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2006–07 National Football League (India)

11th season of National Football League

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ2949537 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2006–07 National Football League was the 11th and final season of the top Indian professional league for association football clubs before it is rebranded as the I-League from 2007–08 season. This change was part of a broader effort to professionalize the league.

Overview

The league was contested by 10 teams, Churchill Brothers FC and Hindustan Aeronautical LTD were promoted from NFL - 2. Dempo winning the championship under the guidance of coach Armando Colaco. This victory marked their second title in the league. JCT secured the second position, while Mahindra came third. Mohammedan and HAL (Hindustan Aeronotics Limited) were relegated from the league for the next edition of National Football League 2007-08.

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“2006–07 National Football League (India)” enters the record as 11th season of National Football League. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Football and League can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Football and League.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2949537. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “2006–07 National Football League (India)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.