The final of the championship will be played on December 9.
Kerala was approved by the Executive Committee of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) as the venue for the upcoming tournament.
The matches will be played at four venues – Municipal Stadium Koothuparamba, EMS Corporation Stadium Kozhikode, Calicut University Kozhikode and Calicut Medical College Kozhikode.
32 teams will participate in the competition, which are divided into eight groups.
The groups are as follows:
The groups are as follows:
Group A: Manipur, Daman and Diu, Pondicherry, Meghalaya
Group B: Railways, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Tripura
Group C: Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan, Bihar
Group D: Jharkhand, Delhi, Goa, Karnataka
Group E: Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Maharashtra
Group F: Odisha, Haryana, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh
Group G: Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Mizoram, Uttarakhand
Group H: Tamil Nadu, Punjab, West Bengal, Telangana.
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