2024 CFL Premier Division

CFL Premier Division
Season2024
Dates25 June 2024 – 18 February 2025
RelegatedPolice AC
Eastern Railway
Tollygunge Agragami
Matches played184
Goals scored534 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorerJesin TK (13 goals)
Biggest home winMohun Bagan SG 8–1 Railway
25 August 2024
Biggest away winArmy Red 0–6 Aryan
27 June 2024
Highest scoringMohun Bagan SG 8–1 Railway
25 August 2024
Longest winning runEast Bengal
(11 matches)
Longest unbeaten runEast Bengal
(16 matches)
Longest winless runPolice AC
(11 matches)
Highest attendance26,000
East Bengal vs Mohun Bagan SG (13 July 2024)
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The 2024 CFL Premier Division is the 126th overall season of the Calcutta Football League – highest state-level football division of West Bengal. The 2024 edition will have 26 teams divided into two groups of 12 in the first phase, with top 6 qualifying for the championship round and bottom 6 heading into the relegation round.

Format

The 2024 CFL Premier Division, like the 2023 CFL Premier Division, will have twenty-six teams divided into two groups in the first phase, where each team will play twelve matches in round robin format. After that, top three teams from the two groups shall proceed to the championship round, where each team shall play five more matches to determine the champion. The bottom three teams from both groups will play the relegation round.

Rule changes

From 2024 season IFA introduced Son of Soil (ভূমিপুত্র) rule, where each team must field at least 4 West Bengal born footballers in the playing XI at all time.

Venues

Teams

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Locations of CFL teams
Group A Group B
Team Head coach Captain Team Head coach Captain
Army Red Sudhir Mishra Renzong Lepcha Bhawanipore Shahid Raman Jiten Murmu
Aryan Rajdeep Nandy Sandip Patra Calcutta Customs Biswajit Bhattacharya Suvam Sen
BSS Souren Dutta Subhankar Das Calcutta Police Club Bijoy Ghosh Koushik Goala
Diamond Harbour FC Kibu Vicuna Raju Gaikwad East Bengal Bino George Aditya Patra
Kalighat MS Patham Thapa Koushik Sarkar Eastern Railway Subhagato Roy Antoni Soren
Kidderpore Sayantan Das Roy Prosenjit Chakroborty George Telegraph Goutam Ghosh Sourish Lodh Chowdhury
Measurers Club Rajib Dey Chattu Mondal Kalighat Sports Lovers Association Jahar Das Bishal Chhetri
Mohammedan Sporting Hakim Ssengendo Samad Ali Mallick Mohun Bagan SG Deggie Cardozo Suhail Bhat
Pathachakra Lalkamal Bhowmick Subhajit Mandi Peerless Hemanta Dora Donlad Diengdoh
Southern Samity Dipankar Biswas Rajesh Rajbhar Police AC Rajesh Rajbhar Deep Dey
Suruchi Sangha Ranjan Bhattacharya Amit Tudu Railway Amit Tudu Sudipta Banerjee
United Steven Herbots Tarak Hembram Rainbow Aditya Chatterjee Sourav Dasgupta
Wari Swapan Biswas Kamran Farooque Tollygunge Agragami Arindam Deb Avinabo Bag

First stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Diamond Harbour 12 10 2 0 32 7 +25 32 Qualified for the Super Six round
2 Suruchi Sangha 12 7 3 2 19 9 +10 24
3 Mohammedan SC 12 5 4 3 24 14 +10 19
4 Kidderpore 12 5 4 3 16 15 +1 19
5 United SC 12 5 3 4 15 10 +5 18
6 BSS 12 3 6 3 11 16 −5 15
7 Southern Samity 12 4 2 6 16 15 +1 14
8 Pathachakra 12 4 2 6 14 16 −2 14
9 Aryan 12 3 3 6 15 15 0 12
10 Measurers Club 12 3 3 6 14 23 −9 12
11 Wari 12 3 3 6 15 29 −14 12 Relegation round
12 Kalighat MS 12 2 5 5 6 12 −6 11
13 Army Red 12 2 4 6 12 28 −16 10
Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots


Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 East Bengal 12 11 1 0 35 4 +31 34 Qualified for the Super Six round
2 Bhawanipore 12 10 1 1 35 4 +31 31
3 Calcutta Customs 12 7 3 2 22 13 +9 24
4 Peerless 12 6 1 5 20 14 +6 19
5 Kalighat SLA 12 6 1 5 21 17 +4 19
6 Calcutta Police 12 5 3 4 13 12 +1 18
7 Mohun Bagan SG 12 4 4 4 28 15 +13 16
8 George Telegraph 12 5 0 7 12 20 −8 15
9 ASOS Rainbow 12 2 7 3 15 17 −2 13
10 Railway FC 12 3 1 8 11 29 −18 10
11 Eastern Railway 12 2 2 8 5 28 −23 8 Relegation round
12 Police AC 12 1 4 7 8 25 −17 7
13 Tollygunge Agragami 12 1 2 9 13 40 −27 5
Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots


Super Six

The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from the group stage being carried over.

Qualified teams

The six qualified teams for the Super Six phase from both the groups:

Group A Group B
Diamond Harbour East Bengal
Suruchi Sangha Bhawanipore
Mohammedan Calcutta Customs

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 East Bengal 16 14 2 0 49 7 +42 44 Champions
2 Diamond Harbour 15 12 3 0 39 8 +31 39
3 Bhawanipore (Q) 17 11 3 3 38 13 +25 36 Eligible for I-League 3
4 Calcutta Customs (Q) 17 8 5 4 32 25 +7 29
5 Suruchi Sangha 17 8 4 5 23 22 +1 28
6 Mohammedan 16 6 5 5 30 20 +10 23
Updated to match(es) played on 8 October 2024. Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) fair play ranking; 7) drawing of lots
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
  1. ^ If the top teams are already playing in national leagues, then the next highest ranked team(s) would be eligible for I-League 3.

Fixtures

Team 1 \ Team 2 EAB DHB BHA CCM SUS MDS
East Bengal — 13 Feb 3–0 4–1 5–0 2–2
Diamond Harbour — — 1–1 4–0 2–0 18 Feb
Bhawanipore — — — 2–2 4–1 0–2
Calcutta Customs — — — — 1–1 2–1
Suruchi Sangha — — — — — 2–1
Mohammedan — — — — — —
Updated to match(es) played on 30 September 2024. Source: The Away End
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.
12 September 2024 Super 6 Mohammedan 2–0 Bhawanipore Barrackpore
15:00 IST Lalngaihsaka 73'
Israfil 90+5'		 Report Stadium: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium
12 September 2024 Super 6 East Bengal 4–1 Calcutta Customs Kolkata
15:00 IST Shyamal 45'
Vishnu 45+2', 51'
Adil 73'		 Report Robi 25' Stadium: East Bengal Ground
14 September 2024 Super 6 Suruchi Sangha 0–2 Diamond Harbour Naihati
15:00 IST Report R. Paswan 19', 23'
 Stadium: Bankimanjali Stadium
15 September 2024 Super 6 Mohammedan 1-2 Calcutta Customs Naihati
15:00 IST Suraj 71' Report Robi 30'
Ujjal 45'		 Stadium: Bankimanjali Stadium
Referee: Dipak Singha
17 September 2024 Super 6 East Bengal 5–0 Suruchi Sangha Kolkata
15:00 IST Aman 9', 41'
Vishnu 17'
Jesin 26'
Roshal 73'
 Report Stadium: East Bengal Ground
18 September 2024 Super 6 Bhawanipore 1–1 Diamond Harbour Barrackpore
15:00 IST Naro Hari 68' (pen.) Report Jiten 72' (pen.) Stadium: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium
20 September 2024 Super 6 Mohammedan 2–2 East Bengal Naihati
15:00 IST
  • Bamiya 21'
  • Robinson 51'
 Report
Stadium: Bankimanjali Stadium
Attendance: 2.000
Referee: Dipu Roy
21 September 2024 Super 6 Suruchi Sangha 1–4 Bhawanipore Barrackpore
15:00 IST
  • Jaideep 88'
 Report
  • Jojo 29', 34'
  • Junain 48'
  • Sougata 71'
 Stadium: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium
22 September 2024 Super 6 Diamond Harbour 4–0 Calcutta Customs Naihati
15:00 IST
Report Stadium: Bankimanjali Stadium
24 September 2024 Super 6 Suruchi Sangha 2–1 Mohammedan Barrackpore
15:00 IST
  • Abusufian 75'
  • Sanjoy 85'
 Report
  • Lalngaihsaka 39'
 Stadium: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium
26 September 2024 Super 6 Calcutta Customs 2–2 Bhawanipore Barrackpore
15:00 IST Report Stadium: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium
30 September 2024 Super 6 Suruchi Sangha 1–1 Calcutta Customs Uluberia
15:00 IST
  • Jaideep 20'
 Report
  • Samrat 35'
 Stadium: Uluberia Ground

Relegation round

The bottom teams from both groups qualified for the Relegation round with the points from the group stage being carried over. The bottom 3 teams in the relegation round will be relegated to First Division.

Qualified teams

The six teams for the Relegation phase from both the groups are:

Group A Group B
Wari AC Eastern Railway
Kalighat MS Police AC
Army Red Tollygunge Agragami

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Army Red 17 6 5 6 20 29 −9 23
2 Kalighat MS 17 4 7 6 15 16 −1 19
3 Wari AC 17 5 3 9 25 38 −13 18
4 Police AC (R) 17 4 5 8 15 27 −12 17 Relegated to First Division
5 Eastern Railway (R) 17 4 2 11 13 39 −26 14
6 Tollygunge Agragami (R) 17 1 2 14 13 54 −41 5
Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) fair play ranking; 7) drawing of lots
(R) Relegated
  1. ^ Walkover
  2. ^ Walkover

Fixtures

Team 1 \ Team 2 WAR KMS ARM ERL PAC TAG
Wari AC — 1–4 0–1 5–1 1–3 3–0*
Kalighat MS — — 0–0 2–3 0–0 3–0*
Army Red — — — 3–1 1–0 3–0*
Eastern Railway — — — — 0–1 3–0*
Police AC — — — — — 3–0*
Tollygunge Agragami — — — — — —
Source: The Away End
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of September 3rd, 2024
Rank Player Team Goals
1 Jesin TK East Bengal 13
2 Jiten Murmu Bhawanipore 8
Jobby Justin Diamond Harbour FC 8
4 David Lalchhuanawma Calcutta Customs 7
Suhail Bhat Mohun Bagan SG 7
6 Jaideep Singh Suruchi Sangha 6
Rajon Barman Rainbow 6
Robi Hansda Calcutta Customs 6
Sujal Munda United 6
10 Israfil Dewan Mohammedan Sporting 5
Jojo Zaihmingthanga Bhawanipore 5
Ngairangbam Rakesh Singh Kidderpore 5

See also

References

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