Friends Club is a

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club from the Kopundole neighborhood of Lalitpur. The club is known for nurturing young talent of Nepalese football. Friends Club has produced more than 200 national football players to date. It also organized certain social activities like reading room facilities, blood donations, bicycle rallies against drug abuse etc. Since the late 1980s, the club has implemented different training activities for women and children. The team practices on the grounds of Pulchok Campus. National players like Raju Tamang, Bharat Khawas, Sagar Thapa, Nirajan Khadka or Deepak Bhusal are all products of Friends Club

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History

Friends Club was established in 1972 as a children's club with a reading-room facility in Kopundol. After a couple of years of its establishment, the club diversified its social activities with a motto of "better health through sports among the people of Kopundol." Eventually Friends Club established itself as a well reputed local sports club and for next several years, it remained only as a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like reading room facility, blood donation, bicycle rally against drugs abuse etc. It was since late eighties that the Club started implementing various training activities for women and children. It also started a health clinic and Pathology laboratory which eventually, became very popular among the people of Kopundol and surrounding community. The club has come a long way since 1972 until now from a sports club to a sport-cum social club. In 1996, the club toured to Bangladesh and took part in

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Achievements

* Tribhuvan Challenge Shield (3): 1985, 1986,'' Unknown'' * Mahendra Gold cup (2): ''Unknown'' * Birthday Cup runner up (1): 2042 ( BS) * Birthday Cup (1): 2002 * Birgunj (2): ''Unknown'' *

Martyr's Memorial League Martyr's Memorial A-Division League (Nepali language, Nepali: शहीद स्मारक ए- डिभिजन लिग; formerly known as the Kathmandu League Championship) also known as the Qatar Airways Martyr's Memorial A-Division Le ...

runner-up (1): ''Unknown'' * Tillotama Gold Cup runner-up (1): ''Unknown'' * Itahari Gold Cup runner-up (1): ''Unknown'' * Sahid Smarak League runner-up (6): ''Unknown''

Head coaching record

updated on 14 May 2020

League finishes

The season-by-season performance of FC since 2000:

References

External links

* {{Martyr's Memorial A-Division League Football clubs in Nepal 1972 establishments in Nepal