Pailan Group to sponsor Bengal Youth Development program

The Pailan Group, the partners and sponsors of the AIFF's Developmental side, the renamed Pailan Arrows will now also support the development of Bengal youth football. At a press conference at the Bengal Club in Kolkata yesterday it was announced that the Pailan Group would sponsor the Indian Football Association (West Bengal) youth development program.

The IFA is happy to be able to sign a sponsorship deal worth Rs 1 crore per years with the Pailan Group for its youth development program which will include the IFA Residential Academy (under-15 & U-19), the IFA district camps, the school football tournament - the Bankim Cup and the Under-19 Bengal state team.

For the IFA the support of the Pailan Group will hopefully enable it to develop Bengal football and especially young talent which over the years has dried-up with the big clubs able to attract Indian talent from across the country.

Present on the occasion of the announcement of the deal were AIFF and IFA vice-president Subrata Dutta, IFA honorary secretary Utpal Ganguli and Pailan Group chairman Apurba Saha besides others.