Santosh Trophy

Santosh Trophy
Founded 1941
Region India
Number of teams 31
Current champions Services (5th title)
Most successful team(s) West Bengal (earlier Bengal) (31 titles)
Television broadcasters DD Sports
2016 Santosh Trophy

Santosh Trophy is an annual Indian football tournament which is contested by states and government institutions. The first winners were Bengal, who also lead the all-time winners list with 31 titles to date.

The tournament first began in 1941, and was the premier football competition in the country before the National Football League started in the year 1996. The trophy as named after the late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh, which is now in Bangladesh, who had been the President of the Indian Football Association, the football organisation of Bengal and the donators of the trophy.

The runners-up trophy, Kamla Gupta Trophy, was also donated by the IFA.

The third place teams receive the Sampangi Cup which was presented by the Mysore Football Association (now KSFA) in 1952, in the memory of Sampangi, a renowned footballer from Mysore.

Format

The competition has seen a few changes in the format through the years. In the present format, there is a qualifying round involving eight clusters of three or four teams each. The eight winners from each cluster are then drawn along with four seeded teams, who do not have to come through qualifying, and these twelve teams are then divided into four groups of three each. This is the quarterfinal league stage, in which each of the three teams in the group play each other. The winners of each group then move to the semifinals. The semifinals and the final are single-legged fixtures, with extra time, golden goal and penalty shootout, if required.

Winners

YearHost CityWinnersRunners-upScore
1941–42 Bengal Delhi 5–1
1942–43No competition
1943–44No competition
1944–45 DelhiBengal2–0
1945–46 BengalBombay2–0
1946–47 MysoreBengal0–0; 2–0
1947–48 BengalBombay0–0; 1–0
1948–49 No competitionNo competition
1949–50 BengalHyderabad5–0
1950–51 BengalHyderabad1–0
1951–52 BengalBombay1–0
1952–53 MysoreBengal1–0
1953–54 BengalMysore0–0; 3–1
1954–55 BombayServices2–1
1955–56 BengalMysore1–0
1956–57 HyderabadBombay1–1; 4–1
1957–58 HyderabadBombay3–1
1958–59 BengalServices1–0
1959–60 BengalBombay3–1
1960–61 ServicesBengal0–0; 1–0
1961–62 RailwayBombay3–0
1962–63 BengalMysore2–0
1963–64 MaharashtraAndhra Pradesh1–0
1964–65 RailwaysBengal2–1
1965–66 Andhra PradeshBengal1–1; 1–0
1966–67 RailwaysServices0–0; 2–0
1967–68 MysoreBengal1–0
1968–69 MysoreBengal0–0; 1–0
1969–70 BengalServices6–1
1970–71 PunjabMysore1–1; 3–1
1971–72 BengalRailways4–1
1972–73 BengalTamil Nadu4–1
1973–74 KeralaRailways3–2
1974–75 PunjabBengal6–0
1975–76 BengalKarnataka0–0; 3–1
1976–77 BengalMaharashtra1–0
1977–78 BengalPunjab1–1; 3–1
1978–79 BengalGoa1–0
1979–80 BengalPunjab1–0
1980–81 PunjabRailways0–0; 2–0
1981–82 BengalRailways2–0
1982–83 Bengal and Goa(joint winners)0–0; 0–0
1983–84 GoaPunjab1–0
1984–85 PunjabMaharashtra3–0
1985–86 PunjabBengal0–0; 4–1 (pen)
1986–87 BengalRailways2–0
1987–88 PunjabKerala0–0; 5–4 (pen)
1988–89 BengalKerala4–3 (pen)
1989–90 GoaKerala2–0
1990–01 MaharashtraKerala1–0
1991–92 KeralaGoa3–0
1992–93 KeralaMaharashtra2–0
1993–94 BengalKerala2–2; 7–5 (pen)
1994–95 BengalPunjab2–1 (golden goal)
1995–96 BengalGoa2–0
1996–97 BengalGoa1–0 (aet)
1997–98 BengalGoa1–0
1998–99 BengalGoa5–0
1999–00 MaharashtraKerala1–0
2000–01No competition
2001–02 KeralaGoa3–2 (golden goal)
2002–03 ManipurKerala2–1 (golden goal)
2003–04No competition
2004–05 KeralaPunjab3–2 (golden goal)
2005–06 GoaMaharashtra1–1; 2–0 (AET)
2006–07 PunjabBengal0–0; 5–3 (Pen)
2007–08 PunjabServices1–0
2008–09 GoaBengal0–0; 4–2 (Pen)
2010 BengalPunjab2–1
2011 BengalManipur2–1
2012 Services Tamil Nadu 3–2
2013 Services Kerala 0–0; 4–3 (Pen)
2014 Mizoram Railways 3–0
2015 Services Punjab 0–0; 5–4 (Pen)
2016 Nagpur Services Maharashtra 2–1
2017 Kozhikode

Winners/runners-up

Overall tally

Team Titles Runners-up Appearance in Finals
West Bengal 31 12 43
Punjab 8 7 15
Kerala 5 8 13
Goa 5 7 12
Services 5 5 10
Maharashtra (earlier Bombay) 4 12 16
Karnataka (earlier Mysore) 4 5 9
Railways 6 7 14
Andhra Pradesh (earlier Hyderabad) 3 3 6
Delhi 1 1 2
Manipur 1 1 2
Mizoram 1 0 1
Tamil Nadu (earlier Madras) 0 2 2

1972 onwards: After the state teams were introduced

Team Titles Runners-up Appearance in Finals
West Bengal 16 4 20
Punjab 7 5 12
Kerala 5 8 13
Goa 5 7 12
Services 4 1 5
Maharashtra 3 5 8
Andhra Pradesh 1 1 2
Manipur 1 1 2
Mizoram 1 0 1
Railways 0 4 4
Tamil Nadu 0 2 2
Karnataka 0 1 1

Top goalscorers

Top six goalscorers of the Santosh Trophy:

  1. Inder Singh (Punjab): 45 goals
  2. Mohammed Habib (Andhra and Bengal): 34 goals
  3. Shyam Thapa (Services and Bengal): 31 goals
  4. P. K. Banerjee (Bihar and Railways): 28 goals
  5. Surajit Sengupta (Bengal): 26 goals
  6. Biswajit Bhattacharya (Bengal): 26 goals[1]

Proposal for a new format

The main tournament will have 16 teams. The hosts along with Winners, Runners-Up, and Third-Placed will directly enter into the main tournament. If the host is among Winner, Runners-Up, or Third-Placed team, the fourth-placed team will also directly qualify to main tournament.

The remaining teams will be split into 3 zones. Top 4 teams in each zones will qualify to main tournament. Each Zones will have 2 Groups. Top-two teams in each groups will qualify to Final Round.

References

  1. ↑ http://the-aiff.com/pages/news/index.php?N_Id=3187
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