69th SANTOSH TROPHY FINAL ROUND. PUNJAB - 2015.(SCROLL DOWN BELOW)

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

 North Zone - A 

TEAMS 		M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Punjab		3	2	1	0	11	0	+11	7(FINAL ROUND)
Uttarakhand.	3	2	0	1	5	8	-3	6
Chandigarh      3	0	1	2	1	5	-4	1
Uttar Pradesh   3	1	0	2	3	7	-4	3

 North Zone - B 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Delhi   	  3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	7(FINAL ROUND)
Haryana 	  3	1	2	0	3	0	+3	5
Jammu & Kashmir	  3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
Himachal Pradesh  3	0	0	3	1	10	-9	0

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

 South Zone - A 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Kerala   	  2	2	0	0	10	0	+10	6 (FINAL ROUND)
Karnataka	  2	1	0	1	2	5	+3	3
Andhra Preadesh   2	0	0	2	1	8	-7	0

 South Zone - B 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Seriveces  	  2	2	0	0	11	1	+10	6 (FINAL ROUND)
Pondicherry       2	0	1	1	0	8	-8	1
Tamil Nadu	  2	0	1	1	1	3	-2	1

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

 NORTH EAST ZONE GROUP - A 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Mizoram 	  2	2	0	0	5	0	+5	6 (FINAL ROUND)
Meghalaya         2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
Tripura		  2	0	0	2	0	5	-5	0

 NORTH EAST ZONE GROUP - B 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Assam         	  3	3	0	0	11	0	+11	9(FINAL ROUND)
Manipur	  	  3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
Arunachal Pradesh 3	0	1	2	2	8	-6	1
Nagaland	  3	0	1	2	1	9	-8	1

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

 WEST ZONE 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Goa         	  4	4	0	0	23	3	+20	12 (FINAL ROUND)
Maharashtra	  4	3	0	1	15	3	+12	9 
Gujarat		  4	2	0	2	8	4	+4	6 
Madhya Pradesh	  4	1	0	3	7	10	-3	3 
Daman & Diu	  4	0	0	4	3	35	-35	0

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

 EAST ZONE GROUP - A 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Bengal		  2	2	0	0	3	1	+2	6 (FINAL ROUND)
Jharkhand	  2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3 
Bihar         	  2	0	0	2	0	2	-2	0

 EAST ZONE GROUP - B 
   
TEAMS 		  M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
Railways          3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7 (FINAL ROUND)
Orissa	 	  3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	2 
Chhattisgarh 	  3	1	0	2	6	7	-1	3 
Sikkim		  3	0	1	2	2	11	-9	1

69th SANTOSH TROPHY - 2015.FINAL ROUND (scroll down below)

GROUP A

Team 		M	 W 	D 	L 	GF 	GA 	GD 	PTS
Services 	4 	2 	2 	0 	5 	1 	+4 	8
Punjab 		4 	2 	2 	0 	4 	1 	+3 	8
West Bengal 	4	2 	2 	0 	4 	2 	+2 	8
Maharashtra 	4 	1 	0 	3 	8 	6	+2 	3
Assam 		4 	0 	0 	4 	1 	12 	-11 	0

10.03.2015 : Punjab -- 2-1 -- Maharashtra
PUN : Sunny 11', 66'
MAH : Vijith Shetty (pen 90+1')
RED CARD : 60' - Karan Atwal (MAH)

In last match of Group League, Host Punjab team has shown an extra ordinary footballing skill and found a place in Semi-final. Punjab Team was desperate in all their moves today to have important three points from this outing, thus paving their way towards semifinal, Punjab team started the match proceeds in style making continuous raids on Maharashtra den in the initial spell, but poor finishing upfront creates hurdles in their ways to surge ahead in the match.

Taranjit Singh and Sunny combined well with striking zone of Punjab Team to keep Maharashtra defense busy all the times. 41st minute saw, Taranjit Singh cross the ball to unmarked Sunny who was rushing towards Maharashtra den and Sunny Jsy No.11 bollyed home superb sharp shoot goal of the match.

Thereafter again Punjab Team kept Maharashtra defense at way to clear balls all the times in first half. In second half, Maharashtra team combined well and created some good moves and started dominating from left to right flank of Punjab Team. 60th minute of the game saw Karan Atwal of Maharashtra was given marching order by the match Referee Navin Sundi from Jharkhand for his violent conduct during the match proceeds.

Thus Maharashtra Team was eliminated to 10 members, but they did not lose their hope for equalizer. Punjab Team now getting enough space in Maharashtra half started creating moves in search of more goals. 66th minute of the game saw Sunny again came out with superb goal of the game. This time after Maharashtra defender has roughly tackled substitute striker Jaswinder about 40 yard area from goalpost. Ravinder Singh stepped in to take this free-kick for Punjab side and his curly well measured shot went direct to the unmarked Sunny who headed home second goal of the game for Punjab Team.

After this debacle, Maharashtra exhausted all its strategic plans in search of goal, but Punjab defense nullified all their moves. However, in the injury time, Punjab Team's central defender Arshdeep made a rough tackle to the Maharashtra’s striker resulting which, the Match Referee awarded penalty in favour of Maharashtra team.

Skipper Vijith Shetty stepped in to take this shot and he converted this penalty by nicely placing the ball into Punjab den. With this match ended with a result of 2-1 in favour of Punjab Team. Therefore, Punjab Team finally got a place in semifinal, which it will play against Group B Team Mizoram on 13th March, 2015 at Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana.

09.03.2015 : Services -- V/S -- Bengal
SER : Arjun Tudu 2'
BEN : Raja Das 3'

08.03.2015 : Maharashtra -- 6-1 -- Assam

07.03.2015 : Bengal -- 0-0 -- Punjab

At Ludhiana Bengal and Punjab teams were looking desperate to accumulate points from this important and crucial tie to make their safe way to Semi-final. Bengal was having slight advantage over the host Punjab as it was having six points from their last two wins, whereas Punjab having one win and even drawn game earlier was having 4 points.

Bengal team started the match proceedings of an offensive note and dominated initial spell of the game. However, Punjab Team made a comeback and started dominating the match proceedings by initiation some fertile moves over Bengal Den. 26th minute of the game saw Rajbir Singh took strong shot on Bengal post,and it rebound from Bengal Custodian and Prabhjot was standing in goal area who instead of placing it into net took powerful shot which went high on the bar and missed scoring opportunity. 29th minute of the game saw Bengal defender dragged down Rajbir from behind and referee awarded penalty kick from outside penalty area. Punjab skipper Ravinder stepped in to take this free kick which narrowly missed the target and ball went wide.

A minute later again Sunny took long range 40 yard shot from right side which also narrowly missed target. 34th minute of the game Bengal custodian made mistake when he handled the ball outside penalty area resulting which referee awarded direct free kick to Punjab Team. Ravinder again stepped in to take this shot, which his shot gone high from top bar. 38th minute of the game saw Sunny gave a long range pass to Rajbir, which he could not contact with the ball and ball went outside. 42nd minute of the game Rajbir was moved ahead with ball from right, whereas Saikat Saha Roy of West Bengal has wrongly tackled him from behind resulting which referee awarded free kick.

Ravinder once again took free kick but his shot went direct to the safe hands of Bengal Custodian, however in the meanwhile, Bengal got a scoring opportunity through Jsy No.15 – Jiten Murmu, on which Jagroop came out with superb save of the day. In the 45th minute of the game Arshdeep was the guilty party of roughly tackling Bengal striker outside goal area resulting which referee awarded free kick to Bengal, but Jiten’s powerful shot went high on top bar. After barren first half, Punjab team combined well and took overall control of the game in their hands and started dominating the match proceedings from one corner to another. However in 55th minute of the game Saikat Saha Roy took a long range from near left flank, which was chipped by Jagroop, but the ball touched the top bar and alert Punjab defense cleared the bal.

56th minute of the game saw Raja Das came into act to take well measured shot on Punjab post, but Jagroop Singh came out with yet another superb save of the game. 57th minute of the game saw Taranjit Singh took shot from outside penalty area which went high from the post. 70th minute of the game substitute Manvir supplied a well measured pass to his companion Jaswinder Singh whose shot has wood-work on Bengal den, and defense was abled to clear the ball. 72nd minute of the game Manveer missed one-on-one scoring opportunity, which Bengal custodian came out with save. 85th minute of the game saw Prabhjot Singh took powerful shot on Bengal den, which was cleared for corner by Bengal goalkeeper. Ravinder Singh took corner kick, on which Bengal defense was able to make counter attack on Punjab post.

Dying minutes of the game saw couple of scoring opportunities form Punjab side, Taranjit Singh took a well measured shot on Bengal post, on which Goalkeeper punched the ball which came to Punjab’s Sunny who was standing in-front of the Bengal post and he took shot on Bengal den which was saved by Bengal custodian. At the end Bengal was able to come-out with draw.

06.03.2015 : Assam -- 0-3 -- Services
SER : Jain P 11, Arjun Tudu 48', 54'

Services team keeping the momentum of good run in Santosh Trophy has blanked Assam Colours this evening at Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana when it has beaten the lurking Assam side three goals to nil. From the very beginning Services team started dominating the match proceedings through its skipper Anthoy Chettri, Arshpreet, Vibin Tudu, Mawia in defense line and Francis, Jain P, Arjun Tudu upfront.

Their super skill was fully exhibited in the game, which works out first in 11th minute when Francis gave a well measured pass to Jain P, who made no mistake to convert it into first goal of the game. After suffering this debacle Assam team also tried to match the pace of opponent team, but all times in the remaining first half Assam custodian remained busy in coming out with superb saves and clearing the balls from powerful shots of Services Team.

After lemon break again Services took overall control of the game in their hands and started dominating match proceedings. 48th minute of the game saw Arjun Tudu scored a superb goal after getting an accurate pass from his teammate Mawia. Assam Team got scoring chance two minutes later, but Biplob Sonowal could not convert this chance into goal and his shot went high from the post. In the meanwhile Arjun Tudu again came into act to score third and final goal of the match in 54th minute. With this win Services accumulated 7 points in total and top the points table so far.

05.03.2015 : Bengal -- 2-1 -- Maharashtra
BEN : Raju, Dipak, Prasenjit, Sukdeb, Saikat, Phoolchand, Kallol, Imran, Bijoy, Raja, Jiten
BEN : Raja Das 38', 78'
MAH : Shabaz Pathan 48'
RED CARD : Bijoy Mandi - BENGAL Bengal started the match proceedings of an offensive note and it was looking better of two making continuous raids in the Maharashtra goal area in the initial spell, whereas Maharashtra defense headed by Karan Atwal made all out efforts to deny Bengal to score any goal in their best fertile moves. As the game advanced to half an hour, Bengal started taking full control of the match proceeding in their hands, Raja Das combined well with his companion Imran Khan and they both showed supremacy in opening the jinx. 38th minute of the game saw Raja Das headed home first goal of the game.

Maharashtra Team was lurking in all of its moves and till half time score-line was 1-0 in favour of Bengal. After lemon break, Maharashtra entered the field with great zeal and started dominating the second half and made continuous raids over Bengal den in search of equalizer. Finally, Shabaz Pathan did not waste the scoring opportunity which came his way and scored the equalizer in 48th minute of the game. After scoring equalizer Maharashtra Team started dominating the proceeding and kept Bengal defense busy in clearing balls form their danger zone, and as the match progressed towards changing spell, there has been couple of chances of rough tackling the opponents by both sides and there has been a series of cautions to both sides.

Bijay Mandi Jsy No.17 was given marching order by match referee for receiving two cautions in this match and he shall be missing Bengal's next important game against host Punjab. However, as the luck was in Bengal favour and again Raja Das got another scoring opportunity in 78th minute and he did not waste and headed home second and winning goal of the game. Thereafter, Maharashtra Team made all out efforts in search of equalizer, but they could not capitalized the chances those came their way and Bengal Team succeeded in keeping the score in tact in their favour and came out with second and important win in this championship.

04.03.2015 : Services -- 0-0 -- Punjab
Ajay and Rajbir missed couple of scoring opportunities; whereas Jagroop was also busiest custodian of Punjab team And he nullified all attempts from services

03.03.2015 : Assam -- 0-1 -- Bengal
BEN : RAJA DAS 20'
BEN : Priynt, presenjit, sagram, saikat, sukhdb, Phoolchad, Jawed, Imran, surabuddin, Raja, jiten
Assam go down to Bengal 0-1, Mizoram blanked Delhi 2-0 in the 69th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy at Ludhiana Shishir Ghos coached side Bengal started its campaign in the ongoing 69th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy with a solitary goal win over Assam. Assam team was looking better of two this evening and having suffered early debacle in their first outing against Punjab, Assam started the proceedings on an offensive note and their fertile moves were seen with superb combination of Manosh Manjit Chetia, Fwjwbswarang Warry, Mintu Boro and Suraj Mondal, but alert Bengal defense nullified all their moves as Assam Team was lurking upfront and they could not utilize the chances those came their way.

On the other hand Bengal team did not exhibit much of the impressive game, however, Javed Ansari, Imran Khan and Raja Das shown some superb skill on two three occasions. 20th minute of the game saw, Bengal team came into act, when Bengal defender Sagram Mandi initiated an emphatic move who gave a thorough ball to Imran Khan who further gave well measured pass to his companion Raja Das, who dribbled past Assam defender before placing the ball in Assam den and produced the winner goal for Bengal Team.

After suffering this debacle Assam Team which were playing almost upfront all the time before conceiving this goal, again combined well and started making continuous raids over the den of Bengal Team. Till Half time the score line was 0-1. After lemon break Assam team continued their efforts in search of equalizer, but could not capitalized the chances those came in their way.

83rd minute of the game saw Bengal defense made a mistake when they drag Assam striker with rough tackle who fell down in penalty area resulting which match referee awarded a penalty in favour of Assam Team. Suraj Mondal stepped in to take this penalty kick, but he wasted this chance and his shot went high of the top plank and could not harm the Bengal post. In the dying minutes of the game Assam got couple of scoring opportunities, but could not capitalized in their favour.

02.03.2015 SERVICES ----(1-0)--- MAHARASHTRA
SER : Francis Zonuntulunga 33'

Services started its campaign in 69th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy being played at Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana with a solitary goal win over arch rival Maharashtra Team. The loan goal of the game was scored by Francis Zonuntulunga, Jsy No.17 in 33rd minute of the game. Services Team combined well and made certain fertile moves in the early minutes of the game, whereas the Maharashtra defense equally matched the pace of opponent team. Maharashtra too came close to score on two occasions but these two superb moves were nullified by Services custodian Bhaskar Roy.

01.03.2015 : Punjab -- 2-0 -- Assam
PUN : Prabhjot 17', Rajbir Singh 55'

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GROUP B

Team 		M 	W 	D 	L 	GF 	GA 	GD	 PTS
Mizoram 	4 	3 	1 	0 	6 	2 	+4 	10
Kerala 		4 	3	0 	1 	4 	1 	+3 	9
Goa 		4 	1 	2 	1 	5 	3 	+2 	5
Delhi 		4 	0 	2 	2 	0 	4 	-4 	2
Railways 	4 	0 	1 	3 	1 	5 	-4 	1

10.03.2015 : Railways -- 0-1 --Kerala
KER : Usman Ashik K 90'

In Group B, Kerala rallied to beat Railways by solitary goal. Although it was a formal match of both teams in this competition in view of the fact that Kerala has already qualified for locking horns with Services in Semifinal to be played at Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana on 12th March, 2015. Kerala team dominated the match proceeds in both halves and finally Jersey No.7 Usman Ashik K. scored the winner for Kerala team in 90th minute of the game.

09.03.2015 : Goa -- 2-2 --Mizoram
GOA : Marcus Maskarenhas 11', 31'
MIZORAM : Zico Zoremsanga 19', Malsawm Fela 47'

08.03.2015 : Delhi -- 0-1 --Kerala

07.03.2015 : Mizoram -- 1-0 --Railways

In Group-B match defending champion has beaten last year's runners-up Railways in Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Jalandhar by solitary goal win. Having missed couple of scoring changes too Mizoram team was best team of the match, which has shown super football skill in today's match. With this win Mizoram accumulated 9 points in total to top the group standing and it has become the first team to qualify for semi-final.

06.03.2015 : Goa -- 0-0 --Delhi
In Group B match that has played in Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Jalandhar, Delhi played out goal less drawn game against Goa. In this match Delhi team has combined well and exhibited their super football skill in both halves of the game, Goa team also came close to score on two three occasion, but all their efforts has gone in vain hence both the teams could not open the jinx and came out with goalless draw.

05.03.2015 : Kerala -- 0-1 --Mizoram
MIZ : F. Lalrinpuia

In another group B match, Mizoram has won the match with solitary goal win over spirited Kerala. Large number of Mizoram fans turned up for this match with team’s colour flags to cheer their favourite team Mizoram. Both teams exhibited some super football skill in their moves and tried to open the jinx in first half, but till half time score line was zero-zero. After barren first half, defending champion Mizoram showed its supremacy over spirited Kerala and F. Lalrinpuia Jsy No.18 scored the lonely goal of the game and Mizoram team surged ahead in the match and kept the score intact till final whistle was blown by match referee. With these wins both Bengal and Mizoram now top their groups in as many as of two matches played by each of them.

04.03.2015 : Railways -- 1-3 --Goa
GOA : Gabriel Fernandez 45', Joerse Olivera 50', 71'
RAIL : Sashi Toppo 25'

Group B match between Goa and railways which played at JCT complex has been won by Goa 3-1. Till halftime goa was down 0-1. But it has made comeback in second half to register an emphatic win 3-1 over Railways.

03.03.2015 : Mizoram -- 2-0 --Delhi
MIZ : Lalbiakua 50', Lalrinpuia 85'

The another Group B match which was played at JCT Sports Complex, Chohal, between defending champion Mizoram and Delhi has been won by Mizoram 2 goals to nil. First half game was mixed juncture of both team making moves from one flank to another, having no effects to the opponent teams. After barren first half, Mizoram Team combined well and took control of the match proceedings and started dominating the game.

50th minute saw Mizoram’ Jsy No.7, Lalbiakaua, scored first goal of the game and surged ahead whereas the second goal of the game came from the shot of Jsy No.18. F. Lalrinpuia in 85th minute and Delhi Team could not match the pace of opponent team and suffered this defeat.



02.03.2015 KERALA ----(1-0)--- GOA
SER : Nasrudeen C.30

Today's another Group B match was shifted from Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Jalandhar to JCT Sports Complex, Chohal, due to continuous rain over last night. Kerala team also registered solitary goal win over Goa. Both Teams were aggressive in their moves in the initial spell of the game. However Kerala team took full advantage of the best chance game their way and Nasrudeen C. Jsy No.10 scored lone goal of the game in 30th minute of the game.

Now in Group A match Assam takes on West Bengal in Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana whereas in Group B match defending champion Mizoram takes on Delhi at JCT Sports Complex, Chohal.

01.03.2015 : Delhi -- 0-0 --Railways

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

Team 		Win 	Runners-up 	Played in Finals

Bengal 		31 	12 		43
Punjab 		8 	6 		14
Kerala 		5 	8 		13
Goa 		5 	7 		12
Maharashtra 	4 	11 		15
Karnataka 	4 	5 		9
Railways 	3 	5 		8
Services 	3 	5 		8
Andhra Pradesh 	3 	3 		6
Delhi 		1 	1 		2
Manipur 	1 	1 		2
Tamil Nadu  	0 	2 		2
Mizoram  	1 	0 		1

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.

GOALKEEPER

1. VEKUTO PURO
2. MEZHiiLHOUKHO KROSE
3. PEISUIDIBE SOLO

DEFENDER

4. SENTIYANGER
5. CHINITHUNG
6. WAPANG
7. VITSOZOL SOTHU
8. AKUO
9. MEREN

MIDFIELD

10.KEYIGUMGWANGBE
11.KHANJILO WANTH
12.NINJA (CAPTAIN)
13.MANTOK
14.NADAIBONANG
15.LIPOK

FORWARD

16.SAKUTEMSU
17.YHUNSHALO KEMP
18.KEZHOSE MATHEW
19.TOSHI LONGKUMER
20.RHITSO MERO

TEAM
COACH WILLIAM KOSO
MANAGER IVUTO WOTSA
PHYSIO ZAKIELATUO SELETSU

AIFF 69th SANTOSH TROPHY ALL INDIA TOURNAMENT - 2015.