2016 CFL Premier Division

The 2016 Calcutta Football League Premier Division was the 118th season of the CFL Premier Division, a state league within the Indian state of West Bengal. The league is divided into two groups – Group A and Group B. The Championship title is awarded only to the Group A winner, while four teams from Group A are relegated to Group B at the end of the season and 4 teams from Group B are simultaneously promoted to Group A for the next season. The fixtures of Group A kicked off on 27 July 2016, and of Group B on 16 July 2016.

CFL Premier Division

Season	2016–17
Champions	East Bengal (38th title)
Matches played	135
Goals scored	289 (2.14 per match)
← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 5 October 2016.

This will also be the first time in history that a trophy will be awarded to the Group A champions, on the day of the last match of the league. The Indian Football Association also took a decision to award the Amal Dutta award to the coach adjudged "Best coach of the league". The association also announced that a monetary award amounting to Rs. 25 lakhs will be given to the champions of Group A.^[1]

East Bengal were crowned champions for a record 38th time in history and for the 7th consecutive season. This is also the 3rd time that they have won the league without dropping a single point.

Premier Division A

CFL Premier Division A

Season	2016–17
Relegated	United Aryan Bhawanipore George Telegraph
Matches played	55
Goals scored	135 (2.45 per match)
Top goalscorer	Daniel Bedemi (MOH) Darryl Duffy (MOH) (6 goals)
Highest scoring	East Bengal vs United 4–3 (16 August 2016) (7 goals)
Longest winning run	East Bengal (10 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	East Bengal (10 matches)
Longest winless run	George Telegraph (10 matches)
Longest losing run	George Telegraph (9 matches)
← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 28 September 2016.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	East Bengal[a] (C)	10	10	0	0	19	6	+13	30	Champion
2	Mohammedan	10	6	2	2	13	7	+6	20
3	Mohun Bagan[a]	10	6	1	3	20	7	+13	19
4	Southern Samity	10	4	3	3	11	8	+3	15
5	Peerless SC	10	3	5	2	12	11	+1	14
6	Army XI	10	4	2	4	14	16	−2	14
7	Tollygunge Agragami	10	3	4	3	10	11	−1	13
8	United (R)	10	3	2	5	15	15	0	11	Relegation to Premier Division B
9	Aryan (R)	10	2	3	5	7	14	−7	9
10	Bhawanipore (R)	10	1	3	6	11	14	−3	6
11	George Telegraph (R)	10	0	1	9	6	29	−23	1

Updated to match(es) played on 28 September 2016. Source: Soccerway
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. East Bengal were awarded 3 points in the match against Mohun Bagan as Mohun Bagan refused to field a team for the match citing inadequate time for practice. The result of the match was declared by IFA to be 3–0 in favour of East Bengal.^[2]

Results

Home \ Away	ARM	ARN	BHA	KEB	GTL	MSC	MOH	PRL	SOU	TOL	USC
Army XI	—	0–0	3–2	1–2	4–1	0–1	0–6	4–2	0–1	1–1	1–0
Aryan	—	—	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–5	0–3	1–2	2–0	0–0
Bhawanipore	—	—	—	1–2	4–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–2
East Bengal	—	—	—	—	1–0	1–0	3–01	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–3
George Telegraph	—	—	—	—	—	1–4	0–4	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–5
Mohammedan	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–2
Mohun Bagan	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–1
Peerless SC	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–1	1–1	2–1
Southern Samity	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–1	2–0
Tollygunge Agragami	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0–1
United	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Updated to match(es) played on 28 September 2016. Source: Soccerway

  Home team won;   Match drawn;   Away team won;

¹ East Bengal were awarded 3 points in the match against Mohun Bagan as Mohun Bagan refused to field a team for the match citing inadequate time for practice. The result of the match was declared by IFA to be 3–0 in favour of East Bengal.^[2]

Statistics

Top Scorers

As of 28 September 2016

Source: kolkatafootball.com

6 goals

• Daniel Bedemi (MOH)
• Darryl Duffy (MOH)

5 goals

• Joël Sunday (TOL)
• V.P.Suhair (USC)

4 goals

• Do Dong-Hyun (KEB)
• Manvir Singh (MSC)
• Zikahi Leonce Dedoz (MSC)
• Ghanefo Kromah (PRL)
• Ashim Biswas (SOU)
• M.Basant Singh (SOU)

3 goals

• Sanjay Rana (ARM)
• Jagannath Sana (BHA)
• Tirthankar Sarkar (BHA)
• Jiten Murmu (KEB)
• Lalrindika Ralte (KEB)
• Bayi Kamo (GTL)
• Prabir Das (MOH)
• Eric Brown (USC)

2 goals

• Anthony Chettri (ARM)
• Abhijit Sarkar (ARN)
• Bolane Kazeem Amobi (ARN)
• Pritam Sarkar (BHA)
• Arnab Mondal (KEB)
• Azharuddin Mallick (MOH)
• Thangjam Singh (MOH)
• Anil Kisku (PRL)
• Arghya Chakraborty (PRL)
• Syed Rahim Nabi (PRL)
• Monotosh Chakladar (USC)
• Shankar Oraon (USC)

1 goal

• Arjun Tudu (ARM)
• E.Alwyn (ARM)
• P.Jain (ARM)
• Samu Hembram (ARM)
• Goutam Thakur (ARN)
• Obasi Moses Louis (ARN)
• Orok Essien (BHA)
• Bijendra Rai (BHA)
• Francis Xavier (BHA)
• Adelaja (KEB)
• Calum Angus (KEB)
• Mohammed Rafique (KEB)
• Rahul Bheke (KEB)
• Subha Kumar (GTL)
• Rajib Shaw (GTL)
• Atinder Mani (MSC)
• Dipendu Dowary (MSC)
• Nitesh Chhikara (MSC)
• Parminder Singh (MSC)
• Usman Ashik (MSC)
• Ajay Singh (MOH)
• Sukhwinder Singh (PRL)
• Sumit Ghosh (PRL)
• Krishna Das Sharma (SOU)
• Suman Hazra (SOU)
• Alfred Jaryan (TOL)
• Kareem Omolaja (TOL)
• Palsang Lama (TOL)
• Reisangmei Vashum (TOL)
• Surabuddin Mollick (TOL)
• Bello Razaq (USC)
• Budhiram Tudu (USC)
• Md.Rashid (USC)

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Darryl Duffy	Mohun Bagan	Aryan	5–1	6 August 2016	[3]
V.P. Suhair	United	George Telegraph	5–1	25 August 2016	[4][5]
Daniel Bedemi 4	Mohun Bagan	Army XI	6–0	10 September 2016	[6]

⁴ The player scored 4 goals

Premier Division B

CFL Premier Division B

Season	2016–17
Promoted	Pathachakra Rainbow Railway F.C. Calcutta Customs
Relegated	Dalhousie
Matches played	80
Goals scored	154 (1.93 per match)
Highest scoring	Pathachakra vs Rainbow 3–3 (22 September 2016) (6 goals)
Longest winning run	Bengal Nagpur Railway Pathachakra Police A.C. (3 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Rainbow (15 matches)
Longest winless run	Police A.C. (11 matches)
Longest losing run	Dalhousie (6 matches)
← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 5 October 2016.

Standings

Note: After the results of the 10th round, the teams were divided into two groups of top 6 and bottom 5. The top 6 teams are to play against each other in a single-leg format, called the championship round, while the bottom 5 teams play against each other in the same single-leg format called the relegation round. Each team carried forward their points and other records from the previous 10 matches into the championship or the relegation round.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pathachakra (P)	15	7	5	3	15	9	+6	26	Promotion to Premier Division A
2	Rainbow (P)	15	5	10	0	19	9	+10	25
3	Railway F.C. (P)	15	5	9	1	14	8	+6	24
4	Calcutta Customs (P)	15	6	6	3	14	8	+6	24
5	SAI Darjeeling	15	5	7	3	11	9	+2	22	Championship Round
6	Bengal Nagpur Railway	15	4	4	7	15	21	−6	16
7	Kalighat M.S.	14	7	2	5	16	16	0	23	Relegation Round
8	Food Corporation of India	14	4	6	4	15	12	+3	18
9	Police A.C.	14	3	6	5	15	19	−4	15
10	Eastern Rail (R)	14	2	4	8	8	17	−9	10	Relegation to First Division
11	Dalhousie (R)	14	1	3	10	10	24	−14	6

Updated to match(es) played on 5 October 2016. Source: Thif-live
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BNR	CCU	DAC	ERY	FCI	KMS	PAT	PAC	RFC	RAI	SAI
Bengal Nagpur Railway	—	0–4	2–1	—	1–1	1–0	0–2	—	0–1	0–2	2–3
Calcutta Customs	2–0	—	2–1	—	1–1	0–1	0–0	—	1–0	0–0	2–1
Dalhousie	—	—	—	0–1	0–0	1–3	—	1–4	—	—	—
Eastern Rail	1–3	0–0	0–1	—	1–0	0–1	—	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–1
Food Corporation of India	—	—	1–0	3–1	—	1–2	—	3–0	—	—	—
Kalighat M.S.	—	—	2–1	1–0	2–3	—	—	0–2	—	—	—
Pathachakra	1–0	1–0	3–1	—	1–0	1–0	—	—	0–1	3–3	0–1
Police A.C.	1–4	0–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	—	0–0	1–3	0–1
Railway F.C.	1–1	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	4–1	2–1	—	—	1–1	0–0
Rainbow	1–1	3–0	3–1	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	1–1	—	2–1
SAI Darjeeling	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	2–1	1–2	0–0	—	0–0	0–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 5 October 2016. Source: Thif-live

  Home team won;   Match drawn;   Away team won;