List of East Bengal FC captains

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This article is about list of captains. For all-time records, see List of East Bengal Club records and statistics.

East Bengal FC is an Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which competes in the top tier of Indian football. The club was formed in August 1920 when the Jorabagan Club's vice-president, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, resigned. He did so after the club sent out their starting eleven with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose, who was dropped from the squad for undisclosed reasons when they were about to face Mohun Bagan in the Coochbehar Cup semi-final on 28 July 1920. He, along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal on 1 August 1920. East Bengal started playing in the Calcutta Football League, 2nd division, in 1921. In 1925, they qualified for the first division for the first time and since then they have won many Indian football titles.[1]

East Bengal joined the National Football League (NFL) at its inception in 1996[2][3] and is the only club to have played every season to date, including those after the rebranded I-League succeeded the NFL in 2007. East Bengal won the National Football League in 2000–01, 2002–03 and 2003–04 and were runners up seven times, the most by any Indian football club. Among other trophies, East Bengal has won the Calcutta Football League 39 times, the IFA Shield 28 times, the Federation Cup eight times and the Durand Cup 16 times.[3]

There have been ninety-six different captains officially announced by the club. This chronological list comprises the East Bengal captains since their foundation in 1920. Every captain's entry includes the season in which the player was officially declared as the captain of the team by the club and his nationality.[4]

List of East Bengal captains

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The list of captains for East Bengal:[5][6][7]

East Bengal Football Club Captains
Season Nationality Name
1920–21 India India Ramesh Chandra "Nosa" Sen
1921–22
1922–23
1923–24 India India Manindra Dutta Ray
1924–25 India India Hemanga Basu
1925–26 India India Mona Dutta
1926–27 India India Noni Gosai
1927–28 India India Surjo Chakraborty
1928–29 India India Moni Das
1929–30 India India Mona Moulik
1930–31
1931–32
1932–33 India India Moni Talukdar
1933–34
1934–35 India India Kamal Ganguly
1935–36 India India Dulal Guha Thakurta
1936–37
1937–38 India India P Majumdar
1938–39 India India Promodh Dasgupta
1939–40
1940–41
1941–42 India India Ajit Nandi
1942–43 India India A.C. Somana
1943–44 India India Rakhal Majumdar
1944–45 India India Sunil Ghosh
1945–46 India India Poritosh Chakraborty
1946–47 India India M. Appa Rao
1947–48 India India Nogen Ray
1948–49 India India D. Chandra
1949–50 India India Syed M. Kaiser
1950–51 India India P. B. A. Saleh
1951–52 India India Byomkesh Bose
1952–53 India India Pansanttom Venkatesh
1953–54 India India K. P. Dhanraj
1954–55 India India Ahmed Khan
1955–56 India India G. R. Gokul
1956–57 India India Dr. S Dasgupta
1957–58 India India Dr. Prakashananda Kumar
1958–59 India India Sudhir Kumar Karmakar
1959–60 India India Bir Bahadur Gurung
1960–61 India India Ram Bahadur
1961–62 India India Tulsidas Balaram
1962–63 India India Chitto Chanda
1963–64 India India Balu
1964–65 India India Abani Basu
1965–66 India India Sukumar Samajpati
1966–67 India India Chandan Bannerjee
1967–68 India India Prasanta Sinha
1968–69 India India Parimal Dey
1969–70 India India Peter Thangaraj
1970–71 India India Shanto Mitra
1971–72 India India Sunil Bhattacharya
1972–73 India India Sudhir Karmakar
1973–74 India India Swapan Sengupta
1974–75 India India Samaresh Choudhury
1975–76 India India Ashoklal Bannerjee
1976–77 India India Gautam Sarkar
1977–78 India India Shyamal Ghosh
1978–79 India India Surajit Sengupta
1979–80 India India Prasanta Banerjee
1980–81 India India Satyajit Mitra
1981–82 India India Monoranjan Bhattacharya
1982–83 India India Victor Amolraj
1983–84 India India Mihir Basu
1984–85 India India Bhaskar Ganguly
1985–86 India India Balai Mukherjee
1986–87 India India Tarun Dey
1987–88 India India Aloke Saha
1988–89 India India Bikash Panji
1989–90 India India Krishanu Dey
1990–91 Nigeria Nigeria Chima Okorie
1991–92 India India Bikash Panji
1992–93 India India Kuljit Singh
1993–94 India India Ilyas Pasha
1994–95 India India Swarup Das
1995–96 India India Tushar Rakshit
1996–97 India India Sumit Mukherjee
1997–98 India India Dulal Biswas
1998–99 India India Amitava Chanda
1999–00 India India Carlton Chapman
2000–01 India India Bijen Singh
2001–02 India India Falguni Dutta
2002–03 India India Anit Ghosh
2003–04 Ghana Ghana Suley Musah
2004–05 India India Sangram Mukherjee
2005–06 India India Dipankar Roy
India India Bhaichung Bhutia
2006–07 India India Alvito D'Cunha
2007–08 India India Chandan Das
2008–09 India India Muttah Suresh
2009–10 India India Syed Rahim Nabi
2010–11 India India Saumik Dey
2011–12 India India Abhra Mondal
2012–13 India India Sanju Pradhan
2013–14 India India Mehtab Hossain
2014–15 India India Harmanjot Khabra
2015–16 India India Gurwinder Singh
2016–17 India India Robert Lalthlamuana
India India Lalrindika Ralte
2017–18 India India Arnab Mondal
2018–19 India India Lalrindika Ralte
2019–20 India India
2020–21 Scotland Scotland Danny Fox[8]
2021–22 India India Arindam Bhattacharya[9]
2022–23 Spain Spain Iván González[10]
India India Kamaljit Singh[10]
India India Souvik Chakrabarti[10]
India India Sumeet Passi[10]
Brazil Brazil Cleiton Silva[10]
2023–24 Cleiton Silva[11]
2024–25

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  10. ^ a b c d e East Bengal FC [@eastbengal_fc] (6 October 2022). "𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦, 𝗢𝗛 𝗠𝗬 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦! Cleiton Silva, Souvik Chakrabarti, Sumeet Passi, Kamaljit Singh and Ivan Gonzalez are #AmagoCaptains for #HeroISL 2022-23!" (Tweet). Retrieved 6 October 2022 – via Twitter.
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