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2023–24 Bengaluru FC season

Bengaluru FC
2023–24 season
ChairmanIndia Parth Jindal[1]
ManagerEngland Simon Grayson (until 8 December)[2]
Spain Gerard Zaragoza (from 14 December)[3]
StadiumSree Kanteerava Stadium
Indian Super League10th
Super CupGroup Stage
Durand CupGroup Stage
Top goalscorerLeague: Javi Hernandez (5 goal)
All: Javi Hernandez (6 goal)
Highest home attendance27,923
Lowest home attendance2,923
Average home league attendance7,954
Biggest defeat4-0
All statistics correct as of 14 August 2023.

The 2023–24 season is Bengaluru FC's eleventh season as a club since its establishment in 2013.[4] The season for the Blues kicked off with title defending task at the 2023 Durand Cup.[5]

Background

In the previous season, the squad of Bengaluru was yet again overhauled with Englishman Simon Grayson at the helm accompanied by several fresh signings.[6] The freshly built squad went on to lift the 2022 Durand Cup, which was the club's maiden Durand Cup title.[7] This also made Simon Grayson the fastest Bengaluru head coach to win a title, which took him only 102 days, beating the record of Carles Cuadrat who took 259 days. They would go on to finish as runners-up in the previous season of ISL and in the Super Cup.

Transfers in

No. Position Player Previous club Date Fee Ref
30 GK India Sahil Poonia India Zinc FA 1 June 2023 Free [8]
19 FW India Halicharan Narzary India Hyderabad 14 June 2023 [9]
33 GK India Vikram Lakhbir Singh India Aizawl 21 June 2023 [10]
23 DF Montenegro Slavko Damjanović India Mohun Bagan 28 June 2023 [11]
24 FW India Rohit Danu India Hyderabad 7 July 2023 [12]
35 FW India Salam Johnson Singh India TRAU 10 July 2023 [13]
9 FW England Curtis Main Scotland St Mirren 18 July 2023 [14]
14 DF India Jessel Carneiro India Kerala Blasters 25 July 2023 [15]
16 MF India Shankar Sampingiraj India Punjab 25 July 2023 [15]
7 MF Australia Ryan Williams Australia Perth Glory 28 July 2023 [16]
6 MF Netherlands Keziah Veendorp Netherlands Emmen 5 August 2023 [17]
DF India

Chinglensana Singh Konsham

India Hyderabad FC 30 January 2024
DF India

Nikhil Poojary

India Hyderabad FC 1 February 2024

Promoted from youth system

No. Position Player Previous club Date Fee Ref
44 DF India Robin Yadav India Bengaluru B 1 June 2023 Internal transfer
(Youth system)
[18]
38 FW India Ankith Padmanabhan 1 August 2023
49 MF India Harsh Patre 31 August 2023 [19]
51 DF India Chingambam Shivaldo Singh 1 December 2023
41 FW India Monirul Molla 1 June 2023

Squad

First-team squad

As of 6 October 2023[20][21]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK India IND Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
2 DF India IND Parag Shrivas
4 DF Australia AUS Aleksandar Jovanović
6 MF Netherlands NED Keziah Veendorp
7 FW Australia AUS Ryan Williams
8 MF India IND Suresh Singh Wangjam
9 FW England ENG Curtis Main
10 MF Spain ESP Javi Hernández
11 FW India IND Sunil Chhetri (captain)
13 GK India IND Amrit Gope
14 DF India IND Jessel Carneiro
16 DF India IND Shankar Sampingiraj
18 MF India IND Rohit Kumar
19 FW India IND Halicharan Narzary
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF Montenegro MNE Slavko Damjanović
24 MF India IND Rohit Danu
25 DF India IND Namgyal Bhutia
29 FW India IND Ashish Jha
30 GK India IND Sahil Poonia
32 MF India IND Naorem Roshan Singh
33 GK India IND Vikram Lahkbir Singh
38 FW India IND Ankith Padmanabhan
39 FW India IND Sivasakthi Narayanan
41 FW India IND Monirul Molla
44 DF India IND Robin Yadav
45 MF India IND Lalremtluanga Fanai
46 MF India IND Shreyas Ketkar
49 MF India IND Harsh Patre

Competitions

Indian Super League

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
8 Punjab 22 6 6 10 28 35 −7 24[a]
9 East Bengal 22 6 6 10 27 29 −2 24[a] ACL 2 preliminary stage[b]
10 Bengaluru 22 5 7 10 20 34 −14 22
11 Jamshedpur 22 5 6 11 27 32 −5 21
12 Hyderabad 22 1 5 16 10 43 −33 8
Source: Indian Super League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Punjab 4, East Bengal 1.
  2. ^ East Bengal qualified for the AFC Champions League Two preliminary stage by winning the 2024 Super Cup.[22]

League stage

Matches

Note: FSDL and the Indian Super League announced the fixtures for the first half of the season on 7 September with the remaining fixtures to be released on late 2023.[23][24]

21 September 2023 (2023-09-21) 1 Kerala Blasters 2–1 Bengaluru Kochi
20:00 IST
Report
Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Attendance: 34,911
Referee: Rahul Gupta
Man of the Match: Adrián Luna (Kerala Blasters)
27 September 2023 (2023-09-27) 2 Mohun Bagan SG 1–0 Bengaluru Kolkata
20:00 IST Hugo Boumous 68' Report Stadium: Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan
Attendance: 29,552
Referee: Haris Kundu
Man of the Match: Hugo Boumous (Mohun Bagan)
4 October 2023 (2023-10-04) 3 Bengaluru 2–1 East Bengal FC Bengaluru
20:00 IST
Report
Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium
Attendance: 5,913
Referee: Senthil Nathan
Man of the Match: Ryan Williams (Bengaluru)
25 October 2023 (2023-10-25) 4 Bengaluru 0–0 Goa Bengaluru
20:00 IST Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium
31 October 2023 (2023-10-31) 5 Odisha 3–2 Bengaluru Bhubaneswar
20:00 IST Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
4 November 2023 (2023-11-04) 6 Hyderabad 1–1 Bengaluru Hyderabad
20:00 IST Stadium: GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium
26 November 2023 (2023-11-26) 7 NorthEast United 1–1 Bengaluru Guwahati
20:00 IST
Stadium: Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium
30 November 2023 (2023-11-30) 8 Bengaluru 3–3 Punjab Bengaluru
20:00 IST
Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium
8 December 2023 (2023-12-08) 9 Bengaluru 0–4 Mumbai City Bengaluru
20:00 IST Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium
13 December 2023 (2023-12-13) 10 Chennaiyin 2–0 Bengaluru Chennai
20:00 IST
Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
16 December 2023 (2023-12-16) 11 Bengaluru 1–0 Jamshedpur Bengaluru
17:30 IST
Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium
24 December 2023 (2023-12-24) 12 Bengaluru 1-1 NorthEast United Bengaluru
17:30 IST Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium

Durand Cup

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification GOK BEN KER IAF
1 Gokulam Kerala 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 6 Qualify for the knockout stage 2–0
2 Bengaluru 3 1 2 0 5 3 +2 5 2–0 2–2 1–1
3 Kerala Blasters 3 1 1 1 10 6 +4 4 3–4 5–0
4 Indian Air Force 3 0 1 2 1 8 −7 1
Source: Twitter
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Matches

14 August 2023 (2023-08-14) 1 Bengaluru 1–1 Indian Air Force Kolkata
18.00 IST
  • S. Johnson Singh 58'
Report
  • V. Kumar 20'
Stadium: Kishore Bharati Krirangan
Man of the Match: Vivek Kumar (Indian Air Force)
18 August 2023 (2023-08-18) 2 Bengaluru 2–2 Kerala Blasters Kolkata
18.00 IST
Report
  • J. Emmanuel 14'
  • Ruivah Yellow card 42' Yellow-red card 85'
  • M. Aimen 84'
Stadium: Kishore Bharati Krirangan
Man of the Match: Bekey Oram (Bengaluru)
22 August 2023 (2023-08-22) 3 Bengaluru 2–0 Gokulam Kerala Kolkata
18.00 IST
  • R. Yadav 58'
  • Lalpekhlua 89'
Report Stadium: Kishore Bharati Krirangan
Man of the Match: Robin Yadav (Bengaluru)

Statistics

Goal scorers

Rank No. Pos Nat Player ISL DC SC Total
1 10 MF Spain Javi Hernández 3 0 0 3
11 FW India Sunil Chhetri 3 0 0 3
2 7 FW Australia Ryan Williams 2 0 0 2
9 FW England Curtis Main 2 0 0 2
5 49 MF India Harsh Patre 1 0 0 1
Own goals 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 11 0 0 11

Updated: 30 November 2023

See also

References

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