Mohun Bagan AC season awards explained

The Mohun Bagan AC season awards are the official awards ceremony presented every year since 2001 by the Indian multi-sports club Mohun Bagan to commemorate Mohun Bagan Day (29 July) which marks the day on which the club defeated East Yorkshire Regiment's football team to win their first IFA Shield in 1911, thereby becoming the first all-native team to ever win a football tournament dominated by British teams and clubs.[1]

Award ceremony

The inaugural award ceremony was held in 2001 under the then general secretary of the club Anjan Mitra and the major highlight of the ceremony was the introduction of Mohun Bagan Ratna, which is a medallion of highest honour awarded to acclaim a recipient's unparalleled contribution to the club.[2] Apart from the Mohun Bagan Ratna, other awards are also presented which often differ in categories each year, except for an award for the best footballer and cricketer of the season which were presented for most of the years.

Mohun Bagan Ratna

Over the years, Mohun Bagan Ratna has been mostly awarded to sportspersons, especially footballers with Sailen Manna being its first recipient, except in 2007 when the club awarded the honour to the club's former general secretary Dhiren Dey for his role during the football team's successes in the 1960s.[2] In 2010, the club honoured all the members of the 1911 IFA Shield winning team except Shibdas Bhaduri who was already conferred in 2003.[3] In 2019 the club awarded the medallion to a player of other sport except football for the first time.[4]

YearRecipient
2001Sailen Manna
2002
2003Shibdas Bhaduri[5]
2004
2005Chuni Goswami[6]
2006
2007Dhiren Dey[7]
2008Mohammad Abdus Sattar[8] [9]
2009Samar Banerjee[10] [11]
2010Hiralal Mukherjee, Bhuti Sukul,
Sudhir Kumar Chatterjee, Monmohan Mukherjee,
Rajen Sengupta, Neelmadhav Bhattacharya,
Kanu Roy, Habul Sarkar,
Abhilash Ghosh, Bijoydas Bhaduri		[12]
2011Pradip Kumar Banerjee[13]
2012Jarnail Singh[14]
2013Balaidas Chatterjee[15]
2014Arumoy Naigam[16]
2015Karuna Sankar Bhattacharya[17] [18]
2016Syed Nayeemuddin[19] [20]
2017Subrata Bhattacharya[21] [22]
2018Pradip Chowdhury[23] [24]
2019Keshav Dutt, Prasun Banerjee[25]
2020Gurbux Singh, Palash Nandy[26]
2021Shibaji Banerjee[27] [28]
2022Shyam Thapa[29] [30]
2023Gautam Sarkar[31]
2024Sourav Ganguly[32]

Trophy

The Mohun Bagan Ratna award is a medallion with the emblem of Mohun Bagan in the center, and along the circumference is etched "Mohun Bagan Athletic Club 1889" and " Mohun Bagan Ratna" with the year of felicitation and the name of the recipient.[33]

Best footballer of the season

Mohun Bagan presents an award to the best footballer for his performance during the preceding season through a voting among the board of members of the club. The award is named in honour of an eminent personality historically associated with the club, with the inaugural ward being named as Dhiren Dey Award which was conferred to José Barreto in 2001 after which the award was stopped being given due various undisclosed management issues until 2012. Presently the award is named Shibdas Bhaduri Award after 1911 IFA Shield winning captain Shibdas Bhaduri.

YearNationalityRecipientPositionNotes
2001José BarretoForwardAward was named Dhiren Dey Award
2012Syed Rahim NabiForwardAward was named Karuna Shankar Bhattacharjee Award
2013Denson DevadasMidfielder
2014Katsumi YusaMidfielder[34]
2015Debjit MajumderGoalkeeper
2016Sony NordéForward
Jeje LalpekhluaForward
2017Balwant SinghForward[35]
2018Shilton PaulGoalkeeper
2019Arijit BaguiDefender
2020Joseba BeitiaMidfielder
2021Roy KrishnaForward
2022Liston ColacoForwardAward was named Shibdas Bhaduri Award
2023Vishal KaithGoalkeeper
2024Dimitri PetratosForward[36]

Best cricketer of the year

Mohun Bagan presents an award to the best cricketer for his performance for the club in CAB organised tournaments during the previous season decided by the votes of the management board. The inaugural award was named Dhiren Dey Memorial Award and was given to Debabrata Das in 2012. Presently the award is named as Arun Lal Award in honour of former Test cricketer Arun Lal.

Year! style="background:#7A1024; color:white; text-align:center;"
RecipientRole
2012Debabrata DasBatter
2013Subhomoy DasBatter
2014Not awarded due to no
reconisable performance
2015Jayojit BasuBatter
2016Wriddhiman SahaWicket-keeper
2017Debabrata DasBatter
2018Sudip ChatterjeeBatter
2019Rajkumar PaulBatter
2020Not awarded due to
COVID-19 pandemic
2021Abhimanyu EaswaranBatter
2022Prinann DuttaBatter
2023Arnab NandiAll-rounder
2024Avilin GhoshBatter

Other award winners

Year! style="background:#7A1024; color:white; text-align:center;"
Best sportspersonBest young footballerBest forward (Subhash Bhowmick Award)Best athlete (Pranab Banerjee Award)Best hockey playerBest supporterBest sports official (Anjan Mitra Award)Best sports journalist (Moti Nandi Award)Best referee (Pramod Chakraborty Award)
2012Laxmi Ratan Shukla
2013Asha Roy
2015Romario Angelo Topno, Pintu Mahata,
Sougata Hansda
2016Not awarded
2017Deep SahaLili Das
2018Sourav DasNot awarded
2019 Football Leaguewinning teamTapas Dey
2020Sajal BagNot awardedJoydeep Mukherjee
2021Not awardedBidisha KunduNot awarded
2022Kiyan NassiriNot awardedV. C. PraveenAshok Dasgupta
2023Ningomba Engson SinghDimitri PetratosMohor MukherjeeNitish NeupaneShanti Chakraborty, Kamalesh UpadhyaySiddhartha 'Nabab' BhattacharyaJayanto Chakraborty
2024Suhail BhatManvir SinghKarunamoy MahatoSourabh PahineBapi Maji, Ajoy PasawanSourav PalDebashish DattaDilip Sen

Lifetime achievement award

Year! style="background:#7A1024; color:white; text-align:center;"
Recipient
2019Ashok Chatterjee
2020Ashok Kumar, Pranab Ganguly,
Manoranjan Porel
2022Balai Dey
2023Shankar Banerjee
2024Bimal Mukherjee

Notes and References

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  4. News: 2019-07-22 . Mohun Bagan Ratna for hockey legend Keshav Dutt and Prasun Banerjee . The Times of India . 2023-07-30 . 0971-8257 . 25 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220925195126/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/mohun-bagan-ratna-for-hockey-legend-keshav-dutt-and-prasun-banerjee/articleshow/70335339.cms?from=mdr . live .
  5. News: 2003-07-14 . Shibdas Bhaduri to get Mohun Bagan Ratna . The Times of India . 2023-07-30 . 0971-8257 . 31 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731085831/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/shibdas-bhaduri-to-get-mohun-bagan-ratna/articleshow/75685.cms . live .
  6. News: 2005-07-22 . Chuni to receive Mohun Bagan Ratna . The Times of India . 2023-07-30 . 0971-8257 . 31 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731085829/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/chuni-to-receive-mohun-bagan-ratna/articleshow/1180311.cms . live .
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  21. Web site: 2017-06-30 . India defender Subrata Bhattacharya set to be awarded with Mohun Bagan Ratna . 2023-07-30 . The Indian Express . en . 22 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201022014547/https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/mohun-bagan-ratna-for-ex-india-defender-subrata-bhattacharya-4729761/ . live .
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  23. News: 2018-07-29 . Pradip Choudhury is Mohun Bagan Ratna for . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-07-30 . 0971-751X . 19 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221019081636/https://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/pradip-choudhury-is-mohun-bagan-ratna-for/article24547012.ece . live .
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  29. News: 2022-07-08 . Shyam Thapa chosen for Mohun Bagan Ratna . The Times of India . 2023-07-30 . 0971-8257 . 9 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220709201907/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/shyam-thapa-chosen-for-mohun-bagan-ratna/articleshow/92734587.cms . live .
  30. Web site: 2022-07-29 . Shyam Thapa conferred the Mohun Bagan Ratna . 2023-07-30 . sportstar.thehindu.com . en . 17 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221017213417/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/shyam-thapa-awarded-mohun-bagan-ratna-indian-football/article65699929.ece . live .
  31. Web site: 2023-07-15 . Gautam Sarkar to be awarded Mohun Bagan Ratna; Vishal Kaith, Dimitri Petratos among other awardees . 2023-07-30 . sportstar.thehindu.com . en . 17 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230717095545/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/mohun-bagan-ratna-awards-2023-gautam-sarkar-mbsg-kaith-petratos-award-list-winners-east-bengal/article67084611.ece . live .
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