2021–22 Bengaluru FC season

Bengaluru FC
2021–22 season
Chairman	Parth Jindal
Manager	Marco Pezzaiuoli
Stadium	GMC Athletic Stadium
Indian Super League	6th
AFC Cup	Group Stage
Durand Cup	Semi Final
	← 2020–21 2022–23 →
	All statistics correct as of 23 April 2022.

The 2021–22 season was Bengaluru FC's ninth season as a club since its establishment in 2013. The Blues participated in AFC Cup, Durand Cup and finished sixth in their fifth Indian Super League season. All domestic league games of Bengaluru were held behind closed doors at GMC Athletic Stadium due to COVID-19 pandemic.^[a]

Background

Transfers

During the month of June, Bengaluru FC announced the contract extensions of Sunil Chhetri and Suresh Singh Wangjam. Chhetri extended his stay at the club for another two years and Suresh for three years.^[1]^[2] On 2 July Bengaluru FC announced that Gabonese defender Yrondu Musavu-King signed a two-year extension with the club.^[3]

On 29 June Bengaluru FC announced signing of midfielder Rohit Kumar on a two-year deal.^[4] On 6 July Bengaluru FC announced signing of defender Alan Costa from Brazilian club Avaí FC on a two-year loan.^[5] On 12 July Bengaluru FC announced signing of defender Sarthak Golui on a two-year deal.^[6]

At the end of the 2020–21 season defender Rahul Bheke and midfielders Dimas Delgado and Harmanjot Khabra parted ways with the club.^[7]^[8]^[9] On 28 June Bengaluru FC announced release of Spanish defender Juanan on mutual consent.^[10]

In

No.	Position	Player	Previous club	Date	Fee	Ref
18	MF	Rohit Kumar	Kerala Blasters	29 June 2021	Free agent	^[4]
16	DF	Sarthak Golui	East Bengal	12 July 2021	Free agent	^[6]
9	FW	Prince Ibara	Châteauroux	16 July 2021	Free agent
14	FW	Harmanpreet Singh	East Bengal	19 July 2021	Free agent
7	MF	Jayesh Rane	ATK Mohun Bagan	22 July 2021	Free agent
12	MF	Danish Farooq Bhat	Real Kashmir	25 July 2021	Free agent
26	FW	Bidyashagar Singh	TRAU	28 July 2021
6	MF	Bruno Ramires	Belenenses	28 August 2021	Free agent	^[11]^[12]
10	MF	Iman Basafa	Machine Sazi	14 September 2021	Free agent	^[13]

Loan In

No.	Position	Player	Previous club	Date	Fee	Ref
5	DF	Alan Costa	Avaí	6 July 2021	Undisclosed	^[5]

Out

No.	Position	Player	Outgoing club	Date	Fee	Ref
10	MF	Harmanjot Khabra	Kerala Blasters	30 May 2021	Free agent	^[9]
14	MF	Dimas Delgado	–	30 May 2021	Free agent	^[8]
2	DF	Rahul Bheke	Mumbai City	31 May 2021	Free agent	^[7]
18	FW	Thongkhosiem Haokip	East Bengal	31 May 2021	Free agent
55	DF	Fran González		31 May 2021	Free agent
	MF	Xisco Hernández		31 May 2021	Free agent
4	DF	Juanan	Hyderabad	28 June 2021	Released	^[10]
24	DF	Joe Zoherliana	NorthEast United	26 July 2021	Released
28	GK	Lalthuammawia Ralte	RoundGlass Punjab	28 August 2021	Undisclosed
33	MF	Emanuel Lalchhanchhuaha	NorthEast United	8 September 2021	Undisclosed

Preseason

21 October 2021 Friendly	Bengaluru	2–3	Chennaiyin	Goa
16:00 IST	Augustine Silva	Report	Borysium Koman Vanspaul

30 October 2021 Friendly	Bengaluru	1–1	Jamshedpur	Goa
9:30 IST	Rane 15'	Report	Murray 27'

6 November 2021 Friendly	Goa	2–1	Bengaluru	Goa
? IST		[1]	Chhetri

15 November 2021 Friendly	Bengaluru	1–0	Jamshedpur	Goa
? IST	Ramires 25'	[2]

16 November 2021 Friendly	Chennaiyin	2–3	Bengaluru	Goa
? IST	Ali ?', ?'	Report	Sivasakthi Basafa Roshan

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Super League	20 November 2021 (2021-11-20)	5 March 2022 (2022-03-05)	Matchday 1	20	8	5	7	32	27	+5	040.00
AFC Cup	15 August 2021 (2021-08-15)	24 August 2021 (2021-08-24)	Playoff Round	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	050.00
Durand Cup	15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)	29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)	Group Stage	5	3	2	0	14	9	+5	060.00
Total				29	13	8	8	53	40	+13	044.83

Last updated: 5 March 2022 (2022-03-05).
Source: Competitions

Indian Super League

Summary

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
4	Kerala Blasters	20	9	7	4	34	24	+10	34	Qualification to ISL playoffs
5	Mumbai City	20	9	4	7	36	31	+5	31
6	Bengaluru	20	8	5	7	32	27	+5	29
7	Odisha	20	6	5	9	31	43	−12	23
8	Chennaiyin	20	5	5	10	17	35	−18	20

Source: Indian Super League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots

Result summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
20	8	5	7	32	27	+5	9	4	4	2	20	15	+5	4	1	5	12	12	0

Results by round

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A
Result	W	L	D	L	L	L	D	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	L	W	L	W
Position	2	5	4	7	9	10	9	10	8	8	7	7	8	6	3	3	3	6	5	6

Source: soccerway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Win Draw Loss Void / Postponed

20 November 2021 1	Bengaluru	4–2	NorthEast United	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Silva 14', 42' 45' Shareef 23' (o.g.) Rane 42' Ibara 81'	Report	Brown 17' Coureur 25'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: Udanta Singh

24 November 2021 2	Odisha	3–1	Bengaluru	Vasco
19:30 IST	Hernandez 3', 51' Antonay 61' Cabrera 90'	Report	Kuruniyan 13' Costa 21' Ramires 58'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: Javier Hernandez

28 November 2021 3	Bengaluru	1–1	Kerala Blasters	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Chowdhary 22' Kuruniyan 84'	Report	Kuruniyan 88' (o.g.) Khabra 89'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Harmanjot Khabra

4 December 2021 4	Bengaluru	1–3	Mumbai City	Bambolim
21:30 IST	Wangjam 14' Silva 20' R. Singh 36' Chhetri 76'	Report	Angulo 9' Jahouh 46' Fall 54' Ranawade 70' Catatau 85'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Lalengmawia

8 December 2021 5	Hyderabad	1–0	Bengaluru	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Ogbeche 7' Jadhav 83'	Report	R. Singh 29' Wangjam 38'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Souvik Chakrabarti

11 December 2021 6	Goa	2–1	Bengaluru	Bambolim
21:30 IST	Martins 13' Kuruniyan 18' (o.g.) Ortiz 55' Murgaonkar 70'	Report	R. Singh 32' Silva 45' Farooq 52' Wangjam 55' 84' Ibara 57' Ramires 68' Shrivas 78'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Devendra Murgaonkar

16 December 2021 7	Bengaluru	3–3	ATK Mohun Bagan	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Silva pen.' (18) Farooq 26' A. Kumar 39' R. Singh 69' Ibara 72' U. Singh 81'	Report	Bose 13' Boumous 38' 43' Krishna 58'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: Subhasish Bose

20 December 2021 8	Jamshedpur	0–0	Bengaluru	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Jitendra 57'	Report		Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Senthil Nathan Man of the Match: Greg Stewart

30 December 2021 9	Chennaiyin	2–4	Bengaluru	Vasco
19:30 IST	Murzaev 4' Ali 49'	Report	Ibara 13' Silva 39' Costa 43' Kuruniyan 45' Wangjam 57' U. Singh 70' Chowdhary 74' Farooq 80'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: Naorem Roshan Singh

4 January 2022 10	Bengaluru	1–1	East Bengal	Bambolim
19:30 IST	R. Singh 27' Das 58' (o.g.)	Report	Bhattacharya 3' Haokip 28' Mukherjee 87'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Adil Khan

10 January 2022 11	Mumbai	0–3	Bengaluru	Margao
19:30 IST	Bheke 26' Rai 45' G. Singh 85'	Report	Farooq 8' 45' Ibara 23', 45' Chowdhary 33'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Naorem Roshan Singh

15 January 2022 12	ATK Mohun Bagan	–	Bengaluru	Margao
19:30 IST		postponed		Stadium: Fatorda Stadium

23 January 2022 12	Goa	1–1	Bengaluru	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Fox 41'	Report	Basafa 24' Farooq 32' Chhetri 61' R. Singh 74' Ibara 75' R. Kumar 87' U. Singh 90'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Pranjal Banerjee Man of the Match: Dylan Fox

26 January 2022 13	Bengaluru	3–0	Chennaiyin	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Basafa 20' U. Singh 42', 52'	Report	Dhot 41' Ali 88'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Pratik Mondal Man of the Match: Udanta Singh

30 January 2022 14	Kerala Blasters	0–1	Bengaluru	Vasco
19:30 IST	Khawlhring 41' Vazquez 62'	Report	Ibara 11' Naorem Roshan Singh 56'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Naorem Roshan Singh

5 February 2022 15	Bengaluru	3–1	Jamshedpur	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Chhetri 55' Silva 62', 90'	Report	Chukwu 1'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Coimbatore Ramaswamy Srikrishna Man of the Match: Bruno Ramires

11 February 2022 16	Bengaluru	1–2	Hyderabad	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Farooq 27' Shrivas 42' R. Singh 82' Chhetri 87'	Report	Siverio 16' Victor 30' Juanan 64'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Tejas Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Joao Victor

18 February 2022 17	Northeast United	2–1	Bengaluru	Margao
19:30 IST	Lakra 23' Irshad 23' Santana 62' Brown 74' T. Singh 90'	Report	Farooq 54' Silva 66' 90'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: R Venkatesh Man of the Match: Joe Zoherliana

21 February 2022 18	Bengaluru	2–1	Odisha	Bambolim
19:30 IST	Ibara 12' Farooq 31' 74' Silva 49'	Report	Sekar 8' Lalruatthara 41' Vanmalsawma 70'	Stadium: GMC Athletic Stadium Referee: Senthil Nathan Man of the Match: Danish Farooq Bhat

27 February 2022 19	ATK Mohun Bagan	2–0	Bengaluru	Margao
19:30 IST	Colaco 45' M. Singh 85'	Report	Chhetri 50' Banana 71' Augustine 74'	Stadium: Fatorda Stadium Referee: Harish Kundu Man of the Match: Sandesh Jhingan

11 February 2022 20	East Bengal	0–1	Bengaluru	Vasco
19:30 IST	N. Singh 90'	Report	Chhetri 24'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Referee: Senthil Nathan Man of the Match: Lara Sharma

AFC Cup

Qualifying play-offs

Play-off round

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Play-off round between Bengaluru FC and Eagles FC scheduled for May 2021 postponed to 15 August 2021.

v

Eagles

15 August 2021 (2021-08-15)	Bengaluru	1–0	Eagles	Malé, Maldives
20:00 UTC+5	26' Rane 47' U. Singh 68' Silva	Report	37' Ali 57' Naim	Stadium: National Football Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Ahmad Yacoub Ibrahim MVP: Jayesh Rane (Bengaluru)

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AMB	BSK	BFC	MAZ
1	ATK Mohun Bagan	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Inter-zone play-off semi-finals	—	1–1	2–0	—
2	Bashundhara Kings	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5		—	—	—	2–0
3	Bengaluru	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4		—	0−0	—	—
4	Maziya (H)	3	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0		1–3	—	2–6	—

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

v

Bengaluru

18 August 2021 (2021-08-18)	ATK Mohun Bagan	2–0	Bengaluru	Malé, Maldives
16:00 UTC+5	Krishna 39' Bose 46' Boumous 64' Rathi 77'	Report	Silva 10' Wangjam 90+4'	Stadium: National Football Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Mohammad Hasan Mahmoud Arafah Man of the Match: Roy Krishna (ATK Mohun Bagan)

v

Bashundhara Kings

21 August 2021 (2021-08-21)	Bengaluru	0–0	Bashundhara Kings	Malé, Maldives
16:00 UTC+5	King 21' Shrivas 41'	Report	Kazi 45' Shafiei 47'	Stadium: National Football Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Thoriq Alkatiri Man of the Match: Sunil Chhetri (Bengaluru)

v

Bengaluru

24 August 2021 (2021-08-24)	Maziya	2–6	Bengaluru	Malé, Maldives
21:00 UTC+5	Hussain Nihan 44' Aisam Ibrahim 58' Mohamed 67' Takashi Odawara 69' Abdulla 82'	Report	U. Singh 6' Rohit Kumar 19' Silva 19' Narayanan 36' Wangjam 45+1' Augustine 70' B. Singh 85', 90+2' Ajay Chhetri 90'	Stadium: National Football Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Thoriq Alkatiri (Indonesia)

Durand Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bengaluru	3	2	1	0	9	5	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	Delhi	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4	Knockout stage
3	Kerala Blasters	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
4	Indian Navy	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3

Source: Khel Now
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots

15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)	Bengaluru	2–0	Kerala Blasters	Kolkata, West Bengal
15:00 IST	Bhutia 45' Augustine 70'		Sandeep Singh 42' 83' Hormipam 48' 62' Meitei 83' 85'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Man of the Match: Lara Sharma (Bengaluru FC)

18 September 2021 (2021-09-18)	Delhi	2–2	Bengaluru	Kolkata, West Bengal
15:00 IST	Plaza 58', 62'		Narayanan 27' B. Singh 75'	Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground

21 September 2021 (2021-09-21)	Bengaluru	5–3	Indian Navy	Kolkata, West Bengal
15:00 IST	Augustine 52' H. Singh 60', 80' A. Chhetri 73' Thoi 90+1'		Jijo 18' Sreyas 29' Vijay 90+3'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium

Knockout stage

25 September 2021 (2021-09-25)	Bengaluru	3–2	Army Green	Kolkata, West Bengal
15:00 IST	Muirang 20' Augustine 46' Bhutia 74'		Lalawmkima 9' (p) Vibin 89' (p)	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium

29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)	Goa	2–2 (7–6 p)	Bengaluru	Kolkata, West Bengal
18:00 IST	Murgaonkar 8' D'Cunha 32' Tlang 71' Davis 104'		Narayanan 1', 83' Kumar 74' Sharma 75' Singh 87'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Referee: Rowan Arumugan Man of the Match: Edu Bedia (FC Goa)
	Penalties
	Dohling Tlang Pereira D'Cunha Bedia Chote Lalhmangaihsanga Davis		Muirang Singh Chhetri Shrivas Bhutia Kumar Oram Lyngdoh

Management

As of 26 April 2022

Position	Name
Head coach	Marco Pezzaiuoli^[14]
Assistant coach	Javier Pinillos^[15]
Assistant coach/Reserve team Head Coach	Naushad Moosa
Goalkeeping coach	Stefan Toonen
Physiotherapist	Senen Alvarez
Team manager	Rosewall Da Cunha
Video analyst	Alwin Lawrence
Masseur	Manu Prasad
Kit Boy	Gireesh PM

Player statistics

As of 24 April 2022

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		ISL		AFC Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	IND	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	19	0	15+0	0	4+0	0
30	GK	IND	Lara Sharma	5	0	5+0	0	0+0	0
43	GK	IND	Sharon Padattil	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
Defenders
4	DF	IND	Pratik Chaudhari	19	1	11+6	1	1+1	0
5	DF	BRA	Alan Costa	22	2	17+1	2	4+0	0
15	DF	IND	Wungngayam Muirang	5	0	3+2	0	0+0	0
16	DF	IND	Sarthak Golui	7	0	0+3	0	3+1	0
19	DF	IND	Ajith Kumar	8	0	4+1	0	0+3	0
25	DF	IND	Namgyal Bhutia	7	0	3+4	0	0+0	0
27	DF	IND	Parag Shrivas	16	0	10+4	0	1+1	0
29	DF	GAB	Yrondu Musavu-King	5	0	2+0	0	3+0	0
35	DF	IND	Biswa Kumar Darjee	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	BRA	Bruno Ramires	20	0	20+0	0	0+0	0
7	MF	IND	Jayesh Rane	13	2	8+1	1	4+0	1
8	MF	IND	Suresh Singh Wangjam	20	0	15+1	0	4+0	0
10	MF	IRN	Iman Basafa	7	1	3+4	1	0+0	0
12	MF	IND	Danish Farooq Bhat	21	3	11+6	3	1+3	0
18	MF	IND	Rohit Kumar	11	0	0+9	0	2+0	0
20	MF	IND	Ajay Chhetri	6	0	3+1	0	1+1	0
22	MF	IND	Ashique Kuruniyan	14	1	13+0	1	1+0	0
31	MF	IND	Leon Augustine	7	1	0+3	0	1+3	1
32	MF	IND	Roshan Singh	21	1	17+0	1	3+1	0
40	MF	IND	Damaitphang Lyngdoh	3	0	0+3	0	0+0	0
Forwards
9	FW	CGO	Prince Ibara	17	4	13+4	4	0+0	0
11	FW	IND	Sunil Chhetri	23	4	14+6	4	3+0	0
14	FW	IND	Harmanpreet Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
17	FW	IND	Edmund Lalrindika	3	0	1+2	0	0+0	0
21	FW	IND	Udanta Singh	20	4	13+4	3	3+0	1
23	FW	BRA	Cleiton Silva	23	10	17+2	9	4+0	1
26	FW	IND	Bidyashagar Singh	7	2	0+3	0	1+3	2
39	FW	IND	Sivasakthi Narayanan	9	1	0+7	0	0+2	1
42	FW	IND	Akashdeep Singh	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

Source: soccerway

Updated: 24 April 2022

Goal scorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Player	ISL	AFC	Total
1	23	FW	Cleiton Silva	9	1	10
2	9	FW	Prince Ibara	4	0	4
	11	FW	Sunil Chhetri	4	0
	21	FW	Udanta Singh	3	1
3	12	MF	Danish Farooq Bhat	3	0	3
4	26	FW	Bidyashagar Singh	0	2	2
	5	DF	Alan Costa	2	0
	7	MF	Jayesh Rane	1	1
5	4	DF	Pratik Chaudhari	1	0	1
	10	MF	Iman Basafa	1	0
	22	MF	Ashique Kuruniyan	1	0
	32	MF	Roshan Singh	1	0
	36	MF	Leon Augustine	0	1
	39	FW	Sivasakthi Narayanan	0	1
Total				30	7	37

Source: soccerway
Updated: 24 April 2021

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Pos	Player	ISL	AFC	Total
1	1	GK	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	3	2	5
2	30	GK	Lara Sharma	3	0	3
TOTALS				6	2	8

Source: soccerway
Updated: 26 April 2022

Disciplinary record

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Player	ISL		AFC		Total		Notes
Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Player							Notes
1	8	MF		Suresh Singh Wangjam	0	0	2	0	2	0
1	23	FW		Cleiton Silva	0	0	2	0	2	0
2	20	MF		Ajay Chhetri	0	0	1	0	1	0
	18	MF		Rohit Kumar	0	0	1	0	1	0
	21	FW		Udanta Singh	0	0	1	0	1	0
	27	DF		Parag Shrivas	0	0	1	0	1	0
	29	DF		Yrondu Musavu-King	0	0	1	0	1	0

Source: soccerway
Updated: 28 August 2021

References

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