East Bengal Club

Sporting Club East Bengal are an Indian professional football club based at Kolkata.[1]

East Bengal
Salt Lake Stadium - Yuva Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata.jpg
Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, which East Bengal uses for most matches
Full nameKingfisher Bengal Football Club
Founded1920
GroundSalt Lake Stadium
(capacity: 120,000)
OwnerUB Group
ChairmanDr Pranab Dasgupta
ManagerTrevor Morgan
LeagueI-League
2010–11I-League, 2nd
WebsiteClub home page
Current season

East Bengal is one of the teams which compete in the I-League.

History

East Bengal Football Club was established in 1920.[1]

In 1998, the name of the club was changed from East Bengal Football Club to Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club.[2]

In July 2003, East Bengal won the ASEAN Club Championship at Jakarta.[3]

Players

First-team squad

As of 24th July 2013[4]
No. Position Player
1   GK Abhijit Mondal
2   DF Raju Gaikwad
3   DF Arnab Mondal
4   DF Uga Okpara
5   DF Sunil Thakur
6   FW Baljit Sahni
7   MF Harmanjot Khabra
8   DF Naoba Singh
9   MF Alvito D'Cunha
10   FW Chidi Edeh
11   FW James Moga
12   MF Reisangmei Vashum
13   GK Abhra Mondal
14   MF Mehtab Hossain (captain)
15   MF Sanju Pradhan
16   DF Gurwinder Singh
No. Position Player
17   MF Ryuji Sueoka
18   MF Abhishek Das
19   FW Nilendra Dewan
20   FW Seminlen Doungel
21   MF Lalrindika Ralte
22   DF Safar Sardar
23   FW Joaquim Abranches
24   FW Cavin Lobo
25   DF Robert Lalthalma
29   DF Saumik Dey
30   GK Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
31   GK Jayanta Pal
32   GK Priyant Singh
33   MF Saikat Saha Roy
34   MF Subodh Kumar
35   MF Ishfaq Ahmed
  MF Dipankar Roy

Notable past players

East Bengal Club Media

Related pages

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Soccerway.com, East Bengal FC; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  2. AsianFootballFeast.com, East Bengal Archived 2012-06-30 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-7-10.
  3. Rediff.com, "East Bengal lift ASEAN Cup," July 26, 2003; retrieved 2012-7-10.
  4. "Senior Team". East Bengal F.C. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  5. East Bengal the Real Power (EBRP), Byomkesh Bose[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  6. NationalFootballTeams.com, "Baichung Bhutia"; retrieved 2012-7-19.
  7. EBRP, Paritosh Chakravarty[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  8. EBRP, Surja Chakravarty[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  9. EBRP, Mona Dutta[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  10. EBRP, Sunil Ghosh[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  11. EBRP, Ahmed Khan[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  12. EBRP, Majid[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  13. EBRP, Lakshmi Narayan[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  14. EBRP, J. Sarkar[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.
  15. EBRP, Dulal Thakurta[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-9.

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