2012 I-League 2nd Division

The 2012 I-League 2nd Division was the fifth season of the league. The league serves as the second top tier of Indian Football, using promotion and relegation with the I-League, which is top tier league of India.

Stadiums

The 2012 I-League 2nd Division will be played in 4 stadiums. Three of the Stadiums will be used for the Group Stage and one for the Final Stage.

The stadiums that will be used in the group stage are the Barabati Stadium (Orissa), Ambedkar Stadium (New Delhi) and the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium (Assam).

Team overview

Teams and locations

United Sikkim

Golden Threads

Eagles

Quartz

PIFA

Vasco

Ar-Hima

Luangmual

Techno Aryan

Bhawanipore

Samaleswari

Mahammedan

Guwahati

Aizawl

Kenkre

Royal Wahingdoh

Simla Youngs

KGF Academy

Kalighat

Southern Samity

SESA

Green Valley

Langsning

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Location of teams in the 2012 I-League 2nd Division

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Team captain	Kit Sponsor	Kit Maker
Ar-Hima	Subrata Bhattacharyya	TBA	TBA	Adidas
Aizawl	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Bhawanipore	Debjit Ghosh	TBA	TBA	TBA
Eagles	Jo Paul Ancheri	Saji Joy	TBA	TBA
Golden Threads	TBA	TBA	TBA	Adidas
Green Valley	Mridul Banerjee	TBA	TBA	TBA
Gauhati Town Club	Juliano Fontana	TBA	TBA	TBA
Kalighat	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Kenkre	Floyd Pinto	TBA	TBA	TBA
KGF Academy	Raman Vijayan	TBA	TBA	TBA
Langsning	L Darlong	TBA	TBA	TBA
Luangmaul	TBA	TBA	TBA	Adidas
Mohammedan	Aloke Mukherjee	Stanley Okoroigwe	EMTA	Reebok
PIFA	Nirvan Shah	TBA	TBA	TBA
Quartz	Frank Braner	TBA	TBA	TBA
Royal Wahingdoh	Carlton Chapman	Seityasen Singh	Imperial Blue	Uhlsport
Samaleswari	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Simla Youngs	Manoj Chaudhary	TBA	TBA	TBA
SESA	Clifford Chukwuma	TBA	SESA	TBA
Southern Samity	Shabbir Ali	Franchis Xavier	Five Star Samity	Nike
Techno Aryan	Raghu Nandi	TBA	Techno India Group	TBA
United Sikkim	Philippe De Ridder	Nim Lepcha	EMTA	Nike
Vasco	Robert Fernandes	TBA	TBA	TBA

Managerial Changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
United Sikkim	Stanley Rozario	Sacked	3 December 2011[1]	Pre-season	Philippe De Ridder	3 December 2011
Quartz	New Club			Pre-Season	Frank Braner	1 January 2012

Group stage

Group A

Group A will take place at the Barabati Stadium in Orissa.

Group B

Group B will take place at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi.

Group C

Group C will take place at the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium in Assam.

Final round

The final round of the 2012 I-League 2nd Division will take place between six teams from the group stage and the team relegated from I-League ONGC in a single table format in which each team plays each other once at home and once away from home.^[2]

Statistics

Updated: 20 February 2012

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Emmanuel Okoro	KGF Academy	9
2	Akabougu C.	Golden Threads	5
3	Angelo Colaco	Vasco	4
4	Daniel Bedemi	United Sikkim	3
	Andrew Jgado	Vasco
	Salau Nuruddin	Green Valley
	Olatunde Komolafe	Kenkre
	P. Biswas	Kalighat
	Alfred Jaryan	Mohammedan
9	12 players on 1 goal

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Salau Nuruddin	Green Valley	United Sikkim	3–3	8 February 2012
Andrew Jgado	Vasco	Golden Threads	5–1	11 February 2012
P. Biswas	Kalighat	Quartz	9–0	17 February 2012
Akabougu C.	Golden Threads	Luangmaul	4–3	17 February 2012
Emmanuel Okoro7	KGF Academy	Luangmaul	7–1	19 February 2012

• ⁷ Player scored 7 goals

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Stanley Cyprian for Mohammedan against KGF Academy (1 February 2012)^[3]
• Fastest goal of the season: 15 minutes – Isa Ali for Vasco against PIFA (1 February 2012)^[3]
• Most goals in a game: 9 goals
  • United Sikkim 7–2 Eagles (5 February 2012)
  • Quartz 0–9 Kalighat (17 February 2012)
• Most goals scored in a game by one team: 9 goals – Kalighat 9–0 Quartz (17 February 2012)

References