Kingfisher East Bengal FC

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East Bengal
ইস্ট বেঙ্গল
Full name Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club
Nickname(s) The Red-and-Gold Brigade
Torch
Hilsa
(Bengali:লাল-হলুদ, মশাল and ইলিশ respectively)
Founded 1920
Ground East Bengal Club on the Maidan (shared with Aryans club)
Matches are played at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan (Bengali:
যুবভারতী ক্রীড়াঙ্গন) also known as the Salt Lake Stadium
(Capacity 120,000 - Salt Lake Stadium;
24,000 - East Bengal Ground)
Chairman Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Manager Swapan Ball
Coach: Flag of India Subrata Bhattacharya
League I-League
2005-2006 NFL Premier Division 2nd
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Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club is an Indian football (soccer) 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.

Contents

As of 22 June 2007 [1]

No. Position Player
2 Flag of India DF Muttah Suresh
4 Flag of India DF Gurpreet Singh
5 Flag of India DF Debabrata Roy
6 Flag of India MF Dipankar Roy
7 Flag of India MF Jayantha Sen
8 Flag of India MF Tomba Singh
9 Flag of India MF Alvito D'Cunha
11 Flag of India MF Hardeep Singh Saini
12 Flag of India DF Anupam Sarkar
14 Flag of India MF Chandan Das
16 Flag of India DF Sanjay Parte
17 Flag of India DF Surya Bikash Chakraborty
19 Flag of India DF Syed Rahim Nabi
20 Flag of India DF Napoleon Singh
21 Flag of India GK Abhra Mondal
22 Flag of India FW Vimal Pariyar
No. Position Player
23 Flag of India MF Mehtab Hossein
24 Flag of India GK Subrata Pal
25 Flag of India FW Ashim Biswas
26 Flag of India DF Mehrajuddin Wadoo
27 Flag of India DF Irungbam Surkumar Singh
29 Flag of India DF Saumik Dey
30 Flag of Brazil FW Edmilson Marques Pardal
3 Flag of Nigeria DF Majek Bolaji
13 Flag of South Africa DF Macdonald Mukasi
31 Flag of India GK Arup Debnath
32 Flag of India FW Snehashis Chakraborty
33 Flag of India GK Rajat Guha
34 Flag of India DF Amulya Mondal
35 Flag of India DF Aibor Khongjee
36 Flag of India MF Sovan Chakraborty
37 Flag of India MF Marlangki Suting
38 Flag of India DF Poibang Poshna
39 Flag of India MF Ratan Das
40 Flag of India MF Vanlal Rova
41 Flag of India FW Mohammed Mukhtar

Listed according to when they debuted for East Bengal (year in parentheses):

Board of Directors

  • Chairman: Dr. Vijay Mallya
  • Managing Director: Kalyan Majumdar
  • Directors: Dr. Pranab Das Gupta, Dr. S. R. Das Gupta, Mr.Shyamal Roy, Mr. Santosh Dutta, Mr. Santosh Bhattacharya, Mr. Kalyan Ganguly, Mr. Sekhar Ramamurthy, Mr. S. K. Saha, Mr. Amit Sen, Mr. Hemant Mehta

Senior club staff

  • President: Dr. Pranab Das Gupta
  • Vice Presidents: Manas Mukherjee, Girish Mehta, Saroj Kumar Jhunjhunwala, Nani Das
  • Hony. General Secretary: Kalyan Majumdar
  • Hony. Asstt. Gen. Secretary: Dr. S.R. Dasgupta
  • Hony. Treasurer: Santosh Kr Datta
  • Hony. Accountant: Shyamal Roy
  • Hony. Football Secretary: Santosh Bhattacharjee
  • Hony. Cricket Secretary: Tapan Das
  • Hony. Hockey Secretary: Kallol Basu
  • Hony. Ground Secretary: Birendra Kr Saha
  • Hony. Tennis Secretary: Haradhan Paul
  • Executive Committee Members: Swapan Ball, Debabrata Sarkar, Ranjan Bose, Mihir Samaddar, Dipankar Chakraborty, Prabir Dafadar, Manish Bannerjee, Saroj Bhattacharya, Tarun Chakraborty, Subir Ganguly, Rana Das Gupta, Goutam Sen, Sitangshu S Dhar, Sumit Deb, Ashit Mukherjee

Management

Medical staff

  • Team Doctor: Dr. S R Dasgupta
  • Physical Trainer: Alexandre da Silva Lopes
  • Physiotherapist: Rajesh Basak

Out of matches East Bengal have played with their arch rival Mohun Bagan, East Bengal have won 108 times and Mohun Bagan have won 77. The very first clash resulted in an 1-0 win for East Bengal with N. Chakravarty scoring the all-important goal. The biggest ever margin in this duel is another East Bengal win by a margin of 5-0 in the IFA shield in 1975.

No Tournament Records Championship Years Comments
1 LG ASEAN Club Cup Champions Once 2003 the only Indian club 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

3 Federation Cup Champions 5 times, Runners-Up 7 times Champions: 1978, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2007(Sep)

Runners-Up: 1984, 1986, 1992, 1995, 1996(Jan), 1997, 1998

4 Super Cup Champions Twice, Runners-Up Once Champions: 1997, 2005-06

Runners-Up: 2003

Tournament Between National league and Federation Cup Champions
5 Calcutta Football League — Premier Division Champions 31 times Champions... 1942, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
6 IFA Shield Champions 27 times Champions- 1943, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002
7 Durand Cup Champions 16 times Champions-1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004
8 Rovers Cup Champions 10 times Champions-1949, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1994
9 DCM Trophy Champions 7 times Champions-1950, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1973, 1974, 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, 1973, 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

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.


Salt Lake Stadium

The heavenly green on Earth: The Ground


A view from the press box

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

C0-Sponsor: Playwin

C0-Sponsor: Peerless General Finance & Investment Co. Ltd

Outfit Sponsor:Reebok

Medical Support:MEDICARE SERVICES

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