HOME GALLERY HALL OF FAME MAKE A GIFT

Kovalam
Football Club

It is not just a club!


It's a movement to empower impoverished families
of coastal villages by investing in their children

FEDERAL BANK has agreed to sponsor our Senior Team for the year 2029/20. Their ₹500,000 grant made it possible for us to have a monthlong Residential Coaching camp to prepare for District Championship. We won the District trophy!! We will have another camp this month to practice for the InterDistrict Championship in Kozhikodu. Appointed Athletebit Healthcare P. Ltd as our official provider of of pre, during and post games nutrition supplements at an annual cost of about ₹600,000. KIMS hospital accepted our invitation to be our official Health Care provider. The multi-speciality tertiary hospital will deliver, free of cost, high quality medical aid to our players and the cadets in our Hostel. Trivandrum International pre-School in Technopark has become our second grassroots partner. Their 20 U-7 children will receive fun lessons in football techniques twice a week for an hour each. Two of our specially trained coaches are deputed to this campaign.

Patrons

Princess Gouri Parvathi Bayi (Kowdiar Palace),  V. Sivankutty (former MLA).

Founding Patrons

Dr. Shashi Tharoor, M.P. and Thumpamon Jacob Family Foundation (represented by Padma Bushan Professor Thomas Kailath, Stanford University, California and Sally Mathew, M/S Educational Trust, Kovalam).

Patrons

Padma Bushan Adoor Gopalakrishnan,
K.C. Chandrahasan (Kerala Travels),
Shaji Thomas (Thomas Hotels & Resorts, Poovar and Kovalam),
Padma Bushan TJS George (Indian Express)

Executive Committee

K. C. Chandrahasan (Chairman), Thayil Mathew (President), Babu Xavier (Secretary/Treasurer),  Dr. Jayakumar, Ebin Rose
and Babu Divakaran

Managing Committee

Thayil Mathew (Coordinator), Patrick Sisupalan (Foreign Coaches Liaison), Dr. Jayakumar (Education), Ebin Rose (Coaching/Academy)

Auditor

H. Vinod & Associates, Thiruvananthapuram

Legal Counsel

Advocate Sudha Sudhakaran, Thiruvananthapuram

Banker

Federal Bank, Vizhinjam

IT PARTNER

Yazata Consulting Pvt Ltd

KovalamFC, IT'S MISSION

A noble desire to keep boys from impoverished families off the beaches and resultant antisocial mischief brought a novel idea to Ebin Rose, State football player, who along with Patrick Sisupalan, a visiting expatriate UK coach, started kicking the ball with boys on the beach, teaching game techniques.

And the Kovalam Football Club was born, registered as a charitable society: T1544/10, meriting affiliations to All India Football Federation and Kerala Football Association, and recognition by Kerala Youth Welfare Board and the Government of India's Nehru Yuva Kendra.

In 2017, KovalamFC partnered with M/S Educational Trust, Kovalam and changed his mission to "Empowering impoverished coastal families by educating their children."



SCORE CARD

2013/14/15/17/18
Winners, U14 S. E. P. T. South Zone Kerala. Winners, AII-Kerala Invitation Cup, Kottayam. Runner-up, SN Banerjee All-India Invitation Cup; AII-Kerala Invitation Cup, Thiruvananthapuram; Jai Hind Cup, Puthenthope

2017
Winners, MKK Nair Cup All-India Tournament; Corporation Keralolsavam Trophy; Republic Day U-14; Mahatma Gandhi Memorial All-India Tournament, Bhopal; U-19 Oorja Cup, Kerala Zone; U-14 Kerala Premier League, Thiruvananthapuram Zone, Group A; All-India Invitation Gold Cup, MP. Joint Winners, Kesari Super League. Runners-up, U-12 Kerala Premium League, Thiruvananthapuram Zone. Third Place, Thiruvananthapuram Super Division

2016 / 2015 / 2014
Runners-up, U-12 Kerala Premium League, Thiruvananthapuram Zone; Third Place, Youth I League, Rest of India Zone, Bangaluru Winners, U-14 Brothers Cup, Peroorkada; MKK Cup All-India Tournament Winners, All-India Mahavir Cup, Kuhuri, Odisha; 'A' Division Thiruvananthapuram DFA League; Marthand Sindh All-India Cup, MP; AII-Kerala U-14 St. Mary's Trophy, Vettukadu

2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009
Semi Finalists, All-India Birla Cup, MP* Best 8 Team, ONGC Cup All India Tournament, HP Winners, U-16 Ananthapuri Cup Inter District Tournament Semi Finalists, U-16 All-India League, Goa* Winners, "A" Division District FA League

TEAM

THE SENIOR TEAM

Our Senior Team of 24 is capable of challenging any team. They have had more than a few impeccable performances. The team is all set to participated in Kerala Premiere League and got elevated to ELITE Division. Our goal is to participate in either Second Division of the I-League or in the League itself.



THE U-15 TEAM

These 25 players have been together as a family for the past several years, developing a chemistry that enables coaches to synchronize their individual style of play into a team effort and in-still in them the philosophy of the Club. Many have represented State, University and District teams and made it to State and Indian National team camps.



THE KINDERGARTEN

Encouraged by the success of our experiment in partnership with TEDDYBUDDIES and Trivandrum International School, we invite you to join our campaign to popularize the football grass root concept, not yet tried anywhere in India. Following the Arsenal (UK) curriculum, our Coaches specially trained by theirs teach young children from the age of four the basics of football in a friendly and professional way that generates an interest in the game.
Our Plan is to create coaching hubs in three preschools having adequate play ground, each one covering other schools in the vicinity. Our Coach will visit the centers twice a week for training your kinder wards.
Our coaches will identify talented children, focus on training them and form a pool of enthusiastic young players, who will be encouraged to attend our weekend Development Center in Central Stadium for advanced training. The best ones from the Development Center will be offered admission in our Residential Academy for intense training.

KovalamFC is FIRST in the country to launch "Catch 'em Young" program that has successfully been tested and implemented in football-loving Europe and Latin America!

GRASSROOTS

We understand the importance of grassroots development in creating a talent pool to feed our club teams and even other professional club teams. Our coaches start with preschoolers, training them from the age of four. Those children who show genuine enthusiasm and inherent talent will be absorbed in our Academy at the age of seven for advanced training. Those with continued interest will be admitted at age 12 in our Residential Academy for intensive training.

THE ACADEMY

Nearly 150 boys and girls receive personalized expert coaching every Saturday and Sunday afternoon in Central Stadium. This is the only program where we charge a fee structured around actual cost with no profit to KovalamFC. Our Arumanoor center has residential camps every weekend and holidays.