2022 North Bengal International Gold Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Bangladesh
Dates	4–18 November 2022
Teams	6 (from 2 countries)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)

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 Centre for Bangladesh India Friendship. It will be held from 4 to 18 November 2022.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Participants clubs

There will be six teams contesting in the tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best-performance
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
Nilphamari Panchagarh Kurigram Bogura Dinajpur Parbatipur 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

Group stages

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.

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. 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);
9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
1	United Kurseong FC[6] (Q)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Knockout stage
2	Rangpur United	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Jaigaon FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 4 November 2022. Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

4 November 2022 (2022-11-04)

Rangpur United	v	Jaigaon FC

Panchagarh Stadium, Panchagarh

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
1	FC Uttarbango[7] (Q)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Knockout stage
2	Kirtankhola FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	United Sikkim FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 8 November 2022. Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

8 November 2022 (2022-11-08)

Kirtankhola FC	v	United Sikkim FC

Parbatipur Football Stadium, Parbatipur

Knockout stage

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

Bracket

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

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Semi-finals

11 November 2022 (2022-11-11)

United Kurseong	v	Winner match 1

Kurigram Stadium, Kurigram

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13 November 2022 (2022-11-13)

FC Uttor Bongo	v	Winner match 2

Dinajpur Stadium, Dinajpur

Statistics

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