Durand Cup 2025: Asia's Oldest Football Tournament To Be Played In 5 States

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Last Updated:May 25, 2025, 17:14 IST

Durand Cup volition beryllium played betwixt July 22 and August 23 successful Kolkata, Kokrajhar, Jamshedpur, Meghalaya and Imphal.

Durand Cup, (center) the Shimla Trophy (left )and the President’s Cup (News18.com/Ritayan Basu)

Asia’s oldest shot tournament, the Durand Cup, volition beryllium backmost with its 134th variation and for the archetypal clip successful its storied history, beryllium hosted successful arsenic galore arsenic 5 states with Manipur’s superior Imphal, making a comeback aft a two-year gap. The Durand Cup Organising Committee besides announced the dates for this year’s tourney to beryllium betwixt July 22- August 23, 2025.

Kokrajhar successful Assam volition widen their presumption arsenic Durand Cup hosts for the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth portion Jamshedpur successful Jharkhand and Shillong successful Meghalaya were added arsenic hosts past year. The century-old tourney shifted its location basal to Kolkata – the Mecca of Indian Football, and the superior of West Bengal, from Delhi backmost successful 2019, and, volition besides proceed to clasp that presumption for a sixth consecutive edition.

Since its modulation to the East, the Durand Cup has reinstated itself arsenic the country’s premiere competition, increasing from 16 teams to 24 teams, including information from each the Indian Super League (ISL) teams.

Organised by the Eastern Command of the Indian Army connected behalf of the 3 Services, the tourney is unsocial successful the consciousness that it pits Services teams against India’s champion shot clubs and implicit the past mates of editions, has besides seen overseas information with Army teams from neighbouring nations.

The Indian Army’s stated imaginativeness of expanding the scope of the historical tourney passim the East and North-East is besides present afloat reflected with the prime of big cities this year.

All State Governments and section autonomous bodies person wholeheartedly pledged their enactment similar ever for the fashionable tourney which has captured the imaginativeness of the shot loving radical of the region.

A full of six venues, 2 successful Kolkata (Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan and Kishore Bharti Krirangan) and 1 each successful Imphal (Khuman Lampak stadium), Ranchi (Morhabadi Stadium) oregon Jamshedpur (JRD Tata Sports Complex), Shillong (Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium) and Kokrajhar (SAI Stadium) person been earmarked for the 134th IndianOil Durand Cup edition.

North East United FC are the defending champions having flooded maximum title-holders Mohun Bagan Super Giant, successful a thrilling last past twelvemonth to get their historical maiden title.

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