Eagles

Malé had no shortage of neighbourhood sides by the late 1980s, and Club Eagles took shape among them in 1989, taking the orange, red, black and yellow that still mark the team out at the National Football Stadium. Establishing themselves in the top flight took time: promoted in 2006, the club dropped straight back down the following year, and it was not until 2011 that they returned to the Dhivehi Premier League and stayed there.

The closest they have come to the title was the 2019–20 season, when they finished runners-up, a result that carried its own reward: qualification for the AFC Cup. There, Club Eagles beat Thimphu City 2–0 in the preliminary round before Bengaluru FC ended the run 1–0 in the play-off. Continental football aside, silverware has been thin — a President's Cup in 2016 and a Charity Shield in 2020, won 3–2 against Maziya S&RC, sit alongside a runners-up medal from the 2012 FA Cup final, also lost to Maziya.

Ali Ashfaq wore the Eagles shirt in that 2021 AFC Cup campaign, by then long established as the national team's captain and record scorer. The club's more regular business has been played out against New Radiant, Maziya and Victory, the trio alongside Eagles that make up the so-called Big Four of the domestic game.

The National Football Stadium, known also as Rasmee Dhandu, holds 11,850.