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2022 Durand Cup
The 2022 Durand Cup, also known as IndianOil Durand Cup due to sponsorship ties with Indian Oil Corporation, was the 131st edition of Durand Cup, the oldest football tournament in Asia, and also the first edition since it was recognised by the Asian Football Confederation. This year for the first time the tournament was played in more than one venue. The tournament is hosted by the Durand Football Tournament Society in co-operation with the Eastern Command of the Indian Armed Forces and the Government of West Bengal, supported by the governments Assam and Manipur. This was the first season of the tournament wherein every club in the top tier Indian Super League has been mandated to participate, along with 5 selected clubs from the I-League, and the four teams representing the armed forces. Goa was the defending champion, having defeated Mohammedan in the 2021 final, but this time they couldn't progress beyond the group stage. The final was an all-ISL affair for the first t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durand Cup
The Durand Football Tournament, commonly known as Durand Cup, is an annual domestic football competition in India which was first held in 1888 in Shimla. Hosted by the Durand Football Tournament Society (DFTS) and All India Football Federation (AIFF), the tournament is the oldest existing club football tournament in Asia and the fifthThere are numerous claims in the list of oldest football competitions, which are grouped as per leagues, cups, regional cups, youth competitions etc. Here the competition is listed as per national cup competitions, following FA Cup (1871), Scottish Cup (1874), Welsh Cup (1877) and Irish Cup (1881). oldest national football competition in the world. The most successful teams are currently East Bengal Club and Mohun Bagan AC, accounting for 32 cup victories over the years, with 16 wins each. Since the inception of Federation Cup, succeeded by Super Cup, it became merely an exhibition tournament with invitational participations, but from 2022–23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportstar
''Sportstar'' is an Indian monthly Sports magazine, sports magazine published in India by the publishers of ''The Hindu''. Its headquarters is in Chennai. History and profile ''Sportstar'' was established in 1978. The magazine covers international sports, including the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Football Championship, UEFA Euro and the Summer Olympic Games, Olympics. It covers sports in India, including coverage of cricket, a widely popular sport in India. Additional coverage of sports includes football, tennis and Formula One Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix. From the 28 January 2006 issue, the magazine changed its name from ''The Sportstar'' to ''Sportstar'' and moved from magazine to tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. In 2012 the magazine was redesigned. The new online avatar of ''Sportstar'' was launched on 26 October 2015 at the Madras Cricket Club. It has its own mobile app named Sportstar - Live Sports & News. References 1978 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerala Blasters FC
Kerala Blasters Football Club (), commonly referred to as The Blasters, is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala, that competes in the Indian Super League, the top tier of football in India. The club was established in May 2014 during the inaugural season of the Indian Super League. The club played their inaugural match on 13 October 2014, losing 1–0 to NorthEast United. The Blasters are the three time runners up of the Indian Super League. They first entered the final in 2014, where they lost 1–0 to ATK after an injury time goal from them. In 2016, they were again defeated 4–3 by ATK, this time through penalties in the final. The club entered the final for the third time in 2022, where they were defeated 3–1 by Hyderabad FC through penalties. The Blasters plays home games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi. In most of the seasons since the club's founding, Kerala Blasters have held the record for the highest league attendance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudeva Delhi FC
Sudeva Delhi Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Delhi, that competes in I-League, the second tier of Indian football league system. Founded as ''Sudeva Moonlight FC'' in 2014, the club is affiliated with Football Delhi, and also participate in Delhi Premier League. Sudeva joined I-League in the 2020–21 season and became the first club from the capital to do so. History The beginning Sudeva is an organization which was started in 2014 by two young entrepreneurs, Anuj Gupta, a solicitor in England and Vijay Hakari, an environmentalist, sharing a common passion for raising the standards of football training in the country. The organization runs grassroots programs for potential talent, starting from the age of 9, right up to the senior level. As Sudeva Moonlight In 2016, Sudeva acquired ''Moonlight FC'', a Delhi-based club playing in the ''DSA Senior Division'' (now known as ''Football Delhi Senior Division League''), and having won the league twic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisha FC
Odisha Football Club () is an Indian professional football club based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, that competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. Prior to the inaugural Indian Super League season, the club was founded as ''Delhi Dynamos Football Club''. The club renamed to Odisha Football Club, as it moved to its current base, the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Raj Athwal, former commercial head of Rangers, Watford, and Coventry City, currently serves as the club president. David Villa, former Spanish international and the founder of premium consulting agency DV7 Management, is the technical advisor and the head of global football operations. Josep Gombau currently serves as the head coach; he was appointed as the head coach prior to the 2022–23 Indian Super League season. Odisha FC has a value of $5.72 million as of 2022. History Formation In early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, the national federation for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NorthEast United FC
NorthEast United FC is an Indian professional football club based in Guwahati, Assam that competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. The club was founded on 13 April 2014 during the inaugural season of Indian Super League. NorthEast United represents the 8 states known as North East India, consisting of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Mizoram. History Formation In early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, the national federation for football in India, and IMG-Reliance would be accepting bids for ownership of eight of nine selected cities for the upcoming Indian Super League, an eight-team franchise league modeled along the lines of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. On 13 April 2014, it was announced that the Bollywood actor John Abraham and Shillong Lajong Football Club had won the bidding for the franchise. On 16 July 2014, the club signed Joan Capdevila, a Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyderabad FC
Hyderabad Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Hyderabad, Telangana. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. Founded on 27 August 2019, the club replaced Pune City after they were disbanded and their franchise rights were sold to Telangana businessman Vijay Madduri and former Kerala Blasters CEO Varun Tripuraneni. Later, actor Rana Daggubati stepped in as one of the co-owners. The club began their first professional season in October 2019. On 16 June 2020, German club Borussia Dortmund struck a partnership deal with the club for grassroots development. Manuel Márquez Roca is the current Hyderabad head coach, taking over on 31 August 2020 replacing Albert Roca who went to FC Barcelona as a ''fitness coach''. Hyderabad play their home matches at the G.M.C Balayogi Athletic Stadium in the Hyderabad suburb of Gachibowli. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 for matches. Hyderabad played their inaugural match o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamshedpur FC
Jamshedpur Football Club (, ) is an Indian professional football club based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, that competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian Football. Founded in 2017, the club debuted in Indian Super League during the 2017–18 season. The club is owned and managed by Tata Steel. The club was established on 12 June 2017, when Tata Steel won the bidding rights for one of the two expansion slots in the Indian Super League. They won the ISL League Winners' Shield during 2021–22 season. History Formation On 11 May 2017, Indian Super League organisers invited bids for new teams (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cuttack, Durgapur, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Ranchi, and Siliguri) in order to expand the league in the upcoming season. The bidding ended on 25 May 2017 and the external validator, appointed by the league, started scrutinizing the bids. Two weeks later, on 12 June, it was officially announced that Bengaluru FC and Tata Steel had won the bids fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajasthan United FC
Rajasthan United Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Founded in 2018 as ''JECRC CF'', the club academy participated in R-League A Division 2019, and was the inaugural winner. In 2020, ''JECRC CF'' was rebranded as Rajasthan United FC. The club currently competes in I-League. Rajasthan United won the 2021 I-League Qualifiers and thus became the first ever club from the state to qualify for the then top flight of Indian football. History Rajasthan United FC is the premier professional football club based in Jaipur. The club was founded in 2018 by an engineering student Kamal Singh Saroha, with his colleagues and friends as JECRC CF (''Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre''), and re-branded as Rajasthan United in 2020, after the introduction of Rajat Mishra and Swapnil Dhaka as the co-founders. In its first year of inception, they managed to win the R-League A Division. In the second season, United came out as runners-up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chennaiyin FC
Chennaiyin Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. The club was founded in August 2014 during the inaugural season of the Indian Super League. One of the most successful clubs in the history of the league, it has won the Indian Super League title on two occasions, in the 2015 and 2017–18 seasons respectively. The club is owned by Vita Dani, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan and Indian cricketer MS Dhoni. The team's name ''Chennaiyin FC'' means ''Chennai's football club'' in Tamil where the 'yin' suffix is similar to a possessive 's' in English. The club's primary colour is blue ever since its inception and its logo is the ''Dhrishti Bommai'', a representation of chasing away negativity and preserving positivity in the Tamil culture. History Origin When the Indian Super League was founded in 2014, the city of Chennai was one of the nine proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Mohammedan Sporting Club is an Indian multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Its association football, football team competes in I-League, the Indian football league system, second-tier of Indian football, as well as in Calcutta Football League (CFL), the List of oldest football competitions, oldest football league in Asia. Formed in February 1891, it is one of the oldest active football clubs in the country. It was over three decades later since the foundation, the club became affiliated with the Indian Football Association (IFA) to play in the second division of CFL before earning promotion to the premier division of CFL in 1933 and a year later, Mohammedan became the first Indian team to win the league and in 1938 became the first team to win it for five consecutive times. After the Indian independence movement, independence of India, Mohammedan became the first Indian club to win a football tournament on foreign soil by lifting the Aga Khan Gold Cup in 1960. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Goa
Football Club Goa is an Indian professional football club based in Goa, that competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. The club was established on 26 August 2014. Nicknamed as '' Gaurs'', the club plays their home matches at the Fatorda Stadium in Margao. Brazilian coach Zico was the first manager of the club. Its marquee players for its first two seasons have been French winger Robert Pires and Brazilian defender Lúcio respectively. The team finished the league stage in the second position in their first season. In the end-of-season play-offs, they lost via a penalty shootout against Atlético de Kolkata in the semi-finals after a goalless draw. The next year, the team came first in the league stage, then lost the final 3–2 to Chennaiyin FC at home. In the 2018–19 season, they reached their second final in the league where they lost 1–0 to Bengaluru FC. In the same season, they beat Chennaiyin FC 2–1 in the 2019 Indian Super Cup to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
