Two new teams are set to join the Indian Super League in 2017-18 season as it was revealed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Monday.<\/p>\n
Bengaluru FC will become the first I-League club to be integrated into the ISL. The club, who are owned by JSW Group, had won bids along with Tata Steel company who will establish a team reperesent Jamshedpur city.<\/p>\n
As a result, the two-time I-League champions and AFC Cup runners-up from Bengaluru city will no longer feature in the India’s main domestic competition next season.<\/p>\n
Another I-League outfit, Mohun Bagan and East Bengalr eportedly have also been bidding to enter the league but they are adamant not to pay franchisee fees.<\/p>\n
“The inclusion of two new clubs came through the ‘Invitation To Bid’ tender process floated by FSDL last month,” said AIFF General Secretary, Kushal Das was quoted by TOI.<\/em><\/p>\n “The ISL in its fourth edition will witness an expanded five-month module with number of participating clubs increasing to ten from its original eight founding member city clubs.”<\/p>\n The ISL is not a part of the Indian football pyramid since the franchise-system league was founded in 2013, but there was a plan to merge it with I-League in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two new teams are set to join the Indian Super League in 2017-18 season as it was revealed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Monday. Bengaluru FC will become the first I-League club to be integrated into the ISL. The club, who are owned by JSW Group, had won bids along with Tata Steel company who will establish a team reperesent Jamshedpur city. As a result, the two-time I-League champions and AFC Cup runners-up from Bengaluru city will no longer feature in the India’s main domestic competition next season. Another I-League outfit, Mohun Bagan and East Bengalr eportedly have also been bidding to enter the league but they … Continue reading “ISL expansion plans revealed with two new teams to join in 2017-18”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,856,29],"tags":[405,96,205,447,891],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-rest-of-asia","category-south-asia","tag-bengaluru","tag-i-league","tag-india","tag-indian-super-league","tag-isl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}