Calcutta Premier Division
Season2023
Dates25 June – 30 November
ChampionsMohammedan (14th title)
RelegatedWest Bengal Police FC
Calcutta FC
Matches played196
Goals scored579 (2.95 per match)
Top goalscorerDavid Lalhlansanga (21)
Highest scoringEast Bengal 10–1 Kidderpore (26 September)
George Telegraph 10-1 FCI (20 November)
Longest unbeaten run12 matches (East Bengal)
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The 2023 Calcutta Premier Division is the 125th overall season of the Calcutta Football League – highest state-level football divisions of West Bengal. The 2023 edition will see two top tiers merged, with 26 teams participating in the tournament for the first time since its inception.[1]

Format

The 2023 Calcutta Premier Division merged the top two tiers, Premier A and B, to form an expanded 26-team competition.[2] Two groups of thirteen teams were divided with each team playing every club in the group once. The top three teams proceed to the Super Six round, where they fight for the championship with the points from group stage being carried over.[3] Each group's bottom four teams enter the relegation round.[1][4] As per the rules set by AIFF, this year, no foreign players will be participating in the league. [5]

Available venues

Teams

2023 Calcutta Premier Division (West Bengal)
2023 Calcutta Premier Division is located in Kolkata
2023 Calcutta Premier Division (Kolkata)

The 26 teams were divided into two groups based on a draw held on 5 June 2023.[1][6][7]

Group A Group B
Team Head coach Captain Team Head coach Captain
Army Red India L Antony Ramesh India Suresh Meitei Aryan India Rajdeep Nandy India Laltu Mondal
Calcutta FC India Jamshid Nassiri India Surojit Das Bhawanipore India Ranjan Chaudhuri India Jiten Murmu
Dalhousie AC India Mridul Banerjee India Karan Gomes BSS India Subrata Biswas India Surajit Seal
Diamond Harbour FC Spain Kibu Vicuna India Abhishek Das Calcutta Customs India Biswajit Bhattacharya India Amit Chakraborty
FCI (East Zone) India Arun Saha India Dhananjoy Adhikari East Bengal India Bino George India Subhendu Mandi
Kalighat MS India Patam Bahadur Thapa India Madan Mandi Eastern Railway India Prasanta Chakraborty India Sumit Orao
Mohammedan Sporting India Mehrajuddin Wadoo India Samad Ali Mallick George Telegraph India Goutam Ghosh India Sourish Lodh Chowdhury
Mohun Bagan SG India Bastab Roy India Sumit Rathi Kidderpore India Sayantan Das Roy India Gurmeet Singh
Pathachakra India Rajarshi Ghosh India Ankan Bhattacharjee Police AC India Supriya Dasgupta India Suraj Bahadur Gurung
Peerless India Hemanta Dora[8] India Amit Tudu Railway India Kaushik Paul India Monish Majumder
Southern Samity India Ranjan Bhattacharjee India Debayan Hazra Rainbow India Aditya Chatterjee India Debayan Saha
Tollygunge Agragami India Arindam Deb India Sujoy Mondal Wari India Micky Fernandes India Swarup Sarkar
United Belgium Steven Herbots India Sanjib Mondal West Bengal Police FC India Ashok Chakraborty India Subrata Biswas

First stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Mohammedan SC 12 9 2 1 33 9 +24 29 Qualified for the Super Six round
2 Diamond Harbour FC 12 9 2 1 26 5 +21 29
3 Mohun Bagan SG 12 7 3 2 30 13 +17 24
4 Kalighat MS 12 7 3 2 21 8 +13 24
5 Army Red 12 5 6 1 18 11 +7 21
6 Peerless SC 12 5 5 2 22 9 +13 20
7 United SC 12 6 1 5 25 8 +17 19
8 Southern Samity 12 4 3 5 14 17 −3 15
9 Tollygunge Agragami FC 12 2 2 8 9 28 −19 8
10 Pathachakra 12 1 4 7 13 28 −15 7 Relegation round
11 Calcutta FC 12 1 4 7 8 38 −30 7
12 FCI (East Zone) 12 1 3 8 8 32 −24 6
13 Dalhousie AC 12 0 4 8 8 29 −21 4
Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2023. Source: The Away End
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

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 East Bengal 12 9 3 0 29 6 +23 30 Qualified for the Super Six round
2 Bhawanipore 12 8 3 1 23 8 +15 27
3 Kidderpore 12 8 1 3 16 11 +5 25
4 Aryan 12 8 0 4 28 12 +16 24
5 Calcutta Customs 12 6 1 5 13 13 0 19
6 ASOS Rainbow 12 5 2 5 11 10 +1 17
7 Wari 12 5 1 6 16 23 −7 16
8 Railway FC 12 3 3 6 12 21 −9 12
9 BSS 12 2 5 5 12 14 −2 11
10 George Telegraph 12 3 2 7 11 19 −8 11 Relegation round
11 Eastern Railway 12 3 2 7 16 26 −10 11
12 Police AC 12 3 1 8 10 22 −12 10
13 West Bengal Police 12 2 2 8 12 24 −12 8
Updated to match(es) played on 7 September 2023. Source: The Away End
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

Super Six

The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from group stage being carried over.[9]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Mohammedan (C) 17 14 2 1 44 11 +33 44 Champions
2 East Bengal 17 13 3 1 50 10 +40 42
3 Diamond Harbour (Q) 16 10 3 3 32 12 +20 33 Eligible for 2024–25 I-League 3[lower-alpha 1]
4 Bhawanipore 16 8 4 4 26 18 +8 28
5 Mohun Bagan SG 15 8 3 4 33 19 +14 25[lower-alpha 2]
6 Kidderpore 15 8 1 6 17 29 −12 25
Updated to match(es) played on 30 November 2023. Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) fair play ranking; 7) drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:
  1. ↑ If the top teams are already playing in national leagues, then the next highest ranked team(s) would be eligible for I-League 3.
  2. ↑ Mohun Bagan Super Giant was deducted 2 points for not fielding a team against East Bengal on 30 November 2023.[10]

    Fixtures

    Team 1 \ Team 2 BHA DHB EAB KID MOH MBG
    Bhawanipore — 2–2 0–3* 1–2 0–3*
    Diamond Harbour — 1–4 3–0 0–2
    East Bengal — 10–1 1–2 3–0*
    Kidderpore — 0–5
    Mohammedan — 2–0
    Mohun Bagan SG —
    Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2023. Source: The Away End
    Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.

    Relegation Round

    Points table

    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
    1 Pathachakra 19 6 5 8 30 36 −6 23
    2 George Telegraph 19 6 4 9 32 27 +5 22
    3 Police A.C. 19 6 4 9 22 33 −11 22
    4 Eastern Railway 19 5 5 9 23 33 −10 20
    5 Dalhousie AC 19 3 7 9 17 36 −19 16
    6 FCI 19 3 4 12 16 52 −36 13
    7 WB Police 19 3 3 13 18 39 −21 12 Relegated to the First Division
    8 Calcutta FC 19 1 8 10 16 50 −34 11
    Updated to match(es) played on 20 November. Source: The Away End
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) fair play ranking; 7) drawing of lots

    Fixtures

    Team 1 \ Team 2 CFC DAL EAR FCI GET PTC PAC WBP
    Calcutta FC — 1–2 2–2 0–1 2–2 2–4 1–1 0–0
    Dalhousie AC — 2–3 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–0
    Eastern Railway — 0–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 0–2
    FCI — 1–10 2–4 1–3 3–2
    George Telegraph — 2–3 0–1 5–0
    Pathachakra — 5–0 1–0
    Police A.C. — 5–2
    WB Police —
    Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2023. Source: The Away End
    Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.

    Season statistics

    Top scorers

    As of 17 September 2023
    Rank Player Club Goals
    1 India David Lalhlansanga Mohammedan SC 21
    2 India Rahul Paswan Diamond Harbour FC 12
    3 India Suhail Ahmad Bhat Mohun Bagan SG 8
    4 India Sahil Harijan Pathachakra 7
    India Muhammed Ashiq Shoukathali Kidderpore
    India Sagar Kumar Khamaru Eastern Railway
    7 India Jiten Murmu Bhawanipore 6
    India Dipesh Murmu United
    India Mandeep Singh Multani Wari
    India Liton Shil Army Red

    Hat-tricks

    Note: In the result, the score of the player's team is mentioned before.

    Player For Against Result Date
    India Saikat Sarkar Aryan Police AC 4–1 1 July 2023
    India David Lalhlansanga Mohammedan SC Calcutta FC 7–0 12 July 2023
    India Beneston Piecton Barretto Mohammedan SC Calcutta FC 7–0 12 July 2023
    India Lalrinliana Hnamte Mohun Bagan SG Tollygunge Agragami 5–1 12 July 2023
    India Suhail Ahmad Bhat Mohun Bagan SG Dalhousie 5–2 16 July 2023
    India Dipesh Murmu United Calcutta FC 8–0 25 July 2023
    India Liton Shil Army Red Southern Samity 3–2 25 July 2023
    India Md Amirul Aryan Kidderpore SC 4–0 26 July 2023
    India Jesin TK East Bengal George Telegraph SC 4–0 7 September 2023
    India Vishnu PV East Bengal Kidderpore SC 10–1 26 September 2023
    India Mahitosh Roy East Bengal Kidderpore SC 10–1 26 September 2023

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    10. ↑ "কলকাতা লিগের বাতিল ডার্বিতে জয়ী ঘোষিত ইস্টবেঙ্গল, পয়েন্ট কাটল মোহনবাগানের" [East Bengal, declared the winner of the canceled Kolkata League derby, Mohun Bagan deducted points]. Xtra Time Bangla (in Bengali). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
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