| Competition: | CFL Premier Division |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Dates: | 25 June – 30 November |
| Winners: | Mohammedan (14th title) |
| Relegated: | West Bengal Police FC Calcutta FC |
| Matches: | 196 |
| Total Goals: | 579 |
| League Topscorer: | David Lalhlansanga (21) |
| Highest Scoring: | (26 September) (20 November) |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 12 matches (East Bengal) |
| Prevseason: | 2022 |
| Nextseason: | 2024 |
The 2023 CFL Premier Division is the 125th overall season of the Calcutta Football League - highest state-level football divisions of West Bengal. The 2023 edition saw two top tiers merged, with 26 teams participating in the tournament for the first time since its inception.[1]
The 2023 CFL Premier Division merged the top two tiers, Premier A and B, to form an expanded 26-team competition.[2] Two groups of thirteen teams were divided,with each team playing every other in the group once. The top three teams proceeded to the Super Six round, where they vied for the championship with the points from group stage being carried over.[3] Each group's bottom four teams enter the relegation round.[1] [4] As per the rules set by AIFF, this year, no foreign players will be participating in the league. [5]
The 26 teams were divided into two groups based on a draw held on 5 June 2023.[1] [6] [7]
| Group A | Group B | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Head coach | Captain | Team | Head coach | Captain |
| Army Red | L Antony Ramesh | Suresh Meitei | Aryan | Rajdeep Nandy | Laltu Mondal |
| Calcutta FC | Jamshid Nassiri | Surojit Das | Bhawanipore | Ranjan Chaudhuri | Jiten Murmu |
| Dalhousie AC | Mridul Banerjee | Karan Gomes | BSS | Subrata Biswas | Surajit Seal |
| Diamond Harbour FC | Kibu Vicuna | Abhishek Das | Calcutta Customs | Biswajit Bhattacharya | Amit Chakraborty |
| FCI (East Zone) | Arun Saha | Dhananjoy Adhikari | East Bengal | Bino George | Subhendu Mandi |
| Kalighat MS | Patam Bahadur Thapa | Madan Mandi | Eastern Railway | Prasanta Chakraborty | Sumit Orao |
| Mohammedan Sporting | Mehrajuddin Wadoo | Samad Ali Mallick | George Telegraph | Goutam Ghosh | Sourish Lodh Chowdhury |
| Mohun Bagan SG |  Bastab Roy | Sumit Rathi | Kidderpore | Sayantan Das Roy | Gurmeet Singh |
| Pathachakra | Rajarshi Ghosh | Ankan Bhattacharjee | Police AC | Supriya Dasgupta | Suraj Bahadur Gurung |
| Peerless | Hemanta Dora[8] | Amit Tudu | Railway | Kaushik Paul | Monish Majumder |
| Southern Samity | Ranjan Bhattacharjee | Debayan Hazra | Rainbow | Aditya Chatterjee | Debayan Saha |
| Tollygunge Agragami | Arindam Deb | Sujoy Mondal | Wari | Micky Fernandes | Swarup Sarkar |
| United |  Steven Herbots | Sanjib Mondal | West Bengal Police FC | Ashok Chakraborty | Subrata Biswas |
The top three teams from both groups qualified for the Super Six round with the points from group stage being carried over.[9]
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Lalhlansanga | Mohammedan SC | 21 |
| 2 | Rahul Paswan | Diamond Harbour FC | 12 |
| Sahil Harijan | Pathachakra | ||
| 4 | Sagar Kumar Khamaru | Eastern Railway | 9 |
| 5 | Suhail Ahmad Bhat | Mohun Bagan SG | 8 |
| Bhawanipore | |||
| 7 | Muhammed Ashiq Shoukathali | Kidderpore | 7 |
| 8 | Anubrata Maity | Pathachakra | 6 |
| Dipesh Murmu | United | ||
| Mandeep Singh Multani | Wari | ||
| Liton Shil | Army Red | ||
| East Bengal FC | |||
| East Bengal FC | |||
| Achinta Ghosh | Aryan FC | ||
| Vishnu P.V. | East Bengal FC |
Note: In the result, the score of the player's team is mentioned before.
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saikat Sarkar | Aryan | Police AC | 4–1 | ||
| David Lalhlansanga | Mohammedan SC | Calcutta FC | 7–0 | ||
| Beneston Piecton Barretto | Mohammedan SC | Calcutta FC | 7–0 | ||
| Lalrinliana Hnamte | Mohun Bagan SG | Tollygunge Agragami | 5–1 | ||
| Suhail Ahmad Bhat | Mohun Bagan SG | Dalhousie | 5–2 | ||
| Dipesh Murmu | United | Calcutta FC | 8–0 | ||
| Liton Shil | Army Red | Southern Samity | 3–2 | ||
| Md Amirul | Aryan | Kidderpore SC | 4–0 | ||
| East Bengal | George Telegraph SC | 4–0 | |||
| Vishnu PV | East Bengal | Kidderpore SC | 10–1 | ||
| Mahitosh Roy | East Bengal | Kidderpore SC | 10–1 |