ISL

Isl (or isl) is a common abbreviation for "island" or "islands".

ISL may also refer to:

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Kerala Blasters FC

Kerala Blasters Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala that competes in the Indian Super League. The team was founded on 27 May 2014 by former Indian cricket captain, Sachin Tendulkar, as one of the initial teams in the Indian Super League, after Tendulkar, along with Prasad V Potluri won the rights to Kochi franchise. The teams home stadium is currently the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi. The Kerala Blasters have an annual revenue of $15 million.

The Kerala Blasters played their inaugural match on 13 October 2014, losing 0–1 to NorthEast United at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium. After the first season of the ISL, the Kerala Blasters lead the league in attendance with an average attendance of 47,427. The semi-final match between the Kerala Blasters and Chennaiyin managed to draw 61,323 people to the ground, making it the second most attended game of the season, behind the inaugural ISL game between Atlético de Kolkata and Mumbai City.

Indian Super League

The Indian Super League (ISL) is a professional football league in India. The league is one of the top-tier football leagues in India, the other being the I-League. It is known as the Hero Indian Super League for sponsorship reasons.The league features eight franchise teams from all around India. The ISL runs from September to December, with a finals series determining the champion.

The Indian Super League was founded in 2013 in an effort to make football a top sport in India and to make Indian football a major player worldwide. The league operates along the lines of the Twenty20 cricket Indian Premier League, and Major League Soccer of the United States. Unlike the majority of football leagues around the world, the ISL does not use the promotion and relegation system but instead a franchise system in which eight teams were created to participate in the league.

The league has seen two champions till the date in Atletico de Kolkata and Chennaiyin FC.

The inaugural season of the league was held in 2014. The current champions are Chennaiyin FC, who won the 2015 season by beating FC Goa 3–2 in the final.

Super League

Super League, officially the First Utility Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the top-level professional rugby league club competition in Europe. The league has twelve teams: eleven from England and one from France. The current champions are Leeds Rhinos.

Super League began in 1996, replacing the RFL Championship and switching from a winter to a summer season. Each team plays 23 games between February and July: 11 home games, 11 away games and a Magic Weekend game at a neutral venue. At the end of the season, the top eight teams enter a Super 8 stage, playing each other once more. The top four then enter the play-off series leading to the Grand Final (formerly Championship Final) which determines the champions.

The Super League champions play the National Rugby League (NRL) champions from Australasia in the World Club Challenge.

History

1996–2001: Establishment

The competition was first mooted during the Australian Super League war as a way for Rupert Murdoch to gain the upper hand during the battle for broadcasting supremacy with the Australian Rugby League. Murdoch also approached the British clubs to form Super League. A large sum of money aided the decision, and the competition got under way in 1996. Part of the deal saw rugby league switch from a winter to a summer season. The 12 founding teams of Super League were:

Mathrubhumi News

Mathrubhumi News (Malayalam: മാതൃഭൂമി ന്യൂസ്) is a Malayalam-language television news channel owned by Mathrubhumi daily.

The news channel was launched on 23 January 2013, with the lighting of the traditional lamp by Mathrubhumi Managing Director M. P. Veerendrakumar and Managing Editor P. V. Chandran.

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