List of East Bengal FC records and statistics

East Bengal is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which competes in Indian Super League, the top tier of Indian football. The club was formed when the vice-president of Jorabagan, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, resigned when Jorabagan sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose who was dropped from the squad for reasons not disclosed when they were about to face Mohun Bagan in the Cooch Behar Cup semi-final on 28 July 1920. He along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal, in Jorabagan home of Suresh Chandra on 1 August 1920; 99 years ago.[1] East Bengal started playing in the Calcutta Football League 2nd division from 1921 and in 1925 they qualified for the first division for the first time and since then they have won numerous titles in Indian Football.[1]

East Bengal joined the National Football League since its inception in 1996 and is the only club to play all seasons till date, even after its name changed to I-League in 2007.[2] East Bengal have won the National Football League thrice: 2000–01, 2002–03 and 2003–04, and became runners-up 7 times, the most of any Indian clubs. Among other trophies, East Bengal have won the Calcutta Football League 39 times, IFA Shield 29 times, Federation Cup 8 times and the Durand Cup 16 times. East Bengal holds the joint-record for most Quintuples (5 trophies) in Club football, having 3 to their name.[3]

History

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The East Bengal team with the 1949 IFA Shield trophy.

On 28 July 1920, Mohun Bagan was scheduled to play Jorabagan in the Cooch Behar Cup.[1] Jorabagan sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose who was dropped from the squad for reasons not disclosed.[1] The vice-president of Jorabagan, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, asked for Bose to be included in the line-up but the club coaches did not listen.[1] Chaudhuri left the club due to this and, along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal on 1 August 1920, named after the region they hailed from.[1] East Bengal Club played their first match in the 1920 Hercules Cup, which was a 7-a-side tournament that they won. After the tournament, the club became affiliated with the Indian Football Association. They won their first-ever full tournament in 1921, lifting the Khogendra Shield.[4] The red and gold brigade qualified for the Calcutta Football League 1st division in 1925.[4] They won their first 1st title in 1942. East Bengal won their first IFA Shield in 1943. In 1945, East Bengal won their first double of winning both Calcutta Football League and IFA Shield.[1] From 1949 to 1951, East Bengal became the first team to make a hat-trick of wins in IFA Shield.[4] In 1970, the club defeated Asian giants PAS Tehran to win the IFA Shield trophy.[5][6] In 1972, East Bengal won Calcutta Football League, IFA Shield, Durand Cup and Rovers Cup in a single season, thus becoming the first team to do so.[4][6] In 1972, East Bengal also made a record of being the first and till date only Indian team winning the Calcutta Football League without conceding a single goal, which they again repeated in 1991.[7] In 1973, the club defeated Pyongyang City SC to lift the IFA Shield title[5] and went on to defeat another North Korean team Dok Ro Gang to lift the DCM Trophy in the same season.[6][8] In 1975, East Bengal broke the record by winning the Calcutta Football League consecutively for the 6th time (1970–75), bettering the record held by Mohammedan Sporting of winning it 5 times (1934–38).[6][4] In 1975, East Bengal also created history as they defeated their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan by a record margin of 5–0, which is still being held today, in the IFA Shield final at the Mohun Bagan Ground.[4] In 1976, East Bengal made a record of winning the IFA Shield 5 times in a row.[6][4] In 1978, East Bengal participated in the Federation Cup for the first time and became joint champions with Mohun Bagan.[9][10] In 1985, East Bengal won the Federation Cup and qualified for Asian Club Championships for the first time.[4] East Bengal won the Coca-Cola Cup held in Colombo as a preliminary tournament for Central Asia Zone, and reached the group stages held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[4] In 1991 East Bengal qualified for the Asian Cup Winners' Cup for the first time and reached the quarter-finals.[11] In 1993, East Bengal won their second tournament on foreign soil as they won the Wai Wai Cup in Nepal.[4] In 2000–01, East Bengal won their maiden NFL title,[12] winning it again in 2002-03 and 2003–04.[4] In 2003, they won a major international trophy at Jakarta when they defeated BEC Tero Sasana to lift the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship.[13] The club won their third trophy outside of India when they defeated South Korean Hannam University to lift the San Miguel Cup in Nepal.[14] Between 2007 and 2012, East Bengal won the Federation Cup 4 times (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012). From 2010 to 2017, East Bengal again bettered their own record as they won the Calcutta Football League for 8 consecutive times.[15]

In 2020, the club joined the Indian Super League[16] and rebranded as SC East Bengal.[17] They finished ninth in their debut season, having won three of the twenty league matches. The team finished eleventh, at the bottom in the 2021–22 season, winning just one game in the entire campaign. In 2022, the club rebranded itself as East Bengal FC and finished ninth again, having won six of the twenty league matches.[18] In 2024, East Bengal won the Super Cup defeating Odisha in the final to break a twelve-year wait for a national cup trophy.[19]

Honours

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East Bengal Club has won honours both domestically and in international competitions.[3] They have won the National Football League title 3 times and the Federation Cup 8 times.[3] They also won the Calcutta Football League a record 39 times and the IFA Shield a record 29 times.[3] Till date, the club has won more than 150 trophies which are listed below:[3][20]

  •   Record
  • S Shared record
East Bengal Club honours
Tournament No. Years Ref.
International (Friendly Invitational Tournaments)
Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup (Central Asia)
1
1985 [21]
Nepal Wai Wai Cup
1
1993 [4]
ASEAN ASEAN Club Championship
1S
2003 [13]
Nepal San Miguel International Cup
1
2004 [14]
Total 4
Domestic (Major)
India National Football League
3
2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04 [22]
India Federation Cup
8
1978, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2007, 2009–10, 2010, 2012 [23][10]
India Super Cup
1S
2024 [19]
India Indian Super Cup
3
1997, 2006, 2011 [24]
India Calcutta Football League
40
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, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2024 [25]
India IFA Shield
29
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, 2002–03, 2012 [26]
India Durand Cup
16
1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972,1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004 [27]
India Rovers Cup
10
1949, 1962, 1967, 1969,1972. 1973, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1994 [28]
Total 109
Domestic (Minor and Other Trophies)
India DCM Trophy
7
1950, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1973, 1974, 1983 [29]
India Bordoloi Trophy
5
1968, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1992 [30]
India All Airlines Gold Cup
7
1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001 [31]
India Darjeeling Gold Cup
5
1976, 1981, 1982, 1985, 2018[a] [32][33]
India McDowell's Cup
3
1995, 1997, 2000 [34]
India Sait Nagjee Football Tournament
2
1968, 1986 [35]
India Stafford Cup
2
1981, 1986 [3][20]
India Sanjay Gandhi Gold Cup
1
1984 [3]
India Kalinga Cup
1
1993 [3]
India SSS Trophy
2
1989, 1991 [3]
India Independence Day Cup
1
2002 [3]
India Dr. H. K. Mookherjee Shield
2
1957, 1961 [3]
India ATPA Shield
1
1992 [3]
India P. K. Nair Gold Cup
1
1956 [3]
India Kerala FA Shield
1
1968 [3]
India Mohammedan Sporting Platinum Jubilee Cup
1
2010 [3]
India Hercules Cup
1
1920 [3]
India Khogendra Cup
1
1921 [20]
India Chandannager Cup
1
1920 [20]
India Sachin Memorial Shield
1
1921 [20]
India Cooch Behar Cup
5
1924, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1960 [20]
India Trades Cup
4
1960, 1966, 1975, 1976 [20]
India Gladstone Cup
1
1929 [20]
India Griffith Shield
2
1929, 1946 [20]
India Lady Hardinge Shield
1
1940 [20]
India Lakshmibilas Cup
3
1920, 1968, 1969 [20]
India Bardwan Cup
1
1938 [20]
India S.C.I.S.T. Cup
1
1947 [20]
India William Younger Cup
2
1969, 1976 [20]
India Girija Shield
1
1942 [20]
India Raja Memorial Shield
1
1960 [20]
India Madhyamgram MLA Cup
1
2023[a] [36]
India Kulodakanta Memorial Shield
1
2023[a] [37]
Total 70
All Total 182m
  • m Including minor trophies
  1. ^ a b c East Bengal Reserves participated in the tournament.

Player records

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Goalscoring records

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Cleiton Silva, 3 (During the 2022–23 season).[40]
Saúl Crespo, 3 (During the 2023–24 season).[40]

Hat-trick on debut

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Hat-trick on debut for East Bengal
Date Nationality Name Opponent Tournament Score Ref
21 May 1963 India India Ashim Moulik Sporting Union Calcutta Football League 3–0 [61]
28 May 1966 India India Shyam Thapa Rajasthan Club Calcutta Football League 4–0 [62][63]
19 June 1967 India India Shibram Sarkar Sporting Union Calcutta Football League 4–0 [61]
6 November 2004 Nigeria Nigeria Ernest Jeremiah Sporting Club de Goa Durand Cup 4–0 [64][65][66][67]
31 August 2010 India India Bikash Narzinary Mohammedan AC Calcutta Football League 5–0 [68][69]
12 August 2017 India India Suhair Vadakkepeedika NBP Rainbow AC Calcutta Football League 4–1 [70]

Top goalscorers

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Competitive, professional matches only.

All time top scorers

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Bhaichung Bhutia, top scorer of East Bengal.
All-time top scorers of East Bengal[38][56]
Ranking Nationality Name Goals Ref.
1  India Bhaichung Bhutia 148 [71][72][56]
2  Nigeria Chima Okorie 131 [38][56]
3  India K. P. Dhanraj 127 [38][56]
4  India Mohammad Habib 114 [73][56]
5  India Tulsidas Balaram 104 [74][56]
6  India A.C. Somana 102 [38][56]
7  India Ashim Moulik 98 [38][56]
8  India Sunil Ghosh 97 [75][56]
9  India Surajit Sengupta 92 [38][56]
10  India Mohammed Akbar 90 [56]
11  India Parimal Dey 84 [56]
12  India Subhash Bhowmick 82 [56]
13  India P. Venkatesh 80 [56]
14  Iran Jamshid Nassiri 72 [56]
15  India Shyam Thapa 68 [56]

Top scorers in Indian Super League

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As of 7 April 2024
Players in Bold are part of the current squad.
Top scorers of East Bengal in ISL
Ranking Nationality Name Goals Ref.
1  Brazil Cleiton Silva 20 [76][40]
2  India Naorem Mahesh Singh 8
3  India Nandhakumar Sekar 5
4  Germany Matti Steinmann 4
 Croatia Antonio Perosevic
 Spain Saúl Crespo
7  Nigeria Bright Enobakhare 3
Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo Jacques Maghoma
 Ireland Anthony Pilkington
 Netherlands Darren Sidoel
 India Thongkhosiem Haokip

Top scorers in National Football League/I-League

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Top Scorer for East Bengal in NFL/I-League
Ranking Nationality Name Goals Ref.
1  India Bhaichung Bhutia 49 [42][77]
2  Australia Tolgay Ozbey 35 [77]
3  Nigeria Ranti Martins 29 [77]
4  Nigeria Chidi Edeh 27 [77]
5  Brazil Edmilson Marques Pardal 23 [77][78]
6  Nigeria Mike Okoro 21 [77]
7  India Raman Vijayan 20 [77]
 Ghana Yusif Yakubu
9  India Robin Singh 19 [79]
10  Nigeria Dudu Omagbemi 18 [79]

Top scorers in Calcutta League

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Top Scorer for East Bengal in Calcutta League
Ranking Nationality Name Goals Ref.
1  India A.C. Somana 85 [4][47]
2  India Sunil Ghosh 75 [47]
3  India K. P. Dhanraj 70 [47]
4  India Surjo Chakraborty 62 [47]
 India Mohammad Habib 62 [80][47]

Appearance records

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Mehtab Hossain (bottom right) in 2013 with East Bengal.
Sanju Pradhan in 2011 with East Bengal.
Saumik Dey in 2011 with East Bengal.
  • Most appearances in Indian Super League: Naorem Mahesh Singh, 62.[40]
  • Most appearances in I-League: Mehtab Hossain, 175.[81]
  • Most appearances in AFC Cup: Mehtab Hossain, 34.[82]
  • Youngest player to play for East Bengal in Indian Super League: Vanlalpeka Guite, 16 years and 334 days (against Jamshedpur, 25 September 2023).[a]
  • Youngest player to start for East Bengal in Indian Super League: Haobam Tomba Singh, 17 years and 306 days (against Kerala Blasters, 20 December 2020).[b]

Most appearances in Indian Super League

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The list of East Bengal players with the most appearances in the Indian Super League. Indian midfielder Naorem Mahesh Singh holds the record with 62 total appearances with 57 from the starting line-up for the club.[40]

Player names in bold are part of the current squad.
As of 22 October 2024
List of East Bengal players with most appearances in the Indian Super League
SL no. Position Nationality Name Total Apps Starts Seasons Played
1 Midfielder India India Naorem Mahesh Singh 62 57 2021–
2 Forward Brazil Brazil Cleiton Silva 47 43 2022–
3 Defender India India Lalchungnunga 40 35 2022–
4 Midfielder India India Mohammed Rafique 31 19 2020–22
5 Midfielder India India Souvik Chakrabarti 29 22 2022–
6 Defender India India Mohammad Rakip 29 17 2022–
7 Midfielder India India Wahengbam Angousana 29 13 2020–23
8 Defender India India Ankit Mukherjee 28 22 2020–23
9 Forward India India Thongkhosiem Haokip 27 15 2021–23
10 Forward India India V. P. Suhair 26 20 2022–24

Most Appearances in I-League

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The list of East Bengal players with the most number of appearances in the I-League era, starting from 2007-08 I-League till 2019-20 I-League before the Red and Gold brigade moved into Indian Super League. Indian former International and former East Bengal captain Mehtab Hossain holds the record for the most appearances for the East Bengal having made 175 total appearances with 165 starts.[81][2]

Player names in bold are still part of the current squad.
As of till the end of 2019–20 I-League season.
List of East Bengal players with most appearances in the I-League (2007–2020)
SL no. Position Nationality Name Total Apps Starts Seasons Played
1 Midfielder India India Mehtab Hossain 175 165 2007–17
2 Left Back India India Saumik Dey 115 111 2007–16
3 Midfielder India India Harmanjot Khabra 113 96 2009–16
4 Midfielder India India Sanju Pradhan 104 65 2008–13
2015–16
5 Centre-back Nigeria Nigeria Uga Okpara 95 94 2009–14
6 Midfielder India India Lalrindika Ralte 92 75 2012–17
2018–20
7 Centre-back India India Arnab Mondal 86 81 2012–18
8 Centre-back India India Gurwinder Singh 83 71 2010–18
2019–20
9 Midfielder India India Syed Rahim Nabi 75 73 2007–11
10 Midfielder Nigeria Nigeria Penn Orji 72 69 2010–13

Most uninterrupted seasons played

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List of East Bengal players with most uninterrupted number of seasons played[85][86]
SL no. Name Position Years of Playing Playing Years Captained
1 Moni Talukdar Goal Keeper 1920–1937 18 1932,1933
2 Dulal Guha Thakurta Forward 1927-1942 16 1935,1936
3 Rakhal Majumdar Defender 1937-1952 16 1943
4 Apparao Forward 1941-1955 15 1946
5 Tushar Rakshit Midfielder 1991-2005 15 1995
6 Noni Ghosal Center Half 1921-1934 14 1926
7 Monoranjan Bhattacharya Defender 1977-1990 14 1981
8 Alvito D'Cunha Midfielder 2002-2015 14 2006
9 Bhanu Dutta Ray Defender 1922-1934 13 1923
10 Promod Dasgupta Defender 1936-1948 13 1938,1939,1940
11 Tarun Dey Defender 1982-1994 13 1986
12 Saumik Dey Defender 2005-2016 12 2010
13 Ram Bahadur Midfielder 1957-1967 11 1960
14 Bhaskar Ganguly Goal Keeper 1982-1992 11 1984
15 Mehtab Hossain Midfielder 2007-2017 11 2013-14
16 Sunil Ghosh Forward 1940-1949 10 1944
17 Byomkesh Bose Defender 1949-1958 10 1951
18 Dipankar Roy Midfielder 1999-2009 10 2005
  1. ^ Vanlalpeka Guite became the youngest ever player to debut in the Indian Super League for East Bengal when he came on in place of Naorem Mahesh Singh against Jamshedpur on 25 September 2023.[83]
  2. ^ Haobam Tomba Singh became the youngest ever player to start for a team in the Indian Super League when he debuted against Kerala Blasters FC on 20 December 2020.[84]

East Bengal players at the Olympics

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East Bengal club holds the record among Indian clubs to produce most players to have represented the national team in the Olympic Games.[87]

List of East Bengal players to represent the national team at the Olympics[87]
Year City Nationality Name Position
1948 London India India Syed M. Kaiser MF
1952 Helsinki India India S. Roy DF
India India Chandan Singh Rawat DF
India India Byomkesh Bose MF
India India Pansanttom Venkatesh FW
India India Ahmed Khan FW
India India P. B. A. Saleh FW
1956 Melbourne India India Mariappa Kempaiah MF
India India Kittu FW
1960 Rome India India Arun Ghosh DF
India India Ram Bahadur Chettri MF
India India Dharmalingam Kannan FW
India India Tulsidas Balaram FW

Transfer records

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The fees in the record transfer tables below are all sourced from news portals that cover Indian football.

Record transfer fees paid

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Record transfer fees paid by East Bengal FC
Rank Player From Fee Date Ref.
1 India Jeakson Singh Kerala Blasters 3.2 crore (US$380,000) 19 July 2024 [88]
2 India Anwar Ali Delhi 2.5 crore (US$300,000) 13 August 2024 [89]
3 India Prabhsukhan Singh Gill Kerala Blasters 1.5 crore (US$180,000) 12 July 2023 [90]

Coaching records

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P.K. Banerjee during his playing days for the Indian national football team.
Syed Nayeemuddin, the triple crown winning coach in 2016.
Trevor James Morgan as the East Bengal coach in 2010.
East Bengal coach Armando Colaco with Brazilian legend Zico at the club tent in 2014.
Alejandro Menéndez with I-League coach of the month award (December 2019) in January 2020.
Robbie Fowler, Head-coach of East Bengal in the 2020–21 season.

Firsts

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Records

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  • Longest serving coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 396 matches.[a]
  • Most matches won as head coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 292 matches.[96]
  • Most trophies won as head coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 31.[96]
  • Most trophies won in a single stint as head coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 16 (During 1972–76).[96][6]
  • Most NFL/I-League won as head coach: Subhash Bhowmick, 2.[97]
  • Most Federation cups won as head coach: P. K. Banerjee and Trevor James Morgan, 2.[10]
  • Most Calcutta League won as head coach: P. K. Banerjee, 7.[E]
  • Most international trophies won as head coach: Subhash Bhowmick, 2.[F]
  • Coaches who won the Triple Crown: P. K. Banerjee and Syed Nayeemuddin (in 1972–73 and 1990–91 respectively).[6][98]
  1. ^ P.K. Bannerjee served as the head coach of East Bengal for 9 seasons: 1972–76, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1988–90. He was also appointed as the Technical Director of the team in 1996–97.[96][6]

Managers at East Bengal since the start of National Football League

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Record in competitive matches for East Bengal coaches since the beginning of National Football League in India from the 1996–1997 season.
As of 1 November 2024
Record in Competitive matches for East Bengal coaches
Name Nat. From To P W D L GF GA GD Win%
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 1 April 1996 31 March 1999 176 111 36 29 289 117 +172 063.07
Subhash Bhowmick  India 20 May 1999 31 March 2000 51 28 12 11 71 31 +40 054.90
Syed Nayeemuddin  India 4 April 2000 13 January 2001 32 25 2 5 56 16 +40 078.13
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 13 January 2001 24 January 2002 52 31 13 8 84 29 +55 059.62
Subhash Bhowmick  India 25 January 2002 2 December 2005 200 133 29 38 384 144 +240 066.50
Bikash Panji[a]  India 4 December 2005 15 December 2005 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 050.00
Philippe De Ridder  Belgium 15 December 2005 31 May 2006 18 10 4 4 27 17 +10 055.56
Carlos Roberto Pereira  Brazil 4 July 2006 22 May 2007 38 18 9 11 53 43 +10 047.37
Subrata Bhattacharya  India 23 May 2007 16 January 2008 30 15 4 11 52 40 +12 050.00
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 16 January 2008 19 February 2008 7 3 2 2 6 5 +1 042.86
Aloke Mukherjee  India 20 February 2008 31 May 2008 9 2 2 5 6 10 −4 022.22
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 1 July 2008 15 September 2008 14 7 4 3 21 12 +9 050.00
Stanley Rozario  India 16 September 2008 24 December 2008 15 6 4 5 16 12 +4 040.00
Subhash Bhowmick  India 24 December 2008 25 October 2009 20 5 6 9 32 33 −1 025.00
Tushar Rakshit[b]  India 25 October 2009 12 November 2009 4 3 1 0 6 1 +5 075.00
Philippe De Ridder  Belgium 6 November 2009 31 May 2010 46 16 17 13 56 52 +4 034.78
Trevor James Morgan  England 16 July 2010 24 May 2013 178 112 31 35 351 160 +191 062.92
Marcos Falopa  Brazil 12 June 2013 14 November 2013 11 5 2 4 20 17 +3 045.45
Armando Colaco  India 14 November 2013 19 February 2015 54 30 15 9 99 47 +52 055.56
Eelco Schattorie  Netherlands 20 February 2015 31 May 2015 20 8 4 8 31 31 +0 040.00
Biswajit Bhattacharya  India 19 June 2015 11 April 2016 29 19 5 5 60 31 +29 065.52
Trevor James Morgan  England 13 April 2016 17 April 2017 28 18 4 6 48 24 +24 064.29
Ranjan Chowdhury Sr.[c]  India 19 September 2016 30 September 2016 5 4 0 1 13 2 +11 080.00
Mridul Banerjee  India 18 April 2017 19 April 2017 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !
Ranjan Chowdhury[d]  India 20 April 2017 31 May 2017 6 3 2 1 10 4 +6 050.00
Khalid Jamil  India 21 July 2017 26 April 2018 31 18 9 4 65 31 +34 058.06
Bastob Roy[e]  India 18 May 2018 19 August 2018 11 7 2 2 19 7 +12 063.64
Alejandro Menéndez[f]  Spain 19 August 2018 21 January 2020 43 24 7 12 75 38 +37 055.81
Bastob Roy[g]  India 21 January 2020 26 January 2020 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 100.00
Mario Rivera Campesino  Spain 23 January 2020 31 May 2020 8 3 3 2 11 8 +3 037.50
Francisco Bruto Da Costa[h]  India 30 July 2020 9 October 2020 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !
Robbie Fowler  England 9 October 2020 8 September 2021 20 3 8 9 22 33 −11 015.00
Manolo Díaz  Spain 8 September 2021 28 December 2021 8 0 4 4 10 18 −8 000.00
Renedy Singh[i]  India 28 December 2021 14 January 2022 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 000.00
Mario Rivera Campesino  Spain 1 January 2022 31 May 2022 9 1 2 6 7 16 −9 011.11
Bino George[j][k][l]  India 26 July 2022 present 37 26 8 3 98 23 +75 070.27
Stephen Constantine  England 27 July 2022 25 April 2023 27 7 6 14 32 48 −16 025.93
Carles Cuadrat  Spain 25 April 2023 30 September 2024 40 16 8 16 60 54 +6 040.00
Óscar Bruzón  Spain 8 October 2024 present 5 2 1 2 10 8 +2 040.00
  1. ^ Caretaker manager after Subhash Bhowmick was sacked for legal reasons.[99]
  2. ^ Caretaker manager after Subhash Bhowmick resigned. Includes record for the matches against Salgaocar on 29.10.2009, Chirag Kerala on 2.11.2009, Air India on 7.11.2009 and Shillong Lajong on 12.11.2009, as Tushar was in-charge as the head-coach before Philippe De Ridder took over.[100]
  3. ^ Academy Head Coach Ranjan Chowdhury was announced as the head-coach cum manager for the Bordoloi Trophy as Trevor Morgan left for holidays after the CFL.[101]
  4. ^ Caretaker manager under Technical-Director Monoranjan Bhattacharya.[102]
  5. ^ Head-coach under Technical-Director Subhash Bhowmick.[103]
  6. ^ Include two walkovers East Bengal awarded:
    1. vs Delhi Dynamos in 2019 Indian Super Cup
    2. vs Calcutta Customs in 2019-20 Calcutta Premier Division.
  7. ^ Interim head-coach after Alejandro Menéndez left and before Mario Rivera Campesino took charge. Includes record for the match against Chennai City on 25.01.2020.[104]
  8. ^ Francisco Bruto Da Costa was appointed as the head coach however, his contract was mutually terminated before the Indian Super League campaign started.[105]
  9. ^ Interim head coach after Manolo Díaz left charge. Includes record for the matches against Bengaluru on 4.01.2022, Mumbai City on 7.01.2022 and Jamshedpur on 11.01.2022, as Renedy was in-charge as the head-coach before Mario Rivera Campesino took over.[106]
  10. ^ East Bengal Club Reserves head-coach Bino George took charge of the team for the Calcutta Football League for three seasons: 2022, 2023 and 2024 as East Bengal mostly field their reserve squad, with the first team playing in the Indian Super League.[107]
  11. ^ Include two walkovers East Bengal received in the 2023 Calcutta Premier Division:
    1. vs Bhawanipore
    2. vs Mohun Bagan SG.[108]
  12. ^ Interim head coach after Carles Cuadrat left charge. Includes record for the match against Jamshedpur on 5.10.2024, as Bino was in-charge as the head-coach before Óscar Bruzón took over.[109]

Foreign managers at East Bengal

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Record in competitive matches for foreign coaches.[95]
As of 1 November 2024
Record for foreign coaches at East Bengal
Name Nat. From To P W D L GF GA GD Win %
Philippe De Ridder[a]  Belgium 15 December 2005 31 May 2006 18 10 4 4 27 17 +10 055.56
6 November 2009 31 May 2010 46 16 17 13 60 52 +8 034.78
Total 64 26 21 17 87 69 +18 040.63
Carlos Roberto Pereira  Brazil 4 July 2006 31 May 2007 38 18 9 11 53 43 +10 047.37
Trevor James Morgan  England 16 July 2010 24 May 2013 178 112 31 35 351 160 +191 062.92
13 April 2016 17 April 2017 28 18 4 6 48 24 +24 064.29
Total 206 130 35 41 399 184 +215 063.11
Marcos Falopa  Brazil 12 June 2013 14 November 2013 11 5 2 4 20 17 +3 045.45
Eelco Schattorie  Netherlands 20 February 2015 31 May 2015 20 8 4 8 31 31 +0 040.00
Alejandro Menéndez[b]  Spain 19 August 2018 21 January 2020 43 24 7 12 75 38 +37 055.81
Mario Rivera Campesino[c]  Spain 23 January 2020 31 May 2020 8 3 3 2 11 8 +3 037.50
1 January 2022 31 May 2022 9 1 2 6 7 16 −9 011.11
Total 17 4 5 8 18 24 −6 023.53
Robbie Fowler  England 9 October 2020 8 September 2021 20 3 8 9 22 33 −11 015.00
Manolo Díaz  Spain 8 September 2021 28 December 2021 8 0 4 4 10 18 −8 000.00
Stephen Constantine  England 27 July 2022 25 April 2023 27 7 6 14 32 48 −16 025.93
Carles Cuadrat  Spain 25 April 2023 30 September 2024 40 16 8 16 60 54 +6 040.00
Óscar Bruzón  Spain 8 October 2024 present 5 2 1 2 10 8 +2 040.00
  1. ^ Philippe De Ridder was appointed on 6 November 2009, however, he took charge of the team from 18 November, from the match against Railway FC in the 2009–10 season.
  2. ^ Includes two walkovers East Bengal awarded;
    1. vs Delhi Dynamos in 2019 Indian Super Cup
    2. vs Calcutta Customs in 2019-20 Calcutta Premier Division.
  3. ^ Mario Rivera was appointed on 23 January 2020, however, he took charge of the team from 26 January, from the match against Indian Arrows in the 2019–20 season.

Most successful managers at East Bengal

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Below is the list of the 5 most successful East Bengal head-coaches as per most honours won:

No Name I-League/NFL Fed Cup Calcutta League IFA Shield Durand Cup Rovers Cup Others[a] Total
1 India PK Banerjee 2 7 5 2 4 11 31
2 India Syed Nayeemuddin 0 0 3 5 3 2 3 16
3 India Subhash Bhowmick 2 0 4 1 2 0 3 12
4 India Amal Dutta 0 2 2 1 0 6 11
5 India Monoranjan Bhattacharya 1 1 2 2 0 0 4 10
  1. ^ Includes Coca-Cola Cup, ASEAN Club Championship, D.C.M. Trophy, All Airlines Gold Cup, Bordoloi Trophy, Wai Wai Cup, Kalinga Cup, Super Cup, San Miguel International Cup, McDowell's Cup, Independence Cup, Platinum Jubilee Cup.

Most trophies won in a single stint

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No Seasons Name I-League/NFL Federation Cup Calcutta League IFA Shield Durand Cup Rovers Cup Others[a] Total
1 1972–73 to 1975–76 India PK Banerjee 4 4 1 3 4 16
2 2001–02 to 2005–06 India Subhash Bhowmick 2 0 3 1 2 0 3 11
3 2010–11 to 2012–13 England Trevor James Morgan 0 2 3 1 0 2 8
4 1994–95 to 1995–96 India Syed Nayeemuddin 0 1 2 1 1 2 7
1996–97 to 1998–99 India Monoranjan Bhattacharya 0 1 2 1 0 0 3 7
5 1990–91 to 1991–92 India Syed Nayeemuddin 0 1 2 2 1 0 6
  1. ^ Includes ASEAN Club Championship, D.C.M. Trophy, All Airlines Gold Cup, Bordoloi Trophy, Wai Wai Cup, Super Cup, San Miguel International Cup, McDowell's Cup, Independence Cup, Platinum Jubilee Cup, SSS Trophy.

Club records

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Matches

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East Bengal players and officials in 1921.

Firsts

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  • First match: East Bengal 4–0 Metropolitan College, 12 August 1920.[G][44]
  • First Calcutta League 2nd Div match: East Bengal 0–0 Sobhabazar Club, 1 May 1921.[46][47]
  • First Calcutta League 1st Div match: East Bengal 1–4 Calcutta FC, 9 May 1925.[46][47]
  • First win in Calcutta League 1st Div: East Bengal 2–1 Dalhousie, 25 May 1925.[46][47][111]
  • First IFA Shield match: East Bengal 1–1 Town Club, 20 July 1921.[46]
  • First Durand Cup match: East Bengal 2–0 Army Headquarters FC, 1926.[46][111]
  • First Rovers Cup match: East Bengal 6–0 Royal Navy, 6 September 1941.[46][111]
  • First Federation Cup match: East Bengal 5–0 Rajasthan Police, 22 April 1978.[10][111]
  • First NFL / I-League match: Mohammedan Sporting 1–2 East Bengal, 17 December 1996.[112]
  • First Indian Super League match: East Bengal 0–2 ATK Mohun Bagan, 27 November 2020.[113]
  • First win in Indian Super League match: East Bengal 3–1 Odisha, 3 January 2021.[114][115]
  • First competitive Continental match: East Bengal 7–0 New Road Team, 1 August 1985.[A][116]

Wins

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Highest margin of victories in different tournaments
Tournament Date Opponent Score Goal scorers Ref
Rovers Cup 23 September 1945 B.B & C.I. Railway 11–0 Sunil Ghosh (2), Fred Pugsley (8), Sushil Chatterjee [117]
Calcutta Football League 10 June 1943 Dalhousie 10–0 A. C. Somana (4), Arokiraj (4), Appa Rao (2) [117]
28 June 1949 Calcutta Garrison 10–0 P.B.A. Saleh (3), Abid (4), K. P. Dhanraj (2), P. Venkatesh [117]
26 September 2023 Kidderpore 10–1 P. V. Vishnu (4), Mahitosh Roy (3), Jesin TK, V. P. Suhair (2) [117]
Durand Cup 26 December 1972 B.B.Star 10–0 Md. Akbar (4), Md. Habib (2), Mohan Singh, Latifuddin, Shambu Moitra, Samaresh Chowdhury [117][6]
IFA Shield 14 July 1936 Victoria Sporting 9–0 N. Majumdar (3), P. Mukherjee (2), S. M. Kaiser, Dulal Guha Thakurta, A. Hussain, Hira Das [117]
22 September 2003 Wari 9–0 Dipankar Roy (4), Bijen Singh (2), Kalia Kulothungan, Douglas De Silva, Shylo Malsawmtluanga [118][119]
Asian Club Championship 10 August 1985 Club Valencia 9–0 Debashis Roy (3), Jamshid Nassiri (2), Monojit Das (2), Debashis Misra, Samir Chaudhury [117]
Asian Cup Winners' Cup 15 August 1997 Tribhuvan Club 8–0 Bhaichung Bhutia (2), Somatai Shaiza, Naushad Moosa, Preto Garcia, Nazimul Haq, Falguni Dutta, A. Sarvanan [117]
DCM Trophy 16 October 1960 D.F.A. Jalandhar 8–0 Kanayan (3), D. Kannan (3), Narayan, Tulsidas Balaram [117]
I-League 23 Nov 2011 HAL 8–1 Tolgay Ozbey (4), Uga Okpara (2), Robin Singh, Baljit Sahni [120]
Federation Cup 22 April 1978 Rajasthan Police 5–0 Surajit Sengupta, Ranjit Mukherjee, Mihir Bose, Ulganathan, Prasanta Banerjee [117]
28 August 1998 Vasco 5–0 Raman Vijayan (2), Renedy Singh (2), Carlton Chapman [117]
31 July 2003 HAL 5–0 Bijen Singh (2), Chandan Das (2), Dipankar Roy [117]
AFC Cup 15 May 2013 Yangon United 5–1 Chidi Edeh (3), Penn Orji, Mehtab Hossain [117]
Indian Super League 4 December 2023 NorthEast United 5–0 Borja Herrera, Cleiton Silva (2), Nandhakumar Sekar (2) [121]

Defeats

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  • Worst defeat: Dynamo Kyiv 13–1 East Bengal, 6 September 1953.[H]
  • Worst defeat in Calcutta League: Dalhousie 7–1 East Bengal, 1928[46]
  • Worst defeat in Indian Super League: East Bengal 0–4 Hyderabad, 24 January 2022 (During the 2021–22 season).[123]
  • Worst defeat in NFL/I-League:
Shillong Lajong 5–1 East Bengal, 30 May 2015 (During the 2014–15 season).[124]
Salgaocar 4–0 East Bengal, 29 December 2011 (During the 2011–12 season).[125]

Consecutive titles

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Undefeated/winning streaks

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  • Longest undefeated streak in all competitions: 57 matches, (47 wins, 10 draws).[I] record.[96]
  • Longest undefeated streak in Calcutta Football League: 98 matches, (85 wins, 13 draws).[J] record.[96]
  • Longest undefeated streak in Indian Super League: 7 matches, (2 wins, 5 draws).[K][126]
  • Longest undefeated streak in NFL / I-League: 22 matches, (17 wins, 5 draws).[L] record.[127]
  • Longest undefeated streak in NFL / I-League in a single campaign: 17 matches, (13 wins, 4 draws).[M][2]
  • Longest winning streak in NFL / I-League: 6 matches (During the 2010-11 season).[N][2]
  • Undefeated Calcutta Football League Champions: 17 times, record.[45]
  • Calcutta Football League Champions winning all matches: 3 times, (1975–76, 1977–78, 2016–17) record.[45]

Records in National Football League and I-League

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As of till the end of 2019–20 season.[2]
East Bengal league record in NFL/I-League
Season Played Won Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Position Ref
1996–97 5[a] 3 2 0 6 2 +4 11 Qualify for Championship stage [129]
14 7 4 3 19 11 +8 25 3rd
1997–98 18 8 7 3 18 10 +8 31 2nd [130]
1998–99 10[b] 8 2 0 19 2 +17 26 Qualify for Second Stage [131]
10 5 4 1 14 8 +6 19 2nd
1999–00 22 8 8 6 25 21 +4 32 7th [132]
2000–01 22 13 7 2 30 9 +21 46 Champions [133]
2001–02 22 11 3 8 31 23 +8 36 5th [134]
2002–03 22 15 4 3 44 22 +22 49 Champions [135]
2003–04 22 15 4 3 37 13 +24 49 Champions [136]
2004–05 22 13 4 5 34 16 +18 43 3rd [137]
2005–06 17 9 4 4 25 16 +9 31 2nd [138]
2006–07 18 7 5 6 29 29 0 26 5th [139]
2007–08 18 5 4 9 17 23 −6 19 6th [140]
2008–09 22 7 7 8 31 26 +5 28 6th [141]
2009–10 26 7 10 9 27 31 −4 31 9th [142]
2010–11 26 15 6 5 44 21 +23 51 2nd [143]
2011–12 26 15 6 5 46 22 +24 51 2nd [144]
2012–13 26 13 8 5 44 18 +26 47 3rd [145]
2013–14 24 12 7 5 39 23 +16 43 2nd [146]
2014–15 20 8 5 7 30 28 +2 29 4th [147]
2015–16 16 7 4 5 22 18 +4 25 3rd [148]
2016–17 18 10 3 5 33 15 +18 33 3rd [149]
2017–18 18 8 7 3 32 19 +13 31 4th [150]
2018–19 20 13 3 4 37 20 +17 42 2nd [151]
2019–20 16 6 5 5 23 18 +4 20 2nd[c] [153]
TOTAL 500 248 133 119 756 464 +292 877
  1. ^ Group Stages
  2. ^ First Stage
  3. ^ The 2019–20 I-League was cancelled after 16 Rounds due to the COVID-19 pandemic. East Bengal FC was at the second place when the league was cancelled.[152]

Overall record in NFL/I-League

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Statistics correct till end of 2019–20 I-League.
East Bengal overall league record in NFL/I-League
Competition Home Away Total
P W D L P W D L P W D L F A Win% Notes
National Football League (1996–2007) (Tier-One) 114 77 25 12 110 45 33 32 224 122 58 44 331 182 054.46 [O][2]
I-League (2007–2020) (Tier-One) 137 72 38 27 139 54 37 48 276 126 75 75 425 282 045.65 [2]
Total 251 149 63 39 249 99 70 80 500 248 133 119 756 464 049.60 [2]

Record in ISL

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As of 22 October 2024
East Bengal league record in ISL
Season Played Won Draw Loss GF GA GD Points Position Play-offs Ref
2020–21 20 3 8 9 22 33 −11 17 9th Did not qualify [154]
2021–22 20 1 8 11 18 36 −18 11 11th Did not qualify [155]
2022–23 20 6 1 13 22 38 −16 19 9th Did not qualify [156]
2023–24 22 6 6 10 27 29 −2 24 9th Did not qualify [157]
2024–25 6 0 0 6 4 12 -8 0 13th TBD
TOTAL 88 16 23 49 93 148 −55 71

Overall Record in ISL

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As of 22 October 2024
East Bengal overall league record in ISL
Competition Home Away Total
P W D L F A P W D L F A P W D L F A Win% Notes
Indian Super League (2020 – ) (Tier-One) 43 7 14 22 43 66 45 9 10 27 50 82 88 16 23 49 93 148 018.18 [P] [Q]

Goals

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Jacques Maghoma scored the first ever goal for East Bengal in the Indian Super League against Hyderabad FC.

Firsts

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Records

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  • Most goals scored in an Indian Super League season: 27 in 22 matches (during the 2023–24 season).[76][40]
  • Most goals scored in an NFL/I-League season: 46 in 26 games (during the 2011–12 season).[2]
  • Most goals scored in a Calcutta League season: 77 in 26 games (during the 1949–50 season).[46][173]
  • Fewest goals conceded in an Indian Super League season: 29 in 22 games (during the 2023–24 season).[76][40]
  • Fewest goals conceded in an NFL/I-League season: 9 in 22 games (during the 2000–01 season).[2]
  • Fewest goals conceded in a Calcutta Football League season: 0 in 19 and 18 games (During the 1972–73 and 1991–92 season).[173][174]
  • Fewest goals conceded in a Federation Cup campaign: 0 in 5 games (during the 2009–10 season).[10]
  • Most individual scorers in a single NFL/I-League match: 6 (against United Sikkim, during the 2012–13 season).[175]

Top Scorers each season in ISL

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Matti Steinmann, top scorer for East Bengal in the 2020-21 Indian Super League season.

Top scorers for East Bengal in each season:[76][40]
* Current Season

As of 27 September 2024
Golden boot winner
Top Scorer for East Bengal in ISL
Season Nationality Name Goals
2020–21  Germany Matti Steinmann 4
2021–22  Croatia Antonio Perošević 4
2022–23  Brazil Cleiton Silva 12
2023–24  Brazil Cleiton Silva 8
2024–25  India P. V. Vishnu 1*
 India David Lalhlansanga
 France Madih Talal

Top Scorers each season in NFL/I-League

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Edmilson Marques Pardal
Enrique Esqueda with East Bengal in 2018.

Top scorers for East Bengal in each season:[2]

Golden boot winner
Top Scorer for East Bengal in NFL/I-League
Season Nationality Name Goals
1996-97 India India Raman Vijayan 9
1997-98 India India Bhaichung Bhutia 8
1998-99 India India Raman Vijayan 10
1999-00 Ghana Ghana Willie Brown 4
Brazil Brazil Ossius Luiz Ferreira
India India Dipankar Roy
2000-01 Nigeria Nigeria Omolaja Olalekan 8
2001-02 Nigeria Nigeria Omolaja Olalekan 7
2002-03 Nigeria Nigeria Mike Okoro 17
2003-04 Brazil Brazil Cristiano Júnior 15
2004-05 India India Bhaichung Bhutia 9
2005-06 India India Bhaichung Bhutia 12
2006-07 Brazil Brazil Edmilson Marques Pardal 13
2007-08 Brazil Brazil Edmilson Marques Pardal 8
2008-09 Ghana Ghana Yusif Yakubu 11
2009-10 Ghana Ghana Yusif Yakubu 9
2010-11 Australia Australia Tolgay Özbey 17
2011-12 Australia Australia Tolgay Özbey 18
2012-13 Nigeria Nigeria Chidi Edeh 18
2013-14 Nigeria Nigeria Chidi Edeh 9
2014-15 Nigeria Nigeria Ranti Martins 17
2015-16 Nigeria Nigeria Ranti Martins 12
2016-17 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Willis Plaza 9
2017-18 Nigeria Nigeria Dudu Omagbemi 8
2018-19 India India Jobby Justin 9
Mexico Mexico Enrique Esqueda
2019-20 Spain Spain Marcos de la Espada 6
Spain Spain Jaime Santos

Hat-tricks in NFL/I-League

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List of all hat-tricks for East Bengal in the NFL and I-League:[165][51]

Hat-tricks for East Bengal in NFL/I-League
Season Date Nationality Name Against Final score
1999-00 15 February 2000 Brazil Brazil Oseías Luíz Ferreira State Bank of Travancore 3 – 0
2002-03 25 January 2003 India India Alvito D'Cunha HAL 3 – 5
2002-03 8 February 2003 Nigeria Nigeria Mike Okoro HAL 4 – 1
2005-06 18 March 2006 India India Bhaichung Bhutia Sporting Club de Goa 4 – 3
2010-11 4 April 2011 Australia Australia Tolgay Özbey Air India 3 – 0
2011-12 23 November 2011 Australia Australia Tolgay Özbey4 HAL 1 – 8
2012-13 5 January 2013 Nigeria Nigeria Chidi Edeh Salgaocar 4 – 1
2014-15 1 March 2015 Nigeria Nigeria Ranti Martins5 Dempo 1 – 5
2015-16 9 February 2016 Nigeria Nigeria Ranti Martins Shillong Lajong 4 – 0
2015-16 12 March 2016 Nigeria Nigeria Ranti Martins Aizawl F.C. 2 – 3
2016-17 29 January 2017 Haiti Haiti Wedson Anselme Minerva Punjab 0 – 5
2017-18 24 February 2018 Nigeria Nigeria Dudu Omagbemi4 Chennai City F.C. 7 – 1
2018-19 14 February 2019 India India Laldanmawia Ralte Shillong Lajong 5 – 0

4 Scored 4 Goals
5 Scored 5 Goals

Attendances

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Kolkata Derby

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Firsts

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First Kolkata Derbies in Major Tournaments
Tournament Date Round Score East Bengal Scorers Mohun Bagan/ATK Mohun Bagan Scorers Ref
Calcutta Football League 28 May 1925 1–0 Nepal Chakraborty [181][183]
IFA Shield 5 August 1944 Semi Final 1–0 Vishweshwar Rao [183]
Durand Cup 28 December 1957 Semi Final 0–0 [183]
30 December 1957 Semi Final (Replay) 3–2 Musa (2), Balasubramaniam Chuni Goswami, Nimai Mukherjee [183]
Rovers Cup 27 November 1960 Semi Final 2–1 Arun Ghosh, B. Narayan Amiya Bannerjee [183]
Federation Cup 7 May 1978 Final 0–0 [183]
National Football League 6 January 1998 1–2 Felix Ijabandenyi Chima Okorie, Dipendu Biswas [184]
I-League 30 December 2007 0–1 Bhaichung Bhutia [185]
Indian Super League 27 November 2020 0–2 Roy Krishna, Manvir Singh .[186][187]

  Win   Draw   Loss

Goalscoring

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First official Kolkata Derby news report
11 August 1945 - IFA Shield Final - East Bengal captain Paritosh Chakraborty and Mohun Bagan captain Anil Dey before the match.
Kolkata Derby match at the Salt Lake Stadium on 19 January 2020 in the I-League.
  • First Goal in Derby: Nosa Sen (East Bengal 2–1 Mohun Bagan, 26 August 1921, Khogendra Shield Final).[46][182]
  • First Goal in Calcutta Football League Derby: Nepal Chakraborty (East Bengal 1–0 Mohun Bagan, 28 May 1925).[46][47][183]
  • First Goal in IFA Shield Derby: Vishweshwar Rao (East Bengal 1–0 Mohun Bagan, 8 August 1944).[183]
  • First Goal in NFL/I-league Derby: Felix Abayomi (East Bengal 1–2 Mohun Bagan, 6 January 1998).[183]
  • First Goal in Indian Super League Derby: Tiri (o.g.) (ATK Mohun Bagan 3–1 East Bengal, 19 February 2021).[188]
  • Most Goals in Derby: Bhaichung Bhutia, 13.[189][190]
  • Most Goals in NFL / I-League Derby: Syed Rahim Nabi, 4.[2][189]
  • Most Goals in Federation Cup Derby: Bhaichung Bhutia, 5.[42]
  • Hattrick in Derby: Bhaichung Bhutia (East Bengal 4–1 Mohun Bagan, 13 July 1997, Fed Cup Semi Final).[189][190][191]

Win Records

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East Bengal 4–0 Mohun Bagan, 23 May 1936.[4][5]
East Bengal 4–0 Mohun Bagan, 6 September 2015.[193]
  • Biggest Victory in Durand Cup Derby: East Bengal 3–0 Mohun Bagan, 17 January 1979.[27]
  • Biggest Victory in Rovers Cup Derby: East Bengal 3–0 Mohun Bagan, 25 December 1969.[28]
  • Biggest Victory in Federation Cup Derby: East Bengal 4–1 Mohun Bagan, 13 July 1997.[194]
  • Biggest Victory in NFL/I-League Derby: East Bengal 3–0 Mohun Bagan, 22 February 2009.[195][196]
  • Most consecutive Derby won: 6 (from 12 January 1972, Durand Cup Final to 29 September 1974, IFA Shield Final).[2][189]
  • Most consecutive Derby won in NFL/I-League: 4 (from 8 December 2002 to 25 April 2004).[2][189]
  • Most consecutive Derby undefeated: 17 (1932 Days,[R] from 25 December 1969, Rovers Cup Final to 29 September 1974, IFA Shield Final).[198][122]
  • Most consecutive Derby undefeated in NFL/I-League: 9 (from 8 December 2002 to 27 February 2007).[2]
  • Derby Doubles in NFL/I-League: 3 (During the 2002–03, 2003–04, 2018–19 seasons).[199][200]

Overall Derby Record

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As of matches played 2 September 2024
Overall Kolkata Derby head-to-head record[190][201]
Competition Matches played East Bengal wins Mohun Bagan wins Draws
Indian Super League [a] 9 0 8 1
NFL / I-League 45 16 15 13
Federation Cup / Super Cup[202] 23 9 6 8
Calcutta Football League [b] 162 55 48 59
IFA Shield [c] 41 19 9 13
Durand Cup 22 9 8 5
Rovers Cup 12 4 4 4
All Airlines Gold Cup 10 7 1 2
DCM Trophy 1 1 0 0
Scissor's Cup 2 0 2 0
McDowell Cup 2 1 1 0
Bordoloi Trophy 1 0 1 0
Darjeeling Gold Cup 3 1 0 2
Horendra Mukherjee Memorial Shield 2 1 0 1
Amrita Bazar Centenary Cup 1 0 1 0
Peerless Trophy 1 0 1 0
Mohun Bagan Centenary Cup 1 0 0 1
Nehru Centenary Cup 1 1 0 0
J.C. Guha Trophy 1 0 0 1
Shibdas Bhaduri Memorial Trophy 1 0 1 0
SSS Trophy 1 0 0 1
PNB Centenary Trophy 1 0 1 0
Kalinga Cup 1 1 0 0
Md. Sporting Platinum Jubilee Cup 1 1 0 0
Cooch Behar Cup 10 2 4 4
Khogendra Shield 1 1 0 0
Raja Memorial Shield 1 0 1 0
Gladstone Cup 1 0 1 0
Darbhanga Shield 3 0 3 0
William Younger Challenge Cup 3 0 2 1
Lady Hardinge Shield 5 1 4 0
Trades Cup 3 1 1 1
Chandicharan Shield 1 1 0 0
Competitive Matches Total 374 132 123 119
Exhibition Games 26 5 11 10
ALL TIME TOTAL 400 137 134 129

East Bengal has 4 W/O wins over Mohun Bagan and Mohun Bagan has 3 W/O wins over East Bengal as of 2 September 2024.

  1. ^ Consists of both league winners shield and champions trophy
  2. ^ Includes 7 Walkover Matches
  3. ^ Includes 1 Walkover Match

Mini Kolkata Derby Record

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East Bengal FC also has a minor rivalry against another giant from Kolkata Mohammedan SC. The rivalry started in the 1930s when Mohammedan SC won 5 consecutive Calcutta Football League titles between 1934 and 1938 while East Bengal FC bettered their record in the 70s by winning the league for 6 consecutive seasons from 1970 to 1975.[203]

Goalscoring Records

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  • Highest margin of win:
East Bengal FC 7–1 Mohammedan SC, 6 October 1998 (Calcutta Football League, Super Five).[204]
East Bengal FC 6–0 Mohammedan SC, 14 May 2012 (2011 Calcutta Football League).[205]

Overall record

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As of As of 20 September 2023
Overall Head to Head record[206]
Competition Matches Played East Bengal FC wins Mohammedan SC wins Draws
Competitive Matches Total 247 124 61 62

International

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14 July 1948 - East Bengal vs China Olympic Team in action - photo from Jugantor newspaper 15 July 1948.

Continental record

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21 August 1953 - East Bengal vs Torpedo Moscow, Central Dynamo Stadium, Moscow - photo from Jugantor newspaper 22 September 1953.
Ahmed Khan, captain of East Bengal and Avtandil Gogoberidze, the captain of Dynamo Tbilisi before the match - photo from Jugantor newspaper 23 September 1953.
Competition Appearances Seasons Best result
Coca-Cola Cup (Central Asia) [A] 1 1985 Champions
Asian Club Championship 2 1985–86, 1998–99 Group stage
Asian Cup Winners' Cup 5 1991–92, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997–98 Quarter-finals (1991-92)
AFC Cup / AFC Champions League Two 9 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2024–25 Semi-finals (2013)
AFC Challenge League 1 2024–25 To be decided

Invitational tournaments

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Apart from AFC tournaments, East Bengal club have participated in several invitational tournaments on foreign soil and have been victorious on three occasions.[207]

Season Country Competition Result
1953-54 Romania Romania 1953 World Youth Festival Fourth place
1991-92 Bangladesh Bangladesh 1991 BTC Club Cup Semi-finals
1993-94 Nepal Nepal 1993 Wai Wai Cup Champions
1996-97 Nepal Nepal 1996 Coca Cola Cup Semi-finals
1996-97 Bangladesh Bangladesh 1996 Bangabandhu Cup[208] Group stages
2003-04 Indonesia Indonesia 2003 ASEAN Club Championship Champions
2004-05 England England 2004 Pepsi Max Challenge Cup Fourth place
2004-05 Nepal Nepal 2004 San Miguel International Cup Champions
2011-12 Vietnam Vietnam 2011 BTV Becamex IDC Cup Group stages
2015-16 Bangladesh Bangladesh 2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup Runners-up

Firsts

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Records

[edit]

Overall record

[edit]
As of 1 November 2024
East Bengal Club overall record against foreign opponents
Tournament P W D L GF GA GD Win %
Asian Club Championship[a] 9 5 1 3 21 10 +11 055.56
Asian Cup Winners' Cup 18 7 1 10 31 33 −2 038.89
AFC Cup/AFC Champions League Two 56 15 12 29 73 107 −34 026.79
AFC Challenge League 3 2 1 0 9 4 +5 066.67
AFC Tournaments Total 86 29 15 42 134 154 −20 033.72
All Airlines Gold Cup 8 6 1 1 23 2 +21 075.00
ASEAN Club Championship 5 4 0 1 12 4 +8 080.00
Bangabandhu Cup 2 0 0 2 1 4 −3 000.00
Bordoloi Trophy 7 4 1 2 19 10 +9 057.14
BTC Club Cup 3 1 1 1 3 3 +0 033.33
BTV Becamex IDC Cup 3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 000.00
Charms Cup 1 0 1 0 0 0 +0 000.00
Coca-Cola Cup 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 033.33
Darjeeling Gold Cup 1 0 0 1 0 1 −1 000.00
DCM Trophy 26 8 4 14 24 37 −13 030.77
Durand Cup 3 1 2 0 5 3 +2 033.33
Governor's Gold Cup 3 2 0 1 5 2 +3 066.67
IFA Shield 26 17 4 5 42 18 +24 065.38
JC Guha Trophy 2 1 0 1 5 1 +4 050.00
Mohun Bagan Centenary Cup 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 000.00
Nehru Centenary Club Cup 2 0 0 2 0 2 −2 000.00
P. K. Nair Gold Cup 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100.00
Pepsi Max Challenge Cup 2 0 0 2 0 4 −4 000.00
Rovers Cup 2 2 0 0 4 1 +3 100.00
San Miguel Cup 4 3 0 1 3 2 +1 075.00
Scissors Cup 3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 000.00
Sheikh Kamal Cup 5 3 1 1 9 5 +4 060.00
Stafford Cup 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100.00
Tea Planters' Association Trophy 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100.00
Wai Wai Cup 5 3 2 0 8 3 +5 060.00
World Youth Festival 4 2 0 2 10 10 +0 050.00
Total in competitive matches 211 90 35 86 318 281 +37 042.65
Friendlies 48 17 9 22 66 105 −39 035.42
Total 259 107 44 108 384 386 −2 041.31

Last updated: 1 November 2024
Source: East Bengal against Foreign Opponents

  1. ^ Includes record for the Coca-Cola Cup 1985, which was organized as a preliminary qualification tournament for the 1985-86 Asian Club Championship.[219]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f The Coca-Cola Cup - Central Asia Zone Preliminary Tournament for the 1985–86 Asian Club Championship was held in Colombo.[21]
  2. ^ 27 August 1949, East Bengal 8-0 Maharana Club, Semi Final 1949 IFA Shield, K. P. Dhanraj scored a hattrick inside the 5th minute (goals scored: 1', 2', 5') of the match.[56][57]
  3. ^ 12 March 2016, Aizawl F.C. 2-3 East Bengal FC, 2015–16, Ranti Martins scored a second-half hattrick within a span of 19 minutes (goals scored: