Sevens Football In Kerala
The Sevens' Football Association (SFA) organizes around 50+ All India Sevens tournaments among different clubs across South India.
Several footballers from South India, including India internationals / ISL such as I. M. Vijayan, Ashique Kuruniyan, VP Suhair, Mashoor Shareef, CK Vineeth, Zakeer Manuppa, Mohammed Rafi, Asif Kottayil and Anas Edathodika, credit their experiences in Sevens tournaments for helping them improve their footballing skills and develop their passion for the sport.
Format
The All India Sevens football is a 60 minute game with two halves of 30 minutes each. The maximum number of substitutions that can be made in a match is three, A club can register 6 foreign players and 10 domestic players. Three foreign players can play simultaneously. Two unsigned guest players can be fielded. Clubs spend between one lakh (Rs. 1,00,000) to seven lakh to sign one player, the leading team, Al Madeena Cherpulassery, spent around one crore (Rs. 1,00,00,000) for the 2022-23 season alone.
In popular culture
- Sudani from Nigeria (2018)
- Sevenes (2011)
References
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