Bhubaneswar, Mar 8: Kalinga Stadium in Odisha's Bhubaneswar will host the prestigious Kalinga Super Cup 2025, announced the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

The tournament is scheduled to commence from April 21.

Thirteen Indian Super League clubs and three I-League clubs will participate in the fifth edition of the Cup competition.

The winners of the Super Cup 2025 will earn a chance to compete in the 2025-26 AFC Champions League 2 (ACL2) Playoffs.

The tournament is the cup competition in Indian football, with teams from the top two divisions of Indian men’s football— Indian Super League (ISL) and I-League — competing for the title.

Introduced in 2018 as the successor to the Federation Cup, the Super Cup was also hosted in Bhubaneswar last year.

After being scrapped from 2020 to 2022 due to COVID, the Super Cup returned in 2023 with Odisha FC emerging as the winners after defeating Bengaluru at the EMS Stadium in Kerala.

East Bengal, who will be the defending champions in the upcoming edition of the tournament, clinched the 2024 Super Cup title with a thrilling 3-2 extra-time victory over Odisha FC in the final at Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Stadium.

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