2025 26 Bengaluru FC season

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The 2025–26 season is Bengaluru FC's 13th season as a professional football club since its establishment in 2013 and 8th season in the Indian Super League. It runs from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026 with participation in the Indian Super League and Super Cup.

Owing to the major administrative and financial crisis in Indian football that arose from a dispute between All India Football Federation (AIFF) and Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), Bengaluru did not participate in the 2025 Durand Cup. The crisis further pushed the club to halting their pre-season activities, temporary suspension of first team players and staff in August 2025.[1]

The Blues eventually resumed operations later in the year when a resolution was reached to start the Indian football season in late 2025 with participation in the 2025–26 AIFF Super Cup, where they finished second in the Group stage, missing out on knockout stage after going down to Punjab FC in a penalty shootout played to decide the Group's winner.

On 14 November 2025, head coach Gerard Zaragoza parted ways with the club. He was replaced by former India international Renedy Singh, who was appointed as the full-time head coach on 21 January 2026 to lead the team into the upcoming ISL season.[2] To ensure the club's survival amid the ongoing financial crisis in Indian football, senior players including captain Sunil Chhetri agreed to significant pay cuts in February 2026. This "sacrifice" allowed the club to navigate a season with limited matchday revenue and a truncated league format.[3]

Background

After a disappointing campaign in the 2023–24 season, positive changes in the squad led the Blues to a significantly stronger 2024–25 season. Their resurgence saw them reach semi-finals in the Durand Cup, secure a third-place finish in the Super League standings and ultimately finish as runners-up in the Super League play-offs. However, they eventually fell short of any silverware after an early exit in the Super Cup in the round-of-16.

Owing to uncertainty in the future of Super League and administrative crisis in Indian football, the club cleared out high-earning foreign players and some veteran domestic names to rebuild under a "leaner" model to enable them to navigate the crisis. The club began its transfer window in June by signing extensions.

Forward Shivaldo Singh penned a new three-year deal that extended his contract until the end of 2027–28 season.[4] Following his suite were Monirul Molla and Sahil Poonia who signed extensions for the same period.[5] Among foreign players, Spaniard Édgar Méndez had signed a one-year extension,[6] however, the crisis led uncertain future of the league meant the club parting ways the player in August.[7] On 4 August 2025, Bengaluru had put out a statement on the suspension of first team players' and staff's salaries,[8] before reinstating on 13th September.[9]

In October, Moroccan defender Salaheddine Bahi was announced as the first signing of the season.[10] Two days later, Ashique Kuruniyan who had left for Mohun Bagan Super Giant in 2022, was announced to rejoin the Blues in a long-term deal of four years.[11][12] To strengthen the midfield after the departure of Alberto Noguera, Bengaluru announced the addition of Braian Sanchez.[13]

2024–25 I-League Golden Glove winner Jaspreet Singh was also announced as a new addition to the squad's goalkeeping prowess.[14] To further reduce the vacuum created in the midfield with departures of key players, Bengaluru added Uzbeki midfielder Sirojiddin Kuziev.[15] Lastly, Ryan Williams was also handed an extension shunning the rumours which hinted at a move to Mohun Bagan.[16] Halicharan Narzary was the only player to be loaned out to Diamond Harbour FC for an unknown period on 27 July 2025.[17]

On 5 June 2025, the club published its sustainability report of 2024–25 season where it recycled Template:Cvt of waste and thus avoided Template:Cvt CO2 emissions.[18] Former Bengaluru FC players Rino Anto and Shankar Sampingiraj decided to call an end to their careers, on the occasion the club wished them the best.[19][20] On 20 July 2025, the club and its supporters celebrated the 12th anniversary of the club's foundation.[21]

Transfers in

No. Position Player Previous club Date Fee Ref
21 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Salaheddine Bahi ‡ Template:Flagicon Hassania Agadir 1 October 2025 Free [10]
13 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Jaspreet Singh Template:Flagicon Namdhari FC 9 October 2025 [14]
10 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Braian Sanchez Template:Flagicon Deportivo Riestra 7 October 2025 [13]
22 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Ashique Kuruniyan Template:Flagicon Mohun Bagan Super Giant 3 October 2025 [11]
6 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Sirojiddin Kuziev Without a club 13 October 2025 [15]
Total transfers in 5
‡ Left in January transfer window.
No. Position Player Previous club Promotion Fee Ref
Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Aheibam Suraj Singh Template:Flagicon Bengaluru B 1 February 2026 Internal transfer
(Youth system) 		[22]
26 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Harsh Palande
18 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Haobam Ricky Meetei
66 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Takhellambam Bungson Singh
38 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Ningthoukhongjam Rishi Singh
Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Mohammed Arbash
9 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Wornilen Serto Kom
Total promotions 6

Transfers out

No. Position Player Outgoing club Date Fee Ref
17 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Edgar Mendez Template:Flagicon PT Prachuap F.C. June 2025 Free [6]
30 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Jorge Pereyra Díaz Template:Flagicon Mumbai City FC June 2025 [6]
10 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Alberto Noguera Template:Flagicon Chennaiyin FC 28 January 2026 [23]
6 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Harsh Patre Template:Flagicon FC Goa 17 July 2025 [24]
6 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Rohit Danu Template:Flagicon Inter Kashi FC 31 January 2026 [25]
2 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Aleksander Jovanovic Retired 31 May 2025 [26]
18 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Pedro Capo Template:Flagicon CF Talavera de la Reina June 2025 [27][28]
21 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Salaheddine Bahi Template:Flagicon RCA Zemamra January 2026 [29][30][31]
Total transfers out 8

Loans out

No. Position Player Outgoing club Date Fee Duration Ref
19 Template:Sort Template:Flagicon Halicharan Narzary Template:Flagicon Diamond Harbour FC 27 July 2025 Undisclosed One season [17]

Overview

Competitions

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Personnel

Role Name Refs.
Head coach Template:Flagicon Pep Muñoz [32]
Assistant coach Template:TBA
Goalkeeping coach Template:Flagicon Muhammed Rashid Nalakath
Strength and conditioning coach {Template:TBA
Team analyst Template:Flagicon Prateek Chopra [33]
Reserves coach Template:Flagicon Renedy Singh [34]
Academy head coach Template:Flagicon Sandesh Bhoite [35]
Head Physio Template:Flagicon Naved Hameed [36]
Assistant physio Template:Flagicon Sanket Thakar [37]
Masseur {Template:TBA
Total staff 7

Players under contract

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No. Name Nationality Position Date of Birth (Age) Since Until Picked for Super Cup[38] Picked for ISL
Goalkeepers
1 Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Template:Flagicon GK Template:Birth date and age2 2017 2028 Template:Yes Template:Yes
13 Jaspreet Singh Template:Flagicon GK Template:Birth date and age2 2025 Template:No Template:Yes
28 Lalthuammawia Ralte Template:Flagicon GK Template:Birth date and age2 2024 2025 Template:Yes Template:Yes
30 Sahil Poonia Template:Flagicon GK Template:Birth date and age2 2023 2026 Template:Yes Template:Yes
Aheibam Suraj Singh Template:Flagicon GK Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2028 Template:No Template:Yes
Defenders
2 Rahul Bheke Template:Flagicon RB Template:Birth date and age2 2024 2026 Template:Yes Template:Yes
4 Chinglensana Singh Template:Flagicon CB Template:Birth date and age2 2024 2029 Template:Yes Template:Yes
12 Mohamed Salah Template:Flagicon RB Template:Birth date and age2 2024 2025 Template:No Template:Yes
18 Haobam Ricky Meetei Template:Flagicon RB Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2027 Template:No Template:Yes
21 Salaheddine Bahi ‡ Template:Flagicon CB Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2026 Template:Yes Template:N/a
25 Namgyal Bhutia Template:Flagicon RB Template:Birth date and age2 2020 2026 Template:Yes Template:Yes
26 Harsh Palande Template:Flagicon CB Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2029 Template:No Template:Yes
27 Nikhil Poojary Template:Flagicon RB Template:Birth date and age2 2024 2028 Template:Yes Template:Yes
32 Roshan Singh Template:Flagicon LB Template:Birth date and age2 2020 2029 Template:Yes Template:Yes
66 Takhellambam Bungson Singh Template:Flagicon CB Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2028 Template:No Template:Yes
Midfielders
6 Sirojiddin Kuziev Template:Flagicon CM Template:Birth date and age2 2025 Template:Yes Template:Yes
8 Suresh Singh Template:Flagicon DM Template:Birth date and age2 2019 2028 Template:Yes Template:Yes
10 Braian Sánchez Template:Flagicon DM Template:Birth date and age2 2025 Template:Yes Template:Yes
14 Soham Varshneya Template:Flagicon MF Template:Birth date and age2 2024 2027 Template:No Template:Yes
23 Lalremtluanga Fanai Template:Flagicon DM Template:Birth date and age2 2020 2028 Template:Yes Template:Yes
31 Vinith Venkatesh Template:Flagicon CM Template:Birth date and age2 2022 2028 Template:Yes Template:Yes
38 Ningthoukhongjam Rishi Singh Template:Flagicon MF Template:Birth date and age2 2025 Template:No Template:Yes
51 Shivaldo Singh Template:Flagicon RM Template:Birth date and age2 2023 2026 Template:Yes Template:Yes
Mohammed Arbash Template:Flagicon CM Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2027 Template:No Template:Yes
Forwards
7 Ryan Williams Template:Flagicon RW Template:Birth date and age2 2023 Template:Yes Template:Yes
9 Serto Worneilen Kom Template:Flagicon CF Template:Birth date and age2 2025 Template:No Template:Yes
11 Sunil Chhetri Template:Flagicon CF Template:Birth date and age2 2013 2026 Template:Yes Template:Yes
17 Monirul Molla Template:Flagicon CF Template:Birth date and age2 2023 2026 Template:Yes Template:Yes
19 Halicharan Narzary† Template:Flagicon LW Template:Birth date and age2 2023 2026 Template:N/a Template:N/a
22 Ashique Kuruniyan Template:Flagicon LW Template:Birth date and age2 2025 2029 Template:Yes Template:Yes
37 Kelvin Singh Taorem Template:Flagicon FW Template:Birth date and age2 2024 Template:Yes Template:Yes
39 Sivasakthi Narayanan Template:Flagicon CF Template:Birth date and age2 2021 Template:Yes Template:Yes
† Loaned out.
‡ Left in January transfer window

Pre-season

Despite the crisis, the club began its pre-season in September. The team's Masseur, Manu Prasad, who was part of the staff since 2017–18 season left the club to his hometown for personal reasons. The Blues had to continue without Prasad, who was referred to as a beloved member of the squad and his hands as "God's gifted" by Sunil Chhetri himself.[39] On 17 September, the Blues arrived in Bengaluru to begin their pre-season training campaign at the newly constructed and India's first hybrid training pitch, located in Yelahanka.[40][41]

On 2 October 2025, sprinter Usain Bolt joined the club owner Parth Jindal along with some of the first team players in a five-a-side friendly against Mumbai City, organised by Puma.[42][43] Amidst uncertainty of the league's resumption, Bengaluru FC did not host their traditional pre-season open training session.

Friendlies

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Super Cup (October)

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Group C

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Super League

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Summary

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Result summary

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Results by round

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League matches

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Accolades

Template:Further On 30 October 2025, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu became the third player after Sunil Chhetri and Udanta Singh to make 200th appearance for Bengaluru. It came against Mohammedan SC at the Super Cup where he managed to keep a clean-sheet throughout the three games played at the tournament.[44] On 15 February 2026, at 41 years and 196 days, Sunil Chhetri became the oldest goalscorer in the Indian Super League's history, overtaking Robert Pires who scored for FC Goa during the 2014 season, aged 42 years and 15 days.[45]

Player of the match awards

Rank Player ISL SC Total
1 Template:Flagicon Ryan Williams 1 1 2
2 Template:Flagicon Kelvin Singh 0 1 1
3 Template:Flagicon Nikhil Poojary 1 0 1
Template:Flagicon Ashique Kuruniyan 1 0 1
Template:Flagicon Namgyal Bhutia 1 0 1
Template:Flagicon Chinglensana Singh 1 0 1
Totals 5 2 7

Updated: 25 April 2026

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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|- ! colspan=12 style="background:#2545A0; color:#FFFFFF; ; text-align:center| Midfielders |- Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player |- ! colspan=12 style="background:#2545A0; color:#FFFFFF; ; text-align:center| Forwards |- Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player Template:Efs player |- Template:Efs end

Updated: 25 April 2026

Goal scorers

Template:Abbr Template:Abbr Template:Abbr Template:Tooltip Player ISL SC Total
1 11 CF Template:Flagicon Sunil Chhetri 2 2 4
7 RW Template:Flagicon Ryan Williams 2 2 4
3 10 AM Template:Flagicon Braian Sánchez 3 0 3
22 LW Template:Flagicon Ashique Kuruniyan 3 0 3
5 37 RW Template:Flagicon Kelvin Singh 0 1 1
31 CM Template:Flagicon Vinith Venkatesh 0 1 1
38 CF Template:Flagicon Sivasakthi Narayanan 1 0 1
25 RB Template:Flagicon Namgyal Bhutia 1 0 1
8 DM Template:Flagicon Suresh Singh 1 0 1
Own goals 1 0 1
Totals 14 6 20

Updated: 25 April 2026

Clean sheets

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1 1 GK Template:Flagicon Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 3 3 6
Totals 3 3 6

Updated: 25 April 2026

Disciplinary record

Template:Abbr Template:Abbr Template:Abbr Template:Tooltip Player ISL SC Total Points Notes
Template:Fb yellow card Template:Fb second yellow card Template:Fb red card Template:Fb yellow card Template:Fb second yellow card Template:Fb red card Template:Fb yellow card Template:Fb second yellow card Template:Fb red card
1 10 AM Template:Flagicon Braian Sánchez 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 3 Red card against Kerala Blasters was revoked and converted to a yellow.[46]
6 CM Template:Flagicon Sirojiddin Kuziev 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 rowspan="11" Template:N/a
4 CB Template:Flagicon Chinglensana Singh 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3
23 DM Template:Flagicon Lalremtluanga Fanai 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 3
7 RW Template:Flagicon Ryan Williams 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
32 LB Template:Flagicon Roshan Singh 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
7 29 RW Template:Flagicon Shivaldo Singh 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
28 MF Template:Flagicon Rishi Singh 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
18 RB Template:Flagicon Ricky Meetei 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
1 GK Template:Flagicon Gurpreet Singh 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
2 RB Template:Flagicon Rahul Bheke 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
14 MF Template:Flagicon Soham Varshneya 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Totals 17 0 0 7 0 0 24 0 0 24 Template:N/a

Disciplinary points: yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points.
Updated: 25 April 2026

See also

Notes

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References

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