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AIFF Bid Evaluation Committee met at the AIFF HQ in New Delhi today, September 20, 2017 to evaluate the bids submitted after the tendering process was initiated on August 18.
From the bids submitted, the Bid Evaluation Committee decided to award Sree Gokulam Group the right to field their team, Gokulam FC, from the I-League 2017/18 season onwards.
With this the I-League will stay a 10 team affair with the Indian Arrows, the AIFF Developmental side, being the other team replacing Indian Super League inducted Bengaluru FC and defunct DSK Shivajians FC. The other team in the fray for the I-League spot was Ozone FC from Bengaluru.
“It gives me great pleasure to welcome a new Kerala team from Sree Gokulam Group to the I-League from the 2017-18 season,” AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das said.
The team will be playing their home matches out of Calicut in Kerala.
Kushal Das added, “I hope the club would be able to ignite the passion of Kerala football in Calicut where they will be playing from.”
I-League CEO Sunando Dhar also sounded ‘happy’ with the inclusion. “We would like to congratulate Sree Gokulam Group on winning the bid. It has been our endeavor to have corporate teams come into the I-League and the team from Kerala will open a new market for the league.”
“It will be beneficial to both the I-League as well as Indian football. And I’m sure the passionate football fans of Kerala will be delighted to have a team of their own,” Sunando Dhar added.
