Kickstart FC

Kickstart Football Club is an Indian professional football club from Karnataka. Their women's team participate in Indian Women's League and the men's side competes in the BDFA Super Division.^[2][3] The club was nominated for I-League 2 in 2019 and 2021 but didn't make it to the final list approved by the AIFF.^[4]

Kickstart

Full name	Kickstart Football Club Karnataka
Founded	9 July 2016; 8 years ago (9 July 2016)[1]
Owner	Shekar Rajan Laxman Bhattarai
Head coach	Aslam Ahmed Khan
League	I-League 3 BDFA Super Division
Website	www.kickstartfc.com
Home colours Away colours

Active departments of Kickstart FC
Football (Men's)	Football (Women's)

History

Kickstart FC was founded on 9 July 2016 by Shekar Rajan and Laxman Bhattarai to develop grassroot level football in Karnataka. In 2019–20 Santosh Trophy, 10 players from Kickstart FC played for senior state team of Karnataka, the most of any football club in India.^{[citation needed]} In 2020–21 and 2021–22 season, Kickstart were the runners up of BDFA Super Division and were nominated for 2nd Division I-League.^{[citation needed]} In 2023, the club participated in Stafford Challenge Cup.^[5]

Later in 2023, the club secured participation in the newly formed I-League 3.^[6]

Men's team

Technical staff

Title	Name
Chairman	Shekar Rajan
CEO	Laxman Bhattarai
Head coach	Aslam Ahmed Khan
Assistant coach	Raghu Kumar M Kalidasan K
Team manager	Saravana D

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Kabir Toufik 2 DF  IND Aibiang Mame Nongneng 3 DF  IND Harikrishnan M 9 FW  IND Alocious Muthayyan 10 FW  IND Abhishekh Shankar Powar 12 DF  IND Johnson A 15 MF  IND Sheltohn Paul 17 MF  IND Vijay Nagappan 18 FW  IND Pangambam Naoba Meitei 25 DF  IND Michael Regin

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 MF  IND Khanngam Horam 30 FW  IND Alister Anthony 6 DF  IND Evan Thapa — MF  IND Solaimalai — DF  IND Ganesan — FW  IND Shelton Nickson — MF  IND Ajay A — DF  IND Arvind Babu — FW  IND Lijo K — GK  IND Manikandan M

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2016–2020	—	—
2021–present	SIX5SIX[7][8]

Honours

Domestic league

• BDFA Super Division
  • Runners-up (2): 2019–20, 2020–21

Cup

• Puttaiah Memorial Cup
  • Winners (1): 2022
• All-India Football Tournament Kolhapur
  • Runners-up (1): 2022

Affiliated clubs

• VV SBC (2021—present)^[9]
• Tottenham Hotspur (2023—present)^[10]