Dempo S.C. then in 2009–2010 and again in 2011–12, making them the most successful club on national front with 5 league titles more than any other club in India. Dempo Sports Club started out as Dempo Souza Football Club in 1961 and was taken over when they made the company their own Dempo Corporation around that time. The club was started by Michael deSouza and the logo and colours that the club wears currently was what he had chosen for the team. The club won their first Goan Senior League title in 1972. The club then won their first ever national pan-India
History of Dempo S.C. Sadanand Asnodkar and Tulsidas Alornekar. Two years later Dempo finished as runners-up in the Goa Senior Division just behind Vasco. After the 1971–72 Goa Senior Division, Dempo won their first-ever league title by overcoming teams like Salgaocar and Vasco. Dempo then won the Rovers Cup in 1975, which was Dempo's first ever national championship win, by beating Tata Sports Club, by beating them 1–0. It was not a good decade for Dempo with regards to the Nizam Gold Cup. They lost three consecutive finals in 1972, 1973 and 1974, once to BSF and twice to RAC. But they finally broke