India, June 29 -- The city's football fraternity staged a peaceful protest on Sunday against the BMC's Improvements Committee's recent decision to delete the reservation of the Neville D'Souza Football Ground at Bandra Reclamation and redesignate the plot as an exhibition/ convention centre.

The protest, organised by the Mumbai Football Association (MFA), comes amid concerns that one of the city's few dedicated football grounds could be lost. The ground, named after Indian football legend Neville D'Souza, has served as a major venue for competitive football in Mumbai since 2011 and is used by nearly 10,000 footballers every year.

The site was allotted to the Mumbai Football Association by MHADA in 2011 and a portion of it operates as a ...