2016 Indian Super League Final

Template:Infobox football match The 2016 Indian Super League Final was a football match between ATK and Kerala Blasters on 18 December 2016 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, Kerala. It was the final match of the 2016 Indian Super League season, the third season of the Indian Super League.[1] The match was the second time these two teams played against each other in the Indian Super League final, the previous one was when both sides met in the inaugural 2014 final. ATK won that final 1–0.

Kerala Blasters reached the finals after finishing the regular season in second place. ATK finished their regular season in fourth place. In the semi-finals, Kerala Blasters took on the Delhi Dynamos while ATK played against Mumbai City. ATK hosted Mumbai City in the first match of the finals at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium. Helped by a brace from Iain Hume, ATK won the first leg 3–2. The team then secured their place in the final after a 0–0 draw in Mumbai. The Kerala Blasters hosted Delhi Dynamos in their first match of the finals at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and won 1–0. In the second leg, the Blasters were defeated 2–1 and thus the score remaining 3-3 on aggregate the match went to a penalty shootout as away goal rule was not applicable in case of Indian Super League. The Kerala Blasters won the shootout 3–0 to qualify for the final.

Watched by a crowd of 82,146, the Kerala Blasters took the lead in the 37th minute through Mohammed Rafi. The Kerala Blasters lead only lasted for seven minutes before Henrique Sereno equalized for ATK. At halftime the score was 1–1. The second half did not see any goals scored and thus the match went into extra-time. The first half of extra-time was goalless and so was the second half. With the score still remaining1–1 after extra-time, the match went into penalties.[2]

Penalty shoot out drama saw Graham Stack saving the first shot for ATK which gave a temporary lead for Kerala but Ndyoe blasted the ball over the bar and finally Cédric Hengbart saw his shot getting saved by the trailing leg of ATK keeper Debjit Majumder, ATK won the shoot-out 4–3 as Jewel Raja scored the winning penalty and they won the Indian Super League Final for the second time in three seasons.

Match

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GK 1 Template:Flagicon Graham Stack RB 21 Template:Flagicon Sandesh Jhingan Template:Yel CB 6 Template:Flagicon Aaron Hughes (c) Template:Suboff CB 5 Template:Flagicon Cédric Hengbart Template:Yel LB 11 Template:Flagicon Ishfaq Ahmed Template:Yel RM 13 Template:Flagicon C.K. Vineeth CM 14 Template:Flagicon Mehtab Hossain CM 88 Template:Flagicon Azrack Mahamat LM 20 Template:Flagicon Mohammed Rafi Template:Suboff SS 9 Template:Flagicon Kervens Belfort CF 78 Template:Flagicon Duckens Nazon Template:Suboff Substitutes: GK 24 Template:Flagicon Sandip Nandy DF 19 Template:Flagicon Elhadji Ndoye Template:Subon FW 7 Template:Flagicon Mohammed Rafique Template:Subon FW 10 Template:Flagicon Antonio German Template:Subon MF 2 Template:Flagicon Pratik Chowdhary MF 8 Template:Flagicon Vinit Rai FW 12 Template:Flagicon Thongkhosiem Haokip MF 16 Template:Flagicon Gurwinder Singh MF 27 Template:Flagicon Michael Chopra FW 31 Template:Flagicon Rino Anto MF 57 Template:Flagicon Didier Kadio Manager: Template:Flagicon Steve Coppell

GK 24 Template:Flagicon Debjit Majumder RB 12 Template:Flagicon Pritam Kotal Template:Yel CB 2 Template:Flagicon Henrique Sereno Template:Suboff CB 4 Template:Flagicon Tiri LB 80 Template:Flagicon Keegan Pereira Template:Suboff RM 11 Template:Flagicon Sameehg Doutie CM 10 Template:Flagicon Borja Fernández(c) Template:Yel CM 8 Template:Flagicon Jewel Raja LM 20 Template:Flagicon Lalrindika Ralte SS 9 Template:Flagicon Hélder Postiga Template:Suboff CF 7 Template:Flagicon Iain Hume Substitutes: GK 14 Template:Flagicon Dani Mallo GK 22 Template:Flagicon Shilton Paul DF 33 Template:Flagicon Prabir Das Template:Subon MF 15 Template:Flagicon Javi Lara Template:Subon MF 23 Template:Flagicon Ofentse Nato Template:Subon DF 6 Template:Flagicon Kingshuk Debnath MF 13 Template:Flagicon Bikramjit Singh MF 17 Template:Flagicon Bidyananda Singh MF 25 Template:Flagicon Stephen Pearson MF 34 Template:Flagicon Abhinas Ruidas Manager: Template:Flagicon José Francisco Molina

Hero of the match Henrique Sereno (ATK) Emerging player of the match Lalrindika Ralte (ATK)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.