2012–13 East Bengal FC season

East Bengal

2012–13 season
President	Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Head-Coach	Trevor Morgan
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium Kalyani Stadium East Bengal Ground
I-League	3rd
Calcutta Football League	Champions
Federation Cup	Champions
IFA Shield	Runners-up
AFC Cup	Quarter-Finals (Continues into 2013–14)
Top goalscorer	League: Chidi Edeh (18) All: Chidi Edeh (38)
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The 2012–13 season was East Bengal F.C.'s 93rd season since their formation in 1920 and their sixteenth season ever in the I-League which is India's top football league. At the end of the season the club had won the Federation Cup, finished 3rd in the 2012–13 I-League, and made it to the quarter-finals of the 2013 AFC Cup.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

As of 19 January 2013.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Abhijit Mondal 2 DF  IND Raju Gaikwad 3 DF  IND Arnab Mondal 4 DF  NGA Uga Okpara 5 DF  IND Sunil Thakur 6 FW  IND Baljit Sahni 7 MF  IND Harmanjot Khabra 8 DF  IND Naoba Singh 9 MF  IND Alvito D'Cunha 10 FW  NGA Chidi Edeh 12 MF  IND Reisangmei Vashum 14 MF  IND Mehtab Hossain 15 MF  IND Sanju Pradhan (captain) 16 DF  IND Gurwinder Singh 18 MF  NGA Penn Orji

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  IND Charan Rai 21 MF  IND Lalrindika Ralte 23 FW  IND Robin Singh 24 FW  IND Cavin Lobo 25 DF  IND Robert Lalthalma 26 FW  IND Manandeep Singh 28 MF  IND Jagpreet Singh 27 FW  AUS Andrew Barisić 29 DF  IND Saumik Dey 30 GK  IND Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 31 GK  IND Jayanta Paul 32 GK  IND Priyant Kumar 33 DF  IND Saikat Saha Roy 34 MF  IND Subodh Kumar 35 MF  IND Ishfaq Ahmed

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  IND Abhishek Das (at United Sikkim until the end of the 2012–13 season) 33 FW  IND Safar Sardar (at United Sikkim until the end of the 2012–13 season)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  IND Khemtang Paite (at Pune until the end of the 2012–13 season) — FW  IND Seminlen Doungel (at Pailan Arrows until the end of the 2012–13 season)

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Competition	First match	Last match	Final position
Calcutta Football League	17 August 2012	23 May 2013	Champions
Federation Cup	21 September 2012	30 September 2012	Champions
I-League	7 October 2012	12 May 2013	3rd
IFA Shield	3 March 2013	20 March 2013	Runners-up
AFC Cup	27 February 2013	15 May 2013	Quarter-Finals [A]

Competition	Record
	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Calcutta Football League [A]	17	15	1	1	57	7	+50	088.24
Federation Cup	5	4	1	0	11	7	+4	080.00
I-League	26	13	8	5	44	18	+26	050.00
IFA Shield	5	3	1	1	6	3	+3	060.00
AFC Cup	7	5	2	0	18	7	+11	071.43
Total	60	40	13	7	136	42	+94	066.67

Group A

2012–13 Calcutta Premier Division

Championship Stage

2012–13 Calcutta Premier Division

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Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
East Bengal	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
ONGC	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
Sporting Goa	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Kalighat MS	3	0	0	3	6	12	−6	0

East Bengal entered the 2012 Indian Federation Cup automatically as they were already in the I-League. They were placed in Group C along with Sporting Clube de Goa, ONGC, and Kalighat MS and their matches were played in Siliguri.^[4] East Bengal experienced mixed fortunes at the start of the tournament as they drew their opening match 1–1 against Sporting Goa with new Nigerian signing Chidi Edeh scoring his first goal for the club in the 10th minute from the penalty spot.^[5] The club then won their first game of the season in their second match of the tournament on 23 September 2012 against ONGC F.C. in which East Bengal came back from 0–1 down to 2–1 winners after Edeh and other new signing, India international, Manandeep Singh scored two goals to gift Bengal the victory.^[6] East Bengal then confirmed promotion out of the group stage of the Federation Cup to the Semi-Finals after a remarkable come from behind victory in their last game at the group stage to Kalighat MS in which East Bengal came back from 2–0 to tie the score up at 2–2 through two goals from Manandeep Singh in the 26th and 30th minute but then East Bengal had to come from behind again after Kalighat took the lead again to go up 3–2 with Edeh scoring two goals to win the game for East Bengal 4–3 and send them to the semi-finals.^[7] In the semi-finals East Bengal took on Churchill Brothers and after finishing regulation time tied at 0–0 the match went into 30-minute extra-time where East Bengal would eventually take the lead from former Churchill Brothers youngster Lalrindika Ralte in the 111th minute of play which then allowed East Bengal to win the match 1–0 and send them to the final.^[8] Then in the final East Bengal found themselves down 1–0 after 51 minutes after their opponents, Dempo, scored through former India captain Climax Lawrence but East Bengal managed to equalize through newly signed defender Arnab Mondal in the 60th minute which would then send both clubs to 30-minute extra-time at 1–1 and that is where East Bengal start to show good form by scoring twice through Manandeep Singh in the 100th minute and Chidi Edeh in the 109th minute to give East Bengal a 3–1 lead which would then be cut down to a 3–2 after another former India international, Mahesh Gawli scored in the 111th minute but that was still enough for East Bengal to win the Federation Cup for the 2nd time in 3 years and their eighth overall.^[9]

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Churchill Brothers (C)	26	16	7	3	56	22	+34	55	Qualification for 2014 AFC Cup group stage
2	Pune	26	16	4	6	53	26	+27	52	Qualification for 2014 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off[a]
3	East Bengal	26	13	8	5	44	18	+26	47
4	Prayag United	26	13	5	8	55	35	+20	44
5	Dempo	26	11	7	8	45	33	+12	40

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Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
East Bengal	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	9
Prayag United	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6
ONGC	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
Pailan Arrows	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

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Due to East Bengal's 2012 Indian Federation Cup victory the club automatically qualified for the 2013 AFC Cup which is the 2nd tier Asian competition ran by the Asian Football Confederation. On 6 December 2012 the AFC made their official 2013 AFC Cup group-stage draw and East Bengal was placed in Group H along with reigning 2012 S.League champions Tampines Rovers of Singapore, Malaysia Super League third place team Selangor FA, and V-League third place team Saigon Xuan Thanh.^[11]

Group H

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		KEB	SEL	SG	TPR
East Bengal	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	14			1–0	4–1	2–1
Selangor	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1	8		2–2		3–1	3–3
Sài Gòn Xuân Thành	6	2	2	2	9	12	−3	8		0–0	2–1		2–2
Tampines Rovers	6	0	2	4	12	17	−5	2		2–4	2–3	2–3

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Players with no appearances are not included in the list.

Appearances for East Bengal in 2012–13 season
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL [A]		I League		Fed Cup		IFA Shield		AFC Cup		Total
				Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Abhijit Mondal	3	3	14	14	4	4	1	1	3	3	25	25
30	GK		Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	10	10	14	12	1	1	4	4	4	4	33	31
31	GK		Jayanta Pal	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Defenders
3	DF		Arnab Mondal	4	4	21	21	2	2	0	0	2	1	29	28
4	DF		Uga Okpara	8	8	21	20	4	3	5	5	6	6	44	42
8	DF		Naoba Singh	7	6	21	20	5	5	4	2	4	2	41	35
29	DF		Soumik Dey	8	7	20	19	5	5	3	3	6	6	42	40
2	DF		Raju Gaikwad	6	6	9	8	2	2	0	0	3	3	20	19
19	DF		Robert Lalthlamuana	7	7	9	7	1	0	2	2	2	1	21	17
16	DF		Gurwinder Singh	8	7	8	6	4	3	5	5	5	4	30	25
33	DF		Saikat Saha Roy	7	7									7	7
5	DF		Sunil Kumar	5	4									5	4
36	DF		Safar Sardar	1	1									1	1
25	DF		Abhishek Das	2	0							0	0	2	0
Midfielders
18	MF		Penn Orji	9	9	26	24	5	5	5	4	7	7	52	49
14	MF		Mehtab Hossain	2	2	23	22	4	4	2	2	6	6	37	36
35	MF		Ishfaq Ahmed	6	6	22	18	5	5	2	1	3	2	38	32
21	MF		Lalrindika Ralte	11	9	21	12	4	0	4	4	7	7	47	32
7	MF		Harmanjot Khabra	5	5	16	15	4	3	5	4	5	5	35	32
15	MF		Sanju Pradhan	9	5	14	6	4	2	5	4	6	5	38	22
24	MF		Cavin Lobo	14	10	9	4	0	0	1	1	2	1	26	16
12	MF		Reisangmei Vashum	11	8	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	16	9
34	MF		Subodh Kumar	6	6	4	4	2	1	3	3	0	0	15	14
9	MF		Alvito D'Cunha	8	0	3	0					0	0	11	0
17	MF		Sushanth Matthews	4	2									4	2
Forwards
10	FW		Chidi Edeh	6	5	26	25	5	5	5	4	7	6	49	45
26	FW		Manandeep Singh	6	3	20	14	5	3	3	0	3	1	37	21
23	FW		Robin Singh	8	7	13	6	0	0	2	1	2	0	25	14
27	FW		Andrew Barisić	6	4	7	3			5	2	7	7	25	16
6	FW		Baljit Singh Sahni	12	9	6	5	3	2	4	3	4	0	29	19
38	FW		Semilen Doungel	5	3	0	0							5	3
27	FW		Branco Vincent Cardozo	1	0									1	0

Goals for East Bengal in 2012–13 season
Rank	No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL	I League	Fed Cup	IFA Shield	AFC Cup	Total
1	10	FW		Chidi Edeh	6	18	5	3	6	38
2	6	FW		Baljit Singh Sahni	14	0	0	0	0	14
3	18	MF		Penn Orji	5	4	0	0	4	13
4	21	MF		Lalrindika Ralte	3	5	1	0	3	12
5	27	FW		Andrew Barisić	5	1		2	3	11
6	26	FW		Manandeep Singh	2	3	4	1	0	10
7	23	FW		Robin Singh	5	3		0	0	8
8	7	MF		Harmanjot Khabra	2	3	0	0	0	5
9	15	MF		Sanju Pradhan	2	2	0	0	0	4
10	24	MF		Cavin Lobo	2	1	0	0	0	3
11	14	MF		Mehtab Hossain	0	1	0	0	1	2
12	2	DF		Raju Gaikwad	1	0	0	0	0	1
	3	DF		Arnab Mondal	0	0	1	0	0	1
	12	MF		Reisangmei Vashum	1	0	0	0	0	1
	34	MF		Subodh Kumar	1	0	0	0	0	1
	35	MF		Ishfaq Ahmed	0	1	0	0	0	1
	38	FW		Semilen Doungel	1	0		0		1
Own goals					1	0	0	0	1	2
Total					51	42	11	6	18	128