The 2023-24 AIFF Junior League kicked off on March 30, 2023, with the Zonal Round and is returning after the delays due to the pandemic. This will be the fifth edition of the U-15 tournament. The participating sides were divided into eight groups and they will be battling it out to qualify for the main round. Groups A, B, D, and E consist of six teams each, while C and F have five teams and G and H have four. Minerva Punjab, competing as Minerva Academy this time, has been crowned champions every time since the league launched in 2015.
Here is the squad list of teams in the AIFF U-15 Junior League 2023-24 Zonal Round:
Group B
Bengal Football Academy
Squad: Arnab Roy, Maheswar Murmu, Sagen Soren, Surajit Mal, Surya Das, Sayantan Ghosh, Riyajul Islam, Ankush Paul, Risav Bose, Sudip Biswas, Jo Soren, Raki Roy, Rajesh Sarder, Thakurdas Hansa, Anik Talukdar, Manik Mal, Ritesh Debnath and Ayush Saha
Head Coach: Santanu Guhathakurta
Bidhannagar Municipal SA
Goalkeepers: Tahamid Annan
Defenders: Avranil Biswas, Rahul Roy, Subhomit Orang, Sree Dipayan Das, Arnab Makal
Midfielders: Rupam Seal, Masud Ali, Rohan Sahu, Souradip Pramanick, Rudra Gayen,
Forwards: Hasnain Paik, Abhijit Haldar, Kazi Mahamad, Sekh Salman Aman, Md Firoz
Others: Deb Sarkar, Ganesh Mondal
Head Coach: Madhusudan Majumder
East Bengal FC
Goalkeepers: Rijay Sarkar, Ankit Chakraborty
Defenders: Shubham Kumar, Babusona Mondal, Subhjit Singh, Rupam Das, Dipanjan Tudu
Midfielders: Sumit Das, Soumyojit Goldar, Shubham Mandal, Jayak Sanfui, Sanju Sikdar, Alamin Box Mondal, Swarnadwip Basu, Md Tanvir
Forwards: Arif Khan, SkToufik Ali, Deepanjan Datta
Head Coach: Falguni Kumar Datta
Mohammedan SC
Goalkeepers: Rohit Halder
Defenders: Swarup Roy, Jasimuddin Sardar, Suraj Mallick, Abhijit Das
Midfielders: Pritam Samaddar, Ajay Murmu, Jishu Shaw, Soumyajit Koley, Apurba Sardar, Tanmoy Sardar, Sk Nousin Alam, Md Mostafar Sanpui
Forwards: Omar Gazi, Sekh Kaiub, Atanu Acharjya, Mahammad Ispak, Ayush Kumar
Head Coach: Murari Kar
Mohun Bagan SG
Goalkeepers: Suva Barai, Evan Sarkar, Sayantan Chakraborty
Defenders: Deb Pal, Deb Das, Tanmoy Roy, Krishna Das, Arpan Ghosh, Amit Hembram, Sankar Oraon, Nirmal Hansda
Midfielders: Rishi Das, Anish Das, Rintu Malik, Suman Saren, Rohit Barman, Aniket Biswas, Rajdeep Gupta, Rony Karmakar, Sabyasachi Dhar, Joy Chakraborty
Forwards: Jit Sarkar, Subham Dutta, Sagun Hembram, Vineet Rajbanshi
Head Coach: Tanumoy Basu
United Sports
Goalkeepers: Abhijeet Chowdhury
Defenders: Debjit Ghosh, Sustam Das, Ankit Mukherjee, Sahabul Malik, Jahid Karikar, Ruhul Amin, Arka Deb, Asif Gazi
Midfielders: Sayan Tarafder, Binay Ray, Deb Mandal, Bakul Harizan, Pradip Bag
Forwards: Sahil SK
Others: Ridhimoy Ghosh, Debojit Kundu, Zeeshan Ali
Group F
Alchemy International FA
Goalkeepers: Eliayash
Defenders: Yohann George, Dheer Madhu, Trinabh Ray, Wahengbam Luwang, Dallalmoun Gangte
Midfielders: Wanshanbok Tairang, Dhruv Sameer, Dennis Thokchom, Dhanvin Chokkas
Forwards: Aaron Shibbi, Tharun Dev, Leo Thongbam
Head Coach: Savio N Haokip
Bengaluru FC
Goalkeeper: Akinid Nr
Defenders: Taranvir Singh Jaspal, Nee Hang, Manav Gowda, Ishaan Verma, Mauryam Bhagwat
Midfielders: Akshit Arya, Givenson Sutting, Jermey Bijoy, Rajdip Saha
Forwards: Miran Kaping, Thiyam Sambay
Others: Isak Mungpianthanga, Sandip Singh
Head Coach: Jason Carl Brindley
Kickstart FC (TBD)
Snipers FC
Goalkeepers: Aadhinath A P
Defenders: Ajolbin Kharkylliang, Satvik Balaga, Thoiba Singh, Tejas Vikram, Alez Singh
Midfielders: Aditya Arvind Rao, Mowneesh R, Thokchom Singh, Akul Deepak, Pavan Nair
Forwards: Ningthoujam Barun, Arif Khan
Others: Kian Suresh, Mayank Kaithwas, Niranjan S, Ishan Roy Chowdhury, Utkarsh Narayan
Head Coach: Fayas K
Young Blues Elite FC
Goalkeepers: Arjun Shashikanth, Mohammed Ryyan Siddique
Defenders: Urvish Reddy, Dhanush Jamadgani, Mukund Rajeev, Liam Fernandes, Nithin Badri, Shivaansh Patil, Chalukya Reddy Buchi, Sarang Keloth
Midfielders: Yuvan L K, Aryan Vrigesh, Vishruth Venkath, Shaan Abraham, Vihaan Nair, Aayan Purswami
Forwards: Himaghna Sanyal, Abhinav Srikanth
Others: Ankit Nambiar, Vaibhav Ramesh
Head Coach: Anup Damien
