Calcutta Premier Division

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Calcutta Premier Division
Sport Football
Founded 1898
No. of teams 157 (Clubs and Units)
Country  India
Most recent champion(s) East Bengal FC (Premier Division 2012-13)

Calcutta Football League (CFL) is the football league system where several football clubs of the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) participate. It currently consists of six-tier pyramid system.[1]

Indian Football Association (IFA) conducts the CFL with 157 mostly Kolkata based clubs and units. Started in 1898, this league is the oldest league in Asia and one of the oldest in the world.[1] There are about 8500 directly registered players of IFA who participate in CFL.

Division structure

With the season starting 2009, the clubs were redistributed in to six divisions.[1]

  1. Premier Division
  2. First Division:
    1. First Division Group A
    2. First Division Group B
  3. Second Division
  4. Third Division
  5. Fourth Division:
    1. Fourth Division Group A
    2. Fourth Division Group B
  6. Fifth Division:
    1. Fifth Division Group A
    2. Fifth Division Group B (Age Group: 13+ to U-16)

Usually in each division, the 10-team league plays a first leg, in which all teams played against each other. Then in the second leg, the league is divided into a top and bottom half. The top 5 teams played for the title while the bottom 5 played against each other to avoid relegation to a lower division. The most successful clubs participating in the top-tier of the league includes East Bengal Club, Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting Club. However, since 1982, the league has been won by either East Bengal or Mohun Bagan.

List of winners

The list only contains the names of the teams that have won the highest division of the league system.[2]

Club Winners Winning Years
East Bengal 351942,1945,1946,1949,1950,

1952,1961,1966,1970,1971, 1972,1973,1974,1975,1977, 1982,1985,1987,1988,1989, 1991,1993,1995,1996,1998, 1999,2000,2002,2003,2004, 2006,2010,2011,2012,2013

Mohun Bagan A.C. 291939,1943,1944,1951,1954,

1955,1956,1959,1960,1962, 1963,1964,1965,1969,1976, 1978,1979,1983,1984,1986, 1990,1992,1994,1997,2001, 2005,2007,2008,2009

Mohammedan S.C. 111934,1935,1936,1937,1938,

1940,1941,1948,1957,1967, 1981

Calcutta Football Club 81899,1907,1916,1918,1920,

1922,1923,1925

Dalhousie 41910,1921,1928,1929
Durham Light Infantry 31931,1932,1933
Black Watch 21912,1913
Gordon Light Infantry 21908,1909
King's Regiment 21904,1905
N Staffordshire Regiment 21926,1927
Royal Irish Rifles 21900,1901
Scottish Borderers 11902
Eastern Railway FC 11958

Previous season

2012-13 CFL

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Calcutta Football League". IFA. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
  2. ↑ "List of league winners". IFA. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 

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