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Bengaluru FC

2023–24 season
Chairman	Parth Jindal
Manager	Simon Grayson (until 8 December) Gerard Zaragoza (from 14 December)
Stadium	Sree Kanteerava Stadium
Indian Super League	10th
Super Cup	Group Stage
Durand Cup	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Javi Hernandez (5 goal) All: Javi Hernandez (6 goal)
Highest home attendance	27,923
Lowest home attendance	2,923
Average home league attendance	7,954
Biggest defeat	4-0
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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All statistics correct as of 14 August 2023.

The 2023–24 season is Bengaluru FC's eleventh season as a club since its establishment in 2013. The season for the Blues kicked off with title defending task at the 2023 Durand Cup.

Background

In the previous season, the squad of Bengaluru was yet again overhauled with Englishman Simon Grayson at the helm accompanied by several fresh signings. The freshly built squad went on to lift the 2022 Durand Cup, which was the club's maiden Durand Cup title. This also made Simon Grayson the fastest Bengaluru head coach to win a title, which took him only 102 days, beating the record of Carles Cuadrat who took 259 days. They would go on to finish as runners-up in the previous season of ISL and in the Super Cup.

Transfers in

No.	Position	Player	Previous club	Date	Fee	Ref
30	GK	Sahil Poonia	Zinc FA	1 June 2023	Free
19	FW	Halicharan Narzary	Hyderabad	14 June 2023
33	GK	Vikram Lakhbir Singh	Aizawl	21 June 2023
23	DF	Slavko Damjanović	Mohun Bagan	28 June 2023
24	FW	Rohit Danu	Hyderabad	7 July 2023
35	FW	Salam Johnson Singh	TRAU	10 July 2023
9	FW	Curtis Main	St Mirren	18 July 2023
14	DF	Jessel Carneiro	Kerala Blasters	25 July 2023
16	MF	Shankar Sampingiraj	Punjab	25 July 2023
7	MF	Ryan Williams	Perth Glory	28 July 2023
6	MF	Keziah Veendorp	Emmen	5 August 2023
	DF	Chinglensana Singh Konsham	Hyderabad FC	30 January 2024
	DF	Nikhil Poojary	Hyderabad FC	1 February 2024

Promoted from youth system

No.	Position	Player	Previous club	Date	Fee	Ref
44	DF	Robin Yadav	Bengaluru B	1 June 2023	Internal transfer (Youth system)
38	FW	Ankith Padmanabhan		1 August 2023
49	MF	Harsh Patre		31 August 2023
51	DF	Chingambam Shivaldo Singh		1 December 2023
41	FW	Monirul Molla		1 June 2023

Squad

First-team squad

As of 6 October 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 2 DF  IND Parag Shrivas 4 DF  AUS Aleksandar Jovanović 6 MF  NED Keziah Veendorp 7 FW  AUS Ryan Williams 8 MF  IND Suresh Singh Wangjam 9 FW  ENG Curtis Main 10 MF  ESP Javi Hernández 11 FW  IND Sunil Chhetri (captain) 13 GK  IND Amrit Gope 14 DF  IND Jessel Carneiro 16 DF  IND Shankar Sampingiraj 18 MF  IND Rohit Kumar 19 FW  IND Halicharan Narzary

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF  MNE Slavko Damjanović 24 MF  IND Rohit Danu 25 DF  IND Namgyal Bhutia 29 FW  IND Ashish Jha 30 GK  IND Sahil Poonia 32 MF  IND Naorem Roshan Singh 33 GK  IND Vikram Lahkbir Singh 38 FW  IND Ankith Padmanabhan 39 FW  IND Sivasakthi Narayanan 41 FW  IND Monirul Molla 44 DF  IND Robin Yadav 45 MF  IND Lalremtluanga Fanai 46 MF  IND Shreyas Ketkar 49 MF  IND Harsh Patre

Competitions

Indian Super League

League table

1. ^ Head-to-head points: Punjab 4, East Bengal 1.
2. East Bengal qualified for the AFC Champions League Two preliminary stage by winning the 2024 Super Cup.

League stage

Matches

Note: FSDL and the Indian Super League announced the fixtures for the first half of the season on 7 September with the remaining fixtures to be released on late 2023.

27 September 2023 (2023-09-27) 2	Mohun Bagan SG	1–0	Bengaluru	Kolkata
20:00 IST	Hugo Boumous 68'	Report		Stadium: Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Attendance: 29,552 Referee: Haris Kundu Man of the Match: Hugo Boumous (Mohun Bagan)

Durand Cup

Group C

Matches

Statistics

Goal scorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Player	ISL	DC	SC	Total
1	10	MF		Javi Hernández	3	0	0	3
	11	FW		Sunil Chhetri	3	0	0	3
2	7	FW		Ryan Williams	2	0	0	2
	9	FW		Curtis Main	2	0	0	2
5	49	MF		Harsh Patre	1	0	0	1
Own goals					0	0	0	0
TOTALS					11	0	0	11

Updated: 30 November 2023

See also

• 2023–24 Bengaluru FC B season

References

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