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{{Infobox football tournament season
| title = Santosh Trophy
| year = 1941–42
| other_titles = National Football Championship
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption =
| country = India
| num_teams =
| winners = [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]
| count = 1
| second = [[Delhi football team|Delhi]]
| matches =
| goals =
| attendance =
| scoring_leader =
| prev_season =
| next_season = [[1944–45 Santosh Trophy|1944–45]]
| extra information = 60 minute matches
}}
The '''1941–42 Santosh Trophy''' was the first edition of the [[Santosh Trophy]], the main state competition for [[football in India]]. It was held in July, 1941. [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]] won the title beating [[Delhi football team|Delhi]] 5–1 in the final.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.13778/page/28/mode/1up IFA beat Delhi in football final], Bombay Chronicle, 27 July 1941</ref>

Ten teams entered the tournament but Dacca Sporting Association withdrew.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.1464/page/4/mode/1up Inter Provincial Football], Bombay Chronicle, 18 April 1941</ref> Matches were played across the country and the final was played in Calcutta.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.10129/page/12/mode/1up Schedule], Bombay Chronicle, 14 June 1941</ref>

==Preliminary matches==

===Zone A===
* [[North-West India Football Association|NWIFA]] qualified directly for the semifinals as they were the only team in the North Zone.

===Zone B===
{{football box
|team1= [[Delhi football team|Delhi]]
|team2= [[Rajasthan football team|Rajputana]]
|goals1=
|goals2=
|score= 0–0
|stadium= Delhi
|date= 5 July 1941
|report=
|referee=
}}

{{football box
|team1= [[Delhi football team|Delhi]]
|team2= [[Rajasthan football team|Rajputana]]
|goals1=
|goals2=
|score= 5–1
|stadium= Delhi
|date=
|report=
|referee=
|scorenote=replay
}}

===Zone C===

* Bengal received a walkover as [[Dacca football team|Dacca]] withdrew drew to communal riots. The match was scheduled to be held in Dacca on 13 July.<ref name=abj7>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/document/OUVGZm1XRVlDWTRCcjVWRXRKeWxCUT09 Dacca withdraws due to riots], Amrita Bazar Patrika, 7 July 1941</ref>

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{{football box
|team1= [[Bihar football team|Bihar]]
|team2= [[Uttar Pradesh football team|United Provinces]]
|goals1=
|goals2=
|score= 1–0
|stadium= Patna
|date= 17 July 1941
|report=
|referee=
}}

{{football box
|team1= [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]
|team2= [[Bihar football team|Bihar]]
|goals1=
|goals2=
|score= 0–0
|stadium= Patna
|date=
|report=
|referee=
}}

{{football box
| team1 = [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Bihar football team|Bihar]]
| goals1 = * [[Bachi Khan]] {{goal}}
* Somana {{goal}}
* D Banerjee {{goal}} {{goal}}
| goals2 =
| score = 4–0
| stadium = Patna
| date = 21 July 1941 <ref name=abj12>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/document/WWRLQ09xdCtVVFd5WG1ac3QyRlBsQT09 Bengal's comfortable win], Amrita Bazar Patrika, 22 July 1941</ref>
| report =
| referee = H. Cage
| scorenote = replay
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}}

===Zone D===
{{football box
| team1 = [[Karnataka football team|Mysore]]
| team2 = [[Tamil Nadu football team|Madras]]
| goals1 = * Nanjunda {{goal}}
* Karim {{goal}}
* Habib {{goal}}
| goals2 =
| score = 3–0
| stadium = SIAA Grounds, Madras
| date = 6 July 1941 <ref name=ab7j>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/document/OUVGZm1XRVlDWTRCcjVWRXRKeWxCUT09 Mysore defeat Madras, 3-0], 7 July 1941, Amrita Bazar Patrika</ref>
| report = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19410707&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
| referee = PN Ramachandran
}}

{{football box
| team1 = [[Maharashtra football team|Bombay]]
| team2 = [[Karnataka football team|Mysore]]
| goals1 = [[Bobby Langton|Langton]] {{goal}} {{goal}} <br/> Hill {{goal}} <br/> Bhimrao {{goal}}
| goals2 = Nanjunda {{goal|13}}
| score = 4–1
| stadium = [[Cooperage Ground]], Bombay
| date = 13 July 1941 <ref name=abj14/>
| report = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19410714&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
| referee = Swallow
}}

The score was 1–1 at half-time.

==Semifinals==
{{football box
| team1 = [[Delhi football team|Delhi]]
| team2 = [[North-West India Football Association|NWIFA]]
| goals1 =
| goals2 =
| score = 3–2
| stadium = Delhi
| date = 12 July 1941 <ref name=abj14/>
| report =
| referee = Harnam Singh
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{{football box
| team1 = [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Maharashtra football team|Bombay]]
| goals1 = P De Mello {{goal|65}}
| goals2 =
| score = 1–0
| stadium = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]
| date = 24 July 1941 <ref>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/nw_document/abp/24016 Bengal in final], Amrita Bazar Patrika, 15 July 1941, p.9</ref>
| report = http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/nw_document/abp/24016
| referee = T Shome
}}

==Final==
There was a shower before the final and both teams started cautiously. The gates for the match was 6175 rupees and 4 annas (Rs. 6175.25). The Bengal-Bombay semifinal at the same venue collected 6492 rupees and 8 annas.

De Mello scored the first goal in the fourth minute directly from a corner kick, an [[Corner kick#Scoring a goal directly from a corner: Olympico goal|"Olympic Goal"]]. "The ball came in the trek of an archaic parabola and swerved into the net within the far post."<ref name=abj27/> Hameeduddin equalised in the ninth minute with a rising shot, from a pass by Atma Ram. In the 22nd minute, the Delhi goal keeper Daley missed by a center by Noor Mohammad. The ball was headed on by D. Banerjee for De Mello to score his second goal. Bengal led 2–1 at half time.

The third Bengal goal came in the eighth minute of the second half, Banerjee playing an angular shot from the right across Daley from a pass by Bhattacharjee. Bhattacharjee scored in the 16th and 23rd minutes, Sunil Ghosh providing both assists. Ghosh suffered a head injury at the start of the match but returned in the eleventh minute.

Bengal was presented the trophy by Mrs H.R. Norton, the wife of the President of [[Indian Football Association]]. The chief guests for the final were Mrs Norton and B. C. Ghosh, the vice president of the IFA.<ref name=abj27/>

{{football box
| team1 = [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Delhi football team|Delhi]]
| goals1 = * P De Mello {{goal}} {{goal}}
* A Bhattacharjee {{goal}} {{goal}}
* D Banerjee {{goal}}
| goals2 = * Hameeduddin {{goal}}
| score = 5–1
| stadium = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]
| date = 26 July 1941 <ref name=abj27>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/nw_document/abp/24044 Bengal emerge triumphant], Amrita Bazar Patrika, 27 July 1941, p.12 </ref>
| report = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19410727&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
| referee = P. Misra
}}

==Squads==
* Bombay : F. E.Edden (captain, Bombay Gymkhana); James (British Infantry) and S. Thompson (H.V.M.); Raja (B.E.S.T), Alexander (Y.M.C.A) and Telang (B.E.S.T); Bhimrao (Y.M.C.A), Rashad (Muslim Sports), Hill (British Infantry), Butchi (B.E.S.T) and [[Bobby Langton|Langton]] (British Infantry). Reserves : Drynan (GK, Heavy Battery), Higgins (Heavy Battery), Osbourne (Police), Karunakar (Caltex) and Swami (W.I.A.A) <ref name=ab11j>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/document/SHhMNlgybnh5NHdWM0lNV2lmRWtmZz09 Bombay team], Amrita Bazar Patrika, 11 July 1941</ref>
* Mysore : Kadirvelu; Habeeb and Atkinson; Sheriff, Khader and Chinnaswamy; Nanjunda, Laxminarayan, Swaminathan, Murgesh and Rahmat <ref name=abj14>[http://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/nw_document/abp/23879 Bombay defeat Mysore 4-1], Amrita Bazar Patrika, 14 July 1941, p.4</ref>
* Delhi : Daley; Kaul, Qamaruddin, Yousuf, [[Afzal Khan (footballer)|Afzal Khan]] and Sardar Mirza; Habeed, Nawab, Akhtar, Atma Ram and Fayaz Khan
* Rajputana : N Lodrick; H. Dean, A Rahim; Mobeen Ahmad, Sajjad Mohammad, Samiullah; Mumtaz Ahmed, Atta Mohammad, Debi Singh, Wahiduddin and Sikandar Khan <ref name=abj14/>

==Notes==
Some of the teams were referred to after their football associations. This article uses the names by which the teams came to be known.

* IFA Bengal (Indian Football Association) - [[West Bengal football team|Bengal]]
* WIFA Bombay (Western India Football Association) - [[Maharashtra football team|Bombay]]
* NWIFA ([[North-West India Football Association|North West India Football Association]]) - [[Punjab football team (India)|Punjab and Balochistan]]
* Delhi FA - [[Delhi football team|Delhi]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Santosh Trophy}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:1941-42 Santosh Trophy}}
[[Category:Santosh Trophy seasons]]
[[Category:1941–42 in Indian football]]

1941 42 Santosh Trophy - Revision history

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