2025 CFL Premier Division

CFL Premier Division
Season	2025
Dates	25 June 2025 – TBA
Matches played	109
Goals scored	294 (2.7 per match)
Biggest home win	Suruchi Sangha 6–0 Measurers; (7 July 2025)
Biggest away win	Measurers 1–7 East Bengal; (27 June 2025); Behala SS 0–6 East Bengal; (29 July 2025)
Highest scoring	Measurers 1–7 East Bengal; (27 June 2025)
	← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 21 August 2025.

The 2025 CFL Premier Division is the 127th overall season of the Calcutta Football League – highest state-level football division of West Bengal. The 2025-26 edition has 26 teams divided into two groups of 13 in the first phase, with top 6 qualifying for the championship round and bottom 6 heading into the relegation round.

The tournament began with match between BSS Sporting Club and Kalighat Milan Sangha in Bankimanjali Stadium, Naihati on 25 June 2025 after few prolific hours of opening ceremony.

Naihati stadium during CFL opening ceremony

This year's Calcutta Premier Division is having a trophy for the champions named after legendary footballer Pradip Kumar Banerjee.

Changes from last season

Relegated to 2025 CFL 1st division

Promoted to 2025 CFL Premier division

Sribhumi FC
United Kolkata SC

Format

The 2025 CFL Premier Division, like the 2024–25 CFL Premier Division, will have twenty-six teams divided into two groups in the first phase, where each team will play twelve matches in single round robin format. After that, top three teams from the two groups shall proceed to the championship round, where each team shall play five more matches to determine the champion. The bottom three teams from both groups will play the relegation round.

Draw for the group division was done on 28th May 2025 at Calcutta Rowing Club Auditorium by Indian Football Association.^[1]

Venues

Amal Datta Krirangan, Dum Dum
Bankimanjali Stadium, Naihati
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Stadium, Barrackpore
Bidhannagar Municipal Sports Complex, Bidhannagar
Chakdaha Stadium, Chakdaha
East Bengal/Aryan Ground, Kolkata
Eastern Ground, Chinsurah
Kalyani Stadium, Kalyani
Kishore Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata
Mohammedan/Howrah Union Ground, Kolkata
Mohun Bagan/Calcutta FC Ground, Kolkata
Netaji Sports Complex, Kamalgazi
Rabindra Sarobar Stadium, Kolkata
Uluberia Stadium, Howrah
Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata

Teams

Group A			Group B
Team	Head coach	Captain	Team	Head coach	Captain
Army Red	Sudhir Mishra	Renzong Lepcha	Bhawanipore	Shahid Raman	Jiten Murmu
Calcutta Customs	Biswajit Bhattacharya	Amit Chakraborty	Aryan	Rajdeep Nandy	Sandip Patra
BSS	Souren Dutta	Subhankar Das	Calcutta Police Club	Bijoy Ghosh	Koushik Goala
East Bengal	Bino George	Aditya Patra	Diamond Harbour FC	Kibu Vicuna	Bikramjit Singh
Kalighat MS	Patham Thapa	Koushik Sarkar	United Kolkata SC	Yan Law	Narayan Das
George Telegraph	Goutam Ghosh	Sourish Lodh Chowdhury	Sribhumi FC	Goutam Ghosh	Rana Gharami
Measurers Club	Rajib Dey	Chattu Mondal	Wari	Swapan Biswas	Kamran Farooque
Mohun Bagan SG	Deggie Cardozo	Suhail Bhat	Mohammedan Sporting	Alison Kharsyntiew	Samad Ali Mallick
Pathachakra	Partha Sen	Subhajit Mandi	Peerless	Hemanta Dora	Donlad Diengdoh
Police AC	Rajesh Rajbhar	Deep Dey	Southern Samity	Sujata Kar^[2]	Rajesh Rajbhar
Railway	Amit Tudu	Sudipta Banerjee	United SC	Lalkamal Bhowmick	Tarak Hembram
Suruchi Sangha	Ranjan Bhattacharya	Amit Tudu	Rainbow	Aditya Chatterjee	Sourav Dasgupta
Kalighat Sports Lovers Association	Jahar Das	Bishal Chhetri	Kidderpore	Sayantan Das Roy	Prosenjit Chakroborty

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PAC	EAB	SUS	PTC	CCU	MBG	KSL	BSS	KMS	GGT	MEA	RLY
1	Police AC	9	5	3	1	16	7	+9	18	Super Six round								4–1	1–1		2–1
2	East Bengal	9	5	2	2	23	9	+14	17		0–2		1–1		2–2	3–2	1–0
3	Suruchi Sangha	8	4	4	0	19	7	+12	16		2–2				2–2						6–0
4	Pathachakra	9	5	1	3	10	6	+4	16			1–0	0–1								1–0
5	Calcutta Customs	8	3	4	1	14	9	+5	13					3–1				0–0			1–2
6	Mohun Bagan	8	3	2	3	11	9	+2	11		0–1		1–1				4–0			0–0
7	Kalighat SLA	8	3	1	4	5	11	−6	10		0–0			0–2					2–1		1–0	2–0
8	BSS	8	3	1	4	9	16	−7	10			0–6	1–2	2–0					1–0
9	Kalighat MS	9	2	3	4	8	12	−4	9				0–4	0–0	1–1	1–2						2–0
10	George Telegraph	8	2	2	4	10	13	−3	8		0–3			0–2	1–2		3–0	3–2	1–2
11	Measurers Club	8	2	0	6	8	20	−12	6	Relegation round		1–7						1–2
12	Railway FC	8	1	1	6	4	18	−14	4		2–1	0–3		0–3	0–3	0–2				2–2
13	Army Red	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Updated to match(es) played on 21 August 2025. Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	UKS	UTD	PRL	DIH	KID	RNB	BHA	SRB	WAR	MDS	ARY	CPC	SOU
1	United Kolkata SC	10	7	2	1	20	5	+15	23	Super Six round						1–0	1–2				3–0
2	United SC	8	6	1	1	13	5	+8	19		0–1		1–1			2–1				3–0	2–1	2–1
3	Peerless SC	10	4	6	0	13	5	+8	18					1–1			0–0	4–0					2–1
4	Diamond Harbour	8	5	3	0	9	1	+8	18		0–0							0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–0
5	Kidderpore SC	10	5	1	4	18	21	−3	16		0–4	0–1	1–1			1–4			1–0	3–2	2–0	4–2
6	Rainbow AC	9	4	3	2	15	6	+9	15				0–0				1–1			2–1	4–0	3–0
7	Bhawanipore FC	9	4	3	2	15	6	+9	15					0–1	5–0				3–0
8	Sribhumi	9	3	4	2	14	13	+1	13		0–0						2–2			1–3		3–1
9	Wari	9	3	1	5	8	19	−11	10		0–5		1–1					1–5			3–2		1–0
10	Mohammedan SC	9	2	1	6	11	16	−5	7				0–1						1–2
11	Aryan FC	9	2	0	7	7	17	−10	6	Relegation round							1–0	0–1					3–1
12	Calcutta Police Club	9	1	1	7	7	21	−14	4		0–1		0–2							2–2
13	Southern Samity (Q)	11	0	2	9	10	25	−15	2		3–4	0–2			2–6	0–0	0–2	2–2		1–2		0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 21 August 2025. Source: The Away End
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Super Six

The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from the group stage being carried over.

Pos	Team	Qualification	A1	A2	A3	B1	B2	B3
1	A1	Champions & Eligible for I-League 3	—
2	A2	Eligible for I-League 3		—
3	A3				—
4	B1					—
5	B2						—
6	B3							—

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: The Away End

Relegation Round

The bottom teams from both groups qualified for the Relegation round with the points from the group stage being carried over. The bottom 2 teams in the relegation round will be relegated to First Division.

Pos	Team	Pld	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	A11	A12	A13	B11	B12	SOU
1	A11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		—
2	A12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			—
3	A13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				—
4	B11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					—
5	B12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegated to First Division					—
6	Southern Samity	10	2	8	8	19	−11	2	Relegated to First Division						—