City Club (football)
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| Full name | Mirpur Sports & Physical Culture Center & City Club | |
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| Short name | MSPCC City Club | |
| Founded | 1972 | |
| Ground | City Club Ground, Mirpur | |
| President | Hossain Mollah | |
| League | Dhaka Second Division League | |
| Website | Club website | |
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City Club (Bengali: সিটি ক্লাব), also known as Mirpur Sports & Physical Culture Center or MSPCC City Club is a Bangladeshi football club based in the Mirpur, Dhaka. It currently competes in the Dhaka Second Division League, the fourth-tier of Bangladeshi football.
History[edit]
The club was established in 1972 as Mirpur Sports & Physical Culture Center (MSPCC) in Mirpur, Dhaka.[1] In 1984, a few of the club's founders, including the co-founder and club captain at the time, Hossain Mollah, bought Dhaka Second Division Football League club, Shahjahanpur SC, for Tk 1 lakh. In 1985, after both MSPCC and Shahjahanpur completed their merger, its general secretary, the late Sadeque Hossain Khoka, renamed the newly merged club as City Club.[2]
In 2010, the club showed interest in turning fully professional and was rumored to take part in the second-tier professional football league, the Bangladesh Championship League.[3] However, by the time the league got underway in 2012, the club's interest faded. In 2017, the club finished runners-up in the Pioneer Football League, which is the sixth-tier.[4] They were directly promoted to the fourth-tier, the Dhaka Second Division Football League and took part in the 2018–19 league season.[5]
Competitive record[edit]
Results are only available since their return to the Dhaka Second Division Football League in the 2018–19 season.
| Record as Dhaka Football League member | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Division | League | Federation Cup | Independence Cup | Top league scorer(s) | ||||||||
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Position | Player | Goals | ||||
| 2018–19 | Second Division | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | N/A | N/A | 14 | N/A | DNP | DNP | Arif Sumon | 3 |
| 2021–22 | Second Division | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6th Group Stage | DNP | DNP | Touhidul & Fazlul | 2 |
| 2022–23 | Second Division | TBD | |||||||||||
| Champions | Runners-up | Promoted | Relegated |
Honours[edit]
- Dhaka Third Division League
- Champions (1): 2000
- Pioneer Football League
- Runners-up (1): 2017
References[edit]
- ^ "How Bangladeshi sports clubs were named". The Business Standard. August 6, 2023. Archived from the original on April 6, 2024.
- ^ LR, Badal (April 10, 2018). "ফুটবল ছেড়ে সিটি ক্লাব এখন ক্রিকেটার তৈরির মেশিন". Amader Shomoy (in Bengali). Archived from the original on April 6, 2024.
- ^ "City Club want to play pro league". The Daily Star. March 23, 2010. Archived from the original on April 6, 2024.
- ^ "পাইওনিয়ার লিগে কিং স্টার চ্যাম্পিয়ন". Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). Archived from the original on April 6, 2024.
- ^ "মাঠে গড়ালো দ্বিতীয় বিভাগ ফুটবল লিগ". banglanews24.com (in Bengali). January 11, 2017. Archived from the original on April 6, 2024.