1958–59 Santosh Trophy

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1958–59 Santosh Trophy
National Football Championship
Tournament details
CountryIndia
Dates20 February – 11 March 1958
Teams8 (final phase)
Final positions
ChampionsBengal (9th title)
Runners-upServices
Tournament statistics
Matches played17
70 minute matches

The 1958–59 Santosh Trophy was the fifteenth edition of the Santosh Trophy, the main territorial 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. [1]

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.

League

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Bombay 3 2 1 0 8 1 +7 5 Advance to the semifinal
2 Services 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 4
3 Bihar 3 1 1 1 2 7 −5 3
4 Mysore 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
Source: Indian Express
Bombay6-0Bihar
Bombay2-1Mysore
 Report
  • John
Referee: Bhattacharjee (Delhi)
Bombay0-0Services
Report
Referee: Bhattacharjee (Delhi)

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Hyderabad 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5 6 Advance to the semifinal
2 Bengal 3 2 0 1 7 2 +5 4
3 Madras 3 1 0 2 4 5 −1 2
4 Delhi 3 0 0 3 2 11 −9 0
Source: Indian Express
Madras4-0Delhi
Hyderabad4-1Delhi
Bengal3-1Delhi
Bengal4-0Madras
 Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: D'Mello (Bombay)
Hyderabad1-0Madras
 Report
Referee: Sen (Bengal)
Hyderabad1-0Bengal
 Report
Attendance: 10,000

Semifinals

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Services5-2Hyderabad
  • Jayaraman 23', 69'
  • Lahiri 27', 30', 35'
 Report
Referee: Bhattacharjee (Bengal)
Bengal1–1Bombay
Balaram 18' Report
  • Jaffar 53'
Referee: Bhattacharjee (Delhi)
Bengal2–2 (a.e.t.)
replay		Bombay
 Report
Referee: Bhattacharjee (Delhi)
Bengal2–1
replay		Bombay
 Report
  • Mustaq 40'
Referee: Moinuddin

Final

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Bengal1–0Services
Balaram 5' Report
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: 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

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  • 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, D'Souza, Devadas, 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, 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

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  1. ^ Grand Feast of Soccer from Feb. 20 in City, Indian Express, 17 February, 1959, p.8
  2. ^ Indian Express, 2 March 1959, p.12
  3. ^ Indian Express, 4 March 1959, p.10
  4. ^ Indian Express, 1 March 1959, p.8
  5. ^ Indian Express, 3 March 1959, p.8
  6. ^ Indian Express, 5 March 1959, p.8
  7. ^ Indian Express, 7 March 1959
  8. ^ Indian Express, 8 March 1959
  9. ^ Indian Express, 9 March 1959
  10. ^ Indian Express, 11 March 1959
  11. ^ Indian Express, 13 March 1959