panaji salgaocar fc have decided to stay away from a crucial ileague club licensing workshop making it clear that they will not be part of the ileague this seasonthe former ileague champions have withdrawn from indias premier football competition in protest against the all india football federations restructuring plans that promotes the indian super league isl as the premier league and relegates ileague to the second division or league one as it will be calledsporting clube de goa have also announced their withdrawal from this edition of the ileague while dempo sports club are expected to follow suit but while all three goan clubs appear firm on their decision to stick together and exit from the ileague together at least two of the clubs will continue to keep aiff guessingaccording to sources sporting clube and dempo officials will attend the club licensing workshop in mumbai on friday and do everything to meet the stringent club licensing criteriaanyone who does not fulfil the club licensing criteria cannot participate in the ileague if the goan clubs do not attend the workshop and carry the club licensing work forward the aiff will simply leave them out of the ileague a source tracking the development told toi on the eve of the meeting according to club licensing regulations every club can avail of a onetime exemption if they fail to meet the criteria but all teams in the ileague have already made use of the exemptionin a recent interview aiff general secretary kushal das said pune fc did not participate in the last edition of the ileague because they failed the club licensing criteria thats not true pune fc did not even attempt to meet the criteria how can someone fail when they were the first and only club to clear the criteria in their first attempt and even if they had failed they could have got a onetime exemption said the source the aiff are hoping that goan clubs or at least two of them will change their mind and participate in the ileague