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2019–20 I-League

The 2019–20 I-League (Officially known as Hero I-League, due to sponsorship reasons) was the 13th season of the I-League, one of the top Indian professional football leagues, since its establishment in 2007. A total of 11 teams competed in the league.

I-League
Season2019–20
Dates30 November 2019 - 14 March 2020[1]
ChampionsMohun Bagan
2nd I-League title
5th Indian title
AFC CupMohun Bagan
Matches played87 (Matches after 14 March 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
Goals scored187 (2.15 per match)
Top goalscorerDipanda Dicka
(12 goals)
Biggest home winNEROCA 5−0 TRAU
(8 February 2020)
Biggest away winNEROCA 1−4 East Bengal
(10 December 2019)
NEROCA 0−3 Mohun Bagan
(23 January 2020)
Churchill Brothers 0−3 Mohun Bagan
(22 February 2020)
Highest scoringMohun Bagan 6−2 NEROCA
(14 February 2020)
Longest winning runMohun Bagan (7 games)
Longest unbeaten runMohun Bagan
(14 games)
Longest winless runAizawl
TRAU
(5 games)
Longest losing runTRAU
Indian Arrows
East Bengal
NEROCA
(3 games)
Highest attendance63,756
Mohun Bagan 2–1 East Bengal
(19 January 2020)
Lowest attendance150
Indian Arrows 1–1 Real Kashmir
(26 January 2020)
Total attendance459,885
Average attendance9,017
All statistics correct as of 18 April 2020.
Season concluded with matches remaining due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Chennai City were the defending champions, having won the previous season.[2] TRAU joined as a promoted club from the I-League 2nd Division.[3] Shillong Lajong were relegated from the I-League last season and will play in the second division in the 2019–20 season.[4] 2017-18 champion Minerva Punjab played as Punjab from this season as the club was renamed on 30 October 2019.[5]

On 18 April 2020, All India Football Federation, the organising body of the league announced Mohun Bagan as champions and decided to cancel the remaining matches due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No team was relegated, and the remaining prize money (apart from the champion's prize money) was equally divided among the 10 teams.[1]

Changes from last season edit

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Promoted from the 2018–19 I-League 2nd Division

Relegated clubs edit

Relegated from the 2018–19 I-League

Teams edit

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Locations of the I-League clubs


Stadiums and locations edit

Team City/State Stadium[6] Capacity
Aizawl Aizawl, Mizoram Rajiv Gandhi Stadium 20,000
Chennai City Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 30,000
Churchill Brothers Margao, Goa Fatorda Stadium 20,000
Gokulam Kerala Calicut, Kerala Kozhikode EMS Stadium 80,000
Indian Arrows Vasco da Gama, Goa Tilak Maidan Stadium 5,000
Mumbai, Maharashtra Cooperage Ground 5,000
Mohun Bagan Kalyani, West Bengal Kalyani Stadium 20,000
Kolkata, West Bengal Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan[derby 1] 85,000
NEROCA Imphal, Manipur Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 35,000
Punjab Panchkula, Chandigarh Guru Nanak Stadium 10,000
East Bengal Kalyani, West Bengal Kalyani Stadium 20,000
Kolkata, West Bengal Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan[EB 1] 85,000
Real Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir TRC Turf Ground 15,000
TRAU Imphal, Manipur Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 35,000
  1. ^ Kolkata Derby only
  1. ^ Four home matches against Chennai City, Churchill Brothers, NEROCA and the Kolkata Derby.

Personnel and sponsorship edit

Team Head coach Captain Sponsor Kit Manufacturer
Aizawl   Stanley Rozario   Alfred Jaryan NECS Limited Vamos
Chennai City   Akbar Nawas   Roberto Eslava — Uhlsport[7]
Churchill Brothers   Bernardo Tavares   Willis Plaza Churchill Nivia
Gokulam Kerala   Fernando Santiago Varela   Marcus Joseph Sree Gokulam
Group 		Kaizen
Indian Arrows   Shanmugam Venkatesh   Vikram Pratap Singh Hero MotoCorp Six5Six
Mohun Bagan   Kibu Vicuña   Dhanachandra Singh — Shiv Naresh
NEROCA   Gift Raikhan   Marvin Philip Living 3D Vicky Transform
Punjab   Yan Law   Sanju Pradhan Apollo Tyres Spartan[8]
East Bengal   Mario Rivera Campesino   Lalrindika Ralte Quess Corp Kaizen
Real Kashmir   David Robertson   Loveday Enyinnaya J&K Bank Adidas
TRAU   L.Nandakumar Singh   Oguchi Uche Aciesta Nivia
  • Note: N/A- Not Announced

Head coaching changes edit

Team Outgoing coach Manner of departure Position in table Incoming coach Date of appointment
Churchill Brothers   Petre Gigiu Contract finished Pre-season   Edward Ansah 16 May 2019[9]
Mohun Bagan   Khalid Jamil Contract finished   Kibu Vicuña 10 May 2019 [10]
Gokulam Kerala F.C.   Gift Raikhan Contract finished   Fernando Andres Santiago 1 July 2019[11]
NEROCA   Manuel Retamero Fraile Contract finished   Gift Raikhan 1 July 2019[12]
Punjab   Sachin Badadhe End of caretaker spell   Yan Law 1 July 2019
TRAU   L.Nandakumar Singh Promoted to Technical Director   Dimitris Dimitriou 18 September 2019
Churchill Brothers   Edward Ansah Demoted to Assistant Coach   Bernardo Tavares 28 November 2019
TRAU   Dimitris Dimitriou Resigned   Douglas Silva 29 November 2019
  Douglas Silva Resigned 3rd   L Nandkumar Singh 22 December 2019
  L Nandkumar Singh Moved as Technical Director 3rd   Dimitris Dimitriou 2 January 2020[13]
East Bengal   Alejandro Menendez Resigned 6th   Mario Rivera Campesino 23 January 2020[14]
TRAU   Dimitris Dimitriou Sacked 3rd —

Transfers edit

Further information: List of 2019–20 I-League season roster changes

Foreign players edit

Maximum 6 foreign players per team. Indian Arrows cannot sign any foreign players as they are the All India Football Federation developmental team.

Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6
Aizawl   Matías Verón   Joseph Adjei   Alfred Jaryan   Abdoulaye Kanouté   Justice Morgan   Richard Kasagga
Chennai City   Katsumi Yusa   Jan Muzangu   Roberto Eslava   Adolfo Miranda   Sandro Rodríguez   Nauzet Santana
Churchill Brothers   Dawda Ceesay   Kalif Alhassan   Sócrates Pedro  Radanfah Abu Bakr   Willis Plaza   Robert Primus
East Bengal   Jhonny Acosta   Kassim Aidara   Jaimie Santos Colado   Marcos Jiménez Espada   Juan Mera   Víctor Pérez
Gokulam Kerala   Zohib Islam Amiri   Atuheire Kipson   Andre Ettienne   Nathaniel Garcia   Marcus Joseph   Henry Kisekka
Mohun Bagan   Baba Diawara   Joseba Beitia   Fran González   Fran Morante   Komron Tursunov   Daneil Cyrus
NEROCA   Philip Adjah Tetteh   Attila Busai   Boubacar Diarra   Ousmane Diawara   Marvin Phillip   Taryk Sampson
Punjab   Sérgio Barboza   Valci Júnior   Danilo Quipapá   Dipanda Dicka   Kiran Chemjong   Kingsley Obumneme
Real Kashmir   Kallum Higginbotham   Bazie Armand   Gnohere Krizo   Loveday Enyinnaya   Mason Robertson   Aaron Katebe
TRAU   Petru Leucă   Princewill Emeka   Joseph Olaleye   Joel Sunday   Oguchi Uche   Gerard Williams

In bold: Players who are capped for there National Teams.

League table edit

Standings edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Mohun Bagan (C) 16 12 3 1 35 13 +22 39 Qualification for 2021 AFC Cup group stage
2 East Bengal 16 6 5 5 23 18 +5 23
3 Punjab 16 5 8 3 23 21 +2 23
4 Real Kashmir 15 6 4 5 16 14 +2 22
5 Gokulam Kerala 15 6 4 5 20 19 +1 22
6 TRAU 17 6 4 7 17 27 −10 22
7 Chennai City 15 5 5 5 20 21 −1 20
8 Churchill Brothers 15 6 2 7 23 21 +2 20
9 NEROCA 16 5 3 8 27 35 −8 18
10 Aizawl 15 3 7 5 17 19 −2 16
11 Indian Arrows 16 2 3 11 7 20 −13 9
Source: I-league, RSSSF
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
(C) Champions


Results edit

Home \ Away AFC CHE CHU EAB GOK INA MIN MOH NER REK TRU
Aizawl — 1–1 2–2 3–3 0–0 a 0–2 2–0
Chennai City 1–1 — 0–2 0–1 1–0 2–3 2–2 1–0
Churchill Brothers 1–2 — 1–0 1–2 3–0 0–3 4–1 2–1 1–2
East Bengal 0–1 1–1 — 1–3 0–1 1–1 a 1–1 2–1
Gokulam Kerala 1–1 2–3 1–0 1–1 — 2–1 0–1 1–1
Indian Arrows 1–2 1–3 0–1 — 1–1 0–2 0–2
Punjab 3–1 1–1 3–1 1–0 — 1–1 3–2 1–0
Mohun Bagan 1–0 1–1 2–4 2–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 — 6–2 4–0
NEROCA 1–0 1–4 3–2 0–0 0–3 — 1–0 5–0
Real Kashmir 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–2 —
TRAU 2–1 0–0 2–4 0–0 1–3 2–1 2–2 —
Source: I-League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Note: Matches after 14 March 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Season statistics edit

As of 10 March 2020

Scoring edit

Hat-tricks edit

Main article: List of I-League hat-tricks
Result column shows goal tally of player's team first.
Player For Against Goals Result Date Ref
  Dipanda Dicka Punjab NEROCA 3 3−2 29 January 2020 [16]
  Ningthoujam Pritam Singh NEROCA TRAU 3 5–0 8 February 2020 [17]
  Fran González Mohun Bagan NEROCA 3 6–2 14 February 2020 [18]
Source:[15]

Cleansheets edit

Rank Player Club Clean
sheets
1   Sankar Roy Mohun Bagan 6
2   Marvin Phillip NEROCA 4
3   Ubaid CK Gokulam Kerala 3
  Kiran Chemjong Punjab
5   Mithun Samanta TRAU 2
  Jafar Mondal Churchill Brothers
  Phurba Lachenpa Real Kashmir
  Lalbiakhlua Jongte Indian Arrows
  Zothanmawia Aizawl
  Mirshad Michu East Bengal
  Nauzet Santana Chennai City
12   Debjit Majumder Mohun Bagan 1
  Lalremruata Arema Aizawl
  Sayan Roy TRAU
Source:[15]

Discipline edit

Player edit

Club edit

  • Most yellow cards: 24[15]
    • Punjab
  • Most red card: 3[15]
    • Gokulam Kerala

Attendance edit

As of 7 February 2020
Team GP Cumulative High Low Mean
Mohun Bagan 5 112,051 63,756 8,834 22,410
Gokulam Kerala 5 85,065 31,184 10,135 19,040
TRAU 4 53,042 23,682 7,564 13,260
NEROCA 4 52,808 19,782 7,444 13,202
East Bengal 7 59,471 12,722 4,573 8,496
Chennai City 4 31,302 12,307 3,863 7,825
Real Kashmir 3 26,063 11,521 6,010 8,687
Aizawl 5 26,018 7,642 2,222 5,203
Churchill Brothers 5 15,311 7,525 1,260 3,062
Punjab 6 23,674 6,421 1,131 3,945
Indian Arrows 5 3,736 1,618 150 747
Total 51 459,885 63,756 150 9,017
Legend  Lowest 

 Highest 

Source:[19][20]

Note: Matches after 14 March 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Award edit

Hero of the Match edit

Match Hero of the Match Match Hero of the Match Match Hero of the Match
Player Club Player Club Player Club
Match 1   Lalremruata Arema Aizawl Match 38   Gerrard Williams TRAU Match 75 —
Match 2   Marcus Joseph Gokulam Kerala Match 39   Dipanda Dicka Punjab Match 76
Match 3   Lalkhawpuimawia Churchill Brothers Match 40   Baba Diawara Mohun Bagan Match 77
Match 4   Adolfo Miranda Chennai City Match 41   Rochharzela Aizawl Match 78
Match 5   Juan Mera East Bengal Match 42   Jaime Santos Colado East Bengal Match 79
Match 6   Marvin Phillip NEROCA Match 43   Mason Robertson Real Kashmir Match 80
Match 7   Hormipam Ruivah Indian Arrows Match 44   Marcus Joseph Gokulam Kerala Match 81
Match 8   Danilo Quipapá Punjab Match 45   Dipanda Dicka Punjab Match 82
Match 9   Willis Plaza Churchill Brothers Match 46   Baba Diawara Mohun Bagan Match 83
Match 10   Samik Mitra Indian Arrows Match 47   Mason Robertson Real Kashmir Match 84
Match 11   Jaime Santos East Bengal Match 48   Lalbiakhlua Jongte Indian Arrows Match 85
Match 12   Kiran Chemjong Punjab Match 49   James Kithan Churchill Brothers Match 86
Match 13   Fran González Mohun Bagan Match 50   Nathaniel Garcia Gokulam Kerala Match 87
Match 14   Laishram Premjit Singh TRAU Match 51   Rochharzela Aizawl Match 88
Match 15   Dipanda Dicka Punjab Match 52   N. Pritam Singh NEROCA Match 89
Match 16   Sankar Roy Mohun Bagan Match 53   Phurba Lachenpa Real Kashmir Match 90
Match 17   William Lalnunfela Aizawl Match 54   Baba Diawara Mohun Bagan Match 91
Match 18   Jonathan Lalrawngbawla Aizawl Match 55   Glan Martins Churchill Brothers Match 92
Match 19   Khaiminthang Lhungdim NEROCA Match 56   Lalbiakhlua Jongte Indian Arrows Match 93
Match 20   Mason Robertson Real Kashmir Match 57   Abdoulaye Kanouté Aizawl Match 94
Match 21   Danish Farooq Bhat Real Kashmir Match 58   Marcus Joseph Gokulam Kerala Match 95
Match 22   Givson Singh Indian Arrows Match 59   Ansumana Kromah East Bengal Match 96
Match 23   K.Phalguni Singh TRAU Match 60   Fran González Mohun Bagan Match 97
Match 24   Willis Plaza Churchill Brothers Match 61   Willis Plaza Churchill Brothers Match 98
Match 25   Fran Morante Mohun Bagan Match 62   Dipanda Dicka Punjab Match 99
Match 26   Marcus Joseph Gokulam Kerala Match 63   Sayan Roy TRAU Match 100
Match 27   Ayush Adhikari Indian Arrows Match 64   Lalrindika Ralte East Bengal Match 101
Match 28   Isak Vanlalruatfela Aizawl Match 65   Sócrates Pedro Churchill Brothers Match 102
Match 29   Wahengbam Angousana Luwang TRAU Match 66   N. Pritam Singh NEROCA Match 103
Match 30   Daneil Cyrus Mohun Bagan Match 67   Fran González Mohun Bagan Match 104
Match 31   Sriram Boopathi Chennai City Match 68   Brandon Vanlalremdika East Bengal Match 105
Match 32   Gnohere Krizo Real Kashmir Match 69   Katsumi Yusa Chennai City Match 106
Match 33   Princewill Emeka TRAU Match 70 — Match 107
Match 34   Marvin Phillip NEROCA Match 71 Match 108
Match 35   Danilo Quipapá Punjab Match 72 Match 109
Match 36   Marcus Joseph Gokulam Kerala Match 73 Match 110
Match 37   Joseba Beitia Mohun Bagan Match 74 Source:[19][21]

Note: Matches after 14 March 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

References edit

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See also edit

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