Six Goa teams will be in action in the 16-team, 12-day inter-club tournament, from October 19.
Dudu Omagbemi's hat-trick helped Sporting Clube de Goa score an emphatic 4-1 victory over Fransa in the eighth round of the NFL.
East Bengal will open their campaign with a home match against Muktijoddha of Bangladesh on March 9.
All India Football Federation decided to treat him leniently as he is a young player.
Dempo officials have disputed the autopsy report, which said there were no signs of injury, external or internal, in Cristiano Junior's body.
Indian soccer officials will launch an inquiry into the death of Dempo SC striker Cristiano Junior during the final of Federation Cup on Sunday.
Earnest Jeremiah's goal gave the defending champions a 1-0 victory in the National Football League match.
The Kolkata giants take on the Bangladesh side in the AFC Cup Group A league match on Wednesday.
The fixtures for the first phase of the tournament, which gets underway on November 28.
He scored both goals in a 2-0 victory over Dempo in the National Football League.
'The only way to change things is to professionalise the administration,' says AIFF secretary Alberto Colaco.
Rui Wanderlei Weis's second-half goal gave the Goa side a 1-0 victory in the NFL.
The draw kept Mahindra in third position, with 37 points from 20 matches, in the National Football League, two points behind Dempo.
East Bengal prevailed over Tollyhunge Aggragami 1-0 to consolidate their position atop the National Football League.
East Bengal crushed Sporting Clube de Goa 4-0 to set up a semi-final clash with JCT Mills, Phagwara in the Durand Cup football tournament.
Christiano Junior scored his ninth goal in 11 matches to give the defending champions a 1-0 victory in the national Football League.
A goal in each half gave the defending champions a 2-0 victory in the National Football League.
The victory enabled the defending champions displace Dempo from the top spot in the National Football League.
A 2-1 victory took the Mumbai champions to second place on the 12-team National Football League teable.
Joe Paul Ancheri scored the all-important goal in the NFL match.
A 3-0 victory over Indian Bank assured them the crown with two rounds to go.\n\n
The speedy striker got both goals as Dempo beat JCT 2-0 in a National Football League match in Ludhiana.
In a stunning development in Indian football, two-time champions Churchill Brothers were thrown out of the I-League along with three other teams for failing to fulfil the AIFF's club licensing criteria.
A win against Churchill Brothers will enable the Kolkata giants steer clear atop the National Football League.
The Goa side humbled the defending champions 2-0 in a National Football League match.
The defeat is a severe jolt to Mahindra's hopes of making it to the semis in the under-19 NFL.
AIFF's Club Licensing Committee decided that based on the reports all the fourteen License Applicants failed to clear the Licensing Test.
The Mumbai side scored once in each half to get the better of Dempo in an NFL match.
Images: Mohun Bagan get massive reception.
Goa on Saturday joined Kochi and Navi Mumbai as one of the venues to host next year's FIFA U-17 World Cup after it received the green signal from a high-level delegation of football's world body. A 13-member FIFA delegation alongwith the Local Organising Committee (LOC) today made an inspection to ascertain the readiness of Goa to host matches and training sessions at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2017. Following the visit, LOC and FIFA experts expressed their satisfaction with the work which has been put in at the venue and ratified Goa as the third venue to host the event after Kochi and Navi Mumbai.
History beckons trailblazers Bengaluru FC as they lock horns with Air Force Club of Iraq in the summit clash of AFC Cup in Doha on Saturday, aiming to become the first Indian football club to clinch a continental title. Bengaluru FC have already created history by becoming the first Indian club to qualify for the final of a continental tournament after they defeated defending champions Johor Darul Ta'zim in the semifinals on 4-2 aggregate last month. Before this, the farthest an Indian club had advanced in a continental tournament was the two AFC Cup semifinal appearances by Dempo in 2008 and East Bengal in 2013.
He spoke to Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi on why ISL could prove to be a much-needed shot in the arm for Indian football and how it attracted him back to India.
Chhetri is currently the highest goal-scoring active Asian player with 64 strikes from 101 matches and third in the world after superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
From Sania Mirza to Virat Kohli, even the likes of Virender Sehwag has shown that swagger on the runway.
Former Brazil international Zico has expressed a desire to run for president of FIFA.
Former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Kshitij Vyas, will pronounce his verdict next week over FSDL and FC Goa's appeal against sanctions imposed on them by Indian Super League's Regulatory Commission for boycotting the prize distribution ceremony following last edition's Indian Super League final.
It's been eight months since East Bengal triumphed in the Federation Cup but the age-old Kolkata club is yet to get the prize money for winning the tournament, thanks to dilly dallying on part of the All India Football Federation (AIFF).
Sporting clube de Goa confirmed they have formally withdrawn from I-League 2016-17 owing to "strong objections" to the proposed road map by All India Football Federation and its marketing partners IMG-Reliance for Indian football.
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