A football club for the alumni and owned by Parikrma, the Parikrma FC is a testimony of our children’s passion for the sport. This Club was born in 2013 when Parikrma provided a platform for talented footballers, students, alumni and staff to take their passion further. Parikrma FC started as a Bangalore Division C team, graduated to A Division and is a super Division Club, one of the best football clubs in the state.
We launched the Girls’ Football Club in 2016. Six of our Parikrma Girls’ Football Club girls have been selected to represent the Karnataka State team in the Senior Women’s National Football Championship. A Super Division Club today, the Parikrma Girls’ Football Club won the state-level championship in 2023.
The teams comprise 50 players, all of whom are youths between the ages of 18 and 22.
Both the teams have Parikrma alumni making up at least 20-30% of the team
A majority, 98% of the youth are from underserved backgrounds
Of the 50 students, over 50% of the team are from over 10 different states in India
A majority of 99% of our girls on the team are:
From remote parts of the country, including the northeastern states
Over 40% of the girls are the first generation of girls to have ever taken to football from their villages
Most of the girls come from families that are extremely poor and eager to get the girls married at an early age
All 100% of the girls are breaking the glass ceiling in their communities and states through this commitment and choice of career
Story so far
Six of our girls from the Parikrma Girls Football Club have been selected to represent the Karnataka State team in the Senior Women’s National Football Championship, including our student, Aishwarya.
Besides having launched the Parikrma Boys Football Club, which is an A Division Club today, last year, we launched the Girls Football Club. We are thrilled that girls from different schools in the city have approached us to be on the team, and many have been selected as well.
Many of our alumni have registered and obtained admissions to colleges offering sports management; a few are training to be coaches.
A few alumni have come together and started a sports management company called Rapt Sports. The team also organized its first-ever corporate football tournament in July 2019, which witnessed the active participation of 24 corporate teams.