The Who’s Who Participate In A Sports-Centric Community Initiative #RPLFALL2018

Roots Premier League (RPL), India’s first competitive amateur football league, founded by Harpreet Baweja (Aroma Thai Spas, Butter Events) and Santino Morea (Event Management), with partner Gaurav Assomull kicked off its Fall Season 2018 last evening, at Andrew’s Turf, Bandra West.

RPL Fall Season 2018 shall be conducted over a 14 week game period, from 7th September 2018 to 14th December 2018; with 40 teams competing and several new team owners and players. Roots will run five leagues concurrently – Bandra North, Bandra South, Juhu, Centra grassroots, and the Women’s League. The Men’s League culminates in a Knockout Stage with the top four teams competing for the Championship Cup, and the bottom four battling it out for the Community Cup.

 

This season, Bollywood actor and his team shall participate in the games; while Ishaan Khattar of Dhadak fame, also joins the sporting event. RPL has been supported and promoted by various media-friendly faces, such as Dino Morea, Rohan Shrestha, Samir Kochhar, Gabriella Demetriades, Mandira Bedi, and others.

The objective is to promote amateur football in India, to build a sporting event, and to create a healthy and positive ecosystem that benefits everyone involved! Due to popular demand, earlier this year, RPL introduced a Women’s League with independent female role models across genres owning teams and competing in the games. This season’s team owners include the likes of Kim Sharma, Bhavna Pandey, Nandita Mahtani, Adhuna Bhabani, and more. RPL aims to empower women in India through sport intend and has therefore collaborated with dynamic pioneers that are keen to assist in the process, lending their voices to promote this cause.

RPL also believes in supporting sports at the grassroots level and giving back, which is why its charity program is consistently active; including a collaboration with actor Kunal Kapoor’s organization ketto.org to raise money for Slum Soccer. Roots work towards raising money for children through its communities, and plays various charity games to achieve targets; Just For Kicks is another such organization that it has tied up with.

Founders Harpreet Baweja and Santino Morea said,

“We at Roots are committed to creating an ecosystem that promotes football, fitness and community is while working with various brands and products that benefit from being a part of this healthy environment. Our focus is to expand Roots into various Tier 1 cities, creating a similar ecosystem. There’s nothing better than seeing individuals from diverse backgrounds come together to spend an evening full of football, food, and friends. Fall Season 2018, is going to be bigger and better with an increase in the number of teams and an exciting lineup of players.”

Roots intend to extend itself beyond Mumbai and Delhi, to other major metros like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Pune, in the coming year. Once established, not only inter-city competitions, but intra-city knockout formats shall also be introduced, and hence the National Championships.