Dempo Sports Club is a football club based in Panjim, Goa. The club is owned and sponsored by the Dempo group of companies. Popularly known as ‘the whites’, the team has been a constant performer in all the national football championship and gained immensely popularity in the last four decades of its existence.

The team has several accolades and honors in its kitty. In the 2004-05 season, the club won its maiden National Football League title. They won the league again in the 2006-2007 season and followed it with the two I-League triumphs in 2006-07 in its inaugural version and then in 2009-2010.

Many famous players of the national football team of the country have once been associated with this team. Players of prominence on the team include Indian nationals Climax Lawrence, Clifford Miranda, Mahesh Gawli and foreign players like Ranty Martins Soleye of Nigeria and Beto of Brazil. The head coach of the club is Armando Colaco.

Dempo Sports Club started out as Bicholim Football Club in 1967 and were quickly bought out by Dempo Corporation that same year. The club won there first Goan Senior League title in 1972. The club then won there first ever national pan-India tournament in 1975 by winning the Rovers Cup. The club then won the Rovers Cup again in 1978. The club defended there title one year later in 1979. There first double.

Godwin Franco is an Indian footballer playing for Dempo S.C..

Born and brought up in Guirim, a small quaint place in northern Goa Godwin plays in the midfield position for Dempo S.C..

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Ashim Biswas (born 1982) is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for Mohammedan in the I-League 2nd Division as a striker.