Praful Patel Biography

The Indian Super League (ISL) will be incorporating a player salary cap of Rs. 20 crore for clubs in the upcoming second season of the franchise based Football tournament. Football Sports Development Ltd (FSDL), the controlling body of the ISL formed through a collaboration of IMG Reliance and Star India, stationed its first Governing Council meeting here to review and evaluate the inaugural season and present player guidelines for the next one. 

As per the stated guidelines, besides, salary cap, each club should have a minimum one marquee player as part of its player retention policy. Clubs are affiliated to retain their marquee player of the inaugural season or are free to sign one from open market until April. In case they are still running without contract, such players will be listed in the domestic draft. 

There has been consideration regarding the size of squad, each club will have a minimum of 22 players with mandatory two developmental ones. Each team would consist of one marquee, eight international and 13 domestic players including the mandatory two under 23 developmental players. 

Regarding the maximum size, a club can have a squad size of 25. 

Additional quota of three players can have maximum two international players. ISL will have auction for Indian Players who have played in the senior national team but skipped out on the inaugural session of the tournament. Each club will be eligible to add only one such player from the auction list consisting of maximum 12 to 15. Those not picked through auction will form part of the domestic players’ draft. Praful Patel profile in this regard remains crucial as the AIFF President wants the league to become the tournament of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Region. 

According to an ISL spokesperson, there are new set of rules which are defined to boost clubs in player retention, assist them in managing the player costs and provide a level playing field for each club to prepare for the second season with reasonable and broadly equitable chance of winning the ISL 2015. It has been further confirmed, "The inaugural ISL had brought to fore many new faces of Indian football. The league encourages the clubs to retain such players to help them build an identity and fan base." The Governing Council consists of all eight ISL participatory club representatives and officials from FSDL.

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