ISL Cup playoffs

ISL Cup
Founded	2014
Region	India
Teams	6
Current champions	Mohun Bagan Mumbai City (2nd title)
Most championships	ATK (3 titles)
2025 ISL Cup playoffs

TheISL Cup playoffs is the annualpostseasonelimination tournament of theIndian Super League (ISL). Under the current format adopted in the 2022–23 season, six teams qualify for the tournament based on their regular-season standings. The top two teams advance directly to the semi-finals, while the remaining four compete in single-leg eliminators.

The ISL awards the regular-season winners with theLeague Champions and the playoff winners with theISL Cup.Extra time andpenalty shoot-outs are used to determine the winner if matches end in a draw. When ties are played over one leg, the higher-ranked team from the regular season hosts the match.

The top two clubs after the regular season automatically progress to the ISL playoffs. The playoffs culminate with the ISL Final, where the winner is presented with the ISL Cup. In the qualifiers, the third-through-sixth ranked teams play a single-elimination match hosted at the higher-ranked team's venue, with the two winners joining the first and second-ranked teams in two-legged semifinals played over two weeks (since2022–23). The two winners eventually met in the final hosted at a pre-decided venue, but from2023–24 onwards, the final is played at the higher-ranked team's venue.

After the regular season, the team with the most points is declared the Champions and presented with the League Winners Shield, automatically qualifying for the playoffs along with the runners-up. At the same time, the next best four teams qualify to qualifying playoffs. The position of each team is determined by the highest number of points accumulated during the regular season. If two or more teams are level on points, the following criteria are applied in order until one of the teams can be determined as the higher ranked:^[1]

1. Highest number of points accumulated in matches between the teams concerned;
2. Highest goal difference in matches between the teams concerned;
3. Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams concerned;
4. Highest goal difference
5. Highest number of goals scored
6. Lowest number of red cards accumulated;
7. Lowest number of yellow cards accumulated;
8. Toss of a coin.

Bold indicates they won the ISL Cup that year. Team names initalics indicates the club is defunct or a former Indian Super League member.

• AFC Champions League Two

• WorldFootball

• Indian Super League seasons
• Indian Super League lists

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from August 2022
• Use Indian English from August 2022
• All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
• Short description matches Wikidata