2025 CFL Premier Division

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Season2025
DatesGroup stage: 25 June – 6 September 2025
Super Six: 11–22 September 2025
Relegation round: 10–15 September 2025
ChampionsEast Bengal (41st title)
CFL Premier Division
Season2025
DatesGroup stage: 25 June – 6 September 2025
Super Six: 11–22 September 2025
Relegation round: 10–15 September 2025
ChampionsEast Bengal (41st title)
RelegatedSouthern Samity
Army Red
Matches174
Goals471 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorerBidyashagar Singh (9 goals)
Biggest home winSuruchi Sangha 6–0 Measurers
(7 July 2025)
Biggest away winMeasurers 1–7 East Bengal
(27 June 2025)
Behala SS 0–6 East Bengal
(29 July 2025)
Highest scoringMeasurers 1–7 East Bengal
(27 June 2025)
Southern Samity 2–6 Kidderpore
(21 August 2025)
Longest winning runUnited SC
United Kolkata
(5 matches)
Longest unbeaten runPeerless (10 matches)
Longest winless runSouthern 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.

Naihati stadium during CFL opening ceremony

This year's Calcutta Premier Division is having a trophy for the champions named after legendary footballer Pradip Kumar Banerjee.

Decrease Relegated to 2025 CFL 1st Division

Increase Promoted to 2025 CFL Premier Division

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

Teams

Group A Group B
Team Head coach Captain Team Head coach Captain
Army Red India Sudhir Mishra India Renzong Lepcha Bhawanipore Nigeria Shahid Raman India Jiten Murmu
Calcutta Customs India Biswajit Bhattacharya India Amit Chakraborty Aryan India Rajdeep Nandy India Sandip Patra
BSS India Souren Dutta India Subhankar Das Calcutta Police Club India Bijoy Ghosh India Koushik Goala
East Bengal India Bino George India Aditya Patra Diamond Harbour Spain Kibu Vicuna India Bikramjit Singh
Kalighat MS India Patham Thapa India Koushik Sarkar United Kolkata SC India Yan Law India Narayan Das
George Telegraph India Goutam Ghosh India Sourish Lodh Chowdhury Sribhumi India Goutam Ghosh India Rana Gharami
Measurers Club India Rajib Dey India Chattu Mondal Wari India Swapan Biswas India Kamran Farooque
Mohun Bagan SG India Deggie Cardozo India Suhail Bhat Mohammedan Sporting India Alison Kharsyntiew India Samad Ali Mallick
Pathachakra India Partha Sen India Subhajit Mandi Peerless India Hemanta Dora India Donlad Diengdoh
Police AC India Rajesh Rajbhar India Deep Dey Southern Samity India Sujata Kar[2] India Rajesh Rajbhar
Railway India Amit Tudu India Sudipta Banerjee United SC India Lalkamal Bhowmick India Tarak Hembram
Suruchi Sangha India Ranjan Bhattacharya India Amit Tudu Rainbow India Aditya Chatterjee India Sourav Dasgupta
Kalighat Sports Lovers Association India Jahar Das India Bishal Chhetri Kidderpore India Sayantan Das Roy India Prosenjit Chakroborty

Group stage

Super Six

Relegation Round

See also

References

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