Friends Club is aNepali professionalfootball club from theKopundole neighborhood ofLalitpur. The club is known for nurturing young talent of Nepalese football. Friends Club has produced more than 200 national football players to date.[citation needed] It also organized certain social activities like reading room facilities, blood donations, bicycle rallies against drug abuse etc.
Friends Club was established in 1972 as a children's club with a reading-room facility in Kopundol. After a couple of years of its establishment, the club diversified its social activities with a motto of "better health through sports among the people of Kopundol." Eventually Friends Club established itself as a well reputed local sports club and for next several years, it remained only as a football club that every now and then organized certain social activities like reading room facility, blood donation, bicycle rally against drugs abuse etc. It was since late eighties that the Club started implementing various training activities for women and children. It also started a health clinic and Pathology laboratory which eventually, became very popular among the people of Kopundol and surrounding community. The club has come a long way since 1972 until now from a sports club to a sport-cum social club.[citation needed]
In 1996, the club toured to Bangladesh and took part inBangabandhu Cup.[3]
^Schöggl, Hans (12 May 2016)."Bangabandhu Cup 1996/97".Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived fromthe original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved3 December 2020.
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