2008–09 I-League

2nd season of the I-League February 2015 February 2015 2008–09 I-League Season 26 September 2008– 16 April 2009 Churchill Brothers1st I-League title1st Indian title MohammedanVasco AFC Champions League Churchill Brothers AFC Cup East Bengal(as Federation Cup Winners) 132 318 Odafa Onyeka Okolie 2007–08 2009–10 The 2008–09 I-League season began on 26 September 2008 and finished on 16 April 2009 with a break in December for the Federation Cup and Durand Cup. Most games this season were played on Saturday's and Sunday's to attract larger crowds. After a successful first season for the I League, the second season featured 12 teams from four cities – again this would be expanded in the 2009–10 season to 14 teams. The champion in the I-League qualified for the AFC Champions League 2010 qualifying playoffs in 2010, while the bottom two teams were relegated to I-League 2nd Division for the next season. Gallery Teams India 400 right Locations of games played in the 2008–09 I-League India 31.22000 75.77000 JCT right India3 22.56972 88.36972 Kolkata Blue pog.svg left India3 TransparentPlaceholder.png 1 20.00 86.00 Kolkata clubs: Chirag United East Bengal Mohammedan Mohun Bagan right India3 15.49300 73.81800 Goa Blue pog.svg left India3 TransparentPlaceholder.png 1 9.00 86.00 Goa clubs: Churchill Brothers Dempo Sporting Goa Vasco right India3 18.97500 72.82583 Mumbai Blue pog.svg left India3 TransparentPlaceholder.png 1 14.00 86.00 Mumbai clubs: Air India Mahindra United Mumbai right Club Manager Location Stadia Air India India Bimal Ghosh Mumbai Cooperage Ground Churchill Brothers Morocco Karim Bencherifa Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Dempo India Armando Colaco Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium East Bengal India Monoranjan Bhattacharya Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium JCT India Sukhwinder Singh New Delhi Ambedkar Stadium Mahindra United India Derrick Pereira Mumbai Cooperage Ground Mohammedan Sporting India Shabbir Ali Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium Mohun Bagan Brazil Carlos Roberto Pereira Da Silva Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium Sporting Goa Nigeria Clifford Chukwuma Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Vasco IND Subrata Bhattacharya Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium League table main WDL 5 QR CB Churchill Brothers MB Mohun Bagan SCG Sporting Goa DEM Dempo MAH Mahindra United EB East Bengal MUM Mumbai PRY Chirag United JCT JCT AI Air India MOH Mohammedan Sporting VAS Vasco 13 7 2 53 23 13 4 5 30 20 13 4 5 28 20 8 7 7 35 26 8 7 7 28 22 7 7 8 31 26 7 7 8 22 27 6 8 8 20 26 6 7 9 19 22 5 9 8 21 26 5 7 10 17 31 2 4 16 14 49 R #ACE1AF 2010 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-off ACQR #97DEFF 2010 AFC Cup group stage East Bengal qualified for the 2010 AFC Cup as 2009–10 Indian Federation Cup winners. ACGS #FFCCCC Relegation to 2010 I-League 2nd Division R R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete Soccerway Home and away season Round 1 #eeeeee 26 September 2008 18:30 IST East Bengal 3–1 Chirag United Sports Club I Surkumar Singh 10 Yakubu 19 Sunil Chhetri 28 Shankar Oraon 79 Barasat Stadium S Suresh #eeeeee 26 September 200816:00 IST Vasco Sports Club 0–1 Sporting Clube de Goa Elijah Obagbemiro Jr 90+1 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Minangshu Bhattacharya #eeeeee 27 September 200818:30 IST Mohun Bagan 1–2 Mumbai FC Pachau Lalam Puia 77 Abel Hammond 9 Kalia Kulothungan 24 Barasat Stadium A Arjunan #eeeeee 27 September 200816:00 IST Churchill Brothers 2–1 Mahindra United Odafe Onyeka Okolie 61 88 Sushil Kumar Singh 83 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Pratap Singh #eeeeee 28 September 200816:00 IST Dempo Sports Club 1–2 JCT FC Nicolau Borges 77 Escobar 17 Balwant Singh 64 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Pradeep Kumar #eeeeee 29 September 200818:30 IST Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–1 Air-India Theodore Sunday Wrobeh 59 Surojit Roy 23 Barasat Stadium Francisco Fernandes Round 2 #eeeeee 30 September 2008 18:30 IST East Bengal 0–1 Mumbai FC Felix Aboagye 23 Salt Lake Stadium A Arjunan #eeeeee 2 October 200816:00 IST Vasco Sports Club 0–0 JCT FC Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 3 October 200818:30 IST Mohun Bagan 1–1 Air-India Branco Cordozo 70 Soccor Velho 43 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 4 October 200816:00 IST Sporting Clube de Goa 3–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club Elijah Obagbemiro Jr 6377 Micky Fernandes76 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Dinesh Nair #eeeeee 4 October 2008 16:00 IST Mahindra United 1–3 Chirag United Sports Club Sushil Kumar Singh 12 Subair Muritala Ali 46 Gouranga Datta 52 Hardip Singh Saini 87 Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 5 November 2008 Churchill Brothers 3–3 Dempo Sports Club Felix Chimaokwu 15 19 Odafe Onyeka Okolie 31 Mboyo Iyomi 37 47 76 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Round 3 #eeeeee 11 October 200816:00 IST JCT FC 2–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club Saini 46Escobar 68 Guru Nanak Dev Stadium #eeeeee 11 October 2008 Mahindra United 0–1 Mumbai FC Kalia Kulothungan 23 Cooperage Ground Benjamin Silva #eeeeee 11 October 200816:00 IST Sporting Clube de Goa 2–0 https://m.rediff.com/sports/2008/oct/11goa.htm Mohun Bagan Wilton Gomes 26 Nathaniel Amos 51 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium P Bhaskar Wilton Gomes (Sporting Clube) #eeeeee 12 October 200818:30 IST Chirag United Sports Club 0–0 Churchill Brothers Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 12 October 200818:30 IST Air-India 2–0 East Bengal Surojit Roy 48 Michael Tayo 70 Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 12 October 200816:00 IST Dempo Sports Club 2–1 Vasco Sports Club Roberto Silva 24 Ranty Martins 30 Ravshan Teshabaev 32 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Round 4 #eeeeee 11 November 2008 Mumbai FC 0–0 Dempo SC Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 18 October 200816:00 IST JCT FC 0–1 Mahindra United Sukhwinder Singh 70 Guru Nanak Dev Stadium Nazir Ahmed #eeeeee 18 October 200818:30 IST Air-India 1–0 Chirag United Sports Club Surojit Roy 69 Cooperage Ground A Rowan #eeeeee 18 October 2008 18:30 IST East Bengal 2–0 Vasco Sports Club Yakubu 7 90 Salt Lake Stadium PK Bose #eeeeee 19 October 200818:30 IST Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–1 Mohun Bagan Goutam Thakur 3 Jose Ramirez Barreto 23 Salt Lake Stadium Sreenivasan Suresh #eeeeee 19 October 200816:00 IST Churchill Brothers 3–0 Sporting Clube de Goa Odafe Onyeka Okolie 14 60 Thokchom Naoba Singh 85 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Pradeep Kumar Round 5 #eeeeee 23 October 2008 Chirag United Sports Club 0–0 JCT FC Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 24 October 2008 Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–0 Mahindra United Mike Okoro 75 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 24 October 2008 Sporting Clube de Goa 1–0 Mumbai FC Eliga Junior 17 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 25 October 2008 Mohun Bagan 1–1 East Bengal Baichung Bhutia 2 Rahim Nabi 38 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 25 October 2008 Vasco Sports Club 1–4 Churchill Brothers Agnelo Colaco 70 Odafe Onyeka Okolie 39 44 62 Felix Chimaokw 41 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 26 October 2008 Dempo SC 3–1 Air-India Ranty Martins 38 78 Climax Lawrence 55 Ravinder Singh 60 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Round 6 #eeeeee 31 October 2008 Dempo SC 0–1 Mohun Bagan Jose Ramirez Barreto (P) 52 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 1 November 2008 Chirag United Sports Club 0–1 Sporting Clube de Goa Joseph Pereira 73 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 1 November 2008 Air-India 2–0 Mumbai FC Soccor Velho 20 20 Subhas Singh 32 Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 1 November 2008 Vasco Sports Club 0–2 Mahindra United Chiddi Edeh 43 Sushil Kumar Singh 61 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 2 November 2008 Mohammedan Sporting Club 0–0 East Bengal Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 2 November 2008 Churchill Brothers 1–1 JCT FC Odafe Onyeka Okolie 27 Amandeep Singh 48 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Round 7 #eeeeee 7 November 2008 East Bengal 1–1 Mahindra United Chhetri 61 Paresh Shivalkar 59 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 8 November 2008 Mumbai FC 1–1 Vasco Sports Club Kulothungan 25 Abhiskek Yadav 65 Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 8 November 2008 Dempo SC 0–1 Sporting Clube de Goa Elija Jr. 83 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 8 November 2008 Chirag United Sports Club 1–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club Gouranga Dutta 62 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 9 November 2008 Mohun Bagan 1–0 Churchill Brothers P Lalwampuia 14 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 9 November 2008 Air-India 1–0 JCT FC Samson Singh 86 Cooperage Ground Round 8 #eeeeee 14 November 2008 Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–0 Vasco Sports Club Bimal Parier 87 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 14 November 2008 Mahindra United 1–1 Air-India Sushil Kumar 55 Subhash Singh 66 Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 15 November 2008 East Bengal 3–1 Sporting Clube de Goa Chhetri 14 Syed Rahim Nabi 26 31 Harmanjot Khabra 54 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 15 November 2008 Churchill Brothers 2–2 Mumbai FC Odafe Onyeka Okolie 21 Reisangmi Vashum 70 Abhishek Yadav 10 Kulothungan 75 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 16 November 2008 Mohun Bagan 2–0 JCT FC Ishfaq Ahmed 15 Jose Ramirez Barreto 30 pen Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 16 November 2008 Dempo SC 4–0 Chirag United Sports Club Ranty Martins 470 Joaquim Abranches 45+1 Roberto Mendes Silva 58 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium Round 9 #eeeeee 18 November 200816:00 IST Churchill Brothers 1–1 Air-India Felix Chimaokwu 38 Michael Tayo 90+3 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 19 October 200818:30 IST Mahindra United 0–0 Sporting Clube de Goa Cooperage Ground #eeeeee 20 November 2008 Mohammedan Sporting Club 0–2 Dempo Sports Club Anthony Pereira 9 Ranti Martins 41 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 20 November 2008 Vasco Sports Club 1–2 Mohun Bagan Lalnun Puia 29 Rakesh Masih 31 Lalkamal Bhowmick 55 Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium #eeeeee 21 November 2008 Chirag United Sports Club 1–1 Mumbai FC Shankar Orao 12 Riston Rodrigues 59 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 22 November 200816:00 IST JCT FC 1–0 East Bengal Escobar 58 Guru Nanak Dev Stadium Round 10 #eeeeee 23 November 2008 Mohammedan Sporting Club 0–1 Churchill Brothers Okolie 70 Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 24 November 2008 Mohun Bagan AC 1–0 Mahindra United Bhaichung Bhutia46 Salt Lake Stadium P. Basu #eeeeee 25 November 2008 Chirag United Sports Club 3–1 Vasco Sports Club Salt Lake Stadium #eeeeee 26 November 2008 Dempo Sports Club 1–0 East Bengal [Beto]78 Goa #eeeeee 26 November 2008 JCT FC 2–3 Mumbai FC Cooperage Ground Round 12 #eeeeee 23 January 2009 Mumbai FC 0–3 Mohun Bagan AC Cooperage Ground, Mumbai #eeeeee 23 January 2009 JCT FC 2–1 Dempo Sports Club Guru Nanak Dev Stadium #eeeeee 24 January 2009 Chirag United Sports Club 0–0 East Bengal Saltlake Stadium, Kolkata #eeeeee 24 January 2009 Mahindra United 1–3 Churchill Brothers SC Cooperage Ground, Mumbai #eeeeee 25 January 2009 Air-India 1–1 Mohammedan Sporting Club Cooperage Ground, Mumbai #eeeeee 25 January 2009 Sporting Clube de Goa 0–1 Vasco Sports Club Fatorda Stadium, Margao Round 13 #eeeeee 31 January 2009 Mohammedan Sporting Club 0–1 Sporting Clube de Goa #eeeeee 31 January 2009 JCT FC 1–1 Vasco Sports Club #eeeeee 31 January 2009 Mumbai FC 2–1 East Bengal A. Yadav 47 A. Hammond 88 Yakubu 13 #eeeeee 1 February 2009 Chirag United Sports Club 0–2 Mahindra United #eeeeee 1 February 2009 Air-India 1–2 Mohun Bagan AC #eeeeee 1 February 2009 Dempo Sports Club 1–1 Churchill Brothers SC Round 14 #eeeeee 6 February 2009 Mohun Bagan AC 1–0 Sporting Clube de Goa #eeeeee 6 February 2009 Mumbai FC 0–0 Mahindra United #eeeeee 7 February 2009 Mohammedan Sporting Club 2–0 JCT FC #eeeeee 7 February 2009 Churchill Brothers SC 3–0 Chirag United Sports Club #eeeeee 7 February 2009 East Bengal 3–1 Air-India Yakubu 49 Sunil Chhetri 56 Sanju Pradhan 81 Subhash Singh 88 #eeeeee 8 February 2009 Vasco Sports Club 2–2 Dempo Sports Club Round 15 #eeeeee 13 February 2009 Dempo Sports Club 3–0 Mumbai FC #eeeeee 14 February 2009 Vasco Sports Club 1–4 East Bengal Sherzod Nazarov 52 Chhetri 29 90, Yakubu 46 56 #eeeeee 14 February 2009 Chirag United Sports Club 1–0 Air-India #eeeeee 14 February 2009 Mahindra United 0–0 JCT FC #eeeeee 15 February 2009 18:30 IST Mohun Bagan AC 1–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club James Lukram Singh 14 Salt Lake Stadium Pradeep Kumar #eeeeee 15 February 2009 Sporting Clube de Goa 1–0 Churchill Brothers SC Round 16 #eeeeee 20 February 2009 Air-India 0–0 Dempo Sports Club #eeeeee 20 February 2009 Churchill Brothers SC 9 -1 Vasco Sports Club Odafe Onyeka Okolie 42 5057 8289 90 #eeeeee 21 February 2009 Mahindra United 0–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club #eeeeee 21 February 2009 JCT FC 0–1 Chirag United Sports Club Ayeni Bidemi Daniel 38 #eeeeee 22 February 2009 East Bengal 3–0 Mohun Bagan AC Syed Rahim Nabi 22 40 Chhetri 47 Salt Lake Stadium 90,000 #eeeeee 22 February 2009 Mumbai FC 1–2 Sporting Clube de Goa Round 17 #eeeeee 26 February 2009 JCT FC 1–2 Churchill Brothers SC #eeeeee 27 February 2009 Sporting Clube de Goa 2–2 Chirag United Sports Club #eeeeee 28 February 2009 Mumbai FC 1–1 Air-India Kalia Kulothungan 38 Emmanuel Ovieghara Cooperage, Mumbai #eeeeee 28 February 2009 East Bengal 2–2 Mohammedan Sporting Club Nirmal Chhetri 48; Chhetri 54 Okoro 4; Eugene Gray Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata Shaji Kurian #eeeeee 1 March 2009 Mahindra United 4–0 Vasco Sports Club #eeeeee 12 April 2009 Mohun Bagan AC 2–1 Dempo SC Round 18 #eeeeee 4 March 2009 Churchill Brothers SC 3–1 Mohun Bagan AC Odafe Onyeka Okolie 45, Ogba Kalu Nnanna 57, 77 Jose Ramirez Barreto 28 Pradeep Kumar (Tamil Nadu) #eeeeee 5 March 2009 Sporting Clube de Goa 2–1 Dempo SC #eeeeee 6 March 2009 Mahindra United 2–1 East Bengal C.Edeh 54 70 Sunil Chhetri 50 #eeeeee 7 March 2009 Mohammedan Sporting Club 2–2 Chirag United Sports Club #eeeeee 7 March 2009 JCT FC 1–1 Air-India #eeeeee 8 March 2009 Vasco Sports Club 1–2 Mumbai FC Kalia Kulothungan 89, Abhishek Yadav10 Round 19 #eeeeee 14 March 2009 Air-India 1–3 Mahindra United Sushil Kumar Singh 56 #eeeeee 14 March 2009 Vasco Sports Club 0–1 Mohammedan Sporting Club #eeeeee 15 March 2009 Sporting Clube de Goa 1–1 East Bengal J. Pereira 64 I. Addo 42 #eeeeee 15 March 2009 Mumbai FC 2–3 Churchill Brothers SC Anees Kutty 15 #eeeeee 28 March 2009 JCT FC 1–1 Mohun Bagan AC #eeeeee 28 March 2009 Chirag United Sports Club 0–0 Dempo SC Round 20 #eeeeee 21 March 2009 JCT FC 2–0 Sporting Clube de Goa Paul M. Nwachukwu 11, Jagpreet singh 81 #eeeeee 22 March 2009 Mohammedan Sporting Club 2–0 Mumbai FC Satyajit Bose 14 #eeeeee 22 March 2009 Churchill Brothers SC 3–1 East Bengal Odafe Onyeka Okolie 45 75 Kalu 53 Yakubu 86 #eeeeee 22 March 2009 Air-India 1–0 Vasco Sports Club Singam Subash Singh 67 #eeeeee 23 March 2009 Dempo SC 3–2 Mahindra United Arata izumi 1, Sushil Kumar Singh 65 #eeeeee 23 March 2009 Chirag United Sports Club 1–2 Mohun Bagan AC Round 21 #eeeeee 28 March 2009 Air-India 1–1 Churchill Brothers SC #eeeeee 28 March 2009 Sporting Clube de Goa 2–0 Mahindra United #eeeeee 1 April 2009 Mumbai FC 0–0 Chirag United Sports Club #eeeeee 2 April 2009 Dempo SC 4–1 Mohammedan Sporting Club #eeeeee 2 April 2009 Mohun Bagan AC 3–0 Vasco Sports Club #eeeeee 3 April 2009 East Bengal 2–1 JCT FC Yakubu 35 69 Edu 76 Round 22 #eeeeee 16 April 2009 Churchill Brothers 6–2 https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/I-League-title-for-Churchill-Brothers/article16618228.ece Mohammedan Sporting Club Vashum 5 Okolie 8 84 Chimaokwu 61 Paite 63 N. Singh 87 Okoro 52 Jothikumar 90 Nehru Stadium, Margao #eeeeee 16 April 2009 Air-India 1–3 Sporting Clube de Goa #eeeeee 16 April 2009 JCT FC 1–0 Mumbai FC #eeeeee 16 April 2009 East Bengal 2–2 Dempo SC Yakubu 12 I. Addo 60 C. 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