The league was expected to begin its first season on 25 February 2012, with the aim to increase interest in football in West Bengal.
They were to be based in Kolkata, and five regional centres: Howrah, Barasat, Durgapur and Siliguri.
After the regular season the teams would have played in a play-off style tournament in which there would have been semi-finals and a final.
[4] In the last week of February, 2012, Utpal Ganguli, the secretary of the Indian Football Association, announced that the league had been postponed.
[5][6][7][2] In January 2013, the Indian Football Association announced that it had withdrawn support for the venture, citing financial problems, the lack of suitable venues, and the unavailability of overseas players in the period the competition was to have been played.