Kingfisher East Bengal F.C.
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| Full name | East Bengal Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Red & Gold Brigade, Lal-holud (লাল হলুদ) |
| Founded | 1 August 1920 |
| Ground | East Bengal Ground |
| Owner | United Breweries Group |
| Manager | Trevor Morgan |
| League | I-League |
| 2015–16 | I-League, 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
East Bengal Football Club is a professional football club, based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is one of the most popular and reputed football club in India. It currently competes in the I-League, the top-tier of Indian football pyramid. The club has won 3 National Football League (India) (later named as I league) titles, 8 Federation Cups, 3 Indian Super Cups and many more. The club is the current holder of the Calcutta Football League. The club has represented India the most number of times in the Asian competitions, with its best performance being a semi-final berth in the AFC Cup 2013. East Bengal had also won ASEAN Club Championship in 2003. East Bengal FC was founded in 1920. With the start of the National Football League in 1996, East Bengal was one of the original teams to have participated in the league.
The club has a long-standing rivalry with the other major Kolkata club Mohun Bagan, with whom it contests the Kolkata derby. Also there exists a small derby between East Bengal and Mohammedan SC. East Bengal got promoted to first division in 1925 and the first official match with Mohun Bagan happened in 27th May' 1925 in which East Bengal won 1-0.
On 28 July 1920 Mohun Bagan were scheduled to play Jorabagan in the Coochbehar Cup. 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; 97 years ago.
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