2025 CFL Premier Division

CFL Premier Division
Season2025
DatesGroup stage: 25 June – 6 September 2025
Super Six: 11–22 September 2025
Relegation round: 10–15 September 2025
ChampionsEast Bengal (41st title)
RelegatedSouthern Samity
Army Red
Matches174
Goals471 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorerBidyashagar Singh (9 goals)
Biggest home winSuruchi Sangha 6–0 Measurers
(7 July 2025)
Biggest away winMeasurers 1–7 East Bengal
(27 June 2025)
Behala SS 0–6 East Bengal
(29 July 2025)
Highest scoringMeasurers 1–7 East Bengal
(27 June 2025)
Southern Samity 2–6 Kidderpore
(21 August 2025)
Longest winning runUnited SC
United Kolkata
(5 matches)
Longest unbeaten runPeerless (10 matches)
Longest winless runSouthern Samity (12 matches)
← 2024
2026 →
All statistics correct as of 22 September 2025.

The 2025 CFL Premier Division is the 127th overall season of the Calcutta Football League – highest state-level football division of West Bengal. The 2025-26 edition has 26 teams divided into two groups of 13 in the first phase, with top 6 qualifying for the championship round and bottom 6 heading into the relegation round.

The tournament began with match between BSS Sporting Club and Kalighat Milan Sangha in Bankimanjali Stadium, Naihati on 25 June 2025 after few prolific hours of opening ceremony.

Naihati stadium during CFL opening ceremony

This year's Calcutta Premier Division is having a trophy for the champions named after legendary footballer Pradip Kumar Banerjee.

Changes from last season

Decrease Relegated to 2025 CFL 1st Division
Increase Promoted to 2025 CFL Premier Division

Format

The 2025 CFL Premier Division, like the 2024–25 CFL Premier Division, will have twenty-six teams divided into two groups in the first phase, where each team will play twelve matches in single round robin format. After that, top three teams from the two groups shall proceed to the championship round, where each team shall play five more matches to determine the champion. The bottom three teams from both groups will play the relegation round.

Draw for the group division was done on 28th May 2025 at Calcutta Rowing Club Auditorium by Indian Football Association.[1]

Venues

Teams

Group A Group B
Team Head coach Captain Team Head coach Captain
Army Red India Sudhir Mishra India Renzong Lepcha Bhawanipore Nigeria Shahid Raman India Jiten Murmu
Calcutta Customs India Biswajit Bhattacharya India Amit Chakraborty Aryan India Rajdeep Nandy India Sandip Patra
BSS India Souren Dutta India Subhankar Das Calcutta Police Club India Bijoy Ghosh India Koushik Goala
East Bengal India Bino George India Aditya Patra Diamond Harbour Spain Kibu Vicuna India Bikramjit Singh
Kalighat MS India Patham Thapa India Koushik Sarkar United Kolkata SC India Yan Law India Narayan Das
George Telegraph India Goutam Ghosh India Sourish Lodh Chowdhury Sribhumi India Goutam Ghosh India Rana Gharami
Measurers Club India Rajib Dey India Chattu Mondal Wari India Swapan Biswas India Kamran Farooque
Mohun Bagan SG India Deggie Cardozo India Suhail Bhat Mohammedan Sporting India Alison Kharsyntiew India Samad Ali Mallick
Pathachakra India Partha Sen India Subhajit Mandi Peerless India Hemanta Dora India Donlad Diengdoh
Police AC India Rajesh Rajbhar India Deep Dey Southern Samity India Sujata Kar[2] India Rajesh Rajbhar
Railway India Amit Tudu India Sudipta Banerjee United SC India Lalkamal Bhowmick India Tarak Hembram
Suruchi Sangha India Ranjan Bhattacharya India Amit Tudu Rainbow India Aditya Chatterjee India Sourav Dasgupta
Kalighat Sports Lovers Association India Jahar Das India Bishal Chhetri Kidderpore India Sayantan Das Roy India Prosenjit Chakroborty

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification EAB SUS CCU PAC PTC MBG BSS KSL GGT MEA KMS RLY ARM[a]
1 East Bengal 12 8 2 2 33 10 +23 26 Super Six round 1–1 2–2 0–2 3–2 1–0 4–0
2 Suruchi Sangha 12 7 4 1 27 8 +19 25 2–2 2–2 0–1 3–0 6–0 2–0 3–0
3 Calcutta Customs 12 7 4 1 21 10 +11 25 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 1–2
4 Police AC 12 7 3 2 24 8 +16 24 5–0 4–1 2–1 1–1 3–0
5 Pathachakra 12 6 1 5 15 16 −1 19 1–0 0–1 1–0 3–0
6 Mohun Bagan SG 12 6 2 4 24 14 +10 18[b] 1–1 0–1 0–1 5–2 4–0 0–0
7 BSS 12 5 2 5 15 21 −6 17 0–6 1–2 2–0 2–5 1–0 1–0 0–0
8 Kalighat SLA 12 5 1 6 10 14 −4 16 0–0 0–2 1–0 2–1 2–0 3–0
9 George Telegraph 12 4 2 6 16 20 −4 14 1–2 0–3 0–2 3–2 3–0 3–0 1–2
10 Measurers Club 12 4 1 7 12 23 −11 13 1–7 3–0[c] 1–2 1–0 0–0 3–0
11 Kalighat MS 12 3 3 6 12 16 −4 12 Relegation round 1–3 0–4 1–1 0–0 1–2 2–0
12 Railway FC 12 2 3 7 7 20 −13 9 0–3 0–3 2–1 0–3 0–2 2–2 3–0
13 Army Red[a] 12 0 0 12 0 36 −36 0 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–3
Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
Notes:
  1. ^ Army Red didn't field their team in group stage, thus IFA gave free 3 points to all other teams of Group A with 3–0 victory.
  2. ^ Mohun Bagan were deducted 2 points as punishment for not playing match vs Measurers.[3]
  3. ^ Mohun Bagan didn't field their team, though players of Measurers Club were present at the ground. IFA counted it as a 3–0 victory to Measurers.

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification UTD DIH UKS BHA PRL RNB SRB KID WAR ARY MDS CPC SOU
1 United SC 12 8 3 1 18 6 +12 27 Super Six round 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 3–0 2–1
2 Diamond Harbour 12 7 4 1 16 5 +11 25 0–2 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 4–0
3 United Kolkata SC 12 7 3 2 21 7 +14 24 1–2 1–0 3–0 1–1
4 Bhawanipore 12 6 4 2 21 7 +14 22 0–0 0–1 5–0 3–0
5 Peerless 12 5 6 1 14 6 +8 21 1–1 1–0 0–0 4–0 2–1
6 Rainbow 12 5 5 2 22 9 +13 20 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 4–0 2–1 3–0
7 Sribhumi 12 4 6 2 19 15 +4 18 1–1 0–0 2–2 3–0 1–3 3–1
8 Kidderpore 12 5 1 6 18 26 −8 16 0–1 0–4 1–1 1–4 1–0 2–0 3–2 4–2
9 Wari 12 4 1 7 10 26 −16 13 0–5 1–1 0–4 1–5 3–2 1–0
10 Aryan 12 4 0 8 9 18 −9 12 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 3–1
11 Mohammedan 12 3 2 7 14 19 −5 11 Relegation round 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–0
12 Calcutta Police Club 12 1 1 10 8 28 −20 4 0–1 0–4 0–2 1–2 2–2
13 Southern Samity 12 0 2 10 10 28 −18 0[a] 0–2 0–3[b] 3–4 0–2 0–0 2–2 2–6 1–2 0–1
Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
Notes:
  1. ^ Southern Samity were deducted 2 points as punishment for not playing match vs Diamond Harbour.[3]
  2. ^ Southern Samity gave walkover, resulting a 0–3 victory for Diamond Harbour.[4]

Super Six

The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from the group stage being not carried over. Each team will be playing three matches against the qualified teams from the other group. Team getting highest points will be adjudged as champions.

Indian Super League, I-League 2, I-League 3 and institutional teams are ineligible for 2026–27 I-League 3 season.

Qualified teams

The six qualified teams for the Super Six phase from both the groups:

Group A Group B
East Bengal United SC
Suruchi Sangha Diamond Harbour
Calcutta Customs United Kolkata SC

Standings & Fixtures

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification EAB(EAB) UTD(UTD) SUS DIH(DIH) UKS CCU
1 East Bengal(ISL) (C) 3 3 0 0 8 2 +6 9 Champions 3–1 3–0
2 United SC(IL2) 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1 4 1–2 2–2
3 Suruchi Sangha (Q) 3 1 1 1 5 6 −1 4 Eligible for I-League 3[a] 0–4
4 Diamond Harbour(IL) 3 1 0 2 5 5 0 3 0–2
5 United Kolkata (Q) 3 1 0 2 5 6 −1 3 Eligible for I-League 3[a] 0–3
6 Calcutta Customs 3 1 0 2 2 7 −5 3 0–2 0–5
Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
  1. ^ If the top teams are already playing in national leagues, then the next highest ranked team(s) would be eligible for I-League 3.

Relegation Round

The bottom teams from both groups qualified for the Relegation round with the points from the group stage being carried over. The bottom 2 teams in the relegation round will be relegated to First Division.

Qualified teams

The six teams for the Relegation phase from both the groups are:

Group A Group B
Kalighat MS Mohammedan
Railway FC Calcutta Police Club
Army Red Southern Samity

Standings & Fixtures

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MDS KMS RLY CPC SOU[a] AR[b]
1 Mohammedan 14 5 2 7 23 20 +3 17 ABN 6–1 ABN 3–0
2 Kalighat MS 13 4 3 6 15 16 −1 15 ABN ABN 3–0
3 Railway FC 13 1 4 8 5 26 −21 7 0–0 ABN
4 Calcutta Police Club 13 1 2 10 8 28 −20 5 ABN
5 Southern Samity[a] (R) 14 0 2 12 10 34 −24 0[c] Relegated to First Division
6 Army Red[b] (R) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Updated to match(es) played on 13 September 2025. Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
(R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Southern Samity gave walkover against Mohammedan and Kalighat MS respectively and subsequently withdrew from competition after no chance of exempting relegation; IFA cancelled all other remaining matches.
  2. ^ Army Red didn't field their team in Relegation stage, thus IFA gave free 3 points to all other teams of Group A with 3–0 victory.
  3. ^ Southern Samity were deducted 2 points as punishment for not playing match vs Diamond Harbour.[3]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: প্রথম মহিলা কোচ পেল কলকাতা লিগ, 'পুরুষ কোচদের সঙ্গে লড়তে তৈরি হচ্ছি', বললেন সুজাতা কর". sangbadpratidin. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
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