Mumbai Football Association

History

The Mumbai Football Association (MFA), which is a non-profit organization, was established in 1983. From a beginning of 57 football clubs affiliated to it, the association now caters to and conducts football activity for more than 10,000 players. Mumbai had been a center of football on the western coast of India since the British rule. After the foundation of the Western India Football Association as a result of the merger between the Bombay Football Association and the Bombay Rovers Cup Committee in 1911, it conducted the Harwood Football League and the prestigious Rovers Cup, an all India tournament which has come as a legacy to MFA.

The MFA is managed by the Executive Council consisting of a president, 4 vice presidents, general secretary, treasurer, 4 assistant secretaries and 15 committee members. In addition to these, six members whose services would be beneficial to the association are also co-opted on the executive committee. The term of the executive Council is four years.

Olympians and internationals of MFA

Mumbai has produced a number of olympians and international players of high repute, who have proudly represented India with excellence. Double olympian S. S. Narayan was the vice-president of MFA. Olympians Sanjeeva Uchil and Fortunato Franco also hail from Mumbai. Many international players have been produced under the aegis of MFA (Mario Gracious, Bandya Kakade, Derek D'Souza, Ranjit Thapa, Amar Bahadur, Yusuf Ansari, Godfrey Pereira, Khalid Jamil, Henry Menezes, Akhil Ansari, Bernard Pereira, Arthur Pereira, Santosh Kashyap, Steven Dias and Abhishek Yadav).

Main competitions

Club level

Men's senior

• Maharashtra State Senior Men's Football League
• Mumbai Premier League
• Mumbai Super League
• MFA First Division Championship
• MFA Second Division Championship
• MFA Third Division Championship
• MFA Futsal Championship

Men's youth

• U-18 Boys
• U-16 Boys Division I
• U-16 Boys Division II
• U-14 Boys Division I
• U-14 Boys Division II
• U-12 Boys
• U-10 Boys
• U-8 Boys

Women's senior

• Maharashtra State Senior Women's Football League
• MFA Women’s Premier League

Women's youth

• Girls U-17
• Girls U-14

Pyramid

Main article: Mumbai Football League#Structure

Knockout tournaments

Men's

Football grounds

MFA conducts most of their events on the following grounds.

References

References

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