SBI Kerala (football team)

SBI Kerala
Full nameState Bank of India Kerala Football Team
Nickname(s)SBT
SBI Kerala
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986) (as SBT Thiruvananthapuram)
2017; 7 years ago (2017) (as SBI Kerala Football Team)
Dissolved2017
GroundUniversity Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram
Capacity20,000
LeagueKerala Premier League
2016–17Group stage, 4th

SBI Kerala Football Team (known as SBT Thiruvananthapuram FC until 2017) was a professional football club based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala that represented and was owned by the State Bank of Travancore (SBT). It last competed in the Kerala Premier League.[1][2] The club until its seizure was most successful in the Kerala Premier League history, winning the title record six times and finishing as runners-up on 5 occasions. The club has also won the National Football League Second Division twice, and became the first club from the city of Thiruvananthapuram to play in the top division of Indian football.

  1. ^ "First Soccer City in Kochi | Kochi Cochin News". Cochinsquare.com. 25 June 2012. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  2. ^ List of Champions of the Kerala State Club Football Championship Archived 1 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine Indianfootball.de. Retrieved 17 August 2021