ISL squads and youngest‑player lists released

The 2025-26 Indian Super League now has two fresh public datasets: club squads for the season and a club-by-club list of youngest debutants. (icecric.news) (khelnow.com) The league is being played with 14 clubs in a single-leg round-robin format over 91 matches, and the official club list includes Bengaluru, Chennaiyin, East Bengal, FC Goa, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kerala Blasters, Mohammedan, Mohun Bagan, Mumbai City, NorthEast United, Odisha, Punjab, and Inter Kashi. (indiansuperleague.com 1) (indiansuperleague.com 2) (the-aiff.com) Khel Now’s list says former NorthEast United striker Alfred is the youngest player ever to feature for an Indian Super League club, and it says more teenagers have reached first teams as clubs cut costs and the league required development players in matchday squads. (khelnow.com) That makes the new squad list more than a roll call. It lets anyone compare how many senior pros, foreign signings, and academy-age players each club has carried into a season that only began on February 14, 2026 after months of uncertainty around the competition’s start. (icecric.news) (indiansuperleague.com) (wikipedia.org) The broader backdrop is a league that the All India Football Federation describes as India’s top-tier men’s competition since 2019, with youth development now tied more closely to first-team roster decisions. (the-aiff.com) (khelnow.com) Independent squad trackers already show noticeable age spread across the division. Transfermarkt’s 2025-26 competition page lists an average squad age of 26.3 years across 396 players, with Mohammedan at 24.7, Kerala Blasters at 25.3, and Jamshedpur at 28.0. (transfermarkt.co.in) Those numbers do not prove which clubs trust youth in matches, but they do give a starting point for checking whether younger squads are also the ones handing out early debuts. Khel Now’s club-wise debutant list points to names such as Prachit, Prakadeswaran, and Vinith as examples of academy or reserve graduates reaching first teams. (khelnow.com) The timing also matters because the season is live. As of April 14, 2026, Mumbai City led the table on 18 points from eight matches, ahead of Mohun Bagan on 17, so squad depth and age balance are no longer abstract planning questions. (indiansuperleague.com) What these lists add, right now, is a clearer paper trail: who clubs registered for 2025-26, and how young some of their first-team debuts have been. (icecric.news) (khelnow.com)