Santosh Trophy 2024: Delhi qualify for knockout rounds

The knockout rounds of the Santosh Trophy are gearing up well.

Delhi made the final round of the 78th National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy in the best possible way when they finished their Group B campaign with an all-win record.

In their third and concluding match at the Bibi Ratni Sports Stadium on Saturday, November 30, 2024, Delhi defeated Haryana 2-0 to finish with nine points from three matches.

After a barren first half, Jaideep Singh (50’) and KS Shikhar (61’) scored for the winners.

In the other match of the day, Uttarakhand routed Chandigarh 4-0 to end the campaign with six points. The winners, who led 1-0 at the breather, found a hero in skipper Ayush Bisht, who scored a hat-trick. Ajendra Singh scored the fourth goal deep into the add-on time.     

With this, the groupings for the final round of the Santosh Trophy to be played in Hyderabad from December 14, 2024, were completed.

While Group A consists of defending champions Services, Bengal, Manipur, hosts Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan, the teams in Group are last year’s runners-up Goa, Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Meghalaya.

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