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Kickstart FC is an Indian professional football club from Karnataka. Their women's team participate in Indian Women's League. Men's side competes in the BDFA Super division.[2][3] Kickstart FC was nominated for I-League 2nd Division in 2019 and 2021 but didn't make it to the final list approved by the AIFF.[4]

Kickstart FC

Full name	Kickstart Football Club Karnataka
Founded	9 July 2016; 6 years ago (9 July 2016)[1]
Owner	Shekar Rajan Laxman Bhattarai
Website	Club website

Active departments of Kickstart FC
Football (Women's)	Football (Men's)

History

KickstartFC was founded on 9 July 2016 by Shekar Rajan and Laxman Bhattarai to develop grassroot level football in Karnataka. In 2019–20 Santosh Trophy, 10 players from KickstartFC played for senior state team of Karnataka, most of any football club in India.^{[citation needed]} In 2020-21 and 2021-22 season Kickstart were the runners up of BDFA Super Division and were nominated for 2nd Division I-League.^{[citation needed]}

Technical staff

Title	Name
Chairman	Shekar Rajan
CEO	Laxman Bhattarai
Head coach	Raghu Kumar M., Kalidasan K.
Manager	Saravana D.

Players

Current Team

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 Deepak Saravanan 1 GK  IND Jayanth Kumar — DF  IND Harpreet Singh — DF  IND Kiran Das — DF  IND John Peter — DF  IND Prashanth Kalinga — DF  IND Siju S — DF  IND Vishal Kumar — DF  IND Keith Raymond Stephen —  IND K Sudheer —  IND Solaimalai — MF  NGA Lucky Kelechukwa — MF  IND Shajan Franklin — MF  IND Ajay Alex Antona Y — MF  IND Rahul Yadav — MF  IND Karthik Govindaswamy — FW  IND Magesh Selva — FW  IND Nikhil Raj — FW  NGA Princewill Olariche

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2016–2020	—	—
2021–present	SIX5SIX[5][6]

Women's team

Kickstart FC women's team won the Karnataka Women's League three times continuously in 2018–19, 2019–20 and 2029–21,[7] which is the top division women's premier football league in Karnataka.[8][9]

Current players

As of 15 April 2022[10]

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 Maibam Linthoingambi Devi 2 DF  IND Nganbam Sweety Devi 3 DF  IND Wangkhem Linthoingambi Devi 4 DF  IND Phanjoubam Nirmala Devi 5 DF  IND Kangabam Anita Devi 6 MF  IND Thingbaijam Babysana Devi 7 FW  IND Irom Prameshwori Devi 8 MF  IND Sushmita Lepcha 9 MF  IND Phijam Anjali Chanu 10 MF  IND Kshetrimayum Margaret Devi (Captain) 11 FW  IND Asem Roja Devi

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 FW  IND Yangoijam Kiranbala Chanu 13 DF  IND Yumlembam Pakpi Devi 14 MF  IND Laishram Bibicha Devi 18 MF  IND Vunglawmching 21 GK  IND Yendrembam Yaiphabi Devi 22 DF  IND Mayangmayum Achoubi 24 GK  IND Aiswarya A 25 MF  IND Sibani Sharma 55 FW  IND Samundeeswari 99 FW  IND Kaviya Pakkirisamy

Honours

Domestic league

• Bangalore Super Division
  • Runners-up (2): 2019–20, 2020–21

Cup

• Puttaiah Memorial Cup
  • Winners (1): 2022

Women's team

• Karnataka Women's League
  • Champions (3): 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22

Affiliated clubs

• VV SBC (2021—present)[11]

References

External links

• Kickstart FC on Twitter
• Kickstart FC on Facebook
• Kickstart FC at Sofascore
• Kickstart FC at the-aiff.com (AIFF)
• Kickstart FC at Global Sports Archive

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