Sikkim United to play in Durand Cup Football Tournament 2013

Durand Cup this year is scheduled from 02-19 Sep 2013. The Quarter Final Round Matches will commence from 09 Sep 2013.

The tournament will be conducted in two stages. Stage-I will be Qualifying Round to be played on Knock-out basis and Stage-II will be Quarter Final Round to be played as a league cum knockout Round at Dr Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi.

12 teams will feature in the qualifying rounds. Two regimental teams from the Army, one team each from Indian Navy and Air Force, two teams from DSA, three teams from Para Military Forces i.e. BSF, CRPF and Assam Rifles. One team from PSU viz. TATA Football and one team Kerala Police. They are divided into two groups of six teams each. Winner of each group will be promoted to Quarter Final Round.

Eight I-League teams have been seeded directly in Quarterfinals. They are Air India, ONGC, Mohammedan Sporting Club, Sikkim United, Kalighat Milan Sangha, Bhawanipur, Pune FC and Mumbai Tigers. Services Football Champion, Army Red and Runners-up Army Green are also seeded directly to this League round. Two winner teams of Qualifying Round will join the Quarter Final Round to make it total 12 teams. The teams are divided into four groups of three teams each. Winner of each group will play semi-finals i.e., Winner of Group-I will play against Winner of Group-III and Winner of Group-II will play against Winner of Group-IV. It will be played on knock-out basis. Final is fixed on 19 Sep 2013.

The Opening Match on the day of Opening Ceremony, Semi-finals and Final will be played in floodlights.

Prizes. Net value of Cash prizes has been increased to the tune of Rs 50 Lacs as under:-

(a) Winner - Rs. 25 Lacs.

(b) Runners up - Rs. 10 Lacs.

(c) Losing Semi-finalists - Rs. 10 Lacs( 5 Lacs each).

In addition, a composite package has been provided for each participating team in Quarter final Round of Rs 3.5 Lacs on account of TA, Boarding & Lodging.

The last four teams qualifying for the Semi finals will get additional Rs 1 Lac i.e total Rs 4.5 lacs.