Explainer: What Supreme Court verdict means to Indian football

That was one of the condition set by FIFA to revoke the suspension on AIFF.

The Supreme Court ruling has given fresh hopes of FIFA lifting the ban on AIFF and the country being able to host the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in October.

Supreme Court hands AIFF management back to Federation; CoA reign ends, India hope to host FIFA U-17 WC

With the apex court literally dissolving the CoA, the day-to-day affairs of Indian football is back in the hands of AIFF with acting general secretary Sunando Dhar.

The Supreme Court had appointed the three-member CoA headed by former top court judge AR Dave to run the affairs of the AIFF in a May 18 order while ousting Praful Patel as president of the national federation.

Other members of CoA included former Chief Election Commissioner Dr SY Qureshi and ex-Indian football captain Bhaskar Ganguly.

While setting up the CoA, the apex court came down heavily on AIFF, saying the current state of affairs was not in the interest of proper governance of the federation.

Now that the status quo is back, with Agency inputs, myKhel.com looks at the details of the Supreme Court ruling and its possible fallouts.

#The AIFF election programme is permitted to be modified by extending the date of the polls by one week.

#The voters list for the ensuing elections shall consist of representatives of the member associations representing states and Union Territories.

#Returning officers — Umesh Sinha and Tapas Bhattachary — shall continue their role.

#The day-to-day management of AIFF shall be looked after by the AIFF administration led by the acting secretary general Sunando Dhar exclusively.

#As of now the ensuing friendlies against Singapore and Vietnam stands cancelled.

#Gokulam Kerala FC’s women’s team were already debarred from competing at the AFC Women’s Club Championship in Uzbekistan.

In the hearing held on Monday (August 22), the AIFF proposed that its administration and management should be conducted by a duly elected body but not in any case by a third party like the CoA) and hence the tenure of the CoA should be over.”

Suspension of AIFF is disastrous for the entire nation and all football players,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Sports Ministr, told the Supreme Court.

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It may be recalled that the FIFA had cited undue influence from third parties in its suspension order.

It had also said the U-17 Women’s World Cup, scheduled to be held in October cannot currently be held in India as planned.

But with CoA being dissolved and administration back in the hands of the national football federation, football fans and aficionados can heave a sigh of relief as it looks as though the decks are being cleared for lifting the FIFA ban on AIFF, which means the country stays in line to host the Women’s U-17 World Cup.