The Indian Super League (ISL) is a
professional football league in India. The league is one of the top tier
football leagues in India, the other being the I-League. The league features
eight franchise teams from all around India. The ISL runs from October to December
with a final determining the champion.
It was founded in 2013 in an effort
to make football a top sport in India and to make Indian Football a major
player worldwide. The league operates along the lines of the Twenty20 cricket
Indian Premier League and Major League Soccer of the United States. ISL does
not use the promotion and relegation system but instead a franchise system in
which eight teams was created to participate in the league.
The first season was played in
2014, which was won by Atletico de Kolkata by beating the Kerala Blasters by
1-0. The second season of ISL kicked off from 3rd October 2015 and
final will take place on 20th December 2015. This season, one team
will play 14 matches against the other seven sides twice. In total there are 56
games played during the regular season before the top 4 games go into the
finals.
There are eight teams from
different regions of the country. Eight teams are Atletico de Kolkata, Chennaiyin
FC, Kerala Blasters, Delhi Dynamos, Goa FC, Mumbai City, North East United and
Pune City. In first season, Elano from Brazil & Chennai scored the maximum
number of 8 goals. ISL will boost up football awareness in India and will
Indian football team to find more players so that India can register a place in
FIFA top tournaments.
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