East Bengal Club

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East Bengal
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Full nameEast Bengal Club
NicknameRed and Gold Brigade
Bangal Brigade
Torch Bearers
FoundedAugust 1, 1920;103 years ago (1920-08-01)
PresidentDr. Pronab Dasgupta
Website eastbengalclub.com

East Bengal Club

East Bengal is one of the most widely supported sports clubs in Asia. The club is mainly supported by the Bangals, i.e., the immigrant population from the eastern region of Bengal, who were forced to leave their homes (modern-day Bangladesh) during the partition of 1947. [1] For those people, East Bengal Club became a source of identity and hope. The huge influx of dispossessed into the state led to a socio-economic crisis. [2] This led to rivalries among the immigrant and native population of West Bengal, popularly named as Bangal (বাঙাল) in every sphere of life, from jobs to schools and even on football, cricket and hockey pitches. As a result, East Bengal has a long-standing rivalry with its cross-town competitors Mohun Bagan, which is mainly supported by the native population, named popularly as Ghoti (ঘটি), with whom it competes in the Kolkata derby, Asia's biggest sports rivalry. East Bengal also shares a local rivalry with another Kolkata club, Mohammedan. The club dons the iconic red and golden yellow colours, which give it the nickname of Red and Gold Brigade and Laal Holud (লাল হলুদ).The fans of the club are also collectively called the Torchbearers

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History

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Suresh Chandra Chaudhari (founder)
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Sailesh Bose
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Sarada Ranjan Roy (First president)

On 28 July 1920, Jorabagan Club was scheduled to play against Mohun Bagan in the Coochbehar Cup. Jorabagan Club sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose, who was dropped from the squad for undisclosed reasons. The then vice-president of Jorabagan Club, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, asked in vain for Bose to be included in the line-up. When his request was not welcomed, Chaudhuri left the club along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen, and Aurobinda Ghosh. They formed East Bengal Club as a Sports and Cultural Association in the neighbourhood of Jorabagan on 1 August 1920. The name East Bengal was chosen for the newly formed club as the founders hailed from the eastern region of Bengal. [3] [4] [5] Sarada Ranjan Ray took on the role of becoming the first president of this newly formed club while Suresh Chandra Chowdhury and Tarit Bhusan Roy were declared to be the first joint secretaries of the club. [6] Soon after, Nagen Kali, M. Talukdar, B. Sen, N. Gossain, Goshto Paul (on loan from Mohun Bagan), P. Bardhan, S. Das, S. Tagore, J. Mukherjee, Ramesh Chandra Sen, S. Bose, C. Bose, A. Roy, and A. Bannerjee were announced to be the members of the first team squad by the board. [7] [8]

Crest, colours and kits

Crest

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha swept over India and affected football. Indian clubs boycotted the ongoing Calcutta Football League midway through the season. Amidst much confusion, Royal Regiment was declared the winner in the first division. However, East Bengal was not allowed to be promoted to the First Division. Thousands of East Bengal fans and officials decided to hold a protest march at the East Bengal Ground. It was at this march that flaming torches were carried by the protesters. And the hand holding flame torch (known as 'Mawshal' or 'মশাল' in Bangla) became the club emblem, which has remained to this day. [9] [10] [11] In the year 2020 East Bengal released a special Centenary Crest to celebrate 100 years of its existence.

Colours

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Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. department store in 1945

The primary and secondary colors of East Bengal are red and yellow respectively. [13] Traditionally, the home kit consists of a red and yellow jersey with black shorts, while the away kit colors vary every year. [14] These colors came about after the club was formed when the founders debated over them for the club jersey. At that time, the jerseys used to come from England. The founders, while searching, came across the red and gold color shirt hanging at the Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. department store in Chowringhee, Kolkata. It attracted them, and they finalized the colors and jersey. It cost ₹80 in 1920, four times higher than the average. [15] These colours permanently integrated with the club. [3]

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Traditional kit
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Centenary year kit

Departments

Men's football

The men's football team is the most distinguished and revered department of East Bengal Club. It was the original department with which the club was founded in 1920. East Bengal FC is one of the most successful football clubs in the country having won 39 state leagues (effectively top-tier before the foundation of NFL) and 3 national titles amongst numerous Durand Cups, Federation Cups and other premier Cup competitions. East Bengal is also the only Indian club to have ever won a FIFA recognized international tournament in 2003 which was the ASEAN Club Championship. East Bengal is the joint most successful team in that competition.

Women's football

The women's football team was formed in 2001. It won the Calcutta Women's Football League title in its inaugural season and was runners-up in 2002. [16] In the centenary year, the women's team was relaunched. [17] [18] In the first year of relaunch, the East Bengal women's team became runner's up of the 2020 Kanyashree Cup. [19]

Reserves team and Academy

East Bengal Club Reserves is the reserve team of East Bengal Club. It is the most senior level beneath the first team. The team generally consists of younger players but at times senior players also play. Reserve side currently plays in the Calcutta Football League.

East Bengal Academy are the club's under-21, under-18, under-15 and under-13 sections. The under-21 team is the last stage for promotion of youth players into the first team. The youth teams participate in the Reliance Foundation Development League and the Youth League of various age groups.

Cricket

The East Bengal Club Cricket team participates in various tournaments for varying age groups conducted by the Cricket Association of Bengal. Currently, it participates in the CAB First Division League, CAB Senior Knockout, CAB Super League, and JC Mukherjee Trophy. The team plays its home matches mostly at the Eden Gardens and Jadavpur University Campus Ground. They have won around 60 major state-level trophies so far. [20] Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Ajay Jadeja, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Sourav Ganguly have played on the team. [21]

Hockey

This department started after the Independence of India. The club is affiliated with the Bengal Hockey Association and participated in the BHA First Division hockey league and the Beighton Cup. [22] [23] [24] They won 13 trophies. The team was disbanded in 2000. [25] The hockey department was restarted in 2021 with Calcutta Hockey League. [26]

Athletics

East Bengal has an athletics team, which is affiliated with the West Bengal Athletic Association, and participates in various tournaments of West Bengal. [27] The club also organizes Annual Athletic meets at the club ground. [28]

E-Sports

East Bengal also took part in the inaugural season of e-ISL where the ISL teams competed to play the video game FIFA 22. The club was represented by 2 youngsters, Ankit Gupta and Shayantan Mondal.

Ownership

East Bengal is mainly organized as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, which means one can avail of membership in the club. There are around 12,000 members. [29] Although, a limited company, named East Bengal Club Pvt. Ltd., was later formed, and both are governed by the club parallelly. Sponsorships and investments happen via this corporate company. [30] The club is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. Amendments and resolutions are passed via extraordinary or annual general meeting. [31] [32]

Currently the 77% football rights are sold to Emami , Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd. jointly owned by East Bengal Club and Emami Group. [33]

Stadiums

The club has used several stadiums at Kolkata, Howrah and Barasat, including the Eden Gardens, which has been reserved for cricket since Salt Lake Stadium opened in 1984. [34] The first ground used by the club was Kumartuli Park in north Kolkata. [35] [36]

Salt Lake Stadium

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Salt Lake Stadium

The Salt Lake Stadium, also known as Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), is a multi-purpose stadium in Kolkata, built in 1984. The stadium is the largest non-auto racing in India. It is currently used mainly for football matches. The stadium includes a unique running track, long jump track, electronic scoreboard, natural turf, floodlighting arrangement, conference hall, medical room, and a doping control Room. The Salt Lake Stadium hosts the home games of East Bengal in the Indian Super League and AFC competitions. The total capacity of the stadium was 85,000, before it was changed to 68,000. [37]

East Bengal Ground

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East Bengal Ground

The East Bengal Ground is located in Kolkata and is the club's historical home ground. The stadium lies in the Maidan (Kolkata) area on the northern side of Fort William and near the Eden Gardens. This stadium is used mostly for Calcutta Football League matches and by the academy, women's, and hockey teams. [38] The total capacity of the stadium is 23,500. [37]

Eden Gardens

The Eden Gardens is the second largest cricket stadium in India. The stadium currently has a capacity of 68,000 and formerly had a capacity of around 100,000. East Bengal has used this stadium on several occasions. For many games and seasons Eden Gardens served as the Home ground of the men's football team before the construction of Salt Lake Stadium. After its construction the club continued to use the stadium for its cricket teams.

Other grounds

Barasat Stadium is also used by the club for some regional matches, especially in cases where the Salt Lake Stadium or East Bengal Ground cannot be used. [39] Kanchenjunga Stadium, a multipurpose stadium based in Siliguri, has also been used several times to host club football matches. [40] It also hosted the 2012 Federation Cup. Kalyani Stadium, situated on the outskirts of Kolkata at Kalyani, was used by East Bengal as their home turf during the 2019–20 I-League. [41]

The team also trains at one of the VYBK practice grounds. [42]

Management

As of September 2022 [43]

East Bengal Club

RoleName
President Flag of India.svg Dr. Pronab Dasgupta
Vice-presidents Flag of India.svg Ajoy Krishna Chatterjee
Flag of India.svg Shankar Bagri
Flag of India.svg Saroj Kumar Jhunjhunwala
Flag of India.svg Indrajit Roy
Flag of India.svg Subhashish Chakroborty [44]
General secretary Flag of India.svg Kalyan Majumdar
Assistant secretary Flag of India.svg Rupak Saha
Treasurer Flag of India.svg Debdas Samajdar
Accountant Flag of India.svg Sadananda Mukherjee
Football secretary Flag of India.svg Saikat Ganguly
Cricket secretary Flag of India.svg Manas Kumar Roy
Hockey secretary Flag of India.svg Chanchal Banerjee
Athletic secretary Flag of India.svg Siddhartha Sircar
Ground secretary Flag of India.svg Saroj Bhattacharjee
Tennis secretary Flag of India.svg Debasish Bose
Executive committee members Flag of India.svg Sanjib Acharya
Flag of India.svg Molly Ganguly
Flag of India.svg Sri Subir Ganguly
Flag of India.svg Santosh Bhattacharya
Flag of India.svg Debabrata Sarkar
Flag of India.svg Rajiv Guha
Flag of India.svg Goutam Das
Flag of India.svg Birendra Kumar Saha
Flag of India.svg Dipankar Chakraborty
Flag of India.svg Biplab Paul
Flag of India.svg Somenath Guha
Flag of India.svg Suman Dasgupta
Special invitee Flag of India.svg Ajit Banerjee
Flag of India.svg Rajat Guha
Flag of India.svg Manish Banerjee
Flag of India.svg Dr. Santi Ranjan Dasgupta
Flag of India.svg Bikash Dutta
Flag of India.svg Tapan Das
Flag of India.svg Indranil Dey
Co-opted Flag of India.svg Kamalendu Sinha Roy
Flag of India.svg Rabin Das
Flag of India.svg Amit Roy

Honours

Football

Major trophies of East Bengal FC include the following: [45] [46] [47] [48]

TypeCompetitionTitlesSeasons
International ASEAN Club Championship 1S 2003
Domestic National Football League 3 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04
Federation Cup 81978, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2007, 2009–10, 2010, 2012
Indian Super Cup 31997, 2006, 2011
IFA Shield 291943, 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, 2012, 2018
Durand Cup 161951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004
Calcutta Football League 391942, 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, 2010, 2011, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
Rovers Cup 101949, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1994

Cricket

Champions (16): 1974-75, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2009-10, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2016-17
Champions (13): 1975-76, 1977-78, 1979-80, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1997-98, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15
Champions (12): 1977-78, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1987- 88, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2009-10, 2016-17
Champions (10): 1976-77, 1978-79, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2016-17
Champions (8): 1992-93, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16
Champions (1): 2016-17

Hockey

Champions (10): 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1989, 2022
Champions (4): 1957, 1962, 1964, 1967
Runners-up (3): 1963, 1970, 1987

Awards

Affiliated clubs

The following club was formerly affiliated with East Bengal:

The following club is currently affiliated with East Bengal:

See also

Notes

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