East Bengal Club is an Indian professional field hockey club located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It participates in various tournaments conducted by Hockey Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the East Bengal Ground and also at the SAI Sports Complex at Salt Lake Stadium.
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| Full name | East Bengal Club |
|---|---|
| Short name | East Bengal |
| League | Calcutta Hockey League |
| Founded | 1947[1] |
| Colors | Red and Gold |
| Home ground | East Bengal Ground (Capacity 23,500) |
| Personnel | |
| Coach | Jagraj Singh |
| Website | Club website |
The club participates in the Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup. The team have won fourteen major state titles as of the 2022 season,
History
editEast Bengal Club started their hockey section after the Indian Independence in 1947 and got affiliated with the Bengal Hockey Association (BHA). The Club participated in the Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup[2] and were the fourth Indian hockey team to win the Calcutta Hockey League in the 1960 season.[3]
The club disbanded their hockey section in 2000,[4] but was eventually revived after 21 years in 2021. In the next season in 2022, East Bengal won their tenth CHL title after 33 years.[5][6]
Honours
editLeague
edit- Calcutta Hockey League
- Champions (10): 1960, 1961, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1989, 2022, 2024
Cup
edit- Beighton Cup
- Champions (4): 1957, 1962, 1964, 1967
- Runners-up (3): 1963, 1970, 1987
Current squad
editThe squad for the 2022 season:[7]
- Vikas Dahiya
- Pardeep Mor
- Anup Valmiki
- Yuvraj Valmiki
- Manpreet
- Ajit Pandey
- Roshan Kumar
- Harjeet Singh
- Chandan Singh
- Maninder Singh
- Prabhjot Singh
- Iqtidar Israt
- First Sharma
- Aditya Singh
- Nitish Neopane
- Rohit
- Balkar Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Raju Pal
- Atul Island
- Mohit
- Arjun Yadav
- Pawan Singh Chauhan
- Naresh Kumar Chowdhury
Notable players
editNotable players who have represented East Bengal Club includes Olympians Gurbux Singh,[8] Joginder Singh, B. P. Govinda, Inam-ur Rahman, Vece Paes, Mohammed Shahid.
References
edit- ^ "Hockey". eastbengalclub.co.in. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "Hockey". eastbengalclub.co.in. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF CALCUTTA HOCKEY LEAGUE COMPETITION (1905)". www.hockeybengal.org. Kolkata: Hockey Bengal. 2022. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ Bhattacharya, Nilesh (7 August 2021). "As hockey regains its place in the sun, Bengal experts rue lack of basic infra". The Times of India.
- ^ "How East Bengal Won the Calcutta Premier Hockey League After 33 Years!". Hockey Passion. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "East Bengal Club is the champion of Kolkata Hockey League 2022". eastbengalclub.com. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "Hockey team of East Bengal Club of 2022 to play in Kolkata Hockey League". eastbengalclub.com. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "East Bengal seek a 'new identity' on foundation day". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 2 August 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2019.