AIFF invites bids for new clubs to join Hero I-League 2020 onwards
All India Football Federation has issued an invite to accept bids for new clubs from non-Hero I-League cities to join the Hero I-League from 2020 onwards.
The bids have been invited from prospective team owners from New Delhi, Ranchi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bhopal, Lucknow and Ahmedabad, amongst others.
As per the invitation to tender, the entity that wins the bid will be granted the right to own and operate a new football club from 2020 onwards. The aforementioned club will have the opportunity (if applicable, and subject to qualification) to also compete in the AFC club competitions.
The invitation to tender can be acquired from the Football House in New Delhi between June 10 and June 20, 2020 upon payment of INR 4,00,000.00 (non-refundable and non-adjustable) by demand draft, pay order (both payable at New Delhi) favouring All India Football Federation, or by NEFT/RTGS. Bank details will be provided upon request.
"leave your white superiority mindset we are no longer in colonial India."--it's true we live in a post-colonial India where there should not be discrimination based on race or colour. Even more important is that living in post-colonial India, we should be proud of our identity as Indians and believe that we can achieve our dreams in any field, including sports
If such be the case, then your statement "Indians can't play football" (based on the genetic theory that you propagate so often in this forum) is also a hangover of a colonial mindset. That Indians can play and compete with the best in Asia is amply proved by the fact that during the 1950 and early 1960s, usually hailed as the golden era of Indian football, India won two Asian games, and finished fourth in the 1956 Olympics. There was a steady decline in the fortunes of the Indian football team after this period because of the unprofessional handling of the game by the AIFF and the clubs, the lack of scouting and grassroot programmes, lack of proper infrastructure and widespread corruption. Even in these depressing times, Indian football clubs have had their moments of glory--East Bengal becoming the first Indian club to defeat a foreign team when they won 1-0 against Pas Club of Iran in 1970 and their ASEAN Cup triumph in 2003, Dempo entering the semi-finals of the AFC Cup as the first Indian club in 2008 and Bengaluru FC becoming the first Indian team to play in the AFC cup final in 2016.
Inclusion of PIOs and OCIs might be one of the options for improvement of Indian football (and that too would be a very long-drawn and cumbersome process as @munna219777 has said) but weeding out corruption at administrative levels, inducting the right persons in the right positions, giving importance to both I-League and ISL, laying emphasis on grassroot programmes and proper scouting is more necessary for football to progress in this country
ISL season depends on 800 pound Gorilla in the Room - IPL.
IPL
and ISL cannot be held simultaneously. Once IPL is finalised in October
after pushing T20 Cricket world cup out of the way, ISL can start
in and around November 20.
By that time both IPL and world cup qualifiers will get finished.
4 months of ISL / I League and then in March end 3rd round AFC Qualifiers will start.
If
India finish 5th position or in bottom 4 of 4th position teams, then there
will be playoffs in February. Thats why ISL and I-league will finalise
their schedule of games late in the season. .
Why is BFC and mandar tamhane so keen on AFC Cup. They participated in AFC Cup 2020 and were knocked out in playoffs by maldives club. didnt even reach group level - and this is SAAF region clubs. What will change in 2021 ?
@thebeautifulgame ;"Indians can't play football" (based on the genetic theory that you propagate so often in this forum) is also a hangover of a colonial mindset. how can this be colonial mindset ?? This is scientifically proven fact you can conform this with Igor Stamic, so you are now blaming the British for putting genetic fault in Indian DNA?
That Indians can play and compete with the best in Asia is amply proved by the fact that during the 1950 and early 1960s, usually hailed as the golden era of Indian football, India won two Asian games, and finished fourth in the 1956 Olympics.
The so called golden era of Football in India is a joke, 1950s were a time if War and Famine in Asia no one cared for football that time, there were very few active NT, India was invited to world cup as no Asian country wanted to come, Asia was poor and was in chaos in the so called golden era of Indian football, You perform best when you compete with 4 others weaker then you, now do the same with 40 some others stringer then you and see your performance, India was shit in football, is shit in football and will always remain shit in football unless we get Pios and OCI players with superior footballing genetics ( scientifically proven)
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All India Football Federation has issued an invite to accept bids for new clubs from non-Hero I-League cities to join the Hero I-League from 2020 onwards.
The bids have been invited from prospective team owners from New Delhi, Ranchi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bhopal, Lucknow and Ahmedabad, amongst others.
As per the invitation to tender, the entity that wins the bid will be granted the right to own and operate a new football club from 2020 onwards. The aforementioned club will have the opportunity (if applicable, and subject to qualification) to also compete in the AFC club competitions.
The invitation to tender can be acquired from the Football House in New Delhi between June 10 and June 20, 2020 upon payment of INR 4,00,000.00 (non-refundable and non-adjustable) by demand draft, pay order (both payable at New Delhi) favouring All India Football Federation, or by NEFT/RTGS. Bank details will be provided upon request.
https://www.the-aiff.com/article/aiff-invites-bids-for-new-clubs-to-join-hero-i-league-2020-onwards
If such be the case, then your statement "Indians can't play football" (based on the genetic theory that you propagate so often in this forum) is also a hangover of a colonial mindset. That Indians can play and compete with the best in Asia is amply proved by the fact that during the 1950 and early 1960s, usually hailed as the golden era of Indian football, India won two Asian games, and finished fourth in the 1956 Olympics. There was a steady decline in the fortunes of the Indian football team after this period because of the unprofessional handling of the game by the AIFF and the clubs, the lack of scouting and grassroot programmes, lack of proper infrastructure and widespread corruption. Even in these depressing times, Indian football clubs have had their moments of glory--East Bengal becoming the first Indian club to defeat a foreign team when they won 1-0 against Pas Club of Iran in 1970 and their ASEAN Cup triumph in 2003, Dempo entering the semi-finals of the AFC Cup as the first Indian club in 2008 and Bengaluru FC becoming the first Indian team to play in the AFC cup final in 2016.
Inclusion of PIOs and OCIs might be one of the options for improvement of Indian football (and that too would be a very long-drawn and cumbersome process as @munna219777 has said) but weeding out corruption at administrative levels, inducting the right persons in the right positions, giving importance to both I-League and ISL, laying emphasis on grassroot programmes and proper scouting is more necessary for football to progress in this country
because BFC done well in 2016 & 2017 AFC Cup and also done reasonably well in 2015 & 2018.
how can this be colonial mindset ?? This is scientifically proven fact you can conform this with Igor Stamic, so you are now blaming the British for putting genetic fault in Indian DNA?
That Indians can play and compete with the best in Asia is amply proved by the fact that during the 1950 and early 1960s, usually hailed as the golden era of Indian football, India won two Asian games, and finished fourth in the 1956 Olympics.
The so called golden era of Football in India is a joke, 1950s were a time if War and Famine in Asia no one cared for football that time, there were very few active NT, India was invited to world cup as no Asian country wanted to come, Asia was poor and was in chaos in the so called golden era of Indian football, You perform best when you compete with 4 others weaker then you, now do the same with 40 some others stringer then you and see your performance, India was shit in football, is shit in football and will always remain shit in football unless we get Pios and OCI players with superior footballing genetics ( scientifically proven)