2013–14 Santosh Trophy

The 2014 Santosh Trophy was the 68th edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main state competition in Indian football. The tournament was held in two phases. The final phase was held in Siliguri, West Bengal between 24 February and 9 March 2014. The zone competitions were held between January 26 and February 4, 2014.^[1] In the finals, played at Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri, debutant Mizoram beat the Railways 3–0 to clinch the trophy, and the Rs 500,000 prize money, while the runners up Railways received Rs. 300,000.^[2][3]

2014 Santosh Trophy

Country	India
Teams	34
Champions	Mizoram (1st title)
Runners-up	Railways
Matches played	23
Goals scored	63 (2.74 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Zico Zoremsanga (Mizoram) R. Reagan (Tamil Nadu) (5 goals each)
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Qualified teams

Main article: 2013–14 Santosh Trophy qualification

Defending champions Services and former champions West Bengal won their respective groups to qualify from East Zone. Railways overcame an unexpected reverse against Assam to clinch their berth in the final round alongside Mizoram from North East Zonal qualifiers. Last year's finalists and 2012 Champion Kerala netted two goals in added time to overhaul Karnataka and qualify behind Tamil Nadu from the South Zone. Maharashtra and Goa were dominant in qualifying from their respective groups in the West Zone. Uttarakhand and Punjab were the last of the teams to seal their final place from North Zone qualifiers. These 10 teams were drawn into two groups for the final stage to be held in Siliguri from 24 February – 9 March 2014.

• Goa
• Kerala
• Maharashtra
• Mizoram
• Punjab
• Railways
• Services
• Tamil Nadu
• Uttarakhand
• West Bengal

Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advanced to the Knockout Stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Mizoram	4	4	0	0	11	3	+8	12	A1
Maharashtra	4	3	0	1	5	4	+1	9	A2
Kerala	4	2	0	2	6	4	+2	6
Services	4	1	0	3	4	6	−2	3
Uttarakhand	4	0	0	4	3	12	−9	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Maharashtra v Uttarakhand

24 February 2014	Maharashtra	3–2	Uttarakhand	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Dias   37' Shabaz   43' Koli   88'	Report	A. Singh   19' S. Singh   68'

Kerala v Mizoram

24 February 2014	Kerala	1–3	Mizoram	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Ronald   79'	Report	Lalbiakhlua   55' Zico   57' F. Lalrinpuia   71'

Kerala v Uttarakhand

26 February 2014	Kerala	4–0	Uttarakhand	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Justus  12' Suhair  29', 34' Nasaruddin   46'	Report

Services v Maharashtra

26 February 2014	Services	0–1	Maharashtra	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
		Report	Pathan   85'

Maharashtra v Mizoram

28 February 2014	Maharashtra	0–2	Mizoram	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
		Report	Lalnunmawia   68' Lalfakzuala   84'

Services v Uttarakhand

28 February 2014	Services	3–0	Uttarakhand	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	J. Singh   55' A. Tudu   66' Sumesh   70'	Report

Mizoram v Services

2 March 2014	Mizoram	4–1	Services	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	KC Lalchhuanmawia   Zico   V Laltanpuia   71' Lalbiakhlua	Report	Arjun Tudu   43'

Maharashtra v Kerala

2 March 2014	Maharashtra	1–0	Kerala	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Allan Diaz   78'	Report

Kerala v Services

4 March 2014	Kerala	1–0	Services	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Nasrudeen C  40'	Report

Uttarakhand v Mizoram

4 March 2014	Uttarakhand	1–2	Mizoram	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Saurabh Rawat  86'	Report	Lalnunmawia  21' David Lalrinmuana   74'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Railways	4	2	2	0	6	2	+4	8	B1
Tamil Nadu	4	2	0	2	7	7	0	6	B2
West Bengal	4	1	2	1	3	3	0	5
Goa	4	1	1	2	5	8	−3	4
Punjab	4	0	3	1	4	5	−1	3

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Goa v Punjab

25 February 2014	Goa	1–1	Punjab	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	S. Fernandes   3'	Report	H.Singh   90+2'

Railways v Tamil Nadu

25 February 2014	Railways	2–1	Tamil Nadu	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Raju   54' S. Narzary   90+2'	Report	AnandRaj   61'

Tamil Nadu v Goa

27 February 2014	Tamil Nadu	3–2	Goa	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Karthick  13' Reagan   31' A. Kumar   90+1'	Report	Sequeira   45+1', 51'

West Bengal v Punjab

27 February 2014	West Bengal	0–0	Punjab	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
		Report

West Bengal v Goa

1 March 2014	West Bengal	1–2	Goa	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Snehashish Dutta  55'		Angelo Colaco   24' Lavino Fernandes   87'

Punjab v Railways

1 March 2014

Punjab

0–0

Railways

Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri

Railways v West Bengal

3 March 2014	Railways	1–1	West Bengal	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Jelendra Brahma  90+3'	Report	Nil Kanta Paria   21'

Punjab v Tamil Nadu

3 March 2014	Punjab	2–3	Tamil Nadu	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Sarbjit Singh  52' Harpreet Singh  57'	Report	Reagan  8', 63', 67'

West Bengal v Tamil Nadu

5 March 2014	West Bengal	1–0	Tamil Nadu	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Nil Kanta Pariah   88'	Report

Railways v Goa

5 March 2014	Railways	3–0	Goa	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri
	Dipankar Das   19' Susil Kisku   84' S. Rajesh   87'	Report

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	7 March
	Mizoram	3
					9 March
	Tamil Nadu	1
					Mizoram	3
	7 March
					Railways	0
	Railways	1 (5)
	Maharashtra	1 (3)

Semi-finals

7 March 2014

Mizoram	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Tamil Nadu
David Lalrinmuana   62' Zico Zoremsanga   94' F Lalrinpuia   119'	Report	Reagan   45+1'

Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri

7 March 2014

Railways	1–1	Maharashtra
Susil Kisku   72'	Report	Mohammed Shafique   24'
Penalties
PC Riju   Raju Singh   Dipankar Das   Susil Kisku	4–2	Praneel Mendon   Shetty   Paresh Shivalkar   Linekar Machado

Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri

Final

9 March 2014

Mizoram	3–0	Railways
Zico Zoremsanga   44', 61' F Lalrinpuia   90+1'	Report

Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri

References

1. Live, IBN. "Siliguri to host Santosh Trophy 2013–14". IBN Live. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
2. "Mizoram Thrash Railways 3–0 to Win Santosh Trophy". The New Indian Express. 9 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
3. . Samay Live. 10 March 2014. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.