I'm not sure going from 8 teams to 12 while also going from 3 to 5 months is viable right now. Ideally I would have wanted Bengaluru FC added and East Bengal and Mohun Bagan come in for Atletico de Kolkata... 10 clubs, 27 matches, finals series involving 1st to 6th etc. etc.
Future expansion could have initially been targeted for Hyderabad, Punjab, Ahmedabad, and Shillong. Then maybe go for other places like Ranchi, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Nagpur etc. Second teams in Mumbai etc. and maybe little foreign expansion.
Then how the related calendar was showing League1, 2 & AFC cup & ACL ? He (Sundar Raman) can say anything about ISL but not about League 1 - 2, AFC cup or ACL
I think it means I League 2 will have 10 teams divided into two groups of 5. This gives each team 8 matches. Top 3 teams from each group than go to national stage where they play each other twice. This makes 10 more matches. Which means the teams that make it to national round will play total 18 matches.
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Future expansion could have initially been targeted for Hyderabad, Punjab, Ahmedabad, and Shillong. Then maybe go for other places like Ranchi, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Nagpur etc. Second teams in Mumbai etc. and maybe little foreign expansion.