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Dempo 3D Trophy Museum

Dempo · Inspect all trophies and historical titles up close in our interactive 3D virtual museum.

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Club history

Dempo Sports Club, founded in 1961, is an Indian professional football club based in Carambolim, Goa. The club currently competes in the Indian Football League, the second tier of the Indian football league system, and the Goa Professional League. Dempo is owned and sponsored by the Dempo Mining Corporation Limited. Known popularly as "The Whites" and "The Golden Eagles", the club has been a constant participant in the National football championships, and gained immense popularity in the first four decades of its existence. Dempo became the first Indian football club to reach the semi-final of the AFC Cup tournament in 2008. The club has won several accolades and honors. In the 2004–05 season, the club won its maiden National Football League title. They won the league again in the 2006–07 season, and followed it with the three I-League triumphs in 2007–08 in its inaugural version, and then in 2009–10, and again in 2011–12, making them the second most successful club on the national front with 5 domestic top-division league titles; after Kolkata giant Mohun Bagan. The club has also won 14 Goa League Champions Cups, 4 Rovers Cups, 2 Indian Super Cups, Federation Cup in 2004, and Durand Cup in 2006. Dempo was the first Goan club to win Rovers cup. It also won the inaugural edition of AWES Cup in 2017 and won multiple times in Goa Police Cup. Dempo emerged as fifth ranked Indian team, and 711 universally, in the international rankings of clubs during the first ten years of the 21st century (2001–2010), issued by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 2011.

Exhibits

  • NFL / I-League · 5 titles

    Winning years: 2004–05 · 2006–07 · 2007–08 · 2009–10 · 2011–12

    Dempo then won the maiden I-League season in 2007–08. As a result of this title win, Dempo played in AFC competition in 2008 during the 2008 AFC Cup, and ended their campaign as semi-finalist, losing to Lebanese club Safa 5–1 in aggregate. They won the league again in the 2006–07 season, and followed it with the three I-League triumphs in 2007–08 in its inaugural version, and then in 2009–10, and again in 2011–12, making them the second most successful club on the national front with 5 domestic top-division league titles; after Kolkata giant Mohun Bagan. Both the teams are jointly most successful clubs in I-League, having won the title thrice.

  • NFL II / I-League 2 · 2 titles

    Winning years: 2001–02 · 2015–16

  • Goa Football League / Goa Professional League · 16 titles

    Winning years: 1972 · 1974 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1984 · 1987 · 1988 · 1994 · 2005 · 2007 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2021–22 · 2022–23

    In the 2021–22 Goa Professional League season, Samir Naik managed Dempo end decade long wait, and clinched the title in style.

  • GFA Monsoon League · 1 titles

    Winning years: 2025

  • Federation Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 2004

    The club has also won 14 Goa League Champions Cups, 4 Rovers Cups, 2 Indian Super Cups, Federation Cup in 2004, and Durand Cup in 2006.

  • Indian Super Cup · 2 titles

    Winning years: 2008 · 2010

  • Durand Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 2006

    Later, they clinched Durand Cup title, thrashing JCT Mills by 2–0 in the 2006 final.

  • Rovers Cup · 4 titles

    Winning years: 1975 · 1979 · 1980 · 1986

    They then won their first ever national pan-India tournament in 1975 by winning the Rovers Cup. Dempo won a host of small cups and they also won the Rovers Cup again in 1986 by beating historic club Mohun Bagan.

  • Bordoloi Trophy · 2 titles

    Winning years: 1982 · 1983

  • Nizam Gold Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1978

  • Scissors Cup · 3 titles

    Winning years: 1992 · 1994 · 1996

  • Bandodkar Gold Trophy · 8 titles

    Winning years: 1976 · 1978 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1986 · 1990 · 1991

  • Goa Police Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 2005

  • Stafford Challenge Cup · 2 titles

    Winning years: 1975 · 1979

    Dempo clinched Stafford Challenge Cup titles in 1975 and 1979.

  • Maldives International Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1991

  • Sher-I-Kashmir Gold Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1985

  • Jalil Cup (Varanasi) · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1985

  • Plaza Soccer Trophy · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1975

  • Taca Goa Championship · 3 titles

    Winning years: 1977 · 1979 · 1990

  • Four Square Trophy · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1982

  • Arlem Soccer Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 1985

  • SFC Inter-Club Trophy · 1 titles

    Winning years: 2000

  • AWES Cup · 1 titles

    Winning years: 2017

    It also won the inaugural edition of AWES Cup in 2017 and won multiple times in Goa Police Cup.

  • GFA Charity Cup · 2 titles

    Winning years: 2021 · 2023

    The club later won GFA Charity Cup in August 2023, beating Sporting Goa in final.

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