2011–12 East Bengal F.C. season

East Bengal
	2011–12 season
Chairman	Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Manager	Trevor Morgan
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium
I-League	2nd
Federation Cup	Runner-up
AFC Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Tolgay Ozbey (15); All: Tolgay Ozbey (15)
Highest home attendance	75,364 (26 September vs Prayag United, Federation Cup)
Average home league attendance	75,364
Home colours	Away colours
← 2010–11	2012–13 →

The 2011–12 season is East Bengal Football Club's 5th season in the I-League, and also marks the club's 91st 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

26 September 2011: East Bengal defeat Prayag United in the 2011 Indian Federation Cup semi-finals 2-1 to make the final. 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.	Position	Player
0	FW	Branco Cardozo
2	DF	Raju Gaikwad
3	DF	Nirmal Chettri
4	DF	Uga Samuel Okpara
5	DF	Sunil Thakur
6	FW	Baljit Sahni
7	MF	Harmanjyot Khabra
8	DF	Naoba Singh
9	MF	Alvito D'Cunha
11	MF	Khemtang Paite
12	MF	Reisangmei Vashum
14	MF	Mehtab Hossain
15	MF	Sanju Pradhan (captain)
16	DF	Gurwinder Singh
17	MF	Sushanth Mathew
18	MF	Penn Orji
19	DF	Ravinder Singh

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

In:

No.	Position	Player
-	FW	Robert Lalthalma (Free from Churchill Brothers^[6])
-	FW	Khemtang Paite (Free from Churchill Brothers^[6])
-	FW	Charan Rai (Free from Churchill Brothers^[6])
-	FW	Sunil Kumar (Free from Pune^[6])
15	FW	Alan Gow (Free from Notts County^[7]^[8])
-	FW	Edmilson Marques Pardal (Free from Royal Wahingdoh^[9])

Out:

No.		Position	Player
1		GK	Abhra Mondal (On loan Pune)^[10]
15		FW	Alan Gow (Released^[11])

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.

Current season

Federation Cup

Group League

17 September 2011	East Bengal	1 – 1	Mohammedan SC	Salt Lake Stadium
	Sanju 49'		Stanley 20'

19 September 2011	East Bengal	2 – 1	Pune F.C.	Salt Lake Stadium
	Alan Gow 42' Robin Singh 81'		Jeje Lalpekhlua 55'

21 September 2011	East Bengal	1 - 0	Dempo	Salt Lake Stadium
	Robin Singh 66'

Semi-final

26 September 2011	East Bengal	2 - 1	Prayag United	Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata
6:00 pm IST	Alan Gow 37' (pen.) Khemtang Paite 81'		Snehashish Dutta 17'

Final

29 September 2011	East Bengal	1 - 3	Salgaocar	Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata
	Alan Gow 26'		Chidi Edeh 5' Francis Fernandes 17' Ryuji Sueoka 67'

BECAMEX IDC Cup

7 October 2011	East Bengal	2 - 2	SHB Da Nang(Vietnam)	Binh Duong Stadium Vietnam
4:00 pm ICT

9 October 2011	East Bengal	0 - 1	Sai Gon Xuan Thanh(Vietnam)	Binh Duong Stadium Vietnam
4:00 pm ICT

11 October 2011	East Bengal	0 - 1	Matsubara(Brazil)	Binh Duong Stadium Vietnam
4:00 pm ICT

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.

18 October 2011	Salgaocar	0 - 0 (8 - 9 p)	East Bengal	Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi
5:45 pm IST		Report		Referee: Pratap Singh
		Penalties
	Edeh Sueoka Lamare Kumar Wadoo Fernandes Sabrosa T. Singh J. Singh		Ozbey Gow Robin Singh Pradhan Mathew Paite Chetri Okpara Roy

I League

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

Last updated: 15 December 2011.
Source: Soccerway

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Ground	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	D	L	D	L	W	W	W	D	W	W
Position	10	11	6	5	3	6	4	3	3	4	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	2

Source: Soccrway date=November 2011
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Fixtures & results

22 October 2011 1	East Bengal	0 – 1	Churchill Brothers	Salt Lake Stadium
		Sumamry	Opara 12'

29 October 2011 2	Prayag United	1 – 1	East Bengal	Salt Lake Stadium
	Yakubu 49'	Sumamry	Sahni 84'

2 November 2011 3	Mumbai	1 – 4	East Bengal	Cooperage Ground
	Kuttymani 33'	Sumamry	Pradhan 69' Ozbey 71' Vashum 82' Gow 90'

6 November 2011 4	East Bengal	2 – 0	Shillong Lajong	Salt Lake Stadium
	Pradhan 29' Okpara 89'	Sumamry

9 November 2011 5	East Bengal	3 – 1	Pune	Salt Lake Stadium
	Chettri 43' Ozbey 64' Gow 87'	Sumamry	Fernandez 45'

20 November 2011 6	Mohun Bagan	1 – 0	East Bengal	Salt Lake Stadium
	Okolie 21' (pen.)	Sumamry

23 November 2011 7	HAL	1 – 8	East Bengal	Bangalore Football Stadium
	Hamza 17' (pen.)	Sumamry	Singh 7' Okpara 26', 37' Ozbey 49', 57', 71', 86' Sahni 74'

5 December 2011 8	Sporting Clube de Goa	0 – 1	East Bengal	Fatorda Stadium
		Sumamry	Ozbey 25'

15 December 2011 9	East Bengal	2 – 1	Dempo	Salt Lake Stadium
	Orji 31' Ozbey 42'	Sumamry	Miranda 11'

18 December 2011 10	Pailan Arrows	0 – 0	East Bengal	Salt Lake Stadium
		Sumamry

23 December 2011 11	Chirag United Kerala	0 – 2	East Bengal	Kaloor International Stadium
		Sumamry	Orji 51' Ozbey 90+7'

29 December 2011 12	Salgaocar	4 – 0	East Bengal	Fatorda Stadium
	Fernandes 24' Sueoka 67' Singh 85' Chettri 90+3' (o.g.)	Sumamry

2 January 2012 13	East Bengal	2 – 1	Air India	Salt Lake Stadium
	Orji 25', 74'	Sumamry	Henry 52'

14 January 2012 14	Pune	0 – 0	East Bengal	Balewadi Sports Complex
		Sumamry

16 January 2012 15	East Bengal	4 - 1	Pailan Arrows	Salt Lake Stadium
	Orji 27' Ozbey 31', 76' Lalthalma 57'	Sumamry	Maulingkar 60'

20 January 2012 16	East Bengal	2 - 0	HAL	Salt Lake Stadium
	Dey 66' Orji 89'	Sumamry

26 January 2012 17	Churchill Brothers	1 - 1	East Bengal	Churchill Braz Alemao
	Opara 8'	Sumamry	Ozbey 53'

31 January 2012 18	East Bengal	0 - 1	Prayag United	Salt Lake Stadium
		Sumamry	Vincent 90+3'

4 February 2012 19	East Bengal	1 - 1	Mohun Bagan	Salt Lake Stadium
	Singh 32'	Sumamry	Okolie 47'

10 February 2012 20	Shillong Lajong	2 - 1	East Bengal	Khuman Lampak Main Stadium
	Menyongar 12' Lyngdoh 16'	Sumamry	Ozbey 4'

24 March 2012 21	East Bengal	1 - 0	Salgaocar	Salt Lake Stadium
	Ozbey 54'	Sumamry

30 March 2012 22	East Bengal	3 - 1	Mumbai	Salt Lake Stadium
	Ozbey 22' (pen.) R.Singh 25' Edmilson 87'	Sumamry	Rodrigues 5'

16 April 2012 25	East Bengal	4 - 3	Chirag United Kerala	Salt Lake Stadium
	Orji 24' Ozbey 33', 54' Singh 77'	Sumamry	Sunday 37', 41', 48'

20 April 2012 23	Dempo	0 - 0	East Bengal	Fatorda Stadium
		Sumamry

30 April 2012 24	East Bengal	3 - 0	Sporting Clube de Goa	Salt Lake Stadium
	Pradhan 76' Ozbey 77' Singh 82' (pen.)	Sumamry

5 May 2012 26	Air India	0 - 1	East Bengal	Cooperage Ground
		Sumamry	Edmilson 27'

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 ¹
3	Churchill Brothers	26	14	6	6	47	28	+19	48	2013 AFC Cup Group stage ²
4	Mohun Bagan	26	13	8	5	51	32	+19	47
5	Pune	26	13	7	6	44	34	+10	46
6	Salgaocar	26	12	8	6	32	19	+13	44
7	United SC	26	11	9	6	41	29	+12	42
8	Sporting Goa	26	11	7	8	53	43	+10	40
9	Air India	26	9	5	12	29	37	−8	32
10	Shillong Lajong	26	7	7	12	24	44	−20	28
11	Mumbai	26	7	3	16	31	52	−21	24
12	Chirag United Kerala (R)	26	6	2	18	28	50	−22	20	Relegation to 2013 I-League 2nd Division ³
13	Pailan Arrows	26	2	10	14	17	40	−23	16
14	HAL (R)	26	1	5	20	19	68	−49	8	Relegation to 2013 I-League 2nd Division

Updated to games played on 6 May 2012.
Source: I-League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
¹East Bengal, the winner of the 2012 Indian Federation Cup, qualified for the 2013 AFC Cup.
²Dempo refused to enter the 2013 AFC Cup, so they were replaced by Churchill Brothers.^[12]
³Pailan Arrows were not relegated in the season as they were a developmental team.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

2012 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
Arbil	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	14
Kazma	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11
Al-Oruba	6	2	2	2	10	8	+2	8
East Bengal	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0

6 March 2012 1	East Bengal	0 – 1	Al-Oruba	Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata
15:00 UTC+05:30		Report Sumamry	Adisa 45+1' (pen.)	Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)

20 March 2012 2	Kazma	3 – 0	East Bengal	Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium, Kuwait City
18:30 UTC+03:00	Nasser 38' Al Wuhaib 44' Jammeh 58'	Report		Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Marai Al Awaji (Saudi Arabia)

4 April 2012 3	East Bengal	0 – 2	Arbil	Salt Lake Stadium
15:15 UTC+05:30		Sumamry	Radhi 75' Al Hussain 90'	Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Leow Thiam Hoe (Singapore)

10 April 2012 4	Arbil	2 – 0	East Bengal	Franso Hariri Stadium
18:00 UTC+03:00	Al Hussain 45+1' (pen.), 47' (pen.)	Sumamry		Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Ali Sabbagh (Lebanon)

25 April 2012 5	Al-Oruba	4 – 1	East Bengal	Prince Mohammed Stadium, Zarqa (Jordan)²
16:00 UTC+03:00	Naggar 6' Alao 33' Sharyan 58' Al-Gabr 70'	Sumamry	Edmilson 79'	Attendance: 600 Referee: Khurram Shahzad (Pakistan)

9 May 2012 6	East Bengal	1 – 2	Kazma	Salt Lake Stadium
15:30 UTC+05:30	Edmilson 18' Saha 34'	Sumamry	Ismail 7' Al Azmi 90'

Notes

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

Squad statistics

Top Scorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	I League	Federation Cup	AFC Cup	Total
1	FW	10	Tolgay Ozbey	17	0	0	17
2	MF	18	Penn Orji	7	0	0	7
3	FW	23	Robin Singh	4	2	0	6
4	FW	15	Alan Gow	2	3	0	5
5	FW	28	Edmilson	2	0	2	4
6	DF	5	Uga Samuel Okpara	3	0	0	3
=	MF	22	Sanju Pradhan	2	1	0	3
8	FW	6	Baljit Sahni	2	0	0	2
9	MF	13	Reisangmei Vashum	1	0	0	1
=	DF	3	Nirmal Chettri	1	0	0	1
=	DF	17	Robert Lalthalma	1	0	0	1
=	DF	29	Saumik Dey	1	0	0	1
=	MF	11	Khemtang Paite	0	1	0	1
			TOTALS	43	7	2	52

References

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2011–12 East Bengal F.C. season

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Key Events

Players

First-Team Squad

Transfers

Stadiums

Sponsors

Current season

Federation Cup

Group League

Semi-final

Final

BECAMEX IDC Cup

Super Cup

I League

Results summary

Results by round

Fixtures & results

League table

2012 AFC Cup

Group stage

Squad statistics

Top Scorers

References

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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

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

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