2025 IFA Shield


The 2025 IFA Shield is the 125th edition of the IFA Shield hosted by the Indian Football Association. The tournament was planned to held in March 2025 but was pushed to October due to clash of fixtures from I-League and Indian Super League.
The tournament will feature domestic teams from the Indian Super League and I-League. At first, international invitees like Paro FC were invited but later the plan was withdrawn.
Defending champions Real Kashmir were also invited to take part, but they denied. On 3 October, 6 participants were confirmed by IFA.

Teams

Here is the list of confirmed teams:

Venues

Format

6 teams will be divided into two groups of 3 teams. After a group stage consisting of single round-robin matches, top teams from each group will qualify for final.

Rules

  • Each team can register 6 foreign players.
  • 4 foreign players can play on the field at a time, and 2 can be used as substitutes.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to [Three Three points for a win|points for a win|points], and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Disciplinary points ;
  8. Drawing of lots.

Group stage

Group A



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Group B



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Final

The group toppers will qualify for the final directly. The match is going to be held on 18 October 2025 at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan.

Match



Statistics

Clean sheets

RankPlayerClubClean Sheets
1

Broadcasting

All matches were broadcast on a virtual platform of Shrachi Sports Entertainment Network app. No television broadcasting was done.