A 2-0 victory over Sporting Clube de Goa put Dempo level with Mahindra United, but on top of the table by virtue of a better goal difference.
Dudu Omagbemi's early goal earned them their third straight win in the National Football League.
Dishing out their best performance so far, East Bengal stopped Sporting Clube de Goa's impressive run with a crushing 3-1 win to move within sniffing distance of the top of the table in the ONGC I-League. A match that saw clinical finishing by East Bengal strikers and a faultless effort from defenders, opened up the league table.
Dudu Omagbemi's last-minute goal guided Sporting Clube de Goa to a 2-1 victory in the Goa Football Association Professional League.
The beat Churchill Brothers 2-1 on Sunday to take an unassailable lead with one round to go.
Pailan Arrows took Sporting Clube de Goa by surprise, scoring a solitary goal victory in a seventh round I-League match, at the Nehru stadium, in Fatorda, Goa, on Friday. Narayan Das scored the only goal of the match in the second session.
Jeremiah Ernest scored twice in a 4-0 win over bottom-placed HASC.
Sporting Clube De Goa's title aspirations hit a speedbreaker as they were held to a 2-2 draw by Tollygunge Agragami
The draw enabled Mohammedan Sporting end their run of defeats in the National Football League.
The Federation Cup champions thus avenged the 0-4 defeat they suffered in their first leg meeting in the National Football League.
Despite beating Chirag United 1-0 in their season-ending match on Friday, Sporting Clube de Goa finished 13th in the standings and could not avoid relegation to the second division.
Mohammedan Sporting and Sporting Clube de Goa had to settle for a goalless draw in their National Football League match.
Sporting Clube de Goa beat their state mates 4-0 to move up to the third place in the NFL table.
East Bengal rallied to hold Sporting Clube de Goa 1-1 in Margao on Wednesday.
Sporting Clube de Goa took the winds out of McDowell Mohun Bagan's sails with a fascinating 2-1 win in a 15th round I-League encounter at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, Goa on Thursday.
A nine-man Salgaocar succumbed to repeated attacks from Sporting Clube de Goa as they went down 1-3 in a rescheduled 12th round I-League clash at the Duler stadium, Mapusa, Goa, on Wednesday.
Sporting Clube de Goa have signed Japanese defender Kenji Arai from Singapore Armed Forces to strengthen their weak defense for the next round of I-league, commencing from January.
With this result, Sporting Clube de Goa took their tally to nine points from eight matches while Bagan have eight from as many games.
'It is a deliberate attempt to injure our key players, so as to keep Goan teams out of the title,' club president Peter Vaz said.
In another match in the Second Division NFL, Sporting Clube de Goa rallied to beat Allwyn Hindustan.
Sporting Clube de Goa continued their slow but steady progress in the I-League with a solitary goal victory over Dempo Sports Club at Duler Stadium, Goa, on Saturday.
Sporting Clube de Goa were stopped in their tracks by a determined Pailan Arrows as the two teams were locked goalless in a fifth round clash of the I-League at the Nehru Stadium, in Fatorda, Goa, on Wednesday. Sporting Clube were on a two-match winning streak and expected to complete a hat-trick of wins, but lacked the necessary sharpness upfront.
Junior Obagbemiro's 82nd minute goal guided Sporting Clube de Goa a solitary goal win over Dempo to remain on top of the table in the ONGC I-League at Nehru stadium on Saturday.
Sporting Clube de Goa kept themselves in the race for the NFL title as they score a convincing 2-0 win over Fransa Pax.
Dempo Sports Club broke their sequence of losses and returned to the top of the table after securing a 3-2 win over Sporting Clube de Goa at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, Goa, on Thursday.
The Goa team's fourth, fifth and sixth rounds have been rescheduled in view of the accident some of its players and coach met with on Wednesday.
Edeh Chidi and Dudu Omagbemi hold the key to Sporting Clube's chances in the semi-final of the Federation Cup football tournament.
Sporting Clube de Goa kept their hopes of avoiding relegation alive when they got the better of JCT by a solitary goal in a 20th round I-League match at the Nehru Stadium, in Margao, Goa, on Wednesday. The home side, which had more of the exchanges and scoring opportunities, scored the all-important goal in the 33rd minute through Bisheshwor Singh.
Churchill Brothers beat Sporting Clube de Goa 3-1 for only their second victory in the National Football League.
Sporting Clube beat Churchill brothers 4-0 to climb to the third spot in the NFL table.
Odafe Okolie struck once in each half to end Sporting Clube De Goa's winning streak as Churchill Brothers scored an emphatic 3-0 victory in an ONGC I-League match at Nehru Stadium in Margao on Sunday. Besides Odafe, who scored in the 15th and 54th minutes, Thokchom Naoba Singh found the target in the 68th minute for Churchill, who led 1-0 at half time.
The Goa pro league champions handed the defending champions their first defeat in the league.
Powered by a brace from Dudu Omagbemi they beat Fransa Pax 4-1 in the quarter-finals of the Federation Cup football tournament.
Dudu Omagbemi's hat-trick helped Sporting Clube de Goa score an emphatic 4-1 victory over Fransa in the eighth round of the NFL.
Salgaocar once again squandered the lead as they allowed Sporting Clube de Goa to come back in the second half and hold them to a 1-1 draw in the ONGC I-league played in Margao on Thursday.
Odafe Okolie scored a hatrick as Mohun Bagan thrashed Sporting Clube de Goa 5-1 to end their unbeaten run, in the 23rd round of the I-League played at the Duler Stadium in Mapusa on Sunday.
Both teams scored 1-0 victories over Air India and Mahindra United in quarter-final league matches.
Sporting Clube de Goa put up a gritty performance to hold Federation Cup champions East Bengal to a goalless draw in their opening encounter of the I-League football tournament at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda.
Viva continue to remain in fourth place with nine points in the I-League football tournament behind leaders Dempo (14), JCT (12) and Churchill Brothers (10), while Sporting have with three points.
Dudu Omagbemi, Edeh Chidi and Adewusi Adebayo scored a goal each as Sporting Clube de Goa won 3-2.
