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2025 IFA Shield
Football tournament season From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2025 IFA Shield will be the 125th edition of the IFA Shield hosted by the Indian Football Association. The tournament was planned to held in March 2025 but was pushed to October due to clash of fixtures from I-League and Indian Super League.
The tournament will feature domestic teams from the Indian Super League and I-League. At first, international invitees like Paro FC (Bhutan) were invited but later the plan was withdrawn.[1][2][3]
Defending champions Real Kashmir FC were also invited to take part, but they denied. On 3 October, 6 participants were confirmed by IFA.
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Teams
Here is the list of confirmed teams:[4][5]
Locations of 2025 IFA Shield clubs
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Venues
Location of football stadiums in West Bengal.
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Format
6 teams will be divided into two groups of 3 teams. After a group stage consisting of single round-robin matches, top teams from each group will qualify for final.[5]
Rules
- Each team can register 6 foreign players.[4]
- 4 foreign players can play on the field at a time, and 2 can be used as substitutes.
Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
- Drawing of lots.
Group stage
Group A
First match(es) will be played: 8 October 2025. Source: IFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated
Notes:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated
Notes:
- Sreenidi Deccan cannot topple East Bengal due to head-to-head points: East Bengal 3, Sreenidi Deccan 0
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Dipu Roy
Man of the Match: Saúl Crespo (East Bengal)
Man of the Match: Saúl Crespo (East Bengal)
Group B
First match(es) will be played: 9 October 2025. Source: IFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated
Notes:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated
Notes:
- Gokulam cannot topple Mohun Bagan due to head-to-head points: Mohun Bagan 3, Gokulam Kerala 0
Attendance: 1400
Referee: Surojit Das
Man of the Match: Jamie Maclaren (Mohun Bagan)
Man of the Match: Jamie Maclaren (Mohun Bagan)
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Final
The group toppers will qualify for the Finals directly to be held on 18 October 2025 at Salt Lake Stadium.
Statistics
Goalscorers
- As of 9 October 2025
Clean sheets
- As of 8 October 2025
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Prize money
Broadcasting
All matches were broadcast on a virtual platform of Shrachi Sports Entertainment Network (SSEN) app.[6] No television broadcasting was done.
See also
References
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