Sanchita Chatterjee, Kolkata: The draw for the Kolkata Football League was held for the first time at the prestigious Calcutta Rowing Club outside the premises of the IFA office. Representatives of the competing teams of the Premier Division and members of the Premier and First Division League Committees were present. The draw for the Premier Division was held in the presence of legendary former footballers of Kolkata football. Among the former footballers present were Bhaskar Ganguly, Atanu Bhattacharya, Jamshed Nasiri, Prashant Banerjee, Manoranjan Bhattacharya, Manas Bhattacharya, Amit Bhadra, Alok Mukherjee, Shishir Ghosh, Sanjay Sen, Dipendu Biswas, Alvito D'Cunha, Rahim Nabi, Mehtab Hossain and Subrata Pal. In addition, Srachchi Sports Managing Director Rahul Todi, Chairman Tamal Ghoshal, IFA President Ajit Bandopadhyay, Chairman Subrata Dutta, Secretary Anirban Dutta, Joint Secretaries Rakesh Jhan, Mohammad Jamal, Sudeshna Mukherjee, Executive Secretary Sufal Ranjan Giri were present at the event.
Photo by Bibhash Lodh