Kerala Blasters FC  Kerala Blasters Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala. They compete in the Indian Super League, since its inception. The club was established on 24 May 2014 and began their first professional season a few months later in October 2014. The club has traditionally worn its yellow home kit since its inception and is one of the widely supported clubs in India. They play their home matches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Kochi. The club has held the record for highest league attendance every season, regularly averaging over 40,000 fans a game. The Blasters played their inaugural match on 13 October 2014, losing 1–0 to NorthEast United. They made it to the 2014 Indian Super League Final in its inaugural season, where they lost 1–0 to ATK after an injury time goal from Mohammed Rafique. They did not qualify for the finals the next season, but reached the final again in 2016. The team again suffered a defeat against ATK, this time through penalties 4–3. In early 2014 the All India Football Federation, the governing body of association football in India, and IMG–Reliance announced that they would accept bids for the ownership of eight of the selected cities for the inaugural season of Indian Super League (ISL), a franchise football tournament modelled along the lines of the Indian Premier League for cricket. On 13 April 2014, it was announced that the rights to the Kochi franchise had been won by former India national cricket team captain Sachin Tendulkar, and entrepreneur Prasad V Potluri. On 27 May 2014, the team's official name, "Kerala Blasters FC" was unveiled, which was based on the nickname of co-owner Sachin Tendulkar who was known as "Master Blaster" during his playing days. Preparations for the first season started on 22 July when the Kerala Blasters took part in the first domestic draft to select fourteen Indian players. India international Mehtab Hossain was the first draft pick made by Kerala Blasters. Besides Hossain, the team management selected Avinabo Bag, Sandip Nandy, Chinadorai Sabeeth, Luis Barreto, Milagres Gonsalves, Ramandeep Singh, Renedy Singh, Sandesh Jhingan, Ishfaq Ahmed, Gurwinder Singh, Nirmal Chettri, Sushanth Mathew, and Godwin Franco for the team. On 13 August 2014 former England international goalkeeper David James was chosen as the first head coach and marquee player of the team.