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
2024
[*] 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
Patna Bihar drw,0-4 Bengal
Semifinal
Bengal 1-0 Bombay
Final
Calcutta Bengal 5-1 Delhi
Bengal 7-0 Rajputana
Bengal 5-0 Hyderabad
Final
Delhi Delhi 2-0 Bengal
Bengal 6-0 Madras
Bengal bt United Province
Final
Bangalore Mysore 0-0,2-1 Bengal
Bengal bt Rajputana
Bengal bt Madras
Final
Calcutta Bengal 5-0 Hyderabad
Bengal 3-2 Assam
Bengal bt Madhya Pradesh
Bengal bt Orissa
Final
Calcutta Bengal 1-0 Hyderabad
Bengal 5-0 Punjab
Bengal 2-1 Bihar
Bengal 0-0,1-0 Bombay
Final
Calcutta Bengal 0-0,3-1 Mysore
Bengal bt Travancore-Cochin
Bengal bt Services
Final
Ernakulam Bengal 1-0 Mysore
Services 5-2 Hyderabad
Bengal bt Dehli
Bengal bt Madras
Bengal bt Bombay
Hyderabad 1-0 Bengal
Final
Madras Bengal 1-0 Services
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.].
Bengal 1-0 Assam
Final
Kozhikode Services 0-0,1-0 Bengal
Orissa bt Andhra Pradesh
Final
Cuttack Mysore 1-0 Bengal
Bengal bt Madras
Final
Nowgong Bengal 6-1 Services
Bengal bt Kerala
Bengal bt Services
Bengal bt Goa
Final
Madras Bengal 4-1 Railways
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
Kerala 6-0 Bengal
Final
Ernakulam Kerala 3-2 Railways
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
Bengal bt Uttar Pradesh
Bengal bt Punjab
Final
Patna Bengal 1-0 Maharashtra
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
Semifinals
Goa bt Karnataka
Bengal bt Maharashtra
Final
Srinagar Bengal 1-0 Goa
Semifinal
Punjab 0-0,3-0 Karnataka
Final
Coimbatore Bengal 1-0 Punjab
Semifinals
Punjab 4-3 Goa
Railways 3-2 Bengal
Final
Cuttack Punjab 0-0,2-0 Railways
Bengal bt Kerala
Bengal bt Karnataka
Final
Trichur Bengal 2-0 Railways
Goa 7-1 Karnataka
Final
Calcutta Bengal & Goa 0-0,0-0 [joint winners]
Source for old results: [Muk] (thanks to Piet Veroeveren); thanks to Neil Morrison for full results of the 16th edition (1959/60)
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