2018 CFL Premier Division

The 2018 Calcutta Football League Premier Division was the 121st season of the CFL Premier Division, a state association football league within the Indian state of West Bengal. The league is divided into two groups – Division A and Division B. The Championship title is awarded only to the Division A winner, while four teams from Division A are relegated to Division B at the end of the season and four teams from Division B are simultaneously promoted to Division A for the next season. The fixtures of Division A and Division B started on 3 and 5 August 2018, respectively.

The Kolkata Derby of the 2018 CFL season on September 2.

CFL Premier Division

Season	2018–19
Champions	Mohun Bagan (30th title)[1]
Matches played	117
Goals scored	275 (2.35 per match)
← 2017 2019 → Fixtures

Premier Division A

CFL Premier Division A

Season	2018
Champions	Mohun Bagan
Relegated	FCI WBP Tollygunge Agragami Pathachakra
Matches played	66
Goals scored	165 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ansumana Kromah (Peerless SC) (11 goals)
Biggest home win	Mohun Bagan 5–0 WBP Mohun Bagan 5–0 FCI
Highest scoring	Aryan 3–3 Pathachakra
Longest winning run	East Bengal (5 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Mohun Bagan (11 matches)
Longest winless run	WBP (9 matches)
Longest losing run	Tollygunge Agragami (4 matches)
Highest attendance	65,322 (Mohun Bagan vs East Bengal FC)
← 2017 2019 → All statistics correct as of 18 September 2018.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Mohun Bagan (C)	11	9	2	0	27	6	+21	29	Champion
2	Peerless SC	11	8	1	2	20	8	+12	25
3	East Bengal	11	7	2	2	19	7	+12	23
4	Mohammedan	11	6	1	4	12	8	+4	19	Qualified for I-League 2nd Division
5	Rainbow	11	5	2	4	15	13	+2	17
6	George Telegraph	11	4	3	4	12	13	−1	15
7	Calcutta Customs	11	3	5	3	13	12	+1	14
8	Aryan	11	4	2	5	11	14	−3	14
9	Pathachakra	11	3	4	4	15	17	−2	13	Relegation to Premier Division B
10	Tollygunge Agragami	11	2	2	7	12	21	−9	8
11	FCI	11	0	4	7	5	20	−15	4
12	West Bengal Police	11	0	2	9	4	26	−22	2

Updated to match(es) played on 26 September 2018. Source: ^[2]
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ARN	CCU	EB	FCI	GT	MSC	MB	PAT	PRL	RAC	TA	WBP
Aryan	—	1–1	0–3	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–2	3–3	0–1	0–1	1–0	4–0
Calcutta Customs		—	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	3–1	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–0
East Bengal			—	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–0
FCI				—	1–1	0–1	0–5	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–5	1–1
George Telegraph					—	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–3	0–3	2–1	1–0
Mohammedan						—	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–1
Mohun Bagan							—	1–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	5–0
Pathachakra								—	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–0
Peerless SC									—	3–1	3–0	3–0
Rainbow										—	2–1	2–1
Tollygunge Agragami											—	1–1
West Bengal Police												—

Updated to match(es) played on 25 September 2018. Source: ^[2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Managers and foreigners

Club	Head Coach	Foreigner 1	Foreigner 2	Foreigner 3	Foreigner 4
Aryan	Debashish Nandy	Seidu Mady	Bello Razaq	Gatch Arthure Diomande	Emmanuel Chigozie
Calcutta Customs	Rajeev Dey	Samuel Kane	John Ampong	Eze Stanley Ifeanyi	—
East Bengal	Bastob Roy	Mahmoud Amnah	Kassim Aidara	Jhonny Acosta	—
FCI (Eastern Zone)	Sudeep Chakraborty	—	—	—	—
George Telegraph	Ranjan Bhattacharya	Echezona Anyichie	Reo Nakamura	Justice Morgan	Stephen Harry
Mohammedan	Sudeep Sarkar	Lancine Touré	Bazie Armand	Olariche Princewill Emeka	Philip Adjah
Mohun Bagan	Sankarlal Chakraborty	Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Eze Kingsley	Henry Kisekka	Yuta Kinowaki
Pathachakra	Anjan Nath	Victor Kamhuka	Anto Pejic	Futa Nakamura	Bright Middleton Mends
Peerless	Tapan Chakraborty	Ansumana Kromah	Anthony Wolfe	Chika Wali	—
Rainbow	Tarit Ghosh	Joel Sunday	Penn Orji	Godwin Quashiga	Guy Eric Dano
Tollygunge Agragami	Bimal Ghosh	Daniel Bedemi	Richard Agwu Somtochukwu	Lago Dagbo Bei	Kamo Stephane Bayi
West Bengal Police	Sahadeb Bhowmick	—	—	—	—

Stadiums

Stadium	Capacity
Mohun Bagan/CCFC Ground	22,000
East Bengal/Aryan Ground	23,500
Mohammedan/Howrah Union Ground	15,000
Vivekananda Yubabharati Krirangan	85,000
Barasat Stadium	22,000
Kalyani Stadium	20,000
Gayespur Stadium	12,000

Attendance

Derby attendance

• Mohun Bagan vs East Bengal FC— 65,322
• Mohun Bagan vs Mohammedan SC— 12,317
• East Bengal Club vs Mohammedan SC— 12,557

Statistics

• Goal by Indians- 58 goals
• Goal by Foreigners- 92 goals

Top scorers

As of 19 September 2018

Source: kolkatafootball.com

11 goals

• Ansumana Kromah (Peerless SC)

10 goals

• Aser Pierrick Dipanda (Mohun Bagan)

6 goals

• Joel Sunday (Rainbow)
• Henry Kisekka (Mohun Bagan)
• Bright Middleton Mends (Pathachakra)

5 goals

• John Ampong (Calcutta Customs)
• Stephen Harry (George Telegraph)
• Anthony Wolfe (Peerless SC)
• Justice Morgan (George Telegraph)
• Emmanuel Chinedu (Aryan)

4 goals

• Kamo Stephane Bayi (Tollygunge Agragami)
• Gatch Arthure Diomande (Aryan)
• Philip Adjah (Mohammedan)
• Jobby Justin (East Bengal)

3 goals

• Emmanuel Chigozie (Aryan)
• Eze Stanley Ifeanyi (Calcutta Customs)
• Laldanmawia Ralte (East Bengal)
• Princewell Emeka (Mohammedan)
• Kassim Aidara (East Bengal)
• Lago Dagbo Bei (Tollygunge Agragami)

2 goals

• Poltu Das (Rainbow)
• Anto Pejić (Pathachakra)
• Azharuddin Mallick (Mohun Bagan)
• Gopal Poddar (FCI)
• Sk. Samim (West Bengal Police)
• Narohari Srestha (Peerless SC)
• Ashim Biswas (Tollygunge Agragami)
• Victor Kamhuka (Pathachakra)
• Bubai Das (Pathachakra)
• Ujjal Howladar (Aryan)
• Jhonny Acosta (East Bengal)
• Brandon Vanlalremdika (East Bengal)
• Tirthankar Sarkar (Mohun Bagan)
• Pintu Mahata (Mohun Bagan)

1 goal

• Prosenjit Chakroborty (Mohammedan)
• Lalrindika Ralte (East Bengal)
• Abhishek Ambekar (Mohun Bagan)
• Abhijit Sarkar (Rainbow)
• Lakshmikant Mandi (Peerless SC)
• Sumit Das (Mohammedan)
• Nirmal Singh Bisht (Calcutta Customs)
• Mahmoud Amnah (East Bengal)
• William Lalnunfela (Mohun Bagan)
• Penn Orji (Rainbow)
• Guy Eric Dano (Rainbow)
• Semboi Haokip (West Bengal Police)
• Samad Ali Mallick (East Bengal)
• Britto PM (Mohun Bagan)
• Deep Halder (FCI)
• Daniel Bedemi (Tollygunge Agragami)
• Subho Kumar (George Telegraph)
• Lalramchullova (East Bengal)
• Amit Roy (Calcutta Customs)
• Tonmoy Ghosh (Mohammedan)
• Dipendu Dowary (Mohammedan)
• Shilton D'Silva (Mohun Bagan)
• Mehtab Singh (East Bengal)
• Koushik Sarkar (East Bengal)
• Ram Malik (Calcutta Customs)
• Mrinmoy Samanta (FCI)
• Khokon Das (Rainbow)
• Govin Singh (Tollygunge Agragami)
• Lalchhawnkima (Mohun Bagan)
• Echezona Anyichie (George Telegraph)
• Hira Mondal (Peerless SC)
• Somananda Singh (Pathachakra)
• Kunal Ghosh (Aryan)
• Dipankar Podder (Pathachakra)
• Sujoy Dutta (Rainbow)

Own goals

As of 19 September 2018

Source: kolkatafootball.com

• Sandeep Debnath (WBP)

Assists

Clean sheets

As of 19 September 2018

Source: kolkatafootball.com

6 clean sheets

• Rakshit Dagar (East Bengal)
• Laltu Mondol (George Telegraph)

4 clean sheets

• Priyant Singh (Mohammedan)
• Sandeep Paul (Peerless)
• Souvik Santra (Aryan)
• Sankar Roy (Mohun Bagan)
• Laltu Mondol (George Telegraph)

3 clean sheets

• Shilton Paul (Mohun Bagan)
• Dibyendu Sarkar (Rainbow)

2 clean sheets

• Suvam Sen (Calcutta Customs)
• Ubaid CK (East Bengal)

1 clean sheets

• Arindam Ghosh (Pathachakra)
• Arup Debnath (Mohammedan)
• Abhijit Das (Pathachakra)

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Ansumana Kromah	Peerless	George Telegraph	3–1	20 August 2018	[3]
Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Mohun Bagan	West Bengal Police	5–0	25 August 2018	[3]
Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Mohun Bagan	FCI	5–0	5 September 2018	[3]

Fastest goals

Player	For	Against	Timing
Stephen Harry	George Telegraph	Calcutta Customs	1 minute 10 seconds
Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Mohun Bagan	West Bengal Police	1 minute 32 seconds
Philip Adjah	Mohammedan	Tollygunge Agragami	1 minute 35 Seconds

Previous Division B

CFL Premier Division B

Season	2018–19
Matches played	51
Goals scored	110 (2.16 per match)
Highest scoring	Kalighat MS 4–0 v RLY
Longest unbeaten run	Bhowanipore BSS (5 matches)
Longest winless run	Taltala (5 matches)
← 2017 2019 → All statistics correct as of 9 September 2018.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kalighat M.S.	13	8	3	2	28	10	+18	27	Promotion to Premier Division A
2	Southern Samity	13	7	4	2	19	10	+9	25
3	Bhowanipore	13	6	5	2	13	7	+6	23
4	BSS Sporting Club	13	6	3	4	17	14	+3	21
5	SAI	13	4	4	5	11	11	0	16	Championship Round
6	Railways FC	13	2	3	8	3	22	−19	9
7	Kidderpore SC	8	2	2	4	9	11	−2	8	Relegation Round
8	United	8	2	2	4	5	7	−2	8
9	Taltala Dipti Sangha	8	0	2	6	5	18	−13	2	Relegation to First Division
10	Army XI[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^[4]
Notes:

1. Army XI withdrew from the competition due to some uncited reasons.

Notes: 1.^ After the completion of the single round robin, the teams will be divided into two groups of top 6 and bottom 4. The top 6 teams will play against each other in a single-leg format, called the championship round, while the bottom 4 teams play against each other in the same single-leg format called the relegation round. Each team carries forward their points and other records from the previous 1st round matches into the championship or the relegation round. Overall 4 teams are promoted.

Results

Home \ Away	Army XI	BSS S.C.	BSC	KMS	KSC	RLY	SAI	SOU	TDS	USC
Army XI	—
BSS S.C.		—	1–1	3–0			1–0	0–0	1–0
Bhowanipore		1–1	—		2–0	2–0	1–0		0–0
Kalighat MS		0–3		—	2–0	4–0	0–0	1–3
Kidderpore SC			0–2	0–2	—		0–0	1–2	3–1	0–1
Railways FC			0–2	0–4		—		0–0	0–0	1–0
SAI Darjeeling		0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0		—	1–0		1–1
Southern Samity		0–0		3–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	—		0–0
Taltala Dipti Sangha		0–1	0–0		1–3	0–0			—	1–2
United					1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2018. Source: ^[4]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.