Jamshedpur Football Club Reserves and Academy are the reserve side and youth tier setup of

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side

Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (; ), also known as Tatanagar, is a major industrial city in eastern India. It is the List of cities in Jharkhand by population, largest city in the state of Jharkhand. With a population of 629,658 in the city limits and 1.3 million ...

. Based in

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, the side was founded on 10 March 2018 and participated in

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, the second division of

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. Jamshedpur also has academy teams of various age groups which operate under the

Tata Football Academy Tata Football Academy (Tata FA or TFA) is a Association football, football academy based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, sponsored by Tata Steel, which owns Indian Super League, ISL outfit Jamshedpur FC. It is one of the renowned and leading football ...

and participate in the Elite League.

History

On 20 February 2018, it was announced by the

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, the organizing body for

, that

, along with six other

sides, would field a reserve team in the

, India's second division football league. The reserve side squad and coaches were then unveiled a few weeks later, on 10 March 2018. Hilal Rasool Parray was confirmed as the reserve side's first head coach. It was also stated that the squad would be composed of players from the

and five players selected from trials who had played in the local football league, the JSA Premier Division. On 18 May, the Men of Steel announced that they have been granted ICLS Premier 1 license by the

— the governing body of

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in India.

Statistics and records

Season-by-season

Head Coaches record

Honours

* AIFF U-17 Elite Youth League **Runners-up (1): 2025

References

External links

* {{Authority control Jamshedpur FC Reserves and Academy Football clubs in Jamshedpur Reserve team football in India Association football clubs established in 2018 I-League 2 clubs 2018 establishments in Jharkhand Football academies in India