Footballers from different faiths will be jetting out to India to represent a Sikh temple in Bradford.

Sunday league side Albion Sports will be playing under the name of the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh Temple during a 12-day tour of the country.

The team have picked up a haul of trophies during recent years.

But now Albion Sports will be travelling abroad for the first time in their 31-year history with the help of the temple off Leeds Road.

The temple is meeting the expenses of the side to the tune of £5,000. The trip is expected to include three games against sides from India's domestic leagues.

The idea for the trip came from the club's chairman Kultar Basi, and manager Kulvinder Sandhu who both attend the temple.

Mr Basi said: "It is something that we have talked about doing for a long time. We feel we will be representing the community."

Albion Sports have celebrated success in recent years winning the Bradford Alliance premier division two years running, winning the UK Asian championship last year and getting to the national FA Sunday Cup last year.

Mr Basi said: "I put our success down to a good bond between a multi-cultural society."

He told the T&A a squad of 59 players - including Sikhs, Muslims and Christians - will be jetting out to India to take part.

The footballers will be on the sub-continent from February 20 to March 3 before flying back to Bradford to resume their league fixtures.

Mr Sandhu said: "The idea started as a laugh really but now we have organised it.

"We are amateurs so a lot of us are having to pay our own way and Albion Sports are really grateful for the support we have received from the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh temple.

"We are a BD3-based club and we are a multi-cultural club but a lot of our families have been going to the temple for years."

The temple's president Ranbir Singh Rai said: "The young men in our community do not take drugs or alcohol, they are playing football three or four times a week and we are very proud of them.

"We have given the team £5,000 to take part in the tour playing under the name of the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh temple."

The Albion Sports Club will not be the only people representing the temple with athletic feats next month.

Joginder Singh will also be flying to India in February to complete a 60-mile fundraising run for the Telegraph & Argus South Asian Earthquake disaster appeal.

The 53-year-old will run the equivalent of more than two marathons from the the Golden Temple in Amritsar to Jullunder.