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Indian Super League

The Indian Super League is the name of a new, proposed football league in India by IMG-Reliance (a joint venture of IMG andReliance Industries) and the All India Football Federation. It is set to kick-off in September 2014 and finish its first season in November of that year.The league is expected to run along the lines of the Indian Premier Leagueand football league of theUnited States

The league is expected to be competed by eight franchises with each team featuring one major marquee player. So far the names already confirmed to be auctioned in November are Dwight Yorke, Fredrik Ljungberg, Robert Pirès, Louis Saha, and Hernán Crespo. Managers confirmed so far include Peter Schmeichel, Marcel Desailly and Kenny Dalglish .It has also already been confirmed that 59 Indian players had already been signed up for the league as well.I-League.

 The tournament has been criticized by many observers for the threat it poses to India's premier football division, the

Franchise auctions

The eight cities which were selected to host teams are Bangalore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. The bids were to end on 25 March 2014. But will now end at 5pm IST on 27th March 2014. IMG have said that merely spending huge sum of money in bidding is not going to win a club for the bidder, rather the bidding party should have plans to operate international standard grassroots football program in their club based region. IMG have laid out strict guidelines for the bidding parties to follow in order to win a bid for a franchise team.

The reserve price for each city except Kolkata team is Rs 12 crore per year for 10 years.For team Kolkata it is 18 crores

Rs 2 crore must be spent in the first year on developing football at the grassroots level.

On 13th April 2014, winners of bidding process were announced. Eight of the nine cities and their franchise owners were declared in the announcement. Chennai is the city which has been kept away from being included as a franchise in the Indian Super League. The winners and their franchise teams are mentioned below:

1. Pune - Salman Khan and Wadhawan Group
2. Bengaluru - Sun Group
3. Delhi - DEN Networks
4. Goa - Dattaraj Salgaocar and Shrinivas V. Dempo
5. Guwahati - John Abraham & Shillong Lajong F.C.
6. Kochi - Sachin Tendulkar & PVP Ventures
7. Kolkata - Sourav Ganguly, Harshavardhan Neotia, Atletico Madrid, Sanjeev Goenka, Utsav Parekh
8. Mumbai - Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal Parekh

Format

The 2014 season will be competed between eight franchises.

Each team would have a roster of 22 players each which would contain 10 foreign players, 8 domestic Indian players, and 4 local Indian players.

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