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Sports season

2007–08 I-League
League	I-League
Sport	Association football
Duration	24 November 2007 – 19 May 2008
Number of teams	10
I-League season
Season champions	Dempo 1st I-League title 3rd Indian title
Top scorer	Odafe Onyeka Okolie
I-League seasons
← 2006–07 NFL 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 I-League kicked off on 24 November 2007 at the Fatorda Stadium, Margao, Goa. The first match of the season was played between the two Goan clubs Dempo and Salgaocar.

The top team in the I-League qualified for the qualifying phase of the 2009 AFC Champions League, while the bottom two teams were relegated to I-League 2nd Division in the next season.

Teams

JCT

Viva Kerala

KolkataKolkata clubs:
East Bengal
Mohun Bagan

GoaGoa clubs:
Churchill Brothers
Dempo
Salgaocar
Sporting Goa

MumbaiMumbai clubs:
Air India
Mahindra United
class=notpageimage| Locations of games played in the 2007-08 I-League

Club	Manager	Location	Stadia
Air India	Bimal Ghosh	Mumbai	Cooperage Ground
Churchill Brothers	Karim Bencherifa	Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
Dempo	Armando Colaco	Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
East Bengal	Manoranjan Bhattacharjee	Kolkata	Salt Lake Stadium
JCT	Sukhwinder Singh	New Delhi & Ludhiana	Ambedkar Stadium & Guru Gobind Singh Stadium
Mahindra United	Derrick Pereira	Mumbai	Cooperage Ground
Mohun Bagan	Carlos Roberto Pereira Da Silva	Kolkata	Salt Lake Stadium
Salgaocar	Savio Medeira	Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
Sporting Goa	Clifford Chukwuma	Goa	Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
Viva Kerala	A.M.Sreedharan	Kozhikode	Kozhikode EMS Corporation Stadium

Standings

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dempo (C)	18	10	6	2	35	13	+22	36	2009 AFC Champions League
2	Churchill Brothers	18	11	3	4	40	22	+18	36
3	JCT	18	9	6	3	31	14	+17	33
4	Mohun Bagan	18	8	6	4	22	17	+5	30	2009 AFC Cup group stage
5	Mahindra United	18	7	7	4	24	18	+6	28
6	East Bengal	18	5	4	9	17	23	−6	19
7	Sporting Goa	18	4	7	7	14	24	−10	19
8	Air India	18	3	8	7	10	20	−10	17
9	Viva Kerala (R)	18	3	3	12	13	38	−25	12	Relegation to 2009 I-League 2nd Division
10	Salgaocar (R)	18	1	8	9	20	37	−17	11	Relegation to 2009 I-League 2nd Division

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Mohun Bagan qualified for the 2009 AFC Cup as 2008 Indian Federation Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away	AI	CB	DEM	EB	JCT	MAH	MB	SFC	SCG	VK
Air India		0–0	1–4	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1
Churchill Brothers	3–0		0–2	3–2	1–0	4–2	2–2	2–1	3–0	5–0
Dempo	0–0	4–1		2–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	4–1	4–0
East Bengal	0–0	0–1	1–0		1–3	1–0	0–2	3–2	1–1	2–0
JCT	2–0	3–0	0–0	3–0		0–0	1–1	4–0	4–2	2–0
Mahindra United	1–1	1–5	3–1	2–1	3–1		0–0	2–2	3–0	0–0
Mohun Bagan	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0		1–0	1–1	1–3
Salgaocar	1–1	1–5	1–1	0–0	3–3	0–0	4–5		1–1	1–0
Sporting Goa	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–1		3–0
Viva Kerala	3–2	1–3	1–4	1–3	0–2	0–2	0–2	3–1	0–0

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Last updated: 23 February 2008

Ref:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	22
2	Eduardo da Silva Escobar	JCT	14
3	Mboyo Iyomi	Churchill Brothers	12
3	Ranty Martins Soleye	Dempo	12
5	Baichung Bhutia	Mohun Bagan	10
6	Edmilson Marques Pardal	East Bengal	8
6	Chidi Edeh	Dempo	8
8	Felix Chimaokwu	Salgaocar	7
8	Sunil Chhetri	JCT	7
10	Junior Obagbemiro	Sporting Goa	6
10	Andrews Pomeyie Mensah	Mahindra United	6
12	Wisdom Abbey	Viva Kerala	5
	Jose Ramirez Barreto	Mohun Bagan
	Yusif Yakubu	Mahindra United
	Roberto Mendes Silva	Dempo
16	Bashiree Mohammed Abbas	Air India	4

References

"I-League 2007–08". Indian Football. 24 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2011.

External links

I League Archived 11 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine

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