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Mahindra United Football Club (abbreviated as MUFC) was a professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Their home ground was the Cooperage Ground in Mumbai. Mahindra United played in the 1st Division of the I-League, the AFC-affiliated top-tier football league in India before closing down at the end of 2009-10 season. The club was popularly referred as India's MU after English Premier League powerhouse Manchester United. The club was one of the popular football clubs in the country and was known for its consistent good performance in the last four decades of its existence. The club had won many a major tournaments in India. ==History== The Club was founded in 1969. as the Mahindra & Mahindra Allied Sports Club under the patronage of the Mahindra Group. The Club secured admission into Bombay's Harwood League in 1964. In the summer of 2006, the Club was renamed Mahindra United. The shirt colour was also changed from orange to red. The team played its NFL home matches at the Cooperage Ground in Mumbai, but due to the bad state of the stadium, as of February 7, 2006, they had to play almost all of their NFL games away from Mumbai. The club finished the inaugural season of the NFL Premier Division at the bottom of the table, but were not relegated as there was no second tier in the league at the time. Mahindra were crowned champions of the NFL Premier Division for the first time in the club's history in the 2005-06 season with two games to spare. They followed it up by beating their arch-rivals, Air India for the first time in the season. They are also two-time winners of the Federation Cup, having won the title in 2003 and 2005. The win in 2005 ensured that Mahindra became the first club in the history of Indian football to win the Federation Cup and National Football League double in the same season. They did however lose the NFL Super Cup to East Bengal by a margin of 1-2. The coach of the team was Derrick Pereira. Players like Subhashish Roy Chowdhury, Manjit Singh and Surojit Bose have been associated with the team. The club also tried forming under-15 and under-19 teams in order to nurture the young talent in the country.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahindra United」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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