PANJIM: With 16 teams in India’s second national tier – I-league- the contest will undergo modification, according to the AIFF.
The teams will be divided into two groups of eight each playing on a home-and-away basis. The top four in each group will then go into the play-off to decide the topper to be promoted to ISL next season. Two bottom placed teams – Sudeva Delhi and Kenkre FC have been relegated and will be replaced by Delhi FC and Shillong Lajong which have been promoted from Second Division I-League.
Meanwhile, five corporate teams that met with the criteria have been admitted into the league.The five entities into the league are YMS Finance Pvt Ltd (Varanasi, UP), Namdhari Seeds Pvt Ltd (Bhaini Sahib Village, Punjab), Nimida United Sports Development Pvt Ltd (Bengaluru, Karnataka), Concatenate Advest Advisory Pvt Ltd (Delhi), and Bunkerhill Pvt Ltd (Ambala, Haryana).
