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Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri will host India’s friendlies scheduled for November.
India will play Philippines on November 15th and Nepal on November 19th. It was reported that these friendlies were scheduled to take place in Chennai. However unavailability of the stadium forced AIFF to move the matches to Siliguri.
Shillong Lajong today announced its association with McDowell’s No.1 Soda, the largest beverage alcohol franchise in the world as partners for the 2013-14 season. With this partnership Lajong becomes the first Football Club in the country to have 5 top-tier brand partnerships.
The Shillong based club already has telecom major Aircel as its principal sponsor along with Kingfisher and now McDowell’s as associate sponsors. adidas is the official kit sponsor of the club and Kyazoonga.com is the online ticketing partner of Shillong Lajong. This makes Lajong one of the hottest properties as far as Football in India and Sports in general is concerned.
Speaking on the occasion, Larsing M Sawyan, General Secretary, Shillong Lajong Football Club said, “We are proud to tie-up with McDowell’s No 1. The association will help catapult the Club in the big league. There is abundant football talent in the North East. Our dream is to identify budding footballers & leave an indelible mark on the Indian and international Football map.”
According to Alokesh Banerjee, Asst. Vice President-Marketing, United Spirits Limited, “McDowell’s has a long standing association with Football, as the principal sponsor of the McDowell Mohun Bagan club. Our partnership with Lajong FC is yet another step forward towards expanding the brand’s association with football. Lajong FC has emerged as a team of national stature and is one of the most professionally managed private clubs. With their focused & disciplined approach they would definitely create history in the forthcoming I-league season; we are proud to be associated with them & wish them all the very best for the competition.”
McDowell’s No.1 Platinum since its launch has been a very successful brand in the North East and now is proud to join hands with the Biggest Club in the North East.
Shillong Lajong has been one of the most professionally managed club in the country and have constantly embarked on ensuring commercial viability to back its on field success. The clubs home games in Shillong sees record turn-outs and their social media channels constantly engage their fans. They are the 3rd biggest Indian Football Club page on Facebook and have merchandise offerings for their fans.
Kolkata club Mohammedan Sporting has decided to break away from Indian Professional football Clubs Association (IPFCA).
It is reported that after an emergency meeting at Kolkata, IPFCA decided show-cause Mohammedan Sporting. Mohammedan Sporting had earlier signed five IMG – Reliance contracted players.
Irked with IPFCA decision, Mohammedan Sporting has decided to withdraw from IPFCA.“We have decided to withdraw from the IPFCA. We are for the betterment of Indian football, but IPFCA seems to have a different agenda,” Mohammedan Sporting president Sultan Ahmed told TOI.
It was also decided between the other clubs that they will only sign players from the disbanded youth set up Pailan Arrows.
AIFF signed an agreement under Australian Sports Outreach Program (ASOP) with Football Federation of Australia (FFA) to support All India Football Federation’s Grassroots Programme.
The agreement includes financial, administrative and technical support (from FFA) in the form of capacity building within the State Associations currently involved in the Grassroots Programme, Grassroots Courses and Grassroots Festivals, among many such activities.
Read More : Football Federation of Australia signs agreement with AIFF
AIFF released a new logo for the upcoming Federation Cup that will be hosted in Kerala.
United Sikkim replaces Mumbai Tigers in Group D, and the third and fourth placed Teams of last year’s I-league 2nd division – Bhowanipore FC and Langnsing FC will join United Sikkim in Group D.
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Reports are coming through that the organizers have now postponed the upcoming Indian Super League to Sept-Nov 2014. Earlier it was decided that the league will pan from Jan to March 2014.
A joint release by AIFF and IMG – Reliance on sunday confirmed the postponement. It is said that to avoid conflicts with I-league schedule, unavailability of stadiums due to Lusofonia games are the reasons for postponement. It is decided that Indian Super League will have a permanent window of September to November starting from year 2014.
Kenny Daglish has confirmed that he will part of the upcoming Indian Super League. However he is not sure of the role he will be playing in the tournament.
“I’ve seen the reports saying I’ll be making a return to management over there, but that’s a little premature. I’m delighted to be part of it, but quite what my role is going to be is still up for discussion.” He told Mirror.
Reports are coming through that Dempo SC has signed four players from the disbanded Pailan Arrows. Alywn George, Holicharan Narzary, Narayan Das and Pronay Halder has been signed by Dempo.
Earlier Mohamemdan Sporting had signed five players from IMG – Reliance. After Dempo signing these players the unity of IPFCA is under severe strain.
I-League Professional Football Clubs Association (IPFCA) has called an emergency meeting next week to discuss issues among them.
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Titanium FC from Kerala has entered the finals of The Doon Cup 2013. The Kerala club defeated Union Bank Mumbai in shoot out.
In another semifinal, Kerala Police got defeated by F.C.I Delhi 1-0 and entered finals.
Titanium Football Club will take on F.C.I Delhi in the finals on Oct 27th.
Airtel I-league enters the 7th round. Six matches including the first away match for Bengaluru FC is in offering. Catch the fixtures and Telecast details of these matches here. Also watch out for the results that will pop in here!
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