2012 Indian Federation Cup Final
| Event | 2012 Indian Federation Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 30 September 2012 | ||||||
| Venue | Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri, West Bengal | ||||||
| Referee | Vishnu Chawhan (Gujarat) | ||||||
| Attendance | 35,000 | ||||||
The 2012 Indian Federation Cup Final was the 34th final of the Indian Federation Cup, the top knock-out competition in India, and was contested between East Bengal and Dempo on 30 September 2012.
East Bengal won the final 3–2, to claim their eighth Federation Cup title. Climax Lawrence put Dempo in front in the 51st minute but Arnab Mondal equalized for East Bengal in the 60th minute. The match then went into extra-time as Manandeep Singh scored the winner for East Bengal in the 100th minute before Chidi Edeh scored the third goal for East Bengal in the 109th minute to seal the victory and championship before Mahesh Gawli scored the consolation for Dempo.
East Bengal entered the 2012 Indian Federation Cup automatically as they were already in the I-League. They were placed in Group C along with Sporting Clube de Goa, ONGC, and Kalighat MS and their matches were played in Siliguri. The tournament got off to a mixture start for East Bengal as they drew their opening match 1–1 against Sporting Goa with new Nigerian signing Chidi Edeh scoring his first goal for the club in the 10th minute from the penalty spot. The club then won their first game of the season in their second match of the tournament on 23 September 2012 against ONGC F.C. in which East Bengal came back from 0–1 down to 2–1 winners after Edeh and other new signing, India international, Manandeep Singh scored two goals to gift Bengal the victory. East Bengal then confirmed promotion out of the group stage of the Federation Cup to the Semi-Finals after a remarkable come from behind victory in their last game at the group stage to Kalighat MS in which East Bengal came back from 2–0 to tie the score up at 2–2 through two goals from Manandeep Singh in the 26th and 30th minute but then East Bengal had to come from behind again after Kalighat took the lead again to go up 3–2 with Edeh scoring two goals to win the game for East Bengal 4–3 and send them to the semi-finals.
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