Full name | Friends Club[1] |
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Founded | 16 May 1972[2] |
Ground | Pulchowk Campus,[citation needed] Lalitpur, Nepal |
Capacity | 10,000 |
Chairman | Bishwas Bikram Shah |
Head coach | Urjan Shrestha |
League | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League |
2023 | 12th of 14 |
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.[citation needed] 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 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.[citation needed]