India's top soccer league 2025-26 season suspended
The 2025-26 season of India's top soccer league has been indefinitely suspended because of contractual problems.
The 13-team Indian Super League was scheduled to begin in September, but Football Sports Development Limited confirmed Friday it's on hold. The organizer's contract expires in December and hasn't been renewed.
Advertisement
"In the absence of a confirmed contractual framework beyond December, we find ourselves unable to effectively plan, organize, or commercialize the 2025-26 ISL season,' the FSDL said in a letter to clubs.
The season is 'on hold until further clarity emerges on the contractual structure," it added.
ISL club Kerala Blasters announced Friday it allowed Spanish striker Jesus Jimenez to leave for a club in Poland.
There is still optimism, however, that there will still be a new season.
'The ISL will go ahead, maybe not with the name of the ISL,' Delhi FC director Ranjit Bajaj told The Associated Press, adding that he blames mismanagement from the federation.
Earlier this month, India's national team parted ways with coach Manolo Marquez after poor results put qualification for the 2027 Asian Cup in doubt.
___
AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Schmidt scores late goal to lift the Dash over the Courage in the NWSL
Sophie Schmidt scored in the last seconds to give the Houston Dash a 2-1 comeback victory over the North Carolina Courage on Friday night in the National Women's Soccer League. In the only other match in the NWSL on Friday, the first-place Kansas City Current beat the last-place Utah Royals 1-0 on the road. In Houston, midfielder Riley Jackson gave North Carolina a 1-0 lead from the penalty spot in the 32nd minute. The foul from Maggie Graham on Jaedyn Shaw was originally been deemed to be outside the box, but it was changed after a VAR review. Dash midfielder Kiki van Zanten tied it on a stunning long-range shot the 39th minute. Neither team created many big chances in the second half until Dash forward Yazmeen Ryan wiggled away from pressure inside the North Carolina box and slipped the ball across to Schmidt to score from 2 yards out in the fifth minute of stoppage time. It was the second consecutive game where Schmidt had a late goal to positively changed the outcome of a match for Houston. Last week, Schmidt scored an 88th minute equalizer for the Dash in a 2-2 draw with Bay FC. The victory snapped a six-game winless streak for Houston (4-8-3), going back to May. This was the first game for the Courage (5-6-4) under acting head coach Nathan Thackeray. Former head coach Sean Nahas was fired on Wednesday, having led the team since December 2021. Record-breaking Chawinga scores in away win for Current Temwa Chawinga scored her 10th goal of the season to give the Current a 1-0 edge over the Royals. The Malawian forward scored the game-winner by latching onto a long ball by Current defender Kayla Sharples and then dinking the ball over Royals goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn, who was rushing off her line, in the 82nd minute. Making her 40th NWSL regular-season appearance, Chawinga has reached 30 career NWSL regular-season goals faster than any other player in league history. Chawinga is also now tied with Esther Gonzalez for top scorer in the NWSL this season. Ally Sentnor made her debut for the Current against her former team by coming on as a substitute at halftime. Last week, Sentnor was traded from Utah to Kansas City in exchange for $600,000. The transfer fee was a record between two NWSL teams. In the dying moments, substitute Cloe Lacasse missed a chance to snatch a point for Utah when she headed over the bar from six yards out. The Canadian forward was playing her first match since recovering from an ACL tear in October 2024. Kansas City (13-2-0) has won seven consecutive matches and recorded three consecutive clean sheets to lead the league standings. Utah (1-11-3) is winless in 10 games. ___ AP soccer:
Associated Press
an hour ago
- Associated Press
Schmidt scores late goal to lift the Dash over the Courage in the NWSL
Sophie Schmidt scored in the last seconds to give the Houston Dash a 2-1 comeback victory over the North Carolina Courage on Friday night in the National Women's Soccer League. In the only other match in the NWSL on Friday, the first-place Kansas City Current beat the last-place Utah Royals 1-0 on the road. In Houston, midfielder Riley Jackson gave North Carolina a 1-0 lead from the penalty spot in the 32nd minute. The foul from Maggie Graham on Jaedyn Shaw was originally been deemed to be outside the box, but it was changed after a VAR review. Dash midfielder Kiki van Zanten tied it on a stunning long-range shot the 39th minute. Neither team created many big chances in the second half until Dash forward Yazmeen Ryan wiggled away from pressure inside the North Carolina box and slipped the ball across to Schmidt to score from 2 yards out in the fifth minute of stoppage time. It was the second consecutive game where Schmidt had a late goal to positively changed the outcome of a match for Houston. Last week, Schmidt scored an 88th minute equalizer for the Dash in a 2-2 draw with Bay FC. The victory snapped a six-game winless streak for Houston (4-8-3), going back to May. This was the first game for the Courage (5-6-4) under acting head coach Nathan Thackeray. Former head coach Sean Nahas was fired on Wednesday, having led the team since December 2021. Record-breaking Chawinga scores in away win for CurrentTemwa Chawinga scored her 10th goal of the season to give the Current a 1-0 edge over the Royals. The Malawian forward scored the game-winner by latching onto a long ball by Current defender Kayla Sharples and then dinking the ball over Royals goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn, who was rushing off her line, in the 82nd minute. Making her 40th NWSL regular-season appearance, Chawinga has reached 30 career NWSL regular-season goals faster than any other player in league history. Chawinga is also now tied with Esther Gonzalez for top scorer in the NWSL this season. Ally Sentnor made her debut for the Current against her former team by coming on as a substitute at halftime. Last week, Sentnor was traded from Utah to Kansas City in exchange for $600,000. The transfer fee was a record between two NWSL teams. In the dying moments, substitute Cloe Lacasse missed a chance to snatch a point for Utah when she headed over the bar from six yards out. The Canadian forward was playing her first match since recovering from an ACL tear in October 2024. Kansas City (13-2-0) has won seven consecutive matches and recorded three consecutive clean sheets to lead the league standings. Utah (1-11-3) is winless in 10 games. ___ AP soccer:
New York Times
2 hours ago
- New York Times
An Unusual Soccer Finale in Italy Reveals Libya's Frailties
On a quiet Sunday afternoon in Sesto San Giovanni, a commune on the northern outskirts of Milan, nearly a dozen police vans arrived to provide security at an aging stadium, which like the town itself had seen better days. Milan is home to one of soccer's fiercest global rivalries, between AC Milan and Internazionale. But the police were not there for that. Instead, they had turned out in force in case of trouble between fans of two teams whose home base was more than 1,000 miles away, in Libya. The game was part of a curious collaboration between Italian and Libyan authorities that for a second year running will see Libya's soccer champion crowned on Sunday in Italy, at the completion of a six-team mini-championship. The transplanted tournament is a striking example of the security and political crisis that continues to plague Libya more than a decade after the bloody overthrow of its longtime dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. It is also a measure of Libyans' passion for the sport and of the explosive enmity between Tripoli's two most successful teams, a rivalry that played out last Sunday at the Ernesto Breda Stadium outside Milan. The last time the two teams — Al Ittihad and Al Ahly Tripoli — had met was in June in Libya. Even though that game was played without fans, it ended up making global headlines about an abandoned match, an injured referee, unruly supporters storming the stadium and a team bus reduced to charred ruins. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
