1986–87 Santosh Trophy

March 2024 March 2024 Santosh Trophy 1986–87 National Football Championship India Bengal 22 Railways 1985–86 1987–88 The 1986–87 Santosh Trophy was the 43rd edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main State competition for football in India. It was held in Tamluk, and Rabindra Sarobar Stadium and Mohun Bagan Ground in Calcutta, West Bengal. Bengal defeated Railways 2–0 in the final to win the competition for the 22nd time. Quarter-final League Bihar, Services, Railways and Haryana qualified from Cluster one to four. The eight teams that finished in the top two positions in each group in the quarter-final league in 1985–86 were seeded directly to the quarter-final. Group One main WDL Indian Express complete BI PU AN KO 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 Punjab Bihar Andhra Pradesh 2 1 0 Q #ccffcc Advance to Semi-finals Bihar Punjab 0 0 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870413&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 12 April 1987 Indian Express, 13 April 1987 Bihar Andhra Pradesh 2 1 Aich Hazre 32 Nazir Ali 67 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870417&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 16 April 1987 Indian Express, 17 April 1987 Andhra Pradesh Punjab 0 0 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870419&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 18 April 1987 Indian Express, 19 April 1987 Group Two main WDL Indian Express complete KE KA SE KO 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 Kerala Karnataka Services 2 1 0 Q #ccffcc Advance to Semi-finals Kerala Services 1 1 Ganesan Suresh Mukhia 42 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870412&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 11 April 1987 Indian Express, 12 April 1987 Karnataka Services 1 0 ? https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870412&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 11 April 1987 Indian Express, 12 April 1987 Karnataka goal-keeper Basheer saved a penalty from Brooks in the 57th minute. Kerala Karnataka 1 0 Ganesan https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870418&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 17 April 1987 Indian Express, 18 April 1987 Group Three main WDL Indian Express complete RA GO TN KO 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 Railways Goa Tamil Nadu 2 1 0 Q #ccffcc Advance to Semi-finals Railways Goa 1 1 Sanjib Dutt Anthony D'Souza 28 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870412&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 11 April 1987 Indian Express, 12 April 1987 Railways Tamil Nadu 1 0 Pronob Mondal 14 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870414&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta S. S. Sailan (Maharashtra) 13 April 1987 Indian Express, 14 April 1987 Goa Tamil Nadu 0 0 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870417&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 16 April 1987 Indian Express, 17 April 1987 Group Four main WDL Indian Express complete BE MA HA KO 2 0 0 6 1 1 0 1 8 4 0 0 2 2 11 Bengal Maharashtra Haryana 2 1 0 Q #ccffcc Advance to Semi-finals Bengal Haryana 3 1 Prasanta Banerjee 15 Babu Mani 52 Sisir Ghosh 70 Sumesh Bagga 14 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870411&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 10 April 1987 Indian Express, 11 April 1987, p.16 Bengal captain Biswajit Bhattacharya was replaced by Sisir Ghosh in the 30th minute of the first half. He played no further part in the tournament. Maharashtra Haryana 8 1 Mustaq Ali 5 47 Umer 15 Jaswant Singh 16 ? ? 45 ? Sumesh Bagga ? pen https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870413&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta 12 April 1987 Indian Express, 13 April 1987 Maharashtra led 7–1 in the first half, four goals scored by Jaswant Singh. Bengal Maharashtra 3 0 Sisir Ghosh 17 Prasanta Banerjee 35 Krishnendu Roy 87 pen. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870415&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta M . S. Krishnamurthy (Karnataka) 14 April 1987 Indian Express, 15 April 1987 Prasanta Banerjee's goal went through the net and was awarded by the referee after consultation with the linesman B. S. Bisht. Maharashtra refused to play and there was a delay of seven minutes. Semifinal Bengal Kerala 1 1 Debashis Roy 70 Ganesan 35 4–2 Sudeep Chatterjee Krishnendu Roy Krishanu Dey Sisir Ghosh Thobias Harris Rehuman V. P. Sathyan Jayachandran 15000 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870421&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta Badal Chakrabarty (Tripura), S. S. Salian (Maharashtra), P.K. Basu (Bengal) yes 20 April 1987 Indian Express, 21 April 1987 After the match ended at 1–1 after 90 minutes, the crowd threw stones at the Kerala players. Thomas Sebastian was hit by a stone and needed medical attention. Debashis Roy's header appeared to have been saved on the goal line but was given as a goal. Bihar Railways 2 0 Uttam Ghosh ? pen. Sanjeeb Dutta https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19870422&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta S. S. Salien (Maharashtra) 21 April 1987 Indian Express, 22 April 1987 Final Bengal Railways 2 0 Amit Bhadra 64 Sisir Ghosh 89 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1oplAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f54NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1573%2C3584699 Mohun Bagan Ground, Calcutta P.K. Basu (Madhya Pradesh) 60,000 Ghosh, Arnab, No fan support for Bengal, Sportstar, May 9, 1987, pp. 46-51 23 April 1987 Indian Express, 24 April 1987 Railways were coached by P. K. Banerjee. Bengal's coach was Arun Sinha and manager Subhash Bhowmick. Review The tournament was widely criticised for the lack of quality. Jarnail Singh who gave away the prizes said that he had never seen such a poor nationals. "I didn't see a single team playing methodical and organised football .. I'm really pained to see such a fall in the standard of Indian football". Sailen Manna, a former captain of Indian football team, said it was one of the worst nationals that he had ever seen. It didn't help that Punjab and Goa, two of the strongest teams, could not make it to the semifinal. The refeering was also of low quality. In the Bengal-Kerala semifinal, the referee Badal Chakrabarty and a linesman P.K. Basu were Bengalis. India had seven referees in the international panel. None of them were used in the tournament because of the possibility that they would be required for the pre-Olympic matches. Eventually, they stood in neither set of matches. References Category:Santosh Trophy seasons