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After a 14-year hiatus, Mumbai-based Bengal Mumbai Football Club founder Krishnendu Sen announced the launch of the BMFC Football Academy on World Football Day. The residential academy in Karjat will begin operations in 2026 with 100 players aged 13, combining football training with formal education. Sen said the project aims to produce players for leading Indian clubs and global tournaments.

Mumbai: After 22 years, "East Bengal" on the banks of the Ganges in Kolkata became the best in club football in India on Thursday, May 21. On the other hand, after 14 years, the coastal football club "Bengal Mumbai Football Club" (BMFC) of Mumbai city announced their next step on Monday, May 25.

It is worth noting that BMFC is India's first privately owned professional commercial football club. Although football is popular all over the country at present, football has been in the blood of Bengalis for many ages in the conventional sense. Bengali hero monk Vivekananda himself also spoke about playing football. Young Krishnendu Sen came forward with the aim of creating football craze in the blood of Bengalis living in Mumbai city. He formed "Bengal Mumbai Football Club" in Mumbai city in 1998.

Just as there are victories and defeats in history, there are also ups and downs in football. BMFC's lifeblood, the seventy-year-old Krishendu Sen, is carrying all this with him. Seventy years of age is not just any age, as has been proven time and again. There are many examples in our country where many prominent people have achieved success after sixty or seventy years.

However, Krishendu Sen's first success as a professional club football manager was when his team BMFC won the prestigious Rovers Cup on December 5, 1998. In the final of the competition, they defeated Central Railway FC 3-0 to become champions. In the semi-finals and the previous round, they defeated strong teams like JCT Mills and Churchill Brothers.