Ambernath United Atlanta FC

Ambernath United Atlanta Football Club, or simply Atlanta FC, is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It currently competes in the MFA Elite Division (top division of Mumbai Football League), and the I-League 2nd Division.[1][2][3][4][5]

Ambernath United Atlanta
Full nameAmbernath United Atlanta Football Club
Founded2022 (2022)
GroundCooperage Ground, Mumbai
Capacity5,000
OwnerDeepu K.
Head coachSteven Dias
LeagueMFA Elite Division
I-League 2nd Division
2022–23MFA Elite Division, Champions
Departments of Ambernath United Atlanta FC
Football (Men's) Football (Women's)

History

Ambernath United Atlanta FC is created by a merger between Deepu K.'s Ambernath United and Allen Contractor's Atlanta FC in 2022.[6] Atlanta FC[7] was playing in Elite Division before the merger while Ambernath United was playing in local tournaments.[8] Ambernath United Atlanta won the MFA Elite Division in their first year with a very dominant performance under coach Steven Dias, who was assistant coach of Odisha FC and interim coach of Jamshedpur FC, among others.[9]

Technical staff
Title Name
Owner Deepu K.
Co-Owner Allen Contractor
Head coach Steven Dias

Players

First-team squad
As of 21 March 2023

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 India IND Manoj Gupta
2 DF India IND Bipin Rawat
4 DF India IND Tejas Raut
5 DF India IND Nishant Sunder Shetty
7 FW India IND Aaron Dcosta
9 MF India IND Johnson Joseph Mathews
10 MF India IND Allan Joseph Dias
11 FW India IND Himanshu Patil (captain)
19 MF India IND Kaustubh Ravindra
20 MF India IND Abhijit Tawhare
21 DF India IND Shravan Shetty
22 FW India IND Ashley Alban Koli
23 MF India IND Nitesh Monde
30 DF India IND Umesh Perambra
No. Pos. Nation Player
32 FW India IND Arif Shaikh
44 DF India IND Vishnu Menon
46 FW India IND Mandeep Singh Multani
48 DF India IND Bersal Oswin Viegas
91 GK India IND Rahul Murali
97 GK India IND Yasheel Shah
— DF India IND Kamlesh Sathanathan Nadar
— MF India IND Ritesh Somnath Choudhari
— MF India IND Alok Singh
— MF India IND Pankaj
— FW India IND Sameer Kashyap
— FW India IND Tanmay Dayanand Talgaonkar
— FW India IND Shebin Siraj
— FW India IND Sunny Vishnu Thakur

Women's team

Ambernath United's women team plays in MDFA Women's League, under the name Mumbai Knights FC.[10]

Honours

Domestic league

References
  1. "IRSC – R.S.F. vs Ambernath Utd - Atlanta FC". Mumbai Football Association. Archived from the original on 12 September 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. "MFA Announce First Set Of Fixtures For MFA Elite League | IFTWC - Indian Football Team For World Cup". 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  3. Maithilesh, Aryalok (31 May 2022). "MFA Elite Premier League: Ambernath United Atlanta FC clinch maiden title". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  4. "15 games, 15 wins and 71 goals: Here's how this Mumbai football team is ruling the Elite Premier League". Free Press Journal. Archived from the original on 5 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  5. admin, F. C. (1 April 2022). "Anthony, D'Costa shine in Ambernath United big win". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  6. Maithilesh, Aryalok (29 May 2022). "MFA Elite Premier League: Ambernath United Atlanta FC register a convincing win over The Oranje FC". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  7. Shetty, Chittu (24 September 2020). "The Atlanta FC story - From fifth tier to Mumbai's top division in a decade". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  8. "डोंबिवली फूटबॉल स्पर्धेत अंबरनाथ युनाटेड अन् ज्युपिटर अकादमीने मारली बाजी". Lokmat (in Marathi). 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  9. "Odisha FC's Steven Dias: I want to prove myself as a coach | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  10. "Mumbai Knights Women's Team football trials". Archived from the original on 12 September 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  11. Maithilesh, Aryalok (31 May 2022). "MFA Elite Premier League: Ambernath United Atlanta FC clinch maiden title". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  12. Shetty, Chittu (11 March 2023). "Atlanta FC secures back-to-back MFA Elite Premier League titles with win over KSA". Football Counter. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  13. Maithilesh, Aryalok (31 May 2022). "'Invincibles' Ambernath Utd – Atlanta FC lift Harwood Champions League title". Football Counter. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
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