East Bengal beat Mohun Bagan 2-1 and now stand just three points away from their third NFL title.
A 4-0 victory gave the defending champions their fifth victory from nine matches in the National Football League.
Cristiano Junior notched his fourth goal as the defending champions won their seventh round National Football League match 1-0.\n\n
Dempo continued their unbeaten run to remain on top of the table in the eighth National Football League.
The Goan outfit beat East Bengal 4-3 via the tie-breaker in the final.
I M Vijayan and Baichung Bhutia scored twice each in a 5-3 semi-final victory over Zimbabwe at the Afro-Asian Games.
They beat Air India, Mumbai, by a solitary goal in the final.
Substitute Bijen Singh's goal gave the Indian champions a 2-1 victory over Indonesia's Persita Tangerang \n\nin the quarter-finals.
India has jumped eight places to be ranked 127th in the latest FIFA rankings
India's football captain Baichung Bhutia, voted Most Valuable Player at the SAFF Cup, \nsays the AIFF should start preparing for the Asian Games right now.
Participating teams have been named after English Premiership sides.
The defending champions scored a 3-0 victory for their second victory in four matches in the National Football League.
Sikkim scored a superb 4-3 win over Orissa, while Punjab thrashed Chhattisgarh 5-0 in the preliminary league match of the Santosh Trophy.
The Baichung Bhutia-led football team was thrashed by Korea University selection.
India lost the Asia Zone Group 3 World Cup football qualifying league 1-5.
The defending champions thrashed Air India 3-0 in the semi-final, to set up a title clash with Salgaocar.
India held Lebanon to a 2-2 draw in the return match of the World Cup football qualifier in Goa but failed to advance to the next round. Lebanon, who won 4-1 at home, ended up with a 6-3 goal aggregate.
Two goals by Marcos Pereira gave the Goa side a 3-2 victory in the National Football League.
Chhetri is a star striker for both India and Bengaluru FC.
'Chamling's legacy is toxic.' '7 out of 10 teenagers in Sikkim abuse drugs.' 'The youth are dying and the future looks bleak.'
India's football captain decided to part ways with Mohun Bagan in retaliation to the club's decision to serve him a show cause letter recently for missing practice and an exhibition match in Jalpaiguri.
Sourav Ganguly, cricketing icon in Bengal, has been offered a nomination for the coming Lok Sabha elections by the Bharatiya Janata Party. He tells Digbijay Mishra deciding whether to accept this would be one of the most important in his life.
West Bengal on Sunday recorded 79.70 per cent voting in the second phase of assembly polls in 56 constituencies.
Former captain and current advisor to All India Football Federation, Bhaichung Bhutia has admitted that the eight-year old I-League has been a failure and feels that the 'successful' Indian Super League should be given a few more seasons before a possible merger of the two.
The Indian football ace, who is nursing a calf muscle injury, blamed the system for his lapse.
As Chhetri celebrates his 31st birthday today, here is a look at what makes him stand out.
Former India football captain Baichung Bhutia was given the Lifetime Achievement award, while hockey legend and three-time Olympic gold medallist Balbir Singh Sr was honoured with the Icon of the Century award.
The much-anticipated IPL-style Indian Super League (ISL) is set to roll again. The bidding process of the football tournament will start from on Monday.
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu became the first Indian footballer to play for a top-tier European club after the custodian made his debut for Stabek FC in a Norwegian Cup tie against Runar on Wednesday.
List cuts across range of former cricketers to actresses, even a working IPS officer, says Digbijay Mishra.
Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar said that singing the national anthem in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium before the 2011 World Cup final is the 'proudest feeling' he has ever had in his life.
The members of the victorious inaugural Indian Super League Football Championship Atletico de Kolkata (ATK) were felicitated by West Bengal government.
The FIFA legends, including World Cup winner Frenchman Marcel Desailly, Colombian great Carlos Valderrama, Spain's Fernando Morientes, Mexican Jorge Campos and Nigerian Emmanuel Amuneke, will roll back the years and turn out for a short match at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
SC hands back AIFF's day-to-day management to federation's administration
As counting is on in the five states - Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam and West Bengal -- here's a look at where the heavyweights stand.
Skipper Sunil Chhetri made it a fairytale 100th international game with a double strike as India recorded a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Kenya
..reject the idea to give ACL slot to ISL; while Bhutia urges to Indian football stakeholders: Drop your egos, work together
Stimac was part of the Croatia team that sensationally reached the semi-finals of the World Cup at the first attempt in 1998 and he is looking to his India squad to similarly buck the odds in Asian qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.
'Many of us hope that India will soon play well enough to be part of truly global sporting tournaments like the football World Cup and the Olympics,' says Aakar Patel.
With the nagging hamstring injury sustained in the AFC Challenge Cup healed, a fit-again Baichung Bhuita is raring to go full throttle when his team Mohun Bagan opens its I-League campaign against minnows Mumbai FC on Saturday.
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