2016 IFA Shield
# 2016 IFA Shield

The 2016 IFA Shield (officially known as the LG IFA Shield 2016 for sponsorship reasons) was the 120th edition of the IFA Shield. The tournament is designed as a U19 youth football tournament since 2015.

This year ten football clubs going to participate including two overseas football clubs. The winners of LG IFA Shield was awarded with an amount of ₹ 5 Lakhs, while the second seeded team will get an amount of ₹ 3 Lakhs.

The tournament was managed by Ekalavya Sports Foundation, run by former international Kalyan Chaubey and other TFA graduates.

Tata Football Academy became the champions of the tournament by beating AIFF Elite Academy on 6 March 2016 which was played at Mohun Bagan Ground. The score was even 2–2 during the regulation time. After extra time match ended 3–2 in the favour of Tata Football Academy. Shubham Ghosh was awarded the man of the match and Baoringdao Bodo player of the tournament.

## Venue

Most of the matches were held at East Bengal Ground and Mohun Bagan Ground while Kalyani Stadium and Barasat Stadium were the other venues.

## Qualifying round

Four teams played in knockout format. The winner of the knockouts qualified for the final phase of the tournament.

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Finals | Finals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 12 February 2016 | 12 February 2016 | | | |
| Tata Football Academy | 4 | | | |
| Tata Football Academy | 4 | 13 February 2016 | 13 February 2016 | | |
| Southern Samity | 0 | 13 February 2016 | 13 February 2016 | |
| Southern Samity | 0 | Tata Football Academy | 1 | |
| 11 February 2016 | 11 February 2016 | | Tata Football Academy | 1 | |
| 11 February 2016 | 11 February 2016 | Aryan | 0 | |
| Aryan (p) | 0 (7) | Aryan | 0 | |
| Aryan (p) | 0 (7) | | | | 15 February 2016 | 15 February 2016 |
| NB Rainbow | 0 (6) | | | | 15 February 2016 | 15 February 2016 |
| NB Rainbow | 0 (6) | | | | Tata Football Academy | 3 |
| 11 February 2016 | 11 February 2016 | | | | | Tata Football Academy | 3 |
| 11 February 2016 | 11 February 2016 | | | | Bengal Football Academy | 1 |
| Tollygunge Agragami | 1 | | | | Bengal Football Academy | 1 |
| Tollygunge Agragami | 1 | 13 February 2016 | 13 February 2016 | | | |
| Bengal Football Academy | 8 | 13 February 2016 | 13 February 2016 | | | |
| Bengal Football Academy | 8 | Bengal Football Academy | 3 | | | |
| 11 February 2016 | 11 February 2016 | | Bengal Football Academy | 3 | | | |
| 11 February 2016 | 11 February 2016 | Pathachakra | 0 | |
| Pathachakra | 6 | Pathachakra | 0 | |
| Bhawanipore | 0 | | | |

* Tata Football Academy qualified for final phase of 2016 IFA U19 Shield.

## Final phase

All times are Indian Standard Time (IST) – UTC+05:30.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tata Football Academy | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 12 | Advance to Semi-finals |
| 2 | Crystal Palace | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 9 | Advance to Semi-finals |
| 3 | East Bengal | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 | |
| 4 | Salgaocar | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 3 | |
| 5 | United | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | AIFF U19 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 12 | Advance to Semi-finals |
| 2 | Frenz United | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 9 | Advance to Semi-finals |
| 3 | DSK Academy | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 6 | |
| 4 | Mohun Bagan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 1 | |
| 5 | Mohammedan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 1 | |

## Knockouts

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2 March 2016 | 2 March 2016 |
| AIFF U19 (p) | 2 (6) |
| AIFF U19 (p) | 2 (6) | 6 March 2016 | 6 March 2016 |
| Crystal Palace F.C. | 2 (5) | 6 March 2016 | 6 March 2016 |
| Crystal Palace F.C. | 2 (5) | AIFF U19 | 2 |
| 3 March 2016 | 3 March 2016 | | AIFF U19 | 2 |
| 3 March 2016 | 3 March 2016 | Tata Football Academy | 3 |
| Tata Football Academy | 1 | Tata Football Academy | 3 |
| Frenz United | 0 | | |

### Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| - | - | - |
| AIFF U19 | (6) 2–2 (5) | Crystal Palace |
| Tata Football Academy | 1–0 | Frenz United |

## Statistics

    As of 2 March 2016

### Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Francis Baptiste | Crystal Palace | 6 |
| 1 | Baoringdao Bodo | AIFF Academy | 6 |
| 2 |
| 2 | Lallianzuala Chhangte | DSK Shivajians | 5 |
| 2 | Prosenjit Chakraborty | AIFF Academy | 5 |
| 3 | Bedashwor Singh | AIFF Academy | 4 |
| 4 | Hadi Fayyad | Frenz United | 3 |
| 4 | Levi Lumeka | Crystal Palace | 3 |
| 4 | Sandip Bhattacharjee | United SC | 3 |
| 4 | Shahrul Akmal | Frenz United | 3 |
