{{Short description|Bahamanian football club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox football club |clubname = Bears F.C. |image = |fullname = Insurance Management Bears Football Club |nickname = Growlers |founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1996}}{{citation needed|date=September 2025}} |ground = Thomas Robinson Stadium<br />Nassau, Bahamas |capacity = 15,250 |owner = Scotiabank| |chairman = Dion Godet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bearssoccerclub.com/leadership.html |title=Bears FC Leadership |publisher=Bears FC |access-date=24 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815043436/http://bearssoccerclub.com/leadership.html |archive-date=15 August 2014}}</ref> |chrtitle = President |manager = James Thompson |league = BFA Senior League |season = 2024–25 |position = 10th
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'''Bears Football Club'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/teams/bahamas/bears-fc/10205/|title=Bahamas – Bears FC – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news – Soccerway|website=int.soccerway.com|access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> ('''Bears FC''', officially known as '''Insurance Management Bears FC''' or '''IM Bears FC''' for sponsorship reasons) is a football club based in Nassau, Bahamas. Bears FC plays in BFA Senior League in Bahamas.
==History== In 1996 Anton Sealey upon being elected president of the Bahamas Football Association (BFA) on taking office set as his administration's priorities:
In pursuance of priority two, with a grant from the company with whom he worked, Insurance Management Bahamas Ltd.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insurancemanagementbahamas.com/home.aspx|title=Insurance Management Bahamas: Personal, Commercial, Professional Services|website=www.insurancemanagementbahamas.com|access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> he began teaching soccer at Queen's College on Saturdays to a group of young players predominantly attending Queen's College. The sessions which began with twelve youngsters grew steadily each week. At the same time Fred Lunn and his brother Lionel, together with current BFA general secretary Lionel Haven and BFA Vice-President Stanley Darville began a similar program at The College of The Bahamas field in Oakes Field, called Get Kickin' As both schools or camps as they were called expanded outgrowing their resources, Anton and Fred saw the wisdom of combining their resources to more effectively deliver quality instruction to their charges, thus the Insurance Management Youth Football Club was born.
They have won the Bahamas President's Cup in consecutive seasons. They have also won the New Providence Football League five<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/bahamachamp.html|title=Bahamas - List of Champions|website=RSSSF|access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> times in a row, and six times in total. They won the Grand Bahama FA Cup a record five consecutive times. The main sponsor and owner of club is Scotiabank.
==Jersey== Its jersey features a red shirt with red sleeves and white shorts.
==Squad==
{{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no= |nat=BAH |name=Re'john Ene|pos=MF}} {{Fs end}}
==Achievements== * '''Brixton Footy Addicts League: 1''' :: 2020–21 *'''Bahamas National Championship Final 7''' :: 2002–03, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011, 2011–12, 2013, 2015–16
*'''Bahamas President's Cup: 2''' :: 2009–10, 2010–11
*'''New Providence Football League: 5''' :: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007, 2008
*'''New Providence FA Cup: 6''' :: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2010, 2011–12
*'''Bahamas Charity Shield: 2''' :: 2010, 2011
==Historic goalscorer== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |colspan=4|'''Lesly St. Fleur''' |- !!!League!!Cup!!Total |- !Goals |107||14||'''121''' |- !Hat-tricks |6||-||'''6''' |- !Topscorers |3||1||'''4''' |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{BFA Senior League}}
{{Portal|Association football}}
Category:Football clubs in the Bahamas Category:Association football clubs established in 1996 Category:1996 establishments in the Bahamas
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