An advert in the Financial Times today invites bids to establish teams in the Indian Super League. The ‘first edition’ of this city based football league will take place between Srptember and November 2014.
Bids are invited from prospective team owners for nine cities: Bengaluru, Chenna, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Franchises will be granted for eight of these cities.
An advert in the Financial Times today invites bids to establish teams in the Indian Super League. The ‘first edition’ of this city based football league will take place between Srptember and November 2014.
Bids are invited from prospective team owners for nine cities: Bengaluru, Chenna, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Franchises will be granted for eight of these cities.
It has been a struggle to establish football as a professional sport in India given the overwhelming popularity of cricket and other sports. However, television coverage of the game is starting to have an impact.
They clearly want to attract bids from outside India, but should you want to make your own bid you will have to pay half a million rupees up front as a ‘document fee’ and you won’t get it back.