1) Ooops. Meant to say Korea. Which is also on of the best leagues in the world. Not top 10 but top 20.
2) Uzbekistan has good quality from the top but where are the lower clubs. Most of the relegated clubs dont even see the light of day. And from the looks of where the clubs are located it seems not spread out which for a big country like India is what we should aim for.
3) Ghana. Funny. Most of there players on the national team are foreign. I-League is way better than the GIO Premier League.
4) Lebanon. Come on mate. We all know we are better than Lebanon when it comes to football. Even the Lebanese clubs in the AFC Cup are not doing much. Also Dempo won against the Lebanon champion in 2011. And if you look the Lebanon clubs in the AFC Cup have not done much. They have never had a club in the Champions League Qualifiers nor have they passed the group stage.
Now again. Tell me the reason for why promotion/relegation is what is needed in India?
This is why (since you will blindly choose to ignore all examples which contradict your logic).
Suppose Pune FC has been playing well in I-League for some seasons, but then industrialist X suddenly develops a passion for football and decides to set up a club in city Y all of a sudden. He pours in some money for couple of seasons. And suddenly they are a club which can be made part of "expansion". So they come into the league in expense of Pune FC (unless you want new teams to be added without excluding old ones), who have been making some effort in Indian football for a few seasons. A couple of years later X suddenly loses all interest in football (see Fransa Pax, Mahindra) and decides to close the club. So do we suddenly go back to pune fc to get them back into I-League? In a country like India where football is still developing (Japan incidentally started going full throttle from late 80s, and by 90s they had a concrete target of hosting a WC, so they worked hard for developing a culture) you cannot expand based on infrastructure because audits are rarely transparent.
If you remove relegation you will have teams like Arrows every season, who have no motivation to play at all.
If you really want to spread Indian football in different regions then have regional qualifers for div-2. That way one team from NE and one from Kerala can be guaranteed into I-league. Since they obviously can't perform the same way with teams from Goa and Kolkata.
..and I still haven't got the answer to why teams like USFC and RWFC can't perform consistently against "crap" teams like Mohammedan and ONGC. Apparently they are ready to play in I-League. Another team that actually seemed ready to play in I-League qualified on the field last season & duly staved off relegation this year.
I'm with Arsenal there should be no relegation.I-League is a big fail I don't see any hope with E.B and M.B they are slower than snail at taking Indian football forward when they have huge potential.
We need to encourage big investors and then get them into I-League and let them settle for few years.These teams ONGC etc are bullshit and good for nothing they add nothing to the I-League infact they scare away the fans and sponsors.
RWFC and Aizawl failed to beat ONGC cause this office teams has better budget to sign good players apart form that they are shit.
If a big investor does come into I-League and pours money with some sense, do you seriously think that club will get relegated?
Pune FC is a big example in this. To an extent Prayag United as well...JCT stopped investing money in first team when they got relegated. Mahindra never came close to going down once the owners started investing properly.
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2) Uzbekistan has good quality from the top but where are the lower clubs. Most of the relegated clubs dont even see the light of day. And from the looks of where the clubs are located it seems not spread out which for a big country like India is what we should aim for.
3) Ghana. Funny. Most of there players on the national team are foreign. I-League is way better than the GIO Premier League.
4) Lebanon. Come on mate. We all know we are better than Lebanon when it comes to football. Even the Lebanese clubs in the AFC Cup are not doing much. Also Dempo won against the Lebanon champion in 2011. And if you look the Lebanon clubs in the AFC Cup have not done much. They have never had a club in the Champions League Qualifiers nor have they passed the group stage.
Now again. Tell me the reason for why promotion/relegation is what is needed in India?
Suppose Pune FC has been playing well in I-League for some seasons, but then industrialist X suddenly develops a passion for football and decides to set up a club in city Y all of a sudden. He pours in some money for couple of seasons. And suddenly they are a club which can be made part of "expansion". So they come into the league in expense of Pune FC (unless you want new teams to be added without excluding old ones), who have been making some effort in Indian football for a few seasons. A couple of years later X suddenly loses all interest in football (see Fransa Pax, Mahindra) and decides to close the club. So do we suddenly go back to pune fc to get them back into I-League? In a country like India where football is still developing (Japan incidentally started going full throttle from late 80s, and by 90s they had a concrete target of hosting a WC, so they worked hard for developing a culture) you cannot expand based on infrastructure because audits are rarely transparent.
If you remove relegation you will have teams like Arrows every season, who have no motivation to play at all.
If you really want to spread Indian football in different regions then have regional qualifers for div-2. That way one team from NE and one from Kerala can be guaranteed into I-league. Since they obviously can't perform the same way with teams from Goa and Kolkata.
BUT IFFHS rankings seem to give a different picture
64. Angola 2.623,0
65. Ghana 2.613,5
66. Moldova 2.573,0
67. Latvija 2.569,0
68. UAE 2.526,5
69. Belarus 2.517,5
70. Zimbabwe 2.492,5
71. Australia 2.486,0
http://www.iffhs.de/?20fa3002f76857a72e00fa2d17f7370eff3702bb1c2bbb6e0d
We need to encourage big investors and then get them into I-League and let them settle for few years.These teams ONGC etc are bullshit and good for nothing they add nothing to the I-League infact they scare away the fans and sponsors.
RWFC and Aizawl failed to beat ONGC cause this office teams has better budget to sign good players apart form that they are shit.
Last year I-League was higher than MLS in this list.
Pune FC is a big example in this. To an extent Prayag United as well...JCT stopped investing money in first team when they got relegated. Mahindra never came close to going down once the owners started investing properly.
This is accross ten years between 2001 and 2010.