) (Nepali language, Nepali: अखिल नेपाल फुटबल संघ (एन्फा)) is the governing body of football in Nepal. It is responsible for the Nepal national football team, men's ...

(ANFA). The club played their first match on 26 April 2021 against

Lalitpur City FC Lalitpur City Football Club is a Nepal, Nepali professional franchising, franchise association football, football club based in Lalitpur, Nepal, Lalitpur, Bagmati Province. The club competes in the Nepal Super League, the top flight football in ...

2023

On 29 September 2023, the club roped in former Indian midfielder

Khalid Jamil Khalid Ahmed Jamil (born 21 April 1977) is an Indian professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Indian Super League club Jamshedpur. Jamil spent most of his playing career at Mahindra United, Air India a ...

as their head coach.

Coaching record

Team position by years

* NSL,

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

: 7th

References

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