The Premier Futsal League was an
Indian
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franchise-based futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
league
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conceptualised by Indian
entrepreneurs
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under the
entity
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of Premier Futsal Management
Pvt. Ltd.
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It was founded by Abhinandan Balasubramanian, Dinesh Raj and Nithyashree Subban, backed by business magnate Xavier Britto and his wife,
philanthropist
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Vimala Britto.
Format
Each playing team consists of three international futsal players, one international
marquee football
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player and one Indian futsal player. Every squad is allowed a maximum of twelve players.
Premier Futsal conducted a
talent hunt programme across eight cities called ''Launchpad'' to
scout
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and select Indian players. The programme combed through 2500 participants per city to shortlist five regional players for each team.
Mumbai 5's won the inaugural Premier Futsal by defeating Kochi 5's in the penalty shootout.
Management team
* Xavier Britto -
Chairman
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&
investor
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of Premier Futsal,
founder
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& chairman of Estell group of
hotel
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s & Kerry Indev
Logistics
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& Indev Logistics
* Dinesh Raj -
Managing
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director of Premier Futsal,
Guinness World Record
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holder for creating the India's largest
human
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national flag
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* Abhinandan Balasubramanian -
CEO
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of Premier Futsal, founder of AltFlo & ChefHost
* Nithyashree Subban -
Director
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of
Finance
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&
Strategy
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, Premier Futsal
* Vimala Britto - Director of Premier Futsal,
Correspondent
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- Britto Group of
College
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s, founder & chairperson - Seek
Foundation
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, a
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Brand ambassadors
Indian
cricket
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team
batsman
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Virat Kohli
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has joined the Premier Futsal as its
brand ambassador
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.
Premier Futsal attracted a lot of fans when they signed the one of the best futsal players in the world,
Alessandro Rosa Vieira
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,
popularly known as Falcão.
On 12 May 2016, Virat Kohli along with Falcão facilitated the launch of the nationwide talent hunt to select 40 players who will represent their respective
cities
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in the first
season
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of Premier Futsal.
Anthem
The Premier Futsal
anthem
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''Naam Hai Futsal'' had its
tunes
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set by two-time
Academy Award
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winner
A.R.Rahman
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with vocals also provided by
Karthik,
Lady Kash
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and
Virat Kohli
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.
Previous teams
Results
By season
Telecast
Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt. Ltd. acquired exclusive rights to broadcast Premier Futsal. As part of the agreement, all Premier Futsal matches will be televised live on
Sony SIX
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History
Sony SIX was launched in April 2012 by Sony Pictures Networ ...
,
Sony ESPN
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and
Sony Aath
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. Matches will also be available to live stream on
Sony LIV
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.
In Indonesia, all Premier Futsal matches also broadcast live on nonton.com (2016 only) and Super Soccer TV (from
2017
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).
See also
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Football in India
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AFC Futsal Asian Cup
The AFC Futsal Asian Cup, previously the AFC Futsal Championship, is the premier international futsal competition for the Asian Football Confederation national teams. It was first held in 1999 and was played annually until 2008; since then it has ...
*
AFC Futsal Club Championship
The AFC Futsal Club Championship is the current highest Asian futsal club competition, hosted by the Asian Football Confederation. It is futsal equivalent to AFC Champions League.
For the inaugural edition, AFC Futsal Committee decided to make ...
*
FIFA Futsal World Cup
The FIFA Futsal World Cup is an international futsal competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. Since the first edition that took place in 1989 in the Netherlan ...
*
AIFF Futsal Club Championship
The Futsal Club Championship, also referred as Hero MotoCorp, Hero Futsal Club Championship for sponsorship ties, is the Indian football league system, highest level futsal club competition in India, organised by the All India Football Federati ...
*
Minifootball
Minifootball is a ''small-sided'' variation of football. It is mainly played in 5-a-side format, with additional types of 6-a-side, 7-a-side, 8-a-side, 9-a-side and indoor soccer, all played on astro turf, or futsal played indoors on a hard cour ...
*
Five-a-side football
Five-a-side football is a version of minifootball, in which each team fields five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper). Other differences from football include a smaller pitch, smaller goals, and a reduced game duration. Matches are ...
*
Indoor soccer
Indoor soccer or arena soccer (known internationally as indoor football, fast football, or showball) is five-a-side version of minifootball, derived from association football and adapted to be played in walled hardcourt indoor arena. Indoor socc ...
References
External links
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