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Uttar Pradesh Football Team
The Uttar Pradesh football team is an Indian association football, football team representing Uttar Pradesh in Indian state football competitions including the Santosh Trophy. Honours * B.C. Roy Trophy ** Runners-up (1): 2017–18 * Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy ** Winners (1): 2008–09 ** Runners-up (2): 1978–79, 1980 References Santosh Trophy teams Football in Uttar Pradesh {{India-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttar Pradesh Football Sangh
The Uttar Pradesh Football Sangh (abbr: UPFS) is the Sports governing body, governing body of association football, football in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It owns the Uttar Pradesh football team. It is affiliated with the All India Football Federation. The UPFS sends state teams for Santosh Trophy and Senior Women's National Football Championship. League Lucknow Super Division References Football governing bodies in India Football in Uttar Pradesh Organisations based in Varanasi Organizations with year of establishment missing {{India-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santosh Trophy
The Santosh Trophy, officially known as Hero Senior Men's National Football Championship due to sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp, is a state-level football competition contested by the state associations and government institutions under the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the sport's governing body in India. Before the starting of the first national club league, the National Football League in 1996, the Santosh Trophy was considered the top domestic honour in India. Many players who have represented India internationally, played and gained honour while playing in the Santosh Trophy. The tournament is held every year with 37 teams, who are divided into five zones, must play in the qualifying round and progress into the tournament proper. The current champions are Kerala, who won their seventh title during the 2021–22 edition. The tournament was started in 1941 by Indian Football Association (IFA), which was the then ''de facto'' governing body of football in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Santosh Trophy
The 2022–23 Santosh Trophy is the 76th edition of the Santosh Trophy, the premier competition in India for senior men's football teams representing their respective states/union territories and government institutions. Contrary to the recent seasons, this edition onwards, the AIFF adopted a new format for the tournament that saw the removal of the qualification stage, thereby allowing all the state teams to participate in the group stage. This move taken in a way for promoting the sport in every region of the country. On 6 October 2022, the AIFF signed a MoU with the SAFF, which included an agreement to host the semi-finals, the 3rd place decider & the final in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Group stage The group stage was contested by 36 teams representing the states and the union territories of India, wherein the teams were drawn into six groups. The six group winners, along with three best runner-up teams qualified for the final round along with Railways, Services and the host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Santosh Trophy Group Stage
The 2022–23 Santosh Trophy group stage was contested by a total of 36 teams from 23 December 2022 to 31 January 2023, to decide the 10 places in the final round of the tournament. Schedule Centralised venues On 25 November 2022, the AIFF announced the venues for Groups I, II and V. The venue for Group III and IV was confirmed on 28 and 29 November respectively. The final group venue was confirmed on 7 December. * Group I → New Delhi, Delhi ( Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Ambedkar Stadium) * Group II → Kozhikode, Kerala (EMS Stadium) * Group III → Kokrajhar, Assam (SAI Special Area Games Centre, KDSA Playground) * Group IV → Kohlapur, Maharashtra ( Chhatrapati Shahu Stadium) * Group V → Bhubaneswar, Odisha (Capital Football Arena, OSAP 7th Battalion Ground) * Group VI → Imphal, Manipur (Khuman Lampak Main Stadium The Khuman Lampak Main Stadium is a multi-use stadium located in Imphal, Manipur, India. It is used mostly for football and athletics, and host matches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 after India had become a republic. It was a successor to the United Provinces (UP) during the period of the Dominion of India (1947–1950), which in turn was a successor to the United Provinces (UP) established in 1935, and eventually of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh established in 1902 during the British Raj. The state is divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts, with the state capital being Lucknow, and Prayagraj serving as the judicial capital. On 9 November 2000, a new state, Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand), was created from Uttar Pradesh's western Himalayan hill region. The two major rivers of the state, the Ganges and its tributary Yamuna, meet at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, a Hindu pilgrimage site. Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy
The Sub Junior National Football Championship, also known as Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy, is an Indian football tournament for players under 16 years of age. The competition is held every year between the under-16 teams representing states of India. The tournament was started in 1977 for boys under the age 15 years. The tournament was constituted at the Darjeeling meeting of the AIFF on 12 June 1976. AIFF donated the trophy in the memory of former President of Karnataka State Football Association, Mir Iqbal Hussain. From the 2009–10 season onwards, the championship has been sponsored by Coca-Cola and was rechristened as the Coca-Cola MIHT for a period of three years. This also saw a change in the format of the tournament where there are three different levels before the selection of national team. At national level, a total of 12 state teams compete to decide the national winner state. The 32nd edition of Sub-junior National Football Championship was conducted in 2009 with the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santosh Trophy Teams
Santosh (), also spelled as Santhosh, is a Hindu masculine given name. The name means "Satisfaction" or "Gratification". Notable people with the given name Santosh * Santosh Bagrodia, former MP, politician representing INC * Santosh Bhattacharyya (1924–2011), Bengali scholar * Santosh Chandra Bhattacharyya (1915–1971), lecturer * Santosh Chowdhary (born 1944), member of Lok Sabha, politician representing INC * Santosh Dutta, Bengali actor * Santhosh Echikkanam, contemporary short story writer from Kerala * Santosh Gangwar (born 1948), India politician representing BJP, former MP * Santhosh George Kulangara (born 1971), cinematographer and travel writer * Santhosh Jogi (died 2010), Malayalam film actor and singer * Santosh Joshi (born 1960), classical vocalist and instrumentalist * Santosh Juvekar, Marathi film, television and stage actor * Santosh Kashyap (born 1966), football coach * Santosh Kumar (1925–1982), name by which the Pakistani film actor Syed Musa Raza was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
