Clubname: | K-Electric F.C. K-الیکٹرک F.C. |
Fullname: | K-Electric Football Club |
Nickname: | The Electricians |
Founded: | , as Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Football Club |
Ground: | People's Football Stadium |
Capacity: | 40,000[1] |
Chrtitle: | Chairman |
Chairman: | Zabe Khan[2] |
Owner: | K-Electric |
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K-Electric Football Club, commonly referred to as K-Electric F.C., or simply known as KE, served as the football section of K-Electric. The club played in the Pakistan Premier League. Based in Karachi, Sindh, the club's home stadium was People's Football Stadium. The club colors, reflected in their crest and kit, were back and yellow.
Founded in 1974,[3] K-Electric won promotion in 2005 from the Pakistan Football Federation League when they finished runners-up to Pakistan Railways. The club won their first league title in the 2014–15 season, having finished as runners-up in the two previous seasons. They became the first club from Pakistan to qualify for AFC Cup.[4]
In August 2015, K-Electric F.C. made Pakistan football history by becoming the first Pakistan football club to progress into the AFC Cup play-offs after overcoming the champions of Bhutan and Mongolia. They drew 3–3 with Druk United before beating Khoromkhon 1–0. However, in the play-offs, they lost 2–0 to Al-Hidd from Bahrain.
In October that same year, K-Electric F.C. competed in the Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup in Bangladesh. Their striker Muhammad Rasool scored 4 goals in 3 games.
K-Electric also organised various youth initiatives such as the K-Electric Lyari U16 Football League.
In 2020, K-Electric dissolved the football team.[5] [6]
The club had a long-standing rivalry with Rawalpindi-based Khan Research Laboratories. The rivalry started when K-Electric and Khan Research Laboratories faced off in two back-to-back Pakistan National Challenge Cup finals, in 2011 and 2012, with Khan Research Laboratories winning both the finals 1–0 and 3–1 on penalties with game drawn 0–0 after extra time respectively. It was K-Electric that ended the reign of Khan Research Laboratories as domestic champions when they won the league in the 2014-15 season.
See also: Pakistani football clubs in Asian competitions.
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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2016 | AFC Cup | Qualifying Playoff round | Druk United | 3–3 | ||
Khoromkhon | 1–0 | |||||
Playoff stage | Al-Hidd | 0–2 |