1950–51 Santosh Trophy

The 1950–51 Santosh Trophy was the seventh edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main State competition for football in India. It was held in Calcutta, West Bengal. Bengal defeated Hyderabad 1–0 in the final. Bengal was captained by Sailen Manna.

1950–51 Santosh Trophy

National Football Championship
Tournament details
Country	India
Final positions
Champions	Bengal (5th title)
Runners-up	Hyderabad
← 1949–50 1951–52 → 60 minute matches

Preliminary Matches

7 August 1950 ^[1]

Bengal	5–0	Madhya Pradesh
Mewalal 16', 22', 23' Guha Thakurta Ahmed Khan	Report

Calcutta

Referee: Sushil Ghosh

10 August 1950 ^[2]

Orissa	3–0	Bihar
Bachan 2', 17' Golak Samal 28'	Report

Calcutta

15 August 1950 ^[3]

Uttar Pradesh	2–1	Bombay
	Report

Calcutta

Quarter Finals

13 August 1950 ^[4]

Delhi	3–0	Services
Naththu 2' ?' S. Thapa	Report

Calcutta

The Delhi center-forward Naththu headed in a corner kick from Dharambir in the sixth minute. He scored in the second minute of the second half from a pass by Dharambir. Thapa scored a minute before the end from a pass by Naththu.

14 August 1950 ^[5]

Orissa	3–2	Mysore
	Report

Calcutta

19 August 1950 ^[6]

Hyderabad	5–0	Uttar Pradesh
Sussay Jr 6' Amarnath 13' (o.g.) Moin Layeek	Report

Calcutta

Referee: Ramen Bagchin

Moin scored in the 18th and 23rd minutes of the second half and Layeek in the 29th.

Semifinals

18 August 1950 ^[7]

Bengal	5–0	Orissa
Mewalal 12', 15', 22' Venkatesh Saleh	Report

Calcutta

Referee: A. Jayaraman

21 August 1950 ^[8]

Hyderabad	2–2	Delhi
Asghar 12' Moin 19'	Report	Naththu 15', ?'

Calcutta

Referee: Sushil Ghosh

24 August 1950 ^[9]

Hyderabad	2–0 replay	Delhi
	Report

Calcutta

Referee: Sushil Ghosh

Final

28 August 1950 ^[10]

Bengal	1–0	Hyderabad
Mewalal	Report

Calcutta

Mewalal's goal was scored in the 6th minute of the second half from a center by Saleh

Squads

• Bengal : M. Sarkar; B. Bose and S. Manna (captain); Latif, S. Sarbadhikary and A.Ghosh; Venkatesh, R Guha Thakurta, Mewalal, Ahmed Khan and Saleh played in the final. Also B. Anthony, Mahinder, Syeed, A Dasgupta
• Hyderabad : Ramaswamy; Ali and Fruvall; Patrick, Jamal, Noor, Moin, Layeek; Sussay (Sr), Sussay (Jr) and Mohammad played in the final. Also Aziz and Ayyub.
• Delhi : Hardev, Ghanshyam and Gulzari; Yusuf, Jayaraman and Kewal; Satpal (sr), Dharambir, Naththu, Mahinder Kumar and S Thapa
• Orissa : Bari; Alam and Enayat; Jenamani, Sachi Das and Chitta Sahu; Biranjan Bera, Golak Samal, A. M. Bachan (captain), Sita Ramarao and Tareque Hussain
• Bombay : Christoper (St Francis Goans), Arikinathan (Rashids), goalkeepers; Papen (Tata) and Chinnathambi Pillay (Maharashtra), backs; Narayan (Culture League), Gabriel D'Costa (Goan Sports), Shanker (Rashids), Lyngdoh (Indian Navy) and Damodar (Tata), halves; Stewart (Indian Navy), Parab (Culture League), Kuppuswami (Rashids), Peter Ferrao (Tata), Thomas (Culture League), Anthony Braganza (Tate) and Verghese (Rashids). Captain : Parab, Vice Captain : Leslie Woodcock, Manager : N. N. Guha ^[11]
• Bihar : D Sen; Qurban, B. Dutta, Parshid, Safi, Kanjilal
• Madhya Pradesh : S Ganguly; Ramalu and T. Ford; Narmade Prasad, Balaiya and Narsaiyah; G.Chatterji, Ramdas, P.K. Roy, M. Kumar and M.I. Haque
• Uttar Pradesh : Anu Bose; S.K. Sarkar and Amarnath; Radheyshyam, Bihari and Qasim; S. Mukherji, Bibhas Ghosh, S.N. Sarkar, Hafeez and Dajeet Singh