The 2021–22 FD Senior Division was the top-tier
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
season of
Delhi Football League
The Delhi Football League is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian union territory of Delhi, organised by Football Delhi (FD) as part of the state leagues. Delhi Premier League is the top division, started in 1948 as DSA Senior Divi ...
. The season started on October 9, 2021, and commenced on January 7, 2022. Previously, a short format tournament was held for the
I-League Qualifiers.
Format
18 teams are divided in two groups, comprising 10 teams in group A and 8 teams in group B.
Group stage matches will be played in robin round basis. Five teams from each group will qualify for the inaugural Delhi Premier League.
Premier League will be played in round robin format. 10 teams will play each other once and league leader will be adjudged the winner. Bottom teams could be relegated to lower division.
Teams
18 teams took part in the 2021 regular edition of the league:
Group A
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Indian Air Force FC
*Royal Rangers FC
*Youngmen SC
*City FC
*Tarun Sangha FC
*Uttarakhand FC
*National United SC
*Ahbab FC
*Jaguar FC
*Friends United FC
Group B
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Delhi FC
Delhi Football Club is an Indian professional football club founded in 1994 in Delhi. The club competes in both the I-League 2 and the Delhi Premier League. The club debuted in the 2023–24 I-League, the second tier of Indian football, foll ...
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Garhwal FC
Garhwal Heroes Football Club (also known as Garhwal Football Club) is an Indian professional football club based in New Delhi. The club lifted its first FD Senior Division league title in 1986, which became one of the most successful seasons in ...
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Delhi United FC
Delhi United FC (formerly Delhi United Soccer Club) is an Indian professional football club based in New Delhi, that competes in the FD A-Division. They play most of their home games at Ambedkar Stadium.
The club also operate a youth footbal ...
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Hindustan FC
Hindustan Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in New Delhi. Affiliated with the Football Delhi (FD), the club currently participates in the Delhi Premier League.
Founded in 1948, Hindustan predominantly participated i ...
*Shastri FC
*Rangers SC
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Sudeva Delhi FC
Sudeva Delhi Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Delhi. The club competed in the I-League 2, the third tier of the Indian football league system, after getting relegated from the second tier I-League in 2022–23. I ...
*Garhwal Diamond FC
Foreign players
Standings
Group stage
Source
The Away End
Group A
Group B
Premier League
See also
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2021–22 season in state football leagues of India
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2021–22 Punjab State Super Football League
The 2021-22 Punjab State Super Football League was the 35th season of the Punjab State Super Football League, the top-tier football league in the Indian state of Punjab
Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitic ...
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2022 Himachal Football League
References
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Football in Delhi
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2021–22 in Indian football