Competition: | CFL Premier Division |
Season: | 2024 |
Dates: | 25 June – 30 September 2024 |
Winners: | East Bengal (40th title) |
Relegated: | Police AC Eastern Railway Tollygunge Agragami |
Updated: | 30 September 2024 |
Matches: | 183 |
Total Goals: | 531 |
League Topscorer: | Jesin TK (13 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | Mohun Bagan SG 8 - 1 Railway 25 August 2024 |
Biggest Away Win: | Army Red 0 - 6 Aryan 27 June 2024 |
Highest Scoring: | Mohun Bagan SG 8 - 1 Railway 25 August 2024 |
Longest Wins: | East Bengal (10 matches) |
Longest Unbeaten: | East Bengal (15 matches) |
Longest Winless: | Police AC (11 matches) |
Highest Attendance: | 26,000 East Bengal vs Mohun Bagan SG (13 July 2024) |
Prevseason: | 2023 |
Nextseason: | 2025 |
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.[1]
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.
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.[2] [1] [3]
Group A | Group B | |||||
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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 | 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 |
The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from the group stage being carried over.[4]
The six qualified teams for the Super Six phase from both the groups:
The bottom teams from both groups qualified for the Relegation round with the points from the group stage being carried over.[5] The bottom 3 teams in the relegation round will be relegated to First Division.
The six teams for the Relegation phase from both the groups are:
Group A | Group B | |
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Wari AC | ||
Kalighat MS | Police AC | |
Army Red | Tollygunge Agragami |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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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 |