Tamil Nadu football team

The Tamil Nadu football team is an Indian football team representing Tamil Nadu in Indian state football competitions including the Santosh Trophy.[1] They have appeared in the Santosh Trophy finals twice, in 1972–73 and 2012, and have never won. Tamil Nadu team reached semi-finals of the Santosh Trophy in 2009,[2][3] where they lost to Goa. Prior to 1972, the team competed as Madras football team. This team has never won .

Tamil Nadu
Full nameTamil Nadu football team
GroundJawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai)
Capacity40,000
OwnerTamil Nadu Football Association
Head coachRajendran Johnson
LeagueSantosh Trophy
2022–23Group stage

Squad

The team selected for 2021 Santosh Trophy;[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK India IND Arun Pradeep (Customs)
— GK India IND Alex (AGORC)
— GK India IND Vignesh (FCI)
— DF India IND Sathish (Postal)
— DF India IND Hariharan (SAI)
— DF India IND Dinakaran (IT)
— DF India IND Naveen (AGORC)
— DF India IND Prasad (Arrows)
— DF India IND Nirmal (Customs)
— MF India IND Sudhakar (Customs)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF India IND S. Karthik (Indian bank)
— MF India IND Sathish kumar (Customs)
— MF India IND Charles (Railways)
— MF India IND Vikram Vishwas Patil (Indian bank)
— MF India IND Stejin (AGORC)
— FW India IND Raegan Albarnas (IT)
— FW India IND Amiruddin (SAI)
— FW India IND David (ICF)
— FW India IND Azeem (Central Excise)
— FW India IND Jayakumar (Customs)

Coaching staff
Position Name
Manager India Orlando Rayan[5]
Head coach India D. Sekaran
Assistant coach India Unni (SAI)

Player history

Some of the former Tamil Nadu state football players are Samson Gunapandian, Simon Sundararaj,[6] J. Krishnaswamy, Raman Vijayan, Syed Sabir Pasha, Kalia Kulothungan,[7] Robin Charles Raja, V. Soundararajan, P.M. Radhakrishnan, P. Nageshwara Rao,[8] M. Thangaraj,[9] Gandhi (RBI), Edwin Ross (Winger), D'Cruz (ICF), Orlando Rayen, A.U. Celestine (Goal Keeper), P.V. Sriramulu, A. Satyanarayanan, Guna Singh, Koshy, Kumar, Thomas, Arumaiyanayagam, Thanikachalam, Chandran Jeypal, Dhanapathy, Gurunathan, Viswanathan, and Rajamanickam (Goal Keeper).[10]

Simon Sundararaj from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu scored the last Indian goal at the Olympics, in Rome in 1960.[11]

Most of these former players were employees of State or Central government institutions. All India Football Federation and Tamil Nadu Football Association were coordinating these players participation at the National level. In the past, to attend preparatory camps to get selected for the India national football team, it was difficult for these players to obtain leave from the institutions in which they were employed.[12] Some Tamil Nadu football players use their football talent and achievements to get jobs in Government institutions like Southern Railways, Indian Bank, and Chennai Customs.[13]

The following is a complete list of Tamil Nadu footballers.

Honours

References
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  2. Football, DC. "The pain of 2009 in Santosh Trophy". Deccan Chronicle.
  3. Roy, Anshuman. "Goa oust TN, fans lose temper". The Telegraph.
  4. Correspondent, Special. "Tamil Nadu team for Santhosh Trophy". The Hindu.
  5. "Tamil Nadu Announces Santosh Trophy Squad – Football News India".
  6. Frederick, Prince (April 2011). "Memories of Madras – Football's field day". The Hindu.
  7. Rayan, Stan (19 November 2005). "Raw diamonds from the seashore". The Hindu.
  8. Chronicle, Deccan. "Players from yesteryear return to football's heyday".
  9. Thiagarajan, Shantha. "When Ooty had a 'dribbler par excellence'". The Times Of India. No. July 2018.
  10. Metro Plus Chennai, The Hindu (26 September 2002). "Memories of a different era". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 September 2003.
  11. RS, Prasad. "Meet the footballer who scored India's last Olympic goal". The Times of India.
  12. Week, Sports (1 September 1974). Who cares for the players?. Bombay: Khalid Ansari. p. 236.
  13. Hore, Abhishek. "Leading scorer Riju mulls EB option". Hindustan Times.
  14. Krishnaswamy, Karthik. "A happy homecoming for stars". The Hindu.
  15. Raghu, T.N. "Sudhakar will be TN's key man". Deccan Chronicle.
  16. List of Santosh Trophy Finals


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