Churchill Brothers FC Goa
Churchill Brothers Football Club Goa (simply known as Churchill Brothers) is an Indian professional football club based in Margao, Goa, that competes in the I-League, alongside Goa Professional League. Founded in 1988 in Margao, the club usually participated in the National Football League, then top tier of Indian football league system.
| Full name | Churchill Brothers Football Club Goa | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Red Machines | ||
| Short name | CB, CBFC | ||
| Founded | 1988 | ||
| Ground | Fatorda Stadium Tilak Maidan Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 19,000 5,000 | ||
| Owner | Valanka Alemao | ||
| Head coach | Francesc Bonet | ||
| League | I-League | ||
| 2023–24 | I-League, 7th of 13 | ||
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The club has won the I-League title twice and has secured a position among the top three teams on nine other occasions in the national league. It has also won eight Goa League Champions Cups, three Durand Cups, and a Federation Cup.
Churchill Brothers emerged as fourth ranked Indian team, and 648 universally, in the international rankings of clubs during the first ten years of the 21st century (2001–2010), issued by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 2011.