Santosh Trophy
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has announced to the state associations the venues and dates for the zonal rounds of the National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2018/19.
As has become norm over the last few seasons, India has been divided into five zones – North, South, East, West and North-East with the top two teams reaching the final round.
The following are the venues and dates of the zonal rounds:
North Zone: Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir – February 11 to 16, 2019
South Zone: Neyveli, Tamil Nadu – February 3 to 8, 2019
East Zone: Bhilai, Chhattisgarh – February 2 to 7, 2019
West Zone: Solapur, Maharashtra – February 7 to 12, 2019
North-East Zone: to be decided
As per the circular, each state can register 30 players for the competition in the AIFF CRS system with 5 of the players having to be Under-21s.