Wikipedia - Santosh Trophy

The National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy, due to ties with FIFA (from 2024–25), also known as the FIFA Santosh Trophy, or simply Santosh Trophy, is an inter-state national football competition contested by the state associations and government institutions under the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the sport's governing body in India. Before the launch of the first national club league, the National Football League in 1996, the Santosh Trophy was considered the top domestic tournament in India. Many players who have represented India internationally have played and gained honour while playing in the Santosh Trophy. The tournament is held every year with eligible teams who are divided into zones, must play in the qualifying round and can progress into the tournament proper. The current champions are Karnataka, who won their title after 54 years during the 2022–23 edition. This was the first trophy for Karnataka, which had previously won four times as the princely state of Mysore, after 1968-69.

The tournament was started in 1941 by the Indian Football Association (IFA), which was the then de facto governing body of football in India. It was named after the former president of the IFA, Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhury, the Maharaja of Santosh who had died aged 61 in 1939. The IFA later donated the Santosh Trophy to the AIFF, soon after its formation as the sport's official governing body in India, and since then AIFF has been organising the tournament. The trophy for the runner-up, Kamala Gupta Trophy, was also donated by the then president of IFA, Dr. S.K. Gupta, and it was named in honour of his wife. The third-place trophy, Sampangi Cup, was donated by the Karnataka State Football Association (then Mysore Football Association) and was named so in the memory of a renowned footballer, Sampangi, who was from Mysore. Until 2018, the tournament was organised as an individual competition, but since 2021, the AIFF rebranded it as the men's senior tier of National Football Championship for the regional teams of various age groups. In September 2022, it was announced that the tournament will be organized on zonal basis.

인도 축구 대회 "산토쉬 트로피"는 매년 열리는 인도의 가장 중요한 축구 대회 중 하나입니다. 이 대회는 인도의 다양한 주와 지역에서 온 팀들이 참가하여 경쟁합니다. 산토쉬 트로피는 인도 축구 협회에 의해 주최되며, 전국 각 지역에서 선발된 최고의 축구 선수들이 참가합니다.

이 대회는 오랜 역사와 전통을 자랑하며, 인도 축구의 성장과 발전에 큰 역할을 해왔습니다. 산토쉬 트로피는 인도 축구 팬들에게 매우 중요한 대회로, 많은 관객들이 경기를 관람하러 찾아옵니다.

대회는 일반적으로 리그 형식으로 진행되며, 각 팀은 다른 팀들과 경기를 치르게 됩니다. 경기는 열정적이고 격렬하며, 선수들은 최선을 다해 승리를 위해 경쟁합니다. 이 대회에서 우승한 팀은 산토쉬 트로피를 수상하게 되며, 이는 인도 축구 선수들에게 큰 영광으로 여겨집니다.

산토쉬 트로피는 인도 축구의 미래를 위한 중요한 플랫폼으로, 많은 유망한 선수들이 발굴되고 발전할 수 있는 기회를 제공합니다. 이 대회는 인도 축구의 인기와 관심을 높이는 데에도 큰 역할을 하고 있으며, 많은 사람들이 축구에 대한 열정을 나누고 경기를 응원하기 위해 참가합니다.