FC Goa has been in a tussle with Chennaiyin FC since the formation of ISL which erupted in the 2015 final. The Marina Machans made a remarkable late comeback in that showpiece from two goals down to lift the trophy. This fixture has been played 25 times in the ISL and only once outside of the league, in the Durand Cup.
So far, each game has produced at least one goal with no scoreless draws ever played in this fixture. Because of the goal-fest the fixture has produced, clean sheets have been hard to come by but FC Goa still edges Chennaiyin FC with six. The Gaurs have scored more than a half-century of goals while the Marina Machans have hit the 40 mark. Both sides have found much joy in away games while Goa’s success doubles at home with seven victories. However, statistics go to bed when these two meet on the pitch for matches often full of stake.
Here are the match records from the fixture between FC Goa and Chennaiyin FC:
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC head-to-head meetings in all competitions
Played - 27
FC Goa won - 16
Drawn - 2
Chennaiyin FC won - 9
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC head-to-head meetings in ISL
Played - 26
FC Goa won - 15
Drawn - 2
Chennaiyin FC won - 9
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC goals scored in all competitions
FC Goa scored - 58
Chennaiyin FC scored - 42
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC clean sheets in all competitions
FC Goa - 6
Chennaiyin FC - 4
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC home wins
FC Goa won - 8
Chennaiyin FC won - 3
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC away wins
FC Goa won - 8
Chennaiyin FC won - 6
Biggest FC Goa win: 5-0 (9 February 2022)
Although played in a centralized due to the pandemic situation, the matches were held in Goa and the home team inflicted the heaviest defeat on Chennaiyin FC by putting five unanswered goals past them in a remarkable match played in 2022. Makan Chote began the scoring in just six minutes of the match with Jorge Ortiz scoring a splendid hattrick and the rest coming from a Narayan Das own goal. It was the sixth 5-0 game played in ISL history with FC Goa doing the trick for the second time.
Biggest Chennaiyin FC win: 4-0 (11 October 2015)
Chennaiyin FC also had their slice of celebrating a huge win which came in only the second year of the ISL and the third match between the two. The same season they won in the final beating the same opposition with a late winner from Stiven Mendoza. The Colombian was already the arch-nemesis for the Gaurs as he scored a stunning hat-trick in the league meeting earlier with Elano getting the other. The victory tasted sweeter because it came on the road. This is the fourth-largest victory recorded by the Marina Machans in ISL history.
Highest Scoring Game: FC Goa 5-4 Chennaiyin FC - ISL 2016 (1 December 2016)
Counted as one of the highest-scoring games ever played in the league, FC Goa won a nine-goal thriller against Chennaiyin FC at home in 2016. While both sides eventually finished at the bottom half of the table in that season, this result showed the value of the fixture for the pair. Then 20-year-old Sahil Tavora came up with a dramatic late winner for FC Goa, his second of the match after Liverpool legend John Arne Riise seemed to have put a highly entertaining game on level terms. Unlikely scorer Jerry Lalrinzuala put Chennaiyin FC into the lead in the fourth minute of the match but Rafael Coelho cancelled it only two minutes later and added another goal in the match. Jofre, Dudu and Gregory, with an unfortunate own goal, scored the rest.
FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC last five meetings
FC Goa 2-1 Chennaiyin FC - ISL 2023/24 (20 April 2024)
FC Goa 4-1 Chennaiyin FC - ISL 2023/24 (14 April 2024)
Chennaiyin FC 0-3 FC Goa - ISL 2023/24 (5 November 2023)
FC Goa 4-1 Chennaiyin FC - Durand Cup 2023 (26 August 2023)
FC Goa 1-2 Chennaiyin FC - ISL 2022/23 (16 February 2023)
