Willis Plaza was in talks with Mohammedan Sporting after getting released by East Bengal in January 2018 but then the deal did not materialise

A proposal to promote two teams from the 2nd Division to the I-League was also discussed during its League Committee meeting

All the eighteen teams have cleared the Hero Second Division League club licensing process of the 2019-20 season except Lonestar Kashmir, who have been granted a special exemption by the league committee