Bihar football team

Bihar

Full name	Bihar football team
Ground	Various
Owner	Bihar Football Association
Head coach	Nipendra Kumar Das
League	Santosh Trophy
2024–25	Group stage
Home colours Away colours

The Bihar football team is an Indian football team representing Bihar in Indian state football competitions including the Santosh Trophy.[1] They have failed to qualify for the final rounds of most Santosh Trophy editions.[2]

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND MD Faimey 2 DF  IND Vivek Kumar Singh 3 DF  IND Saurabh Kumar 4 DF  IND Salauddin Middya 5 DF  IND Jiran Ali Ansari 6 MF  IND Ankit Kumar 7 MF  IND Shubhankar Dey 8 FW  IND Raphael Soren 9 FW  IND Roushan Kumar 10 FW  IND MD Sarfaraz

No. Pos. Nation Player 11 FW  IND Arif Khan 12 DF  IND MD Musharraf Perwez 14 MF  IND Abuzar Mohamed 15 MF  IND Guman Shrestha — MF  IND Avinash Paswan —  IND Guddu Kumar —  IND Rajan Kumar —  IND Jawed Ali Khan —  IND Raj Gupta —  IND Nuneshwar Murmu — ST  IND Saryu kumar

[3][4]

Honours

State (senior)

• National Games
  • Bronze medal (1): 1987

State (youth)

• B.C. Roy Trophy
  • Winners (2): 1996–97, 2000–01

• Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy
  • Winners (4): 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02
  • Runners-up (1): 1998–99

References

1. "Bihar Football Association". www.the-aiff.com.
2. http://www.kolkatafootball.com/aiff_santosh_trophy_2015/index.html#horizontalTab7 Archived 4 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Bihar 1-0 West Bengal". AIFF. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
4. "Odisha 6-1 Bihar". AIFF. Retrieved 24 July 2020.