The three-time champions battled to a 1-1 draw with Churchill Brothers in their concluding match in the National Football League to finish eighth.
The result also meant Khalid Jamil is still unbeaten in the competition and extended NorthEast's winning run to ten games.
Goan club Fransa Pax showed fine opportunism to prevail over three-time champions Mohun Bagan 2-1.
Salgaocar Football Club scored a goal in each half to beat Karim Bencherifa's Mohun Bagan with a clinical 2-0 victory at Duler Stadium in Mapusaon Sunday.
The Goa side humbled the defending champions 2-0 in a National Football League match.
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Mohun Bagan Academy entered the semi-finals of the under-15 Manchester United Premium Cup.
Mohun Bagan held Durand Cup champions Churchill Brothers to 2-2 draw.
Mohun Bagan on Thursday defeated Churchill Brothers 2-1 in their 14th round tie of the I-league in Kolkata.
First-half strikes gave them a 2-0 victory in the NFL match.
The Kolkata club also urged FIFA to lift the ban, imposed for failing to clear dues of Nigerian Isa Musah last year.
With this result, Sporting Clube de Goa took their tally to nine points from eight matches while Bagan have eight from as many games.
The Kolkata giants are hoping to rope in two of the best-known Indian origin football names in Europe for its National Football League campaign.
Three time champions Mohun Bagan now face a must win situation against Indian Bank in their last match.
Jose Ramirez Barreto came to Mohun Bagan's rescue as he found the winner in extra-time to edge past a fighting ONGC 2-1 in the Federation Cup.
Douhou Pierre scored in each half as Salgaocar registered a resounding 4-1 came-from-behind win over Mohun Bagan in the 36th Hero Federation Cup.
CK Vineeth showed his predatory skills with double strike in the extra time as Bengaluru FC beat Mohun Bagan 2-0 to win the 38th Federation Cup football tournament.
Churchill Brothers midfielder Ogba Kalu Nnanna was injured when a missile hurled by an irate Mohun Bagan fan hit him as mayhem broke out at the Vidyasagar Krirangan after Friday's I-League match in Basarat. Minutes after Churchill held Bagan to a 2-2 draw, furious Bagan supporters hurled bricks and bottles and abused the Churchill players.
Mohun Bagan beat Sporting Clube-de-Goa while Mahindra United got the better of Air India in their opening league matches of the Durand Cup football Tournament.
Joe Paul Ancheri scored the all-important goal in the NFL match.
FC Goa jumped to the second place in the league table with 30 points from 16 games, six behind leaders Mohun Bagan, who are sitting pretty at the top with 36 points.
Asim Biswas' late strike propelled three-time champions Mohun Bagan to a 2-1 win over Tollygunge.
NEUFC are the fourth highest scoring teams with 42 strikes.
Mohun Bagan won 2-1 to keep their chances alive of finishing runners-up in the National Football League.
The defending champions beat arch-rivals East Bengal in the semi-finals via the penalty shoot-out.
Substitute Dipendu Biswas scored late in the match to earn Mohun Bagan a 1-1 draw.
Okonji's first half strike carried Mohammedan Sporting to victory in the National Football League encounter.
The former champions put up a dismal show in the all-Kolkata National Football League match.
The Brazilian striker's goal enabled the Kolkata side beat Salgaocar and avenge their first leg defeat in the National Football League.\n\n
The foreign contingent was forced to stay back after the I-League season had been stopped abruptly due to the outbreak of the pandemic.
The result stretches BFC's winless run to six matches.
Robson Matos de Olivera will arrive in Kolkata on Monday.
Amal Dutta resigned on Tuesday, protesting the executive committee's decision to appoint a goalkeeping coach and a physical instructor.
Anwar was handed a four-month ban by All India Football Federation (AIFF) in early September with the governing body holding the player "guilty" of terminating his contract with Mohun Bagan in an unjust manner and signing a new deal with East Bengal, having returned to his parent club Delhi FC.
Brazilian Beto scored from the penalty spot as Mohun Bagan beat Sporting Clube De Goa 1-0.
Last year's winners of the India leg Mohun Bagan began their campaign in the Nike-Manchester United Premier Cup (under-15) football tournament with a resounding 9-0 victory over J &K Football Academy.
The club says the referee denied them two penalties during last Sunday's crucial National Football League match against East Bengal.
Mohun Bagan on Tuesday formally roped in Moroccan Karim Bencharifa as their new football coach for the coming season.
FC Goa join fellow ISL team Mohun Bagan Super Giant in the continental tournament's group stage. The Mariners had secured a direct berth by clinching the 2024-25 Indian Super League Shield.
They went down 0-1 to Kolkata Port Trust in a Kolkata premier division league match.
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