Full name | Sesa Football Academy[1] | ||
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Short name | SFA | ||
Founded | 1960 (as Sesa Sports Club) 1999 (as Sesa Football Academy) | ||
Ground | Sircaim Academy Ground, Goa | ||
Owner | Vedanta Sports | ||
Head coach | Charles Dias | ||
League | Goa Professional League
I-League 3 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Sesa Football Academy (SFA) is an Indian professional football club based in Sanquelim, Goa.[2][3][4] Originally founded in the 1960s as Sesa Sports Club,[5] it currently competes in the Goa Professional League,[6][7] and had previously participated in the NFL II and the I-League 2nd Division.[8][9][10] SFA is a unit of Sesa Community Development Foundation, which is promoted by Vedanta Limited with the objective of service to the community in its operational areas.[11][12] Sesa is the acronym of Scambi Economici SA Goa, its parent mining company founded in 1954.[13]
SFA began functioning in June 1999.[14] Sesa Football Academy was the champion of the Goa First Division League in 2018–19, gaining its promotion to the Goa Professional League.
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