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Sporting Clube de Goa (simply known as Sporting Goa and abbreviated as SCG)[1][2] is an Indian professional football club based in Panaji, Goa.[3] The club competes in the I-League 2, the third tier of the Indian football league system and the Goa Football League.[4][5] Nicknamed "The Flaming Orange",[6][7] the club was founded in 1999 as Cidade de Goa.[8] They previously competed in the I-League,[9] then top-flight of Indian football league system.[10][11]
Full name | Sporting Clube de Goa | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Flaming Orange | |||
Short name | SCG | |||
Founded | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) (as Cidade de Goa) | |||
Ground | Fatorda Stadium (selected matches) | |||
Capacity | 19,000 | |||
Owner | City of Goa | |||
Chairman | Peter Vaz | |||
Head coach | Armando Colaco | |||
League | ||||
2022–23 | GPL, 2nd | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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The club was built on the lines of Portuguese club Sporting CP and adopted a similar club crest.[12] The club Cidade de Goa (City of Goa) was purchased by Sporting's owner late Mr Peter Vaz and wife current President Mrs Natalina Vaz and renamed Sporting Clube de Goa in 1999.[13] Sporting Clube de Goa won its first Goa Football League in 2006.[14][15] Since then it has clinched the title in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2021. Sporting Goa is the only club to have won the Super Cup without winning the league or Federation Cup.
Sporting Clube de Goa pulled out of 2016–17 I-League,[16] citing AIFF bias against some clubs.[17][18][19]