The 2015 Santosh Trophy is the 69th edition of the

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 main state competition in Indian football. 33 teams in total from around India entered the competition. Only 10 teams competed in the competition proper after going through the qualifiers. The tournament proper began on 1 March and will conclude with the final on 15 March.

Round and dates

Qualified teams

The following ten teams qualified for the Santosh Trophy proper. *

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

Mizoram Mizoram () is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and capital city. The name of the state is derived from "Mizo people, Mizo", the endonym, self-described name of the native inhabitants, and "Ram", which in the Mizo ...

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

Railways Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Services Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a pu ...

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

;4 Goals * Raja Das (West Bengal) ;3 Goals * Rama Beshra (Services) ;2 Goals * Joerse Olivera (Goa) * Marcus Masceranhas (Goa) * Lalrinpuia (Mizoram) * Shabaz Pathan (Maharashtra) * Sunny (Punjab) * Usman Ashik (Kerala) ;1 Goal * Prabhjot Singh (Punjab) * Rajbir Singh (Punjab) * Francis Zonuntulunga (Services) * Anthony Chettri (Services) * Rakesh Singh (Services) * Vivek Kumar (Services) * Jain P (Services) * Nasrudheen Cheriyath (Kerala) * V P Suhair (Kerala) * Lalbiakaua (Mizoram) * Zico Zoremsanga (Mizoram) *

Malsawmfela Malsawmfela (born 3 September 1993 in Aizawl, Mizoram) is an Indian association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for Aizawl F.C. in the Mizoram Premier League. Club career Pailan Arrows After impress ...

(Mizoram) * Sashi Toppo (Railways) *

Gabriel Fernandes Gabriel Fernandes (born 22 April 1988) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a winger for English club Shrivenham in the Hellenic League. Career Early career Born in Porvorim, Goa, Fernandes began his career at Sporting Clube d ...

(Goa) *

Sandesh Gadkari Sandesh Gadkari (born 16 March 1987) is an Indian football player who currently plays as a forward for Mumbai in the I-League. Career Air India During the summer of 2011, Sandesh signed with Air India FC. Salgaocar Gadkari has completed hi ...

(Maharashtra) * Baldeep Singh (Maharashtra) * Vijith Shetty (Maharashtra) * Suraj Mandal (Assam)

Notable players

References

External links

AIFF website
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