Rajasthan Perfect FC

{{short description|Indian association football club}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

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| fullname = Rajasthan Perfect Football Club

| nickname = RPFC

| founded = {{start date and age|2018}} (as AU Rajasthan FC)

| ground = Maharaja Umaid Singh Stadium

| capacity = 20,000

| owner = Spordy Ventures Private Limited

| mgrtitle = Head coach

| manager = Mangesh Desai

| league = R-League A Division

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Rajasthan Perfect Football Club (formerly as AU Rajasthan Football Club), is an Indian professional football club based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that competes in the R-League A Division,{{Cite web|title=R-League A Division 2021|url=https://twitter.com/iminnows/status/1415906157516914690|access-date=2021-07-18|website=Twitter|language=en|archive-date=5 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805143216/https://twitter.com/iminnows/status/1415906157516914690|url-status=live}} and previously participated in the I-League 2nd Division. Founded in 2018, the club first competed professionally when they were part of the 2019–20 season of I-League 2nd Division, the second tier of Indian football league system.

History

AU Rajasthan FC is the first premier professional football club and academy based out of Jaipur. The club was founded in the year of 2018 and comes under the banner of Spordy Ventures Private Limited. In its first year of inception, the club has managed to qualify for the Hero Youth leagues and also win the first-ever Rajasthan Women's League.

The club aims to provide a pathway of progressive growth from the grassroots level to competing at the highest professional level.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

The club is in collaboration with Palamós CF, one of the oldest clubs in Spain, founded in 1898, and its academy Perfect Football is the technical partner of AU Rajasthan FC. The club plans to train players with use of global training methodology in partnership with Perfect Football.

AU Rajasthan is the first club from Rajasthan to play in I-League 2nd Division.{{Cite web | url=https://www.the-aiff.com/article/eighteen-teams-to-compete-in-hero-second-division-league-2019-20# | title=Eighteen teams to compete in Hero Second Division League 2019–20 | access-date=20 January 2020 | archive-date=8 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808202337/http://www.the-aiff.com/article/eighteen-teams-to-compete-in-hero-second-division-league-2019-20 | url-status=live }}

Rajasthan FC organised Christmas Cup 2020 in Purnima University and Heritage Cup in February 2021, which was won by ARA FC.

AU Rajasthan participated in the inaugural Rajasthan State Men's League 2019 and finished as runners-up with 15 points from 7 matches, behind champion Rajasthan United.{{cite web|title=First Ever Rajasthan State Men's League 2019 Started|url=https://udaipurkiran.com/first-ever-rajasthan-state-mens-league-2019-started/amp/|work=udaipurkiran|date=21 September 2019|access-date=29 July 2021|archive-date=1 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001014743/https://udaipurkiran.com/first-ever-rajasthan-state-mens-league-2019-started/amp/|url-status=live}}

AU Rajasthan FC has launched a premier football residential academy in Jaipur, in collaboration with Poornima University. The club handpicked players from all the major cities of India through trials.{{Cite web|url=https://footballexpress.in/rajasthan-united-fc-launched-their-residential-academy-in-rajasthan/|title=Rajasthan United FC launched their residential academy in Rajasthan|website=Football Express|date=3 June 2021 |access-date=3 June 2021|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605180832/https://footballexpress.in/rajasthan-united-fc-launched-their-residential-academy-in-rajasthan/|url-status=live}}

Rajasthan FC rebranded themselves as Rajasthan Perfect FC ahead of R-League A Division 2021.{{Cite web|title=Rajasthan Perfect Football Club|url=https://www.the-aiff.com/club/12370|access-date=2021-07-26|website=www.the-aiff.com|archive-date=26 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726152453/https://www.the-aiff.com/club/12370|url-status=live}}

Stadiums

AU Rajasthan used the Maharaja Umaid Singh Stadium in Jodhpur as their home stadium for I-League 2nd Division of 2019–20 season matches. They played at the University Sports Complex during the inaugural season of R-League A Division.{{cite web|title=Rajasthan State Men's League|url=https://theawayend.co/rajasthan-state-mens-league/|date=21 July 2021|access-date=29 July 2021|archive-date=30 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430040819/https://theawayend.co/rajasthan-state-mens-league/|url-status=live}}

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

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Period

!Kit manufacturer

!Shirt sponsor

2019—2020

| rowspan="2" |AIO Sports

|AU Small Finance Bank

2021—present

|Perfect Football

Personnel

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|+Current technical staff ({{As of|2020|01|20|lc=y}})

PositionName
Team manager

|{{flagicon|IND}} Mangesh Shreekant Desai

Technical director

|{{flagicon|IND}} Gurpratap Singh

Head coach

|{{flagicon | IND}} Praveen Kumar

Assistant coach

|{{flagicon|IND}} Nitish Dimri

Physio

|{{flagicon|IND}} Mohammed Shahid

Players

=2022 squad=

{{updated|5 April 2022}}{{cite web|title=Squad|url=http://i-league.org/second-division-league/results-fixtures-2nd-division/|work=I-league.org|access-date=22 January 2020|archive-date=18 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318210756/http://i-league.org/second-division-league/results-fixtures-2nd-division/|url-status=live}}

{{fs start}}

{{Fs player|no=1|nat=IND|pos=GK|name=Nitin Meel}}

{{Fs player|no=2|nat=IND|pos=DF

|name=Abhyuday Motwani}}

{{Fs player|no=3|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Tushar Negi}}

{{Fs player|no=4|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Aravind Sharma}}

{{Fs player|no=5|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Spandan Sharma}}

{{Fs player|no=6|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Pranendra Singh Thakur}}

{{Fs player|no=7|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Kamran Panwar}}

{{Fs player|no=8|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Shiv Pratap Singh Ranawat}}

{{Fs player|no=9|nat=IND|pos=FW|name=Ishaan Sahi}}

{{Fs player|no=10|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Bhupendru Singh Meena}}

{{Fs player|no=11|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Utkrsh Koushik}}

{{Fs player|no=15|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Shorayav Bhardwaj}}

{{Fs player|no=17|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Prashant Narayan Choudhary}}

{{fs mid}}

{{Fs player|no=18|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Robot Atkan}}

{{Fs player|no=19|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Ashen Henna Metel}}

{{Fs player|no=20|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Martand Raina}}

{{Fs player|no=21|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=DM Rakeveiche}}

{{Fs player|no=22|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Prateek Choudhary}}

{{Fs player|no=23|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Mumtaz Akhtar}}

{{Fs player|no=24|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Deepak Sai Thukral}}

{{Fs player|no=25|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=Eliel da Cruz Guardiano}}

{{Fs player|no=26|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Prithu Sharma}}

{{Fs player|no=27|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Rudra Pratap Singh Bist}}

{{Fs player|no=45|nat=IND|pos=FW|name=Rahul Sharma}}

{{Fs player|no=46|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=Pedro Augusto Araujo Pinheiro}}

{{Fs player|no=99|nat=IND|pos=GK|name=Maninder Singh}}

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Team record

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Season

! Div.

! Tms.

! Pos.

!Attendance/G

! Federation Cup/Super Cup

!colspan=1|AFC Champions League

!colspan=1|AFC Cup

align=center| 2019–20

|align=center |IL2

|align=center|18

|align=center| Group stage

|align=center| –

|align=center| DNP

|align=center| DNP

|align=center| DNP

;Key

  • Tms. = Number of teams
  • Pos. = Position in league
  • Attendance/G = Average league attendance

=Head coaching record=

updated on 20 July 2020

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!Name!!Nationality!!From!!class="unsortable"|To!!P!!W!!D!!L!!GF!!GA!!Win%

rowspan="1" align="left" |Mangesh Shreekant Desai

|rowspan="1" align="left" | {{IND}}

|align=left| 2020

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{{WDL|6|1|2|3|for=4|against=7}}

Affiliated clubs

The following clubs are currently affiliated with AU Rajasthan FC:

References

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