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Indian Club Qualifiers For 2023–24 AFC Competitions
Since the 2023–24 AFC Champions League and the 2023–24 AFC Cup adopted transitional calendar with the switch from ''Spring-to-Autumn'' to an ''Autumn-to-Spring'' schedule, the All India Football Federation decided that its continental slots would be determined by extra playoff matches (known as the ''Hero Club Playoffs'' for sponsorship reasons). Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage The winner qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage. Qualification for the AFC Cup group stage The winner qualified for the AFC Cup group stage. Qualification for the AFC Cup qualifying play-off The winner qualified for the AFC Cup qualifying play-off. References {{DEFAULTSORT:2021-23 in Indian football Football Football Football India India India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 AFC Champions League
The 2023–24 AFC Champions League will be the 42nd edition of Asia's premier club association football, football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 21st under the current AFC Champions League title. This season is the first to have an inter-year schedule from September (autumn-to-spring) instead of an intra-year schedule (spring-to-autumn) since the 2002–03 AFC Champions League, 2002–03 season. This edition sees an increase in numbers of preliminary players with 35 players able to be registered; teams will be able to field six foreign players in games, where one of these players must still be from another Asian nation. The winners of the tournament will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 AFC Champions League, entering at the qualifying play-off stage, if they have not already qualified through their domestic performance. Association team allocation The 47 Asian Football Confederation, AFC member associations are ranked based on th ... [...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] |
Odei Onaindia
Odei Onaindia Zabala (born 7 December 1989) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Indian Super League club Goa. Club career Born in Lekeitio, Biscay, Basque Country, Odei joined Athletic Bilbao's Lezama in 2007, from hometown side Lekeitio FT. He made his senior debut in the 2008–09 campaign, while on loan at Tercera División side CD Elgoibar; upon returning, he was assigned to Athletic's farm team in the same category. Odei first arrived in Segunda División B in July 2011, joining SD Amorebieta. He continued to appear in the division in the following years, representing Barakaldo CF, Burgos CF (two stints), Marbella FC (where he only spent 20 days with the squad before being released), Bilbao Athletic, UD Melilla and CD Mirandés; with the latter, he achieved promotion to Segunda División in 2019. On 9 July 2019, Odei renewed his contract with the ''Rojillos'' for a further season. He made his professional debut at the age of 29 on 8 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahil Tavora
Dom Sahil Krishe de Noronha Tavora (born 19 October 1995) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Indian Super League club Hyderabad. Career Earlier career Born in Goa, Tavora was a part of both the Brasil Futebol Academia and Sesa Football Academy before signing with Arthur Papas managed Dempo in September 2013. FC Goa On 19 August 2016, it was announced that Tavora had signed with Goa of the Indian Super League. He made his professional debut for the team on 8 October 2016 against Pune City. He came on as an 82nd-minute substitute for Mandar Rao Desai. GDSC Alvarenga In 2018, Tavora moved abroad and signed with Campeonato de Portugal side GDSC Alvarenga on 1 July. Hyderabad In 2019, he came back to India after signing with Indian Super League side Hyderabad. In the 2020–21 season, after having a goalless draw against FC Goa, they narrowly missed the play-offs as they finished 5th in the league table. He scored an important goal in the Final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Victor (footballer, Born 1988)
João Victor de Albuquerque Bruno (born 7 November 1988), known as João Victor, is a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder and Captain (association football), captains the Indian Super League club Hyderabad FC, Hyderabad. Club career Early career Born in Olinda, Pernambuco, João Victor played in his country with Clube Náutico Capibaribe, Associação Desportiva São Caetano and Treze Futebol Clube, helping the first club to promote to Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Série A in 2006 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, 2006. In 2009, he joined compatriot Luiz Felipe Scolari at Uzbekistan's FC Bunyodkor. Mallorca On 26 August 2010, both João Victor and fellow Brazilian Edson Ratinho, Ratinho – his former teammate at Bunyodkor – signed a five-year deal with RCD Mallorca in Spain, following a successful trial. The former made his La Liga debut on 26 September in a 2–0 home win against Real Sociedad, and finished his 2010–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitri Petratos
Dimitrios Petratos (born 10 November 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club ATK Mohun Bagan. Petratos has played for four different A-League clubs, winning one championship with Brisbane Roar. The majority of Petratos's career has been in the A-League. However, he has played in Malaysia, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, before moving to India. Club career Sydney FC Petratos made his debut as a substitute for Sydney FC in their Round 13, 1–0 victory over Newcastle Jets at the Sydney Football Stadium during the 2010–11 season. He played continually since his debut off the bench and was in the starting 11 in some games. He scored his first senior A-League goal against Gold Coast United on 8 January 2011 which set Sydney on their way to a 2–0 victory. Sydney FC secured him to a new two-year professional contract on 13 January 2011, replacing his youth league contract. Petratos secured his position as one of the brig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Chianese
Joel Joseph Chianese (born 15 February 1990) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward. Career Sydney FC Chianese made his senior debut in the first game of the 2011 Asian Champions League as a substitute for Hirofumi Moriyasu in the 0–3 loss against Kashima Antlers at the Sydney Football Stadium. His A-League debut for the club didn't arrive until Round 19 of the 2011–12 A-League season, coming on as a substitute in the 5–2 thrashing at the hands of Newcastle Jets at the Sydney Football Stadium. Chianese scored twice in the first final of the 2011/12 season against the Wellington Phoenix FC, however it was not enough as Sydney lost 3–2. National Premier Leagues Following his release from Sydney FC, Chianese signed with National Premier Leagues NSW club Sydney United, and undertook a 2-week trial in England with Football League One club Swindon Town. This trial proved unsuccessful despite scoring twice in a friendly again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Indian Super League Season
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the emdash , longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontalbar , whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes. History In the early 1600s, in Okes-printed plays of William Shakespeare, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject. The dashes are variously longer (as in King Lear reprinted 1619) or composed of hyphens (as in Othello printed 1622); moreover, the dashes are often, but not always, prefixed by a comma, colon, or semicolon. In 1733, in Jonathan Swift's ''On Poetry'', the terms ''break'' and ''dash'' are attested for and marks: Blot out, correct, insert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATK Mohun Bagan FC
ATK Mohun Bagan FC () is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. The club competes in Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football. The club, which was formed as a merger between the football section of multi-sport club Mohun Bagan AC and the ATK FC, began to play from the 2020–21 season as ATK Mohun Bagan FC. The entity continues with the existing registration of Mohun Bagan AC with AIFF and IFA (W.B.), and its history and tradition. The principal owner of ATK Mohun Bagan is Sanjiv Goenka led consortium called Kolkata Games & Sports with Mohun Bagan AC serving as the co-owner. ATK Mohun Bagan continues to share a fierce rivalry, known as the ''Boro Match'', with Mohun Bagan's long-time city rival East Bengal. The first derby match was played on 8 August 1921. The Mariners also have a considerate rivalry with the big clubs from Kerala; namely Gokulam Kerala and Kerala Blasters. Background History On 15 August 1889 Mohun Bagan Athl ... [...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] |
EMS Stadium
The EMS Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium is currently home of I-League side Gokulam Kerala FC, together with Indian Women's League side Gokulam Kerala FC (women). It could hold more than 50,000 spectators and was built in 1977. The stadium is named after communist leader E.M.S. Namboodiripad who was the first Chief Minister of Kerala. Renovations The stadium was reconstructed and reopened in February 2005 by hosting the home matches of SBT in the national football league. The stadium has installed improved floodlight. It is renovated as international stadium for football and cricket. The stadium may also be leased to Kerala Cricket Association while Kerala Football Association would like the stadium in their possession. The grand stand will have a VIP lounge with seating capacity for 200, a VIP lounge, a dressing room for players and a media centre. Football It was the home ground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kozhikode
Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second largest metropolitan area in Kerala and the 19th largest in India. Kozhikode is classified as a Tier 2 city by the Government of India. It is the largest city in the region known as the Malabar and was the capital of the British-era Malabar district. In antiquity and the medieval period, Kozhikode was dubbed the ''City of Spices'' for its role as the major trading point for Indian spices. It was the capital of an independent kingdom ruled by the Samoothiris (Zamorins). The port at Kozhikode acted as the gateway to medieval South Indian coast for the Chinese, the Persians, the Arabs and finally the Europeans. According to data compiled by economics research firm Indicus Analytics in 2009 on residences, earnings and investments, Kozhikode w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
