User:Micheal.blake6/Vile Parle Premier League

Vile Parle Premier League is an eight team franchise format football League started in Mumbai.This league has already finished three seasons. This league's another high point is that it was started by four youngsters, out of which 3 are yet pursuing graduation studies. Vile Parle Premier League is played in the month of May and it follows a league format where the top 4 out of the 8 competing teams qualify for the play-offs and eventually the winner of the grand finale becomes the champion of the league.

History

Season 1 of Vile Parle Premier league was conducted on a low budget scale, but yet it gained immense popularity among one and all.

Season 2 was very grand in nature and it saw the likes of Bappi Lahiri, Priya Dutt, Krishna Hegde and other eminent personalities grace the final. Parle FC emerged triumphant in Season 1 while Parle United emerged victorious in Season 2. Both the years Parle Diaons finished a close runner up.

Parle United earned a whopping amount Rs 75,000 for their efforts. Parle Premier League when started sold it's teams for a paltry sum without any auction process. Only that in it's second year when two teams were up for sale it earned a enormous Rs 22,000 for one team and Rs 17,000 for the other.

Season 3 was bigger than ever with the quality of football even more improved. Players from all over Mumbai coming over to particiapte in this competition. Celebrities like Sachin Khedekar, Dalip Tahil, Dilip Joshi and MLA Krishna Hegde honored the tournament with their presence. Parle Diaons and Parle Ash-kickers battled out in the Grand finale with Diaons winning the coveted trophy and prize money Rs. 1,00,000.

Season 4  witnessed a huge leap in terms of quality of football and crowd participation for the games in addition to two new teams in the league. The guest list for the season iv enlisted Dilip Vengsarkar - Former Indian Captain and Former Chief Selector, MLA Krishna Hegde, Milind Ingle, Chinmayee Raghavan, Prathamesh Parab - Actor, John Coutinho - Current Mumbai FC midfielder etc. After an exciting Finale, Parle FC were crowned the PPL Champions for the second time in 4 seasons - being the 1st team to do so! While Parle Messiahs ended up as Runners up. The winners were rewarded with Rs.1,25,000 and the Runners up Rs. 50,000!