Earlier in the bid process the AIFF had asked for clubs from the following cities of Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Ranchi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bhopal, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Malappuram and Trivandrum to submit their bids.
Amongst the four teams are last season Second Division League side Ozone FC Bengaluru and Gokulam FC from Malappuram while two unnamed bids have been received from Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Interesting no bid was received by the AIFF from Kerala Evergreen FC of Trivandrum which had recently announced their intentions of bidding for an I-League team.
The submitted bids will be opened on August 18 with at least Bengaluru FC, who switched over to the Indian Super League, set to replaced while the situation surrounding the future of DSK Shivajians FC is still unclear.