The match was attended by a number of eminent personalities including the Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar, the First Lady of West Bengal Sudesh Dhankhar, the Cabinet Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs (Government of West Bengal) Aroop Biswas, the Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs (Government of West Bengal) Manoj Tiwary, the Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, the Commander of Eastern Command Lt. Gen. Manoj Pande and the Chief of Staff, Eastern Command Lt. Gen. Kamal Kumar Repswal.

The final match of the 130th Durand Cup edition kicked off on a lively note in front of 44,000+ spectators with both Mohammedan SC and FC Goa both going on the attack from the beginning.

Soon after, Goa created a chance but a mix-up between Muhammed Nemil and Alexander Romario Jesuraj in the box led to an easy save for the Mohammedan keeper, Zothanmawia.

The second half saw Goa dominating possession but the same wasn’t resulting into concrete chances as they were losing the ball far too easily in the final third.

In the meantime, Mohammedan finally made their first change of the match bringing on Brandon Vanlalremdika for Azharuddin Mallick, who was already on a yellow card.

Mohammedan made some good runs by Faisal Ali down the left flank in the last 5 minutes but again failed to make them count.

Bedia scored from a fantastic free-kick awarded just outside the Mohammedan box in the 105th minute owing to a foul by Milan Singh.

The match finally ended with FC Goa being crowned the champions of the 130th Durand Cup for the first time, defeating Mohammedan SC 1-0.

Additionally a live audio commentary was done on 91.9 Friends FM and Prasar Bharati Sports YouTube channel.