2021–22 Calcutta Premier Division

Calcutta Premier Division A
Season	2021–22
Dates	17 August 2021 – TBA
Matches played	12
Goals scored	31 (2.58 per match)
Biggest home win	Peerless 4–1 Kidderpore; (17 August)
Biggest away win	Southern Samity 0–3 Mohammedan; (18 August)
Highest scoring	Peerless 4–1 Kidderpore; (17 August)
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The 2021 Calcutta Premier Division is the 123rd season of the Calcutta Premier Division, a top-tier state association football league of West Bengal. It will be held between mid-August 2021 and the first week of October 2021.^[1]^[2] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to cancel Calcutta League last season,^[3] but this year it will be played.^[4]^[5]

Changes from last season[]

Rules and Regulation[]

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in West Bengal, the tournament format is shortened by adopting a league-cum-knockout format.^[4] The 14 participating teams would be divided into two groups and each team would play against all the other teams in their respective groups once. The top three teams from each group would earn a direct quarter final berth. The remaining four teams from each group would play against each other once for the last two quarter final spots. The eight qualified teams would then play knockout matches to reach the final of Premier Division A.^[5]

The IFA has also increased the number of overseas players a club could register from 4 to 6. But among the 6 foreigners, only 2 can be named in the starting eleven.^[6]^[7]

The teams would be exempted from relegation this season if the lower divisions of CFL are cancelled due to the pandemic situation.^[6]^[7]

Number of clubs[]

Promoted clubs[]

Promoted clubs from 2019 to 2020 Calcutta Premier Division B:

Relegated clubs[]

Relegated clubs from 2019 to 2020 Calcutta Premier Division A:

NBP Rainbow

Kalighat Milan Sangha

Teams[]

Managers and captains[]

Team	Head coach	Captain	Jersey sponsor
Aryan	Rajdeep Nandy		Techno India Group
ATK Mohun Bagan	Antonio Habas		SBOTOP
Bhawanipore	Sankarlal Chakraborty		Sangbad Pratidin
BSS	Goutam Ghosh	Priyant Kumar Singh	Easha
Calcutta Customs
East Bengal	Manolo Díaz		Shree Cement
George Telegraph	Ranjan Bhattacharjee
Kidderpore	Sanjib Pal	Ejiogu Emmanuel	Riyan Enterprise
Mohammedan	Andrey Chernyshov	Nikola Stojanović	BunkerHill Sports
Tollygunge Agragami	Bimal Ghosh		Modern Institute of Engineering & Technology
Peerless	Subrata Bhattacharya	Ansumana Kromah	Peerless Group
Railway		Ben Quansah	Shefali Cotton Handloom
Southern Samity	Biswajit Bhattacharya	Arnab Das Sharma
United	Steven Herbots	Jagannath Oraon

Foreign players[]

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6
Aryan	Aristide Vaillant	Kareem Omolaja
ATK Mohun Bagan	Hugo Boumous	Roy Krishna	Tiri	Joni Kauko	David Williams	Carl McHugh
Bhawanipore	Kamo Stephane Bayi	Henry Kisekka
BSS	Léonce Dodoz	Seydou Kourouma
Calcutta Customs	Gatch Arthure Diomande	Varney Kallon
East Bengal	Tomislav Mrcela	Franjo Prce	Darren Sidoel	Daniel Chima	Amir Dervišević
George Telegraph	Echezona Anyichie
Kidderpore	Ejiogu Chinedu Emmanuel	Stephen Abeiku
Mohammedan	Nikola Stojanović	Stefan Ilić	Marcus Joseph	Shaher Shaheen
Peerless	Ansumana Kromah	Dixon Alusine
Railway	Ben Quansah	Rayden Gonzo	Kelvin Kollie
Southern Samity	Victor Kamhuka
Tollygunge Agragami	Christopher Chizoba
United	Dennis Dauda	Matthew Tendai

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Mohammedan	4	3	1	0	7	2	+5	10	Qualified for Quarterfinals
2	BSS	5	3	1	1	12	7	+5	10
3	United	5	3	1	1	10	5	+5	10
4	Bhawanipore	4	2	2	0	9	5	+4	8	Relegated to Elimination round
5	Railway	5	2	1	2	8	8	0	7
6	Southern Samity	4	0	0	4	2	9	−7	0
7	East Bengal	5	0	0	5	0	15	−15	0

Updated to match(es) played on 3 September 2021. Source: The Away End

Fixtures and results[]

Home \ Away	MMD	BSS	BFC	RLY	EAB	USC	SSY
Mohammedan	—	TBA	—	2–0	—	8 Sep	—
BSS	—	—	—	3–1	—	15 Sep	—
Bhawanipore	TBA	2–2	—	2–2	Cancelled	2–1	14 Sep
Railway	—	—	—	—	—	TBA	—
East Bengal	12 Sep	7 Sep	—	15 Sep	—	3 Sep	TBA
United	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Southern Samity	0–3	1–3	—	1–2	—	11 Sep	—

Updated to match(es) played on 5 September 2021. Source: The Away End
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches[]

18 August 2021 (2021-08-18) 1	Southern Samity	0–3	Mohammedan	showKalyani
14:45 IST			Stojanovic 16' Faiaz 40' Mallick 84'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

18 August 2021 (2021-08-18) 2	BSS	3–1	Railway	showKolkata
14:45 IST	Rahul Paswan Dodoz Sarkar		Sagar	Stadium: Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

20 August 2021 (2021-08-20) 3	Bhawanipore	2–1	United	showKolkata
14:45 IST	Pritam Sarkar 30' Mohanraj 90+4'		Dilip Oraon 41'	Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground Attendance: 0^[2]

22 August 2021 (2021-08-22) 4	Southern Samity	1–2	Railway	showNaihati
14:45 IST	Peter S Haokip 65'		Achintya Ghosh 11' Rayden Gonzo 45+2'	Stadium: Naihati Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

27 August 2021 (2021-08-27) 5	Bhawanipore	2–2	BSS	showKolkata
14:45 IST	Henry Kisekka ?' Sandeep Patra ?'		Rahul Paswan ?', ?'	Stadium: Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

31 August 2021 (2021-08-31) 6	Bhawanipore	3–0 Walkover	East Bengal	showKalyani
14:45 IST		Report		Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]
Note: Bhawanipore were awarded walkover win by 3 goals^[8] since East Bengal didn't turn up for the match

2 September 2021 (2021-09-02) 7	Mohammedan	2–0	Railway	showKalyani
14:45 IST	Faiaz 45' Mallick 63'			Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

3 September 2021 (2021-09-03) 8	East Bengal	0–3 Walkover	United	showKalyani
14:45 IST		Report		Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]
Note: United were awarded walkover win by 3 goals^[9] since East Bengal didn't turn up for the match

5 September 2021 (2021-09-05) 9	Bhawanipore	2–2	Railway	showHowrah
14:45 IST	Kamo ?' Mohanraj ?'		Kevin Kollie ?', ?'	Stadium: Howrah Municipal Corporation Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

5 September 2021 (2021-09-05) 10	Southern Samity	1–3	BSS	showKalyani
14:45 IST	Md. Firoz 12'		Rahul Paswan 19', 22', 27' (pen)	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

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Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	George Telegraph	4	2	2	0	6	2	+4	8	Qualified for Quarterfinals
2	Peerless	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
3	Calcutta Customs	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
4	Aryan	4	1	2	1	0	1	−1	5	Relegated to Elimination round
5	Tollygunge Agragami	4	0	1	3	2	4	−2	1
6	Kidderpore	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
7	ATK Mohun Bagan	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0

Updated to match(es) played on 26 August 2021. Source: The Away End

Fixtures and results[]

Home \ Away	PRL	ARN	TAG	ATKMB	CCU	GTL	KSC
Peerless	—	—	—		TBA	—	4–1
Aryan	0–0	—	0–0		0–1	12 Sep	7 Sep
Tollygunge Agragami	13 Sep	—	—		2–3	0–1	TBA
ATKMB				—
Calcutta Customs	—	—	—		—	—	—
George Telegraph	TBA	—	—		7 Sep	—	1–1
Kidderpore	—	—	—		TBA	—	—

Updated to match(es) played on 26 August 2021. Source: The Away End
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches[]

17 August 2021 (2021-08-17) 1	Peerless	4–1	Kidderpore	showKolkata
14:45 IST	Moula 8' Aftab Alam 21' Kromah 38', 67' (pen)		Emmanuel Ejiogu 2'	Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground Attendance: 0^[2]

18 August 2021 (2021-08-18) 2	Aryan	0–0	Tollygunge Agragami	showHowrah
14:45 IST				Stadium: Howrah Municipal Corporation Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

21 August 2021 (2021-08-21) 3	Aryan	0–1	Calcutta Customs	showKolkata
14:45 IST			Alocious M ?'	Stadium: Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

21 August 2021 (2021-08-21) 4	Tollygunge Agragami	0–1	George Telegraph	showKolkata
14:45 IST			Mahitosh Roy ?'	Stadium: Mohammedan Sporting Ground Attendance: 0^[2]

25 August 2021 (2021-08-25) 5	Aryan	0–0	Peerless	showKolkata
14:45 IST				Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground Attendance: 0^[2]

25 August 2021 (2021-08-25) 6	Tollygunge Agragami	2–3	Calcutta Customs	showKolkata
14:45 IST	Chizoba ?' (pen) Gagandeep Singh ?'		Gatch Arthure Diomande ?' Alocious Muthayyan ?' Rabi Hansda ?'	Stadium: Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

26 August 2021 (2021-08-26) 7	George Telegraph	1–1	Kidderpore	showHowrah
14:45 IST	Rajib Ghorui 47'		Sumit Ghosh 21'	Stadium: Howrah Municipal Corporation Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]

29 August 2021 (2021-08-29) 8	ATK Mohun Bagan	0–3	George Telegraph	showKalyani
14:45 IST		Report		Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]
Note: George Telegraph were awarded walkover win by 3 goals^[10] since ATK Mohun Bagan didn't turn up for the match

4 September 2021 (2021-09-04) 9	ATK Mohun Bagan	0–3 Walkover	Kidderpore	showKalyani
14:45 IST		Report		Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 0^[2]
Note: Kidderpore were awarded walkover win by 3 goals^[11] since ATK Mohun Bagan didn't turn up for the match

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Elimination round[]

Pos	Team	Qualification or relegation
1	^{[to be determined]}	Qualified for Quarterfinals
2	^{[to be determined]}	Qualified for Quarterfinals
3	^{[to be determined]}
4	^{[to be determined]}
5	^{[to be determined]}
6	^{[to be determined]}
7	^{[to be determined]}
8	^{[to be determined]}

Updated to match(es) played on 12 July 2021. Source:^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stage[]

Bracket[]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Quarterfinals[]

Semifinals[]

Final[]

Season statistics[]

Top scorers
Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rahul Paswan	BSS	6
2	Ansumana Kromah	Peerless	2
	Alocious M	Calcutta Customs
	Gatch Arthure Diomande	Calcutta Customs
	Sk. Faiaz	Mohammedan
	Azharuddin Mallick	Mohammedan
	Kelvin Kollie	Railways
	Pradeep Mohanraj	Bhawanipore Club
3	Pankaj Moula	Peerless	1
	Nikola Stojanović	Mohammedan
	Md. Aftab Alam	Peerless
	Ejiogu Emmanuel	Kidderpore
	Pritam Sarkar	Bhawanipore Club
	Dilip Oraon	United SC
	Tirthankar Sarkar	BSS
	Léonce Dodoz	BSS
	Sukuram	Railway FC
	Mahitosh Roy	George Telegraph SC
	Rayden Gonzo	Railway FC
	Achinta Ghosh	Railway FC
	Peter Seiminthang Haokip	Southern Samity
	Christopher Chizoba	Tollygunge Agragami
	Gagandeep Singh	Tollygunge Agragami
	Mohammad Rabi	Calcutta Customs
	Rajib Ghorui	Kidderpore
	Sumit Ghosh	George Telegraph SC
	Sandip Patra	Bhawanipore Club
	Henry Kisekka	Bhawanipore Club
	Kamo Stephane Bayi	Bhawanipore Club
	Mohamed Firoz	Southern Samity
	Jaskaranpreet Singh	Mohammedan
	Marcus Joseph	Mohammedan
	Subrata Murmu	United SC
	Jagannath Oraon	United SC
	Mahitosh Roy	George Telegraph SC
	Suhin Sikdar	Calcutta Customs

Most cleansheets
Rank	Goalkeeper	Club	Cleansheets
1	Zothanmawia	Mohammedan	2
1	Laltu Mondal	Aryan	1
	Bisu Jana	Tollygunge Agragami
	Suryash Jaiswal	George Telegraph SC
	Dibyendu Sarkar	Calcutta Customs
	Sanjay Bhatterjee	Peerless
	Subrata Satra	Aryan
2	Priyant Singh	BSS Sporting	0
	Parveen Patel	Railway FC
	Arnab Das Sharma	Southern Samity
	Debapriya Das	Kidderpore
	Subham Roy	Bhawanipore Club
	Sangram Mukherjee	United SC
	Avijit Kar	Railways
	Subhankar Dutta	Kidderpore
	Sheikh Sadekuddin	Southern Samity
	Akash Mondal	Bhawanipore Club
	Raja Barman	United SC

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[cfl21-1] Ghosh, Sabyasachi (1 July 2021). "আগস্টের মাঝে শুরু হবে কলকাতা লিগ, আইএফএর বৈঠকে গরহাজির এসসি ইস্টবেঙ্গল" [Kolkata League to start mid-August, SC East Bengal absentee in meeting]. XtraTime Bangla (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

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[cfl21c-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Indian Football Association plans Premier Group A from August". The Telegraph. 2 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

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