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Exactly two months ago, I wrote this and faced faceless trolls defending AIFF’s decision and questioning my concerns about Indian football. Now AIFF is on the brink of bankruptcy. Quoting the conclusion from my article. This pretty much sums up AIFF's current situation. #Indianfootball. khelnow.com/football/indian-… AIFF has skipped the ASEAN Cup 2026, which would have paid it to turn up, taken on a fixture costing ₹60-70 crore to stage, and declined to say how it is being funded. If the package holds, the federation will have staged the biggest match played in India in years and covered its cost. It would be the strongest single result of his time in the chair. If it does not, the loss lands on a body whose operating accounts held ₹11.25 crore in March, whose guaranteed rights income has ended, whose league has no broadcaster, whose women’s league has no signed commercial partner and no start date, and whose youth competitions have no calendar. No reserve sits behind it to absorb a bad night. That is the part that reaches past the federation’s own books. A shortfall wouldn't be a line item to write off. It would set the ceiling on what Indian football can afford to do for years, and the programmes with no money behind them already are the ones that would feel it first. Either way, a single friendly is now carrying more of Indian football’s finances than a friendly should. And on the federation’s own answer, the terms won’t be made public.