1958–59 Santosh Trophy
Football tournament season
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1958–59 Santosh Trophy was the fifteenth edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main territorial football competition in India. It was held in the Corporation Stadium, Madras, Tamil Nadu.
Eight teams that qualified from the four Zonal leagues met in the final tournament. This was the first tournament that had a league stage. The matches were of 70 minutes duration and were played from 5.10 pm on each day. The tournament was inaugurated by the Madras Governor Bishnuram Medhi.
For the cheapest gallery, the ticket for the matches were Rs. 0.75 (Re. 1 for the final) and a season ticket of Rs. 10. For the costliest stands in West and North of the ground, the season ticket was Rs. 30, Rs. 2.50 for individual matches and Rs.3 for the semifinals and the final. All India Radio covered the semifinal and final matches. [1]
Bengal defeated Services 1–0 in the final. The trophy was presented by C. Subramaniam, the finance minister of the Madras state, to the Bengal captain and goalkeeper R. Guha. The two time defending champions Hyderabad defeated Bengal in the league but lost to Services in the semifinal. Hyderabad team changed their name to Andhra Pradesh from the next season.
League
Group A
| Bombay | 2-1 | Mysore |
|---|---|---|
|
Report |
|
Group B
Semifinals
Final
The final was originally scheduled for Sunday, March 8, but got postponed because of the semifinal replays. Balaram scored goal in the fifth minute, assisted by Damodaran. Cutting in from the left, he scored with a left footed shot into the far top corner. Balaram hit the upright twice, in the 10th minute and just before the end of the game.
Squads
- Bengal : R Guha; Mustaq Ahmed, Rahman; Kempaiah, Ahmed Hussain, Mohammad Ali; P. K. Banerjee, A. Shome, Damodaran, Goswami and Balaram. Also Narayan, B. Mondal, Kaloo, Ram Bahadur, Varalu, Rahmatullah, S. Guha, Nandy. Coach : AK Sinha, Manager : Saroj Bose
- Bombay : Narayan; Chandrasekhar, Latif; Shetty, Sanil, Anthony; Jaffar, Franco, Neville D'Souza, Devdas, Norris. Also Ayub, Balan, Aroon, Charles
- Hyderabad : Nabi; Aziz, Abdul Hassan; Patrick, Kaleem and Yousuf ; Moin, Hameed, Kannan, Zulfiqar, Yousuf
- Services : Thangaraj; Sadasivan Nair, V Paul; Mumtaz Hussain, Aruldas and Doraiswamy; Chacko, Lahiri, Cherian, Puran Bahadur, Jayaraman; Also Ethiraj
- Madras : Munuswamy; Balagopal(c), Williams; Purushothaman, Janakiram, Veeraraghavan; Fernandez, Siva, Thomas, Arumugham, Ponnuraj. Also Stephen (gk), Kuppuswamy, Ramaswamy, Padmanabhan
- Mysore : Nandan; Zahir, Muthu; Sebastian, Basavannah, Nanjappa; John, Najeebullah, Anthony, Latif Khan, Arumanayagam