1996 Indian Federation Cup final

1996 Indian Federation Cup Final

Event

1996 Indian Federation Cup

East Bengal	Dempo

2	1

After golden goal extra time

Date

11 August 1996

Venue

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata, West Bengal

Man of the Match

Tushar Rakshit

Referee

Ravi Shekhar (Maharashtra) ^[1]

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The 1996 Indian Federation Cup Final was the 19th final of the Indian Federation Cup, the top knock-out competition in India, and was contested between Kolkata giant East Bengal and Dempo of Goa on 11 August 1996.

East Bengal won the final 2–1 courtesy of a Golden goal by Raman Vijayan in the extra-time to claim their fourth Federation Cup title.^[2]

Route to the final

East Bengal

Round	Opposition	Score
R16	Air India	2–1
Quarter-final	Border Security Force	1–1 (4–3 pen)
Semi-final	Kerala Police	3–0

East Bengal entered the 1996 Indian Federation Cup as the runner's up of the tournament's previous edition. In the pre-quarter-final, they faced Air India in their opening match and won 2–1. In the quarter-final, East Bengal faced Border Security Force and in a thriller of a game, won 4–3 in the penalty shootout after the game ended 1–1 after 120 minutes. Raman Vijayan scored the only goal for East Bengal. In the semi-final, East Bengal faced Kerala Police and won the match handsomely by 3–0 with a brace from Vijayan as they reached the final.^[2]^[3]

Dempo

Round	Opposition	Score
R16	Delhi Mughals	4–0
Quarter-final	Mohun Bagan	0–0 (5-3 pen)
Semi-final	JCT Mills	3–1

In the pre-quarter-finals, Dempo faced Delhi Mughals and won it 4–0. In the quarter-final, they faced Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan and after 120 minutes the game ended 0–0 and Dempo won 5–3 via penalty shootout to reach the last four of the tournament. In the Semi-final, they faced the reigning champions JCT Mills; defeated them 3–1 to reach the final.^[2]

Match

Details

11 August 1996

17:30 IST

East Bengal	2–1 (a.e.t./g.g.)	Dempo
Tushar Rakshit 14' Raman Vijayan 107'		Camilo Goncalves 16'

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Attendance: 100,000 (est.)

Referee: Ravi Shekhar (Maharashtra)

East Bengal

Dempo



GK	Hemanta Dora
LB	Subir Ghosh
CB	Debjit Ghosh
CB	Debasish Pal Chowdhury	12'
RB	Ilyas Pasha
RM	Ranjan Dey
CM	Tushar Rakshit (c)
CM	Basudeb Mondal
LM	Amit Das
ST	Raman Vijayan
ST	Prashanta Chakraborty	76'
Substitutes:
DF	Arumugam Saravanan	12'	100'
FW	Tauseef Jamal	76'
MF	Ansari Abdul Hamid	100'
Manager:
Monoranjan Bhattacharya



GK	Dominic D'Souza
RB	Matthew Rodrigues	76'
CB	Sunmani Singh
CB	Christopher Kem
LB	Xavier Colaco
LM	Valentino Ezuego
CM	Shanta Kumar	61'
RM	Itocha Singh
ST	Camilo Goncalves (c)
ST	P Manohoran
ST	Lullu Nwike	75'
Substitutes:
MF	Marcus Carvalho	61'
DF	Agnolo Miranda	76'
FW	Mahesh Singh	75'
Manager:
Socorro Coutinho

Hero of the Match:
Tushar Rakshit (East Bengal)^[2]

Match rules

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Golden goal ends game.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.

References

^ Kapadia, Novy (7 October 2012). "East Bengal's Federation Cup successes". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chaudhuri, Arunava. "19th "Kalyani Black Label" Federation Cup 1996:". IndianFootball.de. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
^ "19th Federation Cup 1996". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 8 June 2021.

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