The AIFF Technical Committee on Friday recommended the Indian Super League and the I-League to follow the guidelines of the Asian Football Confederation and stick to the 3+1 foreigner\u2019s rule from the 2021-\u201922 season.<\/p>\n
The governing body\u2019s Shyam Thapa-led technical committee endorsed the continentally-endorsed 3+1 (three overseas and one Asian) rule in an online meeting following a steadily growing voice within the country\u2019s footballing fraternity to limit the role of foreigners in the domestic structure.<\/p>\n
The AFC rule suggests that a maximum of four foreign players, including one from an AFC member nation can be part of the playing eleven.<\/p>\n
Until the 2019-\u201920 season, Indian clubs were allowed to register a maximum of five foreign players in the line-up while a maximum of seven overseas players could be allowed in the squad.<\/p>\n
The clubs could register a maximum of seven and a minimum of six non-Indian players if their annual salaries didn\u2019t exceed the salary cap.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Indian national team coach Igor Stimac had also backed AIFF to implement AFC\u2019s 3+1 foreign player policy, who said the rule would help local players receive more game time.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy suggestion for the top tier [league] in the country is to follow AFC rule of 3+1, that\u2019s the basic rule for the number of foreign players. It\u2019s not strange that that most successful Asian countries are following that rule and that is why they are successful,\u201d Stimac said at a media briefing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why they have an option for the national team to have strikers, offensive midfielders and the centre-backs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The Technical Committee also felt that it isn\u2019t appropriate to discuss the PIO\/OCI rule allowing players of Indian origin to represent India but said it will wait for clarity from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports before the topic can be discussed at a later stage.<\/p>\n
The recommendations will have to be approved by AIFF\u2019s executive committee to come into effect. National coach Igor Stimac and his Croatia counterpart Zlatko Dali\u0107 have also advocated the implementation of the 3+1 rule for the betterment of Indian football.<\/p>\n
Since COVID-19 pandemic abruptly ended the current season and threw the entire footballing schedule into a shroud of uncertainty and taking into account contractual obligations of ISL franchises, the 3+1 rule couldn\u2019t be implemented from the 2020-21 season. The foreigners count will not be tampered with for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The AIFF Technical Committee on Friday recommended the Indian Super League and the I-League to follow the guidelines of the Asian Football Confederation and stick to the 3+1 foreigner\u2019s rule from the 2021-\u201922 season. The governing body\u2019s Shyam Thapa-led technical committee endorsed the continentally-endorsed 3+1 (three overseas and one Asian) rule in an online meeting following a steadily growing voice within the country\u2019s footballing fraternity to limit the role of foreigners in the domestic structure. The AFC rule suggests that a maximum of four foreign players, including one from an AFC member nation can be part of the playing eleven. Until the 2019-\u201920 season, Indian clubs were allowed to register … Continue reading “AIFF suggests ISL, I-League follow AFC\u2019s foreign player rule from 2021-22 season”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[698,76],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc","category-india","tag-31-foregners-rule","tag-aiff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}