Indian Super League: Champion Atletico De Kolkata Play Kerala Blasters In Opener of this season

Two-time Indian Super League champions and holders Atletico De Kolkata will go up against sprinter up Kerala Blasters in the opening match of the Indian Super League season 4 at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on November 17. The match is looked upon as a re-continue running of a year prior's rearward in which Atletico De Kolkata turned out triumphant and the Kerala outfit would be restless to offer some sort of reparation for a year back's oversight. Completely 95 matches will be played this season and 10 gatherings will be, in actuality, with the extension of Bengaluru FC and Jamshedpur FC, a media release issued here said. All the 10 gatherings will play each other in a home-and-away association in 90 amusements before the two-legged semi-finals which are reserved to happen in the second seven day extend of March.

Date and scene for the last will be declared later.

All league matches to be played from Wednesday to Saturday will initiate at 8 PM (IST) with Sunday featuring twofold headers at 5:30 PM and 8 PM (IST).

The season's at first twofold header will see a repeat of the 2015 last between Chennaiyin FC and FC Goa in Chennai took after by AFC Cup 2016 finalist, Bengaluru FC, getting their first taste of ISL when they go up against last season's semi-finalists Mumbai City FC in a home match at Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Sunday, November 19 and Atletico De Kolkata will go up against Pune fc.

The component of the day will beyond question be India boss Sunil Chhetri going up against his past club all of a sudden.

The season's first Maharashtra derby between FC Pune City and Mumbai City FC will be played on November 29 at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Stadium in Pune

Jamshedpur FC will play their first home match at the redesigned JRD Tata Sports Complex Stadium against title holders Atletico De Kolkata on December 1.

The 10 clubs have everything considered spent Rs 132.75 crores in stamping 77 general and 166 family unit players.

Not in the least like past seasons, the best number of outside players in the playing XI has been decreased from six to five from this season onwards.

The latest stamping for ISL Champions Atletico de Kolkata is 34 year-old Njazi Kuqi from Finland. He has played capable football in the various countries like Germany, Greece, Italy, Scotland and England.

Last he played for FC Inter Turku in the Finnish best level, where he scored 15 destinations in two seasons. The right-footed striker has addressed his country more than ten time and scored five goals in the wake of making his debut for the senior gathering in 2005

Njazi transforms into the eight and last foriegner in the Atletico De Kolkata squad, completing the amount of foriegn players.