They beat Churchill Brothers 1-0 in a quarter-final battle between Goa teams.
A narrow 1-0 win was not enough for a desperate Mumbai City FC who were knocked out by FC Goa 5-2 on aggregate in the Hero Indian Super League semi-final at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Margao, on Tuesday.
Moroccan Karim Bencherifa, who parted ways as Mohun Bagan coach recently, will take charge at Salgaocar SC on February 17, club secretary Raj Gomes said.
The Mumbai police on Wednesday claimed to have evidence of involvement of three players of Churchill Brothers, Goa's leading football club, in the alleged molestation of an airhostess on board a SpiceJet flight on Tuesday night and said they would file a charge sheet against them within three months.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
IM Vijayan lauded Sunil Chhetri for his longevity and urged the youngsters to idolise the 35-year-old's work ethic.
India football captain Subrata Paul is among retired stars Climax Lawrence and Mahesh Gawli to have been recommended by the All India Football Federation for the prestigious Arjuna Awards.
Mumbai FC held a depleted Dempo Sports Club to a 1-1 draw in the final group A league match of the 30th Federation Cup football championship in Barasat on Tuesday night.
Unbeaten Dempo and JCT share the top spot in the I-League football championship with ten points from four outings.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Mohun Bagan on Tuesday formally roped in Moroccan Karim Bencharifa as their new football coach for the coming season.
In another match of the Durand Cup football tournament, Nigerian Odafe Onyeka Okolie hammered in five goals as Churchill Brothers trounced Central Railway 6-1.
With a spectre of relegation looming large, East Bengal finally made a turnaround to beat favourites Dempo Sports Club by a solitary second-half goal in their I-League soccer match in Kolkata on Sunday.
India began the year on 97 in FIFA rankings, but after two wins, four draws and seven losses, the country ended 2019 at 108
JCT's Sunil Chetri has been adjudged the best player of the 11th National Football League.
In huge development in the I-League, India captain and striker Sunil Chhetri was snapped up by debutants JSW Sports on Friday.
Minerva Punjab FC will take on Indian Super League side Jamshedpur FC on April 2 in the inaugural Super Cup football tournament which begins in Bhubaneswar on March 31.
FC Goa became the second Hero Indian Super League side to book their place in the play-offs after a convincing 3-0 win over Kerala Blasters FC in Margao Monday.
A goalless draw with Churchill Brothers in a 11th round match in the National Football League saw them finsh with 22 points, one more than East Bengal.
The draw enabled East Bengal stay unbeaten with 17 points from seven matches in the National Football League.
'London being Tier 2, pubs can serve drinks but only with a 'substantial meal',' sighs Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
India full-backs Gouramangi Singh and Nirmal Chettri, who have both signed to play in the IPL-style franchise football league, are hopeful of taking part in this season's I-League too despite the clubs' opposition to the new IMG-Reliance league.
The first club from Jammu and Kashmir to qualify for the I-League is slowly building up
I M Vijayan is amazed at Indian football's leap from amateurism to professionalism.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Sunil Chhetri was named India's Player of the Year by AIFF president Praful Patel at the Annual General Meeting in Delhi on Friday. India's captain, who won the award in 2007 and 2011, emerged winner after voting by I-League coaches at AIFF's headquarters in Delhi.
Chhetri is currently the highest goal-scoring active Asian player with 64 strikes from 101 matches and third in the world after superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
Real Kashmir FC proudly represents a region whose scars are getting a chance to be healed by the beautiful game.
In a first for ATK Mohun Bagan this season, two first-half goals signalled the downfall for a beleaguered Bengaluru FC
Despite losing the top spot to Mumbai, ATK Mohun Bagan will still harbour hopes of salvaging their season with a second successive Hero ISL title.
'There is no senior bureaucracy functioning now; these people only obey.' 'This is only a command and control kind of governance.'
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Khalid Jamil scripted one of India's most remarkable sporting success stories.
'Prior to Pulwama, the BJP appeared to be on the defensive, uncertain of its stop-and-go development programmes, fearful of growing discontent among agriculturists and unemployed youth, and nervous of gathering steam among Opposition parties across regional and caste alliances,' says Sunil Sethi.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
The veshti controversy in Tamil Nadu is not about the dress -- but a dress-code, which seems permissible in private homes and offices, but not in private clubs that are open only to well-heeled, and well-paying private members, observes N Sathiya Moorthy
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently. We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of his controversial book on Jawaharlal Nehru.
first-half strike by John Johnson helped Bengaluru FC beat United Sports Club by a solitary goal in their third round match of the I-League at the Bengaluru Football Stadium. The win propelled them to the top of the points table with seven points from three matches.
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