2022–23 Kerala Premier League qualification

The 2022–23 Kerala Premier League Qualifiers were played from 25 September to 5 October. A total of eleven teams competed to decide the remaining 3 of 22 places in the 2022–23 Kerala Premier League.^[1] The fixtures were announced on 20 September.

Teams

The following 11 teams (usually combination of district champions and lowest placed KPL teams previous season) entered the qualifying play-offs, consisting of four rounds:

• 6 teams entered in the preliminary round 1.
• 5 teams entered in the preliminary round 2.

	Team	Head coach	City	Sponsor
1	FC Kerala	Britto Clemmi	Thrissur	Yogakshemam Loans
2	Kerala Blasters B	Tomasz Tchorz	Kochi	Byju's
3	MA College	Rajeev Palickal	Kothamangalam	Positive
4	Altius IFA	Deepak Cherukudi Mattuvayil	Koppam	Aerius
5	Shooters United	Ahamad Rasheed	Padne
6	AFC Ambalavayal		Ambalavayal	[2]
7	Aleppey XI FC		Alappuzha
8	Payyannur College FC		Payyannur
9	Sacred Heart		Thrissur
10	Farook College FC		Feroke
11	Byzantine Cochin		Ernakulam	[3]

Round 1

^[4]

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

16:00

Payyannur College	5-1	Byzantine Cochin

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

26 September 2022 (2022-09-26)

16:00

Aleppey XI FC	1-6	Sacred Heart

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

16:00

AFC Ambalavayal	2-2	Shooters United
Penalties
	2–4

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

Round 2

28 September 2022 (2022-09-28)

16:00

Farook College	0-2	FC Kerala

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

29 September 2022 (2022-09-29)

16:00

AIFA	1-3	Payyannur College

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

30 September 2022 (2022-09-30)

16:00

Kerala Blasters B	1-0	Sacred Heart

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

1 October 2022 (2022-10-01)

16:00

MA College	0-1	Shooters United

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

Semi-finals

2 October 2022 (2022-10-02)

16:00

FC Kerala	1-1	Payyannur College
Penalties
	3–5

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

3 October 2022 (2022-10-03)

16:00

Kerala Blasters B	4-0	Shooters United

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

Final

4 October 2022 (2022-10-04)

16:00

Payyannur College	1-2	Kerala Blasters B

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

Loosers-final

5 October 2022 (2022-10-05)

16:00

FC Kerala	6-1	Shooters United

Rajiv Gandhi Synthetic Stadium, Kasaragod

Goalscorers

There were 41 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 3.73 goals per match.

5 goals

• Charles Offei (FC Kerala)

4 goals

• Sreeraj (Payyannur College)

2 goals

• Roshan Gigi (Kerala Blasters B)
• Basith (Kerala Blasters B)
• Akash Ravi (Payyannur College)
• Sanjay (Sacred Heart)
• Manaf (AFC Ambalavayal)

1 goal

• Sanalraj (Payyannur College)
• Krishnaraj (Payyannur College)
• Dilshad (Payyannur College)
• Anurag (Payyannur College)
• Bijesh (Shooters United)
• Akshay (Shooters United)
• Rizwan (Shooters United)
• Jyothish (Shooters United)
• Bibin (FC Kerala)
• Abhishek (FC Kerala)
• Yadhu Krishnan (FC Kerala)
• Akhil (FC Kerala)
• Manoj (Sacred Heart)
• Shamnad (Sacred Heart)
• Vishnu (Sacred Heart)
• Azarudhin (Kerala Blasters B)
• Ajsal (Kerala Blasters B)
• Alkesh (Kerala Blasters B)
• Sachu (Byzantine Cochin)
• Sajith (Aleppey XI)
• Shadil (AIFA)

References

1. "കേരള പ്രീമിയർ ലീഗ്, യോഗ്യത മത്സരങ്ങൾ സെപ്റ്റംബറിൽ, 11 ലക്ഷം നൽകിയാൽ 2 കോർപ്പറേറ്റ് ടീമുകൾക്ക് ലീഗിൽ എത്താം". 2022-06-20. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
2. ലേഖകൻ, മാധ്യമം (2022-03-25). "ഫുട്ബാളിൽ വയനാടിന്‍റെ ചാമ്പ്യൻ ടീമായി എ.എഫ്.സി അമ്പലവയൽ". www.madhyamam.com (in Malayalam). Retrieved 2022-09-22.
3. "Byzantine football club: An underdog fairytale". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
4. "കെ പി എൽ യോഗ്യത മത്സരങ്ങളുടെ ഫിക്സ്ചർ എത്തി, ബ്ലാസ്റ്റേഴ്സിന്റെ ആദ്യ മത്സരം സെപ്റ്റംബർ 30ന് | Kerala Premier League | Fanport Sports News". 19 September 2022.