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ATK is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. They compete in the Indian Super League, one of the top flights of Indian football. The club was established on 7 May 2014 as Atlético de Kolkata and began their first professional season in October 2014.

The club is owned by Kolkata Games and Sports, a consortium which consists of businessmen Sanjiv Goenka, Harshavardhan Neotia, and Utsav Parekh, as well as former India cricket player Sourav Ganguly. Spanish side Atlético Madrid were also part of the consortium until 2017, when Goenka bought their shares in the team. ATK play their matches at the Salt Lake Stadium. For the 2016 season, the club played at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium, while the Salt Lake Stadium underwent renovations.

ATK played their inaugural match on 12 October 2014, winning 3–0 over Mumbai City. They went on to win the Indian Super League championship in only their first season, defeating the Kerala Blasters 1–0 in the 2014 final. The next season, ATK qualified for the semi–finals but failed to qualify for the final. ATK then won their second Indian Super League title in three seasons in 2016, defeating the Kerala Blasters in the final again, this time through penalties, 4–3.