Kingfisher East Bengal FC

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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

Alok Mukherjee

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.

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.^[2]

[edit] Players

As of 22 June 2007 [1]

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Muttah Suresh
4	DF	Gurpreet Singh
5	DF	Debabrata Roy
6	MF	Dipankar Roy
7	MF	Jayantha Sen
8	MF	Tomba Singh
9	MF	Alvito D'Cunha
11	MF	Hardeep Singh Saini
12	DF	Anupam Sarkar
14	MF	Chandan Das
16	DF	Sanjay Parte
17	DF	Surya Bikash Chakraborty
19	DF	Syed Rahim Nabi
20	DF	Napoleon Singh
21	GK	Abhra Mondal
22	FW	Vimal Pariyar
23	MF	Mehtab Hossein
24	GK	Subrata Pal

No.	Position	Player
25	FW	Ashim Biswas
26	DF	Mehrajuddin Wadoo
27	DF	Irungbam Surkumar Singh
29	DF	Saumik Dey
30	FW	Edmilson Marques Pardal
3	DF	Majek Bolaji
13	DF	Macdonald Mukasi
31	GK	Arup Debnath
32	FW	Snehashis Chakraborty
33	GK	Rajat Guha
34	DF	Amulya Mondal
35	DF	Aibor Khongjee
36	MF	Sovan Chakraborty
37	MF	Marlangki Suting
38	DF	Poibang Poshna
39	MF	Ratan Das
40	MF	Vanlal Rova
41	FW	Mohammed Mukhtar

[edit] Noted former players

1930s: Mohammed Abdul Salim (1938)
1940s: Apparao (1941), Pagsley (1942), Byomkesh Bose (1948), P. Venkatesh (1948), Ahmed Khan (1949)
1950s: Masood Fakri (1952), T. Balaram (1957)
1960s: Aroon Ghosh (1960), Sukumar Samajpati (1961), Peter Thangaraj (1965), Syed Naeemuddin (1966), Md. Habib (1966), Shyam Thapa (1966), Sudhir Karmakar (1969), Subhash Bhowmick (1969)
1970s: Gautam Sarkar (1972), Bhaskar Ganguly (1976), Monoranjan Bhattacharya (1977)
1980s: Majid Baskar (1980), Sudip Chatterjee (1984), Krishanu Dey (1985), Bikash Panji (1985), Emeka Ezeugo (1986), Balai Mukherjee (1986), Cheema Okeri (1987)
1990s: John Devine (1991), Kuljit Singh (1994), Baichung Bhutia, Samuel Omolo (1997), Karlton Chapman (1996)

The year in bracket against a player's name indicates the first year he played for the club.^[3]

[edit] 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
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
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
10	All Airlines Gold Cup	Champions 7 times	Champions:1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001
11	Bordoloi Trophy	Champions 5 times	Champions:1968, 1972-73, 1978, 1992
12	McDowell's Cup	Champions 3 times	Champions:1995, 1997, 2000
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