Odisha Football Club Reserves and Academy represent the youth system of the Indian Super League side Odisha, that competes in the Elite League, the main youth club competition of Indian football.
History On 20-February-2018, it was announced by the All India Football Federation, the organising body for Indian football, that Delhi Dynamos Football Club, along with six other Indian Super League sides, would field a reserve team in the I-League 2nd Division, India's second division football league. The reserve side squad and coaches were then unveiled a few weeks later. On 06-March-2018, Francisco Perez Lazaro was confirmed as the reserve side's first head coach. The 2017–18 I-League 2nd Division was their first and last season in the league. Since then, the team has been participating in the Elite League, India's elite youth league. The team participated as Delhi Dynamos FC Reserves for the 2018–19 season.
Odisha Ahead of the 2019–20 Indian football season, the club decided to relocated to its new base, i.e. the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha and rechristen itself as Odisha FC. In the presence of the Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister of Odisha, and Tusharkanti Behera, the Minister for Department of Sports and Youth Services (DSYS), Government of Odisha, the Delhi Soccer Private Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Odisha, to facilitate the move, i.e. from the national capital New Delhi to Bhubaneswar. As per the MoU, it was mutually decided that the club's first team, youth teams, youth football development program and grassroots football development program will be based in Odisha.
Squads Reserves
U18
Youth Player of the Season U18 SeasonPlayerNationalityPosition2019–20Akshunna Tyagi IndiaForward
U15 SeasonPlayerNationalityPosition2019–20Nirmanyu Singh Atri IndiaForward
U13 SeasonPlayerNationalityPosition2019–20Aditya Adhikari IndiaMidfielder
Records and statistics Overview Reserves
Season I-League 2nd Division/Reliance Foundation Development League Top Scorer Player GoalsAs Delhi Dynamos FC2017–189225598Group Stage – 5th Play-offs – DNQ Seiminmang Manchong4As Odisha FC2022–23TBD
Youth
Season Elite League Top Scorer Player GoalsAs Delhi Dynamos FC2018–1913823401326Group Stage – 1st Play-offs – 4th Seiminmang Manchong9As Odisha FC2019–2014941451231Group Stage – 2nd Play-offs – Cancelled Akshunna Tyagi202022-235311770Group Stage – 2nd Knockouts – Round of 16 Chintu Nag3
Head coaches' record Reserves
NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%As Delhi Dynamos FCFrancisco Perez Lazaro06-March-201831-January-2019As Odisha FCAmit RanaTBD
Youth
NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%As Delhi Dynamos FCFrancisco Perez Lazaro06-March-201831-January-2019As Odisha FCSandeep Alhan31-August-201918-February-2020Ajaya Kumar Behera29-December-2022Present
Personnel Position Name Reserves head coach Amit Rana U18, U15 head coach Sandeep Alhan U13 head coach Kirti Kashyap Head of football operations Abhik Chatterjee Head of women's football Randeep Baruah Youth teams manager Sayantan Ganguly Grassroots manager Suvam Das
See also Odisha FC Odisha FC Women
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