Santosh Trophy finals in Kolkata, Karnataka start their campaign on March 22 against Goa

Defending champions West Bengal will take on Manipur on the opening day as the 72nd edition of the National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy kicks-off in Kolkata on March 19, 2018. 

Ten teams who qualified from the preliminary stages have been divided into two groups of five teams each with the top two from each group advancing to the semi-finals which are to be played on March 30, 2018. The final is slated for April 1, 2018.


Groupings 

Group A: West Bengal, Chandigarh, Manipur, Kerala, Maharashtra
Group B: Goa, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab, Karnataka


Fixtures 

GROUP B

• 20/03/2018 – Odisha 1 vs Punjab 2 
• 20/03/2018 – Mizoram 3 vs Goa 1
• 22/03/2018 – Karnataka 4 (Vignesh Gunashekar, Rajesh S, Mathew Gonsalves (own goal), Leon Agustine) vs Goa 1 (Kapil Hoble)
• 22/03/2018 – Odisha 0 vs Mizoram 0
• 24/03/2018 – Punjab 1 vs Mizoram 2 
• 24/03/2018 – Karnataka 2 (Rajesh S, Leon Augustine) vs Odisha 1 
• 26/03/2018 – Goa vs Odisha
• 26/03/2018 – Punjab vs Karnataka
• 28/03/2018 – Mizoram vs Karnataka
• 28/03/2018 – Goa vs Punjab

GROUP A

• 19/03/2018 – Chandigarh 1 vs Kerala 5 
• 19/03/2018 – Manipur 0 vs Bengal 3
• 21/03/2018 – Maharashtra 1 vs Bengal 5
• 21/03/2018 – Chandigarh 1 vs Manipur 1
• 23/03/2018 – Kerala vs Manipur
• 23/03/2018 – Maharashtra vs Chandigarh
• 25/03/2018 – Bengal vs Chandigarh
• 25/03/2018 – Kerala vs Maharashtra
• 27/03/2018 – Manipur vs Maharashtra
• 27/03/2018 – Bengal vs Kerala

SF

• 30/03/2018 – Winner Group A vs Runners-Up Group B
• 30/03/2018 – Winner Group B vs Runners-Up Group A

FINAL 

• 01/04/2018 – Winner Semi-Final 1 vs Winner Semi-Final 2