Santosh Trophy

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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 29 titles till 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Winners

aet=After extra time; pen=Penalty shootout

Year	Winners	Runners-up	Score
1941–42	Bengal	Delhi	5–1
1942–43	No competition
1943–44	No competition
1944–45	Delhi	Bengal	2–0
1945–46	Bengal	Bombay	2–0
1946–47	Mysore	Bengal	0–0; 2–0
1947–48	Bengal	Bombay	0–0; 1–0
1948–49	No competition
1949–50	Bengal	Hyderabad	5–0
1950–51	Bengal	Hyderabad	1–0
1951–52	Bengal	Bombay	1–0
1952–53	Mysore	Bengal	1–0
1953–54	Bengal	Mysore	0–0; 3–1
1954–55	Bombay	Services	2–1
1955–56	Bengal	Mysore	1–0
1956–57	Hyderabad	Bombay	1–1; 4–1
1957–58	Hyderabad	Bombay	3–1
1958–59	Bengal	Services	1–0
1959–60	Bengal	Bombay	3–1
1960–61	Services	Bengal	0–0; 1–0
1961–62	Railway	Bombay	3–0
1962–63	Bengal	Mysore	2–0
1963–64	Maharashtra	Andhra Pradesh	1–0
1964–65	Railways	Bengal	2–1
1965–66	Andhra Pradesh	Bengal	1–1; 1–0
1966–67	Railways	Services	0–0; 2–0
1967–68	Mysore	Bengal	1–0
1968–69	Mysore	Bengal	0–0; 1–0
1969–70	Bengal	Services	6–1
1970–71	Punjab	Mysore	1–1; 3–1
1971–72	Bengal	Railways	4–1
1972–73	Bengal	Tamil Nadu	4–1
1973–74	Kerala	Railways	3–2
1974–75	Punjab	Bengal	6–0
1975–76	Bengal	Karnataka	0–0; 3–1
1976–77	Bengal	Maharashtra	1–0
1977–78	Bengal	Punjab	1–1; 3–1
1978–79	Bengal	Goa	1–0
1979–80	Bengal	Punjab	1–0
1980–81	Punjab	Railways	0–0; 2–0
1981–82	Bengal	Railways	2–0
1982–83	Bengal and Goa	(joint winners)	0–0; 0–0
1983–84	Goa	Punjab	1–0
1984–85	Punjab	Maharashtra	3–0
1985–86	Punjab	Bengal	0–0; 4–1 (pen)
1986–87	Bengal	Railways	2–0
1987–88	Punjab	Kerala	0–0; 5–4 (pen)
1988–89	Bengal	Kerala	4–3 (pen)
1989–90	Goa	Kerala	2–0
1990–91	Maharashtra	Kerala	1–0
1991–92	Kerala	Goa	3–0
1992–93	Kerala	Maharashtra	2–0
1993–94	Bengal	Kerala	2–2; 7–5 (pen)
1994–95	Bengal	Punjab	2–1 (golden goal)
1995–96	Bengal	Goa	2–0
1996–97	Bengal	Goa	1–0 (aet)
1997–98	Bengal	Goa	1–0
1998–99	Bengal	Goa	5–0
1999–00	Maharashtra	Kerala	1–0
2000–01	Kerala	Goa	3–2 (golden goal)
2001–02	No competition
2002–03	Manipur	Kerala	2–1 (golden goal)
2003–04	Kerala	Punjab	3–2 (golden goal)
2004–05	No competition
2005–06	Goa	Maharashtra	1–1; 2–0 (aet)
2006–07	Punjab	Bengal	0–0; 5–3 {pen}