2019–20 Indian Super League
The 2019–20 Indian Super League season was the sixth season of the Indian Super League, one of the top Indian professional football leagues. The regular season began on 20 October 2019 and concluded on 14 March 2020.
Season | 2019–20 |
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Dates | 20 October 2019 – 14 March 2020 |
Champions | ATK 3rd ISL Cup title 1st Indian title |
Premiers | Goa 1st ISL Shield title |
AFC Champions League | Goa |
AFC Cup | ATK[Note 1] Bengaluru |
Matches played | 95 |
Goals scored | 294 (3.09 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Bartholomew Ogbeche Nerijus Valskis Roy Krishna (15 goals each) |
Best goalkeeper | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (122.14 mins per goal) |
Biggest home win | ATK 5–0 Hyderabad (25 October 2019) |
Biggest away win | Jamshedpur 0–5 Goa (19 February 2020) |
Highest scoring | Kerala Blasters 3–6 Chennaiyin (1 February 2020) |
Longest winning run | Goa (5 games) |
Longest unbeaten run | Chennaiyin (9 games) |
Longest winless run | Hyderabad NorthEast United (14 games) |
Longest losing run | Hyderabad (4 games) |
Highest attendance | 50,102 ATK 3–1 Bengaluru (8 March 2020) |
Lowest attendance | 1,000 NorthEast United 0–0 Kerala Blasters (7 February 2020) |
Total attendance | 1,219,462 |
Average attendance | 12,973 |
← 2018–19 2020–21 → |
Hyderabad replaced the disbanded Pune City, whereas Delhi Dynamos moved to Bhubaneswar and rebranded as Odisha.
Bengaluru were the defending champions, having won their maiden Indian Super League title by defeating Goa 1–0 in the 2018–19 final. However, both teams were knocked out in the semi-finals, with Bengaluru losing 3–2 on aggregate to ATK and Goa losing 6–5 on aggregate to Chennaiyin. On 14 March 2020, ATK beat Chennaiyin 3–1 in the final, becoming the first club to win three ISL titles.
On 29 November 2019, the AFC association ranking confirmed India's group stage spot in the 2021 AFC Champions League. As winners of the regular season, FC Goa took that spot along with the inaugural League Winners Shield trophy.