Churchill Brothers FC Goa

Not to be confused with FC Goa.

Churchill Brothers
Full nameChurchill Brothers Football Club Goa
Nickname(s)The Red Machines
Short nameCB
CBFC
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988) (as Varca Club)[1]
GroundFatorda Stadium
Tilak Maidan Stadium
Capacity19,000
5,000
OwnerValanka Alemao
Head coachDimitris Dimitriou
LeagueI-League
2023–24I-League, 7th of 13
Current season

Churchill Brothers Football Club Goa (simply known as Churchill Brothers) is an Indian professional football club based in Margao, Goa,[2][3] that competes in the I-League,[4][5] alongside the Goa Professional League (reserves).[6][7][8] Founded in 1988 in Margao, the club usually participated in the National Football League,[9][10] then top tier of the Indian football league system.[11]

The club has won the I-League title twice and has secured a position among the top three teams on nine other occasions in the national league.[12][13] It has also won eight Goa League Champions Cups, three Durand Cups,[14][15] and a Federation Cup.[16][17]

Churchill Brothers emerged as fourth ranked Indian team, and 648 universally, in the international rankings of clubs during the first ten years of the 21st century (2001–2010), issued by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 2011.[18]

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