India - List of Delhi League Champions


The Delhi Football League is the league for the clubs of the Indian capital. The Delhi League was started in 1948 but since it's start the league not been finished on twelve occasions. From 1977 until 1981 the league was not finished, due to fractionalism in the Delhi football scene. From 1985 a new format of a league, super league (two groups) followed by knock-out semifinals and final was adopted.
           
1948    Young Men
1949    Raisina Sporting
1950    Simla Youngs
1951    Young Men
1952    Simla Youngs
1953    New Delhi Heroes
1954    New Delhi Heroes
1955    New Delhi Heroes
1956    New Delhi Heroes
1957    Young Men
1958    New Delhi Heroes
1959    New Delhi Heroes
1960    City Club
1961    Raisina Sporting
1962    Raisina Sporting
1963    City Club
1964    City Club
1965    Young Men
1966    President's Estate
1967    President's Estate
1968      unfinished
1969    Young Men
1970      unfinished
1971    Indian Air Force (Delhi)
1972    Simla Youngs
1973    Simla Youngs
1974      unfinished
1975    Indian Air Force (Delhi)
1976    Simla Youngs
1977      unfinished due to factionalism
1978      unfinished due to factionalism
1979      unfinished due to factionalism
1980      unfinished due to factionalism
1981      unfinished due to factionalism
1982      not held
1983      unfinished
1984      unfinished
1985    Moonlight                1-0 Simla Youngs        
1986    Garhwal Heroes           1-0 Youngsters          
1987      unfinished
1988    Shastri FC and Moonlight (joint winners)
1989    Shastri FC and Moonlight (joint winners)
1990    Moonlight
1991    Students Club            1-0 Simla Youngs        
1992    Shastri FC               2-1 Special Area Games  
1993    South India              1-0 Simla Youngs        
1994    Shastri FC               4-0 Indian Nationals    
1995    Mughals SC               1-0 Shastri FC          
1996    Shastri FC               1-0 Hindustan FC         [asdet]
1997    City Club                1-0 Indian Air Force    
1998    Indian Air Force (Delhi) 1-1 Hindustan Club       [3-1 pen]
1999    Indian Nationals FC      1-1 Shastri FC           [5-4 pen]
2000    Indian Nationals FC      3-2 Hindustan Club      
2001-02 Hindustan Club           1-0 Indian Nationals FC 
2002    Indian Air Force (Delhi) 2-0 Hindustan Club
2003    Indian Air Force (Delhi) 3-2 Tarun Sangha
2004    Indian Air Force (Palam) 2-1 Indian Air Force (Delhi)
2005    Simla Youngs
2006/07 Indian Air Force 
2007/08 New Delhi Heroes         1-0 Indian Nationals FC 
2008/09 Indian Nationals FC  
2009      not known
2010      not known
2011    Delhi United             3-2 Shahdara FC 
2012      not known
2012/13 Garhwal Heroes           1-0 Goodwill

Number of Wins (3 missing)

 7 New Delhi Heroes

 6 Indian Air Force (Delhi)
 6 Simla Youngs

 5 Young Men
 5 Shastri FC (2 shared)

 4 City Club
 4 Moonlight (2 shared)

 3 Indian Nationals FC
 3 Raisina Sporting

 2 Garhwal Heroes
 2 President's Estate 

 1 Delhi United
 1 Hindustan Club
 1 Indian Air Force (Palam)
 1 Mughals SC
 1 South India
 1 Students Club


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