# 2022 North Bengal International Gold Cup

The 2022 North Bengal International Gold Cup is the inaugural edition of North Bengal International Gold Cup, an international club football tournament hosted by the FC Uttor Bongo and under the overall supervision of the Centre for Bangladesh India Friendship. It will be held from 4 to 18 November 2022.

## Participants clubs

There will be six teams contesting in the tournament.
| Team | Appearance |
| FC Uttarbango | 1st |
| Rangpur United | 1st |
| Kirtankhola FC | 1st |
| Jaigaon FC | 1st |
| United Sikkim FC | 1st |
| United Kurseong FC | 1st |

## Venues

The matches were played following these six venues.
| Nilphamari | Panchagarh | Kurigram |
| Sheikh Kamal Stadium | Panchagarh District Stadium | Kurigram District Stadium |
| Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 5,000 |
| NilphamariPanchagarhKurigramBoguraDinajpurParbatipurclass=notpageimage| Location of the stadiums of 2022 North Bengal International Gold Cup || |
| Parbatipur | Bogura | Dinajpur |
| Parbatipur Football Stadium | Gabtali Football Stadium | Dinajpur District Stadium |
| Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 18,000 | Capacity: 10,000 |

## Draw

The draw ceremony was held at Siliguri, West Bengal in India on 26 October 2022. In the group stage will held two matches, two teams was directly enter Semi-finals and others two via playing group stage matches.

## Round matches dates

| SN | Phase | Date |
| 1 | Group Stages | 4–8 November 2022 |
| 2 | Semi finals | 11–13 November 2022 |
| 3 | Third place match | 15 November 2022 |
| 4 | Final | 18 November 2022 |

## Group stages

Key to colours in group tables :
* Group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout-stage

### Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
* Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
* Goal difference in all group matches;
* Goals scored in all group matches;
* Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
* Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
| 1 | United Kurseong FC (Q) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
| 2 | Rangpur United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
| 3 | Jaigaon FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
| 1 | FC Uttarbango (Q) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
| 2 | Kirtankhola FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
| 3 | United Sikkim FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage

* In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 11 November–Kurigram | 11 November–Kurigram |
| United Kurseong | |
| United Kurseong | | 18 October–Nilphamari | 18 October–Nilphamari |
| Winner match No 1 | | 18 October–Nilphamari | 18 October–Nilphamari |
| Winner match No 1 | | Winner SF1 | |
| 13 November–Dinajpur | 13 November–Dinajpur | | Winner SF1 |
| 13 November–Dinajpur | 13 November–Dinajpur | Winner SF2 | |
| FC Uttarbango | | Winner SF2 | |
| Winner match No 2 | | | |
| Winner match No 2 | | Third place match | Third place match |
| | | 15 November–Bogura | 15 November–Bogura |
| | | Loser SF1 | |
| | | Loser SF2 | |

### Final
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There were 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 4 November 2022).