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1 week ago | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The Super Cup, rebranded as Kalinga Super Cup for Orissa being host for three out of four editions, has served as the annual cup competition for Indian club football since its inception in 2018. The competition is played in a straight knockout format, including a group stage in some editions, with all Indian Super League (ISL) and top clubs from the I-League participating in it. The Super Cup winners get a spot in the AFC Champions League 2 qualifiers, giving more incentive for winning the trophy.
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1 week ago | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The ISL 2024-25 season was a goal-fest, to say the least, as a fascinating 468 strikes found the net over 24 matchdays plus the playoffs. The campaign was the largest in the division’s history, with 13 clubs participating in the contest. The fascinating scoring numbers were due to the prolific forwards witnessed this season as most clubs hit the mark with their striker signings while the proven stars also took their contributions to better levels.
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2 weeks ago | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The Super Cup 2025 will be the fifth edition of the competition and the second after rebranded as ‘Kalinga Super Cup’ to be hosted in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha again. As usual, 16 teams will participate in the contest, 13 from ISL and three from the I-League. However, there will be a format change this season or fair to say a revert to the old system. The tournament’s curtain-raiser is on 20 April 2025 with the final scheduled on 3 May 2025.
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1 month ago | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
Mohun Bagan Super Giant went the extra mile in the 2024-25 season as they won the ISL Shield for consecutive years (See here: Mohun Bagan Records in ISL 2023-24 Shield), in a dominating fashion this time. Unlike last season where the decider happened on the final day of the league stage, the team clinched success with two games remaining and finishing 10 points clear at the top.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The 2024-25 ISL winter transfer window has been relatively quiet, as many clubs spent heavily during the summer window. Despite some of those teams struggling this season and the league being dominated by Shield Mohun Bagan Super Giant, most summer arrivals have done their business at their respective clubs. The league leaders, upper-ranked FC Goa, Bengaluru FC, Jamshedpur FC and NorthEast United have not done business for obvious reasons as have Chennaiyin FC and Mohammedan SC.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The IWL 2024-25 started on 10 January 2025 with the promise of being the best season ever. The competition started being played in a proper league format last year with Odisha FC crowned champions breaking the monopoly of Gokulam Kerala FC. The campaign's success and the launch of a new AFC Women’s Champions League competition have prompted serious investment in Indian women’s football, allowing more clubs to fight for the title.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The seventh season of the Indian Women’s League was historic in all ways possible. Not only was the competition conducted in a proper league format, with home and away matches, but it also crowned a new champion after years of dominance by Gokulam Kerala. Odisha FC lifted their first title in a pulsating season to be the fourth different winner of the IWL.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
chaseyoursport.com | Moinak Banerjee |Swapnava Mallick
The eight group winners and the two finalists of the last edition are set to compete in the Senior Women’s National Football Championship 2024-25 for the Rajmata Jijabai Trophy Final Round vying for the title. The 10 teams have been divided into two groups with the top two moving into the semifinals. The final round will be held in Chhattisgarh with the final staged on December 23, 2024.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
chaseyoursport.com | Swapnava Mallick |Moinak Banerjee
The year is most likely 2009.The political environment of West Bengal was going through an epochal crisis. The reason is certainly not unknown to anyone. At the very end of a long thirty-four-year left-wing era. At that time, an unknown young man came to buy football accessories from Kolkata's Maidan Market. However, it is not a new phenomenon. The Maidan market square is always bustling with thousands of people. But he later became the Bengali match official for the 2024 Next-Gen Cup on foreign soil.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
chaseyoursport.com | Swapnava Mallick |Moinak Banerjee
Apart from the literary figure of the universal poet Rabindranath Tagore, very few Bengalis are familiar with his footballing passion. Although, his association with two sports is not unknown to some people. But the story of the poet's soul attraction with the centuries-old Red and Gold brigade tent of Kolkata is an unspeakable episode of his colourful life. Surya Chakraborty was one of the legendary players who played in the Leslie Claudius series in the early 20th century.
