Youth I-League Maharashtra zone pre-qualifiers to start from 27th October

by Chittu Shetty October 25, 2017

The Pre-qualifiers for Maharashtra zone of U-15 I-league, also known as Youth I-League, will commence from October 27th

Reliance Foundation Young Champs (RYFC), PIFA, Mumbai Warriors Sports Club (MWSC) and FC Mumbaikars (FCMB) are grouped together in Group A while Group B contains the likes of IFSA, MSSA, Football school of India (FSI) and Indian Football Academy (IFA)

Matches are scheduled every alternated day for each teams with Group A playing on 27^th, 29^th and 31^st October while Group B teams play on October 28, 30 and November 1.  All matches except two will be held at Cooperage Stadium, while two matches of RYFC of Group A fixture will be held at Reliance Corporate Park.

The league will open with PIFA playing against RYFC at Reliance Corporate park which will be followed by the second game at cooperage between FC Mumbaikars (FCMB) vs Mumbai Warriors SC (MWSC)

Top two teams from each group will then be selected for Maharashtra Zone Qualifiers where they will be joined by the likes of Kenkre FC and FC Pune city. The winner of this group will then be selected for Nike Premier league.

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Fixtures for Pre-Qualifiers are as follows:

Group A:

27^th October:

RFYC             vs        PIFA               Reliance Corporate Park

FCMB            vs        MWSC            Cooperage Stadium

29^th October:

MWSC           vs        RFYC             Cooperage Stadium

PIFA               vs        FCMB            Cooperage Stadium

31^th October:

RFYC             vs        FCMB            Reliance Corporate Park

MWSC            vs        PIFA              Cooperage Stadium                                

Group B:

28^th October:

FSI       vs        IFSA                 Cooperage Stadium

IFA       vs        MSSA               Cooperage Stadium

30^th October:

IFSA    vs        MSSA               Cooperage Stadium

IFA       vs        FSI                   Cooperage Stadium

1^st November:

IFSA    vs        IFA                   Cooperage Stadium

MSSA  vs        FSI                  Cooperage Stadium