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2021 Durand Cup

The 2021 Durand Cup was the 130th edition of Durand Cup, the oldest football tournament in Asia. Like its previous edition, the tournament was hosted in West Bengal. The tournament is jointly hosted by the Eastern Command of the Indian Armed Forces and the Government of West Bengal.

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Tournament poster
India
West Bengal
5 September 2021 – 3 October 2021
16
FC Goa (1st title)
Mohammedan
29
105 (3.62 per match)
Devendra MurgaonkarMarcus Joseph(5 goals each)
Naveen Kumar(165 mins per goal)

The 2021 Durand Cup was the 130th edition of Durand Cup, the oldest football tournament in Asia. Like its previous edition, the tournament was hosted in West Bengal. The tournament is jointly hosted by the Eastern Command of the Indian Armed Forces and the Government of West Bengal.

The Durand Cup was cancelled in 2020 due to worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and was reorganised in 2021 after a year gap. Gokulam Kerala were the defending champions, having defeated Mohun Bagan in the 2019 final.

Mohammedan made their first Durand Cup final appearance since 2013 against FC Goa. The match went into the extra time with no goal from either side. Goan captain Edu Bedia's 105th minute solitary goal sealed Goa's victory against Mohammedan. Goa became the fourth Goan team to win the Durand Cup after Salgaocar, Dempo and Churchill Brothers.

A total of 16 teams participated in the competition; 5 clubs from Indian Super League, 3 clubs from I-League, 2 clubs from I-League 2nd Division and 6 teams representing the Indian Armed Forces.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Location
Bengaluru	Naushad Moosa	Ajith Kumar	Bengaluru, Karnataka
Goa	Juan Ferrando	Edu Bedia	Porvorim, Goa
Hyderabad	Shameel Chembakath	Pritam Kumar Singh	Hyderabad, Telangana
Jamshedpur	Noel Wilson	Jitendra Singh	Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Kerala Blasters	Ivan Vukomanović	Jessel Carneiro	Kochi, Kerala
Gokulam Kerala	Vincenzo Alberto Annese	Sharif Mukhammad	Calicut, Kerala
Mohammedan	Andrey Chernyshov	Nikola Stojanović	Kolkata, West Bengal
Sudeva Delhi	Chencho Dorji	Sairuat Kima	New Delhi, Delhi
Bengaluru United	Richard Reginald Hood	Dharmaraj Ravanan	Bengaluru, Karnataka
Delhi	Yan Law	Anwar Ali	Dwarka, Delhi
Assam Rifles	Ningombam Jiten Singh	Jefferson Nongrud	—.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}N/a
Army Green	Mileswamy Govindaraju Ramachandran	Roel Lepcha
Army Red	Anustup Sarkar	Nongmaikapam Suresh Meitei	Kolkata, West Bengal
Indian Air Force	Priya Darshan	Vivek Kumar	New Delhi, Delhi
Indian Navy	Abhilash Vasantha Nair	Bhaskar Roy	—N/a
CRPF FT	Dayal Singh Bhati	Moses Antony	Jalandhar, Punjab

Mohun Bagan and East Bengal were invited to be part of the tournament but most of the first team players of Mohun Bagan were on international break and also had their AFC Cup knockouts coinciding with the Durand Cup fixtures, thus they backed out from the tournament, while East Bengal refused participation because of investor issues. Since this year India celebrates golden jubilee of its victory over Pakistan for the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, DFTS invited Mohammedan SC and Sk. Jamal Dhanmondi Club from Bangladesh to participate in the 130th edition of the tournament. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, the clubs were unable to confirm their participation.

Position	Prize money
Champions	₹4 million (equivalent to ₹4.5 million or US$53,000 in 2023)
Runners-up	₹2 million (equivalent to ₹2.2 million or US$27,000 in 2023)
Semi-finalists	₹0.5 million (equivalent to ₹560,000 or US$6,600 in 2023)
Season awardees	₹0.1 million (equivalent to ₹110,000 or US$1,300 in 2023)

Source: Durand Cup

Kalyani	Kolkata
Kalyani Stadium	Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan	Mohun Bagan Ground
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 85,000	Capacity: 20,000

No. of matches: 9	No. of matches: 14	No. of matches: 6

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Mohammedan	1–0	Gokulam Kerala
Army Red	w/o	Bengaluru United
Goa	5–1	Delhi
Bengaluru	3–2	Army Green

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Mohammedan	4–2(a.e.t)	Bengaluru United
Goa	2–2(7–6 pen.)	Bengaluru

2021 Durand Cup Final

As of 3 October 2021

Note: Only top goal scorers with 3 or more goals are mentioned.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Devendra Murgaonkar	Goa	5
Marcus Joseph	Mohammedan
3	Muhammed Nemil	Goa	4
Pedro Manzi	Bengaluru United
Willis Plaza	Delhi
6	Azharuddin Mallick	Mohammedan	3
Chisom Chikatara	Gokulam Kerala
Deepak Singh	Army Green
Leon Augustine	Bengaluru
Liton Shil	Army Red
Rahim Osumanu	Gokulam Kerala
Sivasakthi Narayanan	Bengaluru

Note: Player's team score mentioned first

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Chisom Chikatara	Gokulam Kerala	Assam Rifles	7–2	19 September 2021

As of 3 October 2021

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Kunzang Bhutia	Bengaluru United	2
Naveen Kumar	Goa
2	Ajmal PA	Gokulam Kerala	1
Albino Gomes	Kerala Blasters
Hrithik Tiwari	Goa
Lalbiakhlua Jongte	Hyderabad
Lara Sharma	Bengaluru
Lovepreet Singh	Delhi
Roluahpuia	Army Green
Vishal Yadav	Jamshedpur
Zothanmawia	Mohammedan

Naveen Kumar (Goa)
Marcus Joseph (Mohammedan)
Edu Bedia (Goa)
Indian Super League
I-League
I-League 2nd Division
Super Cup
IFA Shield
Durand Cup website

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