Mohun Bagan A.C.

Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited was registered as a separate legal entity on 31 July 2017. Mohun Bagan Football Club was a legal entity created for football activities of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club.[21]

On 16 January 2020, the owners of Indian Super League club ATK, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, bought 80% of shares of Mohun Bagan Football Club.[22][23] It was announced that ATK and Mohun Bagan Football Club will amalgamate and play as a new entity from the following season and participate as a unified team in the ISL, which became a first division league in India. From 1 June 2020, the merged football team will come into existence.

Kolkata Derby or the Boro Match is a football match between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. The two clubs currently meet at least 3 times a year, twice in I-League and once in the Calcutta Football League. Till January 2020, 370 matches have been played between the two teams (327 competitive matches and 43 friendly or non-competitive exhibitions) out of which Mohun Bagan has won 120 matches and East Bengal have won 129 times[24] (including all competitive matches and friendlies) and rest of the matches ended in draws.[25] The first match between the sides was played on 8 August 1921 in the Coochbehar Cup and the semifinal match ended in a 0–0 draw. Mohun Bagan won the replayed semifinal 3-0. The first derby goal ever scored was scored in that match by Rabi Ganguly and the other two goals were scored by Poltu Dasgupta and Abhilash Ghosh. The first CFL match between the sides was played on 28 May 1925 in CFL where East Bengal beat Mohun Bagan 1–0. Mohun Bagan holds the record of scoring the fastest goal in a derby (24 July 1976, a 17-second goal from Md Akbar of Mohun Bagan). They have the record of winning 2 consecutive derbies in 2 consecutive days (7 and 8 August 1935) and had the unique distinction of losing only 1 derby in a span of 7 years (1933 to 1939). A few notable victories include the Darbhanga Shield match on 5 September 1934, when Bagan won 4–1 (Amiyo Deb scored all the 4 goals, the only time a player scored 4 goals in this derby), and a 5–3 win in an I-League encounter on 25 October 2009 (Chidi Edeh scored 4 goals). They have won several derbies scoring 4 goals against East Bengal. One such instance was in Raja Memorial Shield final played on 6th Aug 1937 in the common ground of both the clubs (Salt Lake Stadium), where Bagan beat East Bengal 4-0 and Asit Ganguly scored 3 goals in that match.[26]

The colours of Mohun Bagan have traditionally been green and maroon. In recent times though the club has used a more white dominant away kit for use in away matches.

Home

Away

These are the traditionally used home and away jerseys of Mohun Bagan. The designing of the kit has varied and different designs are used every season now but the dominant colours remain the same.

The current crest of the club is circular in shape and consists of a sailing country boat painted in green and maroon colours. The boat, perhaps signifies the club's place of establishment; northern Kolkata, on the banks of the Ganges. In fact the city was the capital and prime trade center of British India and the main mode of transportation was through the waterways. The initial crest of the club however consisted of the picture of a royal bengal tiger amidst a dense jungle.[27]

Mohun Bagan playing against Bayern Munich in 2008 at the Salt Lake Stadium

Salt Lake Stadium or Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan is a multipurpose stadium in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, with a current capacity of 68,000.[28]

Before its renovation in 2011, it was the second largest football stadium in the world, having a seating capacity of 120,000.[29] Prior to the construction and opening of Rungrado May Day Stadium in 1989, it was the largest football stadium in the world. Reportedly, a total of 85,000 bucket seats was installed in the stadium before the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup held in India.[30]

The record attendance of 131,000[31] was set in 1997 in a Kolkata Derby match between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal when they clashed in a Federation Cup semi-final match.

The stadium is situated approximately 10 kilometres to the east of the Kolkata downtown. The roof is made of metal tubes and aluminum sheets and concrete. The stadium was inaugurated in January 1984. There are two electronic score boards and control rooms. The lighting is uniformly distributed to facilitate night kick-offs. There are special arrangements for TV broadcasting.[32]

The stadium covers an area of 76.40 acres (309,200 m2). The stadium has a unique synthetic track for athletic meets. It has a main football arena measuring 105m x 70m, It also houses electronics scoreboards, elevators, VIP enclosures, peripheral floodlighting arrangement from the roof-top, air-conditioned VIP rest room, conference hall and much more. The stadium has its own water arrangements and standby diesel generation sets.[32]

The Salt Lake Stadium hosts the home games of Mohun Bagan in I-League. It is also an AFC accredited stadium and thus suitable for hosting Mohun Bagan's matches in AFC competitions.

Mohun Bagan Ground - Panoramic View

The Mohun Bagan Ground is a football stadium located in the maidan region of central Kolkata, just opposite to the Eden Gardens stadium.[33] The stadium is owned by Mohun Bagan who currently use the stadium as a training ground, Although this season the ground had been used for a few of their I-League matches as well. The office and club tent of Mohun Bagan are adjacent to the stadium.

Mohun Bagan Ground

This ground is mainly used by Mohun Bagan for Calcutta Football League matches against smaller and local Kolkata sides. The stadium has galleries on three sides and a rampart on the fourth side. The north side gallery is the member's gallery and is the most modern gallery of the stadium, having bucket seats installed.[34] The east side and south side galleries are still made of a temporary wooden structure and are designated for non-member supporters. Just adjacent the stadium, the club tent and main office are located. The club tent consists of a beautiful lawn, with benches known as the Mohun Bagan lawn.

In 1977 Mohun Bagan became the first club in maidan to have floodlights installed in their stadium. The floodlights operated till the mid-1990s, after which they became fully dysfunctional. The lights were later repaired and renovated and were inaugurated on 25 February 2016 with an IFA Shield match between Mohun Bagan U19s and DSK Liverpool academy.[35]

From the 2016–17 season, Mohun Bagan has decided to pitch for hosting I-League matches at their home club ground, especially with modern facilities like bucket seats and properly functional floodlight towers.[36]

The Barasat District Sports Stadium, also known as Vidyasagar Krirangan, is a football stadium located in Barasat city, on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal. It is used mostly for Calcutta Football League matches featuring local Kolkata sides. It is also used for several district-level, state-level and, infrequently, national level tournaments. The stadium currently holds around 22,000 spectators, has 4 floodlight towers and different air conditioned function and changing rooms.[37] The artificial turf at the stadium has achieved a two-star rating from FIFA.[38]

Since the 2014–15 till the 2015–16 season, the stadium has hosted the home matches of Mohun Bagan in the I-League as the Salt Lake Stadium was being renovated and reconstructed for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Goals
1	India	Chuni Goswami	1954-1968	145
2	India	Sisir Ghosh	1985-1992, 1995-1996	67
3	India	Manas Bhattacharya	1977-1980, 1982-1984,1986- 1988	64
4	India	Nanda Ray Chowdhury	1935-1943	63
5	India	Ashok Chatterjee	1961-1968, 1972	58
6	India	Subhash Bhowmick	1970-1972, 1976-1978	58
7	Brazil	José Ramirez Barreto	1999-2004, 2006-2012	57
8	India	Keshto Pal	1954-1959	57
9	India	Samar Banerjee	1952-1959	55
10	India	Shyam Thapa	1977-1983	55
11	India	Mohammad Akbar	1976-1978	51
12	India	Pungab Kannan	1966-1968, 1971, 1973-1975	51

Source: Ei Samay

• Jose Ramirez Baretto is the all-time top goal-scorer of the club with 228 goals.

Sailen Manna, the first recipient of the award

Gostha Pal 1998 stamp of India

Mohun Bagan Ratna is an award presented each year on Mohun Bagan Day to outstanding former players. The first recipient was former captain Sailen Manna.

As of 1 June 2020

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Sankar Roy 4 DF Fran Morante 5 DF Gurjinder Kumar 6 DF Ashutosh Mehta 7 FW Komron Tursunov 9 FW Baba Diawara 10 MF Joseba Beitia 11 MF Alexander Romario Jesuraj (on loan from FC Goa) 15 DF Lalramchullova 16 MF Nongdamba Naorem (on loan from Kerala Blasters FC) MF Lalramzauva Khiangte 20 FW V.P. Suhair

No. Position Player 21 MF Surabuddin Mollick 22 GK Shilton Paul 24 GK Debjit Majumder (on loan from ATK) 25 DF Dhanachandra Singh (captain) 26 MF Shilton D'Silva 27 MF SK Sahil 28 DF Bikramjeet Singh (on loan from Mumbai City FC) 35 FW Azharuddin Mallick 45 DF Daneil Cyrus 47 MF Sheikh Faiaz (on loan from ATK) 49 FW Subha Ghosh 50 MF Fran González

• Calcutta Football League

Winners (30): 1939, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2018

• Durand Cup

Winners (16) (record): 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1994, 2000

• Rovers Cup

Winners (14) (record): 1955, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2000

• IFA Shield

Winners (22): 1911, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2003

• I-League

Winners (2): 2014–15, 2019–20

• National Football League (until 2006–07 season)

Winners (3) (record): 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02

• Federation Cup

Winners (14) (record): 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2015–16

• Indian Super Cup

Winners (2): 2007, 2009