2025 CFL Premier Division
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Super Six: 11–22 September 2025
Relegation round: 10–15 September 2025
Army Red
| Season | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Dates | Group stage: 25 June – 6 September 2025 Super Six: 11–22 September 2025 Relegation round: 10–15 September 2025 |
| Champions | East Bengal (41st title) |
| Relegated | Southern Samity Army Red |
| Matches | 174 |
| Goals | 471 (2.71 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Bidyashagar Singh (9 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Suruchi Sangha 6–0 Measurers (7 July 2025) |
| Biggest away win | Measurers 1–7 East Bengal (27 June 2025) Behala SS 0–6 East Bengal (29 July 2025) |
| Highest scoring | Measurers 1–7 East Bengal (27 June 2025) Southern Samity 2–6 Kidderpore (21 August 2025) |
| Longest winning run | United SC United Kolkata (5 matches) |
| Longest unbeaten run | Peerless (10 matches) |
| Longest winless run | Southern Samity (12 matches) |
← 2024 2026 →
All statistics correct as of 22 September 2025. | |
The 2025 CFL Premier Division was the 127th overall season of the Calcutta Football League – highest state-level football division of West Bengal. The 2025-26 edition has 26 teams divided into two groups of 13 in the first phase, with top 6 qualifying for the championship round and bottom 6 heading into the relegation round.
The tournament began with match between BSS Sporting Club and Kalighat Milan Sangha in Bankimanjali Stadium, Naihati on 25 June 2025 after few prolific hours of opening ceremony.

This year's Calcutta Premier Division is having a trophy for the champions named after legendary footballer Pradip Kumar Banerjee.
Relegated to 2025 CFL 1st Division
Promoted to 2025 CFL Premier Division
- Sribhumi FC
- United Kolkata SC
Format
The 2025 CFL Premier Division, like the 2024–25 CFL Premier Division, will have twenty-six teams divided into two groups in the first phase, where each team will play twelve matches in single round robin format. After that, top three teams from the two groups shall proceed to the championship round, where each team shall play five more matches to determine the champion. The bottom three teams from both groups will play the relegation round.
Draw for the group division was done on 28th May 2025 at Calcutta Rowing Club Auditorium by Indian Football Association.[1]
Venues
- Amal Datta Krirangan, Dum Dum
- Bankimanjali Stadium, Naihati
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium, Barrackpore
- Bidhannagar Municipal Sports Complex, Bidhannagar
- Chakdaha Stadium, Chakdaha
- East Bengal/Aryan Ground, Kolkata
- Eastern Ground, Chinsurah
- Kalyani Stadium, Kalyani
- Kishore Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata
- Mohammedan/Howrah Union Ground, Kolkata
- Mohun Bagan/Calcutta FC Ground, Kolkata
- Netaji Sports Complex, Kamalgazi
- Rabindra Sarobar Stadium, Kolkata
- Uluberia Stadium, Howrah
- Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata
Teams
| Group A | Group B | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Head coach | Captain | Team | Head coach | Captain |
| Army Red | Bhawanipore | ||||
| Calcutta Customs | Aryan | ||||
| BSS | Calcutta Police Club | ||||
| East Bengal | Diamond Harbour | ||||
| Kalighat MS | United Kolkata SC | ||||
| George Telegraph | Sribhumi | ||||
| Measurers Club | Wari | ||||
| Mohun Bagan SG | Mohammedan Sporting | ||||
| Pathachakra | Peerless | ||||
| Police AC | Southern Samity | ||||
| Railway | United SC | ||||
| Suruchi Sangha | Rainbow | ||||
| Kalighat Sports Lovers Association | Kidderpore | ||||