Club Valencia is a Maldivian football club based in Malé, Maldives. Nicknamed The Sunrisers, the club competes in the Dhivehi Premier League, the top tier of Maldivian football.

History

The notion of establishing a football club named Club Valencia arose in the late 1970s from the players of blue and gold teams participating in the Junior Football Pool organized by National Sports Academy.

The first two names proposed to the government for approval as the name of the club were Youth Recreation Movement and Juvenile Valencia Atletico; both were rejected. The third name, Club Valencia was then approved by the government.

The chairman of the club is Mr. Adheel Jaleel who was elected to the post in 2015.[]

**Club Valencia** er en maldivisk fodboldklub, der spiller i landets bedste række, Dhivehi Premier League. Klubben er baseret i Malés hovedstad og blev grundlagt i 2006.

Club Valencia har vundet Dhivehi Premier League to gange, i 2011 og 2015. De har også vundet FA Cup fire gange, i 2010, 2015, 2017 og 2018.

Klubbens hjemmebane er National Football Stadium i Malé, som har en kapacitet på 11.850 tilskuere.

Club Valencias største rivaler er TC Sports Club, og de bliver ofte omtalt som "The Red Devils" på grund af deres rød-sorte trøjer.

Klubben ledes af den maldiviske træner Mohamed Shaazly. Nøglespillerne i truppen omfatter målmanden Mohamed Faisal, forsvarsspilleren Akram Abdul Ghanee og angriberen Ibrahim Waheed Hassan.