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The 2006–07 season was East Bengal's 11th season in the National Football League and 87th season in existence.

East Bengal
2006–07 season
PresidentDr Pranab Dasgupta
Head-CoachBrazil Carlos Pereira
GroundSalt Lake Stadium
East Bengal Ground
National Football League5th
Calcutta Football LeagueChampions
Federation CupQuarter-Finals
IFA ShieldGroup Stage
Durand CupGroup Stage
Top goalscorerLeague: Edmilson (13)
All: Edmilson (13)

Competitions[edit | edit source]

Overall[edit | edit source]

Competition First match Last match Final position
Calcutta Football League 2 August 2006 7 November 2006 Champions
Durand Cup 20 November 2006 24 November 2006 Group Stage
IFA Shield 7 December 2006 11 December 2006 Group Stage
Federation Cup 20 December 2006 23 December 2006 Quarter-Finals
National Football League 7 January 2007 19 May 2007 5th

Overview[edit | edit source]

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Calcutta Football League[edit | edit source]

East Bengal finished the 2006 Calcutta Premier Division as the champions with 32 points from 14 matches.[1] Captain Alvito D'Cunha scored the solitary goal in the final game against Eastern Railway to win back the Calcutta League title after losing out the previous year to arch-rivals Mohun Bagan.[2]

Fixtures & results[edit | edit source]

  Win   Draw   Loss

6 August 2006 2 East Bengal 3–0 Railway FC Kolkata
Chandan Das Error creating thumbnail: File missing 67'
Vincent Pires Error creating thumbnail: File missing 77'
Yumnam Raju Error creating thumbnail: File missing 90+1'
Report Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Minangshu Bhattacharya
Man of the Match: Dipankar Roy (East Bengal)
18 August 2006 3 East Bengal 1–0 United Kolkata
Vincent Pires Error creating thumbnail: File missing 64' Report Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Sunando Bose
Man of the Match: Dipankar Roy (East Bengal)
21 August 2006 4 East Bengal 2–0 Calcutta Port Trust Kolkata
Luis Octavio da Silva Error creating thumbnail: File missing 68'
Dipankar Roy Error creating thumbnail: File missing 55'
Report Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Rathin Mukherjee
Man of the Match: Sasthi Duley (East Bengal)
26 August 2006 5 East Bengal 0–1 Mohun Bagan Kolkata
Report Bhaichung Bhutia Error creating thumbnail: File missing 40' Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium
Referee: Subrata Sarkar
Man of the Match: Sangram Mukherjee (Mohun Bagan)
1 September 2006 6 East Bengal 0–0 Eastern Railway Kolkata
Report Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Dhanapati Roy
Man of the Match: Tapan Kumar Karmakar (Eastern Railway)
19 September 2006 8 Railway FC 0–1 East Bengal Kolkata
Report Ashim Biswas Error creating thumbnail: File missing 58' Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Subrata Das
Man of the Match: Syed Rahim Nabi (East Bengal)
23 September 2006 9 United 0–2 East Bengal Kolkata
Report Syed Rahim Nabi Error creating thumbnail: File missing 54'
Wajid Ali Error creating thumbnail: File missing 68' (o.g.)
Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Minangshu Bhattacharya
Man of the Match: not handed out
26 September 2006 10 Mohun Bagan 1–0 East Bengal Kolkata
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Bhaichung Bhutia Red card 88'
Report Muttah Suresh Yellow card 50' Red card 90+1' Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium
Referee: Debashish Mishra
Man of the Match: Ndem Guy Herve (Mohun Bagan)
4 November 2006 13 Mohammedan Sporting 0–0 East Bengal Kolkata
Report Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium
Referee: Minangshu Bhattacharya
Man of the Match: Habibur Rehman Mondal (Mohammedan Sporting)
7 November 2006 14 Eastern Railway 0–1 East Bengal Kolkata
Sanjit Dutta Bhowmick Yellow card 60' Red card 73' Report Alvito D'Cunha Error creating thumbnail: File missing 70' Red card 73' Stadium: East Bengal Ground
Referee: Kashinath Sen
Man of the Match: Muttah Suresh (East Bengal)



Durand Cup[edit | edit source]

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
India JCT 3 1 2 0 5 1 +4 5
India Dempo 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 5
India Army XI 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
India East Bengal 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1

East Bengal was grouped alongside JCT, Dempo and Army XI in Group B. East Bengal drew 0–0 against Dempo in the opening fixture but 0–4 against JCT and 1–2 against Army XI as they were eliminated from the group stages.[3]

Fixtures & results[edit | edit source]

  Win   Draw   Loss

20 November 2006 Group Stage East Bengal 0–0 Dempo Delhi
Dipankar Roy Red card 46' Report Stadium: Ambedkar Stadium
24 November 2006 Group Stage East Bengal 1–2 Army XI Delhi
Alvito D'Cunha Error creating thumbnail: File missing 53' Report Vijay Thapa Error creating thumbnail: File missing 47'67' Stadium: Ambedkar Stadium
Referee: Mohammed Kamil



IFA Shield[edit | edit source]

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
India Sporting Club de Goa 2 1 1 0 1 0 +1 4
India Mahindra United 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
India East Bengal 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1

East Bengal was grouped alongside Mahindra United and Sporting Club de Goa in Group A. East Bengal lost 1–0 against Sporting Club de Goa in the opening game and drew 1–1 against Mahindra United as they were eliminated from the group stages.[4]

Fixtures & results[edit | edit source]

  Win   Draw   Loss



Federation Cup[edit | edit source]

East Bengal started the Federation Cup campaign in the Pre-Quarter Finals against State Bank of Travancore and won 2–0 with goals from Syed Rahim Nabi and Alvito D'Cunha.[5] In the quarter-final, however, East Bengal lost 0–1 against Dempo courtesy of a solitary strike from Ranti Martins in the 86th minute as they were eliminated from the competition.[6]

Fixtures & results[edit | edit source]

  Win   Draw   Loss

23 December 2006 Quarter-Final East Bengal 0–1 Dempo Kolkata
Report Ranti Martins Error creating thumbnail: File missing 86' Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium
Referee: S. Suresh



National Football League[edit | edit source]

League table[edit | edit source]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 Mahindra United 18 8 6 4 29 14 +15 30
4 Churchill Brothers 18 7 8 3 30 23 +7 29
5 East Bengal 18 7 5 6 29 29 0 26
6 Sporting Goa 18 6 7 5 23 19 +4 25
7 Air India 18 4 9 5 20 23 −3 21
Source: rsssf.com


Fixtures & results[edit | edit source]

  Win   Draw   Loss

7 January 2007 1 Air India 1–0 East Bengal Mumbai
Samson Singh Error creating thumbnail: File missing 71' Report Stadium: Cooperage Ground
Referee: P.K. Bose
Man of the Match: Benoy Kuruvilla (Air India)
24 February 2007 6 East Bengal 0–0 Dempo Kolkata
Report Stadium: Barasat Stadium
Referee: S. Suresh
Man of the Match: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar (East Bengal)
27 January 2007 7 East Bengal 1–0 Mohun Bagan Kolkata
Saumik Dey Error creating thumbnail: File missing 15' Report Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium
Referee: Dinesh Nair
Man of the Match: Jayanta Sen (East Bengal)
21 March 2007 9 East Bengal 0–2 Sporting Club de Goa Kolkata
Report Ernest Jeremiah Chukwuma Error creating thumbnail: File missing 20'50' Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium
Referee: Rizwan Ul-Haq
Man of the Match: Dudu Omagbemi (Sporting Club de Goa)


Super Soccer Series 2007 (Friendly)[edit | edit source]

Brazilian giants São Paulo football club toured India for a series of friendly matches in January 2007. East Bengal played them on 27 January 2007 at the Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri and lost 0–3 with goals from Carlinhos, Paulo Matos and Jean Raphael Moreira.[7][8]

Fixtures & results[edit | edit source]

  Win   Draw   Loss

Statistics[edit | edit source]

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Only for competitive fixtures.
Players with no appearances are not included in the list.
Appearances for East Bengal in 2006–07 season
No. Pos. Nat. Name CFL NFL Fed Cup Durand Cup IFA Shield Total
Apps Starts Apps Starts Apps Starts Apps Starts Apps Starts Apps Starts
Goalkeepers
21 GK India Abhra Mondal 7 7 6 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 14 14
24 GK India Rajat Ghosh Dastidar 7 7 8 8 0 0 2 2 0 0 17 17
1 GK India Naseem Akhtar 0 0 5 4 2 2 0 0 2 2 9 8
Defenders
17 DF India Surya Bikash Chakraborty 1 1 2 2 3 3
4 DF India Covan Lawrence 5 4 12 12 17 16
27 DF India Gurpreet Singh 11 10 4 4 1 0 3 3 2 1 21 18
29 DF India Saumik Dey 11 11 10 10 2 2 3 3 2 2 28 28
19 DF India Syed Rahim Nabi 9 8 9 9 2 2 0 0 0 0 20 19
5 DF India Debabrata Roy 6 4 7 7 2 1 0 0 0 0 15 12
20 DF India Vincent Pires 13 11 6 6 0 0 2 2 0 0 21 19
12 DF India Anupam Sarkar 4 3 2 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 9 7
DF India Yumnam Raju 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 1
2 DF India Muttah Suresh 6 6 13 13 0 0 3 3 1 1 23 23
3 DF Brazil Luis Octavio da Silva 11 11 11 11
3 DF Brazil Cristiano Hilario de Oliveira 14 14 2 2 1 1 17 17
26 DF India Gurjinder Singh 1 1 1 1
34 DF India Amulya Mondal 1 1 1 0 2 1
Midfielders
7 MF India Jayanta Sen 7 7 14 14 2 2 3 2 2 2 28 27
6 MF India Dipankar Roy 13 10 9 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 26 16
9 MF India Alvito D'Cunha 4 3 14 12 1 1 2 2 2 2 23 20
15 MF India Bibiano Fernandes 7 1 8 5 0 0 2 2 1 1 18 9
14 MF India Chandan Das 12 11 9 5 1 0 2 2 0 0 24 18
32 MF India Gouranga Dutta 6 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 8 2
30 MF India Snehasish Chakraborty 9 8 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 10
8 MF India Sasthi Duley 5 3 5 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 13 10
MF India Mohammed Mukhtar 3 1 3 1
11 MF India Hardeep Singh Saini 1 0 4 4 1 1 0 0 6 5
28 MF India Shylo Malsawmtluanga 17 12 2 2 2 1 21 15
32 MF Error creating thumbnail: File missing Arata Izumi 12 7 2 2 2 0 16 9
40 MF Brazil Daniel Carlos Jorge 3 3 2 2 5 5
26 MF India Sovan Chakraborty 1 0 1 0
Forwards
23 FW India Vimal Pariyar 5 1 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 10 4
25 FW India Ashim Biswas 9 8 11 5 1 0 0 0 2 0 23 13
22 FW India Fredy Mascarenhas 11 10 4 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 19 11
10 FW Brazil Marcio Fernandes Tomaz 6 6 6 6
10 FW Brazil Thiago S Ferreira da Costa 2 2 2 2 4 4
10 FW Kenya Boniface Ambani 17 17 17 17
30 FW Brazil Edmilson Marques Pardal 12 12 12 12

Goal scorers[edit | edit source]

Goals for East Bengal in 2006–07 season
Rank No. Pos. Nat. Name CFL NFL Fed Cup Durand Cup IFA Shield Total
1 30 FW Brazil Edmilson Marques Pardal 13 13
2 9 MF India Alvito D'Cunha 4 1 1 1 1 8
25 FW India Ashim Biswas 3 5 0 0 0 8
4 10 FW Kenya Boniface Ambani 7 7
5 19 DF India Syed Rahim Nabi 2 0 1 0 0 3
6 14 MF India Chandan Das 2 0 0 0 0 2
20 DF India Vincent Pires 2 0 0 0 0 2
29 DF India Saumik Dey 1 1 0 0 0 2
9 3 DF Brazil Luis Octavio da Silva 1 1
6 MF India Dipankar Roy 1 0 0 0 0 1
10 FW Brazil Marcio Fernandes Tomaz 1 1
15 MF India Bibiano Fernandes 0 1 0 0 0 1
22 FW India Fredy Mascarenhas 1 0 0 0 0 1
32 MF Error creating thumbnail: File missing Arata Izumi 1 0 0 1
DF India Yumnam Raju 1 0 0 0 0 1
Own goals 1 0 0 0 0 1
Total 20 29 2 1 1 53

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Chaudhuri, Arunava (31 January 2008). "IFA- "Sahara" Calcutta Premier League 2006". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 May 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  2. "My biggest achievement, says Alvito D'Cunha - PREMIER DIVISION - We have proved we are the best, says Pereira". The Telegraph India. 8 November 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  3. Chaudhuri, Arunava (29 November 2007). "119th "Osian's" Durand Cup 2006". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  4. Chaudhuri, Arunava (29 November 2007). "112th IFA Shield 2006". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  5. "Dempo, East Bengal enter Fed Cup Quarters". Outlook India. 20 December 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  6. "Dempo down E Bengal to enter Federation Cup semis". Rediff News. 23 December 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  7. "Sao Paulo beat East Bengal". NDTV Sports. 22 March 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  8. "Sao Paulo FC, Brazil beat East Bengal by 3-0". East Bengal Club. 27 January 2007. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2021.

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