2024–25 I-League 2

The 2024–25 I-League 2 was the 17th season of the I-League 2 since its establishment in 2008. It was also the 3rd season as the third tier of the Indian football league system. The top two clubs secured a place in the 2025–26 I-League season.

I-League 2

Season	2024–25
Dates	25 January – 26 April 2025[1]
Champions	Diamond Harbour FC[2]
Promoted	Diamond Harbour FC Chanmari FC
Relegated	KLASA TRAU
Matches played	72
Goals scored	179 (2.49 per match)
Top goalscorer	Akshunna Tyagi (8 goals)
Biggest home win	Bengaluru United 7–0 KLASA (10 April 2025)
Biggest away win	KLASA 0–8 Chanmari (25 April 2025)
Highest scoring	Chanmari 7–1 TRAU (11 February 2025) KLASA 0–8 Chanmari (25 April 2025)
Longest winning run	4 matches Chanmari Diamond Harbour
Longest unbeaten run	16 matches Diamond Harbour
Longest winless run	10 matches KLASA
Longest losing run	8 matches KLASA
Highest attendance	12,000 KLASA 0–0 TRAU (2 February 2025)
Lowest attendance	20 Bengaluru United 1–2 Diamond Harbour (2 March 2025)
Total attendance	52,975
Average attendance	735
← 2023–24 2025–26 →

Club changes

The following clubs have changed division since the 2023–24 season:

To I-League 2 Relegated from I-League NEROCA TRAU Promoted from I-League 3 Diamond Harbour Chanmari SAT KLASA

From I-League 2 Promoted to I-League Sporting Bengaluru Dempo Relegated to I-League 3 Maharashtra Oranje Kenkre

In October 2024, Sudeva Delhi withdrew from the tournament. This brought the total number of teams participating in the league to nine.^[3][4]

Clubs

• Relegated from the 2023–24 I-League
• Clubs not promoted to the 2024–25 I-League in the previous season are reinstated
• Promoted from the 2024–25 I-League 3

United

Chanmari

SAT

Diamond
Harbour

Imphal

Imphal teams:
NEROCA
TRAU

Sporting
Goa

Bengaluru
United

KLASA

Locations of I-League 2 clubs

Club	State	City	Stadium	Capacity
Bengaluru United	Karnataka	Bengaluru	Padukone – Dravid CSE	250
Chanmari	Mizoram	Aizawl	Rajiv Gandhi Stadium	20,000
Diamond Harbour	West Bengal	Diamond Harbour	Naihati Stadium	25,000
KLASA	Manipur	Keinou	Khuman Lampak Stadium	35,285
NEROCA	Manipur	Imphal	Khuman Lampak Stadium	35,285
SAT	Kerala	Tirur	Payyanad Stadium	30,000
Sporting Goa	Goa	Panaji	Bambolim Stadium	3,000
			Ella Academy Ground	500
TRAU	Manipur	Imphal	Khuman Lampak Stadium	35,285
United	West Bengal	Kalyani	Kalyani Stadium	20,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Club	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Bengaluru United	Nallappan Mohanraj	Faiz Khan	Hyve	Nimidia
Chanmari	Dipankur Sharma	Lalrinchhana Tochhawng	Six5Six	Livaah
Diamond Harbour	Kibu Vicuña	Subrata Santra	Nautica	Apeejay Surrendra
KLASA	Abu Osama Shaikh	Ningthoujam Momocha Singh	Enadeka
NEROCA	Gyan Moyon	Sushil Meitei	Vamos
SAT	Cleofas Alex	Unise	Fly High	Fossil Petroleum
Sporting Goa	Armando Colaco	Joel Colaco	Six5Six	Models
TRAU	L. Nandakumar Singh		Six5Six	TLT Sports Academy
United	Steve Herbots	Tarak Hembram	Trak-Only	Aahar Caterer

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Diamond Harbour (C, P)	16	11	5	0	28	10	+18	38	Promotion to I-League
2	Chanmari (P)	16	10	3	3	36	10	+26	33
3	Sporting Goa	16	7	5	4	18	12	+6	26
4	Bengaluru United	16	6	5	5	21	11	+10	23
5	SAT	16	6	4	6	21	23	−2	22
6	United	16	5	6	5	15	17	−2	21
7	NEROCA	16	5	2	9	19	29	−10	17
8	TRAU (R)	16	3	3	10	14	30	−16	12	Relegation to I-League 3
9	KLASA (R)	16	2	1	13	8	38	−30	7

Source: I-League 2 AIFF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	BEN	CHN	DHB	KLA	NER	SAT	SCG	TRU	USC
Bengaluru United	—	0–2	1–2	7–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–0
Chanmari	1–0	—	0–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	7–1	4–1
Diamond Harbour	0–0	2–0	—	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–1	3–1	0–0
KLASA	0–2	0–8	1–3	—	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–1
NEROCA	0–2	1–2	0–2	2–3	—	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–0
SAT	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	5–2	—	1–1	2–3	0–0
Sporting Goa	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–3	—	1–0	2–0
TRAU	1–2	0–1	0–2	1–3	1–2	2–1	0–1	—	2–0
United	1–2	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2025. Source: I-League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by games

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Bengaluru United	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	D	D
Chanmari	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	W	W	D	L	W
Diamond Harbour	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	D
KLASA	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	W	L	L
NEROCA	L	W	L	D	W	L	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	W
SAT	W	D	W	W	L	L	D	L	L	W	D	W	D	L	L	W
Sporting Goa	L	D	W	L	W	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	W	L	D	L
TRAU	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	W	L
United	W	L	D	L	W	D	L	L	W	D	D	W	L	D	D	W

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2025. Source: I-League
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Statistics

As of 26 April 2025

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[5]
1	Akshunna Tyagi	Bengaluru United	8
2	Chabungbam Linky Meitei	NEROCA	7
	Aquib Nawab	SAT
4	Senthamil S	SAT	6
	Tarak Hembram	United
	Sahil Harijan	United
7	Girik Khosla	Diamond Harbour	5
	Naro Hari Shrestha	Diamond Harbour
	Doyal Alves	Sporting Goa
	Paul Ramfangzauva	Chanmari

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Akshunna Tyagi	Bengaluru United	TRAU	3–0 (H)	7 February 2025	[6]
KC Malsawmsanga	Chanmari	TRAU	7–1 (H)	11 February 2025	[7]
Akshunna Tyagi	Bengaluru United	KLASA	7–0 (H)	10 April 2025	[8]

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets[9]
1	Abhimanyu Singh	Sporting Goa	8
	Manjunath Hirekurbar	Bengaluru United
3	Susnata Malik	Diamond Harbour	7
4	Mohanraj K	SAT	6
	Zothanmawia	Chanmari
6	Sourav Samanta	United	4
7	Mohammad Abujar	TRAU	2
	Raunak Ghosh	United
9	Salam Sanaton Singh	KLASA	1
	Khoirom Jackson Singh	NEROCA
	RS Lallawmzuala	Chanmari

Discipline

• Most yellow cards: 6^[10]
  • Suprodip Hazra (Diamond Harbour)

• Most red cards: 1
  • 7 Players

Club discipline

• Most yellow cards: 33
  • Chanmari
• Most red cards: 3
  • Chanmari

Overall attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	KLASA	22,775	12,000	100	2,846	n/a††
2	TRAU	9,001	2,163	400	1,125	+341.2%†
3	Chanmari	3,958	1,500	200	682	n/a††
4	NEROCA	5,411	2,500	100	676	+86.7%†
5	Diamond Harbour	2,949	1,230	109	368	n/a††
6	Sporting Goa	2,342	512	80	292	+7.7%†
7	United	2,200	400	150	275	+20.1%†
8	Bengaluru United	1,784	456	20	223	+156.3%†
9	SAT	1,055	359	50	131	n/a††
	League total	52,975	12,000	20	735	+250.0%†

Source: I-League
Notes:
^† NEROCA and TRAU played in the I-League in the 2023–24 season.
^†† Attendance count for SA Tirur, Diamond Harbour, Chanmari and KLASA starts from this season.

Attendances by home matches

Club \ Match played	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
KLASA	12,000[11]	7,000[12]	2,500[13]	500[14]	300[15]	100[16]	200[17]	175[18]	22,775
TRAU	2,163[19]	500[20]	1,236[21]	1,126[22]	1,120[23]	500[24]	400[25]	1,956[26]	9,001
Chanmari	703[27]	1,048[28]	500[29]	200[30]	732[31]	375[32]	400[33]	1,500[34]	5,458
NEROCA	2,500[35]	580[36]	729[37]	800[38]	100[39]	200[40]	400[41]	102[42]	5,411
Diamond Harbour	109[43]	250[44]	160	200[45]	500[46]	250[47]	250[48]	1,230[49]	2,949
Sporting Goa	500[50]	300[51]	274[52]	512[53]	376[54]	100[55]	80[56]	200[57]	2,342
United	150[58]	300[59]	400[60]	400[61]	250[62]	350[63]	200[64]	150[65]	2,200
Bengaluru United	148[66]	85[67]	150[68]	20[69]	200[70]	275[71]	456[72]	450[73]	1,784
SAT	359[74]	80[75]	200[76]	106[77]	80[78]	50[79]	80[80]	100[81]	1,055

Legend:   Highest   Lowest
Updated to game(s) played on 26 April 2025
Source: I-League.org

See also

• Men
  • 2024–25 Indian Super League (Tier I)
  • 2024–25 I-League (Tier II)
  • 2024–25 I-League 3 (Tier IV)
  • 2024–25 Indian State Leagues (Tier V)
  • 2025 Super Cup
  • 2024 Durand Cup
  • 2025 Reliance Foundation Development League
• Women
  • 2024–25 Indian Women's League
  • 2024–25 Indian Women's League 2