Salgaocar Sports Club, found in 1956, is an Indian professional football club based in Vasco, Goa. They are owned by the V. M. Salgaocar Group of Companies. They play in the I-League and Goa Professional League.
Salgaocar S.C. became the first Goan side to win the NFL in 1998-99 under the guidance of coach Shabbir Ali.
Fatorda Stadium is their home ground located in Margao. Salgaocar S.C. have won nineteen Goa League Champions, three Federation Cups, two Super Cups, two Durand Cups and won the National Football League in 1998-1999. Their home jersey is green shirt with white shorts while the away jersey is red/white or yellow/blue.
The year 1956 may well be described as the dawn of a new era in Goan football. The year when Goa would gain its own football team. It was the birth of a dream, a dream that was conceived in the heart of the football loving Mr. V.M. Salgaocar, founder President of the VM Salgaocar Group of Companies, to give a platform to the Goan youth to showcase their talent to the country, and to the world.
The year 1961 saw India liberate Goa from the rule of the Portuguese. Goa was now a territory of the Indian Union. In 1962, Salgaocar Football Club became the first Goan team to be extended an invitation to play in the prestigious Durand Cup in New Delhi, and such was the joy of a Goan team's participation in the Durand Cup, that the Late Prime Minister Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru felicitated the team at his residence.
Salgaocar successfully annexed all possible trophies on the Indian circuit thereby etching their name amongst the top teams in the country. A National League triumph in 1999, 3 Federation Cups in 1988, 1989 & 1997, the Super Cup in 1997 & 1999, the prestigious Rovers Cup, Mumbai, in 1989, 1996 & 1999, the Durand Cup, Delhi, twice in 1999 & 2003, the Sait Nagjee, Calicut, in 1987 and TFA shield at Madurai, in 1979. Salgaocar Sports Club have also been crowned Goa State Champions for a record 19 times including winners for 3 consecutive years of the Goa Professional League in 2002-2003, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. The Club also won the Governor's Cup in the years 1999 and 2001. The late 1980s and the 1990s saw Salgaocar SC consistently bag trophies such as the Federation Cup, the National League, the Durand Cup, Rovers Cup and the Super Cup, thus justifiably earning the sobriquet "Soccer Kings". Such was Salgaocar Sports Clubs consistency in winning tournaments year after year that their exploits soon became folklore.
Federation cup wins in 1988, 1989 and 1997 saw Salgaocar Sports Club represent India as its Champion Club at the international level in the IX & X Asian Club Championships in 1989 at Muscat & 1990 at Dhaka respectively and in 1999 in the IX Asian Cup Winners Cup. Though the team didn't progress through the next rounds in all the editions, they did remarkably well against their highly illustrious opponents.
Players like Bruno Coutinho, Bramhanand Shankhwalkar went on to win the Arjuna award, the highest sports recognition in the country. Lawrence Gomes, Franky Baretto, Bento Andrew, Arnold Rodrigues, Roy Baretto, Derrick Pereirra, Savio Madeira, Candidio Abreu, Menino Figuereido were legends whose fame extended well beyond the sandy shores of Goa thus not only permanently engraving their names in the history of the club and the hearts of its fans, but also as top quality Indian players who earned laurels for the country.
In the I-League 2010-11 season Salgaocar SC won the title and with this win they will qualify for the 2012 Asian Champions League qualifying round.