The India Santosh Trophy is a prestigious football tournament that features teams from different states and regions of India.
One of the events featured on the website is the India Santosh Trophy, which is a football tournament held annually in India. In September 2022, it was announced that the tournament will be organized on zonal basis.ī is a website that provides live scores, results, and betting odds for various sports events around the world. Until 2018, the tournament was organised as an individual competition, but since 2021, the AIFF rebranded it as the men's senior tier of National Football Championship for the regional teams of various age groups. The third-place trophy, Sampangi Cup, was donated by the Karnataka State Football Association (then Mysore Football Association) and was named so in the memory of a renowned footballer, Sampangi, who was from Mysore. Gupta, and it was named in honour of his wife. The trophy for the runner-up, Kamala Gupta Trophy, was also donated by the then president of IFA, Dr. The IFA later donated the Santosh Trophy to the AIFF, soon after its formation as the sport's official governing body in India, and since then AIFF has been organising the tournament. It was named after the former president of the IFA, Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhury, the Maharaja of Santosh who had died aged 61 in 1939. The tournament was started in 1941 by the Indian Football Association (IFA), which was the then de facto governing body of football in India.
This was the first trophy for Karnataka, which had previously won four times as the princely state of Mysore, after 1968-69. The current champions are Karnataka, who won their title after 54 years during the 2022–23 edition. The tournament is held every year with eligible teams who are divided into zones, must play in the qualifying round and can progress into the tournament proper. Many players who have represented India internationally, played and gained honour while playing in the Santosh Trophy. Before the starting of the first national club league, the National Football League in 1996, the Santosh Trophy was considered the top domestic honour in India. National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy, due to sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp, also known as the Hero National Football Championship, or simply Santosh Trophy, is a state-level national football competition contested by the state associations and government institutions under the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the sport's governing body in India.
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