AIFF 2024 Awards: Full List of Winners as Lallianzuala Chhangte & Indumathi Kathiresan Bag Top Honours

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Lallianzuala Chhangte and Indumathi Kathiresan bagged top honours as All India Football Federation's (AIFF) held it's annual awards ceremony in New Delhi on Friday (July 19) night.

While Chhangte was named the AIFF Best Men's Players of the Year 2023-24, Indumathi claimed the Best Women's Player of the Year 2023-24 in a glittering AIFF Award Night attended by a galaxy of icons from the sporting world.

Chhangte was awarded the AIFF Men's Player of the Year for the second time in a row, becoming only the fifth player to win the award multiple times.

The 2023-24 Indian Super League Cup Winner scored 11 goals and assisted seven in all competitions for his club Mumbai City FC and was the highest scoring Indian in the ISL. For the Indian national team, Chhangte scored against Qatar in Doha in the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in June 2024.

Indumathi was awarded the AIFF Women's Player of the Year, becoming the first player from Tamil Nadu to win the award. The midfielder won the 2023-24 Indian Women's League title with Odisha FC, scoring five goals in the competition.

Indumathi won the Best Midfielder award in the IWL. For the Indian national team, she scored against Estonia in the Turkish Women's Cup in February 2024.

Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt, India's Davis Cup captain, Rohit Rajpal and many other well-known faces of Indian sport were among the dignitaries during the ceremony.

The entire top brass of the AIFF, including the President Kalyan Chaubey, Vice President NA Haris, Treasurer Kipa Ajay, Acting Secretary General M Satyanarayan, Executive Committee members, and senior officials of the state associations, were also present.

Apart from Chhangte and Indumathi, the other individual award winners were Khalid Jamil (Best Men's Coach), Sukla Dutta (Best Women's Coach), David Lalhlansanga (Promising Men's Player), Neha (Promising Women's Player), Ramachandran Venkatesh (Best Referee) and Ujjal Halder (Best Assistant Referee). Here is the full list of AIFF 2024 Awards:

AIFF 2024 Award Winners List

• Men's Player of the Year: Lallianzuala Chhangte
• Women's Player of the Year: Indumathi Kathiresan
• Promising Men's Player of the Year: David Lalhlansanga
• Promising Women's Player of the Year: Neha
• Men's Coach of the Year: Khalid Jamil
• Women's Coach of the Year: Sukla Dutta
• Referee of the Year: Ramachandran Venkatesh
• Assistant Referee of the Year: Ujjal Halder
• Most Successful MA (Club Competitions): Indian Football Association (West Bengal)
• Most Successful MA (NFC Competitions): All Manipur Football Association
• Best MA - Supporting Women's Football: Punjab Football Association
• Best MA for hosting most AIFF competitions: Football Association of Odisha and Goa Football Association
• MA with most player registrations (men's): Kerala Football Association
• MA with most player registrations (women's): Western India Football Association (Maharashtra)
• Special Award for MA launching new projects: Gujarat State Football Association
• MA with most Grassroots activities: Gujarat State Football Association
• MA with most Youth tournaments conducted: Karnataka State Football Association
• MA with most Coaching courses: Punjab Football Association
• MA with most Refereeing courses: Gujarat State Football Association

Special awards highlighting support to various AIFF events

• Government of Arunachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh Football Association: For hosting the Santosh Trophy Final Round
• Government of Odisha and Football Association of Odisha: For hosting FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, Intercontinental Cup, Kalinga Super Cup, Senior Women's NFC Group Stage, Junior Boys' and Girls' NFC Tier 1 and Sub-Junior Youth League
• Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council: For twice hosting the India U17 men's national team camp and upgrading the infrastructure of the TRC Ground