India, Nov. 13 -- Players and CEOs of the Indian Super League (ISL) clubs are likely to separately petition the Supreme Court to start the top league this season after it found no commercial partners. This transpired after separate meetings between All India Football Federation (AIFF) with a dozen players and CEOs of 11 ISL clubs on Wednesday.

"The league has to happen, there is no conflict between AIFF and us on this," said one of the CEOs who attended the virtual meeting with AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey and deputy secretary-general Satyanarayan M. "One of the options discussed was whether clubs can run the league this term but we will wait for directions from the Supreme Court."

Assuming the Supreme Court does that by November 30, t...