Subhash Bhowmick

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Personal information
Full name	Subhash Bhomik
Place of birth	Malda, West Bengal, India
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1969–1970	East Bengal	?	(?)
1970–1973	Mohun Bagan	?	(?)
1973–1976	East Bengal	?	(?)
1976–1978	Mohun Bagan	?	(?)
1978–1979	East Bengal	?	(?)
National team‡
1970–?	India	?	(?)
Teams managed
1999–2000	East Bengal
2002–2005	East Bengal
2006	Mohammedan
2007–2008	Salgaocar
2008–2009	East Bengal
2010–2011	Mohun Bagan
2012–2013	Churchill Brothers
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 April 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 April 2009

Subhash Bhowmick, born at West Bengal is a retired Indian football international player and club level coach and manager. During his playing career, he represented the "Big Two" of Kolkata football East Bengal and Mohun Bagan. He also represented India in various international tournaments from 1970.

Club career

Bhowmick joined East Bengal F.C. in 1969 and, after spending a season there, joined Mohun Bagan in 1970. At the end of the 1973 season, he returned to East Bengal and represented them till 1976, after which he rejoined Mohun Bagan. He was one of the prime faces of the East Bengal F.C. team which had demolished Mohun Bagan A.C. 5-0 in the 1975 IFA Shield final at Calcutta. After the 1977-78 season, he returned to East Bengal and retired in 1979. During his playing years, he was known as a powerful forward with good goal scoring abilities.

International career

Bhowmick represented India in various tournaments. He was a member of the Indian football team that won the Bronze medal in the Asian Games in 1970. He also represented India in the Merdeka Cup and Pesta Sukan Tournament.

Coaching career

Subhash Bhowmick has been very successful as a coach for the East Bengal Club. He had a forgettable first stint with the same club during the 1999-2000 season. During his second stint as coach, the club won a multitude of trophies including back to back NFL titles in 2002-03 and 2003–04, apart from Kolkata Football League, Durand Cup and IFA Shield victories. East Bengal also won the LG ASEAN Club Cup in 2003 under his managership. Bhowmick stepped down as coach of East Bengal in 2005 after being implicated in an alleged bribery scandal.

He coached Mohammedan Sporting Club during the 2006 season, but was not as successful there as he was during his stint with East Bengal. In 2007, a relegation threatened Salgaocar SC appointed Subhash Bhowmick to be their technical director. He remained as the Technical Director of the Goan outfit for the 2008 season also. Towards the end of the 2008-09 I-League, a relegation threatened East Bengal Club appointed Bhowmick as their coach. He was retained as coach for the 2009-10 season, a particularly dismal season for the club. East Bengal lost all the matches they played, most of them against smaller clubs, in both the IFA Shield as well as the Durand Cup. Supporters and club officials fixed the blame squarely on Bhowmick, as he was essentially the only man responsible for team making and pre-season training for the 2009-10 season. Despite significant autonomy granted to Bhowmick by East Bengal administrators, as well as provision of extra training facilities, his team failed to perform.

In the 2012-13 season, he coached Churchill Brothers S.C. as a technical director (as he does not hold an A-license, hence he could not officially be the coach of an I-League club), and led them to the top of the league standings in the I-League.

See also

• List of India national football team hat-tricks