@shubham_northeastern mate If I had to say Ranking is not important then I would have said such thing directly.. the way people are flooding comments with speculations is quite amusing.. that Why I said "obsessed" although I admit I didn't think of work permit thing ..but rest assured coverage and getting friendlies with better teams wont improve simply because we go into top100 unless we maintain that in long run
Come ISL season and Kushal Das will come up with "not playing any Friendlies" theory to prop up our rankings which may grant us direct ACL spot.
Some years ago, it was removal of PSU clubs such as Air Inddia, ONGC which was supposed to bring us ACL spot.
ISL franchise playing in ACL ????? They hold together oldies only for few months before January Transfer season. They have no intention for any AFC or ACL.
Our focus should be to qualify for AFC Asian Cup. Our clubs are no match for any Arab club in AFC Cup, forget about ACL. Dempo and EB did well to seach SF of AFC Cup. BFC reaching Finals was extremely flawed structure of AFC Cup last year. Only time they faced competitive club was in the Finals only. This time, AFC Cup is more competitive and it will be a real test of our Indian clubs.
AFC gave us opportunity to qualify for AFC Champions League by inviting our clubs for playoffs in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 but our clubs were beaten in these playoffs. Our clubs were beaten by those clubs which mostly themselves failed to qualify for ACL by being beaten by even better clubs. We are not at ACL level.
Why the hell can't an Indian club qualify?
In West Zone it's possible...
But Arab/Chinese bootlickers(a.ka. AFC) won't do home and away legs for playoffs.
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the way people are flooding comments with speculations is quite amusing.. that Why I said "obsessed"
although I admit I didn't think of work permit thing ..but rest assured coverage and getting friendlies with better teams wont improve simply because we go into top100 unless we maintain that in long run
I believe we do deserve an ACL spot
stop argueing and improve quality if you want to succeed in continental level tournament
Some years ago, it was removal of PSU clubs such as Air Inddia, ONGC which was supposed to bring us ACL spot.
ISL franchise playing in ACL ????? They hold together oldies only for few months before January Transfer season. They have no intention for any AFC or ACL.
Our focus should be to qualify for AFC Asian Cup. Our clubs are no match for any Arab club in AFC Cup, forget about ACL. Dempo and EB did well to seach SF of AFC Cup. BFC reaching Finals was extremely flawed structure of AFC Cup last year. Only time they faced competitive club was in the Finals only. This time, AFC Cup is more competitive and it will be a real test of our Indian clubs.
AFC gave us opportunity to qualify for AFC Champions League by inviting our clubs for playoffs in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 but our clubs were beaten in these playoffs. Our clubs were beaten by those clubs which mostly themselves failed to qualify for ACL by being beaten by even better clubs. We are not at ACL level.
AFC: 8
CAF: 9
CONCACAF: 6
CONMEBOL: 6
OFC: 1
UEFA: 16
Playoff tournament (a test event) to decide final 2 places. 1 from each confed bar Uefa + 1 from host confed.