The 14th edition of Hero I-League will kick-off on Saturday (January 9, 2021) in Kolkata.

  The 14th edition of Hero I-League will kick-off on Saturday (January 9, 2021) in Kolkata.

                                                                       

Eleven teams will need to enter the biosecure bubble fourteen days prior to their first match according to the schedule, which will be announced shortly, All India Football Federation said on Saturday.

The matches will be telecast live on 1Sports.

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the previous edition of Hero I-League was made to halt abruptly before the football action resumed once again in India through Hero I-League Qualifier

2020 in October this year.

The West Bengal government and Indian Football Association (IFA) joined hands with All India Football Federation to organise the qualifiers successfully.

All the eleven teams will face each other once in the first leg of the league before they are divided into two different groups.

Top six teams, according to the points table, will face each other once again to decide the winner whereas the other five teams will play against each other in a one-leg league format.

The team with maximum points (cumulative points collected from all fifteen matches) will be the winner of Hero I-League 2020-21.

The entire tournament will be hosted adhering to the COVID-19 SOPs released by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, and no spectators will be allowed inside the stadium during a match.

SOURCE - UNI