Bengal Mumbai Football Club (BMFC), founded in 1998, is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is the second professionally founded football club in India and the first in Mumbai. The brainchild of Krishnendu Sen (media agency owner), Ajit Karmarkar (shipping magnate) and Shankar Maitra (businessman), among others, it had inducted Iranian Jamshed Nassiri as their coach.
Bengal Mumbai FC holds the distinguishing record of winning two major league tournaments during the same year of its inception, i.e. Mumbai Super Division (1998) and Rovers Cup (1998).
Indian Football "Hall of Fame" star Chima Okorie, who played for various clubs in England, Norway and Denmark, played for BMFC during the 2001 - 2002 season and also coached the team in 2006.
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