1958–59 Santosh Trophy

March 2024 March 2024 Santosh Trophy 1958–59 National Football Championship India 8 (final phase) 20 February – 11 March 1958 Bengal 9 Services 17 1957–58 1959–60 70 minute matches The 1958–59 Santosh Trophy was the fifteenth edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main territorial football competition in India. It was held in the Corporation Stadium, Madras, Tamil Nadu. Eight teams that qualified from the four Zonal leagues met in the final tournament. This was the first tournament that had a league stage. The matches were of 70 minutes duration and were played from 5.10 pm on each day. The tournament was inaugurated by the Madras Governor Bishnuram Medhi. For the cheapest gallery, the ticket for the matches were Rs. 0.75 (Re. 1 for the final) and a season ticket of Rs. 10. For the costliest stands in West and North of the ground, the season ticket was Rs. 30, Rs. 2.50 for individual matches and Rs.3 for the semifinals and the final. All India Radio covered the semifinal and final matches. Grand Feast of Soccer from Feb. 20 in City, Indian Express, 17 February, 1959, p.8 Bengal defeated Services 1–0 in the final. The trophy was presented by C. Subramaniam, the finance minister of the Madras state, to the Bengal captain and goalkeeper R. Guha. The two time defending champions Hyderabad defeated Bengal in the league but lost to Services in the semifinal. Hyderabad team changed their name to Andhra Pradesh from the next season. League Group A main WDL complete Indian Express BO SE BI MY KO KO 2 1 0 8 1 1 2 0 3 1 1 1 1 2 7 0 0 3 1 5 Bombay Services Bihar Mysore 2 1 0 Q #ccffcc Advance to the semifinal Bombay Bihar 6-0 Corporation Stadium, Madras 28 February 1959 Indian Express, 2 March 1959, p.12 Bombay Mysore Charles 40 Neville D'Souza John 2-1 Corporation Stadium, Madras Bhattacharjee (Delhi) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590302&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 2 March 1959 Indian Express, 4 March 1959, p.10 Bombay Services 0-0 Corporation Stadium, Madras Bhattacharjee (Delhi) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590304&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Group B main WDL complete Indian Express HY BE MA DE KO KO 3 0 0 6 1 2 0 1 7 2 1 0 2 4 5 0 0 3 2 11 Hyderabad Bengal Madras Delhi 2 1 0 Q #ccffcc Advance to the semifinal Madras Delhi 4-0 Corporation Stadium, Madras Hyderabad Delhi 4-1 Corporation Stadium, Madras Bengal Delhi 3-1 Corporation Stadium, Madras 27 February 1959 Indian Express, 1 March 1959, p.8 Bengal Madras Damodar 10 20 Banerjee 34 Goswami 68 4-0 Corporation Stadium, Madras 10,000 D'Mello (Bombay) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590301&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 1 March 1959 Indian Express, 3 March 1959, p.8 Hyderabad Madras Kannan 1-0 Corporation Stadium, Madras Sen (Bengal) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590303&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 2 March 1959 Indian Express, 5 March 1959, p.8 Hyderabad Bengal Kannan 70 1-0 Corporation Stadium, Madras 10,000 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590305&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Semifinals 5 March 1959 Indian Express, 7 March 1959 Services Hyderabad Jayaraman 23 69 Lahiri 27 30 35 Yousuf 18 Hameed 44 5-2 Corporation Stadium, Madras Bhattacharjee (Bengal) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590307&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 6 March 1959 Indian Express, 8 March 1959 Bengal Bombay Balaram 18 Jaffar 53 1–1 Corporation Stadium, Madras Bhattacharjee (Delhi) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590308&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 7 March 1959 Indian Express, 9 March 1959 Bengal Bombay Damodaran 27 Goswami 50 Balan 40 Devdas 70 2–2 Corporation Stadium, Madras Bhattacharjee (Delhi) yes replay https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590309&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 9 March 1959 Indian Express, 11 March 1959 Bengal Bombay Goswami 14 Balaram 53 Mustaq 40 2–1 Corporation Stadium, Madras Moinuddin replay https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590311&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Final Services Bengal Balaram 5 1–0 Corporation Stadium, Madras 20,000 11 March 1959Indian Express, 13 March 1959 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19590313&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Basheer Ahmed (Madras) The final was originally scheduled for Sunday, March 8, but got postponed because of the semifinal replays. Balaram scored goal in the fifth minute, assisted by Damodaran. Cutting in from the left, he scored with a left footed shot into the far top corner. Balaram hit the upright twice, in the 10th minute and just before the end of the game. Squads Bengal : R Guha; Mustaq Ahmed, Rahman; Kempaiah, Ahmed Hussain, Mohammad Ali; P. K. Banerjee, A. Shome, Damodaran, Goswami and Balaram. Also Narayan, B. Mondal, Kaloo, Ram Bahadur, Varalu, Rahmatullah, S. Guha, Nandy. Coach : AK Sinha, Manager : Saroj Bose Bombay : Narayan; Chandrasekhar, Latif; Shetty, Sanil, Anthony; Jaffar, Franco, Neville D'Souza, Devdas, Norris. Also Ayub, Balan, Aroon, Charles Hyderabad : Nabi; Aziz, Abdul Hassan; Patrick, Kaleem and Yousuf ; Moin, Hameed, Kannan, Zulfiqar, Yousuf Services : Thangaraj; Sadasivan Nair, V Paul; Mumtaz Hussain, Aruldas and Doraiswamy; Chacko, Lahiri, Cherian, Puran Bahadur, Jayaraman; Also Ethiraj Madras : Munuswamy; Balagopal(c), Williams; Purushothaman, Janakiram, Veeraraghavan; Fernandez, Siva, Thomas, Arumugham, Ponnuraj. Also Stephen (gk), Kuppuswamy, Ramaswamy, Padmanabhan Mysore : Nandan; Zahir, Muthu; Sebastian, Basavannah, Nanjappa; John, Najeebullah, Anthony, Latif Khan, Arumanayagam References Category:Santosh Trophy seasons Category:1958–59 in Indian football