<p>Concerned over the shutting of two long-running football clubs -- Mahindra United and JCT -- over the last couple of years and the lack of a proper revenue model, twelve I-League club owners met here on Saturday to float the idea of the Indian Professional Football Clubs Association.<br /><br /></p>.<p>IPFCA would be formed under the Society Registration Act 1860, and would be funded by member clubs.<br /><br />Among its main objectives are safeguarding common interests of the clubs, popularising the I-League and helping to make it sustainable and profitable, club owners said. “We have been promised that a proper revenue model and a road map would be given to us on April 30 by the AIFF and IMG-Reliance when we met on February 21,” Nandan Piramal, who owns Pune FC said.<br /></p>
<p>Concerned over the shutting of two long-running football clubs -- Mahindra United and JCT -- over the last couple of years and the lack of a proper revenue model, twelve I-League club owners met here on Saturday to float the idea of the Indian Professional Football Clubs Association.<br /><br /></p>.<p>IPFCA would be formed under the Society Registration Act 1860, and would be funded by member clubs.<br /><br />Among its main objectives are safeguarding common interests of the clubs, popularising the I-League and helping to make it sustainable and profitable, club owners said. “We have been promised that a proper revenue model and a road map would be given to us on April 30 by the AIFF and IMG-Reliance when we met on February 21,” Nandan Piramal, who owns Pune FC said.<br /></p>