Full name | Tamil Nadu football team | ||
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Founded | 1941 (as Madras football team) | ||
Ground | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai) | ||
Capacity | 40,000 | ||
Owner | Tamil Nadu Football Association | ||
Head coach | Rajendran Johnson | ||
League | Santosh Trophy | ||
2023–24 | Group stage | ||
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The Tamil Nadu football team, also earlier the Madras football team, is an Indian football team representing Tamil Nadu in Indian state football competitions including the Santosh Trophy.[1] They have appeared in the Santosh Trophy finals twice, in 1972–73 and 2012, and have never won. Tamil Nadu team reached semi-finals of the Santosh Trophy in 2009,[2][3] where they lost to Goa. Prior to 1972, the team competed as Madras.