Clubname: | Mohun Bagan Athletic Club |
Fullname: | Mohun Bagan Athletic Club |
Nickname: | The Mariners |
Short Name: | MBAC |
Color: | Green Maroon |
Ground: | Mohun Bagan Ground |
Capacity: | 22,000 |
Chrtitle: | President |
Chairman: | Swapan Sadhan Bose |
Coach: | Siddharth Pandey |
League: | Calcutta Hockey League |
Season: | 2022–23 |
Position: | Champions |
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Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is an Indian professional field hockey club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It participates in various tournaments conducted by Hockey Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the Mohun Bagan Ground and also at the SAI Sports Complex at Salt Lake Stadium. The club participates in the Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup. The team have won 41 major state titles which includes 25 CHL and 14 Beighton Cup titles.[1] [2]
Mohun Bagan started their field hockey section in the early thirties and got affiliated with the Bengal Hockey Association (BHA). The Club participated in the Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup and were the second Indian field hockey club to win the Calcutta Hockey League after Greer Sporting in the 1935 season.[3]
The club disbanded their hockey section in 2000,[4] but was eventually revived after 22 years in 2022.[5]
Notable players who have represented Mohun Bagan includes olympians Keshav Dutt,[6] [7] Ashok Kumar,[8] Jaswant Singh Rajput, Joginder Singh, Inam-ur Rahman etc.