2020–21 NorthEast United FC season

The 2020–21 NorthEast United FC season was the club's seventh season since its establishment in 2014 and their seventh season in the Indian Super League.

NorthEast United

2020–21 season
Owner	John Abraham
Head Coach	Gerard Nus (until 12 February 2021) Khalid Jamil (interim)
Stadium	Tilak Maidan Stadium, Goa^[a]
Indian Super League	3rd
Play-offs	Semi-final
Super Cup	Cancelled
Top goalscorer	League: Luís Machado (7) All: Luís Machado (7)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

Players

Current squad of the club:^[2]

Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Date of Birth (Age)
Goalkeepers
1	Subhasish Roy Chowdhury		GK	(1986-09-27) 27 September 1986 (age 37)
31	Gurmeet Singh		GK	(1999-12-03) 3 December 1999 (age 24)
44	Nikhil Deka		GK	(2002-10-13) 13 October 2002 (age 21)
51	Sanjiban Ghosh		GK	(1991-07-06) 6 July 1991 (age 32)
Defenders
2	Wayne Vaz		CB / RB / DM	(1994-07-28) 28 July 1994 (age 29)
16	Dylan Fox	/	CB / DM	(1994-04-15) 15 April 1994 (age 30)
19	Benjamin Lambot		CB / DM	(1987-05-02) 2 May 1987 (age 37)
25	Nabin Rabha		CB / DM	(1996-12-11) 11 December 1996 (age 27)
29	Nim Dorjee Tamang		CB / RB	(1995-10-28) 28 October 1995 (age 28)
66	Mashoor Shereef		CB / CF / RW / LB / LM / CM	(1991-04-01) 1 April 1991 (age 33)
4	Provat Lakra		LB / RB	(1997-08-12) 12 August 1997 (age 26)
5	Gurjinder Kumar		LB / CB	(1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 (age 33)
12	Ashutosh Mehta		RB / RM / RW	(1992-02-21) 21 February 1992 (age 32)
29	Ponif Vaz		RB	(1992-10-04) 4 October 1992 (age 31)
33	Rakesh Pradhan (On loan at Odisha FC)		RB / LB	(1997-08-02) 2 August 1997 (age 26)
Midfielders
6	Khassa Camara	/	DM / CM / RB	(1992-10-22) 22 October 1992 (age 31)
8	Imran Khan		DM / CM	(1995-03-01) 1 March 1995 (age 29)
10	Federico Gallego		AM / RM / LM	(1990-06-13) 13 June 1990 (age 33)
77	Rochharzela		AM / LM	(1998-04-15) 15 April 1998 (age 26)
23	Fanai Lalrempuia		CM	(1996-05-11) 11 May 1996 (age 27)
43	Pragyan Gogoi		CM	(1999-01-25) 25 January 1999 (age 25)
45	Lalengmawia		CM / AM / LW	(2000-10-17) 17 October 2000 (age 23)
Forwards
7	Ninthoinganba Meetei		RW / LW	(2001-07-13) 13 July 2001 (age 22)
50	Britto PM		RW / RM	(1993-03-15) 15 March 1993 (age 31)
20	Luís Machado		LW / RW / AM	(1992-11-04) 4 November 1992 (age 31)
11	Idrissa Sylla		CF / RW / LW	(1990-12-13) 13 December 1990 (age 33)
15	V.P. Suhair		CF / RW / RM	(1992-07-27) 27 July 1992 (age 31)
27	Lalkhawpuimawia		CF / LM	(1992-01-08) 8 January 1992 (age 32)
26	Deshorn Brown		FW	22 December 1990 (age 30)

Transfers

IN

No.	Pos.	Player	From	Fee
11	FW	Idrissa Sylla	SV Zulte Waregem	Free agent
26	FW	Deshorn Brown	Bengaluru FC	Free agent
20	FW	Luís Machado	Moreirense FC	Free agent
19	DF	Benjamin Lambot	Nea Salamina Famagusta	Free agent
16	DF	Dylan Fox	Central Coast Mariners	Free agent
9	FW	Kwesi Appiah	AFC Wimbledon	Free agent
6	MF	Khassa Camara	Xanthi FC	Free agent
8	MF	Imran Khan	NEROCA FC	Free agent
77	MF	Rochharzela	Aizawl FC	Free agent
15	FW	V.P. Suhair	Mohun Bagan	Free agent
5	DF	Gurjinder Kumar		Free agent
12	DF	Ashutosh Mehta		Free agent
50	FW	Britto PM		Free agent
27	FW	Lalkhawpuimawia	Churchill Brothers FC	Free agent
29	DF	Ponif Vaz		Free agent
25	DF	Nabin Rabha	Shillong Lajong	Free agent
66	DF	Mashoor Shereef	Chennai City FC	Free agent
51	GK	Sanjiban Ghosh	Chennaiyin FC	Free agent
43	MF	Pragyan Gogoi	Kerala Blasters	Free agent
44	GK	Nikhil Deka	NorthEast United U18	Free agent

Competitions

Pre-season and friendlies

NorthEast United v Jamshedpur

11 November 2020 (2020-11-11) Friendly	NorthEast United	0–0	Jamshedpur	Candolim
16:00 IST (UTC+05:30)				Stadium: Candolim Panchayat Ground

NorthEast United v Hyderabad

14 November 2020 (2020-11-14) Friendly	NorthEast United	2–1	Hyderabad	Candolim
16:00 IST (UTC+05:30)	Appiah   Machado	Report	Santana	Stadium: Candolim Panchayat Ground

Indian Super League

Main article: 2020–21 Indian Super League season

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mumbai City (L, C)	20	12	4	4	35	18	+17	40	Qualification to ISL playoffs and 2022 AFC Champions League group stage
2	ATK Mohun Bagan	20	12	4	4	28	15	+13	40	Qualification to ISL playoffs and 2022 AFC Cup play-off round^[b]
3	NorthEast United	20	8	9	3	31	25	+6	33	Qualification to ISL playoffs
4	Goa	20	7	10	3	31	23	+8	31
5	Hyderabad	20	6	11	3	27	19	+8	29

Source: Indian Super League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (L) League Winners' Shield Winners

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
20	8	9	3	31	25	+6	33	5	3	2	15	10	+5	3	6	1	16	15	+1

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Ground	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	D	D	W	D	D	L	D	L	L	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	D	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on 26 February 2021. Source: Indian Super League
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

NorthEast United v Mumbai City

21 November 2020 (2020-11-21) 1	NorthEast United	1–0	Mumbai City	Vasco
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Appiah   49' (pen) Mehta   84' Gallego   90'	Report	Golui   37' Jahouh   43' Cy   90'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: Khassa Camara

Kerala Blasters v NorthEast United

26 November 2020 (2020-11-26) 2	Kerala Blasters	2–2	NorthEast United	Bambolim
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Cido   5' Rohit   37' Hooper   45' (pen) Seityasen   49'	Report	Appiah   51' Gurjinder   72' Sylla   90'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Ranjit Baksi Man of the Match: Dylan Fox (NorthEast United)

Goa v NorthEast United

30 November 2020 3	Goa	1–1	NorthEast United	Margao
19:30 IST	Angulo   43'	Report	Sylla   40' (pen) Camara   88'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: Lalengmawia (NorthEast United)

NorthEast United v SC East Bengal

5 December 2020 (2020-12-05) 4	NorthEast United	2–0	SC East Bengal	Vasco
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Mehta   2' Surchandra   33' (o.g.) Chhara   90'	Report	Lyngdoh   84' Sehnaj   88'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: Santosh Kumar Man of the Match: Benjamin Lambot (NorthEast United)

Bengaluru FC v NorthEast United

8 December 2020 (2020-12-08) 5	Bengaluru FC	2–2	NorthEast United	Fatorda, Goa
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Juanan   13' Bheke   21' Paartalu   26' Singh   70'	Report	Machado   4', 78' Chhara   32' Gurjinder   36' Camara   73' Ninthoi   80' Gurmeet   83' Britto   90'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Luis Machado (NorthEast United)

Northeast United v Chennaiyin

13 December 2020 6	Northeast United	0–0	Chennaiyin	Vasco
17:00 IST	Machado   36' Lambot   81'	Report		Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Khassa Camara (Northeast United)

NorthEast United v Jamshedpur

18 December 2020 (2020-12-18) 7	NorthEast United	0–1	Jamshedpur	Vasco
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Camara   43' Mehta   85'	Report	Jadhav   53' Rahman   64' Hartley   68' Mandi   90' Lallawmawma   90'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: A Rowan Man of the Match: Hartley (Jamshedpur)

Odisha v NorthEast United

22 December 2020 7	Odisha	2–2	NorthEast United	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Maurício   19'   23' Onwu   32' Vinit   42' Arshdeep   65' Cole   67'	Report	Fox   17' Lambot   45' Gurjinder   55' Appiah   65' (pen.) Ninthoi   84'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Pratik Mondal Man of the Match: Cole (Odisha)

ATK Mohun Bagan v NorthEast United

3 January 2021 9	ATK Mohun Bagan	2–0	NorthEast United	Margao, Goa
19:30 IST	Williams  25' Bose  39' McHugh  45+2' Krishna  51' Lambot  57' (o.g.) Das  58' Halder  68'	Report	Gallego  62'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 0^[c] Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Roy Krishna (ATK Mohun Bagan)

NorthEast United v Hyderabad

8 January 2021 (2021-01-08) 10	NorthEast United	2–4	Hyderabad	Vasco
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Shereef   6' Machado   40' Gallego   45' (pen.) Lambot   45+1'	Report	Santana   3' Chianese   36' Rai   41' Narzary   44' Mishra   63' Colaco   85', 90+3' Onaindia   88'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: Chianese (Hyderabad)

NorthEast United v Bengaluru

12 January 2021 11	NorthEast United	1–1	Bengaluru	Vasco
19:30 IST	Machado   27'	Report	Paartalu   29' Bheke   50'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Lalengmawia (NorthEast United)

Jamshedpur v NorthEast United

17 January 2021 12	Jamshedpur	1–2	NorthEast United	Vasco
19:30 IST	Amarjit   19' Mobashir   62' Gahlot   71' Hartley   89' Valskis   90'	Report	Mehta   36' Brown   61'   65' Apuia   69'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: Federico Gallego (NEUFC)

NorthEast United v ATK Mohun Bagan

26 January 2021 13	NorthEast United	2–1	ATK Mohun Bagan	Margao, Goa
19:30 IST	Gurjinder   49' Machado   60' Gallego   81' Nim   90'	Report	Krishna   72' Pronay   73'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: Federico Gallego (NEUFC)

Mumbai City v NorthEast United

30 January 2021 14	Mumbai City	1–2	NorthEast United	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Ogbeche   51' Ahmed Jahouh   55' Golui   73' Le Fondre   85'	Report	Brown   6'   9' Lakra   48' Nim   71' Luis Machado   90'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Deshorn Brown (NEUFC)

NorthEast United v Goa

4 February 2021 15	NorthEast United	2–2	Goa	Margao
19:30 IST	Gallego   41' (pen.), pen.' Mehta   66' Camara   84' Sylla   90+4'	Report	Jesuraj   21' Kumar   80' (o.g.)	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Rowan Arumughan

Hyderabad v NorthEast United

7 February 2021 (2021-02-07) 16	Hyderabad	0–0	NorthEast United	Vasco
19:30 IST (UTC+05:30)	Sandaza   20' Mishra   84'	Report		Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Lalengmawia (NorthEast United)

NorthEast United v Odisha

14 February 2021 17	NorthEast United	3–1	Odisha	Vasco
17:00 IST	Machado   9', 24' Brown   19' Kumar   71'   85'	Report	Bora   7' Tratt   16' Dhot   30' Inman   45+1' Mawihmingthanga   85' Maurício   90+1'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Banerjee Pranjal

Chennaiyin v NorthEast United

18 February 2021 18	Chennaiyin	3–3	NorthEast United	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Chhangte   8', 51' Manuel Lanzarote   50' (pen.)	Report	Khan   14' Brown   43' Luís Machado   90+4' (pen.)	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Banerjee Pranjal

East Bengal v NorthEast United

23 February 2021 19	East Bengal	1–2	NorthEast United	Margao
19:30 IST	Gaikwad   45'   71' Neville   45' Rafique   69' Mukherjee   84' Golui   87'	Report	Suhair   48' Golui   55' (o.g.)	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: V.P. Suhair (NorthEast United)

NorthEast United v Kerala Blasters

26 February 2021 20	NorthEast United	2–0	Kerala Blasters	Vasco
19:30 IST	Suhair   34' Lalengmawia   45+1' Khan   60' Britto   65'	Report		Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Crystal John

Play-offs

NorthEast United v ATK Mohun Bagan

6 March 2021 Semi-finals 1st leg	NorthEast United	1–1	ATK Mohun Bagan	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Ashutosh   82' Sylla   90+4'	Report	Williams   34' Hernández   81'	Stadium: GMC Stadium Attendance: 0^[c] Referee: Crystal John

ATK Mohun Bagan v NorthEast United

9 March 2021 Semi-finals 2nd leg	ATK Mohun Bagan	2–1 (3–2 agg.)	NorthEast United	Margao
19:30 IST	Williams   38' Singh   68'	Report	Mashoor   30' Suhair   74' Machado   83'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Attendance: 0^[c] Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta

Squad statistics

Appearance and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	IND	Subhasish Roy Chowdhury	15	0	15	0
3	DF	IND	Wayne Vaz	0	0	0	0
4	DF	IND	Provat Lakra	11	0	11	0
6	DF	IND	Gurjinder Kumar	18	0	18	0
6	MF	MTN	Khassa Camara	21	0	21	0
7	FW	IND	Ninthoinganba Meetei	13	0	13	0
8	MF	IND	Imran Khan	6	1	6	1
10	MF	URU	Federico Gallego	16	4	16	4
11	FW	GUI	Idrissa Sylla	18	3	18	3
12	DF	IND	Ashutosh Mehta	18	1	18	1
15	FW	IND	V.P. Suhair	18	3	18	3
16	DF	AUS	Dylan Fox	21	0	21	0
19	DF	BEL	Benjamin Lambot	21	2	21	2
20	FW	POR	Luís Machado	22	7	22	7
23	MF	IND	Fanai Lalrempuia	9	0	9	0
25	DF	IND	Nabin Rabha	0	0	0	0
26	FW	JAM	Deshorn Brown	10	5	10	5
27	FW	IND	Lalkhawpuimawia	0	0	0	0
29	DF	IND	Nim Dorjee Tamang	7	0	7	0
31	GK	IND	Gurmeet Singh	8	0	8	0
43	MF	IND	Pragyan Gogoi	2	0	2	0
44	GK	IND	Nikhil Deka	0	0	0	0
45	MF	IND	Lalengmawia	22	1	22	1
50	FW	IND	Britto PM	11	0	11	0
51	GK	IND	Sanjiban Ghosh	0	0	0	0
54	DF	IND	Ponif Vaz	0	0	0	0
66	DF	IND	Mashoor Shereef	11	0	11	0
77	MF	IND	Rochharzela	12	1	12	1
Players who left NorthEast United during the season
–	FW	GHA	Kwesi Appiah(injured)	8	3	6+2	3
–	DF	IND	Rakesh Pradhan(On loan at Odisha FC)	1	0	1	0

Goal scorers

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Indian Super League	Play-offs	Total
1	20	FW	Luis Machado	7	0	7
2	20	FW	Deshorn Brown	5	0	5
3	10	MF	Federico Gallego	4	0	4
6	9	FW	Kwesi Appiah	3	0	3
	11	FW	Idrissa Sylla	2	1	3
	15	FW	V.P. Suhair	2	1	3
7	19	DF	Benjamin Lambot	2	0	2
11	8	MF	Imran Khan	1	0	1
	12	DF	Ashutosh Mehta	1	0	1
	45	MF	Lalengmawia	1	0	1
	77	MF	Rochharzela	1	0	1
Own goals				2	0	2
Total				31	2	33

Last updated: 9 March 2021.
Source: Fbref

Assists

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Indian Super League	Play-offs	Total
1	10	MF	Federico Gallego	6	0	6
2	12	DF	Ashutosh Mehta	2	0	2
	77	MF	Rochharzela	2	0	2
	20	FW	Luis Machado	1	1	2
3	5	DF	Gurjinder Kumar	1	0	1
	15	FW	V.P. Suhair	1	0	1
	29	DF	Nim Dorjee Tamang	1	0	1
	25	FW	Deshorn Brown	1	0	1
	20	DF	Dylan Fox	1	0	1
	6	MF	Khassa Camara	1	0	1
Total				17	1	18

Last updated: 9 March 2021.
Source: Fbref

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	Indian Super League	Play-offs	Total
1	1	GK	Subhasish Roy	3	0	3
2	31	GK	Gurmeet Singh	2	0	2
Total				5	0	5

Last updated: 9 March 2021.
Source: Fbref

Disciplinary record

No.	Nation	Player	Pos	League
12		Ashutosh Mehta	DF	5	0	0
5		Gurjinder Kumar	DF	4	1	0
6		Khassa Camara	MF	4	0	0
20		Luís Machado	FW	3	0	0
66		Mashoor Shereef	DF	3	0	0
7		Ninthoinganba Meetei	MF	2	0	0
29		Nim Dorjee Tamang	DF	2	0	0
10		Federico Gallego	MF	2	0	0
31		Gurmeet Singh	GK	1	0	0
50		Britto PM	MF	1	0	0
4		Provat Lakra	DF	1	0	0
45		Lalengmawia	MF	1	0	0
26		Deshorn Brown	FW	1	0	0
77		Rochharzela	MF	1	0	0
16		Dylan Fox	DF	1	0	0
19		Benjamin Lambot	DF	1	0	0
Totals				36	1	0

Notes

1. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the 2020–21 Indian Super League season would be entirely held in Goa, inside closed doors and NorthEast United FC has been allotted the Tilak Maidan Stadium as their home ground for the season.^[1]
2. As the Premiers Mumbai City won the ISL playoffs, the regular season runners-up will qualify for 2022 AFC Cup play-off round.
3. Match was played behind closed doors due to government restrictions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

References

1. "ISL 2020-21: All you need to know about Tilak Maidan". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
2. "NorthEast United FC - Squad". Indian Super League. from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2020.