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\"I-LeaguePune: <\/strong>In an unified effort, 12 I-League club owners\/ representatives have decided to launch the Indian Professional Football Clubs Association (IPFCA).<\/p>\n

The decision was taken following a meeting held at the Ashok Piramal Group Business Centre – Lotus Lounge, Mumbai on Saturday, 10th March, 2012. The conclusive idea of forming the IPFCA is to safeguard the interest of its member clubs, promote and popularize the football in India.<\/p>\n

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The IPFCA, it was decided will be funded by member clubs and formed under the Society Registration Act 1860.<\/p>\n

The clubs also spelt out IPFCA objectives, which include<\/p>\n

– Promote and safeguard the common interests of the clubs
– Popularize the I-League across India
– Help make the I-League sustainable and profitable
– Encourage the formation of new professional clubs
– Share best practices among member clubs
– Get the I-League teams to play in the Asian Champions league.<\/p>\n

There was detailed discussion amongst the club owners and representatives regarding the progress made towards setting a focused approach for making I league a separate entity in which the clubs would have major stakes.<\/p>\n

Members expressed deep concern with regards to departure of Mahindra United and JCT from Indian Football and expressed their anguish that unless corrective suitable action is taken, others may follow suit.<\/p>\n

The members who met and outlined IPFCA were;<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kingfisher East Bengal – Shantiranjan Das Gupta\u00a0
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McDowells Mohun Bagan – Anjan Mitra, Debashish Dutta and Alokesh Banerjee
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prayag United SC – Siddhartha Bhattacharya
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salgaocar SC – Shivanand Salgaocar and Raj Gomes
5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dempo SC – Srinivas Dempo and Suvrat Thatte
6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sporting Clube de Goa – Peter Vaz and Victor Fernandes
7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chirag Kerala – Prashantan
8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mumbai FC – Atul Badgamia
9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Air-India SC – Godfrey Pereira
10. Shillong Lajong FC – Larsingh Ming
11. Pune FC – Nandan Piramal and Chirag Tanna
12. Churchill Brothers requested \u2018Leave of Absence,\u2019 but offered total support to the decisions and the formation of the IPFCA.<\/p>\n

It was also proposed that the registered office of the IPFCA will be the Pune FC office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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