2018 IFA Shield

The 2018 IFA Shield was the 122nd edition of the IFA Shield. The tournament was designed as a U19 youth football tournament since 2015. 8 clubs participated in final round in the edition.

2018 IFA Shield

IFA Shield 2018
Tournament details
Country	India
Dates	5–19 July 2018
Teams	20 (8 in final round)
Final positions
Champions	East Bengal (29th title)
Runners-up	Mohun Bagan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	57 (3.8 per match)
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Venue

All the matches were held at Barasat Stadium, East Bengal Ground, Mohun Bagan Ground and Howrah Stadium.

Qualifying round

14 teams participated in the qualifying round and Bengal Football Academy as the winners of qualifiers. FC Pune City later withdrew from the tournament and were replaced by runners-up of qualifying round, SAIL (Burnpur) Academy.^[1][2]

Final round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	East Bengal	3	3	0	0	13	1	+12	9	Advance to the semifinals
2	SAIL (Burnpur)	3	2	0	1	6	6	0	6
3	ATK	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1
4	Mohammedan	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1

Source: kolkatafootball.com

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mohun Bagan	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9	Advance to the semifinals
2	Tata Football Academy	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Bengal Football Academy	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3
4	Churchill Brothers	3	0	0	3	2	13	−11	0

Source: kolkatafootball.com

Semi-finals

East Bengal	4–1 (a.e.t.)	Tata Football Academy
T. Suranjit Singh 64' Gurmukh Singh 114' Dip Saha 120+1' Jhantu Prasad 120+2'	Report	Chetan Hansdah 49'

16 July 2018

14:30 IST

East Bengal Ground

Mohun Bagan	2–1	SAIL (Burnpur)
Asif Ali Molla 25' Subha Ghosh 85'	Report	Israfil Deewan 27'

17 July 2018

14:30 IST

Mohun Bagan Ground

Final

East Bengal	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Mohun Bagan
Dip Saha 83'	Report	Sourav Das 47'
Penalties
	4–2

19 July 2018

14:30

Barasat Stadium

Attendance: 5000