1st season of the I-League 3
Football league season
I-League 3 Season 2023–24 Dates 9 November – 30 December 2023[ 1] Champions Sporting Goa [ 2] [ 3] Promoted Sporting GoaDempo Sporting Bengaluru Matches played 60 Goals scored 182 (3.03 per match) Top goalscorer Arif Shaikh (5 goals)Biggest win Sporting Goa 10–0 New Friends Club (13 November) Highest scoring Sporting Goa 10–0 New Friends Club (13 November) Total attendance 18,580 Average attendance 309
The 2023–24 I-League 3 was the 1st season of the I-League 3 , and the national fourth tier of the Indian football league system . The top three clubs qualified for 2023–24 I-League 2 .[ 4] [ 5]
Clubs
On 22 August 2023, 15 clubs were nominated for the I-League 3rd Division by nine state FAs (Chhattisgarh , Delhi , Goa , Gujarat , Bengaluru , Madhya Pradesh , Punjab , Rajasthan , and Mumbai ).[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] Nominations from 10 other states (Manipur , Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu , Kerala , Pondicherry , Sikkim , Assam , Odisha , Telangana , and West Bengal ) were assessed after due diligence.[ 9]
Locations of
2023-24 I-League 3 Group stage clubs
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
^ a b c d The club qualified via a cup or knock-out tournament after the conclusion of the league stage
^ No state or district league conducted.
Venues
Changes from last season
Until the previous season, the AIFF allowed only state champions to feature in the qualifiers, but with the removal of the ISL reserve teams[ 10] and the creation of the I-League 3 from where teams would move to I-League 2 in the same season, state FAs were allowed to nominate a second team.[ 11]
Group stage
25 teams are divided into five groups of five each. Each team will play the teams in the same group in single-legged fixtures.
Group A
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
SPG
LKC
INT
ARA
NFC
1
Sporting Goa
4
3
1
0
13
0
+13
10
Advanced to Play-offs
2–0
2
Lake City (H)
4
2
2
0
10
4
+6
8
Relegated to State leagues
0–0
7–2
3
International
4
2
0
2
5
3
+2
6
0–1
1–2
4
ARA
4
1
1
2
7
4
+3
4
1–1
0–1
5
New Friends
4
0
0
4
2
26
−24
0
0–10
0–3
0–6
Group B
Group C
Group D
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
SCB
DHB
VAT
DUN
ABU
1
Sporting Bengaluru (H)
4
3
1
0
13
3
+10
10
Advanced to Play-offs
6–0
3–1
2
Diamond Harbour
4
3
1
0
8
2
+6
10
Relegated to State leagues
2–2
3–0
3
Vatika
4
2
0
2
5
7
−2
6
0–2
3–2
4
Doaba United
4
1
0
3
3
11
−8
3
0–2
0–2
3–1
5
Abbas Union
4
0
0
4
4
10
−6
0
0–1
Group E
Play-offs
Updated to match(es) played on 30 December 2023. Source:
[ 16] [ 17] (C) Champions;
(H) Hosts
Broadcast
Matches are broadcast by AIFF , SportsKPI SportsCast India on their official YouTube channels.[ 18] [ 19]
Statistics
30 December 2023
Top scorers
Bold indicates the player is currently active in the tournament.
Rank
Player
Club
Goals[ 20]
1
Arif Shaikh
Sporting Bengaluru
5
2
Khanngam Horam
Kickstart
4
Bijoy ghosh
KIYC
Lloyd Cardozo
Sporting Goa
5
14 Players
3
Clean sheets
Rank
Player
Club
Clean sheets
1
Bhaskar Jalmi
Sporting Goa
6
2
Wellyster Mendes
Dempo
4
3
Golmei Rongmei
KLASA
3
Susnata Malik
Diamond Harbour
5
Dylan D'Silva
Dempo
2
Banshanskhem Kharsyntiew
Rangdajied United
Kabir Toufik
Kickstart
Discipline
Player
Most yellow cards: 4
Dhiraj Chouhan
Most red cards: 1
Club
Most yellow cards: 18
Most red cards: 2
Attendances
Group Stage
Playoffs
Source: I-League
See also
References
Fourth tier league seasons (2023–present)
I-League 3
League competitions
First division Second division Third division Fourth division State leagues Youth
Cup competitions