ISL Team Profile: Mumbai City FC

Co-owned by Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor, and Bimal Parekh, Mumbai City FC will play its home matches at the DY Patil Cricket Stadium in Nerul. The management also picked up former Everton and Manchester City midfielder Peter Reid to manage the roster led by Arsenal legend Freddie Ljungberg.

GK: Ishan Debnath, Subrata Paul, Andre Pereira
Def: Deepak Mondal, Peter Costa, Raju Gaikwad, Syed Rahim Nabi, Pavel Cmovs, Ilias Pollalis, Johan Letzelter, Manuel Friedrich

MF: Asif Kottayil, Lalrin Fela, Lalrindika Ralte, Ram Malik, Francisco Luque, Jan Stohanzl, Tiago Ribeiro
F: Abhishek Yadav, Nadong Bhutia, Rohit Mirza, Singam Subhash Singh, Sushil Kumar Singh, Diego Nadaya, Nicolas Anelka

With the quality of international talent on the roster, Mumbai has high expectations. In addition to Ljungberg, the roster boasts French striker Nicolas Anelka who has played previously for Real Madrid, Man City and Chelsea. Manuel Friedrich is also expected to make some noise, formerly playing for Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.