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Indian Regional Football Tournaments
A number of regional football tournaments have also made their presence felt in India.

Indian Regional Football TournamentsThere are many football tournaments arranged at the regional levels that help to search for the budding talents of football. Sometimes the tournaments are arranged in the school level so that the possible footballer can be trained from the young age.

Buladi State League: This tournament includes the best district teams. A total of 19 districts participate in this tournament. In the first phase they were arranged in six groups. The second phase is knock out games, which ultimately leads to the final.

Buladi Tribal Football Championship: This is the tournament that includes eight districts, four from North Bengal and four from South Bengal. The players are mostly tribal boys. The drive for arranging this tournament is to spot out talented footballers from the tribal belt of the state and bringing them to mainstream football. Apart from this, the endeavor behind arranging this tournament is to create a supply chain of footballers to the higher level.

Khadim`s -Trades Challenge Cup: It is the first open football tournament in India back to the year 1889. This is one among the oldest tournaments in India. The tournament is immensely popular among the European, American, Indian student community. The participating teams are placed in ten groups of four teams each and played on a single league leg basis. The winner of the each group then competes for the final knock out round of the tournament. The prize money for the champion team is thirty thousand while the runner up team wins rupees fifteen thousand.

Milo-Bankim Cup Inter School Football Tournament: The multinational Giant and producer of MILO brand health drink takes initiative to support the football at the grass root level. Sixty-four school teams from in and around Kolkata participated in this sponsored championship. They were placed in 16 groups of 4 teams each.

Anandamela -Dabur Glucose -D Energy Cup : 128 schools from in and around Kolkata participates in this tournament. Dabur and ABP group are the joint sponsors of this tournament, which generates a lot of interest for football in schools. Members of coaches` forum have the goal to hunt talents from the school students to bring them in the mainstream game.

Peerless Nursery Football League : This Nursery Division Football League was introduced with a mission to spot and promote budding talents in football to ensure an uninterrupted supply line for clubs and higher levels of footballs.

Vidyasagar Trophy Inter University Football Knockout Tournament- This is sponsored by smart Reliance.

Elegant Under 19 Football League: This football tournament holds at Siliguri. The sponsor is SPS Group, the manufacturer of Elegant Steel TMT Bar.

District Tournaments and District Football Development Projects : The various district level tournaments are- S.P.Roy Inter - District Club Championship Football Tournament, Sub-Junior Inter District Football Tournament, Junior Inter District Football Tournament, Senior Inter District Football Tournament, District Long Term Football Coaching Programme, Hill Football tournament.

(Last Updated on : 30/10/2009)
 
 
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