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Full name | Mumbai City Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Islanders | ||
Short name | MCFC | ||
Founded | 30 August 2014 | ||
Ground | Mumbai Football Arena | ||
Capacity | 6,600 | ||
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Chairman | Khaldoon Al Mubarak[1] | ||
Head coach | Petr Kratky | ||
League | Indian Super League | ||
2023–24 | Indian Super League, 2nd of 12 Playoffs: Champions | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Football (Men's) |
Football (Reserves & Academy) |
(eSports)[2] |
Mumbai City Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is part of the City Football Group. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top tier of the Indian football league system. Mumbai City is one of the most successful clubs in the history of the ISL. They are the first club to win both the League Winners Shield and the ISL title in a single season, which it accomplished in the 2020–21 season. They are the only team to win the ISL league winners shield twice.
Former England international Peter Reid managed the club during the first season with Freddie Ljungberg as the marquee player.[3][4] For the second season, it was announced that Nicolas Anelka would take the role of marquee player-cum-manager of the club.[5] In 2016, Diego Forlán played as the marquee player while Alexandre Guimarães took over as the new manager.[6][7] In 2018, Jorge Costa was announced as the head coach for the new season and he guided them to the play-offs in his realm.[8][9][10] In 2020, Sergio Lobera was announced as the manager for the new season and they won the ISL league winners shield and the league title for the first time during the 2020–21 Indian Super League season.[11][12]
Des Buckingham who was appointed as the head coach before the 2021–22 Indian Super League season, led the team to two wins in the 2022 AFC Champions League making Mumbai the first Indian team to win a game at the AFC Champions League group stage,[13] and ended up finishing second in the group, narrowly missing out on qualifying for the next round.[14] In 2022–23 Indian Super League, Des led Mumbai to an 18-game unbeaten streak, the longest ever in the history of ISL[15] and thereby won the second shield for Mumbai within 3 years after topping the league.[16]
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