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 51
1942–43No competition
1943–44No competition
1944–45 DelhiBengal20
1945–46 BengalBombay20
1946–47 MysoreBengal00; 20
1947–48 BengalBombay00; 10
1948–49 No competitionNo competition
1949–50 BengalHyderabad50
195051 BengalHyderabad10
195152 BengalBombay10
195253 MysoreBengal10
195354 BengalMysore00; 31
195455 BombayServices21
195556 BengalMysore10
195657 HyderabadBombay11; 41
195758 HyderabadBombay31
195859 BengalServices10
195960 BengalBombay31
196061 ServicesBengal00; 10
196162 RailwayBombay30
196263 BengalMysore20
196364 MaharashtraAndhra Pradesh10
196465 RailwaysBengal21
196566 Andhra PradeshBengal11; 10
196667 RailwaysServices00; 20
196768 MysoreBengal10
196869 MysoreBengal00; 10
196970 BengalServices61
197071 PunjabMysore11; 31
197172 BengalRailways41
197273 BengalTamil Nadu41
197374 KeralaRailways32
197475 PunjabBengal60
197576 BengalKarnataka00; 31
197677 BengalMaharashtra10
197778 BengalPunjab11; 31
197879 BengalGoa10
1979–80 BengalPunjab10
1980–81 PunjabRailways00; 20
1981–82 BengalRailways20
1982–83 Bengal and Goa(joint winners)00; 00
1983–84 GoaPunjab10
1984–85 PunjabMaharashtra30
1985–86 PunjabBengal00; 41 (pen)
1986–87 BengalRailways20
1987–88 PunjabKerala00; 54 (pen)
1988–89 BengalKerala43 (pen)
1989–90 GoaKerala20
1990–01 MaharashtraKerala10
1991–92 KeralaGoa30
1992–93 KeralaMaharashtra20
1993–94 BengalKerala22; 75 (pen)
1994–95 BengalPunjab21 (golden goal)
1995–96 BengalGoa20
1996–97 BengalGoa10 (aet)
1997–98 BengalGoa10
1998–99 BengalGoa50
1999–00 MaharashtraKerala10
2000–01No competition
2001–02 KeralaGoa32 (golden goal)
2002–03 ManipurKerala21 (golden goal)
2003–04No competition
2004–05 KeralaPunjab32 (golden goal)
2005–06 GoaMaharashtra11; 20 (AET)
2006–07 PunjabBengal00; 53 (Pen)
2007–08 PunjabServices10
2008–09 GoaBengal00; 42 (Pen)
2010 BengalPunjab21
2011 BengalManipur21
2012 Services Tamil Nadu 32
2013 Services Kerala 00; 43 (Pen)
2014 Mizoram Railways 30
2015 Services Punjab 00; 54 (Pen)
2016 Nagpur Services Maharashtra 21

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.

South & West Zone

  1. Kerala
  2. Tamil Nadu
  3. Pondicherry
  4. Karnataka
  5. Andhra Pradesh
  6. Telangana
  7. Maharashtra
  8. Gujarat
  9. Goa
  10. Daman and Diu
  11. Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  12. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  13. Lakshadweep

North & Central Zone

  1. Jammu and Kashmir
  2. Himachal Pradesh
  3. Punjab
  4. Chandigarh
  5. Haryana
  6. Delhi
  7. Railways
  8. Services
  9. Uttarakhand
  10. Uttar Pradesh
  11. Rajasthan
  12. Madhya Pradesh

East & Northeast Zone

  1. Odisha
  2. Chhattisgarh
  3. Jharkhand
  4. Bihar
  5. West Bengal
  6. Sikkim
  7. Assam
  8. Arunachal Pradesh
  9. Meghalaya
  10. Nagaland
  11. Manipur
  12. Mizoram
  13. Tripura

References

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