The 2016 Premier Futsal season is the inaugural season of Premier Futsal. The season features six teams each playing four matches before culminating to the finals. The league started on 15 July 2016 and ended on 24 July 2016.
Squads
The squad lists are below:
Bengaluru
- Paul Scholes (Marquee)
- Elias (GK)
- Neto
- Maximiliano
- Nabil
- Anatoliy
- Zaib
- Anto Rushith S
- Jonathan Piers
- Abhishek R (GK)
- Sathya Kumar
- Sai Nikhil
Head coach: Juan Jose Bernal Cierre
Source:
Chennai
- Falcão (Marquee)
- Espindola (GK)
- Romulo
- Cirilo
- Camilo
- Manel Rion
- Sean
- Faraz Abdul Azzez
- Yash
- Younus Pasha
- Rohit Suresh (GK)
- S. Nannda
- Haroon
Head coach: Ney Pereira
Source:
Goa
- Ronaldinho (Marquee) (replaced by Cafu).
- Cafu (Marquee)
- Bebe (GK)
- Vampeta
- Rafael
- Georgievsky
- Adonias
- Michael Silva
- Fredsan Marshall
- Caitano
- Vatsal (GK)
- Praveendran
- Mohammed Ahtesham Ali
Head coach: Octavio Gomes De Oliveira Junior
Source:
Kochi
- Míchel Salgado (Marquee)
- Casalone (GK)
- Chaguinha
- Deives Moraes
- Gekabert
- Emil
- Muhammed Ameer
- Basil
- Yashwant Kumar (GK)
- Ansh
- Stalin Daniel
- Anupam
Head coach: Segio Sapo
Source:
Kolkata
- Hernán Crespo (Marquee)
- Cidao (GK)
- Pula
- Gabriel
- Vander Carioca
- Majdoub
- Dida
- Mohammed Islam
- Amit Pal (GK)
- Subrata Dey
- Pradeep Shaw
- Akshay Nair
- Mayur Shellar
Head coach: Christian Roldan
Source:
Mumbai
- Ryan Giggs (Marquee)
- Luis Amado (GK)
- Adriano Foglia
- Angelott Caro
- Kevin Ramirez
- Federico Perez
- Pablo
- Emmanuel
- Jo Paul Bence (GK)
- Akshay Nair
- Shubham Mane
- Chanpreet
- Shimyu
Head coach: Felice Mastropierro
Source:
See also
References
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