# 2023–24 I-League 2

2023–24 I-League 2 was the 16th season of the I-League 2 since its establishment in 2008. It was also the 2nd season as the third tier of the Indian football league system. The top two clubs on the league table will secure a place in the 2024–25 I-League season.
This was the first edition where the clubs have been reinstated from the previous season, after approval from the league committee on 13 January 2023.

## Changes from last season
### Teams
#### Promotion from 2023–24 I-League 3

* Sporting Goa
* Dempo
* Sporting Bengaluru
Source:

#### Reinstatement from 2022–23 I-League 2 Final Round

* Ambernath United Atlanta (now, Maharashtra Oranje)
* Bengaluru United
* United

#### Relegation from 2022–23 I-League

* Kenkre
* Sudeva Delhi

#### Promotion to 2023–24 I-League

* Delhi
* Shillong Lajong
With the introduction of the 4th tier I-League 3, the teams participating in I-League 2 have been reduced to 8.

## Clubs

* Clubs relegated from 2022–23 I-League enter I-League 2.
* Clubs not promoted to 2023–24 I-League in the previous season are reinstated.
* Clubs promoted from 2023–24 I-League 3 enter I-League 2.

### 2023–24 I-League 2 clubs

Source:
| Club | State | City | Stadium | Capacity |
| United | West Bengal | Kalyani | Kalyani Stadium | 20,000 |
| Maharashtra Oranje | Maharashtra | Mumbai | COE Kharghar | 5,000 |
| Kenkre | Maharashtra | Mumbai | COE Kharghar | 5,000 |
| Sudeva Delhi | Delhi | New Delhi | Ambedkar Stadium | 15,000 |
| Bengaluru United | Karnataka | Bengaluru | Padukone & Dravid COE | 250 |
| Sporting Bengaluru | Karnataka | Bengaluru | Bangalore Football Stadium | 8,400 |
| Sporting Goa | Goa | Panaji | Tilak Maidan | 5,000 |
| Dempo | Goa | Panaji | Ella Ground | 500 |

### Personnel and sponsorship

| Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Bengaluru United | Fernando Varela | Faiz Khan | HYVE | NIMIDA |
| Dempo | Samir Naik | Ariston Costa | Shiv-Naresh | Dempo |
| Maharashtra Oranje | Augusto Wilson Da Silva | Manish Malyadri Siddha | KING | AWSCA |
| Kenkre | Akhil Kothari | Raul Almeida | Hummel | Kenkre Sports Foundation |
| Sporting Bengaluru | Chinta Chandrashekar Rao | Manoj Swamy Kannan | MS Sportswear | Sporting Group International |
| Sporting Goa | Armando Colaco | Joel Colaco | | Models |
| Sudeva Delhi | Chencho Dorji | Ashray Bhardwaj | Shiv-Naresh | HCL |
| United | Steve Herbots | Sanjib Mondal | Trak Only | |

## League table

Source:
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sporting Bengaluru (C) | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 12 | +16 | 33 | Promotion to I-League |
| 2 | Dempo | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 13 | +8 | 27 | Promotion to I-League |
| 3 | Sudeva Delhi | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 19 | −2 | 23 | |
| 4 | Bengaluru United | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 19 | +2 | 20 | |
| 5 | Sporting Goa | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 18 | +1 | 19 | |
| 6 | United | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 21 | −3 | 15 | |
| 7 | Maharashtra Oranje | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 25 | −5 | 15 | Relegation to I-League 3 |
| 8 | Kenkre | 14 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 17 | 34 | −17 | 9 | Relegation to I-League 3 |

## Results
### Fixtures and results

| Home \ Away | SCB | DEM | SUD | BEN | SCG | USC | MAO | KEN |
| Sporting Bengaluru | — | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 4–3 |
| Dempo | 1–0 | — | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 0–2 |
| Sudeva Delhi | 0–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 |
| Bengaluru United | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–2 |
| Sporting Goa | 4–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| United | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 5–3 | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Maharashtra Oranje | 0–2 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–5 | — | 1–0 |
| Kenkre | 0–4 | 0–4 | 3–5 | 0–2 | 2–5 | 2–0 | 0–1 | — |

### Results by games

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Maharashtra Oranje | D | L | W | W | L | L | L | L | L | L | D | W | D | W |
| Bengaluru United | W | W | W | L | D | W | W | W | L | L | D | L | L | L |
| United | W | L | L | L | D | W | L | L | L | L | D | W | D | W |
| Kenkre | L | L | W | L | W | L | L | L | L | W | L | L | L | L |
| Sudeva Delhi | D | W | L | L | L | W | D | W | W | W | W | L | W | L |
| Sporting Goa | D | W | L | W | W | L | L | L | W | W | W | L | L | L |
| Dempo | D | L | W | L | W | W | D | W | W | L | D | W | W | W |
| Sporting Bengaluru | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W |

## Statistics
### Top scorers

    As of 27 April 2024
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Thomyo L Shimray | Sporting Bengaluru | 11 |
| 1 | Sahil Harijan | United | 11 |
| 3 | Sanchit Singh | Maharashtra Oranje | 9 |
| 4 | Alister Anthony | Sporting Goa | 8 |
| 5 | Ramesh Chhetri | Sudeva Delhi | 5 |

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Sahil Harijan | United | Maharashtra Oranje | 5–2 (A) | 12 February 2024 |
| Alister Anthony | Sporting Goa | Kenkre | 5–2 (A) | 2 April 2024 |
| Thomyo L Shimray | Sporting Bengaluru | Kenkre | 4–0 (A) | 21 April 2024 |

### Clean sheets

    As of 27 April 2024
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
| 1 | Ashish Sibi | Sudeva Delhi | 5 |
| 2 | Vishal Joon | Bengaluru United | 4 |
| 2 | Satyajit Bordoloi | Sporting Bengaluru | 4 |
| 2 | Mukunthan Ravi Kumar | Maharashtra Oranje | 4 |
| 5 | Niraj Kumar | Sporting Bengaluru | 3 |
| 5 | Dylan D'Silva | Sporting Goa | 3 |
| 5 | Harsh Rajesh Patil | Kenkre | 3 |
| 5 | Sangramjit Roy Chowdhury | Dempo | 3 |
| 9 | Wellyster Mendes | Dempo | 2 |
| 10 | Suvam Sen | United SC | 1 |

## Broadcast

Home games of Maharashtra Oranje are broadcast by SportsCast India while all games of Sporting Goa and Dempo are broadcast by SportsKPI on their respective official YouTube channels.
| Club | Broadcaster |
| Maharashtra Oranje | SportsCast India |
| Sporting Goa | SportsKPI |
| Dempo | SportsKPI |

## Attendances
### Overall statistical table

| Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
| 1 | Sporting Bengaluru | 3,412 | 1,235 | 50 | 487 | n/a$^{††}$ |
| 2 | Sporting Goa | 1,900 | 500 | 50 | 271 | n/a$^{††}$ |
| 3 | Sudeva Delhi | 1,805 | 500 | 100 | 257 | −68.3%$^†$ |
| 4 | United | 1,606 | 500 | 26 | 229 | −53.0%$^†$ |
| 5 | Dempo | 1,195 | 350 | 50 | 170 | +6.3%$^†$ |
| 6 | Maharashtra Oranje | 855 | 250 | 50 | 122 | −89.5%$^†$ |
| 7 | Bengaluru United | 615 | 245 | 10 | 87 | −65.1%$^†$ |
| 8 | Kenkre | 410 | 100 | 40 | 58 | −94.6%$^†$ |
| | League total | 11,798 | 1,235 | 10 | 210 | −55.8%$^†$ |
Source: Notes: $^†$ Kenkre and Sudeva Delhi played in the I-League in the 2022–23 season. $^{††}$ Attendance count for Sporting Goa and Sporting Bengaluru starts from this season.

#### Attendances by home matches

| Team \ Match played | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total |
| Sporting Bengaluru | 400 | 400 | 400 | 527 | 1,235 | 400 | 50 | 3,412 |
| Sporting Goa | 400 | 120 | 50 | 280 | 250 | 500 | 300 | 1,900 |
| Sudeva Delhi | 100 | 500 | 125 | 350 | 200 | 300 | 230 | 1,805 |
| United | 500 | 300 | 300 | 300 | 50 | 26 | 130 | 1,606 |
| Dempo | 125 | 150 | 50 | 220 | 200 | 100 | 350 | 1,195 |
| Maharashtra Oranje | 100 | 250 | 130 | 75 | 150 | 100 | 50 | 855 |
| Bengaluru United | 125 | 100 | 50 | 45 | 40 | 10 | 245 | 615 |
| Kenkre | 50 | 65 | 100 | 60 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 410 |
Legend: Highest  Lowest
Updated to game(s) played on 27 April 2024 Source: I-League.org