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The Indian Super League (ISL) clubs connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) changeable disconnected a missive to the All India Football Federation (AIFF), seeking clarity from the apex assemblage connected its contiguous arsenic good arsenic semipermanent plans for the country's apical home competition.
The 2025-26 ISL play was enactment connected clasp successful July owed to disagreements implicit renewing the Master Rights Agreement (MRA) betwixt the league's erstwhile organisers, Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), and the AIFF, with the existing woody expiring successful December 2025, creating a contractual impasse that besides required Supreme Court intervention.
Under the supervision of a Supreme Court-appointed committee, a tender was floated for ISL's commercialized rights but determination was nary taker for it.
"We would find it precise adjuvant if the gathering could statesman with a broad briefing connected this semipermanent roadmap.
"Following that, it would beryllium utile for the clubs to beryllium taken done the short-term plan, aft which each ISL clubs tin stock their thoughts and feedback successful a constructive manner," the clubs said successful the letter.
The missive was addressed to the AIFF connected behalf of the ISL clubs done Mohun Bagan Super Giant CEO Vinay Chopra.
On December 20, a connection from 10 ISL clubs for "perpetual" operational and commercialized ownership of the country's top-tier contention failed to get the support of the AIFF's General Body, which formed a committee to look into the matter.
"We would besides similar to stock that we inactive judge the connection submitted by america represents a beardown and sustainable mode guardant for Indian football, and we would respectfully petition that AIFF see this portion formulating the semipermanent proposal," the clubs said.
"With respect to the short-term league connection by AIFF, portion the archetypal treatment was helpful, determination are inactive a fewer areas wherever further clarity would enactment our interior assessment.
"In particular, we would invited much elaborate accusation on: The projected gross model, broadcast arrangements, a wide presumption of the outgo operation for the abbreviated term, including clarity connected however these costs are to beryllium allocated and who is expected to carnivore them.
"Once these details are available, we volition beryllium amended placed to reappraisal them and prosecute successful further discussions with the wider ISL nine group," the missive added.
The AIFF sheet is tasked with holding discussions with representatives of 5 clubs – Chennaiyin FC, Mumbai City FC, Delhi Sporting Club, NorthEast United FC and Mohun Bagan Super Giant from December 22 to 29.
The clubs added successful the letter, "We would besides similar to mildly reiterate that the clubs are affirmative astir the thought of participating successful the short-term league taxable to supra further details and astatine the aforesaid clip this to beryllium aligned with a wide semipermanent plan, alternatively than being approached successful isolation."
