List of East Bengal FC records and statistics explained

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East Bengal is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which competes in Indian Super League, the top tier of Indian football. The club was formed when the vice-president of Jorabagan, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, resigned when Jorabagan sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose who was dropped from the squad for reasons not disclosed when they were about to face Mohun Bagan in the Cooch Behar Cup semi-final on 28 July 1920. He along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal, in Jorabagan home of Suresh Chandra on 1 August 1920; 99 years ago.^[1] East Bengal started playing in the Calcutta Football League 2nd division from 1921 and in 1925 they qualified for the first division for the first time and since then they have won numerous titles in Indian Football.

East Bengal joined the National Football League since its inception in 1996 and is the only club to play all seasons till date, even after its name changed to I-League in 2007. East Bengal have won the National Football League thrice: 2000–01, 2002–03 and 2003–04, and became runners-up 7 times, the most of any Indian clubs. Among other trophies, East Bengal have won the Calcutta Football League 39 times, IFA Shield 29 times, Federation Cup 8 times and the Durand Cup 16 times. East Bengal holds the joint-record for most Quintuples (5 trophies) in Club football, having 3 to their name.^[2]

History

On 28 July 1920, Mohun Bagan was scheduled to play Jorabagan in the Cooch Behar Cup.^[1] Jorabagan sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose who was dropped from the squad for reasons not disclosed. The vice-president of Jorabagan, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, asked for Bose to be included in the line-up but the club coaches did not listen. Chaudhuri left the club due to this and, along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal on 1 August 1920, named after the region they hailed from.East Bengal Club played their first match in the 1920 Hercules Cup, which was a 7-a-side tournament that they won. After the tournament, the club became affiliated with the Indian Football Association. They won their first-ever full tournament in 1921, lifting the Khogendra Shield.^[3] The red and gold brigade qualified for the Calcutta Football League 1st division in 1925.^[3] They won their first 1st title in 1942. East Bengal won their first IFA Shield in 1943. In 1945, East Bengal won their first double of winning both Calcutta Football League and IFA Shield. From 1949 to 1951, East Bengal became the first team to make a hat-trick of wins in IFA Shield.^[3] In 1970, the club defeated Asian giants PAS Tehran to win the IFA Shield trophy.^[4] In 1972, East Bengal won Calcutta Football League, IFA Shield, Durand Cup and Rovers Cup in a single season, thus becoming the first team to do so.^[3] In 1972, East Bengal also made a record of being the first and till date only Indian team winning the Calcutta Football League without conceding a single goal, which they again repeated in 1991.^[5] In 1973, the club defeated Pyongyang City SC to lift the IFA Shield title^[4] and went on to defeat another North Korean team Dok Ro Gang to lift the DCM Trophy in the same season.^[6] In 1975, East Bengal broke the record by winning the Calcutta Football League consecutively for the 6th time (1970–75), bettering the record held by Mohammedan Sporting of winning it 5 times (1934–38).^[3] In 1975, East Bengal also created history as they defeated their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan by a record margin of 5–0, which is still being held today, in the IFA Shield final at the Mohun Bagan Ground.^[3] In 1976, East Bengal made a record of winning the IFA Shield 5 times in a row.^[3] In 1978, East Bengal participated in the Federation Cup for the first time and became joint champions with Mohun Bagan.^[7] In 1985, East Bengal won the Federation Cup and qualified for Asian Club Championships for the first time.^[3] East Bengal won the Coca-Cola Cup held in Colombo as a preliminary tournament for Central Asia Zone, and reached the group stages held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.^[3] In 1991 East Bengal qualified for the Asian Cup Winners' Cup for the first time and reached the quarter-finals.^[8] In 1993, East Bengal won their second tournament on foreign soil as they won the Wai Wai Cup in Nepal.^[3] In 2000–01, East Bengal won their maiden NFL title,^[9] winning it again in 2002-03 and 2003–04.^[3] In 2003, they won a major international trophy at Jakarta when they defeated BEC Tero Sasana to lift the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship.^[10] The club won their third trophy outside of India when they defeated South Korean Hannam University to lift the San Miguel Cup in Nepal.^[11] Between 2007 and 2012, East Bengal won the Federation Cup 4 times (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012). From 2010 to 2017, East Bengal again bettered their own record as they won the Calcutta Football League for 8 consecutive times.^[12]

In 2020, the club joined the Indian Super League^[13] and rebranded as SC East Bengal.^[14] They finished ninth in their debut season, having won three of the twenty league matches. The team finished eleventh, at the bottom in the 2021–22 season, winning just one game in the entire campaign. In 2022, the club rebranded itself as East Bengal FC and finished ninth again, having won six of the twenty league matches.^[15] In 2024, East Bengal won the Super Cup defeating Odisha in the final to break a twelve-year wait for a national cup trophy.

Honours

East Bengal Club has won honours both domestically and in international competitions.^[2] They have won the National Football League title 3 times and the Federation Cup 8 times.^[2] They also won the Calcutta Football League a record 39 times and the IFA Shield a record 28 times.^[2] Till date, the club has won more than 210 trophies which are listed below:^[2]

• • Shared record

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No.	Years	Ref.
Coca-Cola Cup (Central Asia)		1985	^[16]
Wai Wai Cup		1993
ASEAN Club Championship		2003
San Miguel International Cup		2004
Total	4
National Football League		2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04	^[17]
Federation Cup		1978, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2007, 2009–10, 2010, 2012	^[18] ^[19]
Super Cup		2024	^[20]
Indian Super Cup		1997, 2006, 2011	^[21]
Calcutta Football League		1942, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017	^[22]
IFA Shield		1943, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002–03, 2012	^[23]
Durand Cup		1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, 1972,1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004	^[24]
Rovers Cup		1949, 1962, 1967, 1969,1972. 1973, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1994	^[25]
Total	108
DCM Trophy		1950, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1973, 1974, 1983	^[26]
Bordoloi Trophy		1968, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1992	^[27]
All Airlines Gold Cup		1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001	^[28]
Darjeeling Gold Cup		1976, 1981, 1982, 1985, 2018	^[29] ^[30]
McDowell's Cup		1995, 1997, 2000	^[31]
Sait Nagjee Football Tournament		1968, 1986	^[32]
Stafford Cup		1981, 1986	^[33]
Sanjay Gandhi Gold Cup		1984
Kalinga Cup		1993
SSS Trophy		1989, 1991
Independence Day Cup		2002
Dr. H. K. Mookherjee Shield		1957, 1961
ATPA Shield		1992
P. K. Nair Gold Cup		1956
Kerala FA Shield		1968
Mohammedan Sporting Platinum Jubilee Cup		2010
Hercules Cup		1920
Khogendra Cup		1921
Chandannager Cup		1920
Sachin Memorial Shield		1921
Cooch Behar Cup		1924, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1960
Trades Cup		1960, 1966, 1975, 1976
Gladstone Cup		1929
Griffith Shield		1929, 1946
Lady Hardinge Shield		1940
Lakshmibilas Cup		1920, 1968, 1969
Bardwan Cup		1938
S.C.I.S.T. Cup		1947
William Younger Cup		1969, 1976
Girija Shield		1942
Raja Memorial Shield		1960
Madhyamgram MLA Cup		2023	^[34]
Kulodakanta Memorial Shield		2023	^[35]
Total	70
All Total	182

Player records

Goalscoring records

• Most goals in all competitions: Bhaichung Bhutia, 148.^[36]
• Most goals in Indian Super League: Cleiton Silva, 20.^[37]
• Most goals in National Football League / I-League: Bhaichung Bhutia, 49.^[38]
• Most goals in Calcutta Football League: Somana, 85.^[3]
• Most goals in Federation Cup: Bhaichung Bhutia, 14.^[38]
• Most goals in IFA Shield: K. P. Dhanraj, 27.
• Most goals in Durand Cup: Mohammed Habib and Surajit Sengupta, 17.
• Most goals in Rovers Cup: Tulsidas Balaram, 10.
• Most goals in D.C.M. Trophy: Musa Ghazi, 12.
• Most goals in Continental competitions: Bhaichung Bhutia, 11.
• Most goals in a single Calcutta Football League campaign: Swami Nayar, 36 (During the 1946 season).^[39]
• Most goals in a single NFL / I-League campaign: Tolgay Ozbey and Chidi Edeh, 18 (During the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 season respectively).
• Most goals in a single Indian Super League campaign: Cleiton Silva, 12 (During the 2022 - 23 season).
• Most goals in a single match: Fred Pugsley, 8 (against B.B & C.I. Railway, 23 September 1945, Rovers Cup).^{[40] [41]}
• Most goals in a single match in NFL / I-League: Ranti Martins, 5 (against Dempo, 1 March 2015).^[42]
• Most goals in a single match in Continental competition: Biswajit Bhattacharya, 4 (against New Road Team, 2 August 1985, Coca-Cola Cup).^[16]
• Most goals in a single match against Foreign opponent: Bhaichung Bhutia, 6 (against Philippine Army FC, 16 July 2003, ASEAN Club Championship).^{[10] [43]}
• Fastest goal: Cristiano Júnior, 15 seconds (against Tollygunge Agragami, 20 December 2003, 2003–04 NFL).^[44]
• Fastest goal in Indian Super League: P. V. Vishnu, 32 seconds (against Odisha, 29 February 2024, 2023–24 Indian Super League).^[45]
• Most hat-tricks in NFL / I-League: Ranti Martins, 3.
• Most hat-tricks in a single NFL / I-League campaign: Ranti Martins, 2 (During the 2015 - 16 season).
• Most hat-tricks in a single Calcutta Football League campaign: Swami Nayar, 4 (During the 1946 season).^[39]
• Fastest hat-trick: K. P. Dhanraj, 4 minutes 30 seconds, (against Maharana Club, 27 August 1949).
• Fastest hat-trick in NFL / I-League: Ranti Martins, 19 minutes, (against Aizawl, 12 March 2016).
• Most consecutive matches scored in NFL / I-League: Cristiano Júnior, 7 (During the 2003 - 04 season).
• Most consecutive matches scored in Indian Super League:

Cleiton Silva, 3 (During the 2022 - 23 season).

Saúl Crespo, 3 (During the 2023 - 24 season).

Hat-trick on debut

Hat-trick on debut for East Bengal
Date	Nationality	Name	Opponent	Tournament	Score	Ref
21 May 1963	India	Ashim Moulik	Sporting Union	Calcutta Football League	3 - 0	^[46]
28 May 1966	India	Shyam Thapa	Rajasthan Club	Calcutta Football League	4 - 0	^[47] ^[48]
19 June 1967	India	Shibram Sarkar	Sporting Union	Calcutta Football League	4 - 0
6 November 2004	Nigeria	Ernest Jeremiah	Sporting Club de Goa	Durand Cup	4 - 0	^[49] ^[50] ^[51] ^[52]
31 August 2010	India	Bikash Narzinary	Mohammedan AC	Calcutta Football League	5 - 0	^[53] ^[54]
12 August 2017	India	Suhair Vadakkepeedika	NBP Rainbow AC	Calcutta Football League	4 - 1	^[55]

Top goalscorers

Competitive, professional matches only.

All time top scorers

All-time top scorers of East Bengal^[56]
Ranking	Nationality	Name	Goals	Ref.
1		Bhaichung Bhutia	148	^[57] ^[58]
2		Chima Okorie	131	^[59]
3		K. P. Dhanraj	127
4		Mohammad Habib	114	^[60]
5		Tulsidas Balaram	104	^[61]
6		A.C. Somana	102
7		Ashim Moulik	98
8		Sunil Ghosh	97	^[62]
9		Surajit Sengupta	92
10		Mohammed Akbar	90
11		Parimal Dey	84
12		Subhash Bhowmick	82
13		P. Venkatesh	80
14		Jamshid Nassiri	72
15		Shyam Thapa	68

Top scorers in Indian Super League

Players in Bold are part of the current squad.

Top scorers of East Bengal in ISL
Ranking	Nationality	Name	Goals	Ref.
1		Cleiton Silva	20	^[63] ^[64]
2		Naorem Mahesh Singh	8
3		Nandhakumar Sekar	5
4		Matti Steinmann	4
		Antonio Perosevic
		Saúl Crespo
7		Bright Enobakhare	3
	DR Congo	Jacques Maghoma
		Anthony Pilkington
		Darren Sidoel
		Thongkhosiem Haokip

Top scorers in National Football League/I-League

Top Scorer for East Bengal in NFL/I-League
Ranking	Nationality	Name	Goals	Ref.
1		Bhaichung Bhutia	49	^[65]
2		Tolgay Ozbey	35
3		Ranti Martins	29
4		Chidi Edeh	27
5		Edmilson Marques Pardal	23	^[66]
6		Mike Okoro	21
7		Raman Vijayan	20
		Yusif Yakubu
9		Robin Singh	19	^[67]
10		Dudu Omagbemi	18

Top scorers in Calcutta League

Top Scorer for East Bengal in Calcutta League
Ranking	Nationality	Name	Goals	Ref.
1		A.C. Somana	85
2		Sunil Ghosh	75	^[68]
3		K. P. Dhanraj	70
4		Surjo Chakraborty	62
		Mohammad Habib	62	^[69]

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Appearance records

• Most appearances in Indian Super League: Naorem Mahesh Singh, 58.^[64]
• Most appearances in I-League: Mehtab Hossain, 175.
• Most appearances in AFC Cup: Mehtab Hossain, 34.^[70]
• Youngest player to play for East Bengal in Indian Super League: Vanlalpeka Guite, 16 years and 334 days (against Jamshedpur, 25 September 2023).
• Youngest player to start for East Bengal in Indian Super League: Haobam Tomba Singh, 17 years and 306 days (against Kerala Blasters, 20 December 2020).

Most appearances in Indian Super League

The list of East Bengal players with the most appearances in the Indian Super League. Indian midfielder Naorem Mahesh Singh holds the record with 58 total appearances with 53 from the starting line-up for the club.^[64]

Player names in bold are part of the current squad.

List of East Bengal players with most appearances in the Indian Super League
SL no.	Position	Nationality	Name	Total Apps	Starts	Seasons Played
1		India	Naorem Mahesh Singh	58	53	2021–
2	Forward	Brazil	Cleiton Silva	41	40	2022–
3		India	Lalchungnunga	36	33	2022–
4		India		31	19	2020–22
5		India		29	13	2020–23
6		India		28	22	2020–23
7		India		27	15	2021–23
8	Forward	India	V. P. Suhair	26	20	2022–
9		India	Mohammad Rakip	25	13	2022–
10	Midfielder	India	Souvik Chakrabarti	24	18	2022–

Most Appearances in I-League

The list of East Bengal players with the most number of appearances in the I-League era, starting from 2007-08 I-League till 2019-20 I-League before the Red and Gold brigade moved into Indian Super League. Indian former International and former East Bengal captain Mehtab Hossain holds the record for the most appearances for the East Bengal having made 175 total appearances with 165 starts.

Player names in bold are still part of the current squad.

List of East Bengal players with most appearances in the I-League (2007–2020)
SL no.	Position	Nationality	Name	Total Apps	Starts	Seasons Played
1		India		175	165	2007–17
2		India		115	111	2007–16
3		India		113	96	2009–16
4		India		104	65	2008–13 2015–16
5		Nigeria		95	94	2009–14
6		India		92	75	2012–17 2018–20
7		India		86	81	2012–18
8		India		83	71	2010–18 2019–20
9		India		75	73	2007–11
10		Nigeria		72	69	2010–13

Most uninterrupted seasons played

List of East Bengal players with most uninterrupted number of seasons played^[71] ^[72]
SL no.	Name	Position	Years of Playing	Playing Years	Captained
1	Moni Talukdar	Goal Keeper	1920–1937	18	1932,1933
2	Dulal Guha Thakurta	Forward	1927-1942	16	1935,1936
3	Rakhal Majumdar	Defender	1937-1952	16	1943
4	Apparao	Forward	1941-1955	15	1946
5	Tushar Rakshit	Midfielder	1991-2005	15	1995
6	Noni Ghosal	Center Half	1921-1934	14	1926
7	Monoranjan Bhattacharya	Defender	1977-1990	14	1981
8	Alvito D'Cunha	Midfielder	2002-2015	14	2006
9	Bhanu Dutta Ray	Defender	1922-1934	13	1923
10	Promod Dasgupta	Defender	1936-1948	13	1938,1939,1940
11	Tarun Dey	Defender	1982-1994	13	1986
12	Saumik Dey	Defender	2005-2016	12	2010
13	Ram Bahadur	Midfielder	1957-1967	11	1960
14	Bhaskar Ganguly	Goal Keeper	1982-1992	11	1984
15	Mehtab Hossain	Midfielder	2007-2017	11	2013-14
16	Sunil Ghosh	Forward	1940-1949	10	1944
17	Byomkesh Bose	Defender	1949-1958	10	1951
18	Dipankar Roy	Midfielder	1999-2009	10	2005

East Bengal players at the Olympics

East Bengal club holds the record among Indian clubs to produce most players to have represented the national team in the Olympic Games.^[73]

List of East Bengal players to represent the national team at the Olympics
Year	City	Nationality	Name	Position
1948	London	India	Syed M. Kaiser	MF
1952	Helsinki	India	S. Roy	DF
		India	Chandan Singh Rawat	DF
		India	Byomkesh Bose	MF
		India	Pansanttom Venkatesh	FW
		India	Ahmed Khan	FW
		India	P. B. A. Saleh	FW
1956	Melbourne	India	Mariappa Kempaiah	MF
		India	Kittu	FW
1960	Rome	India	Arun Ghosh	DF
		India	Ram Bahadur Chettri	MF
		India	Dharmalingam Kannan	FW
		India	Tulsidas Balaram	FW

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Coaching records

See main article: List of East Bengal Club coaches.

Firsts

• First coach to be appointed professionally: Sushil Bhattacharya, 1961.^{[74] [75] [76]}
• First coach of foreign nationality: Philippe De Ridder, 2005.^{[77] [78]}
• First coach to win the National Football League: Monoranjan Bhattacharya, 2000-01.^[9]
• First coach to win the Federation Cup: Arun Ghosh, 1978.^[19]
• First coach to win the Indian Super Cup: Monoranjan Bhattacharya, 1997.^[21]
• First coach to win the Super Cup: Carles Cuadrat, 2024.^[20]

Records

• Longest serving coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 396 matches.
• Most matches won as head coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 292 matches.
• Most trophies won as head coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 31.
• Most trophies won in a single stint as head coach: P. K. Bannerjee, 16 (During 1972–76).
• Most NFL/I-League won as head coach: Subhash Bhowmick, 2.^[79]
• Most Federation cups won as head coach: P. K. Banerjee and Trevor James Morgan, 2.^[19]
• Most Calcutta League won as head coach: P. K. Banerjee, 7.
• Most international trophies won as head coach: Subhash Bhowmick, 2.
• Coaches who won the Triple Crown: P. K. Banerjee and Syed Nayeemuddin (in 1972–73 and 1990–91 respectively).^[80]

Most trophies won in a single stint

Club records

See also: List of East Bengal Club seasons and List of East Bengal Club captains.

Matches

Firsts

• First match: East Bengal 4 - 0 Metropolitan College, 12 August 1920.^[81]
• First Calcutta League 2nd Div match: East Bengal 0 - 0 Sobhabazar Club, 1 May 1921.^{[82] [68]}
• First Calcutta League 1st Div match: East Bengal 1 - 4 Calcutta FC, 9 May 1925.^{[82] [68]}
• First win in Calcutta League 1st Div: East Bengal 2 - 1 Dalhousie, 25 May 1925.^{[82] [68] [83]}
• First IFA Shield match: East Bengal 1 - 1 Town Club, 20 July 1921.^[82]
• First Durand Cup match: East Bengal 2 - 0 Army Headquarters FC, 1926.^{[82] [83]}
• First Rovers Cup match: East Bengal 6 - 0 Royal Navy, 6 September 1941.^{[82] [83]}
• First Federation Cup match: East Bengal 5 - 0 Rajasthan Police, 22 April 1978.^{[19] [83]}
• First NFL / I-League match: Mohammedan Sporting 1 - 2 East Bengal, 17 December 1996.^[84]
• First Indian Super League match: East Bengal 0 - 2 ATK Mohun Bagan, 27 November 2020.^[85]
• First win in Indian Super League match: East Bengal 3 - 1 Odisha, 3 January 2021.^{[86] [87]}
• First competitive Continental match: East Bengal 7 - 0 New Road Team, 1 August 1985.

Wins

Highest margin of victories in different tournaments
Tournament	Date	Opponent	Score	Goal scorers	Ref
Rovers Cup	23 September 1945		11 - 0	Sunil Ghosh (2), Fred Pugsley (8), Sushil Chatterjee	^[88]
	10 June 1943		10 - 0	A. C. Somana (4), Arokiraj (4), Appa Rao (2)
	28 June 1949	Calcutta Garrison	10 - 0
	26 September 2023		10 - 1	P. V. Vishnu (4), Mahitosh Roy (3), Jesin TK, V. P. Suhair (2)
	26 December 1972	B.B.Star	10 - 0	Md. Akbar (4), Md. Habib (2), Mohan Singh, Latifuddin, Shambu Moitra, Samaresh Chowdhury	^[89]
	14 July 1936	Victoria Sporting	9 - 0	N. Majumdar (3), P. Mukherjee (2), S. M. Kaiser, Dulal Guha Thakurta, A. Hussain, Hira Das
	22 September 2003		9 - 0		^[90] ^[91]
	10 August 1985		9 - 0	Debashis Roy (3), Jamshid Nassiri (2), Monojit Das (2), Debashis Misra, Samir Chaudhury
	15 August 1997		8 - 0	Bhaichung Bhutia (2), Somatai Shaiza, Naushad Moosa, Preto Garcia, Nazimul Haq, Falguni Dutta, A. Sarvanan
DCM Trophy	16 October 1960	D.F.A. Jalandhar	8 - 0
	23 Nov 2011		8 - 1		^[92]
	22 April 1978	Rajasthan Police	5 - 0
	28 August 1998		5 - 0
	31 July 2003		5 - 0
	15 May 2013		5 - 1
	4 December 2023		5 - 0	Borja Herrera, Cleiton Silva (2), Nandhakumar Sekar (2)	^[93]

Defeats

• Worst defeat: Dynamo Kyiv 13 - 1 East Bengal, 6 September 1953.
• Worst defeat in Calcutta League: Dalhousie 7 - 1 East Bengal, 1928^[82]
• Worst defeat in Indian Super League: East Bengal 0 - 4 Hyderabad, 24 January 2022 (During the 2021–22 season).^[94]
• Worst defeat in NFL/I-League:

Shillong Lajong 5 - 1 East Bengal, 30 May 2015 (During the 2014–15 season).^[95]

Salgaocar 4 - 0 East Bengal, 29 December 2011 (During the 2011–12 season).^[96]

• Worst defeat in Continental competitions: Dalian Wanda 6 - 0 East Bengal, 19 September 1998 (During the 1998–99 Asian Club Championship).^[97]

Consecutive titles

• Most consecutive NFL/I-League titles: 2 (2002–03, 2003–04) shared record.^[17]
• Most consecutive Calcutta Football League titles: 8 (2010 to 2017) record.^[12]
• Most consecutive IFA Shield titles: 5 (1972 to 1976).^[23]
• Most consecutive Federation Cup titles: 2 (2009–10, 2010).^[18]
• Most consecutive Durand Cup titles: 3 (1989 to 1991) shared record.^[24]
• Most consecutive Rovers Cup titles: 2 (1973, 1974).^[25]

Undefeated/winning streaks

• Longest undefeated streak in all competitions: 57 matches, (47 wins, 10 draws). record.
• Longest undefeated streak in Calcutta Football League: 98 matches, (85 wins, 13 draws). record.
• Longest undefeated streak in Indian Super League: 7 matches, (2 wins, 5 draws).^[98]
• Longest undefeated streak in NFL / I-League: 22 matches, (17 wins, 5 draws). record.^[99]
• Longest undefeated streak in NFL / I-League in a single campaign: 17 matches, (13 wins, 4 draws).
• Longest winning streak in NFL / I-League: 6 matches (During the 2010-11 season).
• Undefeated Calcutta Football League Champions: 17 times, record.^[39]
• Calcutta Football League Champions winning all matches: 3 times, (1975–76, 1977–78, 2016–17) record.^[39]

Overall Record in ISL

Goals

Firsts

• First goal in Calcutta League 2nd division: Arabinda Ghosh (against St. Xavier's, 1921).^[82]
• First goal in Calcutta League 1st division: Mona Dutta (against Calcutta FC, May 1925).^[100]
• First goal in IFA Shield: Shashi Das (against Town Club, 1921).^[101]
• First goal in Durand Cup: Bhupen Das (against Army Headquarters, 1926).^[102]
• First goal in Rovers Cup: Sunil Ghosh (against Royal Navy, 1941).^[102]
• First goal in Federation Cup: Surajit Sengupta (against Rajasthan Police, 22 April 1978).^{[19] [102]}
• First goal in NFL / I-League: Raman Vijayan (against Mohammedan Sporting, 17 December 1996).^{[84] [19] [102]}
• First goal in Indian Super League: Jacques Maghoma (against Hyderabad FC, 15 December 2020).^{[103] [104]}
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player: Jatin Sarkar (against Rangers, 1927 Calcutta Football League).^[100]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in NFL/I-League: Ossius Luiz Ferreira (against State Bank of Travancore, 15 February 2000, during the 1999-00 season).^[105]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in Federation Cup: Chima Okorie (against Assam Police, during the 1990 Federation Cup - Eastern Zone qualifiers).^[106]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in IFA Shield: N. Mazumdar (against Victoria Sporting, during the 1936 IFA Shield First-Round).^[107]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in Durand Cup: K. P. Dhanraj (against Kalighat, during the 1951 Durand Cup Quarter-Final).^[108]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in Rovers Cup: A. C. Somana (against Royal Navy, during the 1941 Rovers Cup First-Round).^[109]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in Asian Club Championship: Biswajit Bhattacharya (against New Road Team, 2 August 1985, during the 1985 season).^[16]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in Asian Cup Winners' Cup: Carlton Chapman (against Al-Zawra, 1 October 1993, during the 1993-94 season).^[110]
• First hat-trick by an East Bengal player in AFC Cup: Ernest Jeremiah (against Nebitçi Balkanabat, 25 May 2005, during the 2005 season).^[111]
• First golden-goal by an East Bengal player: Bhaichung Bhutia (against Mohammedan Sporting, 1993 Durand Cup Semi-Final).^[112]

Records

• Most goals scored in an Indian Super League season: 27 in 22 matches (during the 2023 - 24 season).^{[63] [64]}
• Most goals scored in an NFL/I-League season: 46 in 26 games (during the 2011 - 12 season).
• Most goals scored in a Calcutta League season: 77 in 26 games (during the 1949 - 50 season).^{[82] [113]}
• Fewest goals conceded in an Indian Super League season: 29 in 22 games (during the 2023 - 24 season).^{[63] [64]}
• Fewest goals conceded in an NFL/I-League season: 9 in 22 games (during the 2000 - 01 season).
• Fewest goals conceded in a Calcutta Football League season: 0 in 19 and 18 games (During the 1972 - 73 and 1991 - 92 season).^{[113] [114]}
• Fewest goals conceded in a Federation Cup campaign: 0 in 5 games (during the 2009 - 10 season).^[19]
• Most individual scorers in a single NFL/I-League match: 6 (against United Sikkim, during the 2012 - 13 season).^[115]

Top Scorers each season in ISL

Top scorers for East Bengal in each season:^{[63] [64]
*} Current Season

Top Scorer for East Bengal in ISL
Season	Nationality	Name	Goals
2020–21		Matti Steinmann	4
2021–22		Antonio Perošević	4
2022–23		Cleiton Silva	12
2023–24		Cleiton Silva	8
2024–25		to be decided	<	--0^*-->

Top Scorers each season in NFL/I-League

Top scorers for East Bengal in each season:

Top Scorer for East Bengal in NFL/I-League
Season	Nationality	Name	Goals
1996-97	India	Raman Vijayan	9
1997-98	India	Bhaichung Bhutia	8
1998-99	India	Raman Vijayan	10
1999-00	Ghana	Willie Brown	4
	Brazil	Ossius Luiz Ferreira
	India	Dipankar Roy
2000-01	Nigeria	Omolaja Olalekan	8
2001-02	Nigeria	Omolaja Olalekan	7
2002-03	Nigeria	Mike Okoro	17
2003-04	Brazil	bgcolor=gold	Cristiano Júnior	bgcolor=gold	15
2004-05	India	Bhaichung Bhutia	9
2005-06	India	Bhaichung Bhutia	12
2006-07	Brazil	Edmilson Marques Pardal	13
2007-08	Brazil	Edmilson Marques Pardal	8
2008-09	Ghana	Yusif Yakubu	11
2009-10	Ghana	Yusif Yakubu	9
2010-11	Australia	Tolgay Özbey	17
2011-12	Australia	Tolgay Özbey	18
2012-13	Nigeria	Chidi Edeh	18
2013-14	Nigeria	Chidi Edeh	9
2014-15	Nigeria	bgcolor=gold	Ranti Martins	bgcolor=gold	17
2015-16	Nigeria	bgcolor=gold	Ranti Martins	bgcolor=gold	12
2016-17	Trinidad and Tobago	Willis Plaza	9
2017-18	Nigeria	Dudu Omagbemi	8
2018-19	India	Jobby Justin	9
	Mexico	Enrique Esqueda
2019-20	Spain	Marcos de la Espada	6
	Spain	Jaime Santos

Hat-tricks in NFL/I-League

List of all hat-tricks for East Bengal in the NFL and I-League:^{[105] [116]}

Hat-tricks for East Bengal in NFL/I-League
Season	Date	Nationality	Name	Against	Final score
	15 February 2000	Brazil	Oseías Luíz Ferreira	State Bank of Travancore	3 – 0
2002-03	25 January 2003	India	Alvito D'Cunha	HAL	3 – 5
2002-03	8 February 2003	Nigeria	Mike Okoro	HAL	4 – 1
	18 March 2006	India	Bhaichung Bhutia		4 – 3
	4 April 2011	Australia	Tolgay Özbey		3 – 0
	23 November 2011	Australia	Tolgay Özbey^4	HAL	1 – 8
	5 January 2013	Nigeria	Chidi Edeh	Salgaocar	4 – 1
	1 March 2015	Nigeria	Ranti Martins^5	Dempo	1 – 5
	9 February 2016	Nigeria	Ranti Martins	Shillong Lajong	4 – 0
	12 March 2016	Nigeria	Ranti Martins	Aizawl F.C.	2 – 3
	29 January 2017	Haiti	Wedson Anselme	Minerva Punjab	0 – 5
	24 February 2018	Nigeria	Dudu Omagbemi^4	Chennai City F.C.	7 – 1
	14 February 2019	India	Laldanmawia Ralte	Shillong Lajong	5 – 0

⁴ Scored 4 Goals
⁵ Scored 5 Goals

Attendances

• Record highest attendance in a match: 1,31,785 (against Mohun Bagan in the 1997–98 Federarion Cup semifinal).^[117]
• Highest league home attendance in Indian Super League: 60,102 (against ATK Mohun Bagan in the 2022–23 season).^[118]
• Highest home attendance in Continental matches: 50,000 (against Al - Kuwait in the 2013 AFC Cup).^[119]
• Lowest league home attendance in Indian Super League: 1,982 (against NorthEast United in the 2022–23 season).^[120]

Kolkata Derby

See main article: Kolkata Derby.

Firsts

• First Derby match: East Bengal 0 - 0 Mohun Bagan (8 August 1921, Cooch Behar Cup).^{[121] [122] [68]}
• First Derby win: East Bengal 2 - 1 Mohun Bagan (26 August 1921, Khogendra Shield Final).^{[68] [82]}
• First Derby match in official tournament: East Bengal 1 - 0 Mohun Bagan (28 May 1925, Calcutta Football League).^{[122] [68] [82]}
• First Derby at Eden Gardens: East Bengal 2 - 1 Mohun Bagan (25 June 1967, Calcutta Football League).^[68]
• First Derby at Salt Lake Stadium: East Bengal 1 - 0 Mohun Bagan (28 September 1984, IFA Shield Final).^{[3] [68]}
• First Derby at Kanchenjunga Stadium: East Bengal 0 - 0 Mohun Bagan (12 January 1988, Exhibition Match).^[68]

First Kolkata Derbies in Major Tournaments
Tournament	Date	Round	Score	East Bengal Scorers	Mohun Bagan/ATK Mohun Bagan Scorers	Ref
	28 May 1925		1 - 0	Nepal Chakraborty		^[123]
	5 August 1944	Semi Final	1 - 0	Vishweshwar Rao
	28 December 1957	Semi Final	0 - 0
	30 December 1957	Semi Final (Replay)	3 - 2	Musa (2), Balasubramaniam	Chuni Goswami, Nimai Mukherjee
	27 November 1960	Semi Final	2 - 1	Arun Ghosh, B. Narayan	Amiya Bannerjee
	7 May 1978	Final	0 - 0
	6 January 1998		1 - 2	Felix Ijabandenyi		^[124]
	30 December 2007		0 - 1			^[125]
	27 November 2020		0 - 2			.^[126] ^[127]

Goalscoring

• First Goal in Derby: Nosa Sen (East Bengal 2 - 1 Mohun Bagan, 26 August 1921, Khogendra Shield Final).^{[82] [128]}
• First Goal in Calcutta Football League Derby: Nepal Chakraborty (East Bengal 1 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 28 May 1925).^{[82] [68] [123]}
• First Goal in IFA Shield Derby: Vishweshwar Rao (East Bengal 1 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 8 August 1944).^[123]
• First Goal in NFL/I-league Derby: Felix Abayomi (East Bengal 1 - 2 Mohun Bagan, 6 January 1998).^[123]
• First Goal in Indian Super League Derby: Tiri (ATK Mohun Bagan 3 - 1 East Bengal, 19 February 2021).^[129]
• Most Goals in Derby: Bhaichung Bhutia, 13.^{[130] [131]}
• Most Goals in NFL / I-League Derby: Syed Rahim Nabi, 4.^[130]
• Most Goals in Federation Cup Derby: Bhaichung Bhutia, 5.^[38]
• Hattrick in Derby: Bhaichung Bhutia (East Bengal 4 - 1 Mohun Bagan, 13 July 1997, Fed Cup Semi Final).^{[130] [131] [132]}

Win Records

• Biggest Victory: East Bengal 5 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 30 September 1975 (IFA Shield Final).^{[130] [133]}
• Biggest Victory in Calcutta Football League Derby:

East Bengal 4 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 23 May 1936.^{[3] [4]}

East Bengal 4 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 6 September 2015.^[134]

• Biggest Victory in Durand Cup Derby: East Bengal 3 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 17 January 1979.^[24]
• Biggest Victory in Rovers Cup Derby: East Bengal 3 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 25 December 1969.^[25]
• Biggest Victory in Federation Cup Derby: East Bengal 4 - 1 Mohun Bagan, 13 July 1997.^[135]
• Biggest Victory in NFL/I-League Derby: East Bengal 3 - 0 Mohun Bagan, 22 February 2009.^{[136] [137]}
• Most consecutive Derby won: 6 (from 12 January 1972, Durand Cup Final to 29 September 1974, IFA Shield Final).^[130]
• Most consecutive Derby won in NFL/I-League: 4 (from 8 December 2002 to 25 April 2004).^[130]
• Most consecutive Derby undefeated: 17 (1932 Days, from 25 December 1969, Rovers Cup Final to 29 September 1974, IFA Shield Final).^[138]
• Most consecutive Derby undefeated in NFL/I-League: 9 (from 8 December 2002 to 27 February 2007).
• Derby Doubles in NFL/I-League: 3 (During the 2002–03, 2003–04, 2018–19 seasons).^{[139] [140]}

Overall Derby Record

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Mini Kolkata Derby Record

East Bengal FC also has a minor rivalry against another giant from Kolkata Mohammedan SC. The rivalry started in the 1930s when Mohammedan SC won 5 consecutive Calcutta Football League titles between 1934 and 1938 while East Bengal FC bettered their record in the 70s by winning the league for 6 consecutive seasons from 1970 to 1975.^[141]

Goalscoring Records

• Highest margin of win:

East Bengal FC 7 - 1 Mohammedan SC, 6 October 1998 (Calcutta Football League, Super Five).^[142]

East Bengal FC 6 - 0 Mohammedan SC, 14 May 2012 (2011 Calcutta Football League).^[143]

• Highest margin of defeat: Mohammedan SC 3 - 0 East Bengal FC, 1940 (Calcutta Football League).^[144]
• Most goals in a single game against Mohammedan Sporting - Tolgay Ozbey, 4, 14 May 2012 (2011 Calcutta Football League).^[143]

Overall record

Overall Head to Head record
Competition	Matches Played	East Bengal FC wins	Mohammedan SC wins	Draws
Competitive Matches Total	244	124	60	60

International

See main article: SC East Bengal in International football.

Continental record

Competition	Appearances	Seasons	Best result
	1	1985	Champions
Asian Club Championship	2	1985–86, 1998–99	Group stage
Asian Cup Winners' Cup	5	1991–92, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997–98	Quarter-finals (1991-92)
AFC Cup / AFC Champions League Two	9	2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2024–25	Semi-finals (2013)
AFC Challenge League	1	2024–25	To be decided

Invitational tournaments

Apart from AFC tournaments, East Bengal club have participated in several invitational tournaments on foreign soil and have been victorious on three occasions.^[145]

Season	Country	Competition	Result
1953-54	Romania	1953 World Youth Festival	Fourth place
1991-92	Bangladesh	1991 BTC Club Cup	Semi-finals
1993-94	Nepal	1993 Wai Wai Cup	Champions
1996-97	Nepal	1996 Coca Cola Cup	Semi-finals
1996-97	Bangladesh	1996 Bangabandhu Cup^[146]	Group stages
2003-04	Indonesia	2003 ASEAN Club Championship	Champions
2004-05	England	2004 Pepsi Max Challenge Cup	Fourth place
2004-05	Nepal	2004 San Miguel International Cup	Champions
2011-12	Vietnam	2011 BTV Becamex IDC Cup	Group stages
2015-16	Bangladesh	2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup	Runners-up

Firsts

• First match against foreign opponent: East Bengal 2 - 0 China Olympic XI, 14 July 1948 (Friendly Match, Kolkata).^{[147] [148] [149] [150]}
• First competitive match against foreign opponent: Grazer AK 0 - 2 East Bengal, 6 August 1953 (1953 World Youth Festival, Bucharest).^{[151] [152]}
• First win in a final at home: East Bengal 1 - 0 PAS Tehran, 25 September 1970 (IFA Shield, Kolkata).^{[149] [152] [153]}
• First win in a final away from home: Ranipokhari Corner Team 0 - 1 East Bengal, 15 June 1993 (Wai Wai Cup, Nepal).^[152]
• First match in Asian Club Championship: East Bengal 7 - 0 New Road Team, 1 August 1985 (During the 1985-86 season).^[97]
• First match in Asian Cup Winners' Cup: Abahani KC 0 - 0 East Bengal, 1 September 1991 (During the 1991-92 season).^[97]
• First match in AFC Cup: Geylang United 2 - 3 East Bengal, 10 February 2004 (During the 2004 season).^[97]
• First match in AFC Champions League Two: East Bengal 2 - 3 Altyn Asyr, 14 August 2024 (During the 2024–25 season).^[154]

Records

• Total Matches played in AFC competitions: 83.^[97]
• Matches played in Asian Club Championship: 9.^[97]
• Matches played in Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 18.^[97]
• Matches played in AFC Cup / AFC Champions League Two: 56.^[97]
• Most Appearances by a player in AFC Cup: 34, Mehtab Hossain.^[70]
• Most Goals against foreign opponents: 25, Bhaichung Bhutia.^[38]
• Most Goals in AFC competitions: 11, Bhaichung Bhutia.^[38]
• Most Goals in Asian Club Championship: 8, Debasish Roy.^[97]
• Most Goals in Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 8, Bhaichung Bhutia.^{[97] [38]}
• Most Goals in AFC Cup: 6, Cristiano Júnior and Chidi Edeh (During the 2004 and 2013 season respectively).
• Most consecutive wins against foreign opponents: 8 Matches (2003–04)^[155]
• Most Goals by a player in a match against foreign opponents: 6, Bhaichung Bhutia (against Philippine Army, 2003 ASEAN Club Championship).^{[10] [43]}
• Biggest win against foreign opponents: East Bengal 9 - 0 Club Valencia, 10 August 1985 (1985 Coca-Cola Cup).^{[97] [88]}
• Biggest win in Asian Cup Winners' Cup: East Bengal 8 - 0 Tribhuvan Club, 15 August 1997 (during the 1997-98 season).^{[97] [88]}
• Biggest win in AFC Cup: East Bengal 5 - 1 Yangon United, 15 May 2013 (during the 2013 season).^{[97] [88]}

Overall record

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• Official website

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