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{{Short description|Indian association football club}}
{{Short description|Indian multi-sports club based in Kolkata}}
{{About|the men's football club|the women's team|East Bengal Club (women)|the hockey team|East Bengal Club (field hockey)|the men's cricket team|East Bengal Club (cricket)}}
{{About|the multi-sports club|the men's football team|East Bengal FC|the women's football team|East Bengal FC (women)|the men's field hockey team|East Bengal Club field hockey team|the men's cricket team|East Bengal cricket team}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
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{{Infobox football club
{{Infobox sports team
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| clubname = East Bengal Club
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| fullname = East Bengal Football Club<ref name="East Bengal Football Club">{{cite web | title = East Bengal FC | url = https://www.indiansuperleague.com/clubs/1102-east-bengal-fc-profile | publisher = Indian Super League | access-date = 6 June 2023 | url-status = live | archive-date = 19 June 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230619142805/https://www.indiansuperleague.com/clubs/1102-east-bengal-fc-profile }}</ref>
| fullname = East Bengal Club
| nickname = Red and Gold Brigade <br/> Bangal Brigade <br /> Torch Bearers
| nickname = Lal Holud Brigade <br/> Bangal Brigade <br /> Torch Bearers
| short name = EB <br /> EBFC
| founded = {{start date and age|1920|8|1}}
| founded = {{start date and age|1920|8|1|}}
| president = Murari Lal Lohia
| stadium = {{ubl|[[Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan|Salt Lake Stadium]]|[[East Bengal Ground]]}}
| website = {{official URL}}
| capacity = 85,000 <br /> 23,500
| chrtitle = President
| chairman = Dr. Pronab Dasgupta
| mgrtitle = Head coach
| manager = [[Carles Cuadrat]]
| league = {{Indian football updater|EastBeng}}
| season = {{Indian football updater|EastBeng2}}
| position = {{Indian football updater|EastBeng3}}
| current = 2023–24 East Bengal FC season
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| owner = Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd.
*East Bengal Pvt. Ltd. (23%)
*[[Emami|Emami Group]] (77%)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Emami East Bengal officially launched – Red and Golds to play ISL 2022–23 as East Bengal FC |work=goal.com |url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/emami-east-bengal-officially-launched-isl-2022-23-east/blta9debdc4d323fc72 |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=3 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803210826/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/emami-east-bengal-officially-launched-isl-2022-23-east/blta9debdc4d323fc72 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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{{East Bengal Club departments}}
{{East Bengal Club departments}}


'''East Bengal Football Club''' (ইস্ট বেঙ্গল ফুটবল ক্লাব), commonly referred to as '''East Bengal''' ({{IPA-bn|ˈi:st ˌbenˈɡɔːl|ইস্ট বেঙ্গল}}), is an Indian professional [[multi-sports club]] based in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. It is best known for its professional men's [[association football|football]] team that competes in the [[Indian Super League]] (ISL), the top flight of the [[Indian football league system|Indian football]].<ref>{{cite web|title=FOOTBALL IN BENGAL|url=http://ifawb.com/archives.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306042849/http://www.ifawb.com/archives.php|archive-date=6 March 2016|access-date=14 January 2021|website=www.ifawb.com|publisher=The [[Indian Football Association]] (West Bengal)}}</ref> It is [[List of Indian football champions#Total titles won|one of the most successful football clubs]] in the country.
'''East Bengal Club''', commonly referred to as '''East Bengal''' ({{IPA|bn|ˈi:st ˌbenˈɡɔːl|ইস্ট বেঙ্গল}}), is an Indian professional [[multi-sports club]] based in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. It is best known for its professional men's [[association football|football]] [[East Bengal FC|team]] that competes in the [[Indian Super League]] (ISL), the top flight of the [[Indian football league system]].<ref>{{cite web|title=FOOTBALL IN BENGAL|url=http://ifawb.com/archives.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306042849/http://www.ifawb.com/archives.php|archive-date=6 March 2016|access-date=14 January 2021|website=ifawb.com|publisher=The [[Indian Football Association]] (West Bengal)}}</ref> It is [[List of Indian football champions#Total titles won|one of the most successful football clubs]] in the country. The club has other departments for [[East Bengal Club (women)|women's football]], [[East Bengal Club (cricket)|men's]] and [[women's cricket]], [[East Bengal Club (field hockey)|field hockey]], [[Sport of athletics|athletics]] and [[Esports|eSports]].
   
   
Founded in August 1920, the club became affiliated with the [[Indian Football Association]] in 1922 and initially played in the Calcutta Football League Second Division before earning promotion to the First Division in 1924. East Bengal won its first First Division league title in 1942 and has since won it a record 39 times.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Shoubhik|last=Mukhopadhyay|url=https://i-league.org/east-bengal-calcutta-football-league-a-sublime-romantic-saga/|title=East Bengal & Calcutta Football League: A Sublime Romantic Saga - Hero I-League|date=10 September 2015|access-date=25 September 2019|website=i-league.org|publisher=[[I-League]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925033144/https://i-league.org/east-bengal-calcutta-football-league-a-sublime-romantic-saga/|archive-date=25 September 2019}}</ref> The club was a founding member of the [[National Football League (India)|National Football League]], the first nation-wide football league in India in 1996, which it has won three times since.<ref name="ileague">{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiachamp.html |title=India - List of National Champions |first1=Atsushi |last1=Fujioka |first2=Arunava |last2=Chaudhuri |access-date=18 January 2015 |archive-date=23 August 2017 |website=[[RSSSF]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823022558/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/indiachamp.html |url-status=live }}</ref> They have also won eight [[Federation Cup (India)|Federation Cups]], three [[Indian Super Cup (1997–2011)|Super Cups]], a record 29 [[IFA Shield]]<ref group="note">[[List of oldest football competitions|Fourth oldest football tournament]], organized by the [[Indian Football Association|IFA]] ([[West Bengal|W.B.]]), and played between the local clubs of [[West Bengal]] and other invited ones.</ref> titles, and a record 16 [[Durand Cup]] titles, making the club one of the most decorated in Indian football. They have also won a league title beating Stevenage and Rochdale to the silverware, the legend Fraser Kerr stepped foot on Bangladeshi soil because of this.
East Bengal was founded on 1 August 1920. It first started with just its men's football department but soon expanded into other sports such as hockey after 1947 and cricket in the 1970s. The women's football team was started in 2001.


East Bengal is one of the most widely supported football clubs in [[Asia]]. The club is mainly supported by the [[Bangal]]s, 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 India|partition of 1947]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Majumdar, Boria |first=Bandyopadhyay, Kausik |date=1 February 2006 |title=Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i55oAAAACAAJ |location=[[New Delhi]] |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin India]] |isbn=9780670058747 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408140616/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Goalless_the_Story_of_a_Unique_Footballi.html?id=i55oAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y |archive-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |first=Arjun |last=Wadwha |url=http://www.thesportscampus.com/200805197/introduction-to-football/history-indian-football |title=History of Football in India |website=thesportscampus.com |publisher=TheSportsCampus |date=19 May 2008 |access-date=15 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825015957/http://www.thesportscampus.com/200805197/introduction-to-football/history-indian-football |archive-date=2012-08-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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 pitches. As a result, East Bengal has a long-standing rivalry with its cross-town competitors [[Mohun Bagan]], now known as [[Mohun Bagan Super Giants|Mohun Bagan Super Giant]], which is mainly supported by the native population, named popularly as Ghoti (ঘটি), with whom it competes in the [[Kolkata derby]], Asia's biggest football rivalry. East Bengal also shares a local rivalry with another Kolkata club, [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)|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 both teams have separate nicknames for their adversaries, i.e. Macha (মাচা) for the [[Mohun Bagan]] fans and Lota (লোটা) for the East Bengal fans. In 2011, East Bengal was ranked second amongst all India teams and 554th internationally by the [[International Federation of Football History & Statistics]] in the international rankings of clubs for the first decade of the 21st century (2001-2010).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iffhs.de/iffhs-history-the-best-world-club-of-the-first-decade-2001-2010/|title=IFFHS HISTORY : THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB OF THE FIRST DECADE (2001–2010)|website=iffhs.de|publisher=International Federation of Football History & Statistics|location=Bonn, Germany|date=2010|access-date=26 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328212957/https://iffhs.de/iffhs-history-the-best-world-club-of-the-first-decade-2001-2010/|archive-date=28 March 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
East Bengal is one of the most widely supported sports clubs in [[Asia]]. The club is mainly supported by the [[Bangal]]s, 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 India|partition of 1947]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majumdar |first1=Boria |last2=Bandyopadhyay |first2=Kausik |date=1 February 2006 |title=Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i55oAAAACAAJ |location=[[New Delhi]] |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin India]] |isbn=9780670058747 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408140616/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Goalless_the_Story_of_a_Unique_Footballi.html?id=i55oAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y |archive-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |first=Arjun |last=Wadwha |url=http://www.thesportscampus.com/200805197/introduction-to-football/history-indian-football |title=History of Football in India |website=thesportscampus.com |publisher=TheSportsCampus |date=19 May 2008 |access-date=15 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825015957/http://www.thesportscampus.com/200805197/introduction-to-football/history-indian-football |archive-date=2012-08-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This led to rivalries among the immigrant and native population of West Bengal, popularly named as Bangal (বাঙ্গাল) 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 AC|Mohun Bagan]], which is mainly supported by the native population, ghotis (ঘটি) and biharis (বিহারী), 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 SC (Kolkata)|Mohammedan]]. The club dons the iconic red and golden yellow colours, which give it the nickname of "Red and Gold Brigade" and "Lal Holud" ([[Bengali language|Bangla]]: লাল হলুদ). The fans of the club are also collectively called the Torchbearers
 
The club has other departments too such as the [[Women's association football|women's football]], [[cricket]], [[women's cricket]], [[field hockey]], [[Sport of athletics|athletics]] and [[Esports|eSports]] teams.


==History==
==History==
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}}On 28 July 1920, Jorabagan Club was scheduled to play against [[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan]] in the Coochbehar Cup. Jorabagan Club sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of [[Defender (association football)|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.<ref name="RiseofEastBengal">{{cite web |title=The Rise of East Bengal Club |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818124203/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php|archive-date=18 August 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012 |work=East Bengal Football Club}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 May 2010 |title=History of East Bengal |url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2010/an-eventful-journey-through-red-gold-trails-the-east-bengal-story-part-1/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608132423/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2010/an-eventful-journey-through-red-gold-trails-the-east-bengal-story-part-1/|archive-date=8 June 2020|access-date=6 June 2020 |website=Thehardtackle.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|title=Club Day: East Bengal – The History|url=https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2008/09/17/869244/club-day-east-bengal-the-history#:~:text=Chaudhary%20alongwith%20Raja%20Manmatha%20Nath,of%20Bengal%20(present%20Bangladesh).&text=Soon%20after%20its%20inception,%20the,have%20red%20and%20gold%20jerseys.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608074539/https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2008/09/17/869244/club-day-east-bengal-the-history#:~:text=Chaudhary%20alongwith%20Raja%20Manmatha%20Nath,of%20Bengal%20(present%20Bangladesh).&text=Soon%20after%20its%20inception,%20the,have%20red%20and%20gold%20jerseys.|archive-date=8 June 2020|access-date=8 June 2020|website=Goal.com}}</ref> [[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.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Sportstar |first=Team |title=100 years of East Bengal: A timeline |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/east-bengal-100-years-indian-football-ifa-shield-cfl-calcutta-football-league-mohun-bagan-kolkata-derby/article32241569.ece |access-date=1 August 2020 |website=Sportstar |date=August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629224925/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/east-bengal-100-years-indian-football-ifa-shield-cfl-calcutta-football-league-mohun-bagan-kolkata-derby/article32241569.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|first=Hans|last=Schöggl|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiafound.html|title=India - List of Foundation Dates|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023194819/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/indiafound.html|archive-date=23 October 2021}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Team Archives of Quess East Bengal FC {{!}} Official Website|url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/team-archives.php|access-date=29 August 2019|website=eastbengalfootballclub.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144422/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/team-archives.php|archive-date=9 June 2019|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
 
===Formation===
On 28 July 1920, Jorabagan Club was scheduled to play against [[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan]] in the Coochbehar Cup. Jorabagan Club sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of [[Defender (association football)|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.<ref name="RiseofEastBengal">{{cite web |title=The Rise of East Bengal Club |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818124203/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php|archive-date=18 August 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012 |work=East Bengal Football Club}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 May 2010 |title=History of East Bengal |url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2010/an-eventful-journey-through-red-gold-trails-the-east-bengal-story-part-1/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608132423/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2010/an-eventful-journey-through-red-gold-trails-the-east-bengal-story-part-1/|archive-date=8 June 2020|access-date=6 June 2020 |website=Thehardtackle.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|title=Club Day: East Bengal – The History|url=https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2008/09/17/869244/club-day-east-bengal-the-history#:~:text=Chaudhary%20alongwith%20Raja%20Manmatha%20Nath,of%20Bengal%20(present%20Bangladesh).&text=Soon%20after%20its%20inception,%20the,have%20red%20and%20gold%20jerseys.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608074539/https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2008/09/17/869244/club-day-east-bengal-the-history#:~:text=Chaudhary%20alongwith%20Raja%20Manmatha%20Nath,of%20Bengal%20(present%20Bangladesh).&text=Soon%20after%20its%20inception,%20the,have%20red%20and%20gold%20jerseys.|archive-date=8 June 2020|access-date=8 June 2020|website=Goal.com}}</ref> [[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.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Sportstar |first=Team |title=100 years of East Bengal: A timeline |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/east-bengal-100-years-indian-football-ifa-shield-cfl-calcutta-football-league-mohun-bagan-kolkata-derby/article32241569.ece |access-date=1 August 2020 |website=Sportstar |date=August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629224925/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/east-bengal-100-years-indian-football-ifa-shield-cfl-calcutta-football-league-mohun-bagan-kolkata-derby/article32241569.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|first=Hans|last=Schöggl|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiafound.html|title=India - List of Foundation Dates|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023194819/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/indiafound.html|archive-date=23 October 2021}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Team Archives of Quess East Bengal FC {{!}} Official Website|url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/team-archives.php|access-date=29 August 2019|website=eastbengalfootballclub.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144422/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/team-archives.php|archive-date=9 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Early years: 1920s–1930s===
[[File:East_Bengal_FC_players_and_officials.jpg|alt=|left|thumb|230x230px|East Bengal players and officials in 1921]]
In the same month of its formation, the club participated in its maiden tournament in, the Hercules Cup, a seven-a-side tournament. On 11 August 1920, the club played their first match in the tournament and in their history against Metropolitan College, which they went on to win 4–0. East Bengal went on to win the tournament, announcing the arrival of a club that would break many records in the future. The club also won Khagendra Shield in 1921.<ref name=":8" /> Following this, the club became affiliated with the [[Indian Football Association]] (IFA) and entered the IFA Second Division replacing Tajhat Football Club who withdrew from the 2nd Division League.<ref>{{cite web|title=East Bengal wins Calcutta Football League for the first time in 1942|url=https://twitter.com/ebfchistory/status/1678475517287342080?t=wfneRvOCvb5q6qHQj749kA&s=19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718104055/https://twitter.com/ebfchistory/status/1678475517287342080|archive-date=18 July 2023|website=twitter.com}}</ref> The club finished placing third in their maiden season in the league. The first match between East Bengal and [[Mohun Bagan A.C.|Mohun Bagan]] took place on 8 August 1921 in the Cooch Behar Cup semi-final match, which didn't turn in the favour of either of the teams as it ended in a goalless draw. It was an unofficial derby at that time.<ref name="RiseofEastBengal" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=18 October 2018|title=East Bengal Story|url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/eastbengalstory.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018042159/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/eastbengalstory.html|archive-date=18 October 2018|access-date=8 June 2020}}</ref>
 
In 1924, the club won the Second Division and gained promotion to the IFA First Division after finishing in second place to Cameroons 'B'.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Somnath|last=Sengupta|url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2012/legends-of-indian-football-the-pioneers/|title=Legends Of Indian Football: The Pioneers|website=thehardtackle.com|publisher=The Hard Tackle|date=24 April 2012|access-date=20 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026053626/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2012/legends-of-indian-football-the-pioneers/|archive-date=26 October 2017}}</ref> As Cameroons 'A' team was already in the First Division the 'B' team could not gain promotion to the same league. East Bengal was next in line for promotion. However, more controversy arose since the IFA allowed only two Indian-based clubs in the IFA First Division at a time (at that time, the IFA was a British organization). This rule had previously deprived clubs like "Kumartuli" and "Town" from entering the First Division. During a governing body meeting of the IFA, the nine British clubs approved East Bengal's promotion to the First Division. Ironically, the two Indian clubs, [[Mohun Bagan A.C.|Mohun Bagan]] and [[Aryan F.C.|Aryan]], opposed it. East Bengal's efforts led to the abolition of the oppressive Indian club limit rule.<ref name="RiseofEastBengal" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chattopadhyay |first=Suhrid Sankar |title=The Saga of East Bengal |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/sport/article30218648.ece |access-date=17 June 2020 |website=Frontline |date=28 August 2003 |language=en |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118010538/https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/sport/article30218648.ece |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In 1925, East Bengal made its IFA First Division debut, and Mona Dutta became the maiden goalscorer for the club in the league. On 28 May 1925, the first official [[Kolkata Derby]] was played, where Nepal Chakraborty scored the only goal for East Bengal.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Das Sharma|first=Amitabha|date=1 April 2016|title=The Kolkata Derby: They met as early as in 1921!|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/the-kolkata-derby-they-met-as-early-as-in-1921/article17221788.ece|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806170805/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/the-kolkata-derby-they-met-as-early-as-in-1921/article17221788.ece|archive-date=6 Aug 2020|access-date=7 Nov 2020|website=sportstar.thehindu.com}}</ref>
 
===1940s–1970s===
{{See also|Pancha Pandavas}}
[[File:East_Bengal_FC_1949_IFA_Shield.jpg|thumb|East Bengal players after winning 1949 IFA Shield]]
It took the club till 1942 to win their first IFA First Division title. East Bengal won their first [[IFA Shield]] in 1943. They then achieved the double in 1945 by winning both the [[Calcutta Football League|Calcutta Football League (CFL)]] and IFA Shield. In 1948, East Bengal became the first team to defeat a foreign club on home soil. They won 2–0 against the visiting Chinese Olympic XI.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kapadia |first=Novy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9k1DwAAQBAJ&q=China%27s+Olympic+team+by+2-0+in+1948&pg=PT90 |title=Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football |date=27 September 2017 |publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited |isbn=978-93-86815-65-1 |language=en|access-date=10 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610102551/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=S9k1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT90&lpg=PT90&dq=China's+Olympic+team+by+2-0+in+1948&source=bl&ots=HvVNj4XGh5&sig=ACfU3U13tN0x62Rk96dl_mk66uDcN9FS7Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpq8e77vbpAhUxmeYKHf7JAC4Q6AEwDHoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=China's%20Olympic%20team%20by%202-0%20in%201948&f=false|archive-date=10 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> East Bengal won their first [[Treble (association football)|treble]] in the 1949 season, by winning the Calcutta League,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Armband|date=9 November 2019|title=East Bengal Football Club : History and Emergence|url=https://www.sports-nova.com/2019/11/09/east-bengal-football-club-history-and-emergence-as-indian-superpower/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609193043/https://www.sports-nova.com/2019/11/09/east-bengal-football-club-history-and-emergence-as-indian-superpower/|archive-date=9 June 2020|access-date=9 June 2020|website=Sports-nova|language=en-GB}}</ref> the IFA Shield and the Rovers Cup, becoming the first Indian club to do so.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|last=Banerjee|first=Ritabrata|date=12 April 2020|title=Indian Football: Down the memory lane – East Bengal's 'Golden era' of 1970s|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/indian-football-down-the-memory-lane-east-bengal-golden-era/sm5c7t807v011wmkp5wjj6zvs|access-date=1 August 2020|website=www.goal.com|publisher=[[Goal (website)|Goal]]|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301125229/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/indian-football-down-the-memory-lane-east-bengal-golden-era/sm5c7t807v011wmkp5wjj6zvs|url-status=live}}</ref> The club went on to win the 1949 Rovers Cup and the [[Durand Cup]] in 1951. That period saw the rise of the [[Pancha Pandavas]]. The five players, P. B. A. Saleh, Ahmed Khan, P. Venkatesh, Appa Rao, and K. P. Dhanaraj played together at the club from 1949 to 1953. The club also won its first DCM Trophy in 1950. The club also won three straight IFA Shields in 1949, 1950, and 1951. The [[English F.A.|English Football Association]] 1951–52 annual almanac adjudged East Bengal as the best club in Asia.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/history.php|access-date=18 June 2020|website=eastbengalfootballclub.com|archive-date=9 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144426/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/history.php|url-status=live}}</ref> On being recommended by the president of India, [[Rajendra Prasad]], the club was invited by the [[Romania]] Youth Festival Committee in 1953 to participate in a football tournament. They also partook in a tour of the [[Soviet Union]] the same year. They were defeated by [[Soviet]] side by a margin of 13–1. Apart from football, East Bengal also won the Beighton Cup hockey tournament for the first time in 1957 and the Bengal Hockey Association league in 1960. Again the club won the [[Rovers Cup]] several times during this era—1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975—as well as the [[Durand Cup]] in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972 and 1978. The club also won its first Sait Nagjee football tournament and Bordoloi Trophy in 1968.<ref name="EBFC1940">{{cite web |title=1940S TO 1960S |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1940s-to-1960s|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329172756/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1940s-to-1960s|archive-date=29 March 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012 |work=East Bengal Football Club}}</ref> The club stunned everyone by winning the 1970 IFA Shield against [[PAS Tehran F.C.|PAS Club]] of [[Iran]] by a score of 1–0, in front of 60,000 supporters at the [[Eden Gardens]]. Later, the club won the 1973 IFA Shield by defeating [[Pyongyang City Sports Club|Pyongyang City SC]] of [[North Korea]]. In 1978, East Bengal won its first [[Federation Cup (India)|Federation Cup]] title. The club became joint winners in cricket with Mohun Bagan of [[Cricket Association of Bengal]] senior league and senior-division knockout tournament.<ref name=":7" /><ref name="EBFC1970">{{cite web |title=1970S TO 1990S |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s |work=East Bengal Football Club |access-date=10 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724022532/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s|archive-date=24 July 2013}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|title=I-League Special: The History Of East Bengal|url=https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/1064/i-league/2009/09/25/1522408/i-league-special-the-history-of-east-bengal#:~:text=The%20Red%20and%20Gold%27s%20were,participate%20in%20a%20football%20tournament.|access-date=18 June 2020|website=www.goal.com|publisher=[[Goal (website)|Goal]]|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205081931/https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/1064/i-league/2009/09/25/1522408/i-league-special-the-history-of-east-bengal#:~:text=The%20Red%20and%20Gold%27s%20were,participate%20in%20a%20football%20tournament.|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":8" />
 
East Bengal won the Calcutta Football League for six straight years from 1970 to 1975.<ref name="EBFC1970" /> In 1970, East Bengal topped the Calcutta Football League table without conceding a single goal. East Bengal won multiple times against their arch-rivals, Mohun Bagan, including a record margin of 5–0 in the history of the Kolkata Derby, in 1975. The same year, East Bengal won the CFL title without losing a match. The 1970s decade of the club is also commonly known as "''Shonali Doshok"'' (in English Golden Decade).<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Winners/Runners-up of the IFA-Shield |url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=www.indianfootball.de |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130083403/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":9" />
 
===1980s–1990s===
The club won the [[Federation Cup (India)|Federation Cup]] in 1980 and again in 1985. They also became the first Indian club to play in the newly reorganized [[AFC Champions League|Asian Club Championship]] in [[1985–86 Asian Club Championship|1985–86]].<ref name="EBFC1970" /> The club then won their second treble in 1990, under coach Naeemuddin, by winning the IFA Shield, the Rovers Cup, and the Durand Cup in the same season. The club also won the Stafford Cup (1986) and the McDowell's Cup (1995, 1997). In 1993, East Bengal won its first-ever international title, the Wai Wai Cup in [[Nepal]]. The club also won the Federation Cup, the IFA Shield, the Calcutta Football League, the Durand Cup, and the Rovers Cup several times during this period.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=23 August 2017 |title=Legacy-History |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823202630/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s|archive-date=23 August 2017|access-date=18 June 2020 |website=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref> In 1996, the club became the founding member of the first nationwide football league in India, the National Football League.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india97.html |title=India 1996/97 |website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=11 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611104712/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/india97.html#nfl1|archive-date=11 June 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In 1984, Dipak Das joined the club and revamped it. He brought professionalism and converted the football team into a private, limited company. He also secured sponsorship from local brands and companies like Khadims. In 1998, he collaborated with [[Vijay Mallya]]'s [[United Breweries Group]], which then formed a new Private Limited Company, with a 50–50 shareholding, called United East Bengal Football Team Private Limited and incorporated the football team—the first in the country. The team was renamed Kingfisher East Bengal FC.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 August 2017 |title=Legacy-History |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823202630/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s|archive-date=23 August 2017|access-date=18 June 2020 }}</ref><ref name=":6" />
 
===2000s–2010s===
{{football squad on pitch|align=left
| GK  = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Sandip Nandy|Nandy]]
| RCB = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Irungbam Surkumar Singh|Surkumar]]
| CB  = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Muttath Suresh|Suresh]]
| LCB = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Deepak Mondal|Mondal]]
| CM  = {{flagicon|GHA}}<br/>[[Suley Musah|Musah]] ([[Captain (association football)|C]])
| RCM = {{flagicon|BRA}}<br/>[[Douglas Silva (footballer, born 1974)|Silva]]
| LCM = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>Duley
| RW  = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Bijen Singh|Bijen]]
| LW  = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Alvito D'Cunha|D'Cunha]]
| RCF = {{flagicon|IND}}<br/>[[Bhaichung Bhutia|Bhutia]]
| LCF = {{flagicon|NGR}}<br/>[[Mike Okoro|Okoro]]
|caption=East Bengal [[2003 ASEAN Club Championship]] final lineup}}
The club entered the 21st century in style, winning the [[2000–01 Indian National Football League|2000–01]] [[NFL India|National Football League]] season. They became the first club to win back-to-back titles after winning the [[2002–03 Indian National Football League|2002–03]] and [[2003–04 Indian National Football League|2003–04]] versions of the league. The club went on to win the Federation Cup again in 2007, [[2009 Federation Cup|2009]], [[2010 Indian Federation Cup|2010]] and [[2012 Indian Federation Cup|2012]]. They also won the [[Indian Super Cup (1997–2011)|Indian Super Cup]] in 2006 and 2011.<ref name="EBFC2000">{{cite web |title=Continuing the Legacy |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=continuing-the-legacy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331144619/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=continuing-the-legacy|archive-date=31 March 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012 |work=East Bengal Football Club}}</ref> The club won their third international trophy in the [[2003 ASEAN Club Championship]], in [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amp.scroll.in/field/968097/making-a-mark-in-asia-east-bengals-2003-asean-cup-win-a-defining-moment-for-indian-club-football|title=Making a mark in Asia: East Bengal's 2003 Asean Cup win – a defining moment for Indian club football|website=Scroll.in|access-date=25 September 2021|archive-date=27 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127192359/https://amp.scroll.in/field/968097/making-a-mark-in-asia-east-bengals-2003-asean-cup-win-a-defining-moment-for-indian-club-football|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sengupta|first=Somnath|title=Tactical Evolution Of Indian Football: Part Four – Modern Era (1999—2011)|url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/tactical-evolution-of-indian-football-part-four-modern-era/|location=Kolkata|date=13 July 2011|access-date=11 October 2022|website=thehardtackle.com|publisher=The Hard Tackle|language=en-US|archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918041621/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/tactical-evolution-of-indian-football-part-four-modern-era/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/east-bengals-greatest-hour-the-2003-asean-cup-triumph#:~:text=However%20Alvito%27s%20wonder%20strike%20left,Bhaichung%20Bhutia%20and%20Mike%20Okoro.|title=East Bengal's greatest hour: the 2003 ASEAN Cup triumph|website=Sportskeeda|last=Kapadia|first=Novy|access-date=31 December 2022|archive-date=30 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230192101/https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/east-bengals-greatest-hour-the-2003-asean-cup-triumph#:~:text=However%20Alvito%27s%20wonder%20strike%20left,Bhaichung%20Bhutia%20and%20Mike%20Okoro.|url-status=live}}</ref> East Bengal is still the only Indian football team to win any major trophy outside the country.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/aseanclub03.html |title=ASEAN Club Championship 2003 |website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=26 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031103333/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/aseanclub03.html|archive-date=31 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, East Bengal also won the San Miguel International Cup in Nepal. The club was invited to the tournament by [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]], celebrating their 120th Anniversary. In 2004, Leicester City also had partnerships with East Bengal.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rediff.com/sports/2004/feb/04foot2.htm |title=Leicester link with East Bengal |website=www.rediff.com|access-date=8 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608132408/https://www.rediff.com/sports/2004/feb/04foot2.htm|archive-date=8 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/football/east-bengal-in-talks-with-barcelona-for-tie-up-possibility/story-qzDsgBzCczLLjMZA0jsg2M.html |title=East Bengal in talks with Barcelona for tie-up possibility |date=25 April 2019 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en|access-date=8 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104130019/https://www.hindustantimes.com/football/east-bengal-in-talks-with-barcelona-for-tie-up-possibility/story-qzDsgBzCczLLjMZA0jsg2M.html|archive-date=4 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Then [[List of presidents of FIFA|FIFA president]], [[Joseph Blatter]], visited the club tent on 15 April 2007. After a year, East Bengal became the first Indian football team to win against a West Asian team, [[Al-Wehdat SC|Al Wihdat SC]] of [[Jordan]] on foreign soil.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":4" />{{East Bengal F.C. centenary season first match team}}East Bengal also made a record eight appearances, between 2004 and 2015, in the [[AFC Cup]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Soham |last2=V Easwar |first2=Nisanth |date=1 April 2020 |title=How have Indian clubs fared in AFC Champions League and AFC Cup? {{!}} Goal.com |url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/india-clubs-in-afc-champions-league-afc-cup/3dj1qowtkdxc1pzji71c49vnz |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=www.goal.com |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415045019/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/india-clubs-in-afc-champions-league-afc-cup/3dj1qowtkdxc1pzji71c49vnz |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=C |first=Sabyasachi |date=20 May 2020 |title=East Bengal FC: Top 5 players with most appearances in the AFC Cup! |url=http://www.badgeb.com/east-bengal-fc-top-5-players-with-most-appearances-in-the-afc-cup/ |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=Badgeb |language=en-GB |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618164718/http://www.badgeb.com/east-bengal-fc-top-5-players-with-most-appearances-in-the-afc-cup/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The club played in the [[2013 AFC Cup knockout stage|semi-finals of 2013 AFC Cup]] where they lost to [[Kuwait SC]] of Kuwait.<ref>{{cite web |agency=Press Trust of India |title=East Bengal FC's AFC Cup final hopes dashed after 3–0 defeat to Kuwait SC |url=https://sports.ndtv.com/football/east-bengal-fcs-afc-cup-final-hopes-dashed-after-3-0-defeat-to-kuwait-sc-1528382 |website=sports.ndtv.com |publisher=NDTV |access-date=24 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040429/https://sports.ndtv.com/football/east-bengal-fcs-afc-cup-final-hopes-dashed-after-3-0-defeat-to-kuwait-sc-1528382|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The club has the achievement of winning the Calcutta Football League title eight consecutive times from 2010 to 2017, breaking their previous record of six times during the 1970s.<ref name="EBFC1970" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=India – List of Calcutta/Kolkata League Champions |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiacalchamp.html |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=[[RSSSF]] |archive-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802035706/http://rsssf.com/tablesi/indiacalchamp.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Following the exit of Kingfisher from the club, [[Quess Corp]] signed an agreement with the East Bengal Club and acquired a 70 percent stake in the club in July 2018. The football team was rebranded as Quess East Bengal FC.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/soccer-club-east-bengal-ropes-in-bangalore-based-quess-corp-as-its-new-investor/articleshow/64872356.cms |title=Soccer club East Bengal ropes in Bangalore-based Quess Corp as its new investor |newspaper=The Economic Times|access-date=5 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706075636/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/soccer-club-east-bengal-ropes-in-bangalore-based-quess-corp-as-its-new-investor/articleshow/64872356.cms|archive-date=6 July 2018|url-status=live|last1=Mukherjee |first1=Writankar }}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Majumdar |first=Arkamoy Dutta |date=9 July 2018 |title=Kolkata football: East Bengal cedes control in Quess for funds |url=https://www.livemint.com/Sports/nsLFUmkI2aUHEabVl2TRvM/Kolkata-football-East-Bengal-cedes-control-in-Quess-for-fun.html |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=Livemint |language=en |archive-date=20 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420173245/https://www.livemint.com/Sports/nsLFUmkI2aUHEabVl2TRvM/Kolkata-football-East-Bengal-cedes-control-in-Quess-for-fun.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On 1 August 2019, the club entered its [[2019–20 East Bengal F.C. season|100th establishment year]]. A centenary celebration logo was introduced. Torch rallies and events were organised, and attended by former players, coaches, presidents, etc. The centenary kit was unveiled, which was inspired by the 1925–26 season kit.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |date=27 July 2019 |last=Bhattacharya |first=Nilesh |title=East Bengal unveil centenary jersey Football News – Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/east-bengal-unveil-centenary-jersey/articleshow/70414212.cms |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=The Times of India |language=en |archive-date=6 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123229/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/east-bengal-unveil-centenary-jersey/articleshow/70414212.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> The club participated in the [[2019 Durand Cup|Durand Cup]], the [[2019–20 Calcutta Premier Division|Calcutta Football League]] and the [[2019–20 I-League|I-League]], and played its first match and won against Army Red in the Durand Cup.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 July 2019 |title=Centennial Program on August |url=https://eastbengalclub.co.in/news.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722072547/https://eastbengalclub.co.in/news.php|archive-date=22 July 2019|access-date=18 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sportstar |first=Team |title=Durand Cup 2019: Jaime Colado, Bidyashagar power East Bengal to 2–0 triumph – As it happened |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/durand-cup-2019-east-bengal-vs-army-red-cup-live-streaming-scores-updates-kolkata-indian-football/article28806358.ece |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=Sportstar |date=3 August 2019 |language=en |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020235152/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/durand-cup-2019-east-bengal-vs-army-red-cup-live-streaming-scores-updates-kolkata-indian-football/article28806358.ece |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
===2020–present===
[[File:East Bengal Sporting Club in Maidan, Kolkata 13.jpg|thumb|East Bengal club tent]]
The year 2020, saw the wake of [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] which halted the ongoing [[2019–20 in Indian football|football season]] in the country.<ref>{{Cite news|others=PTI|date=2020-05-23|title=No sporting event in India in near future, have to live with new normal of sports behind closed doors: Rijiju|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/no-sporting-event-in-india-in-near-future-have-to-live-with-new-normal-of-sports-behind-closed-doors-rijiju/article31658535.ece|access-date=2020-10-18|issn=0971-751X|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018184816/https://www.thehindu.com/sport/no-sporting-event-in-india-in-near-future-have-to-live-with-new-normal-of-sports-behind-closed-doors-rijiju/article31658535.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> The then investor, Quess pulled out from the two-year-old agreement by July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Quess chairman Ajit Isaac - East Bengal has fantastic potential and we leave with good memories|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/ajit-isaac-joint-venture-quess-east-bengal-memories/17q6jj4mw9x0c1mforj7j6z1qn|access-date=2020-10-18|website=Goal.com|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019172751/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/ajit-isaac-joint-venture-quess-east-bengal-memories/17q6jj4mw9x0c1mforj7j6z1qn|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dey|first=Sayak Dipta|date=2020-07-18|title=Quess Corporation and East Bengal part ways|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/quess-corporation-east-bengal-part-ways|access-date=2020-10-18|website=www.sportskeeda.com|language=en-us|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019154717/https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/quess-corporation-east-bengal-part-ways|url-status=live}}</ref> On 1 August, the club completed its 100 years of existence. In September, [[Shree Cement]] was announced as the new investor of the club.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Himatsingka|first=Anuradha|title=Shree Cement to acquire football club East Bengal|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/shree-cement-to-acquire-football-club-east-bengal/articleshow/77897798.cms|access-date=2020-10-19|archive-date=12 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212145443/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/shree-cement-to-acquire-football-club-east-bengal/articleshow/77897798.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> The company acquired 76 percent shares of the club and renamed it from "East Bengal Football Club" to "Sporting Club East Bengal".<ref name="ISL01">{{Cite web|date=17 Oct 2020|title=Name and logo for SC East Bengal revealed ahead of Hero ISL 2020-21|url=https://www.indiansuperleague.com/press-releases/name-and-logo-for-sc-east-bengal-revealed-ahead-of-hero-isl-2020-21|access-date=19 Oct 2020|website=Indian Super League|language=en|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018213920/https://www.indiansuperleague.com/press-releases/name-and-logo-for-sc-east-bengal-revealed-ahead-of-hero-isl-2020-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="goal.com">{{Cite web|date=17 Oct 2020|title=East Bengal rebranded as Sporting Club East Bengal; new logo unveiled|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/sc-east-bengal-isl-new-logo-indian-football/8k1mrjrpnia41thmqrfytdw63|access-date=19 Oct 2020|website=Goal.com|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026220518/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/sc-east-bengal-isl-new-logo-indian-football/8k1mrjrpnia41thmqrfytdw63|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that month, after successful bidding, the club moved from the [[I-League]] to the [[Indian Super League]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nita Ambani: East Bengal's inclusion throws open limitless opportunities for Indian football|url=https://www.indiansuperleague.com/press-releases/nita-ambani-east-bengals-inclusion-throws-open-limitless-opportunities-for-indian-football|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Indian Super League|language=en|archive-date=10 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010181118/https://www.indiansuperleague.com/press-releases/nita-ambani-east-bengals-inclusion-throws-open-limitless-opportunities-for-indian-football|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-27|title=East Bengal join Indian Super League|url=https://www.espn.in/football/indian-super-league/story/4192694/east-bengal-join-indian-super-league|access-date=2020-10-19|website=ESPN|language=en|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022072319/https://www.espn.in/football/indian-super-league/story/4192694/east-bengal-join-indian-super-league|url-status=live}}</ref> In early 2022, the club parted ways with its investor [[Shree Cement]].
 
The partnership between investor group [[Shree Cement]] and East Bengal Club was terminated after the end of the [[2021–22 Indian Super League season]]. They returned the sporting rights to the club on 12 April 2022, after both the parties failed to reach an agreement and the final term sheet was not accepted and signed by the club officials.<ref name=scsportingright>{{cite web|first=Amitabha|last=Das Sharma|date=12 April 2022|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/east-bengal-returned-sporting-rights-shree-cements-indian-football/article38472141.ece|title=East Bengal returned sporting rights by Shree Cement|work=Sportstar|accessdate=24 April 2022|archive-date=12 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412145715/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/east-bengal-returned-sporting-rights-shree-cements-indian-football/article38472141.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> The club officials, however, stated that East Bengal club shall continue to play in the Indian Super League, and shall be announcing their new investors within the next two weeks.<ref>{{cite web|author=PTI|date=13 April 2022|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/east-bengal-shree-cement-isl-next-investor-announcement-within-15-days-football/article38473253.ece|title=East Bengal will continue to play ISL, next investor announcement within 15 days, says club official|work=Sportstar|accessdate=1 May 2022|archive-date=1 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501074230/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/east-bengal-shree-cement-isl-next-investor-announcement-within-15-days-football/article38473253.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> East Bengal club was once again handed another transfer ban by AIFF for non-payment of dues for seven of their players.<ref name=transferban>{{cite web|first=Sayan|last=Mukherjee|date=31 March 2022|url=https://www.news9live.com/sports/football/isl-troubled-sc-east-bengal-in-yet-another-transfer-ban-161671|title=Troubled SC East Bengal in yet another transfer ban|work=News Nine|accessdate=24 April 2021|archive-date=29 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329143625/https://www.news9live.com/sports/football/isl-troubled-sc-east-bengal-in-yet-another-transfer-ban-161671|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[File:Trophy cabinet of East Bengal Club captured during the 103 years of foundation day program in Kolkata.jpg|thumb|Trophy cabinet of East Bengal Club during the 103 years of foundation day]]
On 25 May, East Bengal announced the collaboration with [[Emami]] as the principal investors of the club.<ref name=emami>{{cite web|date=25 May 2022|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/emami-group-to-collaborate-with-east-bengal/cid/1866837|title=Emami Group to collaborate with East Bengal|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=25 May 2022|archive-date=25 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525125338/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/emami-group-to-collaborate-with-east-bengal/cid/1866837|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=25 May 2022|url=https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/sports/east-bengal-bags-emami-as-investor_432506.html|title=East Bengal-Emami: ইমামির হাত ধরে আইএসএল খেলছে ইস্টবেঙ্গল|trans-title=East Bengal-Emami: East Bengal is playing ISL with Emami's collaboration|language=bn|work=Zee News|accessdate=25 May 2022|archive-date=25 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525125448/https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/sports/east-bengal-bags-emami-as-investor_432506.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=25 May 2022|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/indian-football/east-bengal-finds-new-investor-in-emami-group-football-news/article38497836.ece|title=East Bengal finds new investor in Emami Group|work=Sportstar|accessdate=25 May 2022|archive-date=25 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525130632/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/indian-football/east-bengal-finds-new-investor-in-emami-group-football-news/article38497836.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> The club confirmed their participation in the [[2022-23 Indian Super League season]] with the arrival of the new investors.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ritabrata|last=Banerjee|date=25 May 2022|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/east-bengal-confirm-isl-2022-23-participation-bring-emami/blted7c8e38dafaf7e5|title=East Bengal confirm ISL 2022-23 participation, bring Emami Group on board|work=Goal|accessdate=25 May 2022|archive-date=25 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525131809/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/east-bengal-confirm-isl-2022-23-participation-bring-emami/blted7c8e38dafaf7e5|url-status=live}}</ref> On 18 July, after two months of contractual discussions between the club and the investor group, the club finally started the recruitment process for the new season after receiving a go-ahead from the investors.<ref>{{cite web|date=18 July 2022|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/football/east-bengal-on-the-verge-of-signing-two-foreign-defenders-dgtl/cid/1357258|title=East Bengal: দলগঠনের কাজ শুরু ইস্টবেঙ্গলে, কার্যত নিশ্চিত দুই বিদেশি ফুটবলার|trans-title=East Bengal: Recruitment of players begin at East Bengal, almost confirms two foreigners|language=bn|work=Anandabazar Patrika|accessdate=19 July 2022|archive-date=19 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719005429/https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/football/east-bengal-on-the-verge-of-signing-two-foreign-defenders-dgtl/cid/1357258|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=19 July 2022|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/football/east-bengal-focus-on-foreign-recruits/cid/1875386|title=East Bengal focus on foreign recruits|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=19 July 2022|archive-date=19 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719013102/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/football/east-bengal-focus-on-foreign-recruits/cid/1875386|url-status=live}}</ref> On 22 July, the AIFF uplifted the transfer ban set on East Bengal and thus allowed the club to register their new signings for the season.<ref>{{cite web|date=22 July 2022|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/football/aiff-has-revoked-player-registration-ban-of-sc-east-bengal-dgtl/cid/1358056|title=East Bengal: ইস্টবেঙ্গলে স্বস্তি, উঠে গেল নিষেধাজ্ঞা, সই করানো যাবে ফুটবলার|trans-title=East Bengal: Relief for East Bengal, ban uplifted, can register players now|language=bn|work=Anandabazar Patrika|accessdate=23 July 2022|archive-date=23 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723043621/https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/football/aiff-has-revoked-player-registration-ban-of-sc-east-bengal-dgtl/cid/1358056|url-status=live}}</ref> East Bengal appointed [[Santosh Trophy]] winning [[Kerala football team]] head-coach [[Bino George]] as the care-taker head coach of the team for the [[Calcutta Football League]] and [[Durand Cup]], and will become the assistant coach of the team for the [[Indian Super League]].<ref name=bino>{{cite web|author=PTI|date=23 July 2022|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/bino-george-set-to-become-east-bengal-reserve-team-coach/articleshow/93075537.cms|title=Bino George set to become East Bengal reserve team coach|work=The Times of India|accessdate=24 July 2022|archive-date=24 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724063817/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/bino-george-set-to-become-east-bengal-reserve-team-coach/articleshow/93075537.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Sanghamitra|last=Chakraborty|date=30 July 2022|url=https://tv9bangla.com/photo-gallery/east-bengal-new-coach-bino-george-visit-east-bengal-club-au5-615977.html|title=East Bengal: লাল-হলুদ তাঁবুতে হাজির কোচ বিনু জর্জ|trans-title=East Bengal:Bino George arrives at Red and Gold tent|language=bn|work=TV9 Bangla|accessdate=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730143427/https://tv9bangla.com/photo-gallery/east-bengal-new-coach-bino-george-visit-east-bengal-club-au5-615977.html|url-status=live}}</ref> East Bengal also roped in former [[India national football team]] coach [[Stephen Constantine]] as the new head-coach of the team for the season.<ref name=constantine>{{cite web|first=Amitabha|last=Das Sharma|date=27 July 2022|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/isl-news/east-bengal-announces-stephen-constantine-as-head-coach-indian-super-league-isl-news/article65690048.ece|title=Stephen Constantine announced as East Bengal head coach for ISL 2022-23|work=Sportstar|accessdate=27 July 2022|archive-date=27 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727133829/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/isl-news/east-bengal-announces-stephen-constantine-as-head-coach-indian-super-league-isl-news/article65690048.ece|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=27 July 2022|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/stephen-constantine-returns-to-indian-football-as-emami-east-bengal-head-coach-8055472/|title=Stephen Constantine returns to Indian football as Emami East Bengal head coach|work=The Indian Express|accessdate=27 July 2022|archive-date=27 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727141735/https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/stephen-constantine-returns-to-indian-football-as-emami-east-bengal-head-coach-8055472/|url-status=live}}</ref> The club also announced that the formal tie-up between them and the new investor group [[Emami]].<ref>{{cite web|date=26 July 2022|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/east-bengal-emami-to-sign-agreement-august-2-indian-football/article65686502.ece|title=East Bengal and Emami to sign agreement on August 2|work=Sportstar|accessdate=28 July 2022|archive-date=27 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727115222/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/east-bengal-emami-to-sign-agreement-august-2-indian-football/article65686502.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> East Bengal FC has hired former Indian Super League (ISL) champion Carles Cuadrat as their new Head Coach on a two-year deal.<ref>{{cite web|date=27 April 2023|title=Carles Cuadrat appointed as new coach of East Bengal|url=https://footballexpress.in/carles-cuadrat-appointed-as-new-coach-of-east-bengal/|website=FootballExpress.in|access-date=30 April 2023|archive-date=30 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430090324/https://footballexpress.in/carles-cuadrat-appointed-as-new-coach-of-east-bengal/|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Crest, colours and kits==
==Crest, colours and kits==
===Crest===
===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 [[Torch|flame torch]] ''(known as 'Mawshal' or '[[:bn:মশাল|মশাল]]' in [[Bangla Language|Bangla]])'' became the club emblem, which has remained to this day.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=1930s: The Dark Decade|url=http://www.eastbengaltherealpower.com/east-bengal-football-club-history-details/id/32/1930s:-The-Dark-Decade|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425053122/http://www.eastbengaltherealpower.com/east-bengal-football-club-history-details/id/32/1930s:-The-Dark-Decade|archive-date=25 April 2012|access-date=4 December 2011|website=eastbengaltherealpower.com}}</ref><ref name=":3" />In the year 2020 East Bengal released a special Centenary Crest to celbrate 100 years of its existence.
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 [[Torch|flame torch]] ''(known as 'Mawshal' or '[[:bn:মশাল|মশাল]]' in [[Bangla Language|Bangla]])'' became the club emblem, which has remained to this day.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Armband |date=9 November 2019 |title=East Bengal Football Club : History and Emergence |url=https://www.sports-nova.com/2019/11/09/east-bengal-football-club-history-and-emergence-as-indian-superpower/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609193043/https://www.sports-nova.com/2019/11/09/east-bengal-football-club-history-and-emergence-as-indian-superpower/ |archive-date=9 June 2020 |access-date=9 June 2020 |website=Sports-nova |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=1930s: The Dark Decade|url=http://www.eastbengaltherealpower.com/east-bengal-football-club-history-details/id/32/1930s:-The-Dark-Decade|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425053122/http://www.eastbengaltherealpower.com/east-bengal-football-club-history-details/id/32/1930s:-The-Dark-Decade|archive-date=25 April 2012|access-date=4 December 2011|website=eastbengaltherealpower.com}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/history.php |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144426/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/history.php |archive-date=9 June 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref> In the year 2020 East Bengal released a special Centenary Crest to celebrate 100 years of its existence.
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|File:East Bengal first logo.png|First logo<ref>{{Cite web|date=22 Dec 2020|title=More Than A Club: Stories Behind Our Red-and-Gold Colours and Torch Emblem|url=https://www.sceastbengal.co/post/more-than-a-club-stories-behind-our-red-and-gold-colours-and-torch-emblem|access-date=4 Jan 2021|website=SC East Bengal|language=en|archive-date=23 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223124158/https://www.sceastbengal.co/post/more-than-a-club-stories-behind-our-red-and-gold-colours-and-torch-emblem|url-status=live}}</ref>
|File:East Bengal first logo.png|First logo<ref>{{Cite web|date=22 Dec 2020|title=More Than A Club: Stories Behind Our Red-and-Gold Colours and Torch Emblem|url=https://www.sceastbengal.co/post/more-than-a-club-stories-behind-our-red-and-gold-colours-and-torch-emblem|access-date=4 Jan 2021|website=SC East Bengal|language=en|archive-date=23 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223124158/https://www.sceastbengal.co/post/more-than-a-club-stories-behind-our-red-and-gold-colours-and-torch-emblem|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
|File:East Bengal FC centenary logo.jpg|Centenary logo
|File: Emami East Bengal FC logo.svg|Emami East Bengal logo<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 Oct 2022|title=Emami is East Bengal's new investor|url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/emami-is-east-bengals-new-investor/article65717580.ece|access-date=11 Oct 2022|website=www.thehindu.com|language=en|archive-date=3 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803050831/https://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/emami-is-east-bengals-new-investor/article65717580.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>
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===Colours===
===Colours===
[[File:A_Department_Store_(BOND_0089).jpeg|alt=Black and white photograph of facade of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. department store|left|thumb|200px|Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. department store in 1945]]The primary and secondary colors of East Bengal are red and yellow respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/east-bengal-beat-tollygunge-agragami-1.189948|title=উপচে পড়া গ্যালারি রঙিন করলেন খাবরা|trans-title=Khabra colored the overflowing gallery|language=bn|first=Debanjan|last=Banerjee|date=9 August 2015|access-date=2 March 2023|website=anandabazar.com|publisher=[[Anandabazar Patrika]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114162740/https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/east-bengal-beat-tollygunge-agragami-1.189948|archive-date=14 November 2022}}</ref> Traditionally, the home kit consists of a red and yellow jersey with black shorts, while the away kit colors vary every year.<ref name=":10" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Archive|url=https://eastbengalclub.com/archive|access-date=26 September 2020|website=eastbengalclub.com|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918094050/https://eastbengalclub.com/archive|url-status=live}}</ref> These colours permanently integrated with the club.<ref name="RiseofEastBengal" />
[[File:A_Department_Store_(BOND_0089).jpeg|alt=Black and white photograph of facade of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. department store|left|thumb|200px|Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. department store in 1945]]The primary and secondary colors of East Bengal are red and yellow respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/east-bengal-beat-tollygunge-agragami-1.189948|title=উপচে পড়া গ্যালারি রঙিন করলেন খাবরা|trans-title=Khabra colored the overflowing gallery|language=bn|first=Debanjan|last=Banerjee|date=9 August 2015|access-date=2 March 2023|website=anandabazar.com|publisher=[[Anandabazar Patrika]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114162740/https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/east-bengal-beat-tollygunge-agragami-1.189948|archive-date=14 November 2022}}</ref> Traditionally, the home kit consists of a red and yellow jersey with black shorts, while the away kit colors vary every year.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Bhattacharya |first=Nilesh |date=27 July 2019 |title=East Bengal unveil centenary jersey Football News – Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/east-bengal-unveil-centenary-jersey/articleshow/70414212.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123229/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/east-bengal-unveil-centenary-jersey/articleshow/70414212.cms |archive-date=6 July 2021 |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref> 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|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Archive|url=https://eastbengalclub.com/archive|access-date=26 September 2020|website=eastbengalclub.com|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918094050/https://eastbengalclub.com/archive|url-status=live}}</ref> These colours permanently integrated with the club.<ref name="RiseofEastBengal" />
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===Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors===
==Departments==
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=== Men's football ===
! style="text-align:center;" |Period
{{Main|East Bengal FC}}
! style="text-align:center;" |Kit manufacturer
 
! style="text-align:center;" |Shirt sponsor
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 [[National Football League (India)|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.
|-
 
|1993—1994
===Women's football===
| rowspan="3" |''None''
{{Main|East Bengal FC (women)}}
|Verona
 
|-
The women's football team was formed in 2001. It won the [[Kanyashree Cup|Calcutta Women's Football League]] title in its inaugural season and was runners-up in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |title=India – List of Women Champions |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-womchamp.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205054139/http://rsssf.com/tablesi/india-womchamp.html |archive-date=5 February 2010 |access-date=12 June 2020 |website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref> In the centenary year, the women's team was relaunched.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 October 2019 |title=East Bengal forms women's team; Mohun Bagan 'not enthusiastic' enough |url=https://thebridge.in/football/after-several-years-east-bengal-forms-womens-team-mohun-bagan-not-enthusiastic-enough/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612171934/https://thebridge.in/football/after-several-years-east-bengal-forms-womens-team-mohun-bagan-not-enthusiastic-enough/ |archive-date=12 June 2020 |access-date=12 June 2020 |website=The Bridge |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=BADGEB |date=28 December 2019 |title=Exclusive: East Bengal women's team officially signs! |url=http://www.badgeb.com/exclusive-east-bengal-womens-team-officially-signs/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230094957/http://www.badgeb.com/exclusive-east-bengal-womens-team-officially-signs/ |archive-date=30 December 2019 |access-date=12 June 2020 |website=Badgeb |language=en-GB}}</ref> In the first year of relaunch, the East Bengal women's team became runner's up of the [[2020 Calcutta Women's Football League season|2020 Kanyashree Cup]].<ref name="kc2020">{{cite web |title=SSB beats SC East Bengal to lift Women's Kanyashree Cup! |url=http://www.arunfoot.com/ssb-beats-sc-east-bengal-to-lift-womens-kanyashree-cup/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230180455/http://www.arunfoot.com/ssb-beats-sc-east-bengal-to-lift-womens-kanyashree-cup/ |archive-date=30 December 2020 |access-date=4 January 2020 |work=Arunfoot.com}}</ref>
|1994—1995
 
|[[McDowell's No.1]]
===Reserves team and Academy===
|-
{{Main|East Bengal FC Reserves and Academy{{!}}East Bengal Club Reserves and Academy}}
|1995—1996
 
| rowspan="2" |[[Emami]]<ref>{{cite web|date=26 May 2022|url=https://www.thewall.in/sports/east-bengal-emami-return-to-eb-after-25-years/|title=East Bengal। Emami: ২৫ বছর পর ইমামি ফিরল ইস্টবেঙ্গল জার্সিতে, নস্টালজিয়ার গন্ধে বিভোর লাল-হলুদ জনতা|trans-title=East Bengal. Emami: Emami returns to East Bengal jersey after 25 years, nostalgia amidst red-yellow crowd|language=bn|work=The Wall|accessdate=26 May 2022|archive-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811075017/https://www.thewall.in/sports/east-bengal-emami-return-to-eb-after-25-years/|url-status=live}}</ref>
'''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]].
|-
 
|1996—1997
'''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 (India)|Youth League]] of various age groups.
|[[Umbro]]
 
|-
===Cricket===
|1997—1998
{{Main|East Bengal cricket team}}
|Duta Sports
 
|[[Khadim's]]<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|title=What transpired when East Bengal and Mohun Bagan partnered with corporate giants? {{!}} Goal.com|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/indian-football-east-bengal-mohun-bagan-partnership-ub-group/1uxgcn7o5qo5k1snwk907rwnbj|access-date=2020-10-20|website=www.goal.com|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123230/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/indian-football-east-bengal-mohun-bagan-partnership-ub-group/1uxgcn7o5qo5k1snwk907rwnbj|url-status=live}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2018 |title=Cricket honours |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/crickethonours.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018052311/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/crickethonours.html |archive-date=18 October 2018 |access-date=10 June 2020}}</ref> [[Kapil Dev]], [[Sachin Tendulkar]], [[Ajay Jadeja]], [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]] and [[Sourav Ganguly]] have played on the team.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=23 August 2017 |title=Legacy-History |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823202630/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1970s-to-1990s |archive-date=23 August 2017 |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref>
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|1998—2000
|[[Adidas]]
| rowspan="8" |[[United Breweries Group|Kingfisher]]<ref name=":13" />
|-
|2000—2003
|''None''
|-
|2003—2005
|[[Reebok]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/East-Bengal-ropes-in-Reebok-as-official-kit-sponsor/articleshow/59990.cms|title=East Bengal ropes in Reebok as official kit sponsor|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=20 October 2020|archive-date=9 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209205858/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/East-Bengal-ropes-in-Reebok-as-official-kit-sponsor/articleshow/59990.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2005—2006
|[[Pony International|Pony]]<ref>{{cite web|date=8 Jun 2005|title=East Bengal ink deal with Pony|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/East-Bengal-ink-deal-with-Pony/articleshow/1135368.cms|access-date=20 October 2020|work=[[The Times of India]]|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123231/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/East-Bengal-ink-deal-with-Pony/articleshow/1135368.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2006—2010
|[[Reebok]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200608.html|title=East Bengal Club sings deal with Reebok|work=Indian Football News|access-date=20 October 2020|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022051314/http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200608.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2010—2014
|''None''
|-
|2014—2017
|Shiv Naresh<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/shiv-naresh-the-new-kit-sponsor-of-east-bengal|title=Shiv-Naresh - The new kit sponsor of East Bengal|work=Sportskeeda|access-date=20 October 2020|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023041854/https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/shiv-naresh-the-new-kit-sponsor-of-east-bengal|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2017—2018
| rowspan="2" |Perf<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/i-league-2017-18-east-bengal-pen-deal-with-italian-brand-perf|title=I-League 2017/18: East Bengal pen deal with Italian brand PERF|work=Sportskeeda|access-date=20 October 2020|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021143733/https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/i-league-2017-18-east-bengal-pen-deal-with-italian-brand-perf|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2018—2019
| rowspan="2" |Quess
|-
|2019—2020
|Kaizen Sports<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-05-23|title=Report: East Bengal to tie-up with Kaizen Sports as new kit sponsor|url=https://khelnow.com/football/i-league-2019-20-east-bengal-new-kit-sponsor-kaizen-sports/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Khel Now|language=en-US|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123234/https://khelnow.com/football/i-league-2019-20-east-bengal-new-kit-sponsor-kaizen-sports|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2020—2021
|[[TYKA Sports|TYKA]]<ref>{{cite tweet |user=tykasports |author=[[TYKA Sports|TYKA]] |number=1323943746594086923 |date=4 November 2020 |title=Proud to be associated with sceastbengalofficial as their official kit supplier.|link=https://twitter.com/tykasports/status/1323943746594086923 |access-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122170915/https://twitter.com/tykasports/status/1323943746594086923 |archive-date=22 November 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|rowspan="2" |[[Shree Cement]]<ref>{{cite web |title=SC East Bengal official website (front page) |url=https://www.sceastbengal.co/ |website=sceastbengal.co |access-date=26 November 2020 |archive-date=26 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126123857/https://www.sceastbengal.co/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2021—22
|Reyaur<ref>{{cite tweet |user=sc_eastbengal |author=SC East Bengal |number=1447520988480999424 |date=11 October 2021 |title=SC East Bengal is happy to announce 𝐑𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐮𝐫 as its official 𝙠𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 & 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧. |link=https://twitter.com/tykasports/status/1323943746594086923 |access-date=1 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Reyaur Sports announces partnership with East Bengal|url=https://twitter.com/reyaursports/status/1447527272869613568|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011113940/https://twitter.com/reyaursports/status/1447527272869613568|archive-date=11 October 2021|access-date=12 October 2021|publisher=Reyaur Sports}}</ref>
|-
|2022—present
|Trak Only<ref>{{cite tweet|user=trakonly|author=TrakOnly|number=1575485545941471233|date=29 September 2022|link=https://twitter.com/trakonly/status/1575485545941471233|title=The 2022-23 East Bengal FC x Trak-Only jerseys are here|access-date=4 October 2022}}</ref>
|[[1xBet|1xBat Sporting Lines]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user=eg_eastbengal|author=Emami East Bengal|number=1575421017409064960|date=29 September 2022|link=https://twitter.com/eg_eastbengal/status/1575421017409064960|title=Welcoming 1xBatSporting to the Red and Gold Family! We are proud to announce that news portal 1xBat Sporting Lines will be our principal sponsors for the upcoming season.|access-date=30 September 2022}}</ref> [[Emami]], Alliance Broadband
|}


==Supporters==
===Hockey===
[[File:East Bengal smoke show.jpg|thumb|225x225px|Smoke show during a CFL match against NBP Rainbow at East Bengal Ground]]
{{Main|East Bengal field hockey team}}
[[File:East Bengal Club supporters at the Salt Lake Stadium.jpg|thumb|East Bengal supporters at Salt Lake Stadium during the Kolkata Derby in [[2022 Durand Cup]]]]
East Bengal is a club mainly supported by the migrant population, known as ''[[Bangal]]'', from the former Indian part of [[East Bengal]] (now modern-day [[Bangladesh]]). East Bengal is one of Asia's biggest and most supported football clubs. There are approximately 30 to 40 million supporters from all across the nation and overseas.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /> In October 2020, the club got voted as the most popular football club in India on an AFC poll by its supporters, gaining approximately 49% of the votes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The most popular football clubs: India {{!}} Football {{!}} News {{!}}|url=https://www.the-afc.com/news/afcsection/the-most-popular-football-clubs-india|access-date=2020-12-12|website=the-AFC|language=en-GB|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123231/https://www.the-afc.com/news/afcsection/the-most-popular-football-clubs-india|url-status=live}}</ref>


[[East Bengal Ultras]], the main [[ultras]] (supporters) group of East Bengal, was established in 2013. It was the first ultras group to be established in the country. Since its inception, this group has set many new records and broken older ones. Though initially, people were skeptical about the group, now they have seen in what ways this group is benefitting Indian football. Though all these achievements came along with some controversies. As in the past, there have been fights and hooliganism among the fans of the rival clubs, the administration does not completely trust the group's functioning.<ref name=":03">{{cite web |title=Corteo and Pyros : When East Bengal Ultras did a Legia Warsaw – Sportskeeda |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/corteo-and-pyros-when-east-bengal-ultras-did-a-legia-warsaw|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821223457/https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/corteo-and-pyros-when-east-bengal-ultras-did-a-legia-warsaw|archive-date=21 August 2018|access-date=21 August 2018 |website=sportskeeda.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=22 August 2018 |title=East Bengal – Salgaocar 21.02.2016 |url=http://www.ultras-tifo.net/match-reports/4100-east-bengal-salgaocar-21022016.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822014724/http://www.ultras-tifo.net/match-reports/4100-east-bengal-salgaocar-21022016.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 August 2018|access-date=10 June 2020}}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Schedule |url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/schedule-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100541/https://www.hockeybengal.org/schedule-1 |archive-date=24 October 2022 |access-date=18 November 2022 |work=Hockey Bengal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=26 March 2022 |title=Calcutta Hockey League Competition — Fixtures of 1st Division Group B 2022 |url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/post/fixtures-of-1st-division-group-b-2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118125355/https://www.hockeybengal.org/post/fixtures-of-1st-division-group-b-2022 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |access-date=31 January 2023 |website=hockeybengal.org |publisher=The Hockey Bengal |location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=13 February 2022 |title=Calcutta Hockey League Competition — Fixtures of 1st Division Group A 2022 |url=https://9476a252-c6e6-45a1-9e56-d69f3bf4f39e.usrfiles.com/ugd/9476a2_788612ea4f5b4a18b7dbc55f5d86439e.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100550/https://9476a252-c6e6-45a1-9e56-d69f3bf4f39e.usrfiles.com/ugd/9476a2_788612ea4f5b4a18b7dbc55f5d86439e.pdf |archive-date=24 October 2022 |access-date=31 January 2023 |website=hockeybengal.org |publisher=The Hockey Bengal |location=Kolkata}}</ref> They won 13 trophies. The team was disbanded in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2018 |title=Hockey |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/hockey.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018025827/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/hockey.html |archive-date=18 October 2018 |access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref> The hockey department was restarted in 2021 with [[Calcutta Hockey League]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=১৯ বছর পর হকি টিম তৈরি করল ইস্টবেঙ্গল |url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/sports/other-sports/east-bengal-formed-hockey-team-after-19-years/articleshow/80787219.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516061014/https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/sports/other-sports/east-bengal-formed-hockey-team-after-19-years/articleshow/80787219.cms |archive-date=16 May 2021 |access-date=2021-02-12 |website=Ei Samay |language=bn}}</ref>


Established on 15 November 2006, [[East Bengal the Real Power]] is India's first registered fan club. It is East Bengal's largest fan club and one of the largest in the country. In its early years, its functioning was limited to online platforms, but later on, it became a [[Supporters' groups|supporters' group]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=East Bengal the Real POWER's Journey of a Decade |url=http://rajarshissportsworld.blogspot.com/2015/11/east-bengal-real-powers-journey-of.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716202123/http://rajarshissportsworld.blogspot.com/2015/11/east-bengal-real-powers-journey-of.html|archive-date=16 July 2019|access-date=9 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Desi Tadka: East Bengal On Orkut {{!}} Goal.com|url=https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/105/main/2009/03/06/1141479/desi-tadka-east-bengal-on-orkut|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716200825/https://www.goal.com/en-india/news/105/main/2009/03/06/1141479/desi-tadka-east-bengal-on-orkut|archive-date=16 July 2019|access-date=10 June 2020|website=www.goal.com}}</ref>
===Athletics===
East Bengal has an [[Sport of athletics|athletics]] team, which is affiliated with the West Bengal Athletic Association, and participates in various tournaments of West Bengal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 2018 |title=Athletics – Team |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/athleticsteam.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001020433/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/athleticsteam.html |archive-date=1 October 2018 |access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref> The club also organizes Annual Athletic meets at the club ground.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 October 2018 |title=Annual Athletic meet |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/annualmeet.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018052305/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/annualmeet.html |archive-date=18 October 2018 |access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref>


==Rivalries==
===E-Sports===
{{Main|Kolkata Derby}}
East Bengal also took part in the inaugural season of [https://www.e-isl.in/ 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.
East Bengal has main rivalries with [[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan]], [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)|Mohammedan]],  [[Bengaluru FC|Bengaluru]] and [[Odisha FC|Odisha]].[[File:Kolkata_Derby.jpg|alt=|thumb|225x225px|[[2019-20 I-League|2019–20 season]] Kolkata Derby at the Salt Lake Stadium]]
Unlike East Bengal, Mohun Bagan is a club mainly supported by the native population of the present-day state of West Bengal. The match that takes place between these two clubs is eminently called the Kolkata Derby. The Kolkata Derby has its name taken from the [[Old Firm|Old Firm Derby]] between [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] and [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] and dates back to the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/how-football-kicked-off-in-india-111645287939737.html|title=How football kicked off in India {{!}} As with the English language, when the British transported the sport to India, they didn't expect the 'natives' to beat them at it|website=lifestyle.livemint.com|publisher=[[Mint (newspaper)|Livemint Delhi]]|date=8 June 2018|access-date=27 January 2022|first=Manu S|last=Pillai|location=Delhi, India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714153151/https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/how-football-kicked-off-in-india-111645287939737.html|archive-date=14 July 2022}}</ref> After Indian independence and the partition of Bengal, the huge influx of immigrants from the eastern part of Bengal led to a socio-economic crisis in the state. This led to rivalries in jobs, business, schools, and even on the football pitch among the immigrants and native population. This rivalry became fierce, and the Kolkata Derby grew in popularity and reached its peak during the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Bhat |first=Adnan |title=The Kolkata derby: Asia's fiercest footballing rivalry |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/kolkata-derby-asia-fiercest-footballing-rivalry-180424202807467.html|access-date=26 August 2019 |website=aljazeera.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826125159/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/kolkata-derby-asia-fiercest-footballing-rivalry-180424202807467.html|archive-date=26 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=FIFA.com |title=Welcome to FIFA.com News - India's all-consuming rivalry - FIFA.com |url=https://www.fifa.com/news/india-all-consuming-rivalry-1414458 |access-date=1 August 2020 |website=www.fifa.com |language=en-GB |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020140/https://www.fifa.com/news/india-all-consuming-rivalry-1414458 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Kolkata Derby holds a record of {{Lakh|1.3}} spectators, the most attended sporting event in India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World's Largest Sporting Crowds |url=https://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/crowd-largest.htm|access-date=10 June 2020 |website=www.topendsports.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506155044/https://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/crowd-largest.htm|archive-date=6 May 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":8" />


==Ownership==
==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.<ref name=":5" /> 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 [[Corporation|corporate]] company.<ref>{{Cite web|date=12 Nov 2014|title=East Bengal knocks on ED door|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/East-Bengal-knocks-on-ED-door/articleshow/45115801.cms|access-date=11 Oct 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=15 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115011903/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/East-Bengal-knocks-on-ED-door/articleshow/45115801.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> The club is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. [[Constitutional amendment|Amendments]] and resolutions are passed via [[Extraordinary general meeting|extraordinary]] or [[annual general meeting]].<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|last=Dey|first=Sayak Dipta|date=2020-10-09|title=ISL 2020-21: Impasse over transfer of power officially ends in East Bengal FC|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/isl-2020-21-impasse-transfer-power-officially-ends-east-bengal-fc|access-date=2020-10-12|website=www.sportskeeda.com|language=en-us|archive-date=14 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014082218/https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/isl-2020-21-impasse-transfer-power-officially-ends-east-bengal-fc|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web|last=Mukherjee|first=Soham|date=21 Sep 2020|title=Transfer of sporting rights to Shree Cement East Bengal Foundation on agenda in EGM|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/shree-cement-east-bengal-sporting-rights-indian-football/uzwzf8x4r6qi1uc69r56oa816|access-date=12 Oct 2020|website=Goal.com|archive-date=5 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005111805/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/shree-cement-east-bengal-sporting-rights-indian-football/uzwzf8x4r6qi1uc69r56oa816|url-status=live}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Majumdar |first=Arkamoy Dutta |date=9 July 2018 |title=Kolkata football: East Bengal cedes control in Quess for funds |url=https://www.livemint.com/Sports/nsLFUmkI2aUHEabVl2TRvM/Kolkata-football-East-Bengal-cedes-control-in-Quess-for-fun.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420173245/https://www.livemint.com/Sports/nsLFUmkI2aUHEabVl2TRvM/Kolkata-football-East-Bengal-cedes-control-in-Quess-for-fun.html |archive-date=20 April 2020 |access-date=18 June 2020 |website=Livemint |language=en}}</ref> 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 [[Corporation|corporate]] company.<ref>{{Cite web|date=12 Nov 2014|title=East Bengal knocks on ED door|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/East-Bengal-knocks-on-ED-door/articleshow/45115801.cms|access-date=11 Oct 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=15 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115011903/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/East-Bengal-knocks-on-ED-door/articleshow/45115801.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> The club is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. [[Constitutional amendment|Amendments]] and resolutions are passed via [[Extraordinary general meeting|extraordinary]] or [[annual general meeting]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite web|last=Mukherjee|first=Soham|date=21 Sep 2020|title=Transfer of sporting rights to Shree Cement East Bengal Foundation on agenda in EGM|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/shree-cement-east-bengal-sporting-rights-indian-football/uzwzf8x4r6qi1uc69r56oa816|access-date=12 Oct 2020|website=Goal.com|archive-date=5 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005111805/https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/shree-cement-east-bengal-sporting-rights-indian-football/uzwzf8x4r6qi1uc69r56oa816|url-status=live}}</ref>


Currently the football rights are with a new limited company, Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd. jointly owned by East Bengal Club and [[Emami|Emami Group]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paperwork done between Emami and East Bengal, it's time for football |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/football/paperwork-done-between-emami-and-east-bengal-its-time-for-football/cid/1877951 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |archive-date=3 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803210631/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/football/paperwork-done-between-emami-and-east-bengal-its-time-for-football/cid/1877951 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Currently the football rights are with a new merged entity, Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd. jointly owned by East Bengal and [[Emami|Emami Group]] who owns 77% stake of the whole club.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paperwork done between Emami and East Bengal, it's time for football |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/football/paperwork-done-between-emami-and-east-bengal-its-time-for-football/cid/1877951 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] |archive-date=3 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803210631/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/football/paperwork-done-between-emami-and-east-bengal-its-time-for-football/cid/1877951 |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Stadiums==
==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soccerlens.com/largest-football-stadiums/36427/|title=The 10 largest football stadiums in the world: #2 – Salt Lake Stadium (Kolkata, India)|website=soccerlens.com|publisher=Sports Lens|date=24 November 2009|access-date=24 November 2009|archive-date=26 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126003534/http://soccerlens.com/largest-football-stadiums/36427/|first=Chris|last=Mann}}</ref> The first ground used by the club was Kumartuli Park in north Kolkata.<ref>{{Cite web |title=[VIDEO] Bhaichung Bhutia kickstarts East Bengal FC's centenary celebrations with grand torch rally in Kolkata |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/football/article/video-bhaichung-bhutia-kickstarts-east-bengal-fcs-centenary-celebrations-with-grand-torch-rally-in-kolkata/460428|access-date=8 June 2020 |website=www.timesnownews.com |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608130841/https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/football/article/video-bhaichung-bhutia-kickstarts-east-bengal-fcs-centenary-celebrations-with-grand-torch-rally-in-kolkata/460428|archive-date=8 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bhattacharya|first=Nilesh|date=29 July 2019|title=Sea of red and gold floods Kolkata as East Bengal launch centenary gala|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/i-league/sea-of-red-and-gold-floods-kolkata-as-east-bengal-launch-centenary-gala/articleshow/70426266.cms|access-date=17 Oct 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123257/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/i-league/sea-of-red-and-gold-floods-kolkata-as-east-bengal-launch-centenary-gala/articleshow/70426266.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soccerlens.com/largest-football-stadiums/36427/|title=The 10 largest football stadiums in the world: #2 – Salt Lake Stadium (Kolkata, India)|website=soccerlens.com|publisher=Sports Lens|date=24 November 2009|access-date=24 November 2009|archive-date=26 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126003534/http://soccerlens.com/largest-football-stadiums/36427/|first=Chris|last=Mann}}</ref> The first ground used by the club was Kumartuli Park in north Kolkata.<ref>{{Cite web |title=[VIDEO] Bhaichung Bhutia kickstarts East Bengal FC's centenary celebrations with grand torch rally in Kolkata |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/football/article/video-bhaichung-bhutia-kickstarts-east-bengal-fcs-centenary-celebrations-with-grand-torch-rally-in-kolkata/460428|access-date=8 June 2020 |website=www.timesnownews.com |date=29 July 2019 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608130841/https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/football/article/video-bhaichung-bhutia-kickstarts-east-bengal-fcs-centenary-celebrations-with-grand-torch-rally-in-kolkata/460428|archive-date=8 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bhattacharya|first=Nilesh|date=29 July 2019|title=Sea of red and gold floods Kolkata as East Bengal launch centenary gala|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/i-league/sea-of-red-and-gold-floods-kolkata-as-east-bengal-launch-centenary-gala/articleshow/70426266.cms|access-date=17 Oct 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706123257/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/i-league/sea-of-red-and-gold-floods-kolkata-as-east-bengal-launch-centenary-gala/articleshow/70426266.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>


===Salt Lake Stadium===
===Salt Lake Stadium===
{{Main|Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan}}
[[File:Yuva Bharati Krirangan.png|alt=|thumb|Salt Lake Stadium]]
[[File:Yuva Bharati Krirangan.png|alt=|thumb|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 is 85,000.<ref name="EastBengalStadiums">{{cite web |title=East Bengal Ground |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/stadium.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526131313/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/stadium.php|archive-date=26 May 2012 |access-date=29 May 2012 |work=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref>
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.<ref name="EastBengalStadiums">{{cite web |title=East Bengal Ground |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/stadium.php|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526131313/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/stadium.php|archive-date=26 May 2012 |access-date=29 May 2012 |work=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref>


===East Bengal Ground===
===East Bengal Ground===
[[File:EB-Ground.png|thumb|225x225px|East Bengal Ground|alt=]]
[[File:EB-Ground.png|thumb|225x225px|East Bengal Ground|alt=]]
{{Main|East Bengal Ground}}
{{Main|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, India|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. The total capacity of the stadium is 23,500.<ref name=EastBengalStadiums/>
 
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, India|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bengali.news18.com/news/sports/east-bengal-fc-looking-forward-to-back-in-winning-ways-against-eastern-rail-in-cfl-today-rrc-1208225.html|title=ইস্টবেঙ্গল আজ নিজেদের মাঠে খেলবে প্রথম ম্যাচ, জয় ফিরতে মরিয়া মশাল ব্রিগেড|first=Rohan|last=Roy Chowdhury|trans-title=East Bengal will play the first match at their own ground today, Mashal Brigade is desperate to return the win|website=bengali.news18.com|location=Kolkata|publisher=News18 Bangla|language=bn|date=27 July 2023|access-date=27 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727141048/https://bengali.news18.com/news/sports/east-bengal-fc-looking-forward-to-back-in-winning-ways-against-eastern-rail-in-cfl-today-rrc-1208225.html|archive-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> The total capacity of the stadium is 23,500.<ref name=EastBengalStadiums/>
 
=== Eden Gardens ===
{{Main|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===
===Other grounds===
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The team also trains at one of the VYBK practice grounds.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 August 2019 |title=Surface Tension in Kolkata: The Pain of Football in the Rain |url=https://www.newsclick.in/surface-tension-kolkata-pain-football-rain|access-date=9 June 2020 |website=NewsClick |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609122815/https://www.newsclick.in/surface-tension-kolkata-pain-football-rain|archive-date=9 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
The team also trains at one of the VYBK practice grounds.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 August 2019 |title=Surface Tension in Kolkata: The Pain of Football in the Rain |url=https://www.newsclick.in/surface-tension-kolkata-pain-football-rain|access-date=9 June 2020 |website=NewsClick |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609122815/https://www.newsclick.in/surface-tension-kolkata-pain-football-rain|archive-date=9 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Players==
==Management==
{{Main|List of East Bengal Club players}}
{{updated|November 2024}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 June 2024|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/football/business-leader-lohia-becomes-east-bengal-president-aims-to-take-it-among-the-best-clubs-of-asia-3063996|title=Business leader Lohia becomes East Bengal president, aims to take it among the 'best clubs of Asia'|work=Deccan Herald|accessdate=15 June 2024}}</ref>
{{Further|topic=squad|2022–23 East Bengal FC season#First-team squad|}}
{{See also|List of East Bengal Club captains|List of foreign players for East Bengal Club}}
 
===Current squad===
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{{updated|28 August 2022}}<ref name=islsquad>{{cite web|author=ISL Media|url=https://www.indiansuperleague.com/clubs/1102-east-bengal-fc-profile/squad|title=Squad - East Bengal FC|work=Indian Super League|accessdate=4 October 2022|archive-date=4 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004094314/https://www.indiansuperleague.com/clubs/1102-east-bengal-fc-profile/squad|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=13|nat=IND|pos=GK|name=[[Prabhsukhan Singh Gill]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=1|nat=IND|pos=GK|name=[[Kamaljit Singh]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=33|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Gursimrat Singh Gill]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=25|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Athul Unnikrishnan|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Mohammad Rakip]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=5|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Lalchungnunga]]}}
{{Fs player|no=8|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Edwin Sydney Vanspaul]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Nishu Kumar]]|other=on loan from [[Kerala Blasters FC|Kerala Blasters]]}}
{{Fs player|no=7|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Harmanjot Singh Khabra]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Mandar Rao Dessai]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= 16|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Sarthak Golui]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Pritam Kumar Singh|Pritam Kumar]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=37|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Tuhin Das]]|other=}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=[[Wahengbam Angousana]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= 21|nat=ESP|pos=MF|name=[[Saúl Crespo]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= 15|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=[[Mobashir Rahman]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=26|nat=ESP|pos=MF|name=[[Borja Herrera]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=[[Souvik Chakrabarti]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Gunraj Singh Grewal|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Vanlalpeka Guite|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=[[Cleiton Silva]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=IND|pos=FW|name=[[Suhair Vadakkepeedika|VP Suhair]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=29|nat=IND|pos=FW|name=[[Naorem Mahesh Singh]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=99|nat=ESP|pos=FW|name=[[Javier Siverio]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=IND|pos=FW|name=[[Nandhakumar Sekar]]|other=}}
{{fs end}}
 
===Promoted from Reserves squad===
{{For|more details on this topic and current reserves and academy squads|East Bengal Club Reserves and Academy}}
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=IND|pos=GK|name=Aditya Patra|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=75|nat=IND|pos=GK|name=Ranit Sarkar|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=37|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=[[Tuhin Das]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=74|nat=IND|pos=DF|name=Bunando Singh Khangembam|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=34|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Nabi Hussain Khan|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=68|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Kush Chhetry|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=63|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Muhammed Roshal PP|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=60|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Dip Saha|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=62|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Aman CK|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=73|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Razibul Mistry|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Gurnaj Singh Grewal|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=IND|pos=MF|name=Vanlalpeka Guite|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=59|nat=IND|pos=FW|name=[[Jesin TK]]|other=}}
{{Fs end}}
 
==Personnel==
===Current technical staff===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="1" style="background:Red; color:Gold; text-align:center;"  | Position
!colspan="1" style="background:Gold; color:Red; text-align:center;"  | Name
|-
| Head coach
| align=left|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Carles Cuadrat]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |Assistant coach
| align=left|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Dimas Delgado]]
|-
| align=left|{{flagicon|IND}} [[Bino George]]
|-
| Goalkeeping Coach
| align=left|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Javier Pinillos]]
|-
| Sports Scientist
| align=left|{{flagicon|ESP}} Albert Martinez Bernat
|-
| Physiotherapist
| align=left|{{flagicon|ESP}} Senen Alvarez
|-
| Head of Performance & Video Analyst
| align=left|{{flagicon|IND}} Aromal Vijayan
|-
|}
 
===Corporate team===
As of September 2022
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="1" style="background:Red; color:Gold; text-align:center;"  | Position
!colspan="1" style="background:Gold; color:Red; text-align:center;"  | Name
|-
| CEO
| {{flagicon|IND}} Namrata Parekh
|-
| CTO
| {{flagicon|IND}} Amoy Ghoshal
|-
| Media Manager
| {{flagicon|IND}} Ritam Basu
|-
| Team photographer
| {{flagicon|IND}} Nikhil Patel
|-
| Operations and Accreditation Manager
| {{flagicon|IND}} Aritra Dutta
|}


==Management==
===East Bengal Club===
{{updated|September 2022}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=East Bengal Club |url=https://eastbengalclub.com/about/committee-members |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=eastbengalclub.com |language=en |archive-date=8 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008215411/https://eastbengalclub.com/about/committee-members |url-status=live }}</ref>
'''<big>East Bengal Club</big>'''
{|class="wikitable"
{|class="wikitable"
|-
|-
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!colspan="1" style="background:Gold; color:Red; text-align:center;"  | Name
!colspan="1" style="background:Gold; color:Red; text-align:center;"  | Name
|-
|-
|President
|{{flagicon|IND}} Murari Lal Lohia
|-
|-
|President
|Chief advisor
|{{flagicon|IND}} Dr. Pronab Dasgupta
|{{flagicon|IND}} Pronab Dasgupta
|-
|-
|Vice-presidents
|Vice-presidents
|{{flagicon|IND}} Ajoy Krishna Chatterjee<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Shankar Bagri<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Saroj Kumar Jhunjhunwala<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Indrajit Roy<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Subhashish Chakroborty<ref>{{Cite web |title=East Bengal Club |url=https://eastbengalclub.com/news/details/appointment-of-new-vice-president |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=eastbengalclub.com |language=en |archive-date=7 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907160723/https://eastbengalclub.com/news/details/appointment-of-new-vice-president |url-status=live }}</ref>
|{{flagicon|IND}} Ajoy Krishna Chatterjee<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Shankar Bagri<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Subhasish Chakraborty<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Kalyan Majumdar
|-
|-
|General secretary
|General secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Kalyan Majumdar
|{{flagicon|IND}} Rupak Saha
|-
|-
|Assistant secretary
|Assistant general secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Rupak Saha
|{{flagicon|IND}} Santi Ranjan Dasgupta
|-
|Finance secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Sadananda Mukherjee
|-
|-
|Treasurer
|Treasurer
|{{flagicon|IND}} Debdas Samajdar
|{{flagicon|IND}} Debdas Samajdar
|-
|Accountant
|{{flagicon|IND}} Sadananda Mukherjee
|-
|-
|Football secretary
|Football secretary
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|-
|Cricket secretary
|Cricket secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Manas Kumar Roy
|{{flagicon|IND}} Sanjib Acharya
|-
|-
|Hockey secretary
|Hockey secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Chanchal Banerjee
|{{flagicon|IND}} Prabir Kumar Dafaddar
|-
|-
|Athletic secretary
|Athletic secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Siddhartha Sircar
|{{flagicon|IND}} Partha Pratim Roy
|-
|Tennis secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Indranil Ghosh
|-
|-
|Ground secretary
|Ground secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Saroj Bhattacharjee
|{{flagicon|IND}} Rajat Guha
|-
|Tennis secretary
|{{flagicon|IND}} Debasish Bose
|-
|-
|Executive committee members
|Executive committee members
|{{flagicon|IND}} Sanjib Acharya<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Molly Ganguly<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Sri Subir Ganguly<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Santosh Bhattacharya<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Debabrata Sarkar<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Rajiv Guha<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Goutam Das<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Birendra Kumar Saha<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Dipankar Chakraborty<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Biplab Paul<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Somenath Guha<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Suman Dasgupta<br>
|{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jhulan Goswami]]<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Molly Ganguly<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Sri Subir Ganguly<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Santosh Bhattacharya<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Diptendu Mohan Bose<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Siddharta Sarkar<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Debabrata Sarkar<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Birendra Kumar Saha<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Dipankar Chakraborty<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Biswajit Mazumdar<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Tapan Roy<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Suman Dasgupta<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Aritra Roy Chowdhury<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Beni Madhab Bhattacharya<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Manab Paul<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Subhasish Dasgupta<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Saroj Bhattacharjee<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Debasish Bose<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Bikash Dutta<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Biplab Paul
|-
|Special invitee
|{{flagicon|IND}} Ajit Banerjee<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Rajat Guha<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Manish Banerjee<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Dr. Santi Ranjan Dasgupta<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Bikash Dutta<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Tapan Das<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Indranil Dey
|-
|Co-opted
|{{flagicon|IND}} Kamalendu Sinha Roy<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Rabin Das<br>{{flagicon|IND}} Amit Roy<br>
|}
<big>'''Board of Directors for Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd.'''</big>
 
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="1" style="background:Red; color:Gold; text-align:center;"  | Emami Group
!colspan="1" style="background:Gold; color:Red; text-align:center;"  | East Bengal Club
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} Aditya V Agarwal
|{{flagicon|IND}} Debabrata Sarkar
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} Manish Goenka
|{{flagicon|IND}} Rupak Saha
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} Sandeep Agrawal
|{{flagicon|IND}} Sadananda Mukherjee
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} Gatum Jatia
|
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} S. N. Paul
|
|-
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} Saurabh Dasgupta
|
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} Manoj Agarwal
|
|}
|}


==Records==
== Honours ==
{{Main|List of East Bengal Club records and statistics}}
{{Further|List of East Bengal Club seasons|East Bengal Club league record by opponent}}
===Record in Indian Super League===
{{#section-h:East Bengal Club league record by opponent|League record by ISL season}}


===Record in NFL/I-League===
=== Football ===
{{#section-h:East Bengal Club league record by opponent|League record by NFL/I-League season}}
{{further|List of East Bengal FC records and statistics}}
 
==Performance in AFC competitions==
{{Main|East Bengal Club in international football}}
{{Further|List of East Bengal Club wins against Foreign teams}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Competition
!No. of appearances
!Seasons
!Best result
|-
|'''[[AFC Champions League|Asian Club Championship]]'''{{efn|name=fn1}}
|2
|[[1985–86 Asian Club Championship|1985–86]], [[1998–99 Asian Club Championship|1998–99]]
| align="center" | Group stages ([[1985–86 Asian Club Championship|1985–86]])
|-
|'''[[Asian Cup Winners' Cup]]'''
|5
|[[1991-92 Asian Cup Winners' Cup|1991–92]], [[1993-94 Asian Cup Winners' Cup|1993–94]], [[1994-95 Asian Cup Winners' Cup|1994–95]], [[1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup|1995]], [[1997-98 Asian Cup Winners' Cup|1997–98]]
| align="center" | Quarter-finals ([[1991-92 Asian Cup Winners' Cup|1991–92]])
|-
|'''[[AFC Cup]]'''
|8
|[[2004 AFC Cup|2004]], [[2005 AFC Cup|2005]], [[2008 AFC Cup|2008]], [[2010 AFC Cup|2010]], [[2011 AFC Cup|2011]], [[2012 AFC Cup|2012]], [[2013 AFC Cup|2013]], [[2015 AFC Cup|2015]]
| align="center" |'''Semi-finals''' ([[2013 AFC Cup|2013]])
|}
{{Notelist|refs=
{{efn|name=fn1|Known as AFC Champions League since 2002}}
}}


==Honours==
Major trophies of East Bengal FC include the following:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trophy Room |url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/trophy-room.php|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144419/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/trophy-room.php|archive-date=9 June 2019|access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=East Bengal Club|url=https://eastbengalclub.com/honours/football|access-date=2020-10-12|website=eastbengalclub.com|language=en|archive-date=10 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010151354/https://eastbengalclub.com/honours/football|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/airlinesgoldcup.html|title=List of Winners/Runners-Up of the Airlines Gold Cup|website=indianfootball.de|access-date=28 February 2021|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024223328/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/airlinesgoldcup.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://olympics.com/en/news/calcutta-football-league-history-winners-list |title=Calcutta Football League: East Bengal kings of Asia's oldest league competition — full winners list |website=olympics.com |publisher=The Olympics Football |last1=Nag |first1=Utathya |date=19 April 2023 |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505071647/https://olympics.com/en/news/calcutta-football-league-history-winners-list |archive-date=5 May 2023 }}</ref>
{{further|topic=Honours received by East Bengal|List of East Bengal Club records and statistics}}
Major trophies of East Bengal include the following:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trophy Room |url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/trophy-room.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144419/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/trophy-room.php|archive-date=9 June 2019|access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalfootballclub.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=East Bengal Club|url=https://eastbengalclub.com/honours/football|access-date=2020-10-12|website=eastbengalclub.com|language=en|archive-date=10 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010151354/https://eastbengalclub.com/honours/football|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/airlinesgoldcup.html|title=List of Winners/Runners-Up of the Airlines Gold Cup|website=indianfootball.de|access-date=28 February 2021|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024223328/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/airlinesgoldcup.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://olympics.com/en/news/calcutta-football-league-history-winners-list |title=Calcutta Football League: East Bengal kings of Asia's oldest league competition — full winners list |website=olympics.com |publisher=The Olympics Football |last1=Nag |first1=Utathya |date=19 April 2023 |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505071647/https://olympics.com/en/news/calcutta-football-league-history-winners-list |archive-date=5 May 2023 }}</ref>


{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center;"
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center;"
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| rowspan="1" |'''International'''
| rowspan="1" |'''International'''
![[ASEAN Club Championship]]
![[ASEAN Club Championship]]
|bgcolor="gold"|'''1'''{{smallsup|S}}
|bgcolor="gold"|'''1'''{{sup|S}}
|align="left"|[[2003 ASEAN Club Championship|2003]]
|align="left"|[[2003 ASEAN Club Championship|2003]]
|-
|-
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|-
! scope=col|[[Durand Cup]]
! scope=col|[[Durand Cup]]
|bgcolor="gold"|'''16'''{{smallsup|S}}
|align="center"|16
|align="left"|1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004
|align="left"|1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004
|-
|-
! scope=col|[[Calcutta Football League]]
! scope=col|[[Calcutta Football League]]
|bgcolor="gold"|'''39'''
|bgcolor="gold"|'''41'''
|align="left"|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, 2012–13, 2013–14, [[2014–15 Calcutta Premier Division|2014–15]], 2015–16, [[2016–17 Calcutta Premier Division|2016–17]], [[2017–18 Calcutta Premier Division|2017–18]]
|align="left"|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, 2012–13, 2013–14, [[2014 CFL Premier Division|2014–15]], 2015–16, [[2016 CFL Premier Division|2016–17]], [[2017 CFL Premier Division|2017–18]],
2024-25,
2025
|-
|-
! scope=col|[[Rovers Cup]]
! scope=col|[[Rovers Cup]]
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|}
* {{legend|gold|Record}}
* {{legend|gold|Record}}
* {{smallsup|S}} Shared record
* {{sup|S}} Shared record
 
=== Cricket ===
{{Further|East Bengal cricket team#Honours}}
* '''CAB First Division League'''
 
:: <small>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</small>
 
* '''CAB Senior Knockout'''
 
:: <small>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</small>
 
* '''J. C. Mukherjee Trophy'''
 
:: <small>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</small>
 
* '''P. Sen Memorial Invitation Trophy'''
 
:: <small>Champions '''(10):''' 1976-77, 1978-79, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2016-17</small>


===Awards===
* '''A. N. Ghosh Memorial Trophy'''
*[[Banga Bibhushan]]: 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/3-iconic-city-football-clubs-to-receive-banga-bibhushan-486861|title=3 iconic city football clubs to receive Banga Bibhushan|website=www.millenniumpost.in|publisher=Millennium Post|location=Kolkata, West Bengal|date=22 July 2022|access-date=24 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724070753/http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/3-iconic-city-football-clubs-to-receive-banga-bibhushan-486861|archive-date=24 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news9live.com/sports/football/not-clubs-but-institutions-mohun-bagan-east-bengal-mohammedan-receive-banga-bibhushan-award-from-west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-from-bengal-govt-184984|title='Not clubs but institutions': Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, Mohammedan receive Banga Bibhushan award|website=www.news9live.com|publisher=News Nine|location=Kolkata, West Bengal|first=Sayan|last=Mukherjee|date=25 July 2022|access-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725162640/https://www.news9live.com/sports/football/not-clubs-but-institutions-mohun-bagan-east-bengal-mohammedan-receive-banga-bibhushan-award-from-west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-from-bengal-govt-184984|archive-date=25 July 2022}}</ref>
 
:: <small>Champions '''(8):''' 1992-93, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16</small>


==Other departments==
* '''CAB Super League'''
===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 (India)|Youth League]] of various age groups.
:: <small>Champions '''(1):''' 2016-17</small>


===Women's football===
=== Hockey ===
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=India – List of Women Champions |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-womchamp.html|access-date=12 June 2020 |website=[[RSSSF]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205054139/http://rsssf.com/tablesi/india-womchamp.html|archive-date=5 February 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> In the centenary year, the women's team was relaunched.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 October 2019 |title=East Bengal forms women's team; Mohun Bagan 'not enthusiastic' enough |url=https://thebridge.in/football/after-several-years-east-bengal-forms-womens-team-mohun-bagan-not-enthusiastic-enough/|access-date=12 June 2020 |website=The Bridge |language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612171934/https://thebridge.in/football/after-several-years-east-bengal-forms-womens-team-mohun-bagan-not-enthusiastic-enough/|archive-date=12 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=BADGEB |date=28 December 2019 |title=Exclusive: East Bengal women's team officially signs! |url=http://www.badgeb.com/exclusive-east-bengal-womens-team-officially-signs/|access-date=12 June 2020 |website=Badgeb |language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230094957/http://www.badgeb.com/exclusive-east-bengal-womens-team-officially-signs/|archive-date=30 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In the first year of relaunch, the East Bengal women's team became runner's up of the [[2020 Calcutta Women's Football League season|2020 Kanyashree Cup]].<ref name=kc2020>{{cite web|url=http://www.arunfoot.com/ssb-beats-sc-east-bengal-to-lift-womens-kanyashree-cup/|title=SSB beats SC East Bengal to lift Women's Kanyashree Cup!|work=Arunfoot.com|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=30 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230180455/http://www.arunfoot.com/ssb-beats-sc-east-bengal-to-lift-womens-kanyashree-cup/|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{Further|East Bengal Club (field hockey)#Honours}}
*[[Calcutta Hockey League]]


===Cricket===
:: <small>Champions ('''10'''): 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1989, 2022</small>
{{Main|East Bengal Club (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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2018 |title=Cricket honours |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/crickethonours.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018052311/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/crickethonours.html|archive-date=19 October 2018|access-date=10 June 2020 }}</ref> [[Kapil Dev]], [[Sachin Tendulkar]], [[Ajay Jadeja]], [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]] and [[Sourav Ganguly]] have played on the team.<ref name=":4" />


===Hockey===
*[[Beighton Cup]]
{{Main|East Bengal Club (field 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/schedule-1|title=Schedule|work=Hockey Bengal|access-date=18 November 2022|archive-date=24 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100541/https://www.hockeybengal.org/schedule-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/post/fixtures-of-1st-division-group-b-2022|title=Calcutta Hockey League Competition — Fixtures of 1st Division Group B 2022|website=hockeybengal.org|publisher=The Hockey Bengal|date=26 March 2022|access-date=31 January 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118125355/https://www.hockeybengal.org/post/fixtures-of-1st-division-group-b-2022|archive-date=18 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://9476a252-c6e6-45a1-9e56-d69f3bf4f39e.usrfiles.com/ugd/9476a2_788612ea4f5b4a18b7dbc55f5d86439e.pdf|title=Calcutta Hockey League Competition — Fixtures of 1st Division Group A 2022|website=hockeybengal.org|publisher=The Hockey Bengal|date=13 February 2022|access-date=31 January 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100550/https://9476a252-c6e6-45a1-9e56-d69f3bf4f39e.usrfiles.com/ugd/9476a2_788612ea4f5b4a18b7dbc55f5d86439e.pdf|archive-date=24 October 2022}}</ref> They won 13 trophies. The team was disbanded in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2018 |title=Hockey |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/hockey.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018025827/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/hockey.html|archive-date=18 October 2018|access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref> The hockey department was restarted in 2021 with [[Calcutta Hockey League]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=১৯ বছর পর হকি টিম তৈরি করল ইস্টবেঙ্গল|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/sports/other-sports/east-bengal-formed-hockey-team-after-19-years/articleshow/80787219.cms|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Ei Samay|language=bn|archive-date=16 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516061014/https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/sports/other-sports/east-bengal-formed-hockey-team-after-19-years/articleshow/80787219.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>


===Athletics===
:: <small>Champions ('''4'''): 1957, 1962, 1964, 1967</small>
East Bengal has an [[Sport of athletics|athletics]] team, which is affiliated with the West Bengal Athletic Association, and participates in various tournaments of West Bengal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 2018 |title=Athletics – Team |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/athleticsteam.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001020433/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/athleticsteam.html|archive-date=1 October 2018|access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref> The club also organizes Annual Athletic meets at the club ground.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 October 2018 |title=Annual Athletic meet |url=http://eastbengalclub.co.in/annualmeet.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018052305/http://eastbengalclub.co.in/annualmeet.html|archive-date=18 October 2018|access-date=10 June 2020 |website=eastbengalclub.co.in}}</ref>
:: Runners-up ('''3'''): 1963, 1970, 1987


===E-Sports===
===Awards===
East Bengal also took part in the inaugural season of [https://www.e-isl.in/ 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.
*[[Banga Bibhushan]]: 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/3-iconic-city-football-clubs-to-receive-banga-bibhushan-486861|title=3 iconic city football clubs to receive Banga Bibhushan|website=www.millenniumpost.in|publisher=Millennium Post|location=Kolkata, West Bengal|date=22 July 2022|access-date=24 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724070753/http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/3-iconic-city-football-clubs-to-receive-banga-bibhushan-486861|archive-date=24 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news9live.com/sports/football/not-clubs-but-institutions-mohun-bagan-east-bengal-mohammedan-receive-banga-bibhushan-award-from-west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-from-bengal-govt-184984|title='Not clubs but institutions': Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, Mohammedan receive Banga Bibhushan award|website=www.news9live.com|publisher=News Nine|location=Kolkata, West Bengal|first=Sayan|last=Mukherjee|date=25 July 2022|access-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725162640/https://www.news9live.com/sports/football/not-clubs-but-institutions-mohun-bagan-east-bengal-mohammedan-receive-banga-bibhushan-award-from-west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-from-bengal-govt-184984|archive-date=25 July 2022}}</ref>


==Affiliated clubs==
==Affiliated clubs==
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*{{cite book|title=Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora|year=2001|publisher=Frank Cass Publishers|location=[[London]], United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-7146-8170-2|page=33|last1=Dineo|first1=Paul|last2=Mills|first2=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71JHZiiP3hoC|archive-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725072732/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Soccer_in_South_Asia.html?id=71JHZiiP3hoC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y}}
*{{cite book|title=Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora|year=2001|publisher=Frank Cass Publishers|location=[[London]], United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-7146-8170-2|page=33|last1=Dineo|first1=Paul|last2=Mills|first2=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71JHZiiP3hoC|archive-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725072732/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Soccer_in_South_Asia.html?id=71JHZiiP3hoC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y}}
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*{{Cite web |title=India's football past gasping for survival |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/football/india-s-football-past-gasping-for-survival/story-8cGyA03MIB3ay2LCflkcWJ.html |date=25 March 2018 |website=hindustantimes.com |publisher=[[Hindustan Times]] |last=Sarkar |first=Dhiman |location=Kolkata |access-date=16 April 2023 |archive-date=6 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106201153/https://www.hindustantimes.com/football/india-s-football-past-gasping-for-survival/story-8cGyA03MIB3ay2LCflkcWJ.html }}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150117/jsp/sports/story_19347595.jsp#.VxdCgvl97IV|title=Time to regain lost glory|date=17 January 2015|first=Hariprasad|last=Chattopadhyay|website=telegraphindia.com|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|access-date=22 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505102054/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150117/jsp/sports/story_19347595.jsp#.VxdCgvl97IV|archive-date=5 May 2016}}
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*{{cite web|url=https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/chronology|title=Chronology of Important Sports Events — West Bengal|website=wbsportsandyouth.gov.in|publisher=Government of West Bengal – Department of youth services and sports|date=2017|access-date=25 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013092944/https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/chronology|archive-date=13 October 2022|location=Kolkata}}
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This article is about the multi-sports club. For the men's football team, see East Bengal FC. For the women's football team, see East Bengal FC (women). For the men's field hockey team, see East Bengal Club field hockey team. For the men's cricket team, see East Bengal cricket team.

East Bengal Club
Full nameEast Bengal Club
NicknameLal Holud Brigade
Bangal Brigade
Torch Bearers
FoundedAugust 1, 1920; 106 years ago (1920-08-01)
PresidentMurari Lal Lohia
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East Bengal Club, commonly referred to as East Bengal (bn), is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is best known for its professional men's football team that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top flight of the Indian football league system.[1] It is one of the most successful football clubs in the country. The club has other departments for women's football, men's and women's cricket, field hockey, athletics and eSports.

East Bengal was founded on 1 August 1920. It first started with just its men's football department but soon expanded into other sports such as hockey after 1947 and cricket in the 1970s. The women's football team was started in 2001.

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.[2] 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.[3] This led to rivalries among the immigrant and native population of West Bengal, popularly named as Bangal (বাঙ্গাল) 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, ghotis (ঘটি) and biharis (বিহারী), 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 "Lal Holud" (Bangla: লাল হলুদ). The fans of the club are also collectively called the Torchbearers

History

Portrait of Suresh Chandra Chowdhury
Suresh Chandra Chaudhari (founder)
Portrait of Sailesh Bose
Sailesh Bose
Side profile of Sarada Ranjan Roy
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.[4][5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8][9]

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.[10][11][12] In the year 2020 East Bengal released a special Centenary Crest to celebrate 100 years of its existence.

East Bengal crests

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.[14] Traditionally, the home kit consists of a red and yellow jersey with black shorts, while the away kit colors vary every year.[15] 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.[16] These colours permanently integrated with the club.[4]

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Departments

Men's football

Main article: East Bengal FC

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

Main article: East Bengal FC (women)

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.[17] In the centenary year, the women's team was relaunched.[18][19] In the first year of relaunch, the East Bengal women's team became runner's up of the 2020 Kanyashree Cup.[20]

Reserves team and Academy

Main article: East Bengal Club Reserves 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

Main article: East Bengal cricket team

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.[21] Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Ajay Jadeja, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Sourav Ganguly have played on the team.[22]

Hockey

Main article: East Bengal field hockey team

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.[23][24][25] They won 13 trophies. The team was disbanded in 2000.[26] The hockey department was restarted in 2021 with Calcutta Hockey League.[27]

Athletics

East Bengal has an athletics team, which is affiliated with the West Bengal Athletic Association, and participates in various tournaments of West Bengal.[28] The club also organizes Annual Athletic meets at the club ground.[29]

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.[30] 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.[31] The club is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. Amendments and resolutions are passed via extraordinary or annual general meeting.[32]

Currently the football rights are with a new merged entity, Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd. jointly owned by East Bengal and Emami Group who owns 77% stake of the whole club.[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

Main article: Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan
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

East Bengal Ground
Main article: 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

Main article: 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 November 2024[43]

East Bengal Club

Role Name
President India Murari Lal Lohia
Chief advisor India Pronab Dasgupta
Vice-presidents India Ajoy Krishna Chatterjee
India Shankar Bagri
India Subhasish Chakraborty
India Kalyan Majumdar
General secretary India Rupak Saha
Assistant general secretary India Santi Ranjan Dasgupta
Finance secretary India Sadananda Mukherjee
Treasurer India Debdas Samajdar
Football secretary India Saikat Ganguly
Cricket secretary India Sanjib Acharya
Hockey secretary India Prabir Kumar Dafaddar
Athletic secretary India Partha Pratim Roy
Tennis secretary India Indranil Ghosh
Ground secretary India Rajat Guha
Executive committee members India Jhulan Goswami
India Molly Ganguly
India Sri Subir Ganguly
India Santosh Bhattacharya
India Diptendu Mohan Bose
India Siddharta Sarkar
India Debabrata Sarkar
India Birendra Kumar Saha
India Dipankar Chakraborty
India Biswajit Mazumdar
India Tapan Roy
India Suman Dasgupta
India Aritra Roy Chowdhury
India Beni Madhab Bhattacharya
India Manab Paul
India Subhasish Dasgupta
India Saroj Bhattacharjee
India Debasish Bose
India Bikash Dutta
India Biplab Paul

Honours

Football

Further information: List of East Bengal FC records and statistics

Major trophies of East Bengal FC include the following:[44][45][46][47]

Type Competition Titles Seasons
International ASEAN Club Championship 1S 2003
Domestic National Football League 3 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04
Federation Cup 8 1978, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2007, 2009–10, 2010, 2012
Indian Super Cup 3 1997, 2006, 2011
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, 2012, 2018
Durand Cup 16 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004
Calcutta Football League 41 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, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18,

2024-25, 2025

Rovers Cup 10 1949, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1994
  •   Record
  • S Shared record

Cricket

Further information: East Bengal cricket team § Honours
  • CAB First Division League
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
  • CAB Senior Knockout
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
  • J. C. Mukherjee Trophy
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
  • P. Sen Memorial Invitation Trophy
Champions (10): 1976-77, 1978-79, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2016-17
  • A. N. Ghosh Memorial Trophy
Champions (8): 1992-93, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16
  • CAB Super League
Champions (1): 2016-17

Hockey

Further information: East Bengal Club (field hockey) § Honours
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

References

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