2018 IFA Shield

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2018 IFA Shield
IFA Shield 2018
Tournament details
CountryIndia
Dates5–19 July 2018
Teams20 (8 in final round)
Final positions
Champions East Bengal (29th title)
Runners-up Mohun Bagan
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored57 (3.8 per match)
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The 2018 IFA Shield was the 122nd edition of the IFA Shield. The tournament was designed as a U19 youth football tournament since 2015. 8 clubs participated in final round in the edition.

Contents

Venue

All the matches were held at Barasat Stadium, East Bengal Ground, Mohun Bagan Ground and Howrah Stadium.

Qualifying round

14 teams participated in the qualifying round and Bengal Football Academy as the winners of qualifiers. FC Pune City later withdrew from the tournament and were replaced by runners-up of qualifying round, SAIL (Burnpur) Academy. [1] [2]

Final round

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 East Bengal 3300131+129Advance to the semifinals
2SAIL (Burnpur)32016606
3 ATK 30121541
4 Mohammedan 30121981

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Mohun Bagan 3300111+109Advance to the semifinals
2 Tata Football Academy 320185+36
3Bengal Football Academy31025723
4 Churchill Brothers 3003213110

Semi-finals

East Bengal 4–1 (a.e.t.) Tata Football Academy
  • T. Suranjit Singh Soccerball shade.svg64'
  • Gurmukh Singh Soccerball shade.svg114'
  • Dip Saha Soccerball shade.svg120+1'
  • Jhantu Prasad Soccerball shade.svg120+2'
Report
  • Chetan Hansdah Soccerball shade.svg49'
Mohun Bagan 2–1SAIL (Burnpur)
  • Asif Ali Molla Soccerball shade.svg25'
  • Subha Ghosh Soccerball shade.svg85'
Report
  • Israfil Deewan Soccerball shade.svg27'

Final

East Bengal 1–1 (a.e.t.) Mohun Bagan
Dip Saha Soccerball shade.svg83' Report Sourav Das Soccerball shade.svg47'
Penalties
4–2
Barasat Stadium
Attendance: 5000

References

  1. "IFA Shield 2018:Defending champions Pune pull out". Sportskeeda. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. "Kolkata Football". Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.