NEW DELHI: Twelve teams are contesting the 2016-17 second division league, organised by the All India Football Federation (AIFF), which kicked off Friday at the the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad.
In the first match of the tournament, hosts Fateh Hyderabad AFC lost to debutants Pride Sports 1-3.
The 12 teams have been…
HYDERABAD: A second tier badminton league is in the pipeline, chief national coach P Gopichand has confirmed.
“There are serious plans to start a league on the lines of Premier Badminton League for fringe players as otherwise all of them cannot be accommodated,” Gopichand, who was also the advisor for the just-concluded…
NEW DELHI: The official announcement is still awaited but Indian football team coach Stephen Constantine has reportedly signed a contract extension with the All India Football Federation that runs till May 2018.
This effectively means that the Englishman will see out India's AFC Asian Cup third round qualification which ends…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday stressed on the need for an "institutional arrangement" that enables excellence in sports. Modi noted that the Union government as well as all state governments would be keen to popularize sports.
The Prime Minister further said there is a strong need for proper mapping at the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court provided a huge lifeline to India's beleaguered cricket administrators Friday, modifying its earlier order to state that the nine-year cumulative period would be applicable separately to the BCCI and state associations subject to a cooling off period.
And on the critical matter of the…
NEW DELHI: Having gained the reputation of being the best professional league in the world since its launch in 2013, the fifth edition of the Coal India Hockey India League (HIL) is set to enthrall hockey buffs once again as it gets underway at the Mahindra Hockey Stadium in Mumbai Saturday.
The tone of the league will be set…
BEIRUT, Lebanon: Political compulsions may be impeding a decision from the powers that be in the government from settling the vexed issue of who should run Indian basketball but the hoop game's world governing body has long decided that it will work with the Bengaluru based faction led by K Govind Raj. FIBA's regional office in Asia…
NEW DELHI: Talk about convoluted thinking. And dare we say a serious lack of urgency in concluding matters so all the stakeholders in Indian cricket can "get on with it". The two-member panel appointed by the Supreme Court tasked with forming the Committee of Administrators to run BCCI, on Friday suggested nine names, which the top…
KUALA LUMPUR East Timor has been expelled from the 2023 Asian Cup for falsifying documents of several Brazilian-born footballers, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Friday.
The AFC disciplinary committee, at its meeting on Thursday held the Federacao Futebol Timor-Leste (FFTL) and its general secretary Amandio de…
MUMBAI: Arsenal's celebrated manager Arsene Wenger has warned that it is not just that cash awash Chinese Super League that should be a concern for the leading football leagues in Europe, but the India Super League as well.
Former Premier League stars Luis Garcia, John Arne Riise, Diego Forlan, Florent Malouda and Aaron Hughes…