Zeven India Football Tour - F5WC World Final India qualifiers kicks off in Bangalore

Last Saturday witnessed the official kick-off of Zeven India Football Tour today. The India Football Tour is the official Indian qualifiers tournament for F5WC world finals. F5WC is the world's largest amateur 5-a-side football tournament. This is an annual event which will be held in Shanghai, China. 

This is the second edition of the India Football Tour organized by Addrush Sports, a sports management company specializing in events and technology and Zeven, a sportswear brand, began with the unveiling of the official jersey, the match trophy. 

The Zeven-India Football Tour is an amateur football tournament played on a small, 5-a-side field with a few differences from the regular game - no offside, kick-ins instead of throw-ins, and so on. 

The India Football Tour will be conducted in 6 cities that include Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Kochi to select the best team that will represent India internationally. The winners of each city qualifiers will travel to Bengaluru to compete at the National Finals. 

Later in the event, an exhibition football match was played between a team of sports journalists and the team of Humble Politician Nograj, political satire film in Kannada language, which will hit cinemas shortly. Danish Sait, Hemanth Rao and many other celebrities played the game. 

Mumbai lifts India Football Tour Championship

Team Mumbai won the national finals of India Football Tour, the official qualifiers of Football Fives World Cup (F5WC), they will be representing India at the F5WC world finals in Beijing, China.

India Football Tour, one of the largest amateur football tournaments in India that has traveled across 8 cities to pick the best amateur teams from the country. The tour started in February 2016 with Delhi and went on to Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Bengaluru, Navi Mumbai and Panvel. 

The national finals leg was played in the FSV Arena and had the following team groupings: 

• Group A - Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai
• Group B - Panvel, Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Bengaluru

Pune and Mumbai qualified from Group A and Delhi and Bengaluru from Group B qualified to the knock-out stage. Semi-finals was played between Pune Vs Delhi and Mumbai Vs Bengaluru. 

In the first semifinal between Mumbai and Bengaluru, the former thrashed the host city 5-1. The other semis witnessed Pune defeating Delhi 2-1, and eventually making it a Maharashtra Derby.  

The mega final saw Mumbai peaking at the right moment on the other side Pune had one of their key players injured during the semifinal against Delhi. Pune tired their best but eventually came out short and Mumbai won with a 4-0 score. 

Various awards were given out at the presentation ceremony. 

• The Best Arena - FSV Arena
• The Best Host City - Delhi
• The Golden Ball - Cajetan Dias, Navi Mumbai
• The Golden Glove - Pulkit, Delhi
• The Best Design Agency - Studio Illuzion

Skill Challenges

• Obstacle Challenge - Nihal, Bengaluru
• Ultimate Precision Challenge - Nihal, Bengaluru
• Goalkeeper Challenge - Goal keepers, Pune, Delhi, and Mumbai 

[Football Venue] Ekam Sports Arena - Marathahalli

Here is a ground with natural grass for 7 or 5-a-side game. Ekam Sports Arena is located in Marathahalli, about 400 meters from the Spice Garden end of the Marathahalli Bridge. It has a football court with natural grass, ideal for 7 or 5-a-side matches.

New play arena Sportingo

[NOTICE] Soccerholic Open Tournament

[Corporate Football] Diego Cup 2016

[Notice] Bengaluru 7s Football Fever

Please get the contact details from the poster...
Best wishes, team!  

[Notice] Copa Bengaluru 2016

Contacts for registration: 

• Sastha: +91 99-02-531287
• Joshua: +91 97-39-189430

Bangalore amateur football gets high-five

In its first-of-its-kind, a city based franchise tournament for amateurs, Football Fives League (FFL), was announced yesterday. Organized by AddRush Sports Pvt. Ltd. this tournament will be played in home and away basis. The organizers claim that it will be an exciting three months of footballing festivities amongst the Bengaluru’s best! 

Over the years the craze for football in the city has grown ten-fold. FFL aims to promote the amateur football in the city and provide a platform which will help provide recognition to the amazing talent the city has. FFL will have 120 players from 10 participating franchises. 

The game will be played in 5-a-side format were there will be two halves of 20 minutes each with a halftime break of three to five minutes. Twelve members make up a squad while only five play. Rolling substitutes are allowed, 3 points for a win, one for a draw, none for loss. 

Participating teams 

• Barefoot FC (home ground Tiento)
• XLR8 FC (home ground XLR8)
• Super Park FC (home ground Super Park)
• Football Aura 
• Fairplay FC (Home ground new facility at JP Nagar)
• Bullring Matadors (home ground BullRing)
• West Block FC 
• Friends United 
• Al-Fateh FC (home ground Active Arena)
• Hotfut South United (home ground Hotfut, Sarjapur Road)

[TOURNAMENT] Mariners@Bangalore presents Diamond Cup

[POSTER] TAL introduces Division 3, kick-off on October

[NOTICE] 6-a-side M@B Champions Trophy 2015

• Venue: Soccer City, Marathalli
• Date: Saturday, October 10 
• Time: 9.30 AM - 4.30 PM 
• 5+1 on the field with 3 rolling subs
• League-cum-knock out

[EVENT] 2nd Edition of Blues Cup on August 1 and 2

Blues Sports Team in association with Dream United presents 2nd Edition of Blues Cup – a corporate football tournament on August 1 and 2 at Kicks On Grass. 

A total of 24 teams divided in 8 groups will be playing this two-day long tournament. In this league-cum-knockout tourney, participating teams will be vying for 2 Cups. 

Winner of Cup 1 would get richer by 25K with several goodies from Nike and so on. 

The best attraction should definitely be the Women Championship, which is a rare scene in Bangalore Football. 

The 2nd edition of Blues Cup is supported by BookTheField and Vedantu.

BookTheField an android app through which you can book grounds for friendly games, team practice. Also one can register for tournaments happening in and around Bangalore as the same will be listed in the app. so next time you want to play tournaments, you can find it in the app. 

Vedantu is a live online tutoring platform that enables personalized learning. Vedantu uses technology to bring together teachers and students on a single platform to enable live learning between them.

Play for Nepal - back-to-back weekend football bonanza

Two football-filled weekend is coming up as the football lovers of the Garden City gear up to Play for Nepal, a charity event presented by Love for the Game. 

• Sunday, May 31 - Community Cup (from 8.30 am)
• Sunday, June 7 - Kolkata Fan's Derby (6.30 pm) 

Both events will be played at Kicks on Grass, Bellandur and will be broadcasted live over the internet via www.beamitlive.com/loveforthegame. 

The cause is been supported by the reigning ISL- Indian Super League Champions Atlético de Kolkata! 

The organizers, Love for the Game, are not charging any participation fee for this tournament. Rather the participating teams are requested to pull money in the form of cash/cheque and hand over to the organizers on the event day. They will donate the same amount to the cause of Nepal earthquake relief.

For Nepal earthquake donations through Love for the Game do email them at loveforthegame@outlook.com or call at +91-9916798822/+91-8095264888. 

Play for Nepal partners: 

• Broadcast partner - BeamitLive
• Mobility Partner - Uber
• Banking Partner - YES BANK
• Telecom Partner - Aircel India
• Beverage Partner - Kingfisher 
• Booking Partner - Book your games
• Vehicle Partner - Pratham Motors
• Venue Partner - Kicks on Grass
• Media Partners - Football News India, Football in Bangalore, Indian Football 

[Picture Gallery] Blues Cup

Pics from the recently concluded Blues Cup, played at Play Arena, off-Sarjapur Rd. 

Convergys team Winner of the 1st Cup

HCL team unners of the 1st Cup

Decathlon Team winners of the 2nd Cup

Ernst & Young Team runners-up of the 2nd Cup

Atlético de Kolkata's support to ‎Play for Nepal

Champion of the first edition of ISL, Atlético de Kolkata, has large-heartedly come forward to support Play for Nepal, an endeavor by Love for the Game. 

Community Cup'15, which is scheduled on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at Kicks on Grass, Bellandur, from 9 am onwards. 

8 teams will be battling it out on a knock-out basis to determine the champions in this 8-a-side (with 4 rolling subs) tournament.  

Participating teams are Atletico De Kolkata Fan Club, Manchester United Fan Club A and B, Chelsea Fan Club, Liverpool KOP FC Bengal, Blue Stars FC, Avengers FC. 


This is much more than football, they will be playing for pride, for humanity, and above all they will PLAY FOR NEPAL.

Primary objective to host this  event is to collect and donate maximum funds. The organizers are requesting the fan clubs and communities to collect as much as they can by themselves. The organizers in turn would hand over the entire sum of money to the PMO India (https://pmnrf.gov.in/)

No cash prizes in offing for these events, money collected will be donated. The winning teams would definitely cherish the Winner’s trophy which would be presented to them.

Both events will be streamed live on the internet via our Broadcast Partner BeamitLive - http://beamitlive.com/loveforthegame. 

Kicks on Grass already have been very generous to lend their support by becoming Venue Partners for these events. 

www.gcsstars.com and thif-live.com are the Media Partners.

Necessary information is available here - www.loveforthegame.in or visit the FaceBook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-for-the-Game/1596977423850359?ref=br_rs.  

[Charity Event] Playing for Nepal

Nepal has suffered a total of 49 quakes with magnitude more than 4.5 on Richter scale in past few weeks. It is a time of great pain and agony for our neighbors.

Organizer, www.loveforthegame.in, is hosting back-to-back events to help raise funds for Nepal.

Community Cup'15     Date: May 31, 2015   Venue: Kicks on Grass   Time: 9 am - 6 pm

Kolkata Fans Derby   Date: June 7, 2015   Venue: Kicks on Grass   Time: 6 pm - 8 pm

8 teams battle it out on a knock-out basis to determine the champions in this 8-a-side (with 4 rolling subs) tourney. 

One-off duel between the Bangalore-based fans’ club of Kolkata giants – eternal rivals Kingfisher East Bengal and McDowell's Mohun Bagan.

This is much more than football, they will be playing for pride, for humanity, and above all they will PLAY FOR NEPAL.

There will be no restrictions on entry fee for the events. Primary objective to host these events is to collect and donate as maximum funds. The organizers are requesting the fan clubs and communities to collect as much as they can by themselves. The organizers in turn would hand over the entire sum of money to the PMO India (https://pmnrf.gov.in/)

No cash prizes in offing for these events, money collected will be donated. The winning teams would definitely cherish the Winner’s trophy which would be presented to them.

Both events will be streamed live on the internet via our Broadcast Partner BeamitLive - http://beamitlive.com/loveforthegame. 

Kicks on Grass already have been very generous to lend their support by becoming Venue Partners for these events. 

www.gcsstars.com and thif-live.com are the Media Partners.

Necessary information is available here - www.loveforthegame.in or visit the FaceBook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-for-the-Game/1596977423850359?ref=br_rs.  

Convergys and Decathlon lift Blues Cup

100-plus goals in 38 matches with over 180 players at fray, well that very much sums the inaugural version of the Blues Cup, 5-a-side Corporate Football Tournament played at the PLaY, off-Sarjapur Rd. yesterday.

The one-day tournament had two championships, Cup 1 and Cup 2, very akin to main and plate winners. 

Convergys won Cup 1 and took home Rs.30,000 cash by defeating HCL who bagged Rs.15,000 cash. Cup 2 was won by Decathlon who got the better of Ernst & Young. 

For Cup 1 category, Lohith Shetty of HCL was adjudged the best player of the tournament and Ranjith of Convergys the best goalkeeper. James of Ernst & Young bagged the best player in Cup 2 category. 

Blues Cup takes place tomorrow

A total of 24 teams turning up for the first edition of the Blues Cup, a 5-a-side Corporate Football Tournament played at the PLaY, off-Sarjapur Rd. tomorrow, from 10 am. 

The matches will be played in league-cum-knock out format. Teams are distributed in 4 groups where the group topper from each group would qualify for the Cup 1 quarterfinals. The second best team from each group would qualify for the Cup 2 quarterfinals. The games would be played in tandem at different pitches. 

Major teams Amazon, EMC², Convergys, LinkedIn, Misys, HP, Mindtree, Ernst & Young, Cognizant, Flipcart, Mu Sigma, Nokia, TCS, HCL, Wells Fargo, Cognizant, Deloitte, Decathlon, Omega, and ansrsource will be participating this mega event.  

The league matches will consists of two periods of 10 minutes each with 1 minute break in between the two halves. The knockout stage (Quarter, Semifinals, and Finals) will consist of two periods of 12 minutes each with 2 minute break to be provided between two halves. 

A team should comprise of maximum 8 players with 5 on the pitch and each team will play a minimum of 2 games in the league stages. 

Blues Cup has tied with Sakra World Hospital as their medical partner. A full-fledged ICU on wheels ambulance will be available at the match venue. The Ambulance would comprise of 2 full time trained Nursing Staff in BLS/CPR and all trauma, open injury, blunt injuries and physiotherapy, along with first aid kit. 

[Event] PLaY 7s Football Cup

For registration and other information check the following link - http://sportz4you.com/play-7s-football-cup/ 

Also, you can contact using these phone numbers  - 09895600372, 8095887000