Southern Samity

Southern Samity
Full name Southern Samity
Founded 1945
Ground Salt Lake Stadium
(Capacity: 120,000)
Owner Frontlink International
Manager Carlos Roberto Pereira
League I-League 2nd Division
2011 I-League 2nd Division, 8th
Home colours
Current season

Southern Samity established in the year 1945.[1] During that time apart from sports they are also involved in various cultural activities.

Southern Samity is second division club based out of kolkata.[2] They have financial backing from some of the local filmstars and have a decent team with former big team players like Edmilson and Javier. With former Durand Cup winner Churchill Brothers S.C. coach Carlos Roberto Pereira at the helm of things Southern Samity becameone of the favourites to qualify from the I-League 2nd Division. They will certainly be buoyed by their performance in IFA Shield where they became the first Indian team to reach semi-final on debut in 1975. [3]

History

In 1959 the club get their affiliation from the IFA. In there first year Southern Samity was declared champion in the Bengal Soccer League.

But the club got their footstep in football from the year 2007-2008 onwards, when Frontlink International took charge of the clubs Football department. In the year 2008-2009 they became the champions in the Calcutta Football League in the 2nd Division and were promoted in the First Division Calcutta Football League where famous and big clubs like Kingfisher East Bengal F.C., Mohun Bagan A.C., and Chirag United S.C. play.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
GK Pranay Roy
GK Amit Sinha Royl
GK Binod Mullick
DF Rahul Bhattacharjee
DF Debayan Saha
MF Arindam Das
DF Rajib Ahmed
DF Manas Das
DF Gurprit Singh
DF Madhab Das
DF Anand Vasan
DF Dharamjit Singh
DF Kartik Chatterjee
DF Ekramul Mullick
No. Position Player
MF Sumi PT
MF Chandan Das
MF Sasthi Duley
MF Himan Singh
MF Jamir Ali Mondal
MF Suman Dutta
FW Franchis Xevier (Captain)
FW Pradip Nag
FW Tushim
FW Shek Saroyar Ali
FW Mohesh Sarkar
FW Edmilson Marques Pardal
FW Matthew Mayora
DF Du
DF Anyichie Eche

References