The 2015 Santosh Trophy is the 69th edition of the

Santosh Trophy The National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy, or simply Santosh Trophy, is an inter-state national football competition contested by the state associations and government institutions under the All India Football Federation (AIFF), th ...

, the main state competition in Indian football. 33 teams in total from around India entered the competition. Only 10 teams competed in the competition proper after going through the qualifiers. The tournament proper began on 1 March and will conclude with the final on 15 March.

Round and dates

Qualified teams

The following ten teams qualified for the Santosh Trophy proper. *

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ...

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

Mizoram Mizoram is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its Capital city, capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometres (449 miles) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar t ...

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

Railways Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to roa ...

Services Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a ...

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

;4 Goals * Raja Das (West Bengal) ;3 Goals * Rama Beshra (Services) ;2 Goals * Joerse Olivera (Goa) * Marcus Masceranhas (Goa) * Lalrinpuia (Mizoram) * Shabaz Pathan (Maharashtra) * Sunny (Punjab) * Usman Ashik (Kerala) ;1 Goal * Prabhjot Singh (Punjab) * Rajbir Singh (Punjab) * Francis Zonuntulunga (Services) * Anthony Chettri (Services) * Rakesh Singh (Services) * Vivek Kumar (Services) * Jain P (Services) * Nasrudheen Cheriyath (Kerala) * V P Suhair (Kerala) * Lalbiakaua (Mizoram) * Zico Zoremsanga (Mizoram) * Malsawmfela (Mizoram) * Sashi Toppo (Railways) * Gabriel Fernandes (Goa) *

Sandesh Gadkari Sandesh Gadkari (born 16 March 1987) is an Indian football player who currently plays as a forward for Mumbai in the I-League. Career Air India During the summer of 2011, Sandesh signed with Air India FC. Salgaocar Gadkari has completed his ...

(Maharashtra) *

Baldeep Singh Baldeep Singh (born 17 August 1982) is an Indian footballer who plays for Air India as a defender in I-League. He is often referred to as "Baldeep Singh Senior" to avoid confusion with another former JCT player Baldeep Singh "Junior". Caree ...

(Maharashtra) *

Vijith Shetty Vijith Shetty (born 1981) is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for Air India FC in the I-League The I-League is the men's second professional football division of the Indian football league system behind the Indian Super ...