AIFF Media Team

AMRITSAR: Delhi made the final round of 78^th National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy in the best possible way when they finished their Group B campaign with an all-win record.

In their third and concluding match at the Bibi Ratni Sports Stadium on Saturday, November 30, 2024, Delhi defeated Haryana 2-0 to finish with nine points from three matches. After a barren first half, Jaideep Singh (50’) and KS Shikhar (61’) scored for the winners.

In the other match of the day, Uttarakhand routed Chandigarh 4-0 to end the campaign with six points. The winners, who led 1-0 at the breather, found a hero in skipper Ayush Bisht, who scored a hat-trick. Ajendra Singh scored the fourth goal deep into the add-on time.     

With this, the groupings for the final round of the Santosh Trophy to be played in Hyderabad from December 14, 2024, were completed. While Group A consists of defending champions Services, Bengal, Manipur, hosts Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan, the teams in Group are last year’s runners-up Goa, Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Meghalaya.