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The 2018–19 Indian Super League season was the fifth season of the Indian Super League, one of the top Indian professional football leagues. It was established in 2013. The regular season began on 29 September 2018 and concluded on 17 March 2019. The league took a mid-season break for around one month from 17 December 2018 to early January 2019 due to India's participation in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

Chennaiyin were the defending champions, having defeated Bengaluru in the 2018 final, however they did not qualify for the playoffs having finished the last in the regular season. Bengaluru FC won their maiden title by defeating FC Goa 1–0 in the final which was held on 17 March 2019. Bengaluru FC became the first team who won the ISL Championship as well as after topped the league stage.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ATK	Steve Coppell	Manuel Lanzarote	Nivia	CESC Limited
Bengaluru	Carles Cuadrat	Sunil Chhetri	Puma	Kia Motors
Chennaiyin	John Gregory	Maílson Alves	Performax	Apollo Tyres
Delhi Dynamos	Josep Gombau	Marcos Tébar	TYKA Sports	Aspire Academy
Goa	Sergio Lobera	Mandar Rao Dessai	Sqad Gear	Xiaomi
Jamshedpur	César Ferrando	Tiri	Nivia	Tata Steel
Kerala Blasters	Nelo Vingada	Sandesh Jhingan	SIX5SIX	Muthoot Pappachan
Mumbai City	Jorge Costa	Lucian Goian	Sqad Gear	ACE Group
NorthEast United	Eelco Schattorie	Bartholomew Ogbeche	Performax	McDowell's No. 1
Pune City	Phil Brown	Matt Mills	SIX5SIX	Suzuki Gixxer

Head coaching changes

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Pune City	Ranko Popović	Contract finished	31 May 2018	Pre-season	Marcos Paquetá	1 June 2018
Bengaluru	Albert Roca	Contract finished	31 May 2018		Carles Cuadrat	14 June 2018
ATK	Robbie Keane	Contract finished	31 May 2018		Steve Coppell	18 June 2018
Jamshedpur	Steve Coppell	Contract finished	31 May 2018		César Ferrando	21 July 2018
Delhi Dynamos	Miguel Ángel Portugal	Mutual consent	2 May 2018		Josep Gombau	2 August 2018
Pune City	Marcos Paquetá	Contract terminated	29 June 2018		Miguel Ángel Portugal	9 August 2018
Mumbai City	Alexandre Guimarães	Mutual consent	14 August 2018		Jorge Costa	14 August 2018
NorthEast United	Avram Grant	Contract finished	31 May 2018		Eelco Schattorie	18 August 2018
Pune City	Miguel Ángel Portugal	Sacked	26 October 2018	10th	Pradyum Reddy (Interim)	26 October 2018
Kerala Blasters	David James	Sacked	18 December 2018	8th	Nelo Vingada	18 January 2019
Pune City	Pradyum Reddy (Interim)	Mutual consent	24 December 2018	7th	Phil Brown	24 December 2018

Roster changes

Foreign Players

The number of foreign players allowed in the squad will be reduced from eight to seven from 2018 to 2019 season, however the maximum number of foreign players allowed on the pitch will remain same at five.

Club	Foreigner 1	Foreigner 2	Foreigner 3	Foreigner 4	Foreigner 5	Foreigner 6	Foreigner 7
ATK	Éverton Santos	Gerson Vieira	Andre Bikey	John Johnson	Kalu Uche	Edu García	Manuel Lanzarote
Bengaluru	Álex Barrera	Dimas Delgado	Xisco Hernández	Juanan	Luisma	Albert Serrán	Miku
Chennaiyin	Chris Herd	Maílson Alves	Raphael Augusto	Eli Sabiá	Gregory Nelson	Carlos Salom	Andrea Orlandi
Delhi Dynamos	Ulises Dávila	Gianni Zuiverloon	Rene Mihelič	Adrià Carmona	Martí Crespí	Francisco Dorronsoro	Marcos Tébar
Goa	Hugo Boumous	Ahmed Jahouh	Zaid Krouch	Mourtada Fall	Edu Bedia	Coro	Carlos Peña
Jamshedpur	Tim Cahill	Memo	Mario Arqués	Carlos Calvo	Sergio Cidoncha	Pablo Morgado	Tiri
Kerala Blasters	Cyril Kali	Courage Pekuson	Nikola Krčmarević	Nemanja Lakić-Pešić	Slaviša Stojanović	Matej Poplatnik	Kizito Keziron
Mumbai City	Rafael Bastos	Arnold Issoko	Paulo Machado	Lucian Goian	Modou Sougou	Marko Klisura	Matías Mirabaje
NorthEast United	José David Leudo	Janeiler Rivas Palacios	Mato Grgić	Panagiotis Triadis	Bartholomew Ogbeche	Federico Gallego	Juan Cruz Mascia
Pune City	Marko Stanković	Diego Carlos	Marcelinho	Iain Hume	Matt Mills	Jonathan Vila	Martín Díaz

Regular season

League table

1. Qualified for 2020 AFC Cup qualifying play-offs
2. ^ Head-to-head standings: Bengaluru 6 pts, Goa 0 pts.

Results

Playoffs

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Coro Goa 16 2 Modou Sougou Mumbai City 12 Bartholomew Ogbeche NorthEast United 4 Sunil Chhetri Bengaluru 9 5 Edu Bedia Goa 7 6 Marcelinho Pune City 6 7 Miku Bengaluru 5 Manuel Lanzarote ATK Lallianzuala Chhangte Delhi Dynamos Udanta Singh Bengaluru Rafael Bastos Mumbai City Source:

Top Indian scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Sunil Chhetri Bengaluru 9 2 Lallianzuala Chhangte Delhi Dynamos 5 Udanta Singh Bengaluru 4 Daniel Lalhlimpuia Delhi Dynamos 4 Michael Soosairaj Jamshedpur Thoi Singh Chennaiyin Robin Singh Pune City Rowllin Borges NorthEast United Jackichand Singh Goa 10 C. K. Vineeth Kerala Blasters 3 Brandon Fernandes Goa Rahul Bheke Bengaluru Source:

Hat-tricks

Result column shows goal tally of player's team first.

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Bartholomew Ogbeche	NorthEast United	Chennaiyin	3–4 (A)	18 October 2018
Modou Sougou	Mumbai City	Kerala Blasters	6–1 (H)	16 December 2018
Modou Sougou	Mumbai City	ATK	3–1 (A)	22 February 2019

Notes

– Player scored four goals
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Arnold Issoko	Mumbai City	8
2	Coro	Goa	7
3	Carlos Calvo	Jamshedpur	6
4	Dimas Delgado	Bengaluru	5
	Hugo Boumous	Goa
	Federico Gallego	NorthEast United
	Edu Bedia	Goa
	Xisco Hernández	Bengaluru
8	Miku	Bengaluru	4
	Marcelinho	Pune City
	Brandon Fernandes	Goa
	Seiminlen Doungel	Kerala Balsters
	Paulo Machado	Mumbai City
	Jackichand Singh	Goa
Source:

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 8
  • Ahmed Jahouh (Goa)

• Most red cards: 2
  • Marcelinho (Pune City)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 50
  • Pune City

• Most red cards: 3
  • Pune City
  • NorthEast United
  • Goa
  • Bengaluru

Average home attendances

Awards

• Source: Indian Super League website

Hero of the Match

ISL Emerging Player of the Match

End-of-season awards

Award	Player	Club
Golden Ball For The Hero of the League	Coro	Goa
ISL Emerging Player of the Season	Sahal Abdul Samad	Kerala Blasters
Golden Glove	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	Bengaluru
Winning Pass Season Award For Most Assists	Arnold Issoko	Mumbai City
Golden Boot	Coro	Goa
Best Pitch of the Season	Kerala Blasters for Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Kochi)

See also

• 2018–19 I-League

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External links

• Official website

• 2018–19 Indian Super League season
• Indian Super League seasons
• 2018–19 in Indian football leagues
• 2018–19 in Asian association football leagues