# 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, the club 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 a reading-room facility in Kopundol. After a couple of years 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.

## Achievements

* Tribhuvan Challenge Shield (3): 1985, 1986, Unknown
* Mahendra Gold cup (2): Unknown
* Birthday Cup runner up (1): 2042 (BS)
* Birthday Cup (1): 2002
* Birgunj (2): Unknown
* Martyr's Memorial League runner-up (1): Unknown
* Tillotama Gold Cup runner-up (1): Unknown
* Itahari Gold Cup runner-up (1): Unknown
* Sahid Smarak League runner-up (6): Unknown

## Head coaching record

updated on 14 May 2020
| Name | Nationality | From | To | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win% |
| Ramesh Maharjan | Nepal | 2018 | 2019 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 023.08 |
| Marcos Filipe | Brazil | 2019 | 2020 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 030.77 |

## League finishes

The season-by-season performance of FC since 2000:
| Season | League | Position |
| 2000 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 11th |
| 2001–2002 | League not held | League not held |
| 2003-04 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 5th |
| 2004 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 5th |
| 2005–2006 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 12th |
| 2006–2007 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 7th |
| 2008–2009 | League not held due to conflicts between ANFA and the clubs | League not held due to conflicts between ANFA and the clubs |
| 2010 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 8th |
| 2011 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 6th |
| 2011–12 | Nepal National League | 7th |
| 2012–13 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 4th |
| 2013–14 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 8th |
| 2015 | Nepal National League | banned by ANFA |
| 2017–2018 | No league held | No league held |
| 2018–19 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 11th |
| 2019–20 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 11th |
| 2020-21 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | Not held due to COVID-19 |
| 2021–22 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 12th |
| 2023 | Martyr's Memorial A-Division League | 12th |