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Durand Cup 2025: Participating Teams, Groups And Full Fixtures
Last Updated: The 134th Durand Cup, Asia's oldest football tournament, hosted across five states including Manipur, Assam, Jharkhand, and Meghalaya, as well as Kolkata. Durand Cup, Asia's oldest football tournament, is back with its 134th Edition. For the first time, the Durand Cup is being hosted in as many as five states, with Manipur's capital, Imphal, making a comeback after a two-year gap. Kokrajhar in Assam will extend their status as Durand Cup hosts for the third consecutive year while Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and Shillong in Meghalaya were added as hosts last year. The century-old tournament shifted its home base to Kolkata – the Mecca of Indian Football, and the capital of West Bengal, from Delhi back in 2019, and, will also continue to hold that status for a sixth consecutive edition. Durand Cup 2025: Teams & Groups – Group A East Bengal FC South United FC Indian Air Force FT Namdhari FC Group B Mohun Bagan SG Mohammedan SC Diamond Harbour FC BSF FT Group D Group E Group F Durand Cup 2025: Group Stage Fixtures – 6 28-Jul Monday B Mohammedan SC vs Diamond Harbour FC 19:00 Kolkata Kishore Bharati Stadium 7 29-Jul Tuesday C Jamshedpur FC vs Indian Army FT 16:00 Jamshedpur JRD Tata Sports Complex 8 29-Jul Tuesday E Shillong Lajong FC vs Rangdajied United FC 19:00 Shillong Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 9 30-Jul Wednesday F TRAU FC vs NEROCA FC 16:00 Imphal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 13 1-Aug Friday F Indian Navy FT vs Real Kashmir FC 16:00 Imphal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 14 1-Aug Friday B Diamond Harbour FC vs BSF FT 19:00 Kolkata VYBK (Salt lake) 15 2-Aug Saturday C Foreign Team 1 vs 1 Ladakh FC 16:00 Jamshedpur JRD Tata Sports Complex 16 2-Aug Saturday E Northeast United FC vs Foreign Team 2 19:00 Shillong Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 17 3-Aug Sunday D Karbi Anglong Morning Star FC vs Punjab FC 16:00 Kokrajhar SAI Stadium 18 3-Aug Sunday A Namdhari FC vs Indian Air Force FT 19:00 Kolkata Kishore Bharati Stadium 19 4-Aug Monday F TRAU FC vs Real Kashmir FC 16:00 Imphal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 20 4-Aug Monday B Mohun Bagan SG vs BSF FT 19:00 Kolkata VYBK(Salt Lake) 21 5-Aug Tuesday E Rangdajied United FC vs Foreign Team 2 16:00 Shillong Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 22 5-Aug Tuesday C Indian Army FT vs Foreign Team 1 19:00 Jamshedpur JRD Tata Sports Complex 23 6-Aug Wednesday D ITBP FT vs Punjab FC 16:00 Kokrajhar SAI Stadium 24 6-Aug Wednesday A East Bengal FC vs Indian Air Force FT 19:00 Kolkata Kishore Bharati Stadium 25 7-Aug Thursday B BSF FT vs Mohammedan SC 16:00 Kolkata VYBK(Salt Lake) 26 7-Aug Thursday F NEROCA FC vs Indian Navy FT 19:00 Imphal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 27 8-Aug Friday C Jamshedpur FC vs 1 Ladakh FC 16:00 Jamshedpur JRD Tata Sports Complex 28 8-Aug Friday E Shillong Lajong FC vs Northeast United FC 19:00 Shillong Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 29 9-Aug Saturday D Bodoland FC vs Punjab FC 16:00 Kokrajhar SAI Stadium 30 9-Aug Saturday B Diamond Harbour FC vs Mohun Bagan SG 19:00 Kolkata Kishore Bharati Stadium 31 10-Aug Sunday F NEROCA FC vs Real Kashmir FC 16:00 Imphal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 32 10-Aug Sunday A East Bengal FC vs Namdhari FC 19:00 Kolkata VYBK (Salt Lake) 33 11-Aug Monday C Indian Army FT vs 1 Ladakh FC 16:00 Jamshedpur JRD Tata Sports Complex 34 11-Aug Monday E Northeast United FC vs Rangdajied United FC 19:00 Shillong Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 35 12-Aug Tuesday F TRAU FC vs Indian Navy FT 16:00 Imphal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium 36 12-Aug Tuesday D Bodoland FC vs ITBP FT 19:00 Kokrajhar SAI Stadium Durand Cup 2025: Knock Out Fixtures – Quarters: Quarter-final 1 – 16 August (Saturday) – Kokrajhar – SAI Stadium Quarter-final 2 – 16 August (Saturday)- Shillong – Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Quarter-final 3 – 17 August (Sunday) – Jamshedpur – JRD Tata Sports Complex Quarter-final 4 – 17 August (Sunday) – Kolkata – VYBK (Salt Lake) Semis: Semi-final 1 – 19 August (Tuesday) – Shillong – Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Semi-final 2 – 20 August (Wednesday) – Kolkata – VYBK (Salt Lake) Final: top videos View all Final – 23 August (Saturday) – Kolkata – VYBK (Salt Lake) Note: Teams, Groups and Fixtures may change. About the Author Ritayan Basu Ritayan Basu, Senior Sub-Editor, Sports at Has been covering domestic and and international football for nearly a decade. Has played and covered badminton. Ocassionally writes on cricket content, More News18 Sports brings you the latest updates, live commentary, and highlights from cricket, football, tennis, badmintion, wwe and more. Catch breaking news, live scores, and in-depth coverage. Also Download the News18 App to stay updated! tags : durand cup indian football Location : Kolkata, India, India First Published: July 04, 2025, 20:49 IST News sports » football Durand Cup 2025: Participating Teams, Groups And Full Fixtures
Indian Express
04-06-2025
- Indian Express
Gujarat Confidential: ‘Harsh' horse remark
BJP Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhwadia, who is also a former Congress leader, hit out at Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying that the latter allegedly insulted his party workers by comparing them with horses. Modhwadia took to X to express his displeasure and wrote: 'I was the president of @INCGujarat in 2014, at that time Honorable @RahulGandhi ji gave a speech in the Rajkot workers' meeting titled 'Race horse and procession horse'. He has been repeating the same point in every speech till date. Even after so many years, the race horse has not been identified! This means that the rider himself does not know the horse and keeps cursing the horse when he loses! Irrespective of the party, calling a worker a 'baraat ka ghoda' or 'lame horse' is an insulting remark.' In an address in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, Gandhi had said that there is a third type of horse — a lame horse — which has to retire and that if it does not, then action would be taken. IPL flypast The Jamsaheb of Nawanagar (now Jamnagar) has congratulated Royal Challengers Bengaluru team on their maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) victory. The Jamsaheb said that the highlight of the evening on Tuesday, when the final match was held, was the flypast displayed by the Indian Air Force, stating that it was executed with 'perfection'. He, however, added, that it was a pity that there was no announcement about the squadron of the Indian Air Force or the aircraft, which were part of the 'mindboggling wonderful flypast'.
Indian Express
31-05-2025
- Indian Express
From injury in landmine blast to Para World Cup gold: Armyman-turned-marksman Amir Ahmed Bhat's journey
John Muhammad Bhat still remembers the fateful day when he got the call from the Indian Army officers about his younger brother, Amir Ahmad Bhat, an army rifleman and sniper, getting injured in a landmine blast during a special operation near the Line of Control (LOC) in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir. On Saturday, as 30-year-old Amir won the gold medal in the P3-Mixed 25m Pistol category at the World Shooting Para Sport (WSPS) World Cup in Changwon, Korea, the Bhat family felt a sense of vindication; for Amir had fulfilled his purpose of making his country proud, one way or another. 'Right from Amir joining the Indian Army to the day he suffered the injury to today, Amir has always wanted to make India proud and that's what he has done again. Even when he got injured during the special operations, he would tell us, 'It's allah's will and he surely will have some plans for me to serve my country.' Like always, he would be the happiest to watch the Indian anthem play and the Indian flag rise at the shooting range today and that's what he will share with us,' John told The Indian Express. Father Abdul too shares his joy, 'We feel very happy when Amir wins a medal for India. First Amir had done the Indian Army proud and now he is doing India proud.' The Bhats have been small-time farmers, apart from working as daily-wage labourers, for generations at the village of Damhal, nine kms from Anantnag, the district headquarters. With his father working as a plumber in the village to support the family, a young Amir, along with his elder brother, would work in loading and unloading of stones at the local stone market, earning Rs 300-400 daily. 'Our father always taught us that no work is small or big. As young kids, we would also see encounters or gunfights apart from search operations happening in or around villages often during 2006-2010 but then we knew we cannot let these things disturb us and the only way we could improve our lives was by working to support our father,' John remembers. It was in 2012 that a young Amir would enlist for an Indian Army recruitment rally in Anantnag. 'Amir always wanted to be an Indian Air Force Pilot. But we had no means to support the coaching. He failed his maths exams in 12th and when one of our relatives scolded him, he went to another relative's home to spend the night. The next day, he enlisted in the Indian Army recruitment rally in Anantnag and later cleared all the tests,' elder brother John says. With him being enlisted in Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry 15th battalion, Amir would spend the next six years making his way to the Special Operations Ghatak Platoon of the battalion, with which, in March 2018, he was part of the special operation that saw him lose the heel (calcaneus) and the adjoining Talus bone in his left leg in the landmine blast. 'When we met the Commanding Officer of his unit, he told me that Amir had walked 15 kms from the place of the landmine blast on his own to where the rescue unit was placed. The next six months we spent time in Army Hospitals in Udhampur as well RR Hospital in Delhi before Co.l Pawan Sharma did multiple surgeries on his leg. 18 units of blood were transfused during the surgeries and it was Amir's willpower which saw him recover and he always talked about rejoining his unit and not sitting idle at home,' John recalls. With him making full recovery by 2020, Amir rejoined his unit as a trainer before his Commanding officer recommended him to train at the Army Marksman Unit in Mhow in 2021. While the then Naib Subedar opted to train in 50m rifle prone events initially, he soon started training in pistol events and won his first para nationals medal in the form of a silver in the 2022 para nationals. 'With him being a special forces sniper, Amir always had the shooting IQ. While each armyman lives by the motto one shot one kill, precision shooting is different. We had to make him understand the technicalities of precision shooting apart from making his body adjust to shooting for 3-4 hours, aiming again and again. We worked on his body posture and strengthening the core to handle the balance while shooting sitting,' remembers coach Subedar Major Rajesh Kumar of AMU. In 2023, Amir won the bronze in 50m pistol SH1 category in WSPS World Cup in Korea before winning a silver in 25m Pistol SH1 in the next world cup in Croatia before he sealed his spot in the Indian Para Shooting team for Paris Paralympics post the Paralympics trials in May last year. While Amir missed advancing to the final in Paris, he won the gold with a score of 24 in Saturday's final after topping the qualification with a score of 582. 'Amir's strength has always been his sharp shooting skills and the way he adjusted his body and mind to shoot in precision shooting,' says national para shooting pistol coach Subash Rana. 'Training under foreign coach Pavel Smirnov and along with Gurpreet Singh (a Rio Olympian) has also made him a more technically stronger shooter and this gold will further motivate him,' said Col Naren Babu, CO, Army Marksman Unit, Mhow. Nitin Sharma is an Assistant Editor with the sports team of The Indian Express. Based out of Chandigarh, Nitin works with the print sports desk while also breaking news stories for the online sports team. A Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award recipient for the year 2017 for his story 'Harmans of Moga', Nitin has also been a two-time recipient of the UNFPA-supported Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity for the years 2022 and 2023 respectively. Nitin mainly covers Olympics sports disciplines with his main interests in shooting, boxing, wrestling, athletics and much more. The last 17 years with The Indian Express has seen him unearthing stories across India from as far as Andaman and Nicobar to the North East. Nitin also covers cricket apart from women's cricket with a keen interest. Nitin has covered events like the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2011 ODI World Cup, 2016 T20 World Cup and the 2017 AIBA World Youth Boxing Championships. An alumnus of School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, from where he completed his Masters in Mass Communications degree, Nitin has been an avid quizzer too. A Guru Nanak Dev University Colour holder, Nitin's interest in quizzing began in the town of Talwara Township, a small town near the Punjab-Himachal Pradesh border. When not reporting, Nitin's interests lie in discovering new treks in the mountains or spending time near the river Beas at his hometown. ... Read More
