Sesa Football Academy

Sesa Football Academy
Full nameSesa Football Academy[1]
Short nameSFA
Founded1960; 64 years ago (1960) (as Sesa Sports Club)
1999; 25 years ago (1999) (as Sesa Football Academy)
GroundSircaim Academy Ground, Goa
OwnerVedanta Sports
Head coachCharles Dias
LeagueGoa Professional League
I-League 3
WebsiteClub website

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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