East Bengal Club

East Bengal

Full name	Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Red-and-Gold Brigade Torch Hilsa
Founded	1920
Ground	East Bengal Ground or Salt Lake Stadium (Capacity: 120,000 - SLS; 24,000 - EBG)
Chairman	Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Head Coach	Stanley Rozario
League	I-League
2007-08	6th
Home colours Away colours

Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club is an Indian football club based in Kolkata. The club was originally known as the East Bengal Club. In 1998, the name of the club was changed from the East Bengal Club to the Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club as United Breweries obtained a 50% stake in the club and renamed it to promote their Kingfisher beer.

East Bengal also has a multi-collaborative tie-in with Leicester City FC, UK for an exchange program with junior footballers, in respect to coaching techniques, sports science, and other developmental programs.East Bengal club was regarded as "The Best Club of India" by F.A(The Football Association)of England in 1951. East Bengal was the first Indian club to win IFA Shield for three consecutive years(1949-'51).

East Bengal has a record of winning Kolkata League for six years in a row(1970-1975).It is the first club in India to win back to back National Football League titles(2003 & 2004).The club has a record of winning 23 trophies from Indian capital New Delhi.(Durand Cup:16 times and DCM Trophy:7 times).

In 1970,East Bengal created a history by defeating Pas Club(Iran) 1-0 in IFA Shield final. It was the first victory of an Indian club over foreign team since the independence. East Bengal has a glorious past record against the foreign clubs. It is the only club in India to participate in Asian Club Championship/AFC Cup 10 times.

In 2003 July,East Bengal created sensation not only in India but in the whole continent also when they won LG Asean Cup from Jakarta beating BEC Tero Sasana in the finals.

Contents 1 Stadium 2 Rivals 3 Players 3.1 Noted former players 4 Performance record 5 Performance in AFC Competitions 6 Sponsors 7 References 8 External links

Stadium

As its homeground, the club boasts of the enigmatic Yuba Bharati Krirangan, or the Salt Lake Stadium, Asia's biggest composite stadium. It is the biggest of its kind in Asia. The Salt Lake Stadium has seating arrangement for 120,000 people at a time. Its training ground is a smaller East Bengal tent near the maidan.

Rivals

Out of matches East Bengal have played with their arch rival Mohun Bagan, East Bengal have won 108 times and Mohun Bagan have won 80. The very first clash resulted in an 1-0 win for East Bengal with Nepal Chakraborty scoring the all-important goal.^[1] The biggest ever margin in this duel is another East Bengal win by a margin of 5-0 in the IFA shield in 1975. Baichung Bhutia has the unique distinction of scoring the only hatrick in the Derby Clashes when he registered the same in East Bengal's 4-1 triumph in 1997 Federation Cup Semi Final.East Bengal has won 108 derby matches against their arch-rival.And Mohun Bagan has tasted victory against the Red & Gold brigade for 80 times.^[2]

Players

As of 4 August 2008 ^[3]

No. Position Player 24 GK Subrata Pal 1 GK Abhra Mondal 31 GK Arnab Das Sarma GK Avijit Ghosh 27 DF Irungbam Surkumar Singh 20 DF Poibang Poshna 4 DF Suley Musah 33 DF Saikat Saha Roy 2 DF Muttath Suresh 12 DF Anupam Sarkar DF Saheb Ali Mondal 3 DF Nirmal Chetri 5 DF Khelemba Singh 19 DF Syed Rahim Nabi 29 DF Saumik Dey 17 DF Jiban Singh 14 MF Mehtab Hussain MF Mumtaj Alam 6 MF Dipankar Roy 22 MF Sanju Pradhan

No. Position Player 26 MF Mehrajuddin Wadoo 7 MF Jayanta Sen 32 MF Goutam Khujur 9 MF Alvito D'Cunha 15 MF Dharamjit Singh 8 MF P Renedy Singh 28 MF Kima Malsamma 30 FW Edmilson Marques Pardal 11 FW Sunil Chetri 10 FW Ashim Biswas 25 FW Parveen Kumar FW Yusuf Yakubu

• Coach: Stanley Rozario
• Goalkeeper Coach: Debashis Mukherjee
• Physical Trainer: Suresh Babu
• Team Doctor: Dr. S R Dasgupta
• Physiotherapist: Rajesh Basak
• Team Manager: Swapan Ball

Noted former players

• 1920s: Mona Dutta, Nepal Chakraborty, Surja Chakraborty, Haran Saha, Dulal Guha Thakurta
• 1930s: Mohammed Salim, Murgesh, Somana, Lakshminarayan, Majid
• 1940s: Apparao, Pagsley, Byomkesh Bose, P. Venkatesh, Sunil Ghosh, S.Nayyar, Paritosh Chakraborty, PBA Saleh
• 1950s: Masood Fakri, T. Balaram, Taj Mohammed, K.P.Dhanraj, Ahmed Khan, Minilal Ghatak, S.Roy-Paltu, Kittu, Gokul, Sanat Sett, Moosa, Hassan, Ram Bahadur
• 1960s: Aroon Ghosh, Sukumar Samajpati, Peter Thangaraj, Prasanta Sinha, Chandan Bannerjee, Ashim Moulik, Syed Naeemuddin, Parimal Dey, Md. Habib, Santo Mitra, Shyam Thapa, Sudhir Karmakar, Subhash Bhowmick
• 1970s: Samaresh Chowdhury, Shyamal Ghosh, Ashokelal Banerjee, Gautam Sarkar, Surajit Sengupta, Bhaskar Ganguly, Monoranjan Bhattacharya, Prasanta Banerjee, Harjinder Singh
• 1980s: Majid Bashkar, Jamshed Nassiri, Sudip Chatterjee, Alok Mukherjee, Tarun Dey, Krishanu Dey, Bikash Panji, Emeka Ezeugo, Balai Mukherjee, Cheema Okeri, Swarup Das
• 1990s: John Devine, Bhaichung Bhutia, Tushar Rakshit, Kuljit Singh, Samuel Omollo, Carlton Chapman
• 2000s: Dipak Mondal, Suley Musah, Surkumar Singh, Alvito D'Cunha, Muttah Suresh, Subrata Pal, Mike Okoro, Douglas Da Silva

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Performance record

No	Tournament	Records	Championship Years	Comments
1	LG ASEAN Club Cup	Champions Once	Champions: 2003	Only Indian club (as an invitee) to have won this tournament till date
2	National Football League	Champions Thrice, Runners-Up Thrice	Champions: 2000-01, 2002-03, 2003-04 Runners-Up: 1997-98, 1998-99, 2005-06	Maximum number of times till date (shares the glory with Mohan Bagan and Demp SC)
3	Federation Cup	Champions 5 times, Runners-Up 7 times	Champions: 1978, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2007 Runners-Up: 1984, 1986, 1992, 1995-98
4	Super Cup	Champions Twice, Runners-Up Twice	Champions: 1997, 2005-06 Runners-Up: 2003 , 2008	Tournament Between National league and Federation Cup Champions. Maximum number of times till date
5	Calcutta Football League — Premier Division	Champions 31 times	Champions: 1942, 1945-46, 1949-50, 1952, 1961, 1966, 1970-75, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1987-89, 1991, 1993, 1995-96, 1998-2000, 2002-04, 2006	Maximum number of times till date
6	IFA Shield	Champions 27 times	Champions: 1943, 1945, 1949-51, 1958, 1961, 1965-66, 1970, 1972-76, 1981, 1983-84, 1986, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1997, 2000-02	Maximum number of times till date
7	Durand Cup	Champions 16 times	Champions:1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1989-91, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004	Maximum number of times till date (jointly shared the glory with Mohan Bagan)
8	Rovers Cup	Champions 10 times	Champions:1949, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972-73, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1994
9	DCM Trophy	Champions 7 times	Champions:1950, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1973-74, 1983	Maximum number of times till date
10	All Airlines Gold Cup	Champions 7 times	Champions:1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001	Maximum number of times till date
11	Bordoloi Trophy	Champions 5 times	Champions:1968, 1972-73, 1978, 1992
12	McDowell's Cup	Champions 3 times	Champions:1995, 1997, 2000	Maximum number of times till date
13	Sait Nagjee Trophy	Champions 2 times	Champions:1968, 1986
14	Hercules Cup	Champions 1 time	Champions:1920
15	Darjeeling Gold Cup	Champions 1 time	Champions:1976
16	Sanjay Gandhi Gold Cup	Champions 1 time	Champions:1984
17	Stafford Cup	Champions 1 time	Champions:1986
18	Wai-Wai Cup, Nepal	Champions 1 time	Champions:1993
19	Coca Cola Cup	Champions 1 time	Champions:1996
20	Independence Day Cup	Champions 1 time	Champions:2002
21	San Miguel International Cup, Nepal	Champions 1 time	Champions:2004-05

Performance in AFC Competitions

• Asian Club Championship: 2 appearances

1986: Group Stage

1999: First Round

• AFC Cup: 3 appearances

2004: Quarter-Finals

2005: Group Stage

2008: Group Stage, 3rd In Group

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 5 appearances

1991/92: Second Round

1993/94: Second Round

1994/95: First Round

1995/96: Second Round

1997/98: Second Round

Sponsors

Main Sponsor: Kingfisher (Parent Company United Breweries Group is 50% stake holder in the Club).

Co-sponsor: Playwin

Co-sponsor: Peerless General Finance & Investment Co. Ltd

Outfit Sponsor: Reebok

Medical Support: MEDICARE SERVICES

References

External links

• Official East Bengal Club Website

AFC Cup 2008 v • d • e
Quarter-finals Al-Muharraq • Al-Nahda • Dempo • Safa Eliminated in Quarter-finals Home United • Kedah • Perak • SAFFC Eliminated in Group stage Al-Ahli San‘a’ • Al-Ansar • Al-Najma • Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut • Al-Wihdat • East Bengal • Kitchee • New Radiant • Shabab Al-Ordon • South China • Sur • Victory
I-League 2008–09 Teams v • d • e
Division 1 Air India | Chirag United | Churchill Brothers | Dempo | East Bengal | JCT | Mahindra United | Mohun Bagan | Mohammedan Sporting | Mumbai FC | Sporting Clube de Goa | Vasco | Division 2 Indian Bank | Oil India Ltd | ONGC | HAL | New Delhi Heroes | Pune FC | SBT | Salgaocar | Viva Kerala

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