East Bengal FC is an Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which competes in the top tier of Indian football. The club was formed in August 1920 when the Jorabagan Club's vice-president, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, resigned. He did so after the club sent out their starting eleven with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose, who was dropped from the squad for undisclosed reasons when they were about to face Mohun Bagan in the Coochbehar Cup semi-final on 28 July 1920. He, along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal on 1 August 1920. East Bengal started playing in the Calcutta Football League, 2nd division, in 1921. In 1925, they qualified for the first division for the first time and since then they have won many Indian football titles.
East Bengal joined the National Football League (NFL) at its inception in 1996 and is the only club to have played every season to date, including those after the rebranded I-League succeeded the NFL in 2007. East Bengal won the National Football League in 2000–01, 2002–03 and 2003–04 and were runners up seven times, the most by any Indian football club. Among other trophies, East Bengal has won the Calcutta Football League 39 times, the IFA Shield 28 times, the Federation Cup eight times and the Durand Cup 16 times.
There have been ninety-six different captains officially announced by the club. This chronological list comprises the East Bengal captains since their foundation in 1920. Every captain's entry includes the season in which the player was officially declared as the captain of the team by the club and his nationality.
List of East Bengal captains
The list of captains for East Bengal:
SeasonNationalityName1920–21 India Ramesh Chandra "Nosa" Sen1921–221922–231923–24 India Manindra Dutta Ray1924–25 India Hemanga Basu1925–26 India Mona Dutta1926–27 India Noni Gossain1927–28 India Surjo Chakraborty1928–29 India Moni Das1929–30 India Mona Moulik1930–311931–321932–33 India Moni Talukdar1933–341934–35 India Kamal Ganguly1935–36 India Dulal Guha Thakurta1936–371937–38 India P Majumdar1938–39 India Promodh Dasgupta1939–401940–411941–42 India Ajit Nandi1942–43 India A.C. Somana1943–44 India Rakhal Majumdar1944–45 India Sunil Ghosh1945–46 India Poritosh Chakraborty1946–47 India Mandipalli Appa Rao1947–48 India Nogen Ray1948–49 India Dhirendranath Chandra1949–50 India Syed M. Kaiser1950–51 India P. B. A. Saleh1951–52 India Byomkesh Bose1952–53 India Pansanttom Venkatesh1953–54 India K. P. Dhanraj1954–55 India Ahmed Khan1955–56 India G. R. Gokul1956–57 India Dr. S Dasgupta1957–58 India Dr. Prakashananda Kumar1958–59 India Sudhir Kumar Karmakar1959–60 India Bir Bahadur Gurung1960–61 India Ram Bahadur1961–62 India Tulsidas Balaram1962–63 India Chitto Chanda1963–64 India Balu1964–65 India Abani Basu1965–66 India Sukumar Samajpati1966–67 India Chandan Bannerjee1967–68 India Prasanta Sinha1968–69 India Parimal Dey1969–70 India Peter Thangaraj1970–71 India Shanto Mitra1971–72 India Sunil Bhattacharya1972–73 India Sudhir Karmakar1973–74 India Swapan Sengupta1974–75 India Samaresh Choudhury1975–76 India Ashoklal Bannerjee1976–77 India Gautam Sarkar1977–78 India Shyamal Ghosh1978–79 India Surajit Sengupta1979–80 India Prasanta Banerjee1980–81 India Satyajit Mitra1981–82 India Monoranjan Bhattacharya1982–83 India Victor Amalraj1983–84 India Mihir Bose1984–85 India Bhaskar Ganguly1985–86 India Balai Mukherjee1986–87 India Tarun Dey1987–88 India Aloke Saha1988–89 India Bikash Panji1989–90 India Krishanu Dey1990–91 Nigeria Chima Okorie1991–92 India Bikash Panji1992–93 India Kuljit Singh1993–94 India Ilyas Pasha1994–95 India Swarup Das1995–96 India Tushar Rakshit1996–97 India Sumit Mukherjee1997–98 India Dulal Biswas1998–99 India Amitava Chanda1999–00 India Carlton Chapman2000–01 India Bijen Singh2001–02 India Falguni Dutta2002–03 India Anit Ghosh2003–04 Ghana Suley Musah2004–05 India Sangram Mukherjee2005–06 India Dipankar Roy India Bhaichung Bhutia2006–07 India Alvito D'Cunha2007–08 India Chandan Das2008–09 India Muttah Suresh2009–10 India Syed Rahim Nabi2010–11 India Saumik Dey2011–12 India Abhra Mondal2012–13 India Sanju Pradhan2013–14 India Mehtab Hossain2014–15 India Harmanjot Khabra2015–16 India Gurwinder Singh2016–17 India Robert Lalthlamuana India Lalrindika Ralte2017–18 India Arnab Mondal2018–19 India Lalrindika Ralte2019–202020–21 Scotland Danny Fox2021–22 India Arindam Bhattacharya2022–23 Spain Iván González India Kamaljit Singh India Souvik Chakrabarti India Sumeet Passi Brazil Cleiton Silva2023–24 Cleiton Silva2024–252025–26 India Naorem Mahesh Singh IndiaMohammad Rakip
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