ISL Media Team

Champions of the inaugural season Atlético de Kolkata kick-start their 2016 Hero Indian Super League campaign against reigning champions Chennaiyin FC at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium on Sunday. This will be ATK's first game in their new home and they'll be gunning to set the record straight after bowing out at the semi-final stage last season in dramatic fashion against Chennaiyin. The Super Machans, on the other hand, will be looking for a better start to the season than they had last year when they lost their opening fixture to ATK at home by a 3-2 score-line.

Head-to-head: The two sides have faced each other six times in the past two seasons with ATK boasting a better record of three wins to Chennaiyin's one. Hero ISL 2015 saw Kolkata inflict three wins on Chennai with one 3-2 win and two 2-1 victories. However, the only Chennaiyin FC win in the first leg of the last year's semis against ATK is perhaps the most telling result of them all given that its 3-0 margin set up a virtually unassailable deficit for ATK to overcome in the second leg. The two meetings between these two sides in Hero ISL 2014 ended in 1-1 and 0-0 draws.

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