Army Red (football team)

Indian Army's association football club

Football club

Army Red

Full name

Army Red football team
(Indian Army football team)

Short name

ARFT, IAFT

Ground

Various

Owner

Services Sports Control Board
Indian Army

Head coach

L. Antony Ramesh

League

CFL Premier Division

Home colours

Away colours

Army Red, also known as Indian Army football team^[1]^[2] is one of the football sections that represents Indian Army. The team regularly participates in the Durand Cup,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Calcutta Premier Division and various regional tournaments.^[7]^[8]

Army Red operates rugby sevens team that competes in the prestigious All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament.^[9]

History

Army Red briefly participated in the top division of the Calcutta Football League in 2016.^[10] In June 2023, the club was placed in the group I, when the Indian Football Association (IFA) announced the merger of both Premier Division A and B of the Calcutta Football League ahead of its 125th edition.^[11]^[12]^[13]

Honours

League

CFL First Division
- Champions (1): 2022^[14]

Cup

Durand Cup
- Champions (1): 2005^[15]
- Runners-up (1): 2002–03
IFA Shield
- Runners-up (1): 1991
Sikkim Gold Cup
- Champions (1): 1999
- Runners-up (5): 1994, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2018
Darjeeling Gold Cup
- Champions (1): 2010
Kalinga Cup
- Champions (2): 2010, 2016^[16]
- Runners-up (1): 2009
Mohan Kumar Mangalam Football Tournament
- Champions (1): 2006^[17]

International

Tribhuvan Challenge Shield
- Winners (2): 1955, 1956 (as Indian Army Club)^[18]

References

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^ "DFA Udaipur enter finals of the MKM National Football Tournament for the first time in 43 years". udaipurtimes.com. Udaipur Times. 29 January 2023. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^ Atsushi Fujioka; Biplav Guatam; Malik Riaz Hai Naveed (1996). "Nepal - List of Champions and Cup Winners: Tribhuvan Challenge Shield – Other Cup Tournaments". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2014.

Football in West Bengal

Indian Football Association

State teams

Clubs

Indian Super League	East Bengal Mohun Bagan Mohammedan
I-League 2	United SC
I-League 3	Bhawanipore Diamond Harbour
Calcutta Football League	Aryan Bengal Nagpur Railway BSS Calcutta Customs Calcutta FC Dalhousie Eastern Railway Food Corporation of India George Telegraph Howrah Union Kalighat Milan Sangha Kidderpore Peerless Rainbow Southern Samity Sreebhumi Tollygunge Agragami Wari West Bengal Police

League competitions

Cup competitions

Stadiums

Football in Darjeeling

Darjeeling Gold Cup

Others

v t e Durand Cup winners
1888–1900	Royal Scots Fusiliers (1888) Highland Light Infantry (1889) Highland Light Infantry (1890) King's Own Scottish Borderers (1891) King's Own Scottish Borderers (1892) Highland Light Infantry (1893) Highland Light Infantry (1894) Highland Light Infantry (1895) Somerset Light Infantry (1896) Black Watch (1897) Black Watch (1898) Black Watch (1899) South Wales Borderers (1900)
1901–1920	South Wales Borderers (1901) Hampshire Regiment (1902) Royal Irish Rifles (1903) North Staffordshire Regiment (1904) Royal Dragoons (1905) Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (1906) Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (1907) Lancashire Fusiliers (1908) Lancashire Fusiliers (1909) Royal Scots (1910) Black Watch (1911) Royal Scots (1912) Lancashire Fusiliers (1913) Not held (1914) Not held (1915) Not held (1916) Not held (1917) Not held (1918) Not held (1919) Black Watch (1920)
1921–1940	Worcestershire Regiment (1921) Lancashire Fusiliers (1922) Cheshire Regiment (1923) Worcestershire Regiment (1924) Sherwood Foresters (1925) Durham Light Infantry (1926) York & Lancaster Regiment (1927) Sherwood Foresters (1928) York & Lancaster Regiment (1929) York & Lancaster Regiment (1930) Devonshire Regiment (1931) King's Shropshire Light Infantry (1932) King's Shropshire Light Infantry (1933) Royal Signals (1934) Border Regiment (1935) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (1936) Border Regiment (1937) South Wales Borderers (1938) Not held (1939) Mohammedan (1940)
1941–1960	Not held (1941) Not held (1942) Not held (1943) Not held (1944) Not held (1945) Not held (1946) Not held (1947) Not held (1948) Not held (1949) Hyderabad City Police (1950) East Bengal (1951) East Bengal (1952) Mohun Bagan (1953) Hyderabad City Police (1954) Madras Regimental Centre (1955) East Bengal (1956) Hyderabad City Police (1957) Madras Regimental Centre (1958) Mohun Bagan (1959) Mohun Bagan and East Bengal (1960)
1961–1980	Andhra Pradesh Police (1961) Not held (1962) Mohun Bagan (1963) Mohun Bagan (1964) Mohun Bagan (1965) Gorkha Brigade (1966) East Bengal (1967) Border Security Force (1968) Gorkha Brigade (1969) East Bengal (1970) Border Security Force (1971) East Bengal (1972) Border Security Force (1973) Mohun Bagan (1974) Border Security Force (1975) Border Security Force and JCT Mills (1976) Mohun Bagan (1977) East Bengal (1978) Mohun Bagan (1979) Mohun Bagan (1980)
1981–2000	Border Security Force (1981) Mohun Bagan and East Bengal (1982) JCT Mills (1983) Mohun Bagan (1984) Mohun Bagan (1985) Mohun Bagan (1986) JCT Mills (1987) Border Security Force (1988) East Bengal (1989) East Bengal (1990) East Bengal (1991) JCT Mills (1992) East Bengal (1993) Mohun Bagan (1994) East Bengal (1995) JCT Mills (1996) F.C. Kochin (1997) Mahindra & Mahindra (1998) Salgaocar (1999) Mohun Bagan (2000)
2001–2020	Mahindra United (2001-02) East Bengal (2002-03) Salgaocar (2003-04) East Bengal (2004-05) Army XI (2005) Dempo Sports Club (2006) Churchill Brothers SC (2007) Mahindra United (2008) Churchill Brothers SC (2009) Prayag United S.C. (2010) Churchill Brothers SC (2011) Air India (2012) Mohammedan (2013) Salgaocar (2014) Army Green (2016) Gokulam Kerala (2019)
2021–present	Goa (2021) Bengaluru (2022) Mohun Bagan (2023)
Notes: The tournament was not held from 1914-19 (due to WWI), in 1939 (due to WWII), from 1941-49 (due to WWII and Partition), in 1962 (due to 1962 War) and in 2015 and 2017-2018 (due to unknown reasons)