History
Jagatjit Cotton and Textile Mills constituted the football club in 1971. However, the club got recognition from 1974 onwards when several players joined the club from the Leader Club of Jalandhar. Included among these players was Inder Singh, who had captained the Indian national team in previous years and won the Arjuna Award in 1969. The Leader Club, started by Lala Dwarka Das Sehgal had played a major role in popularizing football in Northern India in the 1960s and 1970s. Though the Leader Club is no more, JCT Mills have since taken the mantle and become the biggest and most successful football club in this part of India.
JCT Limited has been involved in the Punjab Football Association (PFA) for the last three decades. JCT won the inaugural NFL title in the 1996-1997 season. In January 2007, the JCT management decided to change the club name from JCT Mills FC to JCT FC.
In May 2008, JCT announced a partnership with Wolverhampton Wanderers of the English Premier League in England.
On June 20 it was announced by JCT FC that the club would disband following the 2010-11 I-League season due to lack of interest for football in India but they did say that they would still run the club at grass-root level and still run the JCT academy.
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