Dempo Sports Club or simply Dempo, is an Indian professional football club based in Panjim, Goa that competes in the Goa Professional League. The club is owned and sponsored by the Dempo Mining Corporation Limited. Popularly known as "The Whites", the club has been a constant participant in all the National football championships and gained immense popularity in the last four decades of its existence. Dempo SC became the first Indian football club, that reached the Semi-final of the AFC Cup tournament in 2008.