Sporting Clube de Goa may have launched their academy in 2013 to commemorate the club’s 15th year but the Goan side had already begun developing talent from long before.
Take Rowllin Borges for instance. He was part of the club's junior teams and won the 2008/09 Taca Goa Under-20 League organised by the Goa Football Association (GFA). Borges finally got his big break in the I-League at Sporting Goa before moving to Indian Super League (ISL) in 2015.
Other than the talent developed through their youth development programme, the club launched quite a few names such as Harmanjot Khabra, Brandon Fernandes, Adil Khan, Joyner Lourenco, Pratesh Shirodkar, Kamaljit Singh and Subhasish Bose on the national stage.