2025 Super League Kerala

Super League Kerala
Season	2025–26
Dates	2 October – 14 November 2025
Matches	8
Goals	18 (2.25 per match)
Highest scoring	Malappuram 3 - 3 Calicut ; (19 October 2025)
Longest winning run	Thrissur Magic ; (2 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Malappuram ; (3 matches)
Longest winless run	Forca Kochi ; Malappuram ; (2 matches)
Longest losing run	Forca Kochi ; (2 matches)
Highest attendance	22,956; Malappuram 3 - 3 Calicut ; (19 October 2025)
Lowest attendance	6,452; Thiruvananthapuram Kombans 1 - 0 Forca Kochi ; (10 October 2025)
Total attendance	114,517
Average attendance	14,709
	← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 20 October 2025.

Last updated October 20, 2025

The 2025 Super League Kerala will be the second season of the Super League Kerala, a men's professional franchise football league in Kerala, India.^[1] It is organised by the Kerala Football Association, Scoreline Sports and the Unifed Football Sports Development Pvt. Ltd .^[2]^[3]^[4] The Super League Kerala (SLK) launched its second season with a curtain raiser at Al Ahli Sports Hall, Al Nahda, Dubai ^[5]

Teams

Malappuram

Calicut

Thiruvananthapuram Kombans

Locations of the SLK franchises

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Calicut	Kozhikode	EMS Stadium	50,000
Forca Kochi	Kochi	Maharaja's College Stadium ^[6]	15,000
Kannur Warriors	Kannur	Jawahar Municipal Stadium ^[7]	30,000
Malappuram	Malappuram	Payyanad Stadium	30,000
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Thiruvananthapuram	Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium	25,000
Thrissur Magic	Thrissur	Thrissur Municipal Corporation Stadium ^[8]	15,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Club	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Calicut	Ever Demaldé	Prasanth Mohan	Hyve Sports	Aster
Forca Kochi	Miki Lladó	Rachid Aït-Atmane	Synder	QASH+
Kannur Warriors	Manuel Sánchez Murias	Ernesten Lavsamba	Kaizen Sports	KIMS Sreechand Hospital
Malappuram	Miguel Corral	Faslu Rahman	Hummel	Rapheal Film City
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	James McAloon	Patrick Mota	Hyve Sports	Adani
Thrissur Magic	Andrey Chernyshov	Maílson Alves	SIFA	Magic Frames

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Reference
Malappuram	John Gregory	Contract Finished	03 August 2025	Pre-season	Miguel Corral	03 August 2025	^[9]
Calicut	Ian Gillan	Contract Finished	08 March 2025		Ever Demaldé	20 August 2025	^[10]
Thrissur Magic	Giovanni Scanu	Contract Finished	08 March 2025		Andrey Chernyshov	23 August 2025	^[11]
Forca Kochi	Mário Lemos	Contract Finished	08 March 2025		Miki Lladó	09 September 2025
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Sérgio Alexandre	Contract Finished	08 March 2025		James McAloon	13 September 2025

Foreign players

There are no limitations on signing foreign players. A maximum of four can be fielded in a match at a time.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7
Calicut	Alexis Sosa	Federico Boasso	Nahuel Pereyra	Yuri de Oliveira	Sebastián Rincón	Richard Osei	Enrique Borja
Forca Kochi	Rachid Aït-Atmane	Douglas Tardin	Luis Rodríguez	Gino van Kessel	Iker Hernández	Ramón Riego García
Kannur Warriors	Nicolás Delmonte	Ernesten Lavsamba	Abdou Karim Samb	Adrián Sardinero	Asier Gomes	Mohamed Nidhal Said
Malappuram	Facundo Ballardo	John Kennedy	Roy Krishna ^[12]	Badr Boulahroud	Aitor Aldalur	Sergio González	Komron Tursunov
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Autemar Bispo	Filipe Alves	Patrick Mota	Paulo Victor	Ronald Makalysten	Iury De Carvalho
Thrissur Magic	Maílson Alves	Francis Addo	Ivan Marković	Dejan Uzelac	Marcus Joseph	Kevin Padilla

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thrissur Magic	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6	Advance to Playoffs
2	Malappuram	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
3	Kannur Warriors	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4
4	Calicut	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
5	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
6	Forca Kochi	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2025. Source: Super League Kerala

Results

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	CAL	FKO	KAN	MAL	TKO	THR
Calicut	—	2–1				0–1
Forca Kochi		—
Kannur Warriors			—
Malappuram	3–3		0–0	—		1–0
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans		1–0	2–3		—	0–1
Thrissur Magic						—

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2025. Source: Super League Kerala
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by match

The table lists the results of the teams after each match.

Match	1	2	3
Calicut	W	L	D
Forca Kochi	L	L
Kannur Warriors	W	D
Malappuram	W	D	D
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	L	W	L
Thrissur Magic	L	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2025. Source: Super League Kerala
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each round mentioned in official fixtures.

Team ╲ Round	1	2
Team ╲ Round
Calicut	2	4
Forca Kochi	5	6
Kannur Warriors	1	1
Malappuram	3	2
Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	4	3
Thrissur Magic	6	5

Updated to match(es) played on 12 October 2025. Source: SLK

Matches

Round 1

2 October 2025	Calicut	2–1	Forca Kochi	Kozhikode
19:30	Rincón 15' (pen.) Arun Kumar 90+1'	Report	Tardin 88'	Stadium: EMS Stadium Attendance: 21,909 Player of the Match: Arun Kumar (Calicut)

3 October 2025	Malappuram	1–0	Thrissur Magic	Manjeri
19:30	Krishna 72' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Payyanad Stadium Attendance: 14,263 Player of the Match: Roy Krishna (Malappuram)

5 October 2025	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	2–3	Kannur Warriors	Thiruvananthapuram
19:30	Autemar Bispo 52' (pen.) Viknesh Maria 90+6'	Report	Shijin T 28' Filipe Alves 74' (OG) Abdou Karim Samb90+2'	Stadium: Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium Attendance: 7,452 Player of the Match: Shijin T (Kannur Warriors)

Round 2

10 October 2025	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	1–0	Forca Kochi	Thiruvananthapuram
19:30	Paulo Víctor 74'	Report		Stadium: Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium Attendance: 6,452 Player of the Match: Paulo Víctor (Thiruvananthapuram Kombans)

11 October 2025	Calicut	0–1	Thrissur Magic	Kozhikode
19:30		Report	Maílson 35'	Stadium: EMS Stadium Attendance: 20,276 Player of the Match: Maílson Alves (Thrissur Magic)

12 October 2025	Malappuram	0–0	Kannur Warriors	Manjeri
19:30		Report		Stadium: MDSC Stadium Attendance: 14,718 Player of the Match: Muhammed Azhar (Malappuram)

Round 3

17 October 2025	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	0–1	Thrissur Magic	Thiruvananthapuram
19:30		Report	Maílson 21'	Stadium: Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium Attendance: 6,491 Player of the Match: Maílson Alves (Thrissur Magic)

19 October 2025	Malappuram	3–3	Calicut	Manjeri
19:30	Aitor 45+3' Nithin 86' John Kennedy 89'	Report	Ajsal 7', 72' Prasanth 50'	Stadium: MDSC Stadium Attendance: 22,956 Player of the Match: Muhammad Ajsal

24 October 2025	Forca Kochi	v	Kannur Warriors	Kochi
19:30

Round 4

28 October 2025	Malappuram	v	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Manjeri
19:30				Stadium: MDSC Stadium

29 October 2025	Calicut	v	Kannur Warriors	Kozhikode
19:30				Stadium: EMS Stadium

31 October 2025	Forca Kochi	v	Thrissur Magic	Kochi
19:30

Round 5

	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	v	Thrissur Magic	Thiruvananthapuram
19:30				Stadium: Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium

	Kannur Warriors	v	Forca Kochi	Kannur
19:30				Stadium: Jawahar Municipal Stadium

	Malappuram	v	Calicut	Manjeri
19:30				Stadium: MDSC Stadium

Round 6

	Forca Kochi	v	Calicut	Kochi
19:30

	Kannur Warriors	v	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Kannur
19:30				Stadium: Jawahar Municipal Stadium

	Thrissur Magic	v	Malappuram	Thrissur
19:30				Stadium: Thrissur Municipal Corporation Stadium

Round 7

	Forca Kochi	v	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Kochi
19:30

	Kannur Warriors	v	Malappuram	Kannur
19:30				Stadium: Jawahar Municipal Stadium

	Thrissur Magic	v	Calicut	Thrissur
19:30				Stadium: Thrissur Municipal Corporation Stadium

Round 8

	Calicut	v	Kannur Warriors	Kozhikode
19:30				Stadium: EMS Stadium

	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	v	Malappuram	Thiruvananthapuram
19:30				Stadium: Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium

	Forca Kochi	v	Thrissur Magic	Kochi
19:30

Round 9

	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	v	Calicut	Thiruvananthapuram
19:30				Stadium: Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium

	Malappuram	v	Forca Kochi	Manjeri
19:30				Stadium: MDSC Stadium

	Kannur Warriors	v	Thrissur Magic	Kannur
19:30				Stadium: Jawahar Municipal Stadium

Round 10

	Calicut	v	Kannur Warriors	Kozhikode
19:30				Stadium: EMS Stadium

	Forca Kochi	v	Kannur Warriors	Kochi
19:30

	Thrissur Magic	v	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	Thrissur
19:30				Stadium: Thrissur Municipal Corporation Stadium

Playoffs

The top four clubs will qualify for the semi-finals.^[13]

	Semi-finals				Final

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Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 19 October 2025

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Maílson Alves	Thrissur Magic	2
1	Muhammad Ajsal	Calicut	2
3	Sebastián Rincón	Calicut	1
	Douglas Tardin	Forca Kochi
	Arun Kumar	Calicut
	Roy Krishna	Malappuram
	Shijin Thadayouse	Kannur Warriors
	Abdou Karim Samb	Kannur Warriors
	Autemar Bispo	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans
	Viknesh Maria	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Muhammed Azhar	Malappuram	2
1	Kamaludheen AK	Thrissur Magic	2
3	Aaryan Saroha	Thiruvananthapuram Kombans	1
3	Ubaid CK	Kannur Warriors	1

References

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↑ "Sports.com signs five-year ₹100-crore deal with Super League Kerala for streaming rights". thehindu. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
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↑ "Two new stadiums in Thrissur, Kannur for the new season of Super League". newindianexpress. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
↑ "Two new stadiums in Thrissur, Kannur for the new season of Super League". newindianexpress. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
↑ "Malappuram FC Hires New Coach Miguel Corral for Super League Kerala". footem.in. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
↑ "ഡെമാൽഡെ കലിക്കറ്റ്‌ കോച്ച്‌" [demalde will be calicut Fc Coach]. deshabhimani.com (in Malayalam). 20 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
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↑ "malappuram fc sign former isl striker roy krishna". onmanorama.com. 8 September 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
↑ superleaguekerala.com. "Standings".

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[1] "super league kerala likely to begin in first week of oct". timesofindia. 5 August 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.

[2] "super league keralSuper League Kerala launches project 'Gamechanger' to unearth young football talent". sportstar.thehindu.com. 10 July 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.

[3] "Super League Kerala partners with the German Football Association". thebridge.in. 29 May 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.

[4] "Sports.com signs five-year ₹100-crore deal with Super League Kerala for streaming rights". thehindu. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.

[5] "Dubai to host SLK 2 Season launch". onmanorama. 20 September 2025. Retrieved 22 September 2025.

[6] ttps://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2025/Aug/23/from-theatre-of-dreams-to-house-of-horrors-jln-stadium-losing-ground-3

[7] "Two new stadiums in Thrissur, Kannur for the new season of Super League". newindianexpress. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.

[8] "Two new stadiums in Thrissur, Kannur for the new season of Super League". newindianexpress. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025.

[9] "Malappuram FC Hires New Coach Miguel Corral for Super League Kerala". footem.in. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.

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[11] "സൂപ്പർ ലീഗ് കേരള രണ്ടാം സീസണിൽ തൃശ്ശൂർ മാജിക് എഫ്.സി.യുടെ പരിശീലകനായി ആന്ദ്രെ ചെർണിഷോവ്" [Andrey Chernyshov appointed as coach of Thrissur Magic FC for the second season of Super League Kerala]. fanport.in (in Malayalam). 23 August 2025. Retrieved 23 August 2025.

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[13] superleaguekerala.com. "Standings".

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Seasons	2024 2025
Clubs	Calicut Forca Kochi Kannur Warriors Malappuram Thiruvananthapuram Kombans Thrissur Magic