The Coca Cola Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy 2010-11 Final Competition will be held in West Bengal from February 14 – 24, 2011 announced the AIFF website. The Championship will be played over two stadiums in the vicinity of Kolkata at Barasat Stadium and Khardah Stadium.
The Sixteen teams who have made it to the final round of the 33rd Sub-Junior National Football Championship for Coca Cola Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy 2010-11 will be divided into four groups.
Defending champions Jharkhand, Tamil-Nadu, Chandigarh and Maharastra are clubbed in Group A while Goa, Orissa, Tripura and Kerala are drawn in Group B. Group C comprises of four time champions Mizoram, Bihar, Punjab and last year’s runners up Karnataka while the host and a record thirteen times champion West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Madhya Pradesh are clustered in Group D.
The Group league matches will be held from February 14 to 19, while both the Semi-finals will be held on February 21. The grand finale will be played on February 24.
Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy, organized under the aegis of AIFF received a boost in 2009 when Coca-Cola turned up as a sponsor of the event. It is a grass root level football initiative to discover budding football talent in the country and prepare a strong team for the under-14 Indian Football team which competes at the Asian Championships. This premier Trophy was set up in 1977 and is played all over the country in 400 districts involving 6,000 young players.
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