Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 15 ga Mayu 2019, AIFF ta sanar da tsohon dan wasan Croatia kuma kocin Igor Štimac a matsayin babban kocin kungiyar bayan ficewar Stephen Constantine. Babban aikinsa na farko tare da Indiya shine cancantar gasar cin kofin duniya ta 2022, inda ya fara da rashin nasara 1 × 2 a gida ga Oman. Amma a wasan na biyu sun sami maki mai daraja bayan sun yi nasarar cin kwallo ba tare da cin kwallo ba a kan Gasar Zakarun Asiya ta 2019 da kuma Qatar mai karbar bakuncin gasar cin kofin duniya ta FIFA 2022. Koyaya a wasan na uku, wasan gida da Bangladesh ya ga sun gudanar da wasan 1-1. An sake maimaita irin wannan sakamakon a wasan da suka yi da Afghanistan. A wasan waje, Indiya ta sake yin nasara a Oman ta hanyar manufa guda ɗaya, don haka ta rage fatan su na cancanta zuwa zagaye na gaba. Bayan jinkiri da yawa saboda COVID-19, a ƙarshe ƙungiyar ta tashi zuwa Doha don buga sauran wasanninsu. A wasan dawowa da Qatar, Indiya ta sauka ga masu masaukin baki tare da kwallo daya kuma an fitar da su daga gasar cin kofin duniya tare da wasanni biyu da za a yi. Daga nan kungiyar ta sake dawowa ta hanyar cin nasarar wasansu na gaba da Bangladesh da 2<unk>0, kuma sun kawo karshen yakin da suka yi da 1<unk>1 da Afghanistan. Tare da maki bakwai a duka, Indiya ta gama na uku a teburin bayan Qatar da Oman, don haka aka fitar da ita daga kofin duniya
a zagaye na biyu. Koyaya sun cancanci shiga zagaye na uku na cancantar gasar cin kofin Asiya ta AFC ta 2023.