2024–25 NorthEast United FC season

NorthEast United
2024–25 season
CEO	Mandar Tamhane
Head Coach	Juan Pedro Benali
Stadium	Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati
Indian Super League	Regular season: 4th; Play-offs: Knockouts
Super Cup	Quarter-finals
Durand Cup	Champions

The 2024–25 season was the club's 11th season in Indian Super League since its establishment in 2014. In addition to the league, they also competed in the Durand Cup and AIFF Super Cup.^[1] On 31 August 2024, NorthEast United won their 1st Durand Cup title after defeating Mohun Bagan SG in the final by tie-breakers.

Personnel

Current technical staff

As of 1 June 2024

Role	Name	Refs.
Head coach	Juan Pedro Benali	^[2]
Assistant coach	Naushad Moosa	^[3]
Goalkeeping coach	Manuel Diez Aznar
Strength and Conditioning coach	Javier Caballero
Team analyst	Amogh Adige	[1][2]
Physiotherapists	Kapil Sharma Dileep Kumar Jagadesan Sony Chittilappilly Sunny
Club doctor	Dr Abhinav
Reserves and U-18 head coach	Suhel Nair

Players

Current squad

As of 1 August 2024^[4]

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	Gurmeet Singh
2	DF	IND	Dinesh Singh
3	DF	IND	Tondonba Singh
4	DF	ESP	Míchel Zabaco
5	DF	MAR	Hamza Regragui
6	MF	MAR	Mohammed Ali Bemammer
9	FW	ESP	Guillermo Fernández
10	FW	ESP	Néstor Albiach
11	FW	IND	Parthib Gogoi
12	DF	IND	Asheer Akhtar
13	MF	IND	Mayakkannan
14	FW	MAR	Alaeddine Ajaraie
15	MF	IND	Macarton Nickson


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	FW	IND	Ankith Padmanabhan
17	DF	IND	Robin Yadav
18	MF	IND	Jithin MS
19	MF	IND	Huidrom Thoi Singh
20	GK	IND	Dipesh Chauhan
22	MF	IND	Redeem Tlang
23	MF	IND	Bekey Oram
26	MF	IND	Phalguni Singh
32	GK	IND	Mirshad Michu
33	MF	IND	Shighil Nambrath
36	MF	IND	Shajan Franklin
66	FW	IND	Fredy Chawngthansanga
77	DF	IND	Buanthanglun Samte

Transfers

In

Position	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Ref.
MF	Mayakkannan	Sreenidi Deccan	Free transfer	26 June 2024
FW	Guillermo Fernández	Cultural Leonesa	Free transfer	7 July 2024	^[5]
DF	Robin Yadav		Free transfer	12 July 2024
FW	Ankith Padmanabhan	Bengaluru	Free transfer	12 July 2024

Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date
FW	Manvir Singh		End of contract	1 June 2024
FW	Gani Nigam		End of contract	1 June 2024
DF	Gaurav Bora		End of contract	1 June 2024
DF	Hira Mondal		End of contract	1 June 2024
MF	Rochharzela		End of contract	1 June 2024
MF	Romain Philippoteaux	Retired	End of contract	1 June 2024

Competitions

Durand Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	NEU	OFC	BSF
1	NorthEast United	3	3	0	11	1	+10	9	Advanced to knockout stage		5–1	4–0
2	Bodoland (H)	3	2	1	6	5	+1	6		0–2	2–0	4–3
3	Odisha	3	1	2	6	7	−1	3				5–0
4	BSF	3	0	3	3	13	−10	0

Source: Twitter
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30)	Bodoland	0–2	NorthEast United	Kokrajhar, Assam
15:00 IST		Report	Jithin 49' Ankith P. 90+2'	Stadium: SAI Stadium Attendance: 12,210 Referee: I Jamal Mohamed Man of the Match: Jithin Madathil Subran (NorthEast United)

9 August 2024 (2024-08-09)	NorthEast United	4–0	BSF	Kokrajhar, Assam
19:00 IST	Guillermo 8, 48' Jithin 20' Alaeddine 90+7'	Report		Stadium: SAI Stadium Attendance: 1,635 Referee: Surojit Das Man of the Match: Guillermo Fernández (NorthEast United FC)

16 August 2024 (2024-08-16)	NorthEast United	5–1	Odisha	Kokrajhar, Assam
19:00 IST	Jithin M. S. 17, 20' Tankadhar (o.g.) 56' Guillermo 76' Thoi 85'	Report	Singson 64'	Stadium: SAI Stadium Attendance: 3,240 Referee: I Jamal Mohamed Man of the Match: Jithin M. S. (NorthEast United FC)

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

21 August – Kokrajhar

NorthEast United	2
		26 August – Shillong
Indian Army	0
		NorthEast United	3
21 August – Shillong
		Shillong Lajong	0
Shillong Lajong	2
				31 August – Kolkata
East Bengal	1
				NorthEast United	2(4)
23 August – Jamshedpur
				Mohun Bagan	2(3)
Mohun Bagan	3(6)
		27 August – Kolkata
Punjab	3(5)
		Mohun Bagan	2(4)
23 August – Kolkata
		Bengaluru	2(3)
Bengaluru	1

Kerala Blasters	0

21 August 2024 (2024-08-21) Quarter-finals	NorthEast United	2–0	Indian Army	Kokrajhar
16:00	Néstor 54' Guillermo 73'	Report		Stadium: SAI Stadium Attendance: 7,290 Referee: Surojit Das Man of the Match: Néstor Albiach (NorthEast United)

26 August 2024 (2024-08-26) Semi-finals	NorthEast United	3–0	Shillong Lajong	Shillong
17:30	Thoi Singh 13' Ajaraie 32' Parthib 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 15,915 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: Huidrom Thoi Singh (NorthEast United)

31 August 2024 (2024-08-31) Final	Mohun Bagan	2–2 (3–4 p)	NorthEast United	Kolkata
17:30	Cummings 11' (pen.) Sahal 45+5'	Report	Ajaraie 55' Guillermo 58'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 52,391 Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Gurmeet Singh (NorthEast United)
	Penalties
	Cummings Manvir Colaco Petratos Subhasish		Guillermo Zabaco Parthib Ajaraie

Indian Super League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	Goa	24	14	6	4	43	27	+16	48	Qualification for the Champions League Two preliminary stage and semi-finals^[a]
3	Bengaluru	24	11	5	8	40	31	+9	38^[b]	Qualification for the knockouts
4	NorthEast United	24	10	8	6	46	29	+17	38^[b]
5	Jamshedpur	24	12	2	10	37	43	−6	38^[b]
6	Mumbai City	24	9	9	6	29	28	+1	36

Source: ISL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots
(Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).
Notes:

^ Goa qualified for the AFC Champions League Two preliminary stage by winning the 2025 Super Cup.^[6]
^ ^a ^b ^c Head-to-head points: Bengaluru 7, NorthEast 7, Jamshedpur 3; Head-to-head goal difference: Bengaluru +2, NorthEast -2.

Result summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
24	10	8	6	46	29	+17	38	4	4	4	21	16	+5	6	4	2	25	13	+12

ISL Playoffs

Knockout			Semifinals					Finals

			1	Mohun Bagan	1	2	3
4	NorthEast United	0	5	Jamshedpur	2	0	2
5	Jamshedpur	2						1	Mohun Bagan (a.e.t.)	2
								3	Bengaluru	1
			2	Goa	0	2	2
3	Bengaluru	5	3	Bengaluru	2	1	3
6	Mumbai City	0

30 March 2025	NorthEast United FC	0–2	Jamshedpur	Shillong
19:30 IST		ISL AIFF I-League	Stephen 29' Hernández 90+10'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Attendance: 14,849 Referee: Senthil Nathan Sekaran

Super Cup


Round of 16			Quarter-finals			Semi-finals			Final

20 April

8	Kerala Blasters	2
			26 April
9	East Bengal	0
			8	Kerala Blasters	1

			1	Mohun Bagan	2

						30 April

						1	Mohun Bagan	1
21 April
						2	Goa	3
2	Goa	3
			26 April
IL4	Gokulam Kerala	0
			2	Goa	2
21 April
			10	Punjab	1
7	Odisha	0
									3 May
10	Punjab	3
									2	Goa	3
23 April
									5	Jamshedpur	0
3	Bengaluru	1 (3)
			27 April
IL2	Inter Kashi (p)	1 (5)
			IL2	Inter Kashi	0
23 April
			6	Mumbai City	1
6	Mumbai City	4
						30 April
11	Chennaiyin	0
						6	Mumbai City	0
24 April
						5	Jamshedpur	1
4	Northeast United	6
			27 April
13	Mohammedan	0
			4	Northeast United	0 (4)
24 April
			5	Jamshedpur (p)	0 (5)
5	Jamshedpur	2

12	Hyderabad	0

24 April 2025 (2025-04-24) Round of 16	Northeast United	6–0	Mohammedan	Bhubaneswar
16:30 IST (UTC+5:30)	Jitin 3' Ajaraie 19', 57', 90+2' (pen.) Albiach 43' Guillermo 66'	Report PDF Khel Now		Stadium: Kalinga Stadium Attendance: 1,781 Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Alaaeddine Ajaraie (Northeast United)

27 April 2025 Quarter-finals	Northeast United	0–0 (4–5 p)	Jamshedpur	Bhubaneswar
20:00 IST (UTC+5:30)		Report PDF Khel Now		Stadium: Kalinga Stadium Attendance: 2,163 Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Stephen Eze (Jamshedpur)
	Penalties
	Guillermo Zabaco Bemammer Ajaraie Albiach Thoi Asheer		Siverio Murray Hernández Tachikawa Eze Ashutosh Cirkovic

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 30 December 2024

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Indian Super League		Durand Cup		Super Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	IND	Gurmeet Singh	17	0	13	0	4	0	0	0
32	GK	IND	Mirshad Michu	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
20	GK	IND	Dipesh Chauhan	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	IND	Dinesh Singh	15	0	10	0	5	0	0	0
3	DF	IND	Tondonba Singh	11	0	7	0	4	0	0	0
4	DF	ESP	Míchel Zabaco	15	1	11	1	4	0	0	0
5	DF	MAR	Hamza Regragui	15	0	9	0	6	0	0	0
12	DF	IND	Asheer Akhtar	18	0	13	0	5	0	0	0
17	DF	IND	Robin Yadav	6	0	3	0	3	0	0	0
77	DF	IND	Buanthanglun Samte	14	0	10	0	4	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	MAR	Mohammed Ali Bemammer	17	1	11	1	6	0	0	0
13	MF	IND	Mayakkannan	18	0	13	0	5	0	0	0
15	MF	IND	Macarton Nickson	13	2	10	2	3	0	0	0
23	MF	IND	Bekey Oram	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
26	MF	IND	Phalguni Singh	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
17	MF	IND	Danny Meitei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	MF	IND	Shighil Nambrath	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW	ESP	Guillermo Fernández	17	9	11	4	6	5	0	0
10	FW	ESP	Néstor Albiach	19	5	13	4	6	1	0	0
11	FW	IND	Parthib Gogoi	16	3	12	2	4	1	0	0
14	FW	MAR	Alaeddine Ajaraie	18	17	13	14	5	3	0	0
16	FW	IND	Ankith Padmanabhan	7	1	3	0	4	1	0	0
18	FW	IND	Jithin MS	19	4	13	0	6	4	0	0
19	FW	IND	Huidrom Thoi Singh	10	2	5	0	5	2	0	0
22	FW	IND	Redeem Tlang	9	0	5	0	4	0	0	0
66	FW	IND	Fredy Chawngthansanga	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	League	Durand Cup	Total
1	14	FW	Alaeddine Ajaraie	14	3	17
2	9	FW	Guillermo Fernández	4	5	9
3	10	FW	Néstor Albiach	4	1	5
4	18	FW	Jithin M. S.	0	4	4
5	11	FW	Parthib Gogoi	2	1	3
6	15	MF	Macarton Nickson	2	0	2
6	19	MF	Huidrom Thoi Singh	0	2	2
7	6	MF	Mohammed Ali Bemammer	1	0	1
7	16	FW	Ankith Padmanabhan	0	1	1

Source : World Football

Assists

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	League	Durand Cup	Total
1	18	FW	Jithin MS	5	3	8
2	14	Fw	Alaaeddine Ajaraie	4	2	4
2	11	FW	Parthib Gogoi	3	1	4
3	77	DF	Buanthanglun Samte	2	0	2
	5	DF	Hamza Regragui	1	1	2
	9	FW	Guillermo Fernández	0	2	2
	19	FW	Huidrom Thoi Singh	1	1	2
4	15	MF	Macarton Nickson	1	0	1
	6	MF	Mohammed Ali Bemammer	1	2	1
	4	DF	Míchel Zabaco	1	0	1
	2	DF	Dinesh Singh	1	0	1
	22	FW	Redeem Tlang	0	1	1
	13	MF	Mayakkannan	0	1	1

Disciplinary record

As of 15 January 2023

No.	Pos.	Nation	Name	League			Durand Cup			Super Cup			Total
No.	Pos.	Nation	Name
	MF		Basanta Boro	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	DF		Chiranjeet Gogoi	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
13	DF		Gaurav Bora	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
8	MF		Imran Khan	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
22	FW		Gani Nigam	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
91	MF		Jon Gaztañaga	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
7	MF		Rochharzela	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
2	DF		Michael Jakobsen	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
32	GK		Mirshad Michu	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
43	MF		Pragyan Gogoi	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
14	DF		Joe Zoherliana	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
16	MF		Mohammed Irshad	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
6	DF		Mashoor Shereef	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
10	MF		Romain Philippoteaux	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
24	DF		Aaron Evans	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
11	FW		Parthib Sundar Gogoi	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
29	GK		Arindam Bhattacharya	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
45	DF		Alex Saji	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

References

^ "No Relegation in ISL 2024-25 as AIFF Delays Implementation by Another Season: Report". myKhel.
^ "NorthEast United FC appoint Juan Pedro Benali as head coach". indiansuperleague.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
^ "Join us in giving a warm welcome to Naushad Moosa, our new Assistant Coach". @NEUtdFC. 1 June 2023.
^ "Players". Indian Super League. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
^ "NorthEast United FC announce the signing of Spanish forward Guillermo Fernández". www.neutdfc.com. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
^ https://www.the-aiff.com/article/fc-goa-ride-borjas-brace-to-win-second-kalinga-super-cup-title

[table_note_res_CLP20.39496748167787-7] Goa qualified for the AFC Champions League Two preliminary stage by winning the 2025 Super Cup.^[6]

[table_hth_BEN0.39496748167787-8] Head-to-head points: Bengaluru 7, NorthEast 7, Jamshedpur 3; Head-to-head goal difference: Bengaluru +2, NorthEast -2.

[1] "No Relegation in ISL 2024-25 as AIFF Delays Implementation by Another Season: Report". myKhel.

[2] "NorthEast United FC appoint Juan Pedro Benali as head coach". indiansuperleague.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.

[3] "Join us in giving a warm welcome to Naushad Moosa, our new Assistant Coach". @NEUtdFC. 1 June 2023.

[4] "Players". Indian Super League. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

[5] "NorthEast United FC announce the signing of Spanish forward Guillermo Fernández". www.neutdfc.com. Retrieved 7 July 2024.

[6] ttps://www.the-aiff.com/article/fc-goa-ride-borjas-brace-to-win-second-kalinga-super-cup-title

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