2011–12 East Bengal FC season

East Bengal

2011–12 season
President	Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Head-Coach	Trevor Morgan
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium Kalyani Stadium East Bengal Ground
I-League	Runner-up
Calcutta Football League	Champions
Federation Cup	Runner-up
Super Cup	Champions
IFA Shield	Champions
BTV Cup	Group stage
AFC Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Tolgay Ozbey (18) All: Tolgay Ozbey (29)
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The 2011–12 season is East Bengal Football Club's 5th season in the I-League, and also marks the club's 92nd season. East Bengal will seek to win their first league trophy for 7 seasons, competing in the I-League, the Federation Cup and the AFC Cup.^[1]

Key events

On 26 September 2011 East Bengal defeat Prayag United in the 2011 Indian Federation Cup semi-finals 2–1 to make the final. On 18 October 2011, East Bengal defeat Salgaocar by 9-8 (penalty - sudden death) in 2011 Indian Super Cup final to win the first trophy of the season.they also won IFA Shield and Calcutta Premiere League

Players

First-Team Squad

Transfer period is on-going for new season: 2011–12.^[2]

As of 4 February 2012^[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 FW  IND Branco Cardozo 2 DF  IND Raju Gaikwad 3 DF  IND Nirmal Chettri 4 DF  NGA Uga Samuel Okpara 5 DF  IND Sunil Thakur 6 FW  IND Baljit Sahni 7 MF  IND Harmanjyot Khabra 8 DF  IND Naoba Singh 9 MF  IND Alvito D'Cunha 11 MF  IND Khemtang Paite 12 MF  IND Reisangmei Vashum 14 MF  IND Mehtab Hossain 15 MF  IND Sanju Pradhan (captain) 16 DF  IND Gurwinder Singh 17 MF  IND Sushanth Mathew 18 MF  NGA Penn Orji 19 DF  IND Ravinder Singh

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  AUS Tolgay Ozbey 21 GK  IND Debjit Majumder 22 MF  IND Charan Rai 23 FW  IND Robin Singh 24 GK  IND Sandip Nandy 25 DF  IND Robert Lalthalma 26 DF  IND Sunil Kumar 28 FW  BRA Edmilson 29 DF  IND Saumik Dey 30 GK  IND Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 31 GK  IND Jayanta Paul 32 DF  IND Abhishek Das 33 DF  IND Saikat Saha Roy 34 MF  IND Subodh Kumar 35 FW  IND Budhiram Tudu 37 FW  IND Nabin Hela 38 FW  IND Seiminlen Doungel

• Coach: Trevor Morgan^[4][5]
• Asst coach: Ranjan Choudhury
• Goalkeeper coach: Atanu Bhattacharya
• Physical trainer: Kaji Juyef Islam
• Team doctor: Dr. S R Dasgupta
• Physiotherapist: Rajesh Basak
• Team manager: Swapan Ball, Gopal Ghosh

Transfers

Stadiums

Kingfisher East Bengal F.C. have been using both the Salt Lake Stadium and the East Bengal Ground sense Salt Lake Stadium opened in 1984. As of today the Salt Lake Stadium is used for East Bengal's I-League, AFC Cup, and Federation Cup games. The East Bengal Ground is used for the Calcutta Football League matches.

Kit

• Main Sponsor: Kingfisher (Parent Company United Breweries Group is 50% stake holder in the club).
• Co-sponsor: Tower Group
• Co-sponsor: Saradha Group
• Co-sponsor: Rose-Valley

Home

Away

Competitions

Overall

Competition	First match	Last match	Final position
Federation Cup	17 September 2011	29 September 2011	Runners-up
BTV Becamex IDC Cup	7 October 2011	11 October 2011	Group Stage
Super Cup	18 October 2011		Champions
I-League	22 October 2011	5 May 2012	Runners-up
Calcutta Football League	12 November 2011	14 May 2012	Champions
IFA Shield	3 March 2012	16 March 2012	Champions
AFC Cup	6 March 2012	9 May 2012	Group Stage

Overview

Competition	Record
	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Federation Cup	5	3	1	1	7	6	+1	060.00
BTV Becamex IDC Cup	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	000.00
Super Cup	1	0	1	0	0	0	+0	000.00
I-League	26	15	6	5	46	22	+24	057.69
Calcutta Football League	10	8	0	2	26	8	+18	080.00
IFA Shield	4	3	1	0	6	1	+5	075.00
AFC Cup	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	000.00
Total	55	29	10	16	89	55	+34	052.73

Federation Cup

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
East Bengal	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
Pune	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Dempo	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
Mohammedan	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

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BECAMEX IDC Cup

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

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Super Cup

Last year's Federation Cup Champion East Bengal beat last year's I-League Champion Salgaocar in the Super Cup on sudden death.

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

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I League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dempo (C)	26	18	3	5	59	21	+38	57
2	East Bengal	26	15	6	5	46	22	+24	51	2013 AFC Cup Group stage[a]
3	Churchill Brothers	26	14	6	6	47	28	+19	48	2013 AFC Cup Group stage[b]
4	Mohun Bagan	26	13	8	5	51	32	+19	47
5	Pune	26	13	7	6	44	34	+10	46

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
25	14	5	6	42	23	+19	47	10	0	3	24	12	+12	4	5	3	18	11	+7

Results by round

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

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Calcutta Football League

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

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IFA Shield

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

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AFC Cup

Group stage

The group were drawn on 6 December 2011 in (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)^[13]

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		ERB	KAZ	ORU	KEB
Erbil	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	14			1–1	2–1	2–0
Kazma	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11		1–2		1–1	3–0
Al-Oruba	6	2	2	2	10	8	+2	8		2–2	1–2		4–1
East Bengal	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0		0–2	1–2	0–1

Fixtures & results

  Win   Draw   Loss

Notes

• Note 2: Due to the political crisis in Yemen, the AFC requested Yemeni clubs to play their home matches at neutral venues.^[14]

Statistics

Appearances

Players with no appearances are not included in the list.

Appearances for East Bengal in 2011–12 season
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL		I League		Fed Cup		BTV Cup		Super Cup		IFA Shield		AFC Cup		Total
				Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts
Goalkeepers
30	GK		Gurpreet Singh Sandhu			16	16					1	1	3	3	4	4	24	24
24	GK		Sandip Nandy	6	6	10	10	5	5	0	0			1	1	2	2	24	24
26	GK		Abhra Mondal							3	3							3	3
21	GK		Debjit Majumder	3	3													3	3
31	GK		Jayanta Pal	1	1	0	0					0	0					1	1
Defenders
4	DF		Uga Okpara	5	4	24	24	5	5	3	3	1	1	4	4	5	5	47	46
3	DF		Nirmal Chhetri	3	3	17	17	2	2	3	3	1	1			4	4	30	30
25	DF		Robert Lalthalmuana	4	4	14	13	2	1	3	3	1	1	2	0	4	3	30	25
16	DF		Gurwinder Singh	6	6	14	13			0	0	0	0	3	3	5	5	28	27
29	DF		Soumik Dey	8	6	13	13	4	4	0	0	0	0	3	3	4	3	32	29
8	DF		Naoba Singh	1	1	11	10	5	4	3	3	0	0			1	1	21	19
2	DF		Raju Gaikwad	2	2	5	4	3	3	0	0	0	0			2	2	12	11
33	DF		Saikat Saha Roy	6	6	4	4					1	1	3	3	2	1	16	15
19	DF		Ravinder Singh	6	4	3	0					1	0	1	1	0	0	11	5
26	DF		Sunil Thakur	5	5	1	1											6	6
5	DF		Sunil Kumar	3	3													3	3
	DF		Abhishek Das					1	1			0	0					1	1
Midfielders
18	MF		Penn Orji	7	3	23	22	5	4	3	3	1	1	4	4	5	5	48	42
15	MF		Sanju Pradhan	6	4	22	15	5	2	2	1	1	0	4	2	6	5	46	29
7	MF		Harmanjot Khabra	5	4	21	20	5	5	1	1			2	2	3	3	37	35
12	MF		Reisengmei Vashum	3	2	20	19	4	4	3	3	1	1			0	0	31	29
14	MF		Mehtab Hossain	6	3	16	14	4	4					1	1	4	2	31	24
11	MF		Khantang Paite	3	2	13	7	4	0	3	3	1	1	4	3	3	1	31	17
17	MF		Sushant Matthews	2	2	10	8			3	2	1	1	4	4	1	1	21	18
34	MF		Subodh Kumar	5	4	6	4			1	0	0	0	3	2	3	3	18	13
	MF		Charan Rai	4	4							0	0			1	0	5	4
9	MF		Alvito D'Cunha	0	0									2	0	0	0	2	0
	MF		Sourav Roy	1	0													1	0
Forwards
20	FW		Tolgay Ozbey	8	7	25	24	5	3	1	1	1	0	4	4	5	4	49	43
23	FW		Robin Singh	7	5	15	13	3	3	2	2	1	1	4	4	6	5	38	33
6	FW		Baljit Singh Saini	4	3	15	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	5	2	30	14
28	FW		Edmilson Marques Pardal			10	3									6	4	16	7
10	FW		Alan Gow	1	1	6	3	4	3	2	2	1	1					14	10
38	FW		Semilen Doungel	10	10	4	2							1	1	1	1	16	14
35	FW		Budhiram Tudu	4	2													4	2

Goal scorers

Goals for East Bengal in 2011–12 season
Rank	No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL	I League	Fed Cup	BTV Cup	Super Cup	IFA Shield	AFC Cup	Total
1	20	FW		Tolgay Ozbey	9	18	0	0	0	2	0	29
2	23	FW		Robin Singh	2	5	2	0	0	3	0	12
3	18	MF		Penn Orji	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	8
4	38	FW		Semilen Doungel	6	0				0	0	6
5	10	FW		Alan Gow	0	2	3	0	0			5
6	15	MF		Sanju Pradhan	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
	28	FW		Edmilson Marques Pardal		2					2	4
	29	DF		Soumik Dey	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
9	4	DF		Uga Okpara	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
10	3	DF		Nirmal Chhetri	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
	6	FW		Baljit Singh Saini	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
	11	MF		Khantang Paite	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
	12	MF		Reisengmei Vashum	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
14	16	DF		Gurwinder Singh	0	0		0	0	1		1
	19	DF		Ravinder Singh	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	25	DF		Robert Lalthalmuana	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	26	DF		Sunil Thakur	1	0				0	0	1
	34	MF		Subodh Kumar	1	0				0	0	1
	35	FW		Budhiram Tudu	1							1
Own Goals					0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total					26	46	7	2	0	6	2	89

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