2025 CFL Premier Division
| Season | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 25 June – TBA |
| Matches played | 45 |
| Goals scored | 115 (2.56 per match) |
| Biggest home win | Suruchi Sangha 6–0 Measurers (7 July 2025) |
| Biggest away win | Measurers 1–7 East Bengal (27 June 2025) |
| Highest scoring | Measurers 1–7 East Bengal (27 June 2025) |
← 2024 2026 →
All statistics correct as of 12 July 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.
This year's Calcutta Premier Division is having a trophy for the champions named after legendary footballer Pradip Kumar Banerjee.
Changes from last season
- Relegated to 2025 CFL 1st division
- Promoted to 2025 CFL Premier division
- Sribhumi FC
- United Kolkata SC
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 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
- Amal Datta Krirangan, Dum Dum
- Bankimanjali Stadium, Naihati
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium, Barrackpore
- Bidhannagar Municipal Sports Complex
- East Bengal/Aryan Ground, Kolkata
- Eastern Ground, Chinsurah
- Kalyani Stadium, Kalyani
- Kishore Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata
- Mohammedan/Howrah Union Ground, Kolkata
- Mohun Bagan/Calcutta FC Ground, Kolkata
- Netaji Sports Complex, Kamalgazi
- Rabindra Sarobar Stadium, Kolkata
- Uluberia Stadium, Howrah
- Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata
Teams
| Group A | Group B | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Head coach | Captain | Team | Head coach | Captain |
| Army Red | Sudhir Mishra | Renzong Lepcha | Bhawanipore | Shahid Raman | Jiten Murmu |
| Calcutta Customs | Biswajit Bhattacharya | Amit Chakraborty | Aryan | Rajdeep Nandy | Sandip Patra |
| BSS | Souren Dutta | Subhankar Das | Calcutta Police Club | Bijoy Ghosh | Koushik Goala |
| East Bengal | Bino George | Aditya Patra | Diamond Harbour FC | Kibu Vicuna | Bikramjit Singh |
| Kalighat MS | Patham Thapa | Koushik Sarkar | United Kolkata SC | Yan Law | Narayan Das |
| George Telegraph | Goutam Ghosh | Sourish Lodh Chowdhury | Sribhumi FC | Goutam Ghosh | Rana Gharami |
| Measurers Club | Rajib Dey | Chattu Mondal | Wari | Swapan Biswas | Kamran Farooque |
| Mohun Bagan SG | Deggie Cardozo | Suhail Bhat | Mohammedan Sporting | Hakim Ssengendo | Samad Ali Mallick |
| Pathachakra | Partha Sen | Subhajit Mandi | Peerless | Hemanta Dora | Donlad Diengdoh |
| Police AC | Rajesh Rajbhar | Deep Dey | Southern Samity | Sujata Kar[2] | Rajesh Rajbhar |
| Railway | Amit Tudu | Sudipta Banerjee | United SC | Lalkamal Bhowmick | Tarak Hembram |
| Suruchi Sangha | Ranjan Bhattacharya | Amit Tudu | Rainbow | Aditya Chatterjee | Sourav Dasgupta |
| Kalighat Sports Lovers Association | Jahar Das | Bishal Chhetri | Kidderpore | Sayantan Das Roy | Prosenjit Chakroborty |
Group stage
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PTC | CCU | PAC | SUS | MBG | BSS | EAB | KSL | GGT | RLY | KMS | ARM | MEA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pathachakra | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 | Super Six round | — | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Calcutta Customs | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 8 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Police AC | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 8 | — | 1–1 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Suruchi Sangha | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 7 | — | 6–0 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Mohun Bagan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 7 | 0–1 | — | 4–0 | 0–0 | |||||||||||
| 6 | BSS | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | — | 1–0 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | East Bengal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 5 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Kalighat SLA | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 4 | 0–2 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | |||||||||||
| 9 | George Telegraph | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 4 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 3–2 | — | ||||||||||
| 10 | Railway FC | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–2 | — | ||||||||||
| 11 | Kalighat MS | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 2 | Relegation round | 1–1 | 0–4 | — | |||||||||||
| 12 | Army Red | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 13 | Measurers Club | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 | −13 | 0 | 1–2 | 1–7 | — |
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
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | UKS | BHA | UTD | DIH | KID | SRB | RNB | PRL | WAR | MDS | SOU | CPC | ARY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kolkata SC | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 12 | Super Six round | — | 1–0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Bhawanipore FC | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 7 | — | 0–1 | 5–0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | United SC | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Diamond Harbour | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 7 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Kidderpore SC | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 6 | 0–4 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Sribhumi | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 5 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Rainbow AC | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 4–0 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Peerless SC | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Wari | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 3 | 1–5 | — | 1–0 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Mohammedan SC | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Southern Samity | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 | Relegation round | 0–2 | 2–2 | — | |||||||||||
| 12 | Calcutta Police Club | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | — | |||||||||||
| 13 | Aryan FC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 0 | — |
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
Super Six
The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from the group stage being carried over.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Champions |
| 2 | A2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eligible for I-League 3[a] |
| 3 | A3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | B1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | B2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | B3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- ^ 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.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | A12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | A13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | B11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | B12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegated to First Division |
| 6 | B13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
See also
References
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- ^ "EXCLUSIVE: প্রথম মহিলা কোচ পেল কলকাতা লিগ, 'পুরুষ কোচদের সঙ্গে লড়তে তৈরি হচ্ছি', বললেন সুজাতা কর". sangbadpratidin. Retrieved 2025-06-13.