AU Rajasthan FC

AU Rajasthan Football Club (RFC) is an Indian professional football club based in Jaipur, Rajasthan that competes in the I-League 2nd Division. Founded in 2018, the club first competed professionally in 2019 when they were part of the 2019–20 season of I League 2nd Division.

AU Rajasthan FC
Full nameAU Rajasthan Football Club
Nickname(s)AU RFC
Founded2018 (2018)
GroundMaharaja Umed Singh Stadium
Capacity6,000
OwnerSpordy Ventures Private Limited
Head CoachAditya Awasthi
LeagueI-League 2nd Division

History

AU Rajasthan is the first premier professional football club and academy based out of Jaipur, Rajasthan. The club was founded in the year 2018 and comes under the banner of Spordy Ventures Private Limited. In its first year of inception, the club has managed to qualify for the Hero Youth Leagues and also winning the first-ever Rajasthan Women's League. The club aims to provide a pathway of progressive growth from the grassroots level to competing at the highest professional level. We believe that Indian Football Standards are rising and we aim at contributing towards it and making of professional players who will go on to represent the country at the highest level. The club in its collaboration with Palamos CF one of the oldest club in Spain's founded in 1898 and its academy Perfect Football are the technical partner of AU Rajasthan FC. The club plans to train players with the use of global training methodology in partnership with Perfect Football. AU Rajasthan is the first club from Rajasthan to play in I-League 2nd Division[1] The Indian FA are all set to invite bids for that vacant spot in the I-League and Jaipur-based AU Rajasthan Football Club are one of the front-runners to submit the bid 2020–21

Stadiums

AU Rajasthan are using the Umaid Singh Stadium in Jodhpur as their home stadium for I-League 2nd Division matches.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors
Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
2019—present AIO Sports AU Small Finance Bank

Players

Current squad
As of 29 January 2020[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  IND Nitin Meel
2 DF  IND Abhyuday Motwani
3 DF  IND Tushar Negi
4 DF  IND Aravind Sharma
5 DF  IND Spandan Sharma
6 MF  IND Pranendra Singh Thakur
7 MF  IND Jamal Choudhary
8 MF  IND Shiv Pratap Singh Ranawat
9 FW  IND Ishaan Sahi
10 MF  IND Bhupendru Singh Meena
11 MF  IND Utkrsh Koushik
15 DF  IND Shorayav Bhardwaj
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 DF  IND Prashant Narayan Choudhary
18 DF  IND Robot Atkan
19 MF  IND Ashen Henna Metel
20 MF  IND Martand Raina
21 MF  IND DM Rakeveiche
22 DF  IND Prateek Choudhary
23 MF  IND Mumtaz Akhtar
24 MF  IND Deepak Sai Thukral
25 FW  BRA Eliel da Cruz Guardiano
26 DF  IND Prithu Sharma
27 MF  IND Rudra Pratap Singh Bist
45 FW  IND Rahul Sharma
46 FW  BRA Pedro Augusto Araujo Pinheiro
99 GK  IND Maninder Singh
Current Technical Staff (as of 20 January 2020)
PositionName
Manager Mangesh Shreekant Desai
Technical Director Aditya Awasthi
Head Coach Nathan Hall
Assistant Coach Nitish Dimri
Goalkeeper Coach
Fitness Coach
Club Physio
U18 Team Coach
U15 Team Coach Abhay Kumar
U13 Team Coach

Team record
Season Div. Tms. Pos. Attendance/G Federation Cup/Super Cup AFC Champions League AFC Cup
2019–20 IL2 18 – DNP DNP DNP
Key
  • Tms. = Number of teams
  • Pos. = Position in league
  • Attendance/G = Average league attendance

Head coach's record

updated on 20 July 2020

NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%
Mangesh Shreekant Desai  India 2020 6 1 2 3 4 7 016.67

References
  1. "Eighteen teams to compete in Hero Second Division League 2019–20".
  2. "Squad". I-league.org.
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