Super League Kerala to have two more teams

The Super League Kerala could precise good person 8 teams this season.

“We volition soon advertise inviting bids for the teams,” Navas Meeran, the KFA president and 1 of the men down the motorboat of the league that has proved a astonishment deed successful small time, told The Hindu. “We privation astatine slightest 1 of the caller teams to beryllium from confederate Kerala.”

Of the six teams that played successful the archetypal 2 seasons of SLK, lone 1 is from the State’s confederate districts – Thiruvananthapuram Kombans. “We privation to guarantee that the league is dispersed crossed Kerala, not conscionable the bluish districts, wherever shot has ever been precise popular,” Navas said. “We already person franchises from Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kannur. Kasaragod could besides get 1 this season.”

He said different program was to person the SLK games played successful the Gulf countries. “We were hoping to instrumentality the SLK extracurricular Kerala this play itself, but we are not definite due to the fact that of the Iran war,” helium said. “We person had a batch of viewers for the league from extracurricular Kerala for the archetypal 2 seasons.”

Navas said the KFA was delighted with the occurrence of the AFC Asian Cup qualifier betwixt India and Hong Kong China astatine the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. “It was large that much than 22,000 radical turned up to ticker the match, which was the archetypal planetary lucifer Kochi was hosting successful a decade,” helium said.

“Yes, the incidental of the Indian manager not being allowed to behaviour a property league by the Greater Cochin Development Authority, due to the fact that of hold successful outgo of the ground’s rent and information deposit, was unfortunate and should not person happened.”

Navas said the effect from the assemblage for the India lucifer was precise encouraging for the KFA. “We should person much planetary matches successful Kerala,” helium said. “We are, successful fact, reasoning of reviving the Nehru Gold Cup. We volition speech to the All India Football Federation astir having that tourney successful Kerala.”