| Competition: | CFL Premier Division |
| Season: | 2022 |
| Winners: | Mohammedan[1] (Division A) (13th title) Kalighat MS (Division B) |
| Matches: | 121 |
| Total Goals: | 300 |
| Prevseason: | 2021 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2022 Calcutta Football League Premier Division was the 124th overall season of the two highest state-level football divisions of West Bengal.[2] The division consists of two tiers within it: Premier Division A and Premier Division B.
| Competition: | CFL Premier Division A |
| Season: | 2022 |
| Dates: | 2 August – 1 November |
| Winners: | Mohammedan (13th title) |
| Relegated: | Tollygunge Agragami Southern Samity |
| Matches: | 65 |
| Total Goals: | 176 |
| League Topscorer: | Naro Hari Shrestha (9 goals) |
| Highest Scoring: | United 5–3 Tollygunge Agragami Bhawanipore 6-2 George Telegraph |
| Biggest Win: | United 5–1 Peerless Bhawanipore 6-2 George Telegraph |
| Longest Wins: | United Kidderpore (5 games) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Kidderpore (9 games) |
| Longest Winless: | Tollygunge Agragami (10 games) |
| Longest Losses: | Tollygunge Agragami (4 games) |
| Prevseason: | 2021 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The first stage of the Premier Division A has been held from 2 August till September.[3] [4] Mohammedan are the defending champions of Premier Division A.
The round-robin format had been reinstated after a short season of round-robin cum knock-out format last year due to COVID-19 pandemic, but the league has been divided into two stages so as to accommodate the Kolkata's Big Three–ATK Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan–according to national and continental games schedule.[5] The first stage is played by eleven teams, out of which the top three in the points table would qualify for the Super Six, wherein the three teams would be joined by the Big Three and the top team in the table at the end of the stage would be declared as the CFL Premier Division A champion.
| Team | Head coach | |
|---|---|---|
| Aryan | Rajdeep Nandy | |
| Bhawanipore |  Sankarlal Chakraborty | |
| BSS | Hemanta Dora | |
| Calcutta Customs | Biswajit Bhattacharya | |
| East Bengal | Bino George | |
| George Telegraph | Ranjan Bhattacharjee | |
| Kidderpore | Sanjib Pal | |
| Mohammedan |  Andrey Chernyshov | |
| Tollygunge Agragami | Bimal Ghosh | |
| Peerless | Soren Dutta[6] | |
| Railway | Archisman Biswas | |
| Southern Samity | Saheed Ramon | |
| United |  Steven Herbots |
| scope=col style="width:150px;" | Club | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Player 1 | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Player 2 | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Player 3 | scope=col style="width:150px;" | Player 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Aryan |  Marouane Kemgang | Aristide Vaillant | Rayden Ewane | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Bhawanipore | Willis Plaza |  Gnohere Krizo |  Echezona Anyichie | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | BSS |  Kwesi Sesey | Michael Sefah | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Calcutta Customs | Zacharie Mbenda | Edmond Peprah | Richmond Olushola Awaitey | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | East Bengal | ||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | George Telegraph |  Matías Verón |  Abdoulaye Kanouté |  Varney Kallon | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Kidderpore | Adama Coulibaly |  Dixon Alusine | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Mohammedan | Marcus Joseph | Abiola Dauda | Ousmane N'Diaye |  Nuriddin Davronov | ||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Peerless | Henry Ezeh | Ben Quansah | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Railway | Shadrach Lantei-Mills | Eddie Wulue | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Southern Samity |  Douglas Santana |  Habib Kavuma | Hamdan Nsubuga | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | Tollygunge Agragami | Ansumana Kromah | Christopher Chizoba | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align: left;" | United | Davis Kamanga |  Selia Toure | Samuel Toure |
ATK Mohun Bagan withdrew from the league, for the second time in a row, two days prior to their first game on 26 September against Bhawanipore.[7] They sent a letter to IFA, citing their lack of a reserve squad. IFA decided to continue Super Six with only five teams instead of promoting the fourth-placed team in the first stage.
As of 30 September 2022
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naro Hari Shrestha | Calcutta Customs | 9 |
| 2 | Aristide Vaillant | Aryan | 7 |
| 3 | Jiten Murmu | Bhawanipore | 6 |
| Gnohere Krizo | Bhawanipore | ||
| 4 | Ansumana Kromah | Tollygunge Agragami | 5 |
| Chabala | Railway | ||
| Robi Hansda | Calcutta Customs | ||
| Juma Balinya | Peerless | ||
| Nikhil Kadam | Bhawanipore | ||
| 5 | Willis Plaza | Bhawanipore | 4 |
| Marcus Joseph | Mohammedan | ||
| Davis Kamanga | United | ||
| Kwesi Sesey | BSS | ||
| Sougata Hansda | George Telegraph |
Note: In the result, the score of the player's team is mentioned before.
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Kamanga | United | Peerless | 5–1 | ||
| Subrata Murmu | United | Tollygunge Agragami | 5–3 | ||
| Ansumana Kromah | Tollygunge Agragami | United | 3–5 | ||
| Jiten Murmu | Bhawanipore | George Telegraph | 6–2 | ||
| Nikhil Kadam | Bhawanipore | Kidderpore | 4–1 |
| Competition: | CFL Premier Division B |
| Season: | 2022 |
| Dates: | 2 August – 29 September[8] |
| Winners: | Kalighat MS |
| Promoted: | Kalighat MS Asos Rainbow |
| Relegated: | Wari West Bengal Police |
| Matches: | 56 |
| Total Goals: | 124 |
| Biggest Win: | Pathachakra 5–0 West Bengal Police |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
This year the league followed the double round-robin format after a gap of two years due to COVID-19 pandemic. Kalighat MS and Asos Rainbow were relegated from the Premier Division A last time it was held, while Wari and Police AC were promoted from the CFL 1st Division.