Venues: Mapal Kangjeibung Stadium Main Stadium Kuman Lampak Eastern Sporting Union Ground Thangmeiband Athletic Union Ground
Cluster I ---- 18-Oct-02: Jammu & Kashmir 4-0 Rajasthan [3,83 Deepak Sangral, 62 Rakhesh, 87 Manat Kumar] 20-Oct-02: Bengal 7-0 Rajasthan [14,40,73,80
Dipendu Biswas, 37 Sandip Das, 41,51 Amar Pyne] 22-Oct-02: Bengal 5-0 Jammu & Kashmir [3,24,67 Dipendu Biswas, 64 Surya Bikash Chakraborty, 83 Anupam Sarkar]
Cluster II ---- 18-Oct-02: Chandigarh 1-2 Meghalaya [C: 58 Munish Kumar; M: 17 Richard Nongneng, 43 Soki Lamara] 20-Oct-02: Maharashtra 2-0 Chandigarh [70 Naushad Moosa, 77 Aziz Quereshi] 22-Oct-02: Maharashtra 3-2 Meghalaya [Ma: 51 Aziz Quereshi, 71 Anthony Fernandes, 78 Altafuddin Ahmed; Me: 72 Sam Kharbhi, 77 Freddy Kharpran]
Cluster III ---- 18-Oct-02: Mizoram 2-1 Madhya Pradesh [Mi: 10 Joseph Lalnunzira, 48 Benjamin Zonunsiama; MP: 67 Rahamat Baig] 21-Oct-02: Punjab 1-0 Madhya Pradesh [33 Gurjit Singh Atwal] 23-Oct-02: Punjab 1-0 Mizoram [88 Sher Singh]
Cluster IV ---- 17-Oct-02: Manipur 8-0 Himachal Pradesh [36,51,70,83
Bijen Singh, 43 Kanta Singh, 55 Helen Singh, 62
Tomba Singh, 86 Tiken Singh] 20-Oct-02: Pondicherry 0-1 Himachal Pradesh [90 Rahul Sharma] 22-Oct-02: Manipur 9-0 Pondicherry [1 Sanaton Singh, 3,44,70,87 Tiken Singh, 40,41
Bijen Singh, 50
James Singh, 72 Nilakumar Singh]
Cluster V • Daman & Diu has pulled out ---- 18-Oct-02: Assam 3-0 Andhra Pradesh [36 Utpal Basumatary, 44 Kamal Chetry, 90 Padum Brpha] 21-Oct-02: Bihar 1-0 Andhra Pradesh [58 Suresh Kalandi] 23-Oct-02: Bihar 0-3 Assam [6 Utpal Basumatary, 58 Saran Sonar, 79 Sanjiva Rongpi]
Cluster VI • Arunachal Pradesh has pulled out ---- 19-Oct-02: Services 5-0 Uttar Pradesh [26,40,45 Pritam Bahadur, 49 Bikash Gurung, 60 Thiruna Vakarsu] 21-Oct-02: Sikkim 3-0 Uttar Pradesh [34 Milan Lepcha, 44 Kamal Bagdas, 89 Ram Rai] 23-Oct-02: Services 3-0 Sikkim [39 Jhoney P Gangmei, 56 Pritam Bahadur, 57 Raghu Kumar]
Cluster VII ---- 19-Oct-02: Haryana 0-1 Gujarat [68 Mukesh Kumar] 19-Oct-02: Karnataka 4-1 Tripura [K: 11 SK Dayanand, 68 Jagadish Kumar, 76 Sunil S Kumar, 90 BV Pradeep; T: 21 Sambhu Saha] 21-Oct-02: Tripura 4-1 Gujarat [T: 10 Swapan Rai, 48 Sambhu Saha, 53,64 Premjit Singh Barua; G: 56 Ranjit Sisodiya] 21-Oct-02: Haryana 0-2 Karnataka [29 SK Dayanand, 75 Gregory Clarke] 23-Oct-02: Karnataka 6-0 Gujarat [34 Sunil S Kumar, 52,72 BV Pradeep, 62,79 SK Dayanand, 60 Kanika Raj] 23-Oct-02: Tripura 2-1 Haryana [T: 37,77 Swapan Rai; H: 30 Satya Singh]
Cluster VIII • Andaman Nicobar has pulled out ---- 19-Oct-02: Orissa 0-0 Delhi 21-Oct-02: Nagaland 1-1 Delhi [N: 90 Vizo Peseyie; D: 45 Rajesh Arya] 23-Oct-02: Orissa 3-0 Nagaland [38,86 Gyanaranjan, 66 Bhabani Prasad Mohanty] ==Quarterfinal League==