2011 Indian Super Cup Explained

2011 Indian Super Cup
Event:	2011 Indian Super Cup
Team1:	Salgaocar
Team1score:	0
Team2:	East Bengal
Team2score:	0
Details:	East Bengal won 9–8 on penalties
Date:	18 October 2011
Stadium:	Ambedkar Stadium
City:	New Delhi
Referee:	Pratap Singh
Attendance:	5,000
Previous:	2010

The 2011 Indian Super Cup was the 10th Indian Super Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's I-League and Federation Cup competitions. The match was between Salgaocar and East Bengal with East Bengal winning 9–8 on penalties. The match played at Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi, on 18 October 2011.^[1]

Background

This was Salgaocar's third time playing in this match (they won the first two times) and fifth for East Bengal (they won it two times as well).

Match details

SALGAOCAR: GK 1 RB 20 Luciano Sabrosa (c) CB 6 CB 2 Jaspal Singh LB 7 CM 25 Rocus Lamare CM 15 CM 30 Francis Fernandes RW 14 LW 10 Chidi Edeh CF 11 Ryuji Sueoka Substitutes: DF 5 DF 23 Manager: Karim Bencherifa

EAST BENGAL: GK 30 RB 33 CB 5 Uga Samuel Okpara (c) CB 3 Nirmal Chettri LB 17 RM 13 CM 7 Sushanth Mathew CM 18 LM 11 SS 23 Robin Singh CF 15 Substitutes: FW 20 MF 22 DF 19 Manager: Trevor Morgan

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MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: MAN OF THE MATCH Unknown

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MATCH RULES 90 minutes. Penalty shootout if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Indian Super Cup . aiff . 22 September 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110925102945/http://www.the-aiff.com/pages/news/index.php?N_Id=2748 . 2011-09-25 . dead .