Governance

The All Indian Football Federation announced the Premier 1 club licensing results for the 2024-25 season on Thursday. 

Punjab FC is the only club to have received a direct license.

Indian Super League (ISL) 2023-24 champion Mohun Bagan Super Giant and ISL Cup champion Mumbai City FC received the license with sanctions. Joining them in this category is Kolkata giant East Bengal, FC Goa, Bengaluru FC, Chennaiyin FC, NorthEast United FC and Mohammedan Sporting, which was promoted to the ISL after it won the I-League this season. 

Jan 18, 2020 18:01
LYON: UEFA has released the 11th edition of the European Club Footballing Landscape report, its annual club licensing benchmarking report on European club football. Europe’s top-division clubs generated a combined profit for the second successive year in 2018, but the gap between the wealthiest sides and the rest continues to grow, according to the report.
Jan 17, 2020 20:01
KOLKATA: “We would never sell our club. We will always go by what our fans and members say. They want investors to come but keeping the dignity of the club intact will be our priority. Our members will strive hard to run the club, come what may.” 
Jan 17, 2020 19:01
NEW YORK: There’ll be a new racing series on the support bill at the United States and Mexico City Grands Prix after F1 confirmed W Series, the single-seater championship for female drivers, will be part of the schedule. The races will represent the final two rounds of the eight-round series, which had its inaugural season in 2019, with Williams development driver Jamie Chadwick taking the spoils.
Jan 17, 2020 18:01
ZURICH: FIFA has launched a new and enhanced integrity toolkit that aims to protect the integrity of football and help member associations and confederations to strengthen and further enhance existing measures in place to protect national and regional-level football matches and competitions from match fixing.
Jan 16, 2020 16:01
NEW DELHI: Hockey India (HI) on Wednesday barred ten teams from participating in the various events of the 10th Hockey India National Championships 2020 due to non-submission of the team entry forms. 
Jan 16, 2020 16:01
JAMMU TAWI: Girish Chandra Murmu, Lieutenant Governor of J&K Union Territory, Wednesday inaugurated the renovated Maulana Azad Cricket Stadium here. The MA Cricket Stadium was upgraded under the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP).
Jan 16, 2020 16:01
DUBAI: On the eve of the U19 Cricket World Cup 2020, The International Cricket Council Thursday announced coverage plans for the tournament, with ICC TV set to produce live coverage of 20 matches, with short form digital highlights from every other non-televised match.
Jan 15, 2020 18:01
NEW DELHI: The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) executive committee, which met in India "for the first time in many years", held its first meeting of 2020 here on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th January.
Jan 15, 2020 17:01
NEW YORK: The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the Women's National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) announced Tuesday that they have reached an agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), pending ratification by the players and the league’s board of governors.
Jan 15, 2020 17:01
MUMBAI: Odisha beat Telangana and Tamil Nadu when it was adjudged as the Best State for Promotion of Sports at the Sportstar Aces Awards here Monday evening. The winner was decided on basis of the budgetary allocation (Odisha had Rs 2.2 billion for 2019-20), stadium infrastructure, management of nation-level and international-level events and other important criteria.