The Tamil Nadu football team, also earlier the Madras football team, is an Indian

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team representing

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in Indian state football competitions including the

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. They have appeared in the Santosh Trophy finals twice, in 1972–73 and 2012, and have never won. Tamil Nadu team reached semi-finals of the Santosh Trophy in 2009, where they lost to Goa. Prior to 1972, the team competed as ''Madras''.

Squad

The team selected for 2024 Santosh Trophy;

Coaching staff

Player history

Some of the former Tamil Nadu state football players are S. Grand Durai Pandian (Chennai Customs)(Striker), Samson Gunapandian, Simon Sundararaj, J. Krishnaswamy, Raman Vijayan,

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, Kalia Kulothungan, Robin Charles Raja, V. Soundararajan, P.M. Radhakrishnan, P. Nageshwara Rao, M. Thangaraj, Gandhi (RBI), Edwin Ross (Winger), D'Cruz (ICF), Orlando Rayen, A.U. Celestine (Goal Keeper), P.V. Sriramulu, A. Satyanarayanan, Guna Singh, Koshy, Kumar, Thomas, Arumaiyanayagam, Thanikachalam, Chandran Jeypal, Dhanapathy, Gurunathan, Viswanathan, and Rajamanickam (Goal Keeper). Simon Sundararaj from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu scored the last Indian goal at the Olympics, in Rome in 1960. Most of these former players were employees of State or Central government institutions.

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and

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were coordinating these players participation at the National level. In the past, to attend preparatory camps to get selected for the

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, it was difficult for these players to obtain leave from the institutions in which they were employed. Some Tamil Nadu football players use their football talent and achievements to get jobs in Government institutions like Southern Railways, Indian Bank, and Chennai Customs. The following is a complete list of Tamil Nadu footballers. * Dhanpal Ganesh * Dharmaraj Ravanan * Nallappan Mohanraj * Kali Alaudeen * C. S. Sabeeth * Pradeep Mohanraj * Michael Soosairaj * Edwin Sydney Vanspaul * Nanda Kumar * Raegan Albarnas * P. Sudhakar * Michael Regin * Sinivasan Pandiyan * Alexander Romario Jesuraj * C.Swaminathan

Honours

State (senior)

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** Bronze medal (1): 2002

State (youth)

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** Winners (1): 1985–86 ** Runners-up (1): 1999–2000 * M. Dutta Ray Trophy ** Runners-up (2): 2004, 2007

References

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