Wikipedia - Friends Club
Friends Club is a Nepali professional football club from the Kopundole neighborhood of Lalitpur. The club is known for nurturing young talent of Nepalese Football. Friends Club has produced more than 200 national football players to date. It also organized certain social activities like reading room facilities, blood donations, bicycle rallies against drug abuse etc.
Since the late 1980s, it has implemented different training activities for women and children. The team practices on the grounds of Pulchok Campus. National players like Raju Tamang, Bharat Khawas, Sagar Thapa, Nirajan Khadka or Deepak Bhusal are all products of Friends Club Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.
History
Friends club was established in 1972 as a children's club with reading room facility in Kopundol. After couple of year of its establishment, the club diversified its social activities with a motto of "better health through sports among the people of Kopundol." Eventually Friends Club established itself as a well reputed local sports club and for next several years, it remained only as a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like reading room facility, blood donation, bicycle rally against drugs abuse etc. It was since late eighties that the Club started implementing various training activities for women and children. It also started a health clinic and Pathology laboratory which eventually, became very popular among the people of Kopundol and surrounding community. The club has come a long way since 1972 until now from a sports club to a sport-cum social club.[]
In 1996, the club toured to Bangladesh and took part in Bangabandhu Cup.
El Friends Club Kopundole ha ganado la Liga de Fútbol de Nepal en tres ocasiones, en 2013, 2014 y 2016. También ha ganado la Copa de Nepal en dos ocasiones, en 2014 y 2016. El club ha representado a Nepal en competiciones internacionales, como la Copa de la AFC y la Copa Presidente de la AFC.
El Friends Club Kopundole es uno de los clubes más populares y exitosos de Nepal. Tiene una gran base de seguidores y es conocido por su estilo de juego ofensivo. El club es una parte importante de la comunidad de fútbol de Nepal y ha ayudado a desarrollar el fútbol en el país.
Algunos de los jugadores más destacados del Friends Club Kopundole son:
* Bishal Rai
* Anjan Bista
* Santosh Sahukhala
* Jagajeet Shrestha
* Rohit Chand