Karnataka football team

The Karnataka football team (), also earlier the Mysore football team, is an Indian football team representing Karnataka in Indian state football competitions including the Santosh Trophy.

They have appeared in the Santosh Trophy finals 9 times, and have won the trophy 4 times. Prior to 1972, the team competed as Mysore. During the 1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament (which is now known as AFC Champions League Elite), they reached the semifinals (then known as Mysore State).

Squad

Current squad

The following 22 players were called up prior to the 2022–23 Santosh Trophy

Honours

State (senior)

• Santosh Trophy
• Winners (5): 1946–47, 1952–53, 1967–68, 1968–69, 2022–23
• Runners-up (5): 1953–54, 1955–56, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1975–76

• National Games
• Bronze medal (1): 1997

State (youth)

• Swami Vivekananda NFC
• Runners-up (1): 2023–24

• B.C. Roy Trophy
• Winners (4): 1962–63, 1978–79, 1991–92, 2002–03
• Runners-up (3): 1965–66, 1971–72, 2003–04

• Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy
• Winners (2): 1978–79, 1986–87
• Runners-up (2): 1981, 2009–10

• M. Dutta Ray Trophy
• Runners-up (1): 1992

Performance in AFC competitions

• Asian Champion Club Tournament (now AFC Champions League)
• Fourth place: 1969 (as Mysore State)

References