Friends Club is a Nepali professional football 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.
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 products of Friends Club.
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. 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. In 1996, the club toured to Bangladesh and took part in Bangabandhu Cup.
Achievements Tribhuvan Challenge Shield (2): 1985, 1986 Birthday Cup runner up (1): 2042 (BS)
Head coaching record updated on 14 May 2020 NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%Ramesh Maharjan 20182019Marcos Filipe20192020
League finishes The season-by-season performance of FC since 2000: ChampionsRunners-upThird placePromotedRelegated SeasonLeaguePosition2000A-Division11th2001–2002League not held2003-04A-Division5th20045th2005–200612th2006–20077th2008–2009League not held due to conflicts between ANFA and the clubs2010A-Division8th20116th2011–12 National7th2012–13A-Division4th2013–148th2015Nationalbanned by ANFA2017–2018 No league held2018–19A-Division11th2019–2011th2020-21Not held due to COVID-192021–2212th202311th
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