1975 IFA Shield final

1975 IFA Shield Final
Event1975 IFA Shield
Date30 September 1975
VenueMohun Bagan Ground, Kolkata, West Bengal
Man of the MatchShyam Thapa
Attendance30,000 (approx.)
1974
1976 →

The 1975 IFA Shield Final was the 79th final of the IFA Shield, the second oldest football competition in India, and was contested between Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan on 30 September 1975 at the Mohun Bagan Ground in Kolkata.

East Bengal won the final 5–0 to claim their 14th IFA Shield title. Shyam Thapa scored a brace while Surajit Sengupta, Ranjit Mukherjee and Subhankar Sanyal scored one each as East Bengal defeated their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan in a record margin to lift their fourth consecutive IFA Shield title.[1][2][3]

Route to the final

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East Bengal

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Date Round Opposition Score
23 September 1975 Quarter-Final Police AC 5–0
26 September 1970 Semi Final Behala Youth 7–0

East Bengal entered the 1975 IFA Shield as the three times defending champions, and started their campaign directly from the quarter-final stage. East Bengal faced Police AC in the last eight and defeated them 5–0 with Surajit Sengupta scoring a hattrick for the team while Samaresh Chowdhury and Shyam Thapa scored the other two. In the semi-final, East Bengal faced Behala Youth and won 7–0 with Surajit Sengupta scoring four goals and Ranjit Mukherjee, Pradip Dutta and Subhankar Sanyal scoring one each as East Bengal reached the IFA Shield final for the twenty-second time.[4]

Mohun Bagan

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Date Round Opposition Score
25 September 1975 Quarter-Final Kalighat Club w/o
27 September 1970 Semi Final Tollygunge Agragami 4–1

Mohun Bagan entered the 1975 IFA Shield as one of the Kolkata giants and was supposed to start their campaign directly from the quarter-finals against Kalighat Club however, Kalighat had informed the Indian Football Association about their inability to field a team and Mohun Bagan received a walkover into the semi-finals. In the semi-final, Mohun Bagan defeated Tollygunge Agragami 4–1 with Sisir Guha Dastidar scoring twice and Bijoy Dikpati and Johor Das scoring one each as Mohun Bagan reached the finals. Srikumar Chakraborty scored the only goal for Tollygunge in the defeat.[4]

Match

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Details

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East Bengal5–0Mohun Bagan
Sengupta 6'
Thapa soccer ball with red X 14', 24', 50'
Mukherjee 38'
Sanyal 84'
Report
Attendance: 35,000 (est.)
Referee: Babul Barmese (Assam)
East Bengal
Mohun Bagan
GK India Tarun Bose
RB India Sudhir Karmakar
CB India Ashokelal Banerjee (c)
CB India Shyamal Ghosh
LB India Kajal Dhali downward-facing red arrow 75'
CM India Gautam Sarkar
CM India Samaresh Chowdhury
LF India Surajit Sengupta
RF India Subhash Bhowmick
ST India Ranjit Mukherjee
ST India Shyam Thapa downward-facing red arrow 80'
Substitutes:
LB India Mridul Mutsuddi upward-facing green arrow 75'
ST India Subhankar Sanyal upward-facing green arrow 80'
Coach:
India P. K. Banerjee
GK India Bhaskar Ganguly downward-facing red arrow 51'
RB India Bijoy Dikpati
CB India Nimai Goswami downward-facing red arrow 75'
CB India Subrata Bhattacharya
LB India Dilip Palit
CM India Tapan Bose
CM India Prasun Banerjee
LF India Narayanswami Ulaganathan
RF India Kesto Mitra
ST India Johor Das
ST India Sisir Guha Dastidar (c)
Substitutes:
GK India Prasanta Mitra upward-facing green arrow 51'
CB India Compton Dutta upward-facing green arrow 75'
Coach:
India Arun Ghosh

Hero of the Match:
Shyam Thapa (East Bengal)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Sengupta, Somnath (2 February 2011). "HIGH FIVE : MEMORABLE KOLKATA DERBIES". The Hard Tackle. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  2. ^ Banerjee, Ritabrata (7 April 2020). "Indian Football: Down the memory lane - East Bengal's 'Golden era' of 1970s". Goal. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  3. ^ Sen, Debayan (10 February 2017). "Best of the Kolkata derby: Bhutia's kiss, Manna's unwelcome embrace, and Chuni's biryani". ESPN. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b Chaudhuri, Arunava (28 January 2021). "India - List of IFA Shield Final". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2011.