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Indian football clubs have entered Asian football competitions (AFC Champions League and AFC Cup) since the 1900s. [1] The Asian Champion Club Tournament started in 1967 , but there was no Indian representative during that inaugural season.
Football league Indian Super League Organising bodies AIFF and FSDL Founded 21 October 2013 ; 11 years ago (2013-10-21) Country India Confederation AFC Number of clubs 13 Level on pyramid 1 Domestic cup(s) Super Cup Durand Cup International cup(s) AFC Champions League Two AFC Challenge League Current champions Mohun Bagan SG (1st title) (2023–24) Most championships ATK (3 titles) Most ...
The List of top-division football clubs in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) countries.The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) includes all countries within the Asian territory as members, except Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chagos Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey, as most of them are affiliated with another confederation, or none ...
Club ranking was introduced in 2014 by the AFC. [1] It was an informative ranking and not used to seed clubs in the club competitions. [2]In 2024, the AFC announced changes in the format for ranking the three revamped Club competitions – AFC Champions League Elite, AFC Champions League Two, AFC Challenge League – effective from the 2024–25 season. [4]
The league was declared as joint top tier in 2019–20 season when AFC approved AIFF's proposal to demote the AFC Champions League slot, for the AFC Cup. Three seasons later the league was completely demoted to second tier status in Indian football, with the league champions now promoted to the Indian Super League.
Since the 2023–24 AFC Champions League and the 2023–24 AFC Cup adopted transitional calendar with the switch from Spring-to-Autumn to an Autumn-to-Spring schedule, [1] the All India Football Federation decided that its continental slots would be determined by extra playoff matches (known as the Hero Club Playoffs for sponsorship reasons).
The Indian football champions are the winners of the highest league in Indian men's football, which is currently the Indian Super League. Though Indian football tournaments dates back to the eighteenth century, a proper league system, the National Football League (NFL) was established in 1996, playing it first season in 1996–97. Its champions ...
The number of teams that each association enters into the AFC Champions League Elite is determined annually through criteria as set by the AFC Competitions Committee. [22] The criteria, which is a modified version of the UEFA coefficient , measures such thing as marketability and stadia to determine the specific number of berths that an ...