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2022–23 Delhi Premier League
The 2022–23 Delhi Premier League was the first season of Delhi Premier League as a top-tier football league under the Delhi Football League. The season started on July 15, and ended on September 29, 2022. Delhi FC were the defending champions. Matches were played in Ambedkar Stadium and Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. Debutants Vatika FC were the winners of the league title. Changes in format Delhi Premier League, which acted as a final round in the previous edition broke away from the FD Senior Division league to became the top tier league in Delhi, while the former became a second tier league. A total of ten clubs from the previous edition were joined by Vatika FC who were the league's first entrants through bidding. For the first time ever, the teams played double round robin matches thereby increasing the number of games to 110 with 20 matches per side. Teams Eleven teams competed in the first edition of Delhi Premier League. Standings Awards Ajay Singh of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi Premier League
The Delhi Football League is organised by Football Delhi (FD) as a ladder-based state football competition involving a total of four divisions and over 80 teams in the Indian state of Delhi. Delhi Premier League is the top-division, started in 1948 as DSA Senior Division. History The first parent body of Delhi football was formed in 1926, with professor Mohammed Zubair Qureishi as secretary. There was no proper local league but the clubs used to participate in private tournaments organised by sport enthusiasts. Due to the violence and upheaval caused by the Partition of India, the Delhi League was suspended after 1946. It resumed in 1948 and the oldest club in the capital Young Men has won it that year. From 1948 onwards, the Delhi League took a particular shape. It had three divisions. The top 10 teams played in the A division, on a double-leg basis, with all matches being held at the Ambedkar Stadium, earlier known as the Delhi Gate Stadium. The B and C division matches too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Delhi
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat— * * * * and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's prime minister for 16 years. Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocs of the Cold War. A well-regarded author, his books written in prison, such as '' Letters from a Father to His Daughter'' (1929), '' An Autobiography'' (1936) and '' The Discovery of India'' (1946), have been read around the world. During his lifetime, the honorific Pandit was commonly applied before his name in India and even today too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
