2016 IFA Shield

2016 IFA Shield
LG IFA Shield 2016
Tournament details
Country	India
Dates	16 February - 6 March 2016
Teams	10
Final positions
Champions	Tata Football Academy (1st title)
Runner-up	AIFF Elite Academy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	83 (3.61 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Francis Baptiste; Baoringdao Bodo (6 Goals)
Best player	Baoringdao Bodo
	All statistics correct as of 7 March 2016.
	← 2014 2017 →

The 2016 IFA Shield (officially known as the LG IFA Shield 2016^[1]^[2] for sponsorship reasons) was the 120th edition of the IFA Shield. The tournament is designed as a U19 youth football tournament since 2015.

This year ten football clubs going to participate including two overseas football clubs. The winners of LG IFA Shield was awarded with an amount of ₹ 5 Lakhs, while the second seeded team will get an amount of ₹ 3 Lakhs.^[3]

The tournament was managed by Ekalavya Sports Foundation, run by former international Kalyan Chaubey and other TFA graduates.^[3]

Tata Football Academy became the champions of the tournament by beating AIFF Elite Academy on 6 March 2016 which was played at Mohun Bagan Ground. The score was even 2–2 during the regulation time. After extra time match ended 3–2 in the favour of Tata Football Academy. Shubham Ghosh was awarded the man of the match and Baoringdao Bodo player of the tournament.^[4]

Venue

Most of the matches were held at East Bengal Ground and Mohun Bagan Ground while Kalyani Stadium and Barasat Stadium were the other venues.^[3]

Qualifying round

Four teams played in knockout format. The winner of the knockouts qualified for the final phase of the tournament.

Quarterfinals			Semi-finals			Finals

12 February 2016

Tata Football Academy	4
			13 February 2016
Southern Samity	0
			Aryan	0
Aryan (p)	0 (7)
				15 February 2016
NB Rainbow	0 (6)
				Tata Football Academy	3
11 February 2016
				Bengal Football Academy	1
Tollygunge Agragami	1
		13 February 2016
Bengal Football Academy	8
		Bengal Football Academy	3
11 February 2016
			Pathachakra	0
Pathachakra	6

Bhawanipore	0

* Tata Football Academy qualified for final phase of 2016 IFA U19 Shield.

Final phase

All times are Indian Standard Time (IST) – UTC+05:30.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tata Football Academy	4	4	0	10	2	+8	12	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Crystal Palace	4	3	1	10	5	+5	9	Advance to Semi-finals
3	East Bengal	4	2	2	4	3	+1	6
4	Salgaocar	4	1	3	4	11	−7	3
5	United	4	0	4	3	10	−7	0

Source: IFA Shield 2016
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result .

Fixtures and Results

16 February 2016	United	Barasat Stadium
17:30	Arup Roy 49' Budhwa Bara 70'	Report	33' (pen.) Sandip Bhattacharjee

17 February 2016	Salgaocar	1–4	Tata Football Academy	Kalyani Stadium
14:30	Ronaldo Oliveira 90+1'	Report	34' Md Firoz Khan 52' Subham Ghosh 70' Mobashir Rahman 90+2' Seino Kuki

19 February 2016	Salgaocar	Kalyani Stadium
14:30	Sandip Bhattacharjee 90+1'	Report	44', 90+2' Liston Colaco

East Bengal

v

Tata Football Academy

19 February 2016	East Bengal	0–1	Tata Football Academy	Barasat Stadium
16:30		Report	45+1' Mobashir Rahman

United

v

Tata Football Academy

21 February 2016	United	0–2	Tata Football Academy	Kalyani Stadium
14:30		Report	2' Rakesh Yadav 29' Billu Teli

Salgaocar

v

Crystal Palace

23 February 2016	Salgaocar	1–4	Crystal Palace	Barasat Stadium
17:30	Tristaw Falcao 72'	Report	12', 56' Levi Lumeka 27' Francis Baptiste 86' Kian Flanagan

Crystal Palace

v

Tata Football Academy

25 February 2016	Crystal Palace	1–3	Tata Football Academy	Kalyani Stadium
14:30	Victor Fundi 6'	Report	23' (pen.), 54' Shubham Ghosh 45+3' Md. Firoz Khan

25 February 2016	Salgaocar	Barasat Stadium
16:30	Arup Roy 65', 75'	Report

27 February 2016	United	1–4	Crystal Palace	Barasat Stadium
16:30	Sandip Bhattacharjee	Report	7', 48', 55' Francis Baptiste 90+4' Levi Lumeka

East Bengal

v

Crystal Palace

29 February 2016	East Bengal	0–1	Crystal Palace	Barasat Stadium
16:30		Report	70' Francis Baptiste

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AIFF U19	4	4	0	0	17	5	+12	12	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Frenz United	4	3	0	1	11	6	+5	9	Advance to Semi-finals
3	DSK Academy	4	2	0	2	10	7	+3	6
4	Mohun Bagan	4	0	1	3	1	8	−7	1
5	Mohammedan	4	0	1	3	3	14	−11	1

Source: IFA Shield 2016
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result .

Fixtures and Results

16 February 2016	DSK Academy	Barasat Stadium
14:30	Prosenjit Chakraborty 59' Bedashwor Singh 77' Baoringdao Bodo 80' Anirudh Thapa 89'	Report	5' Lallianzuala Chhangte 9' Lalruatpuia 63' Gagandeep Singh

18 February 2016	Mohun Bagan	Barasat Stadium
16:30	Kamal Roy 45+1'	Report	76' Amit Gayen

20 February 2016	DSK Academy	Kalyani Stadium
14:30		Report	36' Prasanth K 43', 51' Lallianzuala Chhangte

22 February 2016	Mohun Bagan	0–4	AIFF U19	Barasat Stadium
14:30		Report	11' Amal Das 22' (pen.) Edmund Lalrindika 57' Prosenjit Chakraborty 63' Jerry Lalrinzuala

DSK Academy

v

Frenz United

22 February 2016	DSK Academy	2–3	Frenz United	Barasat Stadium
17:30	Lallianzuala Chhangte 9' Lalruatpuia 49'	Report	11' Shahrul Akmal 16' Hadi Fayyad 90+3' Aep Maulana

AIFF U19

v

Frenz United

24 February 2016	AIFF U19	4–2	Frenz United	Barasat Stadium
16:30	Prosenjit Chakroborty 21' Baoringdao Bodo 46', 62' Bedashwor Singh 47'	Report	62' Hadi Fayyadh 65' Dody Alfayed

25 February 2016	DSK Academy	Mohun Bagan Ground
16:30		Report	19' (pen.) Lallianzuala Chhangte 59' Sk Asiruddin

Frenz United

26 February 2016	Mohammedan	0–5	Frenz United	Barasat Stadium
16:30		Report	18' Hadi Fayyadh 43' Dody Alfayed 55', 89' Shahrul Akmal 85' Aizat Mukhlis

Mohun Bagan

v

Frenz United

28 February 2016	Mohun Bagan	0–1	Frenz United	Mohun Bagan Ground
16:30		Report	12' Aep Maulana

Mohammedan

v

AIFF U19

28 February 2016	Mohammedan	2–5	AIFF U19	Barasat Stadium
16:30	Diptanu Das 29' Sanu Hazra 90+2' (pen.)	Report	9', 70' Bedashwor Singh 38' Edmund Lalrindika 55' Baoringdao Bodo 90+1' Prosenjit Chakraborty

Knockouts

Semi-finals		Final

2 March 2016

AIFF U19 (p)	2 (6)
		6 March 2016
Crystal Palace F.C.	2 (5)
		AIFF U19	2
3 March 2016
		Tata Football Academy	3
Tata Football Academy	1

Frenz United	0

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
AIFF U19	(6) 2–2 (5)	Crystal Palace
Tata Football Academy	1–0	Frenz United

Semi-final 1

AIFF U19

v

Crystal Palace

2 March 2016	AIFF U19	2–2 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p)	Crystal Palace	Mohun Bagan Ground
16:30	Bodo 21' (pen.) Prosenjit Chakraborty 45'	Report	Baptiste 52' Flanagan 80'

Semi-final 2

3 March 2016	Tata Football Academy	1–0	Frenz United	Mohun Bagan Ground
16:30	Seino Kuki 36'	Report

Final

6 March 2016	AIFF U19	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Tata Football Academy	Mohun Bagan Ground
16:30	Bodo 31' Lalrinzuala 90+4'	Report	Shubham Ghosh 44' (pen.), 72' Lalrinzuala 100' (o.g.)

Statistics

As of 2 March 2016

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Francis Baptiste	Crystal Palace	6
1	Baoringdao Bodo	AIFF Academy	6
2
	Lallianzuala Chhangte	DSK Shivajians	5
	Prosenjit Chakraborty	AIFF Academy	5
3	Bedashwor Singh	AIFF Academy	4
4	Hadi Fayyad	Frenz United	3
	Levi Lumeka	Crystal Palace
	Sandip Bhattacharjee	United SC
	Shahrul Akmal	Frenz United

External links

IFA Shield Results – Goal.com
IFA Shield U-19 2016 – Thif-Live.com
IFA Shield U-19 2016 – KolkataFootball.com
IFA Shield U-19 Section – KolkataSports.com

References

^ "LG partners IFA for LG IFA Shield U-19 Tournament 2015-2016". Football News India. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^ "Bhaichung Bhutia Wants IFA Shield to be U-17 Tournament in 2017". Sports NDTV. 2 February 2016. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Goa to host IFA Shield matches". The Times of India. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^ "TFA U-19 Defeated AIFF U-19 To Clinch The IFA Shield". Sports NDTV. 6 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[1] "LG partners IFA for LG IFA Shield U-19 Tournament 2015-2016". Football News India. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[2] "Bhaichung Bhutia Wants IFA Shield to be U-17 Tournament in 2017". Sports NDTV. 2 February 2016. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[spill-3] "Goa to host IFA Shield matches". The Times of India. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[4] "TFA U-19 Defeated AIFF U-19 To Clinch The IFA Shield". Sports NDTV. 6 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

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