chennai chennai city fc ccfc are set to shift base out of chennai the development comes two days after the trinations tournament involving the indian football team was moved out of the city due to sports development authority of tamil nadu sdats exorbitant demandsccfc are mulling the option of playing either in puducherry or the tn districts like coimbatore and madurai but club owner rohit ramesh didnt rule out the possibility of playing outside the state alsoit was learnt that ccfcs decision to move out of the city was because of financial issues and lack of fans support with isl and ileague happening simultaneously we were in a dilemma to hold our matches along with chennaiyin fc but practically speaking chennaiyin have more fans than us due to a lot of factors also both the leagues have different branding so it would have been an issue if we have to remove the brandings in the space of a few days at the stadium we have fantastic relation with the chennaiyin owners and in the end we both have to coexist so the best option was to shift our base we have a lot of players in our squad from the districts this time and we can increase the fan base if we take it to the districts rohit told toi on fridayccfc had spent approximately 15 crore to conduct their nine home matches last season at the jawaharlal nehru stadium here with the sdat unlikely to offer any subsidies this year too rohit said finances were also a huge factor last year we had no time but we could plan this year well in advance the sdat owns the stadiums in districts too we already had a chat with sdat and they have assured us that the rates may not be so steep there said rohitpreseason in ooty ccfc are all likely to have their preseason in ooty we want to do some highaltitude training so we are going to have the preseason in ooty from next month a club official said