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The 2023 CFL Premier Division is the 125th overall season of the Calcutta Football League – highest state-level football divisions of West Bengal. The 2023 edition saw two top tiers merged, with 26 teams participating in the tournament for the first time since its inception.[1]

Season2023
Dates25 June – 30 November
ChampionsMohammedan (14th title)
RelegatedWest Bengal Police FC
Calcutta FC
FCI
Dalhousie AC
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CFL Premier Division
Season2023
Dates25 June – 30 November
ChampionsMohammedan (14th title)
RelegatedWest Bengal Police FC
Calcutta FC
FCI
Dalhousie AC
Matches196
Goals579 (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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Format

The 2023 CFL 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 other in the group once. The top three teams proceeded to the Super Six round, where they vied 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]

Venues

Teams

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

More information Group A, Group B ...
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
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First stage

Group A

More information Pos, Team ...
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
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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

More information Pos, Team ...
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
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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

More information Pos, Team ...
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[a]
4 Bhawanipore 16 8 4 4 26 18 +8 28
5 Mohun Bagan SG 15 8 3 4 33 18 +15 25[b]
6 Kidderpore 15 8 1 6 17 29 −12 25
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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. [a]
    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. [b]
    Mohun Bagan Super Giant was deducted 2 points for not fielding a team against East Bengal on 30 November 2023.[10]

Fixtures

More information Team 1 \ Team 2, BHA ...
Team 1 \ Team 2 BHA DHB EAB KID MOH MBG
Bhawanipore — 2–2 0–3* DNP 1–2 0–3*
Diamond Harbour — 1–4 3–0 0–2 DNP
East Bengal — 10–1 1–2 3–0*
Kidderpore — 0–5 DNP
Mohammedan — 2–0
Mohun Bagan SG —
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Source: The Away End
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.

Relegation Round

Points table

More information Pos, Team ...
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 Relegated to the First Division
6 FCI 19 3 4 12 16 52 −36 13
7 WB Police 19 3 3 13 18 39 −21 12
8 Calcutta FC 19 1 8 10 16 50 −34 11
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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

More information Team 1 \ Team 2, CFC ...
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 —
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Source: The Away End
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Yellow = draw; Red = top row team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 30 December 2023
More information Rank, Player ...
Rank Player Club Goals
1 India David Lalhlansanga Mohammedan SC 21
2 India Rahul Paswan Diamond Harbour FC 12
India Sahil Harijan Pathachakra
4 India Sagar Kumar Khamaru Eastern Railway 9
5 India Suhail Ahmad Bhat Mohun Bagan SG 8
India Jiten Murmu Bhawanipore
7 India Muhammed Ashiq Shoukathali Kidderpore 7
8 India Anubrata Maity Pathachakra 6
India Dipesh Murmu United
India Mandeep Singh Multani Wari
India Liton Shil Army Red
India Aman C. K. East Bengal FC
India Jesin TK East Bengal FC
India Achinta Ghosh Aryan FC
India Vishnu P.V. East Bengal FC
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Hat-tricks

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

More information Player, For ...
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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