AIFF Media Team

NARAINPUR, CHHATTISGARH: Chandigarh qualified for the Swami Vivekananda U20 Men's National Football Championship quarter-finals after a 1-0 win over Telangana at the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama Ground in Narainpur, Chhattisgarh, on Monday, April 14, 2025.

Thanks to Manveer Singh's last-minute winner, Chandigarh ended Group E with a perfect tally of nine points, including prior victories over Pondicherry (5-0) and Uttarakhand (2-0). They will face Group F's winner, Delhi or Andhra Pradesh, in the quarter-final on April 17.

In the last match of Group E, a dead rubber, Uttarakhand defeated Pondicherry 5-1 to end their campaign with a win.

Telangana 0
lost to
Chandigarh 1 (Manveer Singh 90+5')

Requiring only a point to secure a quarter-final berth, Chandigarh were content with the score locked goalless for the majority of the match. For Telangana, it was a must-win fixture but they were unable to break down the Chandigarh defence, which kept its third clean sheet in a row.

Ultimately, Manveer Singh's third goal of the campaign in the fifth minute of stoppage time grabbed all three points for Chandigarh. After Surjakanta Singh's shot was half-cleared by Telangana, Manveer chested down the loose aerial ball and slotted it past goalkeeper Bairam Giri Prakash.

Pondicherry 1 (N Hariharan 63')
lost to
Uttarakhand 5 (Animesh Kumar Yadav 45+4', 69' p, 72', Ashish Rawat 54', Lokesh Joshi 80')

Animesh Kumar Yadav starred with a hat-trick for Uttarakhand. He opened the scoring with a bottom-corner finish in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time, added another from the penalty spot in the 69th, and netted a solid long-ranger in the 72nd.

Ashish Rawat (54') and Lokesh Joshi (80') scored the other two goals for Uttarakhand. Pondicherry captain N Hariharan had briefly halved the deficit in the 63rd minute, capitalising on a weak back pass to dink the ball over the goalkeeper.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Fixture (Group F):
07:30 am - Delhi vs Andhra Pradesh

The match will be streamed live on the Indian Football YouTube Channel.