Jammu and Kashmir got its first government-sponsored football academy, which was inaugurated in Srinagar yesterday. The first batch consists of 100 boys in the age group of 13 and 18 who will be coached by a team of professional footballers led by star National player Mehrajuddin Wadoo.

NorthEast United pulled out a class act towards the dying minutes of stoppage time to force Chennaiyin FC share points in a dramatic 3-3 draw in Indian Super League in Chennai. Dudu grabbed the second hattrick of the ISL season after Diego Forlan got the first one for Mumbai.

CK Vineeth scored 2 goals in the last five minutes as Kerala Blasters stunned Chennaiyin FC 3-1 for their first league win over their Southern rivals in Hero Indian Super League at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, on Saturday. Vineeth has now scored 3 goals in 2 appearances for Chennai this season.

Florent Malouda scored his first ever goal in the Indian Super League and carried Delhi Dynamos to a fluent 4-1 win over Chennaiyin FC at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi, on Wednesday. The former Chelsea player scored another one while assisting the other two to take Delhi a point clear of Mumbai.

In the first encounter after last year's ugly and eventful final, Chennaiyin FC heaped misery again on FC Goa by handing them their third successive defeat of the season with a 2-0 win at Chennai, on Thursday. The win leaves FC Goa at the bottom of the pool without any point from three matches.