Abhishek Yadav scored a hat trick as Maharashtra overcame Services 5-3.
Abdul Hakim's opportunistic goal gave the defending champions a 1-0 victory in the opening quarter-final league match, in the Santosh Trophy National Football Championship.
Goa entered the quarter-finals of the 60th Santosh Trophy.
Subhash Bhowmick, who guided Churchill Brothers to their second I-League title last season as Technical Director, is back in the team fold after Sukhwinder Singh announced his resignation.
Last year's semi-finalists played out a 1-1 draw in a quarter-final league match of the Natiiional Football Championship.
A 2-0 victory gave Maharashtra their second victory in the Group III quarter-final league and a place in the semi-finals of the Santosh Trophy National Football Championship.
Anthony Pereira scored four goals as Goa routed Assam 6-0 in the quarter-final league of the National Football Championship, for the Santosh Trophy.
The last year's runner-up were held to a 2-2 draw by Karnataka in a quarter-final league match of the Santosh Trophy football tournament.
They beat Karnataka and Railways in their opening quarter-final league matches in the National Football Championship.
Goa and Punjab edged out Manipur and Karnataka respectively on goal difference to make the grade in the National Football Championship.
Nicholas Rodrigues also scored a hat-trick as Goa overwhelmed Tripura 15-0 in a cluster league match in the National football championship.
They beat Bengal 2-0 in the final to win the title for the ninth time.
A battle royal is expected when the two teams clash in the final of the National Football Championship on Sunday.
Karnataka, propelled by a hat-trick from S K Dayananda thumped Sikkim, while Railways beat beat Delhi in inconsequential quarter-final league matches in the Santosh Trophy.
Railways and Sikkim advanced to the quarter-finals in the Santosh Trophy national football championship.
Sunil Chetri struck four goals as the hosts routed Gujarat 6-0 in the opening match of the Santosh Trophy.
PK Banerjee was captain of the Indian team that last played the Olympics in Rome 1960. He retired as a player in 1967 after being laid low by recurring injuries. But then went on accumulate a staggering 54 trophies as a coach.
Defending champions Manipur were beaten 3-4 via the tie-breaker in the semi-finals of the National Football Championship.
Manipur thrashed Sikkim 5-1, while Kerala beat Delhi 2-1 to progress to the semi-finals of the Santosh Trophy National Football tournament.
The former struggled to beat Tamil Nadu while Services routed UP in quarter-final league matches in the Santosh Trophy.
The 2-1 victory gave UP a berth in the quarter-final league in the National Football Championship.
Sonu Razak's 17th minute strike helped Madhya Pradesh beat Delhi 1-0 in the Santosh Trophy football tournament.
Sikkim scored a superb 4-3 win over Orissa, while Punjab thrashed Chhattisgarh 5-0 in the preliminary league match of the Santosh Trophy.
Indian Arrows stunned defending champions Minerva Punjab FC 2-1 to notch-up their fifth win of the 12th I-League season and leapfrog to the seventh position on the points table, in Bhubaneswar, on Wednesday.
Former India football captain Shabbir Ali suffered a massive heart attack on Monday. Brought in in critical condition, he has been kept under "artificial machine support" at a local hospital in Kolkata.
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