Note-2: A UNI report: FIFA Assistant Development Officer Mohsin Gillani today said women's football in India could surge ahead with proper planning and infrastructure.
Talking to reporters at the end of day's stopover in Calcutta where he inspected the infrastructure of women's football and met the coaches and administrators, Gillani said, "This is the only time that I've got some first hand knowledge about women's football and I must say its very encouraging."
"It's better than many other countries. It has the scope to develop further with proper infrastructure and planning," he added.
"There is need for proper training of referees, coaches and administrators. This could give women's football a new direction," Gillani, who made the earlier stopover at Delhi, said.
He also disclosed that every year FIFA gave 250,000 dollar to AIFF for development of football in the country, of which 10 per cent were earmarked for women's football.
Gillani, who is in-charge of development of soccer in the subcontinent, is based in Colombo and has come to India with the specific purpose of development of women's football here.
AIFF Secretary Alberto Colaco, who was also present, said, "We spend one lakh dollar every year on women's football and expect more cooperation from FIFA. It may not be in cash, but could come in the form of coach, referee and administrative training."

Note-3: Do you want to become a referee? And are based in Mumbai? Then the Mumbai District FA has an offer for you to enter the world of the "Men in Black". The MDFA will be conducting classes from September 1 at St. Xavier's Ground, Parel. Interested individuals who want to make refereeing a career and who have passed their SSC or equivalent examination and are below 25 years of age are requested to contact Tony Rodrigues at St. Xavier's Ground under phone No. 2412-4900.

25. August
Calcutta Premier League: East Bengal Club 2-0 George Telegraph SC - Goals: 1-0 IM Vijayan (11'), 2-0 Shylo Malswam Tulunga (87').
EAST BENGAL: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, Sasthi Duley, Covan Lawrence, Habibur Rehman Mondal, Saumik Dey, Sandip Das (74' Chandan Das), Dipankar Roy (31' Muttath Suresh), Shylo Malswam Tulunga, Jayanta Sen, Syed Rahim Nabi, IM Vijayan (80' Kalia Kulothungan).
GTSC: Chinmoy Banerjee, Mohan Chakraborty, Binod Mal, Shyam Mondal, Sanjoy Mallick, Manik Barman (58' Kishore Mallick), Sanjib Santra (46' Amit Biswas), Swarup Chatterjee, Umesh Sharma, MC Francis, M Chibuzu (78' Gautam Thakur).

Calcutta Premier League: Mohun Bagan AC 1-0 EverReady SA - Goal: 1-0 Dipendu Biswas (48').
MOHUN BAGAN: Subrata Pal, Sanjay Parte, Satish Kumar Bharti, Eduardo Chacon Coelho Lacerda, Subhashish Roy Chowdhury, Rajib Ahmed, Tomba Singh, Mehtab Hussain, Dharamjit Singh, Manjit Singh (31' Dipendu Biswas, 66' Basudeb Mondal, 75' Hardeep Singh Gill), Gley Yao Rodrigue.
EVERrEADY: Shibram Dey, Surajit Chakraborty, Amulya Mondal, Akshay Das, Sarkar, Dhiman Sinha (89' Niladri Sekhar Chakraborty), Lal Kamal Bhowmick, Snehasish Chakraborty, Eugene Gray, Sheikh Habeeb Ali (85' Crispin Chetri), Zamir Ali Mondal (67' Ratan Das).

Calcutta Premier League: Mohammedan Sporting Club 0-0 Calcutta Port Trust - Goals: none.
Goa Third Division: Tropa SCC 0-4 Vailankani FC; Sirsaim SWC 1-0 Guirim YC; Arlem YA (walkover) SCC Loutulim; Carmona SC 2-1 Varca SC
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Police Blues 4-0 Assam Dynamo Club - Goals: 1-0 Arun Daimary (4'), 2-0 Madhusudan Hazarika (54'), 3-0,4-0 Rabijit Jigdang (68',73').
Kalinga Cup - Round 2: Titanium XI 5-1 Gorkha Rifles - Goals: 1-0 Vijesh Kumar (14'), 2-0,5-0 Ebin Rose (18',52'), 3-0,4-0 Jackson Sebastian (20',40'), 5-1 Anju Raj Rai (81').
Kalinga Cup - Round 2: Indian Bank 5-0 Hyderabad - Goals: 1-0 Gregory Clarke (17'), 2-0 Ramesh (31'), 3-0 Johnny (66'), 4-0 Mike Chinedu Obi (80'), 5-0 Kanagaraj (84').
Mumbai Elite Division: H2K-Holy Family 2-0 Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers - Goals: 1-0 Nawaz Rehman (55'), 2-0 Brenden Clapson (80').
Mumbai Super Division: Rizvi Mumbai Muslims - Bank of Baroda = match postponed due to inappropriate ground conditions
Punjab State Super League: Border Security Force 0-2 JCT Mills - Goals: 0-1,0-2 Praveen Kumar (30',40').

24. August
Calcutta Super Division: Railway FC 0-0 SAIL - Goals: none.
Calcutta Super Division: Calcutta FC 2-0 Khidderpore Sporting Union
Chennai Senior Division: Integral Coach Factory 3-0 Dhinamani FC - Goals: 1-0 Ashok Kumar (45'), 2-0,3-0 Jegan Jr (55',65').
Goa Third Division: Verna SC 0-0 UC Utorda; Holiday SC 0-2 Sangolda Lightning; Adarsh Yuvak Sangh 2-0 St Christopher SC; Vagator Parish YSC - Peddem Bomm SC; St Cruz Society of Poitomado (walkover) YWC Assolna; St Cruz Club Cavelossim - UC Benaulim
Guwahati Super Division: Guwahati Town Club 0-2 Jewel Star Club - Goals: 0-1 Utpal Das (14'), 0-2 Rahajuddin Ahmed (39').
Guwahati Super Division: NF Railway SC - Assam State Electricity Board = match halted after 19 minutes due to water-logging on the pitch
Kalinga Cup - Round 2: SAI Training Centre, Cuttack 2-0 Bhubaneswar Athletic Association - Goals: 1-0 Manas Ranjan Behera (24'), 2-0 Gyana Ranjan Samal (80').
Mumbai Elite Division: Mumbai Customs 0-2 Bank of India - Goals: 0-1,0-2 Basheer Hussein (17',90').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group A: GS Parmar FC 4-0 GPS Chahal SC - Goals: 1-0 Amrit Pal (2'), 2-0,4-0 Jasvir Singh (7',80'), 3-0 Timresh Sharma (60').

Note-1: The AIFF technical committee met today in New Delhi under it's chairman CR Viswanathan with Inder Singh, Mohammed Habib, Henry Menezes, Pradip Choudhury and T Nagendran taking part to discuss a number of issues related to the national team and youth development.
Certain sections of the media had speculated in the last few days that national coach Sukhwinder Singh would be sacked today and that East Bengal coach Subhas Bhowmick would come in to replace him. The committee did discuss the dismal results of the national team (actually U23 team) against Pakistan and Fiji. The committee was not at all happy with the report handed in by Sukhwinder Singh, so the national coach position would be discussed in the next executive committee meeting on September 6. Sukhi is on tricky ground and with Subhas Bhowmick's support base growing, his days as national coach could be numbered.
An issue raised in the reports of the chief coach, manager and doctor was the fitness of the players. To more often check the physical fitness of Indian internationals, every three month's a fitness test would be carried out.
Another issue raised was to have three India Under-18 national teams (White, Saffron, Green) based across the country to enable talented youngsters to get the best possible training. The idea was welcomed by all.

23. August
Chennai Senior Division: Indian Bank 2-1 Young Men SC - Goals: 0-1 ? (29'), 1-1 Mike Chenedu Obi (53'), 2-1 Syed Shabir Pasha (75').
Goa Third Division: Nagoa Sporting Club 3-1 Chapora Yuvak Sangh; Saligao United 3-2 Holy Cross SC; St Rock's YC 1-1 Betalbatim SC; YC Manora 3-0 Our Lady of Gloria SC; Ambelim SC 6-3 Cuncolim Union
Guwahati Super Division: Maharana AC 1-2 SAI SC,Guwahati - Goals: 0-1 Achinta Basumatary (53'), 1-1 Jogat Rabha (69'), 1-2 Robilochan Basumatary (89').
Kalinga Cup - Round 1: CIL, Bangalore 0-3 Bhubaneswar Athletic Association - Goals: 0-1 Saroj Kanta Patnaik (10'), 0-2 Nipendra Das (43'), 0-3 Bhabani Mohanty (44').
Kalinga Cup - Round 2: State Sports Hostel, Cuttack 2-1 Mangla Club, Cuttack - Goals: 1-0 Saroj Das (26'), 1-1 Amarendra Sahu (43'), 2-1 Salkhan Soren (90+2').
Mumbai Elite Division: Bengal Mumbai FC 0-1 Golden Gunners - Goal: 0-1 Reuben D'Souza (46').
Mumbai Super Division: Central Bank of India - Income Tax = match postponed due to inappropriate ground conditions
Punjab State Super League: Punjab Police 3-0 Mahilpur FC - Goals: 1-0 Anwar (12'), 2-0 Harshdeep Singh (70' - Penalty), 3-0 Vijay Pal (80').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group B: Sikh National SC 2-0 International FC - Goals: 1-0 Sandeep Kumar (29'), 2-0 Balkar Singh (53').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group B: Harcharan SC 0-0 Bassi FC - Goals: none.

Note-1: East Bengal Club called a press conference at the club tent today to give their views and written proof on the "John Dias transfer saga". As of now the player has told the AIFF Players Status Committee on August 10 that he would like to play for Dempo SC and that his signature has been forged by East Bengal, after having even trained with the East Bengal squad for about a month and even playing some exhibition matches for the red-and-gold. The case is now pending with the AIFF Disciplinary Committee as the signature on the contract and the Inter-State Transfer paper did not match for the Players Status Committee.
At the press conference East Bengal secretary Kalyan Majumdar pointed out that the club would take legal action, if needed, against the player and others, if the interest of the club were hurt (damaged). As of now Dias wants to stay in Goa, after having changed his mind a number of times.
The whole controversy started with Dias taking an advance of Rs 400,000 from East Bengal and signing the contract with the club. Thereafter Dias sends a written letter to East Bengal dated June 15 that he would now sign for Dempo and not join East Bengal as he was being threathened by Dempo officials. The letter is followed-up by another letter dated June 16 stating that he is refunding the advance and he had actually signed the transfer papers for Dempo on May 30 itself plus his parents wanted him to stay in Goa. On June 29 Dias had written another letter to East Bengal stating he was now willing to join the club as soon as possible, if his advance was send to his personal account. East Bengal just did that, Dias joined training in early-July but then suddenly disappeared in early-August, days before the Players Status Committee on August 10 in New Delhi.
East Bengal feel that either the player is playing with them or AIFF officials do not want Dias to sign for them.
More is likely to follow.

Note-2: Rising Calcutta club EverReady SA today announced at a press conference in the Maidan Tent of the Calcutta Sports Journalists Club that Texport Electronics Limited would sponsor the club for this season. The club would now play under the new name of AVI EverReady SA, Avi being a brand of Texport Electronics. Earlier the liquor brand Officer's Choice had been sponsoring the club for a couple of seasons.

Note-3: Bipul Banerjee, a former sports journalist, died in Calcutta yesterday following a heart attack according to his family. The 73 year old Banerjee was a widower and left behind a son and two daughters.
Banerjee covered a lot of sportsing disciplines during his career, but football was his preferred sport. He had been president of the Calcutta Sports Jounalists' Club from 1985 to 1987.
Banerjee began his career in a Bengali daily for teenagers 'Kishore', before joining leading vernacular newspaper 'Jugantar' where he worked for 30 years till his retirement. He was later appointed sports-in-charge of the Silguri edition of another Bengali daily 'Basumati' and continued in the post for five years. His write-ups on promising and established sportspersons in 'Amrita', the weekly magazine of the Jugantar-Amritabazar Patrika group, were also very popular.
IndianFootball.Com condoles his death.

22. August
Calcutta Premier League: East Bengal Club 4-0 Eastern Railway SC - Goals: 1-0,3-0 IM Vijayan (26',58'), 2-0 Alvito D'Cunha (53'), 4-0 Syed Rahim Nabi (65').
EAST BENGAL: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, Debabrata Roy, Habibur Rehman Mondal, Covan Lawrence; Alvito D'Cunha (54' Shylo Malswam Tulunga), Kalia Kulothungan (16' Jayanta Sen), Debjit Ghosh, Sasthi Duley, Jatin Singh Bisht, IM Vijayan (Gauranga Dutta 67), Syed Rahim Nabi.
EASTERN RAILWAY: Surabuddin Chowdhury (66' Tapan Kumar Karmakar), Babun Kar, Shantanu Bit (60' Subhankar Maity), Barun Kundu, Dipankar Ghosh, Saikat Mondal, Kuntal Biswas, Joydeep Bose, Ganesh Saha (46' Samrat Roy Choudhuri), Farid Ali Mollah, Bapin Bera.

Calcutta Premier League: Mohun Bagan AC 2-0 Tollygunge Agragami - Goals: 1-0,2-0 Gley Yao Rodrigue (24',79').
MOHUN BAGAN: Subrata Pal, Sanjay Parte (72' Rajib Ahmed), Satish Kumar Bharti, Eduardo Chacon Coelho Lacerda, Subhashish Roy Chowdhury, Tomba Singh, Basudeb Mondal, Noel Wilson, Dharamjit Singh, Manjit Singh (46' Harvinder Singh), Gley Yao Rodrigue.
TOLLYGUNGE: Prolay Dutta, Mahesh Sarkar, Sheikh Azim, Manoj Das, Bijoy Das, Abdul Rauf Khan (76' Srikanta Das), Shovan Das, Nilavo Chakraborty (28' Trijit Das, 62' Tarak Bose), Bhola Prasad, Surajit Chakraborty Jr, Ayan Chowdhury.

Calcutta Premier League: Calcutta Port Trust 0-0 EverReady SA - Goals: none.
Chennai Senior Division: Southern Railway 1-1 Netaji SC - Goals: 0-1 Paneerselvam (7'), 1-1 Antony (75').
Goa Third Division: Rossman Cruz Nagao 0-0 Cristo Rei YC; Peddem Bomm SC 0-0 Vagator Parish YSC; Shiroda YC 0-4 Arlem YA; CRC Chinchinim 5-0 Zaino WSC
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Dynamo Club 0-2 Assam State Electricity Board - Goals: 0-1 Mani Kanta Brahma (70'), 0-2 Sanjeeva Rongpi (71').
Kalinga Cup - Round 1: Indian Air Force, New Delhi 2-3 Mangla Club, Cuttack - Goals: 1-0 Danny (20'), 1-1 Ranjaya Routray (25'), 2-1 LB Victor (47'), 2-2,2-3 Santosh Chowdhury (83',85').
Kalinga Cup - Round 1: SAI Training Centre, Cuttack 3-0 Samaleswari Club, Sambalpur - Goals: 1-0 Manas Ranjan Behera (8'), 2-0 Sheikh Momin (75'), 3-0 Srikant Nayak (78').
Kerala Sub-Junior Championships - Final: Kozhikode 2-2,6-5 Malapuram
Mumbai Elite Division: Central Railway 2-1 Maharashtra State Police - Goals: 1-0 Altaf Khan (27'), 2-0 Aziz Qureshi (86'), 2-1 Utpal Kadam (90').
Punjab State Super League: JCT Football Academy 0-1 Punjab State Electricity Board - Goal: 0-1 Tajinder Singh (65').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group A: GPS Chahal SC 0-2 SGGSS FC, Jalandhar

Note-1: The 6th SAFF Cup (South Asian Football Federation Championship) is set to be held from December 8 to 20, 2005 at Karachi's Peoples's Sports Complex in Pakistan. Tomorrow a three member final inspection team will be in Karachi to overview prepations, even watching an exhibition match in the evening to see the floodlit system in action. The inspection delegation will comprise of SAFF general secretary Siraj-ul-Islam from Bangladesh and Singapore-based World Sports Group representatives Thomas Wheeler (Operations Executive) and Mohamed Shahrum Jappar (Events Executive).

Note-2: Nigerian striker Mike Okoro is set to return to East Bengal Club this week. Okoro had two very successful years with the Calcutta giants from 2002 to 2004 and he could help his former club sort out their problems in the strikers department.

Note-3: The 54th Bordoloi Trophy is set to be held in the middle of October in the Assam capital Guwahati. The organising Guwahati Sports Association hopes to kickoff the tournament on October 16 with top teams from across the Northeast to feature. The organisers hope to also attract top teams from Calcutta and Thailand.

21. August
Mumbai Elite Division: Mahindra United 3-0 Western Railway - Goals: 1-0 Peter Siddique (39'), 2-0,3-0 Surkumar Singh (59',75').
MAHINDRA: Subhashish Roy Chowdhury, Surkumar Singh, Mahesh Gawli, Peter Siddiqui, Samson Fernandes, Steven Dias (74' Anees Kutty), Sushanth Mathew, Gouramangi Singh, Subhash Chakraborty (79' Shanmugam Venkatesh), Surajit Bose, Abhishek Yadav.
WESTERN RAILWAY: Partha Das, Sumit Das, Prakash Patil, Jayesh Martin, Suvendu Hui, Willy Joy, Inam-ul Haque, Gurunath Reddy, Mukund Yadav (54' Anil Pawar), PV Vinoy, Subhash Adilkar (60' Aldrin Monteiro).
YELLOW CARDS: Steven Dias (21'), Surkumar Singh (26' both Mahindra); Suvendu Hui (84'), Sumit Das (86' both W.Railway).

Chennai Senior Division: Integral Coach Factory 1-0 SAI, Chennai - Goal: 1-0 Venkatesan (30').
Goa Third Division: Sirsaim SWC 0-1 Adarsh Yuvak Sangh; Sai Avtar SC 0-0 Assagao YC
Kalinga Cup - Round 1: State Sports Hostel, Cuttack 1-1,4-2 East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar [penalties] - Goals: 0-1 Ramakant Rout (34'), 1-1 A Naresh (44').
Mumbai Super Division: Union Bank of India - Akbar Travels = match postponed due to inappropriate ground conditions
Punjab State Super League: JCT Mills 4-0 Mahilpur FC - Goals: 1-0,3-0 Praveen Kumar (19',57'), 2-0 Gyan Moin Thapa (37'), 4-0 Baldeep Singh (75').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group B: Bassi FC - International FC = match abandoned due to heavy rain
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group B: Harcharan SC 1-2 Sikh National SC - Goals: 0-1,1-2 Sandeep Kumar (2',78'), 1-1 Sarabjit Singh (8').

Note-1: The All India Public Sector football tournament will be organised by the Airport Authority of India at the Civil Aviation Training College, Allahabad from September 19 to 25.

Note-2: The under-19 football competition for boys and girls of the 51st National School Games will be held at Cooch Behar, West Bengal, from September 9 to 15, 2005.

Note-3: The 12th Upendra Nath Brahma Gold Cup will kick-off tomorrow at the Udalguri Sports ground. The tournament, organised by the Udalguri Sports Association, will see 18 teams from across the Northeast taking part, amongst them defending champions Lajong SSC from Shillong.

Note-3: The Assam U21 Inter-District Football tournament will be held in Lakhimpur from September 4. So far 15 districts have confirmed their participation.

20. August
46th ATPA Shield - Final: Nagaland Police 2-1 Food Corporation of India,Guwahati - Goals: 1-0 Baliebiez (20'), 1-1 Thomson Langthasa (27'), 2-1 Toshi (67').
Nagaland Police for the fifth time won the ATPA Shield trophy in Jorhat, Assam.

Calcutta Super Division: Calcutta Customs 2-0 Khidderpore Sporting Union
Calcutta Super Division: West Bengal Police 2-0 Calcutta FC
Calcutta Super Division: Mohammedan AC 1-0 SAIL
Calcutta Super Division: Railway FC 0-0 Peerless SC
Chennai Senior Division: Chennai Customs 2-0 Southern Railway - Goals: 1-0 J Rajan (78'), 2-0 Senthil Kumar (80').
Goa Third Division: Holiday SC 0-2 Saligao United; St Sebastian SC, Mapusa 5-3 Eagles SC
Mumbai Elite Division: H2K-Holy Family 0-0 Indian Navy - Goals: none.
Punjab State Super League: JCT Football Academy 1-1 Border Security Force - Goals: 0-1 Kamal Kishore (3'), 1-1 Hardip Singh (75').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group A: GS Parmar FC - GPS Chahal SC = match abandoned due to bad weather

Note-1: Baichung Bhutia's MK Land Selangor drew favourites Selangor one-all in a group D match of the Malaysia Cup. Baichung had another good match and had set-up the first goal with a shot on target, which the keeper could just keep out with a teammate able to finish of the move.

Note-2: The revived All-India Kalinga Cup Football Tournament will kickoff tomorrow at the Barabati Stadium, Cuttack with a match between local sides State Sports Hostel, Cuttack - East Coast Railway, Khurda. Besides Cuttack, Sambalpur's Bira Surendra Sai Stadium is the other venue for the tournament and there the first match will be on Monday between SAI Training Centre, Cuttack and Samaleswari Club.
In total nine teams from across India plus one from Bangladesh (Bada Jagarini Sansad) and six local sides will vie for the title. No teams from Goa, Punjab or Mumbai are participating due to local league engagements. From next year onwards the tournament would become part of the national calendar, this assurance has been given by the AIFF president Das Munshi to the organisers.

19. August
Calcutta Premier League: Mohammedan Sporting 1-2 Tollygunge Agragami - Goals: 0-1 Ayan Chowdhury (73'), 1-1 Raman Vijayan (78'), 1-2 Sheikh Azim (88').
Calcutta Premier League: Eastern Railway SC 1-1 EverReady SA - Goals: 1-0 Kuntal Biswas (56'), 1-1 Sheikh Habeeb Ali (67').
Chennai Senior Division: Dhinamani FC 2-1 SAI,Chennai - Goals: 1-0 Dhi Nirmal (4'), 1-1 Pradeep (19'), 2-1 Anandkumar (33').
Goa Third Division: Siolim Sodiem SC 0-0 Vailankani FC; St Christopher SC 1-2 Guirim YCC
Mumbai Elite Division: Bengal Mumbai FC - Mumbai Customs - Goals: none.
Punjab State Super League: Punjab State Electricity Board 0-2 JCT Mills - Goals: 0-1 Praveen Kumar (2'), 0-2 Gyan Moin Thapa (87').

18. August
Those of you who follow the local leagues across India through our site IndianFootball.Com will know that we have increased our coverage of league across India, sometimes also adding the second tier divisions like in Calcutta, Mumbai and now also Punjab to our coverage. With the Punjab FA providing us wih scores, we will bring to you the Punjab State 2nd Division League where talented players from across Punjab compete to make a mark for themselves on their way to the bigger stage.
Click here for the Punjab State 2nd Division League 2005/06 fixtures

And as a special service to our Goan site visitors, we at IndianFootball.Com will be covering the Goa Third Division League for the first time ever with the kind help from the Goa FA, who will provide a daily update of all matches so as to enable Goans all over the world to follow the fortunes of their village teams.
Click here for the revised Goa Third Division League 2005 fixtures

Calcutta Premier League: East Bengal Club 0-1 Mohun Bagan AC - Goal: 0-1 Gley Yao Rodrigue (17').
Mohun Bagan's new striker from Togo, Gley Yao Rodrigue, made a hero's debut against archrivals East Bengal scoring the winner at the Saltlake Stadium, Calcutta. Bagan surprisingly controlled proceedings against their higher rated rivals, who had a bad day in office while things clicked for Bagan. Rodrigue scored the winner in the 17.minute of the match after a goalmouth meelee and he could have added a coupe more in the second half, had not East Bengal keeper Naseem Aktar been in the way. East Bengal did get a golden chance to equalise in the 43.minute as Bagan's Brazilian defender Eduardo Chacon Coelho Lacerda handled the ball in the area with English referee Dave Roberts showing no hesitation to show to the spot. But the spotkick was wasted by captain Dipankar Roy as keeper Subrata Pal saved the shot
EAST BENGAL: Naseem Aktar, Sasthi Duley, Covan Lawrence, Arun Malhotra, Gurpreet Singh, Debabrata Roy, Dipankar Roy (56' Chandan Das), Bernard Pires, Jatin Singh Bisht (67' IM Vijayan), Alvito D'Cunha (43' Shylo Malswam Tulunga), Syed Rahim Nabi.
MOHUN BAGAN: Subrata Pal, Sanjay Parte, Mehraj Din Wadoo, Eduardo Chacon Coelho Lacerda, Subhashish Roy Chowdhury, Tomba Singh (85' Jerry Zirsanga), Mehtab Hussain, Noel Wilson, Dharamjit Singh, Manjit Singh (71' Basudeb Mondal), Gley Yao Rodrigue.
REFEREE: Dave Roberts (England).

Mumbai Elite Division: Mahindra United 1-0 Golden Gunners - Goal: 1-0 Peter Siddiqui (47').
MAHINDRA: Sandip Nandy, Mahesh Gawli, Peter Siddiqui, Othallo Tabia, Rauf Khan, Khalid Jamil, Steven Dias, Sushanth Mathew, Shanmugam Venkatesh, Anees Kutty, Abhishek Yadav.
GOLDEN GUNNERS: Sarfaraz Ansari, Akshay Thakkar, Osberne D'Souza, Clifford Kilmo, Anthony Fernandes, Souvaid Ansari, Aqueel Ansari, Rashid Shaikh, Ranzie Kalicharan, Soccero Velho, Reuben D'Souza.

46th ATPA Shield - Semifinal: Nagaland Police 1-0 Assam State Electricity Board - Goal: 1-0 Yapang (10').
Chennai Senior Division: Integral Coach Factory 7-0 Octopus Marine SC - Goals: 1-0,2-0,7-0 Ashok Kumar (12',28',75'), 3-0,5-0,6-0 Venkatesan (32',47',64'), 4-0 Jegan Jr (44').
Goa Third Division: Vagator Parish YSC 1-3 Sai Avtar SC; Holy Cross SC 1-0 Sangolda Lightning Club; UC Utorda 1-0 St Rock's YC, Majorda; SCC, Loutulim 0-1 YC Manora; St Cruz Society Poitomado 2-2 Ambelim SC
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Police Blues 2-0 NF Railway SC - Goals: 1-0 Arun Daimary (44'), 2-0 Digen Das (71').
Punjab State Super League: Border Security Force 1-0 Punjab Police - Goal: 1-0 Kamal Kishore (60').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group A: SGGSS FC, Jalandhar 3-0 GS Parmar FC - Goals: 1-0 Harpreet Singh (1'), 2-0 Rohit, 3-0 Sandeep Singh.
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group A: GPS Chahal SC - Muslim FC = Muslim FC didn't turn-up for the match and then also pulled out of the league
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group B: International FC 0-1 Harcharan SC - Goal: 0-1 Iqbal Singh (57').
Punjab State 2nd Division League - Phase I Group B: Sikh National SC 0-2 Bassi FC - Goals: 0-1 Amrinder Singh (22'), 0-2 Narinder (43').

Note-1: An AFP report: Amateur footballers Sporting Bengal United will become one of the first Asian sides to play in the FA Cup this weekend, the world's oldest knockout football tournament. The London-based side face Ware in the extra preliminary round of the tournament which is celebrating its 125th year.
"Our participation in this year's competition is truly a historic moment for the Asian community in this country," said Sporting Bengal chairman Suroth Miah.
"We want to take the whole community forward by being successful and push Asian players into mainstream football.
"To win this game would be fantastic. We have been drawn home in the next round, and it would be great for the local community to host an FA Cup game at Mile End stadium."
Sporting Bengal United was established in 1996 to push forward Asian football in England, and was awarded senior status in 2003.
"Everybody is aware that some ethnic groups, such as those from an Asian background, are still under-represented in the game, but the progress being made by this club is of tremendous importance," said the Football Association's (FA) ethics manager Lucy Faulkner. "Its another step towards football becoming fully representative of our society, not to mention a fantastic new ground for the oldest cup competition in the world." The FA aren't the only ones impressed by the club.
In 2003, the team, which draws its players from the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, were crowned UK Asian football champions for the second time. The tournament was played at Celtic's famed Parkhead stadium in Glasgow and former Scotland skipper Paul McStay liked what he saw from the skillful Bengal side.

Note-2: East Bengal Club not only lost the Calcutta derby today, but also lost long-time administrator Jiban Chakroborty. He had been ill for quite some time, kidney problems, and he died at a south Calcutta nursing home in the morning. Chakroborty was famous on the Calcutta Maidans for his skills to sign players from rival camps.

Note-3: National League champions Dempo SC and Super Cup winners Sporting Clube de Goa will be facing each other on August 24, at the St Cruz grounds. The match is being organised by the Cabesa Sports and Cultural Club as part of the local Harvest Festival.

17. August
The latest FIFA World Rankings were released today with INDIA losing a spot to be now 132nd in the world amongst 205 nations affiliated to FIFA. In Asia INDIA remains 25th 44 nations.
INDIA now has 350 points in the ranking, losing five points over the last month, which are a result of the two defeats at the hands of Fiji in the last week. Fiji meanwhile jumped four spots to 137th in the rankings. In south Asia INDIA remain first ahead of Sri Lanka and Maldives.

46th ATPA Shield - Semifinal: Oil India Limited 1-1,5-6 Food Corporation of India,Guwahati [penalties]
Calcutta Super Division: West Bengal Police 1-3 Khidderpore Sporting Union
Calcutta Super Division: Calcutta Customs 0-2 SAIL
Calcutta Super Division: Calcutta FC 0-0 Railway FC
Calcutta Super Division: Peerless SC 1-1 Mohammedan AC
Chennai Senior Division: Netaji SC 3-0 Young Men SC - Goals: 1-0 Paneerselvan, 2-0 Nidhi Kumar, 3-0 Gowsigan.
Goa Third Division: Cuncolin Union 6-0 Zaino WSC; Rossman Cruz SC,Nagoa 5-0 Betalbatim SC; Anjuna Gymkhana 6-0 Nagoa SC; Parish Youth Nuvem 2-0 Our Lady of Gloria SC
Guwahati Super Division: Guwahati Town Club 0-3 SAI SC-Guwahati - Goals: 0-1 Isaac Tirkey (37'), 2-0,3-0 Jayanta Basumatari (60',90').
Mumbai Super Division: Rizvi Mumbai Muslims 0-1 Income Tax - Goal: 0-1 Camilo Noronha (74').

Note-1: It's derby time tomorrow in Calcutta when Maidan giants East Bengal face archrivals Mohun Bagan in the new Calcutta Premier League. The sides face each other at the Saltlake Stadium at 17.00 IST under floodlights.
While East Bengal have further options with the return of internationals Habibur Rehman Mondal, Debabrata Roy and Shylo Malswam Tulunga; Mohun Bagan finally got the "International Transfer Clearance" for their new foreign signing Gley Yao Rodrigue, a striker from Togo.
An English referee in Dave Roberts adds special flavour to the tie, where crowds of 70,000-plus spectators are expected.
Tomorrow's derby also marks a new era of TV coverage of local Calcutta football as the match will be shown live on Tara TV's Tara Newz channel. The match will be the first of 50 matches to be aired live by the channel in the coming month's.

Note-2: Baichung Bhutia returned to scoring ways by giving his new club MK Land Selangor a 2-1 victory against Perak FC, the club he had played for two seasons ago, in the Malaysian Cup. For MK Land it was the first win in three matches and for Baichung the 74.minute goal was his first for his new side.

16. August
The Nadkarni Cup was played about a month ago, but as we got someone very well respected in Dereyk deSouza to do a review for us at IndianFootball.Com, here it comes for you.
Dereyk deSouza is a former Indian international player, and has been coach of India, Mahindra, Maharashtra, etc plus he is a regular at the Cooperage ground. Currently he is the coach of new Elite League team Golden Gunners.
Read the complete article here >>IndianFootball.Com Guest Column - Dereyk deSouza .

L. Santosh Singh, who is lecturer at the Don Bosco College, Panjim (B.P.E., M.P.Ed, N.I.S. (Football)) has written an article on his home state of Manipur under the title "Manipur - Land of Football Temples" for our IndianFootball.Com Guest Column section. Read and enjoy!
Read the complete article here >>IndianFootball.Com Guest Column - L Santosh Singh .

46th ATPA Shield - Quarterfinal: Assam State Electricity Board 1-0 Kuki Club, Kohima
Goa Third Division: Assagao Youth Club 2-4 Peddem Bomm SC; CRC Chinchinim 6-0 YWC Assolna
Guwahati Super Division: Jewel Star Club 6-1 Maharana AC - Goals: 1-0,5-0 Utpal Das (29',78'), 2-0,3-0 Durga Chetry (52',66'), 4-0,6-0 Rahajuddin Ahmed (75',90'), 6-1 Royal Mirdha (83').
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Final: Dakshina Kannada 0-1 Bangalore - Goal: 0-1 Rakesh Singh (33').
Punjab State Super League: JCT Mills 0-0 JCT Football Academy - Goals: none.

Note-1: Calcutta celebrated the 25th Football Lovers Day in memory of those 16 football fans killed in a tragic Calcutta derby between East Bengal-Mohun Bagan on this day in 1980 at the Eden Gardens. Football Lovers Day was celebrated across West Bengal with blood donation camps. The biggest of the camps was held at the Netaji Indoor Stadium with 1077 people donating blood. Each doner received a certificate signed by Indian ace Baichung Bhutia. Former internationals like Chuni Goswami, Amal Dutta and Sukumar Samajpati were present in support of the blood donors.

Note-2: The Government of India today announced a 15 member committee to select the recipients of the Dronacharya Award for the year 2004, for coaches who have shaped successful Indian sportspersons in the last year. The committee is headed by legendary athlete Gurbachan Singh Randhawa and includes former football international Syed Nayeemuddin, Indian football's only Dronacharya Award recipiant.

15. August

2nd Independence Day Cup - Final: Rashtriya Chemicals&Fertilizers 0-0,4-2 Western Railway [penalties] = RCF defended their nine a-side Independence Day Cup title!
2nd Independence Day Cup - 3rd Place Playoff: Akbar Travels 1-0 ONGC
2nd Independence Day Cup - Semifinal: Western Railway 1-1,3-0 Akbar Travels [penalties]
2nd Independence Day Cup - Semifinal: Rashtriya Chemicals&Fertilizers 2-0 ONGC
2nd Independence Day Cup - Quarterfinal: Western Railway 11-10 Air-India [penalties]
2nd Independence Day Cup - Quarterfinal: Akbar Travels 1-0 Indian Navy
2nd Independence Day Cup - Quarterfinal: ONGC 0-0,4-3 Bengal Mumbai FC [penalties]
2nd Independence Day Cup - Quarterfinal: Rashtriya Chemicals&Fertilizers 0-0,4-2 Golden Gunners [penalties]

Note-1: The All India Radio will broadcast a 25-year old programme tomorrow recorded in memory of the death of 16 football lovers who died in 1980 at the Eden Gardens, where violence had broken out during an East Bengal-Mohun Bagan derby.
Legendary Debdulal Bandhopadhyay had recorded a programme that was broadcast on the same night of the incidence and this tape will be played on the 25 anniversary of the tragedy as a tribute to the football fans.

Note-2: The revived Kalinga Cup would be held in Cuttack and Sambalpur, Orissa from August 21 to 31. In total 16 teams would be taking part in the tournament. Amongst those team are to be Calcutta Premier League sides Mohammedan Sporting, Tollygunge Agragami, EverReady SA and Eastern Railway, who all are supposed to play Premier League matches back in Calcutta during those dates. Other participating teams are Gorkha Brigade, Titanium XI from Kerala, CIL from Bangalore, Tamil Nadu XI, Hyderbad XI, Indian Air Force from New Delhi and a team from Bangladesh besides local entrants SAI Sports Hostel, State Sports Hostel, Mangla Club (all Cuttack), East Coast Railway - Khurda and Samaleswari XI from Sambalpur.
The tournament would be opened on August 21 at the Barabati stadium in Cuttack by Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik.

14. August
International Friendly - Post Fiji Stadium, Suva: Fiji 2-1 INDIA - Goals: 0-1 Irungbam Surkumar Singh (10'), 1-1 Luke Vidovi (25'), 2-1 Esala Masi (61').
INDIA: VP Satish Kumar; Irungbam Surkumar Singh, Selwyn Fernandes, Naduparambil Pappachan Pradeep, Habibur Rehman Mondal; Shylo Malswam Tulunga (??' Subhas Chakraborty), Shanmugam Venkatesh, Debabrata Roy; Vimal Pariyar (??' Sukhwinder Singh), Sunil Chetri, Manjit Singh (??' Surajit Bose).
Match Report & Stats plus detailed information at the >>IndianFootball.Com Fiji-India Football Series 2005 Special.

Calcutta Premier League: East Bengal Club 2-1 Mohammedan Sporting Club - Goals: 0-1 Suman Datta (36'), 1-1,2-1 Syed Rahim Nabi (73',90').
EAST BENGAL: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, Syed Rahim Nabi, Covan Lawrence, Arun Malhotra, Gurpreet Singh, Sasthi Duley, Soumik Dey, Bernard Pires, Jatin Singh Bisht (82' Chandan Das), Alvito D'Cunha (68' IM Vijayan), RC Prakash (40' Kalia Kulothungan).
MSC: Gopal Das, Kabijit Khotel, Madhusudan Majumdar, Madhab Das, Gautam Debnath, Satyajit Bose (86' Rodingson Sangma), Suman Dutta, Malswama (75' Chetan Mukhi), Mohammad Mukhtar, KP Zubair, Belal Ahmad Wani (60' Raman Vijayan).

46th ATPA Shield - Quarterfinal: Tinsukia Railway 2-3 Food Corporation of India, Guwahati
Calcutta Premier League: Eastern Railway SC 2-1 George Telegraph SC - 0-1 MC Francis, 1-1 Farid Ali Mollah, 2-1 Binoy Saha.
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Dynamo Club 2-0 NF Railway SC - Goals: 1-0,2-0 Stanley Cyprus (71',79').
Punjab State Super League: Punjab Police 2-0 JCT Football Academy - Goals: 1-0,2-0 Harjinder Singh (44',70').

2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Air-India 2-0 Central Railway (Mumbai Division)
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Western Railway 3-1 Rizvi Mumbai Muslims
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Indian Navy 1-0 Maharashtra State Police
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Akbar Travels 1-1,4-2 H2K-Holy Family [penalties]
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: ONGC 1-1,1-0 Central Railway [golden Goal]
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Bengal Mumbai FC 4-2 Mumbai Customs
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Golden Gunners 1-0 Bank of India
2nd Independence Day Cup - Pre-Quarterfinal: Union Bank of India 0-1 Rashtriya Chemicals&Fertilizers

Note-1: After travelling to not too successful tours of Pakistan and Fiji, the Indian national football team might visit Trinidad&Tabago in the coming year.
Jack Warner, the president of the Trinidad&Tabago FA and also a FIFA vice-president, extended an invitation to the Indian national team to visit Trinidad&Tabago while addressing the first-ever economic forum between India and CARICOM at the Centre of Excellence in Port-of-Spain. Warner would be willing to invite the India's to next years forum and India's Minister of State for Commerce and Industry EVKS Elangovan welcomed the invitation.

13. August
46th ATPA Shield - Quarterfinal: Nagaland Police 6-0 Duliajan Club
Calcutta Super Division: Calcutta FC 2-1 Mohammedan AC - Goals: 1-0 Kaustav Ghosh, 2-0 Basudev Mandi, 2-1 ?.
Calcutta Super Division: SAIL 1-1 Khidderpore Sporting Union
Calcutta Super Division: West Bengal Police 0-4 Railway FC
Calcutta Super Division: Peerless SC 1-0 Calcutta Customs
Guwahati Super Division: Guwahati Town Club 2-0 Maharana AC - Goal: 1-0 Bhaskar Bora (47'), 2-0 Alim Uddin Ahmed (75').
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group B: Dakshina Kannada 0-0 Shimoga
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group B: Mysore 2-3 Kodagu
Mumbai Super Division: Central Bank of India 2-2 Mumbai Port Trust - Goals: 0-1 Sonny Thapa (15'), 0-2 Reagan D'Souza (42'), 1-2,2-2 Chris Fernandes (53',73').
Punjab State Super League: Punjab State Electricity Board 2-0 Border Security Force - Goals: 1-0 Dalip Kumar (9'), 2-0 Tajinder Singh (76').

Note-1: The second Module of the Asian Pro Licence Coaching Course in Germany ended today with the visit to the Bundesliga match between VfL Borussia Moenchengladbach - VfL Wolfsburg at the Borussia Park. The three week German module of the Pro Licence Course was held at the Sports School Hennef (south of Cologne) which had hosted the INDIA U17 training camp in August 2002 organised by Arunava&Chris and also had been venue to earlier German FA organised coaching courses for Asian countries.
Four Indian coaches are part of the course - Derrick Pereira (Mahindra United), Savio Medeira (Salgaocar SC), Hering Shangpliang (India Youth setup) and V Soundarajan (Southern Railway) and Arunava went to visit them twice at Hennef to interact with them and have a look at the course. A report on the Indian coaches at Hennef will be coming in the next few days in the IndianFootball.Com LIVE section.

Note-2: East Bengal Club have roped in Ranadeep Moitra as their fulltime fitness trainer after their part-time English trainer Peter McKnight left Calcutta yesterday after doing pre-season training with the team for a second year running.
Ranadeep Moitra has been working with the Bengal Cricket team and has resigned from his post with the Cricketers.

12. August
International Friendly - Churchill Park, Lautoka: Fiji 1-0 INDIA - Goal: 1-0 Esala Masi (12').
INDIA: VP Satish Kumar; Irungbam Surkumar Singh, Selwyn Fernandes, Naduparambil Pappachan Pradeep, Manju Nanjangud Shivananju; Shylo Malswam Tulunga, Sukhjinder Singh (75' Sukhwinder Singh), Shanmugam Venkatesh, Debabrata Roy (??' Subhas Chakraborty); Vimal Pariyar, Manjit Singh (64' Sunil Chetri).
Match Report & Stats plus detailed information at the >>IndianFootball.Com Fiji-India Football Series 2005 Special.

46th ATPA Shield - Quarterfinal: Oil India Limited 6-1 2nd Assam Special Reserve Force
Chennai Senior Division: State Bank of India 1-0 Octopus Marine SC - Goal: 1-0 Jaffer (35').
Guwahati Super Division: SAI SC-Guwahati 1-0 Assam State Electricity Board - Goal: 1-0 Jayanta Basumatari (13').
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Police Blues 2-0 Jewel Star Club - Goals: 1-0,2-0 Rabijit Jigdang (72',90+').
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group A: Bangalore 8-0 Davanagere
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group A: Mandya 3-3 Kolar
Mumbai Super Division: Rizvi Mumbai Muslims 2-0 Dena Bank - Goals: 1-0,2-0 Roshan Uchil (6',68').
Punjab State Super League: JCT Football Academy 0-0 Mahilpur FC - Goals: none.

Note-1: An AFC report: Twenty-five National Associations have submitted their entry for the AFC Asian Cup 2007. Only 24 teams though will make the draw for the qualification rounds of the AFC Asian Cup 2007.
Bangladesh and Pakistan, being the two lowest-ranked teams among the 25 National Associations, will compete in a home and away play-off match to decide the 24th participating team in the qualification round. In a draw that was held on Friday at the AFC House, Bangladesh will host the first leg before traveling to play in Pakistan. Both matches are scheduled for November 2005.
Meanwhile, the draw for the qualification round will be held on 4th January 2006. The 24 teams will be divided into six groups of four. Teams will play on an home-away basis starting from 28 February 2006.
The top two in each group will qualify for the final round of the Asian Cup which will be hosted by Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The four hosts have automatic qualification.
List of 25 participating National Associations:
Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China PR, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, IR Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Korea Rep., Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen.

Note-2: At a press conference at the IFA office today, the IFA secretary Subrata Dutta announced the observance of the 25th Football Lovers' Day 2005 on August 16, 2005.
A grimmest tragedy in the soccer field shocked the sports lovers when it claimed the lives of as many as 16 football lovers at the Eden Gardens. Thereafter, thousands of well-meaning lovers of the game and the people in general took an oath and the same day in every year where thousands of people from all walks of life assemble to offer their gift of blood voluntarily.
The 25th occasion of FOOTBALL LOVERS' DAY, is on the card on August 16, 2005, Tuesday, at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra, Eden Gardens, Calcutta. The blood donation camp will start at 09.00 IST and will continue till 7.00 p.m.
Each donor of this camp will be presented this year with a certificate of honour autographed by star player Baichung Bhutia over and above a Blood Donor badge from the Government blood banks and a ceremonial badge of IFA. The Association of Voluntary Blood Donors, West Bengal has been entrusted by the IFA with the management of the said camp like all previous years. The Government Blood Banks of West Bengal - from Calcutta, Districts and Sub-Divisions will take part in collection of blood from the donors.

Note-3: Indian FIFA assistant referee Komaleeswaran Shankar has been appointed by the world governing body to officiate as assistant referee at the FIFA U17 World Cup in Peru in the coming month. It is the second time that Shankar will officiate at a U17 World Cup and he was the first-ever Indian official at the 2002 World Cup.

Note-4: A UNI report: Ebullient Indian striker Baichung Bhutia, currently playing in Malaysia Cup for MK Land Selangor, is hopeful of a better performance in the weekend's tie against Public Bank.
"I am combining well with the team. Its a new team. There is a lot of eagerness to perform," Baichung told UNI over phone from Kuala Lumpur.
On his preparation for the match on August 14, the Indian soccer captain said, "I am training hard. I have so far been in the first eleven and need to perform to keep the place. It will be a tough match, but I am hopeful of doing well."
On his chances of playing the entire match, he said, "I played full time in the last match against Perak. I am looking to do it this time around."
Then he went on to add, "The team's coach Michael Palani takes well to me and he is quite happy. We are four foreigners in this team, out of whom 3 can play. I have been in the first eleven players so far. Let's see."
Asked if there was any problem in acclaimatisation, the Baichung said, "No its not a problem. I have played here before and I know the conditions."
Any incident worth mentioning, he said, "Nothing much except things are very organised here."

11. August
46th ATPA Shield - Round 1: Jorhat 'B' 0-3 Kuki Club, Kohima
Chennai Senior Division: Madras Sporting Union 2-2 Dhinamani FC - Goals: 1-0 Disayas (26'), 2-0 Pradeep Kumar (52'), 2-1 Kumaran (59'), 2-2 David (83').
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Dynamo Club 3-0 Maharana AC - Goals: 1-0 Aldrin (30'), 2-0 Badal Tamang (35'), 3-0 Stanley Cyprus (90+2').
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group B: Mysore 1-0 Shimoga
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group B: Dakshina Kannada 4-1 Kodagu
Mumbai Super Division: Union Bank of India 1-0 Sea View SC - Goal: 1-0 Avinash Puthran (90+1').

Note-1: The Goa FA has informed us at IndianFootball.Com that the Goa Professional League would kickoff on September 15. The fixtures of the league haven't been finalised yet. The matches will be held at Tilak stadium, Vasco, and Duler grounds, Mapusa as the regular match venue, the Nehru Stadium in Margao being blocked for international Cricket by the Goa Cricket Association until December.

Note-2: The Punjab FA was looking forward to kickoff the expanded 19th Punjab State Super League tomorrow with two matches supposed to be played, but at the last moment Rail Coach Factory have to be scraped altogether from the league to make it a six team affair. The PFA received a Fax message from the RCF club management at 15 IST today that their factory management has refused to release its players from their regular duties for participation in Punjab State Super League. Therefore the PFA secretary has cancelled all the matches of Rail Coach Factory in the Super League as withdrawn by the club.
Click here for the revised Punjab State Super League 2005 fixtures

Note-3: The Subroto Mukherjee Sports Education Society met today in New Delhi to talk about the preparations for this years Subroto Cup school football tournament to be held in the capital from September 14 to October 14. The organisers of India's most important school football tournament informed that Bangladesh and Nepal would feature in the U14 and U17 competitions, while a Sri Lankan school team would play in the U14 tournament. Further invitations had been send to southeast Asian nations with teams fom Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia expected to take part.

Note-4: The 6th NSF Martyrs Memorial Football tournament will kick-start from October 16 at Kohima local ground. The tournament is organized by Angami Students Union (ASU).
Talking exclusively to IndianFootball.Com, Angami Students Union president Medo Yhokha informed that the tournament will be played between October 16 to November 6. "In this connection the ASU would soon form an organizing committee", he disclosed.
In a departure move from previous year's championships, the ASU president said that the coming tournament, the Club's would be selected to play purely on merit basis, taking in consideration the previous years records. "This step was taken to raise the standard on the tournament", he added. However the president stated, "we will accommodated all the teams, who wishes to play under the banner of Students Union".
The president also informed that the ASU would hand - out invitation to all the students union coming under the ambit of NSF federating unit for the tournament.
He even informed that plans are there to invite the students union team from Guwahati, Shillong and other Northeast states.
Meanwhile huge cash prize money and running trophies, besides individual awards will be at stag during the championships.
It may be mentioned here that the Rongmei Youth Club, Dimapur are currently defending champions and the runner-up team is Kuki FC, while the local favourates New Market XI, Kohima have the credit to take part in all previous five editions and are also expected to take this year too.

Note-5: Bangalore's East Indian SC will organise an Independence Day football tournament at the Bangalore East football playground in Frazer Town on August 14/15 between 10.30 - 18.30 IST. 32 teams will play for the title.

10. August
Friendly - Govind Park, Ba: Ba Selection 1-0 INDIA - Goal: 1-0 Malakai Tiwa (58').
INDIA: VP Satish Kumar; Irungbam Surkumar Singh (??' Yumlembam Raju Singh), Selwyn Fernandes, Naduparambil Pappachan Pradeep, Manju Nanjangud Shivananju; Shylo Malswam Tulunga (46' Manjit Singh), Sukhjinder Singh (60' Sukhwinder Singh), Shanmugam Venkatesh, Debabrata Roy (46' Subhas Chakraborty); Sunil Chetri (79' Gouramangi Moirangthem Singh), Vimal Pariyar.
Match Report & Stats plus detailed information at the >>IndianFootball.Com Fiji-India Football Series 2005 Special.

Calcutta Premier League: Mohammedan Sporting Club 1-0 Eastern Railway SC - Goal: 1-0 Bilal Ahmad Wani (3').
MSC: Gopal Das, Amjad Ali Khan (37' Kabijit Khotel), Madhusudan Majumdar, Rodingson Sangma, Gautam Debnath, Satyajit Bose, Suman Datta, Chetan Mukhi (73' Mohammed Yasin), Bilal Ahmad Wani, Jiten Rai, Mohammed Nadeem (70' Raman Vijayan).
EASTERN RAILWAY: Surapuddin Chowdhury, Barun Kundu, Subhankar Maity (45' Archisman Biswas), Santanu Bit, Sanjit Dutta Bhowmick, Babun Kar, Kuntal Biswas (41' Saikat Mondal), Dipankar Ghosh, Joydeep Bose (70' Binoy Saha), Farid Ali Mollah, Monojit Sarkar.

46th ATPA Shield - Round 1: Jorhat 'A' 2-2,3-5 2nd Assam Special Reserve Force [penalties]
Calcutta Super Division: Calcutta Customs 3-0 Calcutta FC - Goals: 1-0 Biswarup Bishu, 2-0 Rafiq Ali, 3-0 Arindam Das.
Calcutta Super Division: Peerless SC 0-0 SAIL - Goals: none.
Calcutta Super Division: Mohammedan AC 3-0 West Bengal Police
Calcutta Super Division: Railway FC 0-0 Khidderpore Sporting Union - Goals: none.
Guwahati Super Division: NF Railway SC 6-1 Guwahati Town Club - Goals: 1-0,3-0 Kushal Rajkonwar (2',36'), 2-0,6-1 Hemanta Kalita (18',81'), 3-1 Mahabir Ekka (41'), 4-1 Ashok Ramchiary (55'), 5-1 Thagit Sonowal.
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group A: Bangalore 5-0 Mandya
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group A: Kolar 5-0 Davanagere
Mumbai Super Division: Central Railway (Mumbai Division) 1-1 Mumbai Port Trust - Goals: 1-0 Ammiruddin Ansari (38'), 1-1 Ashish Gunsalves (48').

Note-1: The AIFF Players' Status Committee met today in Delhi to try and clear all pending cases. The transfer of KP Zubair to Mohammedan Sporting Club, for whom he played last season on loan, has been cleared. As per infos from the Sporting management Zubair has been given a Rs 10,000 fine. Earlier Mohun Bagan had also claimed to have signed the player, but then backed down for their Maidan rivals to keep the Keralite. Further the transfer of Bernard Pires from Salgaocar SC to East Bengal Club has been cleared.
The case of John Charles Dias received a new twist in Delhi with the player intially interested to sign for Dempo, then for East Bengal, now saying he would like to stay in Goa and sign for Dempo SC.
Further the case of international defender Deepak Kumar Mondal couldn't be sorted on the day. Deepak wants to leave East Bengal and play for Mumbai giants Mahindra United.

Note-2: Mumbai will witness the second edition of the two-day H2K-Independence Cup Football Tournament to be played at the St. Xavier's Ground, Parel on August 14/15, 2005. The Mumbai District FA is organising the tournament with the help from promoters Procam International and sponsors H2K.
The nine-a-side event will feature a total of 16 teams from the Mumbai Elite, Super and Senior division with local giants Mahindra United being the only major absentee. Mahindra opted out of the tournament as seven of their players are currently away in Fiji on national duty, while their coach Derrick Pereira is in Germany for the AFC Pro Licence course. Newly promoted NFL-side Air-India are the favourites along with clubs like Central Railway and defending champions RCF, but surprises are possible in this abbreviated version of football with matches being of 20+20 duration with a 10 minute break in-between.

Note-3: The IFA and SAI-Eastern Centre are working together to set-up a residential camp for girls aged between 14 to 19. In total 30 girls would be selected at trials on August 12/13 (Friday/Saturday). Protima Biswas will be coaching the girls at the camp.
Meanwhile a coaching camp for boys aged 14 to 16 will be held under coach Dinesh Pradhan. The boys will be selected for the SAI Centre of Excellence.

9. August
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Calcutta Premier League: East Bengal Club 3-0 Calcutta Port Trust - Goals: 1-0 Soumik Dey (78'), 2-0 Dipankar Roy (85'- Penalty), 3-0 Sasthi Duley (89').
East Bengal: Naseem Aktar, Covan Lawrence, (31' Debjit Ghosh), Soumik Dey, Gurpreet Singh, Sasthi Duley, Jatin Singh Bisht, Chandan Das (46' Jayanta Sen), Dipankar Roy, Syed Rahim Nabi, RC Prakash (63' Tushar Rakshit).
CPT: Sandip Guha, Tapan Das, Srimanta Das, Rabindranath Karmakar, Ashta Kanrar (83' Bijoy Pal), Shyambabu Routh, Arup Sinha, Hussain Mustafi, James Ugwe (61' Pradip Indu), Sandip Ghosh, Kaushik Prasad.

Calcutta Premier League: Tollygunge Agragami 0-1 EverReady SA - Goal: 0-1 Sheikh Habeeb Ali (70').
Chennai Senior Division: State Bank of India,Chennai 0-0 Netaji SC - Goals: none.
Guwahati Super Division: Jewel Star Club 1-1 SAI SC-Guwahati - Goals: 1-0 Sadananda Sonowal (21'), 1-1 Vikazo (68').
1st Himachal Pradesh Open Football Tournament, Solva - Final: Sports Club of Una 2-0 Junga Sports Club
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group B: Dakshina Kannada 2-0 Mysore
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group B: Shimoga 3-0 Kodagu
Mumbai Elite Division: Central Railway 3-2 Western Railway - Goals: 1-0 Kasif Jamal (17'), 2-0 Aziz Qureshi (64'), 3-0 Asif Jamal (71'), 3-1 PV Vinoy (86'), 3-2 Sumit Das (89').
Mumbai Super Division: Central Bank of India - ONGC = match postponed due to inappropriate ground conditions

Note-1: A UNI report: It was a role reversal with sloganeering footballers taking to the street as political activists took over the Ambedkar Stadium.
A number of footballers today hit the streets after the stadium was turned into a makeshift jail to accommodate thousands of BJP activists who had courted arrest earlier.
"For quite some time, football has taken a backseat and politicians are calling the shots here. This is a stadium which has hosted national and international footballers in the past. We have an ongoing league and now we are being shut out because some politicians want to hold a rally here," an irate Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) Secretary N K Bhatia told UNI.
Not sparing the Congress either, Mr Bhatia said,"We are told that they would also be holding a meeting here on August 20 and that would mean no football for us again." Criticizing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the DSA official said, "When it comes to political parties, they are not required to go through the formalities while we run from pillar to post to host a match here."
Incidentally, this comes at a time when the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) chose Delhi - along with Manipur - for the Vision India pilot project.
"We have a task force that comprises representatives of the state government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), police and MCD to implement the pilot project and this is what they are doing," Mr Bhatia rued.
"In the 1960s and 70s, we had 12 fields in this area but they simply vanished. Those were used for bus terminus and also for installing statues of political leaders. Ambedkar Stadium is the only ground around and here too, they don't wanty us to play football."
"They have sealed the stadium from August 11-15 for what they claim 'security threat'. That means we can't hold the annual independence day exhibition match," he lamented.

8. August
Chennai Senior Division: Octopus Marine SC 2-0 Young Men SC - Goals: 1-0 Sathish Yadav (8'), 2-0 Bubesh (75').
Guwahati Super Division: Assam Police Blues 1-2 Assam State Electricity Board - Goals: 0-1 Pabitra Langchung (36'), 0-2 Manikanta Brahma (69'), 1-2 Ratul Baruah (70').
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group A: Bangalore 4-0 Kolar
1st Karnataka Inter-District Tournament - Group A: Mandya 4-0 Davanagere
Mumbai Elite Division: Maharashtra State Police - Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers = match postponed due to inappropriate ground conditions
Mumbai Super Division: Income Tax - Dena Bank = match has been postponed

Note-1: On wednesday, August 10, the AIFF and top Indian clubs would meet in New Delhi to discuss ways to avoid Country vs Club clashes in the future. And the top three Calcutta clubs - East Bengal, Mohun Bagan & Mohammedan Sporting - today met the IFA secretary Subrata Dutta, who also happens to be an AIFF vice-president, and gave him some suggestions from their side what could be done to avoid such clashes.
A list of proposals was handed over. Here the mentioned points:
1. The AIFF should release a list of potential candidates for the under-19, under-23 and senior camps before the start of the season
2. The AIFF should restrict itself to picking upto five players from one club for each age group/senior side.
3. Camps: 'Star' players should join international camps a week before the match/tournament; while only three days before a goodwill tour.
4. The AIFF should take care of players, who are injured at camps and/or on international duty.
5. The AIFF should take full responsibility for all players called-up to a probables camp (transport, food, lodging).
6. Due to lack of space in the national calendar, the Rovers Cup and Durand Cup should be played every alternate year.
Some points are logical and should also be agreed on by the AIFF, but the old problem of how many players a club has to release for the national team, senior or junior, is likely to start a fresh debate. It cannot be that due to such a rule, the national teams will not be able to pick the strongest players. The 2002 World Cup qualifiers should be a reminder to all that it would have been possible that India qualified for the final Asian qualifiers had the clubs not got the AIFF to agree that only three players would be picked per club.

Note-2: English-born referee Dave Roberts will officiate in the Calcutta Premier League match between East Bengal Club and Mohun Bagan AC on August 18 at the Saltlake Stadiim, the seasons first big derby. This will be the first time in the history of the Calcutta Football League that an English referee will officiate in it's league. The IFA has decided to invite Dave Roberts to officiate in Calcutta considering the importance of the fixture and to add more value to the Premier League. The move to invite a foreign referee for a local league has been cleared by the AIFF and Roberts would be assisted by locals on the sidelines.
Roberts is currently refereeing in Singapore's S-League, where he is a certified Class 1 referee with the Football Association of Singapore. He has been officiating for over 10 years, mainly in England, and has been refereeing in southeast Asia for the past two seasons in the professional and local leagues such as: