1991–92 Santosh Trophy

The 1991–92 Santosh Trophy was the 48th edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main State competition for football in India. It was held in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Kerala defeated Goa 3–0 in the final. It was the second title for Kerala which had lost in the finals in the previous four years in a row.

1991–92 Santosh Trophy

National Football Championship
Tournament details
Country	India
Final positions
Champions	Kerala (2nd title)
Runners-up	Goa
Awards
Best player	Hamilton Bobby (Tamil Nadu)
← 1990–91 1992–93 →

Quarter-final

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tamil Nadu	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2	3	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Maharashtra	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3
3	Assam	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3	0

Source: Indian Express
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored;

28 February 1992 ^[1]

Maharashtra	1–0	Tamil Nadu
Mansur Arfis 75'	Report

Coimbatore

1 March 1992 ^[2]

Tamil Nadu	4–2	Assam
Amalraj 55', 85' Mukundan 63' Ashok Kumar 70'	Report	Jagat Rabha ?', ?'

Coimbatore

3 March 1992 ^[3]

Tamil Nadu	1–1	Maharashtra
Hamilton Bobby 84'	Report	Mansur Arfis 77'

Coimbatore

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kerala	2	2	0	0	9	0	+9	4	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Nagaland	2	1	0	1	4	6	−2	2
3	Haryana	2	0	0	2	1	8	−7	0

Source: Indian Express
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored;

27 February 1992 ^[4]

Kerala	5–0	Nagaland
Pappachan Harshan 72' Asheem 84' Sathyan	Report

Coimbatore

29 February 1992 ^[5]

Nagaland	4–1	Haryana
Azik 36' Kehoto 42' Teka 45' Senti ?'	Report	Rakesh Sharma ?'

Coimbatore

2 March 1992 ^[6]

Kerala	4–0	Haryana
Harshan 40', 46' Rajeev 59', ?'	Report

Coimbatore

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Goa	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Punjab	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
3	Delhi	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1

Source: Indian Express
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored;

28 February 1992 ^[7]

Punjab	0–0	Goa
	Report

Coimbatore

1 March 1992 ^[8]

Punjab	0–0	Delhi
	Report

Coimbatore

3 March 1992 ^[9]

Goa	2–1	Delhi
Lorenco Gomes 55' Thomas Khushboo 90'	Report	Bikramjit 70'

Coimbatore

Group4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bengal	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	3	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Railways	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Karnataka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: Indian Express
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored;

27 February 1992 ^[10]

Bengal	2–2	Railways
	Report

Coimbatore

2 March 1992 ^[11]

Bengal	2–0	Karnataka
Satyajit Chatterjee 65' Pabitra Kar ?'	Report

Coimbatore

Semi-finals

6 March 1992 ^[12]

Goa	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Tamil Nadu
	Report
Penalties
Thomas Khusboo Bruno Coutinho Orlando Veigas Derrick Pereira Laurenco Gomes	4–2	Mahendran Satish Kumar Hamilton Bobby J. Kumaresan

Coimbatore

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7 March 1992 ^[13]

Kerala	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Bengal
	Report
Penalties
Jiju Jacob Thobias Ajithkumar P.S. Asheem K.V. Sivadasan	4–3	Sudip Chatterjee Mushtaq Ali Satyajit Chatterjee Murshed Ali Vijayan

Coimbatore

After saving the fifth penalty by I. M. Vijayan, Kerala goalkeeper Sivadasan took and scored from the final kick for Kerala.

Final

The brother of Goa goalkeeper Brahmanand Sankhwalkar died a day before the final. He was not informed of this until after the match.

9 March 1992^[14]

15:00 IST

Kerala	3–0	Goa
Rajeev 43' P. S. Asheem 66', 88'	Report

Nehru Stadium, Coimbatore

Referee: Sagar Sen; Kantharajan and RD Sow (linesmen)