Founded in 2006, the Mumbai Soccer Prodigies started playing in MFA 3rd Division – the fifth tier of Mumbai football. Over the years, the club has climbed the Mumbai football pyramid to reach Super Division, the current 2nd tier of the city football.

Deep Moorjani, AFC B Licensed Coach and Head Coach at MSP Academy (Mumbai) will be overseeing the trials. The trial is for boys born between 2005 and 2011 (U13, U15, U18) and will be held at Wings Sports Centre, Bandra Reclamation from 5 to 6:30 pm.

Date: May 22nd, Sunday

Time: 5 to 6:30 PM

Venue: Wings Sports Centre, Bandra Reclamation

Age Group: 2005 and 2011 (U13, U15, U18)

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The trials will go underway on 31 July from 09:00 am onwards and all the selected players will have an opportunity to play in MDFA Youth Leagues as well as AIIF Youth Leagues. The team will also be playing in local leagues and tournaments for young players to get as much match practice as possible.

Date: 31 July, 2019, Wednesday

Age category: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16

Venue: Neville D’souza Turf, Bandra West

 Time: 9 AM

Documents required:

• Original Birth Certificate
• Original Aadhaar card
• 4 Passport Photos

Registration Fees: 100 Rs.

Note:

• Only for Mumbai based players
• Players are expected to carry their own refreshment and water bottles

All the interested players are requested to reach the venue before time along with their proper playing kit.

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Two years ago, MDFA started an Award nights function organized at the end of football season to grace all the clubs and players for dedicating their time towards the beautiful game and the development of football in the city of dreams.

A ceremony organised by Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) to felicitate all the winners and runner-ups of MDFA affiliated leagues. It was a crucial initiative from the association to acknowledge the talent in the city and provide them with further motivation. With 200+ teams participating across 5 age categories of MDFA Yuva President League. Mumbai Football seem to be growing in the right direction.

Of all the clubs and players, the best ones will be felicitated in each position from their respective divisions. In the presence of big personalities of Mumbai, MDFA will award the best performers of the season. Apart from League winners and Runner-ups award, Individual awards for Best Striker, Best Goalkeeper, Best Midfielder and Best Defenders will be given out.

Former Indian stars & Mumbai stalwarts like Shyam Thapa, Ranjit Thapa and current India footballers Anirudh Thapa, Rahul Bheke and Farukh Choudhary and many other international football players will be present at the function.

This year, the MDFA Awards Night will be held on 4th May 2019, at Cooperage Stadium.

Nominations list: —–> Nominations for the best of Mumbai Football 

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Both Creek View and Salcette FC were engaged in a tense battle for supremacy, but the former managed to hit the target twice through Yash Jadhav and Rohan Jamdare to come out trumps. For Salsette FC the lone goal was scored by Devansh Prabhu.

In another match, PIFA Colaba proved too good and stormed past Athens XI by a convincing 5-0 margin, Striker Mehul Solanki led the way with a double strike, while Daniyal Ansari, Amrit Semwal and Aayan Khan all added one goal apiece to complete the win.

Later, Oscar SSE defeated Rudra FA 5-1. For Oscar SSE Rahul Saroj struck two goals and Sanjeet Devidayal, Mohammed Meer Lakhani and Sujal Singe chipped in with one goal each to round off the winning margin. Rudra managed to cut the deficit with Pratik Vapilkar scoring the consolation goal.

Results – Boys’ Under-16: SSFA 3 (Yashraj Kondhalkar 1, Vansh Rao 1, Vivek Prasad 1) beat FLA 1 (Mohammed Ibrahim 1).

Creek View 2 (Yash Jadhav 1, Rohan Jamdare 1) beat Salcette FC 1 (Devansh Prabhu 1).

Oscar SSE 5 (Rahul Saroj 2, Sanjeet Devidayal 1, Mohammed Meer Lakhani 1, Sujal Singe 1) beat Rudra FA 1 (Pratik Vapilkar 1).

PIFA Colaba 5 (Mehul Solanki 2, Daniyal Ansari 1, Amrit Semwal 1, Aayan Khan 1) beat Athens XI 0.

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CFCI Hedgewar Boys struck prime form and charged to an emphatic 7-0 against Footie First Academy in a Rustomjee-MDFA Yuva President Boys’ U-16 League 2018-19 and played at the MSSA ground, Azad Maidan.

Leading the scoring for Hedgewar’s Boys was striker Anirudh Ruke who scored two goals and was well supported by Khush Gohil, Shlok Yadav, Atharva Kadam, Nihar Modi and Sahil Shinde, all chipping in with a goal each to complete the big win.

In another match, Samuel FA riding on Sudhanshu Naik’s lone strike got the better of Steadfast FC 1-0.

Later, India Rush pulled off a comfortable 3-1 win against Sankalp Education Trust. For India Rush the goal-scorers were  Krishnashoo Bhatia, Karm Mulchandani and Sujal Ghanekar, while Sainath Kuruba struck the consolation goal for the losers.

In the fourth match of the day, CFCI Colaba Sports League stormed to a 5-11 win against Youth FA, Borivali. Striker Sohaib Shaikh netted a brace of goals while Swayam Jain, Akhil Uchil and Suyash Sapre scored one apiece to complete goals tally for the Colaba side, while the Borivali side reduced the margin through Aryan Khemani’s goal.

Results – Boys’ Under-16: Samuel FA 1 (Sudhanshu Naik 1) beat Steadfast FC 0.

India Rush 3 (Krishnashoo Bhatia 1, Karm Mulchandani 1, Sujal Ghanekar 1) beat Sankalp Education Trust 1 (Sainath Kuruba 1).

CFCI Hedgewar Boys 7 (Anirudh Ruke 2, Khush Gohil 1, Shlok Yadav 1, Atharva Kadam 1, Nihar Modi 1, Sahil Shinde 1) beat Footie First Academy 0.

CFCI CSL 5 (Sohaib Shaikh 2, Swayam Jain 1, Akhil Uchil 1, Suyash Sapre 1) beat YFA (Borivali) 1 (Aryan Khemani 1).

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Day 1 of the Rustomjee MDFA Yuva president League U16 started off with a bang as the opening game of the tournament featuring Iron Born FC saw goals galore, in other games, Sunday Boys and Footie First pick wins

What better way to start a new partnership or a new venture than starting it on the day India won its freedom. the first official league of this newest venture in Mumbai Football, Rustomjee – MDFA Yuva president League kicked off today(15th August) with the ritual of Flag hoisting early in the day setting the perfect tone for the league.

With football beginning to take center stage in India, corporate like Rustomjee taking up responsibility of sponsoring Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) is not only a huge welcome sight for the Mumbai football but also gives a huge encouragement to all other footballers and peoples associated with the game. Its not just the financial support that makes the difference, the values on which the organisation runs, as the director of Rustomjee Mr Percy Chowdhry puts it ‘Childhoods Available’ the fact that the organisation believes in the importance of giving children the space, freedom and opportunities for their development is also very invigorating, here is hoping for this new partnership to take Mumbai football to greater heights.

Quick Match Updates:

In a group A encounter, Riding on the hat-tricks of Raj Anil and Suraj Kumar, Iron Born FC hammered in a whopping 8 goals against a hapless YFA side to start off their campaign on high. YFA struggled against the combination play off Iron Born, crumbling under the sustained pressure of attacks from their Opponent. Apart from the two hat-trick heroes’ Nathanllo and Katib Aslam chipped in with two goals to complete the rout for Iron Born FC

YFA 0 – 8 Iron Born FC (Suraj Kumar 19’, 24’, 32’, Nathan Murello 31’, Raj Anil 34’, 45, 49’, Khatib Aslam 46’)

In the 2^nd game of the day, Western India United FC faced Footie First Academy in group F fixture with the latter edging to a close 2-1 win. Jatin Loahana and Faisal Shaikh had earlier put Footie First into a comfortable 2-0 lead, however, Tanish Shirishkar’s strike for Western India United FC opened up the game. In the end, Footie First held on to their lead to come out with all three points.

Footie First Academy (Jatin Loahana, Faisal Shaikh) 2 – 1 Western India United FC (Tanish Shirishkar)

In a group G encounter Sunday Boys thwarted off Mumbai Strikers early resistance to pull off a comfortable 3-1 win. Arjun Ranjith opened the goal scoring for Sunday Boys before Joshua Thomas pulled things back to level terms with his strike. However, a second goal from Arjun Ranjith followed by Arya Berde’s strike ended Mumbai strikers stiff resistance as the game ended at 3-1 score in favour of Sunday Boys.

Sunday Boys (Arjun Ranjith (2 Goals), Arya Berde) 3 – 1 Mumbai Strikers (Joshua Thomas)

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Mumbai, 13^th August, 2018: The Rustomjee Group and MDFA (Mumbai District Football Association) are proud to announce their association. Rustomjee will now be the prime sponsor for MDFA for a period of five years.

The Association’s league will be renamed as the “Rustomjee Football League”. Each of the 7 Divisions of the MDFA and any other additional division that may be instituted would also be renamed by Rustomjee as per their discretion and choice. The league matches will be held across Mumbai at various grounds that are affiliated with the MDFA which include the football ground in Cooperage, St. Xavier’s Sports Complex football ground at Parel, Mumbai Football Arena in Andheri and Neville D’Souza ground at Bandra amongst others. Rustomjee will be free to conduct any promotional activities at these matches.

One of the first events which will be held under the aegis of this association is the YPL (Yuva President League) tournament which starts on 15th August 2018 and then will be played on 18^th August 2018 and culminate on 26^th January 2019 (a Sunday to Sunday event). The matches will be played at the Cooperage Ground and will include boys teams in the Under 16,14,12,10,8 age categories and girls teams in the Under 16 age category. A total of 100 teams have registered for the YPL till date in the Under 14 and Under 16 categories.

Speaking about the association with MDFA, Mr Percy Chowdhry, Director, Rustomjee Group said, “We at Rustomjee are delighted to be associated with the MDFA. Football in India has a promising future indeed, as has been proven by the recent success of the Indian Under 20 brigade at the COTIF Cup in Valencia where they beat champions Argentina. At Rustomjee ‘Childhoods Available’ is the underlying concept when we design our projects to ensure that children have the space, freedom and opportunities for mental and physical holistic development. Football and other sports are an integral part of growing up and children need to be given the right training and platform to showcase their talents and also learn valuable life lessons of team spirit, leadership and sportsmanship.”

Dr. Vijay D. Patil,Chairman, Mumbai District Football Association said, “The Mumbai District Football Association has always encouraged new initiatives towards the all round development of sports for all. We rely on active participation from various sections of the Society and are excited to welcome Rustomjee Builders to join hands as our official sponsors for unveiling the MDFA League.The MDFA provides a broader horizon to individuals with a shared passion for the game.We trust that together we will excel as an all encompassing community for professional football leagues.”

About MDFA

Mumbai District Football Association , the sole organizing body of all football activities in this city of Mumbai and its suburbs, is established in the year 1984 with its registered office at St. Xaviers ground, Parel. Initially there were only sixty (60) teams playing in the three division league which has slowly turned into 375 teams with five division leagues (men) and women League within a span of 34 years. At present MDFA League matches are conducted at Cooperage, St Xaviers’ Ground (Parel), MSSA, Mumbai Football Arena ( Andheri), Goan SA Ground (Cross Maidan) and Karnataka SA ground (Cross Maidan). From the last year onwards MDFA has started Youth League U-16, U-14, and U-12 Boys, which was a great success. This year MDFA has taken a great leap by deciding to organize Youth President League (YPL) for boys & girls and an additional Baby League U-10 and U-8 years. MDFA has also developed a ground allotted by MHADA at Bandra Reclamation which will be astro-turf and is expected to be ready in another month. MDFA-  now under the dynamic leadership of Shri. Aaditya Thackarey, is going ahead with various projects in a bigger way, which are present in the roadmap of the organization.

About Rustomjee:

Rustomjee has carved a niche for itself in the ever-growing real estate sector, with a portfolio that includes 14.32 million square feet of completed projects; 12 million square feet of ongoing development and another 28 million square feet of planned development in the pipeline, spanning across the best locations of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Their portfolio currently includes two very large townships, residential spaces, office complexes, retail developments, spaces for healthcare and education spread across BKC Annex, Khar, Off Juhu Circle, Kandivali, Borivali, Virar and Thane.

Rustomjee lays emphasis on adding value to the lives of their homeowners through their core business, their CSR initiatives and philanthropy. They have strived to ensure that every blueprint includes child friendly spaces for parks, playgrounds, and learning rooms and thereby encouraging families to spend quality time with each other.

For Further Details Contact:

Udhayan Sasidharan Nair
Manager – Public Relations & Corporate Communications, Rustomjee Group
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Both the Steadfast (Mumbai Rush) players are registered under PIFA’s team

What actually caused the uproar was both Aryan Ahmed and Meet Modi were registered with PIFA FC prior to the MDFA U-14 Youth League. On 15th April 2018, against Boxer FA, both the players were named in the PIFA squad as they were registered with the club. Four days later, on 19th April, Aryan and Meet represented Mumbai Rush (Steadfast) against Boxer FA despite PIFA’s disapproval to join Mumbai Rush.

PIFA player’s who played for Mumbai Rush – Steadfast in MDFA Youth League

“The player Aryan (Aryan Ahmed) played the U-13 League just now with an agreement to play MDFA Youth League as well. After we registered him and Meet (Meet Modi) with MDFA (Youth League), they want to switch to Mumbai Rush (Steadfast FC). We said it’s not possible. We also refused their request for NOC,” PIFA’s coach Nirvan Shah said to Footballcounter.

Four days before playing for Mumbai Rush, they were named in PIFA’s squad

“In fact, the third player, Ammar Momim, didn’t even ask for NOC, we are taking this issue up with AIFF. The question is that if Mumbai Rush is an academy, where are their players that they are developing? Secondly, why are we made to register players on a national platform, taking players approval and paying AIFF a certain fee. And then, say no NOC is mandatory. FIFA clearly states academies have to be compensated for the investment they made in a player.” PIFA’s manager said.

This whole incident raises a question here. What’s the point of registering the player’s under CRS or any other platform when there is no transparency at all? This is indeed a serious issue which MDFA and AIFF must look into.

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Youth League Under 14 Groups  2017-18

MDFA U14 Fixture 2017-18 – St. Xavier Ground, Parel

MDFA U14 Fixture 2017-18 – MSSA Ground

Youth League Under 12 Group 2017-18 – (VENUE: Bombay Gymkhana Ground )

GROUP P

1]     Ummat-E-Milan
2]      Youth Soccer A.(Mulund)
3]     Salcette FC

Youth League Under 12 Fixture 2017-18 – (VENUE: Bombay Gymkhana Ground )

DURATION: 20 MINS WITH 10 MINS BREAK

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MDFA U14 at St. Xavier’s Ground, Parel – Click here
MDFA U14 at St. MSSA Ground, Azad Maidan – Click here
MDFA U12 at Bombay Gymkhana Ground, Parel – Click here

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The day began with PIFA Colaba garnering a comfortable 3-0 win over Classic Sports Club. Early goals from Amrit Samwel and Mukesh Rathod helped PIFA race to 2-0 lead within 8 minutes of the Kick-off. After break, Koustubh Panchal struck early to finish off the game 3-0 in favour of PIFA Colaba.

The next fixture saw FSI register a thumping 6-0 win over Lemon Break Academy. Karan Prajapati struck a hat-trick while teammates Aman Sayed, Bhupati Chandra and Yash Pednekar chipped in one each to complete the routing. In the nfollowing game, Aryan Kumar’s seventh minute strike gave Mumbai Warriors an edgy 1-0 win over Maurya Youngstars.

In other fixtures of the day, Nitesh Mores’ brace gave Hegdewar Boys a 2-1 win over Bombay Gymkhana. Rosh Rodrigues struck in the 2^nd minute of the game to put Bombay Gymkhana into early lead. However Nitesh More struck the equaliser in the dying minutes of the first half to make it 1-1. Bombay Gymkhana’s defence once again lapsed in the dying minutes of the second half as Nitesh completed his brace giving Hegdewar Boys the 2-1 win.

In another game, Bombay FC failed to hold on their two goal lead as ICL side’s resurgent second half display ended the game at 2-2. Ishaan Chhari opened the scoring early in the game before Sahil Gaikwad doubled it seven minutes in to second half. Shahbaz Shaikh pulled one back in the 38^th minute four minutes into the full time Maykal Pekao equalised for ICL to make it 2-2.

Game 1: Maurya Youngstars 0 – 1 Mumbai Warriors (Aryan Kumar 7’)

Game 2: FSI 6 (Karan Prajapati 12’, 20’, 40’, Aman Sayed 14’, Bhupati Chandra 38’, Yash Pednekar 50’) – 0 Lemon Break Academy

Game 3: Classic Sports Club 0 – 3 PIFA Colaba (Amrit Semwal 6’, Mukesh Rathod 8’, Koustubh Panchal 34’)

Game 4: Bombay Gymkhan 1 (Rosh Rodrigues 2’) – 2 Hegdewar Boys (Nitesh More 23’, 48’)

Game 5: Bombay FC 2 (Ishaan Chhari 7’, Sahil Gaikwad 32’) – 2 ICL (Shahbaz Shaikh 38’, Maykal Pekao 46’)

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