2008–09 I-League

I-League 2008–09
League I-League
Sport Association football
Duration 2008–2009
Number of teams 12
TV partner(s) Zee Sports
I-League season
Champions Churchill Brothers SC
Top scorer Odafe Onyeka Okolie

The I-League 2008–2009 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 different 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.

Teams

Locations of games played in the 2008–09 I-League season
Club Manager Location Stadia
Air India IndiaBimal Ghosh Mumbai Cooperage Ground
Churchill Brothers SC MoroccoKarim Bencharifa Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium
Dempo SC IndiaArmando Colaco Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium
East Bengal India Monoranjan Bhattacharya Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium
JCT FC IndiaSukhvinder Singh New Delhi Ambedkar Stadium
Mahindra United IndiaDerrick Pereira Mumbai Cooperage Ground
Mohammedan S.C India Shabbir Ali Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium
Mohun Bagan BrazilCarlos Roberto Pereira Da Silva Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium
Sporting Clube De Goa NigeriaCliffort Chukwama Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium
Vasco S.C. Goa Jawaharlal Nehru – Fatorda Stadium

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Churchill Brothers 22 13 7 2 53 23 +30 46 2010 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-off
2 Mohun Bagan 22 13 4 5 30 20 +10 43
3 Sporting Goa 22 13 4 5 28 20 +8 43
4 Dempo 22 8 7 7 35 26 +9 31
5 Mahindra United 22 8 7 7 28 22 +6 31
6 East Bengal 22 7 7 8 31 26 +5 28 2010 AFC Cup group stage 1
7 Mumbai 22 7 7 8 22 27 −5 28
8 Chirag United 22 6 8 8 20 26 −6 26
9 JCT 22 6 7 9 19 22 −3 25
10 Air India 22 5 9 8 21 26 −5 24
11 Mohammedan 22 5 7 10 17 31 −14 22 Relegation to 2010 I-League 2nd Division
12 Vasco SC (R) 22 2 4 16 14 49 −35 10

Updated to games played on 16 April 2009.
Source: IndiaFooty.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1. East Bengal qualified for the 2010 AFC Cup as 2009–10 Indian Federation Cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home and away season

Round 1

East Bengal Club 3–1 Chirag United Sports Club
I Surkumar Singh  10'
Yakubu Yusif  19'
Sunil Chetri  28'		 Shankar Oraon  79'
Referee: S Suresh
Vasco Sports Club 0–1 Sporting Clube de Goa
Elijah Obagbemiro Jr  90+1'
Referee: Minangshu Bhattacharya
Mohun Bagan 1–2 Mumbai FC
Pachau Lalam Puia  77' Abel Hammond  9'
Kalia Kulothungan  24'
Referee: A Arjunan
Dempo Sports Club 1–2 JCT FC
Nicolau Borges  77' E. da Silva Escobar  17'
Balwant Singh  64'
Referee: Pradeep Kumar
Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–1 Air-India
Theodore Sunday Wrobeh  59' Surojit Roy  23'
Referee: Francisco Fernandes

Round 2

East Bengal Club 0–1 Mumbai FC
Felix Aboagye  23'
Referee: A Arjunan
Mohun Bagan 1–1 Air-India
Branco Cordozo  70' Soccor Velho  43'
Sporting Clube de Goa 3–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club
Elijah Obagbemiro Jr  63' 77'
Micky Fernandes 76'
Referee: Dinesh Nair
Mahindra United 1–3 Chirag United Sports Club
Sushil Kumar Singh  12' Subair Muritala Ali  46'
Gouranga Datta  52'
Hardip Singh Saini  87'

Round 3

JCT FC 2–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club
Baljeet Singh Saini  46'

Eduardo Escober  68'
Mahindra United 0–1 Mumbai FC
K.Kulothungan  23'
Sporting Clube de Goa 2–0 Mohun Bagan
Mohonraj "OG"  25'

Nathaniel Amos  51'
Air-India 2–0 East Bengal Club
Surojit Roy  48'

Michael Tayo  70'
Dempo Sports Club 2–1 Vasco Sports Club
Roberto Silva  24'

Ranty Martins  30'

 Ravshan Teshabaev  32'

Round 4

Mumbai FC 0–0 Dempo SC
JCT FC 0–1 Mahindra United
Sukhwinder Singh  70'
Air-India 1–0 Chirag United Sports Club
Surojit Roy  69'
East Bengal Club 2–0 Vasco Sports Club
Yusif Yakubu  7'  90'
Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–1 Mohun Bagan
Goutam Thakur  3' Jose Ramirez Barreto  23'
Churchill Bros 3–0 Sporting Clube de Goa
Odafe Onyeka Okolie  14'  60'

T.Naoba Singh  85'

Round 5

Sporting Clube de Goa 1–0 Mumbai FC
Eliga Junior  17'
Mohun Bagan 1–1 East Bengal Club
Baichung Bhutia  2' Rahim Nabi  38'
Vasco Sports Club 1–4 Churchill Bros
Agnelo Colaco  70' Odafe Onyeka Okolie  39'  44'  62'

Felix Chimaokw  41'

Dempo SC 3–1 Air-India
Ranty Martins  38'  78'

Climax Lawrence  55'

 Ravinder Singh  60'

Round 6

Air-India 2–0 Mumbai FC
Soccor Velho 20  20'

Subhas Singh  32'

Round 7

Mumbai FC 1–1 Vasco Sports Club
Kulothungan  25' Abhiskek Yadav  65'
Chirag United Sports Club 1–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club
Gouranga Dutta  62'
Mohun Bagan 1–0 Churchill Bros
P Lalwampuia  14'
Air-India 1–0 JCT FC
Samson Singh  86'

Round 8

Mohammedan Sporting Club 1–0 Vasco Sports Club
Bimal Parier  87'
Mahindra United 1–1 Air-India
Sushil Kumar  55' Subhash Singh  66'
Churchill Bros 2–2 Mumbai FC
Odafe Onyeka Okolie  21'

Reisangmi Vashum  70'

 Abhishek Yadav  10'

Kulothungan  75'

Mohun Bagan 2–0 JCT FC
Ishfaq Ahmed  15'

Jose Ramirez Barreto  30 pen'

Round 9

Mahindra United 0–0 Sporting Clube de Goa
Chirag United Sports Club 1–1 Mumbai FC
Shankar Orao  12' Riston Rodrigues  59'
JCT FC 1–0 East Bengal Club
E. Escober  58'

Round 10

Mohammedan Sporting Club 0 – 1; Churchill Bros
Odafe 70'
Mohun Bagan AC 1–0 Mahindra United
Bhaichung Bhutia 46'
Referee: P. Basu
Dempo Sports Club 1–0 East Bengal Club
[Beto] 78'
JCT FC 2–3 Mumbai FC

Round 12

Mumbai FC 0–3 Mohun Bagan AC
Cooperage Ground, Mumbai
JCT FC 2–1 Dempo Sports Club
Guru Nanak Dev Stadium
Chirag United Sports Club 0–0 East Bengal Club
Saltlake Stadium, Kolkata
Mahindra United 1–3 Churchill Brothers SC
Cooperage Ground, Mumbai
Air-India 1–1 Mohammedan Sporting Club
Cooperage Ground, Mumbai
Sporting Clube de Goa 0–1 Vasco Sports Club
Fatorda Stadium, Margao

Round 13

JCT FC 1–1 Vasco Sports Club
Mumbai FC 2–1 East Bengal Club
A. Yadav  47'
A. Hammond  88'		 Yakubu Yusif  13'
Air-India 1–2 Mohun Bagan AC

Round 14

Mohun Bagan AC 1–0 Sporting Clube de Goa
Mumbai FC 0–0 Mahindra United
Mohammedan Sporting Club 2–0 JCT FC
East Bengal Club 3–1 Air-India
Yakubu  49'
Sunil Chetri  56'
Sanju Pradhan  81'		 Subhash Singh  88'
Vasco Sports Club 2–2 Dempo Sports Club

Round 15

Dempo Sports Club 3–0 Mumbai FC
Vasco Sports Club 1–4 East Bengal Club
Sherzod Nazarov  52' Sunil Chhetri  29'  90',
Yakubu  46'  56'
Chirag United Sports Club 1–0 Air-India
Mahindra United 0–0 JCT FC
Mohun Bagan AC 1–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club

Round 16

Air-India 0–0 Dempo Sports Club
Churchill Brothers SC 9 -1 Vasco Sports Club
Odafe Onyeka Okolie  42'  50' 57'  82' 89'  90'
Mahindra United 0–0 Mohammedan Sporting Club
JCT FC 0–1 Chirag United Sports Club
Ayeni Bidemi Daniel  38'
East Bengal Club 3–0 Mohun Bagan AC
Syed Rahim Nabi  22'  40' ,
Sunil Chhetri  47'
Attendance: 90,000
Mumbai FC 1–2 Sporting Clube de Goa

Round 17

JCT FC 1–2 Churchill Brothers SC
Mumbai FC 1–1 Air-India
Kalia Kulothungan  38' Emmanuel Ovieghara
Cooperage, Mumbai
East Bengal Club 2–2 Mohammedan Sporting Club
Nirmal Chhetri  48'; Sunil Chhetri  54' Okoro  4'; Eugene Gray
Referee: Shaji Kurian
Mahindra United 4–0 Vasco Sports Club
Mohun Bagan AC 2–1 Dempo SC

Round 18

Churchill Brothers SC 3–1 Mohun Bagan AC
Odafe Onyeka Okolie  45', Ogba Kalu Nnanna  57',  77' Jose Ramirez Barreto  28'
Referee: Pradeep Kumar (Tamil Nadu)
Sporting Clube de Goa 2–1 Dempo SC
Mahindra United 2–1 East Bengal Club
C.Edeh  54'  70' Sunil Chetri  50'
JCT FC 1–1 Air-India
Vasco Sports Club 1–2 Mumbai FC
Kalia Kulothungan  89',Abhishek Yadav 10'

Round 19

Air-India 1–3 Mahindra United
Sushil Kumar Singh  56'
Sporting Clube de Goa 1–1 East Bengal Club
J. Pereira  64' I. Addo  42'
Mumbai FC 2–3 Churchill Brothers SC
Anees Kutty  15'
JCT FC 1–1 Mohun Bagan AC
Chirag United Sports Club 0–0 Dempo SC

Round 20

JCT FC 2–0 Sporting Clube de Goa
Paul M. Nwachukwu  11', Jagpreet singh  81'
Mohammedan Sporting Club 2–0 Mumbai FC
Satyajit Bose  14'
Churchill Brothers SC 3–1 East Bengal Club
Odafe Onyeka Okolie  45'  75'
Kalu  53'		 Yakubu Yusif  86'
Air-India 1–0 Vasco Sports Club
Singam Subash Singh  67'
Dempo SC 3–2 Mahindra United
Arata izumi  1',Sushil Kumar Singh  65'

Round 21

Air-India 1–1 Churchill Brothers SC
Dempo SC 4–1 Mohammedan Sporting Club
Mohun Bagan AC 3–0 Vasco Sports Club
East Bengal Club 2–1 JCT FC
Yusif Yakubu  35'  69' Edu  76'

Round 22

Air-India 1–3 Sporting Clube de Goa
JCT FC 1–0 Mumbai FC
East Bengal Club 2–2 Dempo SC
Yakubu Yusif  12'
I. Addo  60'		 C. Antao  21'
Beto  22'
Mahindra United 2–1 Mohun Bagan AC

Top scorers

As of 23 March 2009
Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Nigeria Odafe Onyeka Okolie Churchill Brothers SC 24
2 Brazil Jose Ramirez Barreto Mohun Bagan 10
Nigeria Felix Chimaokwu Churchill Brothers SC
4 India Sunil Chhetri East Bengal Club 9
Nigeria Ranty Martins Soleye Dempo SC
Nigeria Chidi Edeh Mahindra United
Ghana Yusif Yakubu East Bengal Club
8 India Singam Subash Singh Air India 7
India Sushil Kumar Singh Mahindra United
India Kalia Kulothungan Mumbai FC
Nigeria Junior Obagbemiro Sporting Clube de Goa
12 India Baichung Bhutia Mohan Bagan 6
Nigeria Ogba Kalu Nnanna Churchill Brothers SC
India Joseph Pereira Sporting Clube de Goa
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