India - List of Santosh Trophy Finals


The Santosh Trophy is the Indian National State Trophy which started in 1941. In the early seasons, matches were played in two halves of 30 minutes each. The trophy was donated by the Indian Football Association (IFA), the parent body of Bengal football, in the memory of late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh (now in Bangladesh). The late Maharaja remained the president of the IFA for a long time. The runners-up trophy, Kamla Gupta Trophy, was donated by late Dr. S.K. Gupta, ex-president, IFA in the memory of his wife. One more trophy, Sampangi Cup, was presented by the Mysore Football Association, now Karnataka Football Association in 1952, in the name of well-known football Sampangi. The trophy is for the third placed team (between losing semi-finalists).


Year      Venue                                    Final
1941/42   Calcutta     Bengal                       5-1     Delhi
1942/43                --------
1943/44                --------
1944/45   Delhi        Delhi                        2-0     Bengal
1945/46   Bombay       Bengal                       2-0     Bombay
1946/47   Bangalore    Mysore                       0-0,2-1 Bengal
1947/48   Calcutta     Bengal                       0-0,1-0 Bombay
1948/49                --------
1949/50   Calcutta     Bengal                       5-0     Hyderabad
1950/51   Calcutta     Bengal                       1-0     Hyderabad
1951/52   Bombay       Bengal                       1-0     Bombay
1952/53   Bangalore    Mysore                       1-0     Bengal
1953/54   Calcutta     Bengal                       0-0,3-1 Mysore
1954/55   Madras       Bombay (Maharashtra)         2-1     Services
1955/56   Ernakulam    Bengal                       1-0     Mysore
1956/57   Trivandrum   Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)   1-1,4-1 Bombay
1957/58   Hyderabad    Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)   3-1     Bombay
1958/59   Madras       Bengal                       1-0     Services
1959/60   Nowgong      Bengal                       3-1     Bombay
1960/61   Kozhikode    Services                     0-0,1-0 Bengal
1961/62   Bombay       Railways                     3-0     Bombay
1962/63   Bangalore    Bengal                       2-0     Mysore
1963/64   Madras       Maharashtra                  1-0     Andhra Pradesh
1964/65   Guwahati     Railways                     2-1     Bengal
1965/66   Quilon       Andhra Pradesh               1-1,1-0 Bengal
1966/67   Hyderabad    Railways                     0-0,2-0 Services
1967/68   Cuttack      Mysore                       1-0     Bengal
1968/69   Bangalore    Mysore                       0-0,1-0 Bengal
1969/70   Nowgong      Bengal                       6-1     Services
1970/71   Jalandhar    Punjab                       1-1,3-1 Mysore
1971/72   Madras       Bengal                       4-1     Railways
1972/73   Goa          Bengal                       4-1     Tamil Nadu
1973/74   Ernakulam    Kerala                       3-2     Railways
1974/75   Jalandhar    Punjab                       6-0     Bengal
1975/76   Kozhikode    Bengal                       0-0,3-1 Karnataka
1976/77   Patna        Bengal                       1-0     Maharashtra
1977/78   Calcutta     Bengal                       1-1,3-1 Punjab
1978/79   Srinagar     Bengal                       1-0     Goa
1979/80   Coimbatore   Bengal                       1-0     Punjab
1980/81   Cuttack      Punjab                       0-0,2-0 Railways
1981/82   Trichur      Bengal                       2-0     Railways
1982/83   Calcutta     Bengal & Goa                 0-0,0-0                [joint winners]
1983/84   Madras       Goa                          1-0     Punjab
1984/85   Kanpur       Punjab                       3-0     Maharashtra
1985/86   Jabalpur     Punjab                       0-0     Bengal         [4-1 pen]
1986/87   Calcutta     Bengal                       2-1     Railways
1987/88   Quilon       Punjab                       0-0     Kerala         [5-4 pen]
1988/89   Guwahati     Bengal                       1-1     Kerala         [4-3 pen]
1989/90   Margao       Goa                          2-0     Kerala
1990/91   Palakhad     Maharashtra                  1-0     Kerala
1991/92   Coimbatore   Kerala                       3-0     Goa
1992/93   Cochin       Kerala                       2-0     Maharashtra
1993/94   Cuttack      Bengal                       2-2     Kerala         [5-3 pen]
1994/95   Madras       Bengal                       2-1     Punjab         [asdet]
1995/96   Margao       Bengal                       2-0     Goa
1996/97   Jabalpur     Bengal                       1-0     Goa            [asdet]
1997/98   Guwahati     Bengal                       1-0     Goa
1998/99   Chennai      Bengal                       5-0     Goa
1999/00   Thrissur     Maharashtra                  1-0     Kerala
2000/01   Mumbai       Kerala                       3-2     Goa            [asdet]
2001/02    not played
2002/03   Imphal       Manipur                      2-1     Kerala         [asdet]   
2003/04    not played
2004/05  Delhi         Kerala                       3-2     Punjab
2005/06  Kochi         Goa                          3-1     Maharashtra    [aet]
2006/07  Gurgaon       Punjab                       0-0     West Bengal    [aet, 5-3 pen]
2007/08  Srinagar      Punjab                       1-0     Services
2008/09  Chennai       Goa                          0-0     Bengal         [aet, 4-2 pen]
2009/10  Kolkata       Bengal                       2-1     Punjab
2010/11  Assam         Bengal                       2-1     Manipur    
2011/12  Odisha [*]    Services                     3-2     Tamil Nadu
2012/13  Kochi         Services                     0-0     Kerala         [aet, 4-3 pen]
2013/14  Siliguri      Mizoram                      3-0     Railways
2014/15  Ludhiana      Services                     0-0     Punjab         [5-4 pen]
2015/16  Nagpur        Services                     2-1     Maharashtra
2016/17  Goa           West Bengal                  1-0     Goa
2017/18  Kolkata       Kerala                       2-2     West Bengal    [4-2 pen]
2018/19  Ludhiana      Services                     1-0     Punjab            
2019/20    abandoned
2020/21    not held
2021/22  Malapuram     Kerala                       1-1     West Bengal    [5-4 pen]
2022/23  Riyadh        Karnataka                    3-2     Meghalaya
2023/24  Yupia         Services                     1-0     Goa

[*] Odisha formerly known as Orissa

Number of wins (77; lost finals (75) between brackets) [one edition shared]

 32 (14) Bengal (includes West Bengal)  [1 win shared]

  8 ( 8) Punjab

  7 ( 8) Kerala 
  7 ( 5) Services

  5 ( 9) Goa                            [1 win shared]
  5 ( 5) Karnataka (includes Mysore)

  3 ( 6) Railways
  3 ( 5) Maharashtra

  2 ( 2) Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) 

  1 ( 7) Bombay (Maharashtra) 
  1 ( 1) Andhra Pradesh 
  1 ( 1) Delhi 
  1 ( 1) Manipur
  1      Mizoram

    ( 2) Tamil Nadu
    ( 1) Meghalaya



Additional Data for Various Seasons

1942
Patna        Bihar                        drw,0-4 Bengal
Semifinal
             Bengal                       1-0     Bombay
Final
Calcutta     Bengal                       5-1     Delhi
1945
             Bengal                       7-0     Rajputana
             Bengal                       5-0     Hyderabad	
Final
Delhi        Delhi                        2-0     Bengal
1947
             Bengal                       6-0     Madras
             Bengal                       bt      United Province
Final
Bangalore    Mysore                       0-0,2-1 Bengal
1950
             Bengal                       bt      Rajputana
             Bengal                       bt      Madras
Final
Calcutta     Bengal                       5-0     Hyderabad
1951
             Bengal                       3-2     Assam
             Bengal                       bt      Madhya Pradesh
             Bengal                       bt      Orissa
Final
Calcutta     Bengal                       1-0     Hyderabad
1954
             Bengal                       5-0     Punjab
             Bengal                       2-1     Bihar
             Bengal                       0-0,1-0 Bombay
Final
Calcutta     Bengal                       0-0,3-1 Mysore
1956
             Bengal                       bt      Travancore-Cochin
             Bengal                       bt      Services
Final
Ernakulam    Bengal                       1-0     Mysore
1959 (first)
             Services                     5-2     Hyderabad
             Bengal                       bt      Dehli
             Bengal                       bt      Madras
             Bengal                       bt      Bombay
             Hyderabad                    1-0     Bengal
Final
Madras       Bengal                       1-0     Services
1959 (second)
NB: part of the 1959/60 season but finished by October 1959

16th National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy, 1959

Note: 70 minute matches.

Preliminary Round

North Zone [at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh]
 2-10-59 Services        2-0 Uttar Pradesh
           [Lahiri x2]
 3-10-59 Madhya Pradesh  2-7 Delhi
 4-10-59 Services        3-0 Delhi
           [Puran Bahadur x2, Ethiraj]
 5-10-59 Madhya Pradesh  0-1 Uttar Pradesh
           [Gupta]
 6-10-59 Madhya Pradesh  1-4 Services
           [? / Puran Bahadur x2, Subba, Lahiri]
 7-10-59 Uttar Pradesh   2-0 Delhi
           [Kharole x2]

 1.SERVICES        3  3  0  0  9- 1  6
 2.UTTAR PRADESH   3  2  0  1  3- 2  4
 3.Delhi           3  1  0  2  7- 7  2
 4.Madhya Pradesh  3  0  0  3  3-12  0

East Zone
29- 9-59 Orissa          0-0 Assam   [at Cuttack, Orissa]
 2-10-59 Bengal          0-1 Assam   [at Burnpur, West Bengal]
           [Bora]
 4-10-59 Bengal          5-0 Orissa  [at Burnpur, West Bengal]
           [Balaram, Chuni Goswami x3, Kannan]

 1.ASSAM           2  1  1  0  1- 0  3
 2.BENGAL          2  1  0  1  5- 1  2
 3.Orissa          2  0  1  1  0- 5  1

West Zone [in Bihar]
29- 9-59 Bihar           3-0 Rajasthan       [at Patna]
30- 9-59 Bombay          1-0 Punjab          [at Patna]
           [Jaffar]
 2-10-59 Rajasthan       drw Bombay          [at Hazaribagh]
 3-10-59 Bihar           2-2 Punjab          [at Hazaribagh]
 5-10-59 Rajasthan       2-1 Punjab          [at Jamshedpur]
           [Ganga Singh, Waris / Budhram]
 6-10-59 Bihar           1-1 Bombay          [at Jamshedpur]
           [Jabbar / Devadas]

 1.BOMBAY          3  1  2  0   -    4
 2.BIHAR           3  1  2  0  6- 3  4
 3.Rajasthan       3  1  1  1   -    3
 4.Punjab          3  0  1  2  3- 5  1

South Zone [at Bangalore, Mysore]
27- 9-59 Mysore          3-2 Madras
29- 9-59 Andhra Pradesh  0-2 Kerala          [abandoned in second half due to heavy rain]
30- 9-59 Andhra Pradesh  2-1 Madras
           [Yusuf Khan, Kanickdas / Siva]
 1-10-59 Mysore          1-2 Kerala
           [Mujeebullah / Pappachan, George]
 3-10-59 Madras          0-0 Kerala
 4-10-59 Andhra Pradesh  2-0 Mysore
           [Saleh jr, Kanickadas]
 5-10-59 Andhra Pradesh  0-0 Kerala          [replay]

 1.ANDHRA PRADESH  3  2  1  0  4- 1  5
 2.KERALA          3  1  2  0  2- 1  4
 3.Mysore          3  1  0  2  4- 6  2
 4.Madras          3  0  1  2  3- 5  1


Final Round [at Nowgong, Assam]

Section I
16-10-59 Bihar           0-3 Bengal
           [Rahamatullah x3]
17-10-59 Andhra Pradesh  4-1 Uttar Pradesh
           [Hamid, Gulzar x2, Kankidas / Kaiser]
20-10-59 Andhra Pradesh  6-0 Bihar
           [Gulzar x4, Zulfiqar, Jaffar]
21-10-59 Bengal          7-0 Uttar Pradesh
           [Damodaran x4, Goswami, Rahamatullah, Balaram]
23-10-59 Bihar           5-1 Uttar Pradesh
           [Bidhan x3, P.Chatterjee pen, Ganesh / Kaiser]
25-10-59 Bengal          3-0 Andhra Pradesh
           [Rahamatullah, Varhalu, Damodaran]

 1.BENGAL          3  3  0  0 13- 0  6
 2.ANDHRA PRADESH  3  2  0  1 10- 4  4
 3.Bihar           3  1  0  2  5-10  2
 4.Uttar Pradesh   3  0  0  3  2-16  0

Section II
15-10-59 Assam           0-1 Bombay
           [Derek D'Souza]
18-10-59 Assam           1-1 Services
           [Riaz Ali / Kazipmi]
19-10-59 Kerala          0-4 Bombay
           [John Charles, Joe D'Sa, Derek D'Souza x2]
22-10-59 Services        4-0 Kerala
           [Puran Bahadur x2, Kazipmi, Lahiri]
24-10-59 Bombay          0-0 Services
26-10-59 Kerala          1-1 Assam
           [George / S.Nongbri]

 1.BOMBAY          3  2  1  0  5- 0  5
 2.SERVICES        3  1  2  0  5- 1  4
 3.Assam           3  0  2  1  2- 3  2
 4.Kerala          3  0  1  2  1- 9  1

Semi-finals
28-10-59 Bombay          2-0 Andhra Pradesh
           [Derek D'Souza, Joe D'Sa]
29-10-59 Bengal          2-1 Services
           [P.K.Banerjee, Damodaran / Puran Bahadur]

Third place match [Sampangi Cup]
30-10-59 Services        1-0 Andhra Pradesh
           [Kazipmi]
Final
31-10-59 Bengal          3-1 Bombay
           [Balaram 30', P.K.Banerjee 31', Chandrasekhar 70' OG / Jaffar 1']
           [Bengal: S.Sett; Mushtaq Ahmed, Jarnail Singh, Rehman; Kempiah, Ram Bahadur;
                    P.K.Banerjee [c], Narayan, Damodaran, Chuni Goswami, Balaram.]
           [Bombay: Narayan; Chandrasekhar, Sekhar, S.A.Latif [c]; Franco, Ayub;
                    Dereyk D'Souza, Jaffar, Neville D'Souza, John Charles, Devadas.]
           [Attendance: 22000, Nowgong Sports Club ground]
           [Referee: C.P.Mathur (Rajasthan).]

Bengal squad
 Manager: Saraj Bose
 Coach: B.D.Chatterjee
 Goalkeepers: S.Sett [Mohun Bagan], P.Burman [Eastern Railway]
 Backs: T.A.Rehman, S.Guha [both Mohun Bagan], Mushtaq Ahmed [Mohammedan Sporting]
 Halves: Kempiah, Jarnail Singh [both Mohun Bagan], Ahmed Hussain, Mohammed Ali [both Mohammedan Sporting],
         Ram Bahadur [East Bengal]
 Forwards: Kannan, Narayan, Balaram [all East Bengal], P.K.Banerjee [Eastern Railway] [capt.],
           Rahamatullah [Mohammedan Sporting], Damodaran [Rajasthan], Chuni Goswami [Mohun Bagan],
           Varahalu [B.N.R.].

1961
             Bengal                       1-0     Assam
Final
Kozhikode    Services                     0-0,1-0 Bengal
1968
             Orissa                       bt      Andhra Pradesh
Final
Cuttack      Mysore                       1-0     Bengal
1970
             Bengal                       bt      Madras
Final
Nowgong      Bengal                       6-1     Services
1972
             Bengal                       bt      Kerala
             Bengal                       bt      Services
             Bengal                       bt      Goa
Final
Madras       Bengal                       4-1     Railways
1973
             Goa                         10-0     Sikkim
             Bengal                       bt      Tamil Nadu
             Bengal                       bt      Maharashtra
             Bengal                       bt      Rajasthan
             Bengal                       bt      Kashmir
             Bengal                       drw     Kerala
             Bengal                       bt      Goa
Final
Goa          Bengal                       4-1     Tamil Nadu
1974
             Kerala                       6-0     Bengal
Final
Ernakulam    Kerala                       3-2     Railways
1975
             Punjab                      17-0     Gujarat
             Bengal                      18-0     Tripura
NB: Bengal's 18-0 win is a record score for the competition
Final
Jalandhar    Punjab                       6-0     Bengal
1977
             Bengal                       bt      Uttar Pradesh
             Bengal                       bt      Punjab
Final
Patna        Bengal                       1-0     Maharashtra
1978
             Bengal                       bt      Gujarat
             Bengal                       bt      Himachal Pradesh
             Bengal                       bt      Services
Semifinal
             Punjab                       4-3,2-1 Kerala
Final
Calcutta     Bengal                       1-1,3-1 Punjab
1979
Semifinals
             Goa                          bt      Karnataka
             Bengal                       bt      Maharashtra
Final
Srinagar     Bengal                       1-0     Goa
1980
Semifinal
             Punjab                       0-0,3-0 Karnataka
Final
Coimbatore   Bengal                       1-0     Punjab
1981
Semifinals
             Punjab                       4-3     Goa
             Railways                     3-2     Bengal
Final
Cuttack      Punjab                       0-0,2-0 Railways
1982
             Bengal                       bt      Kerala
             Bengal                       bt      Karnataka
Final
Trichur      Bengal                       2-0     Railways
1983
             Goa                          7-1     Karnataka
Final
Calcutta     Bengal & Goa                 0-0,0-0                [joint winners]

About this document

Source for old results: [Muk] (thanks to Piet Veroeveren); thanks to Neil Morrison for full results of the 16th edition (1959/60)

Prepared and maintained by Atsushi Fujioka and Arunava Chaudhuri for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Atsushi Fujioka and Arunava Chaudhuri
Last updated: 21 Mar 2024

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