I-League 2008–09

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I-League 2008-09
League	I-League
Sport	Association football
Duration	2008-2009
Number of teams	12
TV partner/s	Zee Sports
I-League season
Champions	Churchill Brothers SC
Top scorer	Odafe Onyeka Okolie
I-League seasons
← 2007-08	2009-10 →

The I-League 2008-2009 season began on September 26, 2008 and finished on April 16, 2009 with a break in December for the Federation Cup and Durand Cup. Most games this season were played on Saturday's and Sunday's to attract larger crowds. After a successful first season for the I League, the second season featured 12 teams from four different cities - again this would be expanded in the 2009-10 seson to 14 teams.

The champion in the I-League qualified for the AFC Champions League 2010 qualifying playoffs in 2010, while the bottom two teams were relegated to I-League 2nd Division for the next season.

Contents 1 Gallery 2 Regular Season 2.1 Home and away season 2.1.1 Round 1 2.1.2 Round 2 2.1.3 Round 3 2.1.4 Round 4 2.1.5 Round 5 2.1.6 Round 6 2.1.7 Round 7 2.1.8 Round 8 2.1.9 Round 9 2.1.10 Round 10 2.1.11 Round 12 2.1.12 Round 13 2.1.13 Round 14 2.1.14 Round 15 2.1.15 Round 16 2.1.16 Round 17 2.1.17 Round 18 2.1.18 Round 19 2.1.19 Round 20 2.1.20 Round 21 2.1.21 Round 22 3 Final Standing 4 Top scorers 5 External links

[edit] Gallery

Abhishek Yadav of Mumbai FC and Samir Naik of Dempo SC during I-League match at Fatorda Stadium Goa	Sayed Rahim Nabi of East Bengal and Daniel of Chirag United SC during at I-league 2008-09 at Salt Lake Stadium	I League Daniel of Chirag United SC takes a freekick against Mahindra United at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata	Wilton Gomes of Sporting Clube de Goa tackles Lester Fernandes of Vasco SC during I-League 2008-09 match at Fatorda Stadium Goa
Baljit Saini of JCT FC against Dempo SC during I-League 2008-09 at Guru Nanak Stadium Ludhiana

[edit] Regular Season

[edit] Home and away season

[edit] Round 1

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September 26, 2008 18:30 IST	East Bengal Club	3 – 1	Chirag United Sports Club	Barasat Stadium Referee: S Suresh
	I Surkumar Singh  10' Yakubu Yusif  19' Sunil Chetri  28'		Shankar Oraon  79'

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September 26, 2008 16:00 IST	Vasco Sports Club	0 – 1	Sporting Clube de Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium Referee: Minangshu Bhattacharya
			Elijah Obagbemiro Jr  90+1'

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September 27, 2008 18:30 IST	Mohun Bagan	1 – 2	Mumbai FC	Barasat Stadium Referee: A Arjunan
	Pachau Lalam Puia  77'		Abel Hammond  9' Kalia Kulothungan  24'

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September 27, 2008 16:00 IST	Churchill Bros	2 – 1	Mahindra United	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium Referee: Pratap Singh
	Odafe Onyeka Okolie  61'  88'		Sushil Kumar Singh  83'

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September 28, 2008 16:00 IST	Dempo Sports Club	1 – 2	JCT FC	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium Referee: Pradeep Kumar
	Nicolau Borges  77'		E. da Silva Escobar  17' Balwant Singh  64'

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September 29, 2008 18:30 IST	Mohammedan Sporting Club	1 – 1	Air-India	Barasat Stadium Referee: Francisco Fernandes
	Theodore S Wrobeh  59'		Surojit Roy  23'

[edit] Round 2

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September 30, 2008 18:30 IST	East Bengal Club	0 - 1	Mumbai FC	Salt Lake Stadium Referee: A Arjunan
			Felix  23'

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October 2, 2008 16:00 IST	Vasco Sports Club	0 - 0	JCT FC	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium

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October 3, 2008 18:30 IST	Mohun Bagan	1 - 1	Air-India	Salt Lake Stadium
	Branco Cordozo  70'		Soccor Velho  43'

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October 4, 2008 16:00 IST	Sporting Clube de Goa	3 – 0	Mohammedan Sporting Club	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium Referee: Dinesh Nair
	Elijah Obagbemiro Jr  63' 77' Micky Fernandes 76'

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October 4, 2008 16:00 IST	Mahindra United	1 – 3	Chirag United Sports Club	Cooperage Ground
	Sushil Kumar Singh  12'		Subair Muritala Ali  46' Gouranga Datta  52' Hardip Singh Saini  87'

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November 5, 2008	Churchill Bros	3 – 3	Dempo Sports Club	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Felix Chimaokwu  15'  19' Odafe Onyeka Okolie  31'		Mboyo Iyomi  37'  47'  76'

[edit] Round 3

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October 11, 2008 16:00 IST	JCT FC	2 – 0	Mohammedan Sporting Club	Guru Nanak Dev Stadium
	Baljeet Singh Saini  46' Eduardo Escober  68'

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October 11, 2008	Mahindra United	0 – 1	Mumbai FC	Cooperage Ground
			K.Kulothungan  23'

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October 11, 2008 16:00 IST	Sporting Clube de Goa	2 – 0	Mohun Bagan	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Mohonraj "OG"  25' Nathaniel Amos  51'

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October 12, 2008 18:30 IST	Chirag United Sports Club	0 - 0	Churchill Bros	Salt Lake Stadium

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October 12, 2008 18:30 IST	Air-India	2 – 0	East Bengal Club	Cooperage Ground
	Surojit Roy  48' Michael Tayo  70'

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October 12, 2008 16:00 IST	Dempo Sports Club	2 – 1	Vasco Sports Club	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Roberto Silva  24' Ranty Martins  30'		Ravshan Teshabaev  32'

[edit] Round 4

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November 11, 2008	Mumbai FC	0 – 0	Dempo SC	Cooperage Ground

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October 18, 2008 16:00 IST	JCT FC	0 – 1	Mahindra United	Guru Nanak Dev Stadium
			Sukhwinder Singh  70'

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October 18, 2008 18:30 IST	Air-India	1 – 0	Chirag United Sports Club	Cooperage Ground
	Surojit Roy  69'

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October 18, 2008 18:30 IST	East Bengal Club	2 – 0	Vasco Sports Club	Salt Lake Stadium
	Yusif Yakubu  7'  90'

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October 19, 2008 18:30 IST	Mohammedan Sporting Club	1 – 1	Mohun Bagan	Salt Lake Stadium
	Goutam Thakur  3'		Jose Ramirez Barreto  23'

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October 19, 2008 16:00 IST	Churchill Bros	3 – 0	Sporting Clube de Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Odafe Onyeka Okolie  14'  60' T.Naoba Singh  85'

[edit] Round 5

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October 23, 2008	Chirag United Sports Club	0 – 0	JCT FC	Salt Lake Stadium

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October 24, 2008	Mohammedan Sporting Club	1 – 0	Mahindra United	Salt Lake Stadium
	Mike Okoro  75'

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October 24, 2008	Sporting Clube de Goa	1 – 0	Mumbai FC	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Eliga Junior  17'

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October 25, 2008	Mohun Bagan	1 – 1	East Bengal Club	Salt Lake Stadium
	Baichung Bhutia  2'		Rahim Nabi  38'

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October 25, 2008	Vasco Sports Club	1 – 4	Churchill Bros	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Agnelo Colaco  70'		Odafe Onyeka Okolie  39'  44'  62' Felix Chimaokw  41'

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October 26, 2008	Dempo SC	3 – 1	Air-India	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Ranty Martins  38'  78' Climax Lawrence  55'		Ravinder Singh  60'

[edit] Round 6

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October 31, 2008	Dempo SC	0 – 1	Mohun Bagan	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
			Jose Ramirez Barreto (P)  52'

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November 1, 2008	Chirag United Sports Club	0 – 1	Sporting Clube de Goa	Salt Lake Stadium
			Joseph Pereira  73'

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November 1, 2008	Air-India	2 – 0	Mumbai FC	Cooperage Ground
	Soccor Velho 20  20' Subhas Singh  32'

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November 1, 2008	Vasco Sports Club	0 – 2	Mahindra United	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
			Chiddi Edeh  43' Sushil Kumar Singh  61'

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November 2, 2008	Mohammedan Sporting Club	0 – 0	East Bengal Club	Salt Lake Stadium

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November 2, 2008	Churchill Bros	1 – 1	JCT FC	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Odafe Onyeka Okolie  27'		Amandeep Singh  48'

[edit] Round 7

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November 7, 2008	East Bengal Club	1 – 1	Mahindra United	Salt Lake Stadium
	Sunil Chhetri  61'		Paresh Shivalkar  59'

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November 8, 2008	Mumbai FC	1 – 1	Vasco Sports Club	Cooperage Ground
	Kulothungan  25'		Abhiskek Yadav  65'

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November 8, 2008	Dempo SC	0 – 1	Sporting Clube de Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
			Elija Jr.  83'

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November 8, 2008	Chirag United Sports Club	1 – 0	Mohammedan Sporting Club	Salt Lake Stadium
	Gouranga Dutta  62'

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November 9, 2008	Mohun Bagan	1 - 0	Churchill Bros	Salt Lake Stadium
	P Lalwampuia  14'

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November 9, 2008	Air-India	1 – 0	JCT FC	Cooperage Ground
	Samson Singh  86'

[edit] Round 8

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November 14, 2008	Mohammedan Sporting Club	1 – 0	Vasco Sports Club	Salt Lake Stadium
	Bimal Parier  87'

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November 14, 2008	Mahindra United	1 – 1	Air-India	Cooperage Ground
	Sushil Kumar  55'		Subhash Singh  66'

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November 15, 2008	East Bengal Club	3 – 1	Sporting Clube de Goa	Salt Lake Stadium
	Sunil Chhetri  14' Syed Rahim Nabi  26'  31'		Harmanjot Khabra  54'

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November 15, 2008	Churchill Bros	2 – 2	Mumbai FC	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Odafe Onyeka Okolie  21' Reisangmi Vashum  70'		Abhishek Yadav  10' Kulothungan  75'

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November 16, 2008	Mohun Bagan	2 - 0	JCT FC	Salt Lake Stadium
	Ishfaq Ahmed  15' Jose R. Barreto  30 pen'

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November 16, 2008	Dempo SC	4 - 0	Chirag United Sports Club	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Ranty Martins  4' 70' Joaquim Abranches  45+1' Roberto Mendes Silva  58'

[edit] Round 9

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November 18, 2008 16:00 IST	Churchill Bros	1 – 1	Air-India	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Felix Chimaokwu  38'		Michael Tayo  90+3'

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October 19, 2008 18:30 IST	Mahindra United	0 – 0	Sporting Clube de Goa	Cooperage Ground

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November 20, 2008	Mohammedan Sporting Club	0 – 2	Dempo Sports Club	Salt Lake Stadium
			Anthony Pereira  9' Ranti Martins  41'

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November 20, 2008	Vasco Sports Club	1 – 2	Mohun Bagan	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
	Lalnun Puia  29'		Rakesh Masih  31' Lalkamal Bhowmick  55'

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November 21, 2008	Chirag United Sports Club	1 – 1	Mumbai FC	Salt Lake Stadium
	Shankar Orao  12'		Riston Rodrigues  59'

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November 22, 2008 16:00 IST	JCT FC	1 – 0	East Bengal Club	Guru Nanak Dev Stadium
	E. Escober  58'

[edit] Round 10

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November 23, 2008	Mohammedan Sporting Club	0 - 1;	Churchill Bros	Salt Lake Stadium
			Odafe 70'

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November 24, 2008	Mohun Bagan AC	1 - 0	Mahindra United	Salt Lake Stadium Referee: P. Basu
	Bhaichung Bhutia 46'

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November 25, 2008	Chirag United Sports Club	3 - 1	Vasco Sports Club	Salt Lake Stadium

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November 26, 2008	Dempo Sports Club	1 - 0	East Bengal Club	Goa
	[Beto] 78'

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November 26, 2008	JCT FC	2 - 3	Mumbai FC	Cooperage Ground

[edit] Round 12

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January 23, 2009	Mumbai FC	0 - 3	Mohun Bagan AC	Cooperage Ground, Mumbai

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January 23, 2009	JCT FC	2 - 1	Dempo Sports Club	Guru Nanak Dev Stadium

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January 24, 2009	Chirag United Sports Club	0 - 0	East Bengal Club	Saltlake Stadium, Kolkata

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January 24, 2009	Mahindra United	1 - 3	Churchill Brothers SC	Cooperage Ground, Mumbai

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January 25, 2009	Air-India	1 - 1	Mohammedan Sporting Club	Cooperage Ground, Mumbai

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January 25, 2009	Sporting Clube de Goa	0 - 1	Vasco Sports Club	Fatorda Stadium, Margao

[edit] Round 13

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January 31, 2009	Mohammedan Sporting Club	0 - 1	Sporting Clube de Goa

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January 31, 2009	JCT FC	1 - 1	Vasco Sports Club

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January 31, 2009	Mumbai FC	2 - 1	East Bengal Club

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February 1, 2009	Chirag United Sports Club	0 - 2	Mahindra United

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February 1, 2009	Air-India	1 - 2	Mohun Bagan AC

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February 1, 2009	Dempo Sports Club	1 - 1	Churchill Brothers SC

[edit] Round 14

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February 6, 2009	Mohun Bagan AC	1 - 0	Sporting Clube de Goa

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February 6, 2009	Mumbai FC	0 - 0	Mahindra United

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February 7, 2009	Mohammedan Sporting Club	2 - 0	JCT FC

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February 7, 2009	Churchill Brothers SC	3 - 0	Chirag United Sports Club

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February 7, 2009	East Bengal Club	3 - 1	Air-India
	Yakubu Sunil Chetri Sanju Pradhan

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February 8, 2009	Vasco Sports Club	2 - 2	Dempo Sports Club

[edit] Round 15

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February 13, 2009	Dempo Sports Club	3 - 0	Mumbai FC

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February 14, 2009	Vasco Sports Club	1 - 4	East Bengal Club
	Sherzod Nazarov  52'		Sunil Chhetri  29'  90', Yakubu  46'  56'

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February 14, 2009	Chirag United Sports Club	1 - 0	Air-India

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February 14, 2009	Mahindra United	0 - 0	JCT FC

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February 15, 2009	Mohun Bagan AC	1 - 0	Mohammedan Sporting Club

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February 15, 2009	Sporting Clube de Goa	1 - 0	Churchill Brothers SC

[edit] Round 16

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February 20, 2009	Air-India	0 - 0	Dempo Sports Club

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February 20, 2009	Churchill Brothers SC	9 -1	Vasco Sports Club
	Odafe Onyeka Okolie  42'  50' 57'  82' 89'  90'

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February 21, 2009	Mahindra United	0 - 0	Mohammedan Sporting Club

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February 21, 2009	JCT FC	0 - 1	Chirag United Sports Club
			Ayeni Bidemi Daniel  38'

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February 22, 2009	East Bengal Club	3 - 0	Mohun Bagan AC	Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 90,000
	Syed Rahim Nabi  22'  40' , Sunil Chhetri  47'

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February 22, 2009	Mumbai FC	1 - 2	Sporting Clube de Goa

[edit] Round 17

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February 26, 2009	JCT FC	1 - 2	Churchill Brothers SC

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February 27, 2009	Sporting Clube de Goa	2 - 2	Chirag United Sports Club

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February 28, 2009	Mumbai FC	1 - 1	Air-India	Cooperage, Mumbai
	Kalia Kulothungan  38'		Emmanuel Ovieghara

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February 28, 2009	East Bengal Club	2 - 2	Mohammedan Sporting Club	Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata Referee: Shaji Kurian
	Nirmal Chhetri  48'; Sunil Chhetri  54'		Okoro  4'; Eugene Gray

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March 1, 2009	Mahindra United	4 - 0	Vasco Sports Club

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April 12, 2009	Mohun Bagan AC	2 - 1	Dempo SC

[edit] Round 18

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March 4, 2009	Churchill Brothers SC	3 - 1	Mohun Bagan AC	Referee: Pradeep Kumar (Tamil Nadu)
	Odafe Onyeka Okolie  45', Ogba Kalu Nnanna  57',  77'		Jose Ramirez Barreto  28'

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March 5, 2009	Sporting Clube de Goa	2 - 1	Dempo SC

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March 6, 2009	Mahindra United	2 - 1	East Bengal Club

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March 7, 2009	Mohammedan Sporting Club	2 - 2	Chirag United Sports Club

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March 7, 2009	JCT FC	1 - 1	Air-India

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March 8, 2009	Vasco Sports Club	1 - 2	Mumbai FC
			Kalia Kulothungan  89',Abhishek Yadav 10'

[edit] Round 19

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March 14, 2009	Air-India	1 - 3	Mahindra United
			Sushil Kumar Singh  56'

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March 14, 2009	Vasco Sports Club	0 - 1	Mohammedan Sporting Club

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March 15, 2009	Sporting Clube de Goa	1 - 1	East Bengal Club

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March 15, 2009	Mumbai FC	2 - 3	Churchill Brothers SC
	Anees Kutty  15'

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March 28, 2009	JCT FC	1 - 1	Mohun Bagan AC

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March 28, 2009	Chirag United Sports Club	0 - 0	Dempo SC

[edit] Round 20

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March 21, 2009	JCT FC	2 - 0	Sporting Clube de Goa
	PaulM.Nwachukwu  11' ,Jagpreet singh  81'

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March 22, 2009	Mohammedan Sporting Club	2 - 0	Mumbai FC
	Satyajit Bose  14'

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March 22, 2009	Churchill Brothers SC	3 - 1	East Bengal Club

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March 22, 2009	Air-India	1 - 0	Vasco Sports Club
	Singam Subash Singh  67'

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March 23, 2009	Dempo SC	3 - 2	Mahindra United
			Arata izumi  1',Sushil Kumar Singh  65'

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March 23, 2009	Chirag United Sports Club	1 - 2	Mohun Bagan AC

[edit] Round 21

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March 28, 2009	Air-India	1 - 1	Churchill Brothers SC

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March 28, 2009	Sporting Clube de Goa	2 - 0	Mahindra United

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April 1, 2009	Mumbai FC	0 - 0	Chirag United Sports Club

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April 2, 2009	Dempo SC	4 - 1	Mohammedan Sporting Club

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April 2, 2009	Mohun Bagan AC	3 - 0	Vasco Sports Club

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April 3, 2009	East Bengal Club	2 - 1	JCT FC

[edit] Round 22

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April 16, 2009	Churchill Brothers SC	6 - 2	Mohammedan Sporting Club

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April 16, 2009	Air-India	1 - 3	Sporting Clube de Goa

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April 16, 2009	JCT FC	1 - 0	Mumbai FC

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April 16, 2009	East Bengal Club	2 - 2	Dempo SC

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April 16, 2009	Mahindra United	2 - 1	Mohun Bagan AC

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April 16, 2009	Vasco Sports Club	1 - 4	Chirag United Sports Club

[edit] Final Standing

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Churchill Brothers	22	13	7	2	53	23	+30	46	AFC Champions League 2010 Group stage
2	Mohun Bagan	22	13	4	5	30	20	+10	43
3	Sporting Clube de Goa	22	13	4	5	28	20	+8	43
4	Dempo	22	8	7	7	35	26	+9	31
5	Mahindra United	22	8	7	7	28	22	+6	31
6	East Bengal	22	7	7	8	31	26	+5	28
7	Mumbai FC	22	7	7	8	22	27	−5	28
8	Chirag United Sports Club	22	6	8	8	20	26	−6	26
9	JCT	22	6	7	9	19	22	−3	25
10	Air India	22	5	9	8	21	26	−5	24
11	Mohammedan	22	5	7	10	17	31	−14	22	Relegation to I League Division 2
12	Vasco SC  (R)	22	2	4	16	14	49	−35	10

Updated to games played on 16th April 2009
Source: http://www.indianfootball.com/specials/ileague/index.phpl]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points;
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Top scorers

As of 23 March 2009.

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers SC	24
2	Jose Ramirez Barreto	Mohun Bagan	10
	Felix Chimaokwu	Churchill Brothers SC
4	Sunil Chhetri	East Bengal Club	9
	Ranty Martins Soleye	Dempo SC
	Chidi Edih	Mahindra United
	Yakubu Yusif	East Bengal Club
8	Singam Subash Singh	Air India	7
	Sushil kumar singh	Mahindra United
	Kaila Kulothungan	Mumbai FC
	Elijah obagbemiro junior	Sporting Clube de Goa
12	Baichung Bhutia	Mohan Bagan	6
	Nnanna	Churchill Brothers SC
	Joseph Pereira	Sporting Clube de Goa

[edit] External links

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