Karnataka boys to face Bengal in the final round of Sub Junior Nationals

Karnataka state team will take on hosts Bengal on Thursday in their final round campaign for the Hero Sub Junior National Football Championship to be held in Kalyani, West Bengal from Nov 20 to Dec 3. 

Karnataka is placed in Group 'B' along with Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Haryana. They play their next matches on Nov 23 against Maharashtra, Nov 25 against Haryana, and Nov 27 against Arunachal Pradesh. 

State boys had a great run in the south zone qualifying round played in Bengaluru earlier in September. 

Team 

Aditya V Kalasur (Captain), Goutam Rajesh (Vice Captain), Som Kumar (GK), Prateek Kashyap, Tanish Tammanna P, Aditya Yogesh, Soumil Kalra, Darin Marcel Christopher, V V Deeveshwar, Vinith V, Arnav Sharma, Arjun A G, Rahul D, Anant Singh, Adrian Dylan Edwin, Gurveer Singh Syan, Vidwath Veerendra Shetty, Rounak Mahapatra, Chandan Biju, A Chetan Reddy 

Saravana Dharman (Manager), E Mahendra Mani (Head Coach) K Sunil Kumar (Asst. Coach)

Karnataka qualify for the Sub-Junior National final round

Karnataka pulverized its opponent Tamil Nadu with a 8-1 win in the final group match of the South Zone qualifiers of Sub Junior National Football Championship at the Bangalore Football Stadium. 

Karnataka were leading 5-0 at the lemon break, got their goals through Chandan Biju-9’, 12’, 14', 65', Parikram Bora-23', 27', Rajat R-64’, Gautam Rajesh-90'+4’. Akil Jenson scored the lone goal for Tamil Nadu. 

With this win, Karnataka top Group A, and qualify for the final round of the Sub Junior National. Kerala have already qualified from group B.  

Karnataka thrash Andhra Pradesh 6-0

Hosts Karnataka got off to a flying start with a 6-0 win over Andhra Pradesh in the South Zone Qualifiers of Hero Sub Junior National Football Championship at the Bangalore Football Stadium today evening. 

Karnataka was leading 3-0 at the lemon break, got their goals through Gautam Rajesh-6’ Chandan Biju-23’, 75’, Rajat R-57’, and skipper Aditya Kalasur-72’ (Penalty). 

Karnataka started well and scored in the 6th minute when Rajesh made the most of the Andhra goalkeeper Piyush Singh who charged out and could not get back.

Biju scored the first of his two goals when he beat Singh with a fine shot. Midfielder Bora made it 3-0 on the half hour mark when his header brushed a rival defender and went in. With the 3-0 lead the hosts took the pedal off the gas and the play was confined mostly to the midfield.

Twelve minutes after restart, Rajat earned huge cheers from a large gathering when he struck from long range. 

Two more goals within 3 minutes, the first when Gurveer Singh was brought down by the Andhra keeper and skipper Kalasur concerted the resultant penalty in the 72nd minute. The second came when Chandan Biju finished scoring his brace and Karnataka completed their 6-0 rout. 

Karnataka play their final Group A fixture against Tamil Nadu on Saturday, September 7th. In tomorrow's game, Pondicherry take on Kerala in Group B. 

Bangalore to host Sub-junior South Zone qualifiers

The Karnataka State Football Association (KSFA) will be organizing the the qualifying rounds of the South Zone Sub Junior (Under-14) National Football championships 2019-20. All matches will be played at the Bangalore Football Stadium from September 3 to 8, 2019.

Six states are in the fray for the two slots to make the final rounds of the Inter-Zonal National Championships. The six teams have been divided into two groups. Group A has Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Group B consists of Puducherry, Kerala and Telangana.

Telangana and Kerala had qualified for the main tournament last year, both have been drawn in the same group this year. Karnataka was the winner of the Khelo India under-17 football tournament this year, narrowly failed to make the Sub Junior grade last year. 

Karnataka take on Andhra Pradesh in the opening tie which kicks-off at the Bangalore Football Stadium at 4.00 p.m. There will be one match every day alternately in both groups. 

Fixtures 

• Group A - Sept 3: Karnataka 6 (Gautam Rajesh-6’ Chandan Biju-23’, 75’, Rajat R-57’, and skipper Aditya Kalasur-72’ (Penalty)) vs Andhra Pradesh 0
• Group A - Sept 5: Andhra Pradesh 0 vs Tamil Nadu 5
• Group A - Sept 7: Tamil Nadu vs Karnataka 

• Group B - Sept 4: Puducherry 0 vs Kerala 14 
• Group B - Sept 6: Kerala 5 vs Telangana 1
• Group B - Sept 8: Telangana vs Puducherry

Sub-junior national qualifier: State boys lose to Telengana

Sub-junior (South Zone) National Qualifier - Karnataka ended their campaign rather prematurely after they were beaten by host Telengana yesterday. Playing the South Zone qualification at the Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad, Telengana recorded a 3-0 win. 

This loss thus concludes state boys run to emulate last year’s feat of qualifying to the final round. In their first match, Karnataka thrashed Pondicherry 6-0. Telengana move to the final round with two straight win, they defeated Pondicherry 6-1. In last year’s qualifier played at Ananthpur, Andhra Pradesh, our boys defeated Telengana 4-0.   

Meanwhile, from the other group, Kerala will take on Tamil Nadu today, which will decide the second team from South Zone. The topper team from both groups will be playing the final round.

Karnataka win the inaugural match of sub-junior national qualifier

Karnataka thrashed Pondicherry 6-0 in the inaugural match of the sub junior national (South Zone) 
qualifying round at the Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad today. 

State boys are grouped along with Pondicherry and host Telangana whereas thAuguse other group consists of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. Karnataka will play their next group match against Telangana on August 15. 

Rayaan Shakeer scored a brace for the state team - opened the account in the third minute of the game followed by another one in 78 minute. Konthoujan Binod Singh, Udit. G, and Pranav. B scored a goal each. 

Shreyas Ketkar to lead Karnataka in Sub-Junior Nationals

KSFA has announced a 22-squad Karnataka for Sub-Junior National Football South Zone qualifying round. Qualifiers will be played at Ananthpur, Andhra Pradesh from September 3 to September 8.  

Karnataka is placed in Group A along with Tamil Nadu and Telengana. Group B consists of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Pondicherry. Shreyas Ketkar student of DPS East will lead the state team.

Fixtures

03-09-17: Tamil Nadu Vs Telangana  
04-09-17: Kerala Vs Pondicherry 
05-09-17 Telangana 0 Vs Karnataka 4 (Godwin Johnson-28', Ankith-46', 75', Prabhakar-55') 
06-09-17 Pondicherry Vs Andhra Pradesh 
07-09-17 Karnataka 6 (Godwin Johnson-7', 66', Macarton Louis Nickson-48', Suman S Dev-60', Ankith P-66' 75') Vs Tamil Nadu 3 (Sanjay-29', Kishore-38', Suresh -78') 
08-09-17 Andhra Pradesh Vs Kerala 


Team

Adhithiyan S, Lakshya Subodh, Simion N (Mandya), Harsha H Venkatanarayana, Rahul Kumar Nehra, Ashish Beckham M, Sarath R, Alan Richard Tavares, Kunwar Paris Singh, Prabhakar J, Suman S Dev, Shreyas Ketkar (Captain), Alan Sanjay Xavier, Narhari Kripa M, Pranav Arun, Jai Ashya, Godwin Johnson (Vice Captain), Ankith P, Macarton Louis Nickson, Samikaran Mukhia, Naveen Kumar (Mysore), Gaurav R Chavan

Coach - P Muralidharan
Assistant Coach - SS Shahi
Manager - M Kumar 

Sub-Junior Nationals: State boys take on Tamil Nadu this Friday

The state u-14 team will kick-start their Sub-Junior National - South Zone qualifying campaign against Tamil Nadu at the Medical College Ground, Manjari, Calicut, Kerala. 

Five states from South are at fray, which will get started on Friday, December 12. Teams will be playing a round-robin format, where the top two teams from the group would meet again on December 22. 

The team is coached by Ravi Babu, former state footballer and lead by Arun Kumar from St. Joseph’s Indian High School.

• December 12, 2014: Karnataka 2 (Rudra, Arunkumar) Vs Tamil Nadu 1 (Mohammed Fazal) 
• December 12, 2014: Kerala 7 Vs Andhra Pradesh 0 
• December 14, 2014: Karnataka Vs Pondycherry
• December 14, 2014: Tamil Nadu Vs Andhra Pradesh 
• December 16, 2014: Karnataka Vs Andhra Pradesh 
• December 16, 2014: Kerala Vs Pondycherry
• December 18, 2014: Karnataka Vs Kerala 
• December 18, 2014: Tamil Nadu Vs Pondycherry
• December 20, 2014: Andhra Pradesh Vs Pondycherry 
• December 20, 2014: Tamil Nadu Vs Kerala 
• December 22, 2014: Group Winner Vs Group Runner-up  

Team

Samuel Jabaraj, Jeevan Kumar, Jason Sharath, Ved Devaiah, Advaith, Ajith K, Sasurya S, Gaurav Jhangiani, Abinash U, Manav Kapoor, Rudhra Ved Moola, Sachin, Vijay T, Vikas Balamurugan, Dhanush D, Denzil Karshandi, Monish G, Arun Kumar (Captain), Meldon D’Souza, S Pragadeesh 

Stand-bye: Tonoka Zhimomi, Steve Anthony. Nandakumar D, Lakkana Gowda, Sreyank H, Mohammed Junaid, Jayashankar C. 

Coach: Ravi Babu

Manager: Lois Nickson 

Technical Director: Ramudu