About Us

India Khelo Football

India Khelo Football is a not-for-profit initiative strengthening grassroots ecosystem in India. It is creating a platform which connects aspiring football players with opportunities in a democratised and transparent manner. Via this platform we wish to create a strong talent pipeline for Indian Football.

Objective

To create a structured career path for aspiring football players in India.

Feeder

We wish to India Feeder of talent to World football by creating 100K+ professional football players within 5 years. Once a structured career path is created it will spur huge participation of kids in the sport.

Phygital Platform

We are Asia’s first Phygital platform which is enabling discovery of amateur football players on a click. On one end we are scouting exceptional players and on other end bringing in opportunities from across the globe who wants them.

Independent Entity

We are neither a club or an academy. We are a third-party platform which scouts talent and then connects them with opportunities.

WC 2034

Our aim is to facilitate India’s qualification in FIFSA world cup 2034. This can be achieved by stimulating participation of talent, democratizing talent identification and infusing that talent in the ecosystem.

Biggest Trials

We go across India to scout talent; but we don’t select talent for own consumption. We invite clubs and academies from across the world to come and absorb talent handpicked by us from across India.

5000 +

Participants

24 +

Cities

30 +

Partners

20 +

Selections

Advisors

Subrata Dutta

Former Sr. Vice President of AIFF. He is Chairman of IFA and Chairman of Sports Development Committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Indcustry. He is Trustee - MD of The George Telegraph Group.

Geet Lulla

A B2b sales professional with 30+ years of experience in various MNCs like SAP, IBM & KPMG. He was Statutory MD for a US based MNC Gracenote. He is currently VP Sales, APAC for Comscore a US based analytics company

Ashish Pendse

Concept and Executive Editor of India's only football print magazine . Journalist by profession for last 30 years having worked for Loksatta and Maharashtra times. He is also India representative at International Federation of Football History Statistics IFFHS

Core Team

Our Team