Anas Shaikh struck the lone winner as Iron Born FC eked out a narrow 1-0 win against Alpha Football Academy in a Third Division play-off match of the Rustomjee-MDFA League 2018-2019 and played at the St. Xavier’s ground, Parel.
In a closely contested encounter, Shaikh scored the decisive goal in the 25th minute to seal Iron Born’s success.
Meanwhile. Suraj Bhayade struck a brace of goals in leading Revolution Fc to a 3-1 win against SDKT Mumbai Marines in another play-off match. Bhayade scored in the fourth and 15 minute minutes before Akhil Bhat got the third goal in the 31st minute. Mumbai Marines scored a consolation goal through Omkar Kalkar in the 45th minute.
In the third match, Oranje FC scored an identical 3-1 win against Sara FC. Dennis Pinto, Omkar Shinde and Shubham Chafe scored a goal each for the winners, while Sayyed Abbas Rizvi netted the lone goal for the losers.
Results – Div-III Play-off: Iron Born FC 1 (Anas Shaikh) beat Alpha Football ACD 0.
Oranje FC 3 (Dennis Pinto, Omkar Shinde, Shubham Chafe) beat Sara FC 1 (Sayyed Abbas Rizvi).
Revolution FC 3 (Bhayade Suraj, Bhat Akhil) beat SDKT Mumbai Marine 1 (Omkar Kalkar).