# 2023–24 Bengaluru FC season

The 2023–24 season is Bengaluru FC's eleventh season as a club since its establishment in 2013. The season for the Blues kicked off with title defending task at the 2023 Durand Cup.

## Background

In the previous season, the squad of Bengaluru was yet again overhauled with Englishman Simon Grayson at the helm accompanied by several fresh signings. The freshly built squad went on to lift the 2022 Durand Cup, which was the club's maiden Durand Cup title. This also made Simon Grayson the fastest Bengaluru head coach to win a title, which took him only 102 days, beating the record of Carles Cuadrat who took 259 days. They would go on to finish as runners-up in the previous season of ISL and in the Super Cup.

### Transfers in

| No. | Position | Player | Previous club | Date | Fee |
| 30 | GK | Sahil Poonia | Zinc FA | 1 June 2023 | Free |
| 19 | FW | Halicharan Narzary | Hyderabad | 14 June 2023 | Free |
| 33 | GK | Vikram Lakhbir Singh | Aizawl | 21 June 2023 | Free |
| 23 | DF | Slavko Damjanović | Mohun Bagan | 28 June 2023 | Free |
| 24 | FW | Rohit Danu | Hyderabad | 7 July 2023 | Free |
| 35 | FW | Salam Johnson Singh | TRAU | 10 July 2023 | Free |
| 9 | FW | Curtis Main | St Mirren | 18 July 2023 | Free |
| 14 | DF | Jessel Carneiro | Kerala Blasters | 25 July 2023 | Free |
| 16 | MF | Shankar Sampingiraj | Punjab | 25 July 2023 | Free |
| 7 | MF | Ryan Williams | Perth Glory | 28 July 2023 | Free |
| 6 | MF | Keziah Veendorp | Emmen | 5 August 2023 | Free |
| | DF | Chinglensana Singh Konsham | Hyderabad FC | 30 January 2024 | Free |
| | DF | Nikhil Poojary | Hyderabad FC | 1 February 2024 | Free |

#### Promoted from youth system

| No. | Position | Player | Previous club | Date | Fee |
| 44 | DF | Robin Yadav | Bengaluru B | 1 June 2023 | Internal transfer (Youth system) |
| 38 | FW | Ankith Padmanabhan | Bengaluru B | 1 August 2023 | Internal transfer (Youth system) |
| 49 | MF | Harsh Patre | Bengaluru B | 31 August 2023 | Internal transfer (Youth system) |
| 51 | DF | Chingambam Shivaldo Singh | Bengaluru B | 1 December 2023 | Internal transfer (Youth system) |
| 41 | FW | Monirul Molla | Bengaluru B | 1 June 2023 | Internal transfer (Youth system) |

## Squad
### First-team squad

    As of 6 October 2023
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 | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu |
| 2 | DF | IND | Parag Shrivas |
| 4 | DF | AUS | Aleksandar Jovanović |
| 6 | MF | NED | Keziah Veendorp |
| 7 | FW | AUS | Ryan Williams |
| 8 | MF | IND | Suresh Singh Wangjam |
| 9 | FW | ENG | Curtis Main |
| 10 | MF | ESP | Javi Hernández |
| 11 | FW | IND | Sunil Chhetri (captain) |
| 13 | GK | IND | Amrit Gope |
| 14 | DF | IND | Jessel Carneiro |
| 16 | DF | IND | Shankar Sampingiraj |
| 18 | MF | IND | Rohit Kumar |
| 19 | FW | IND | Halicharan Narzary |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | DF | MNE | Slavko Damjanović |
| 24 | MF | IND | Rohit Danu |
| 25 | DF | IND | Namgyal Bhutia |
| 29 | FW | IND | Ashish Jha |
| 30 | GK | IND | Sahil Poonia |
| 32 | MF | IND | Naorem Roshan Singh |
| 33 | GK | IND | Vikram Lahkbir Singh |
| 38 | FW | IND | Ankith Padmanabhan |
| 39 | FW | IND | Sivasakthi Narayanan |
| 41 | FW | IND | Monirul Molla |
| 44 | DF | IND | Robin Yadav |
| 45 | MF | IND | Lalremtluanga Fanai |
| 46 | MF | IND | Shreyas Ketkar |
| 49 | MF | IND | Harsh Patre |

## Competitions
### Indian Super League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 8 | Punjab | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 35 | −7 | 24 | |
| 9 | East Bengal | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 29 | −2 | 24 | Qualification for the Champions League Two preliminary stage |
| 10 | Bengaluru | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 34 | −14 | 22 | |
| 11 | Jamshedpur | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 32 | −5 | 21 | |
| 12 | Hyderabad | 22 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 43 | −33 | 8 | |
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Punjab 4, East Bengal 1.
* ↑ East Bengal qualified for the AFC Champions League Two preliminary stage by winning the 2024 Super Cup.

#### Matches

Note: FSDL and the Indian Super League announced the fixtures for the first half of the season on 7 September with the remaining fixtures to be released on late 2023.

### Durand Cup

Group C
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | GOK | BEN | KER | IAF |
| 1 | Gokulam Kerala | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | Qualify for the knockout stage | — | — | — | 2–0 |
| 2 | Bengaluru | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 | | 2–0 | — | 2–2 | 1–1 |
| 3 | Kerala Blasters | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 4 | | 3–4 | — | — | 5–0 |
| 4 | Indian Air Force | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 1 | | — | — | — | — |

#### Matches
## Statistics
### Goal scorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Player | ISL | DC | SC | Total |
| 1 | 10 | MF | | Javi Hernández | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 11 | FW | | Sunil Chhetri | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 7 | FW | | Ryan Williams | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 9 | FW | | Curtis Main | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 49 | MF | | Harsh Patre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Updated: 30 November 2023