# 2012–13 East Bengal FC season

The 2012–13 season was East Bengal F.C.'s 93rd season since their formation in 1920 and their sixteenth season ever in the I-League which is India's top football league. At the end of the season the club had won the Federation Cup, finished 3rd in the 2012–13 I-League, and made it to the quarter-finals of the 2013 AFC Cup.

## Transfers

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | IND | Jaspal Parmar (from Salgaocar) |
| — | FW | IND | Ishfaq Ahmed (from Salgaocar) |
| — | FW | NGA | Chidi Edeh (from Salgaocar) |
| — | MF | IND | Lalrindika Ralte (from Churchill Brothers) |
| — | MF | IND | Jagpreet Singh (from Churchill Brothers) |
| — | GK | IND | Abhijit Mondal (from Prayag United) |
| — | DF | IND | Arnab Mondal (from Prayag United) |
| — | FW | IND | Manandeep Singh (from Air India) |
| — | FW | IND | Cavin Lobo (from Mumbai) |
| — | DF | IND | Safar Sardar (from Mohammedan) |
| — | GK | IND | Priyant Singh (from Tollygunge Agragami) |
| — | FW | AUS | Andrew Barisić (from Arema) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | IND | Nirmal Chettri (to Mohun Bagan) |
| — | FW | AUS | Tolgay Özbey (to Mohun Bagan) |
| — | MF | IND | Sushanth Mathew (to Mohun Bagan) |
| — | FW | IND | Beingaichho Beokhokhai (to United Sikkim) |
| — | FW | IND | Budhiram Tudu (to United Sikkim) |
| — | GK | IND | Debjit Mazumdar (to Bhawanipore) |
| — | FW | IND | Nabin Hela (to Bhawanipore) |
| — | GK | IND | Sandip Nandy (to Churchill Brothers) |
| — | GK | IND | Abhra Mondal (to Pune) |
| — | DF | IND | Ravinder Singh (to Prayag United) |
| — | FW | IND | Biswarup Deb (to Techno Aryan) |
| — | DF | IND | Sunil Kumar (to Dodsal) |
| — | MF | IND | Khemtang Paite (on loan to Pune) |
| — | DF | IND | Safar Sardar (on loan to United Sikkim) |
| — | DF | IND | Abhishek Das (on loan to United Sikkim) |
| — | DF | IND | Jaspal Parmar (released) |
| — | FW | BRA | Edmilson (released) |
| — | FW | IND | Branco Cardozo (to Air India) |
| — | FW | IND | Seminlen Doungel (on loan to Pailan Arrows) |

## Squad
### First-team squad

    As of 19 January 2013.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | IND | Abhijit Mondal |
| 2 | DF | IND | Raju Gaikwad |
| 3 | DF | IND | Arnab Mondal |
| 4 | DF | NGA | Uga Okpara |
| 5 | DF | IND | Sunil Thakur |
| 6 | FW | IND | Baljit Sahni |
| 7 | MF | IND | Harmanjot Khabra |
| 8 | DF | IND | Naoba Singh |
| 9 | MF | IND | Alvito D'Cunha |
| 10 | FW | NGA | Chidi Edeh |
| 12 | MF | IND | Reisangmei Vashum |
| 14 | MF | IND | Mehtab Hossain |
| 15 | MF | IND | Sanju Pradhan (captain) |
| 16 | DF | IND | Gurwinder Singh |
| 18 | MF | NGA | Penn Orji |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | IND | Charan Rai |
| 21 | MF | IND | Lalrindika Ralte |
| 23 | FW | IND | Robin Singh |
| 24 | FW | IND | Cavin Lobo |
| 25 | DF | IND | Robert Lalthalma |
| 26 | FW | IND | Manandeep Singh |
| 28 | MF | IND | Jagpreet Singh |
| 27 | FW | AUS | Andrew Barisić |
| 29 | DF | IND | Saumik Dey |
| 30 | GK | IND | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu |
| 31 | GK | IND | Jayanta Paul |
| 32 | GK | IND | Priyant Kumar |
| 33 | DF | IND | Saikat Saha Roy |
| 34 | MF | IND | Subodh Kumar |
| 35 | MF | IND | Ishfaq Ahmed |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | DF | IND | Abhishek Das (at United Sikkim until the end of the 2012–13 season) |
| 33 | FW | IND | Safar Sardar (at United Sikkim until the end of the 2012–13 season) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | IND | Khemtang Paite (at Pune until the end of the 2012–13 season) |
| — | FW | IND | Seminlen Doungel (at Pailan Arrows until the end of the 2012–13 season) |

## Kit

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| Home | Away | Third |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | First match | Last match | Final position |
| Calcutta Football League | 17 August 2012 | 23 May 2013 | Champions |
| Federation Cup | 21 September 2012 | 30 September 2012 | Champions |
| I-League | 7 October 2012 | 12 May 2013 | 3rd |
| IFA Shield | 3 March 2013 | 20 March 2013 | Runners-up |
| AFC Cup | 27 February 2013 | 15 May 2013 | Quarter-Finals |
* ↑ Continued to the 2013-14 season.

### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Calcutta Football League | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 57 | 7 | +50 | 088.24 |
| Federation Cup | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 080.00 |
| I-League | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 44 | 18 | +26 | 050.00 |
| IFA Shield | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 060.00 |
| AFC Cup | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 7 | +11 | 071.43 |
| Total | 60 | 40 | 13 | 7 | 136 | 42 | +94 | 066.67 |
Last updated: 31 May 2013 Source: Competitions
* ↑ Includes two wins from Walkover given by Prayag United.

### Calcutta Football League
#### Table
##### Group A

2012–13 Calcutta Premier Division

##### Championship Stage

2012–13 Calcutta Premier Division

#### Fixtures & results

Win  Draw  Loss

##### Championship Stage
### Federation Cup
#### Group C

| Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| East Bengal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 |
| ONGC | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 |
| Sporting Goa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| Kalighat MS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 0 |

#### Summary

East Bengal entered the 2012 Indian Federation Cup automatically as they were already in the I-League. They were placed in Group C along with Sporting Clube de Goa, ONGC, and Kalighat MS and their matches were played in Siliguri. East Bengal experienced mixed fortunes at the start of the tournament as they drew their opening match 1–1 against Sporting Goa with new Nigerian signing Chidi Edeh scoring his first goal for the club in the 10th minute from the penalty spot. The club then won their first game of the season in their second match of the tournament on 23 September 2012 against ONGC F.C. in which East Bengal came back from 0–1 down to 2–1 winners after Edeh and other new signing, India international, Manandeep Singh scored two goals to gift Bengal the victory. East Bengal then confirmed promotion out of the group stage of the Federation Cup to the Semi-Finals after a remarkable come from behind victory in their last game at the group stage to Kalighat MS in which East Bengal came back from 2–0 to tie the score up at 2–2 through two goals from Manandeep Singh in the 26th and 30th minute but then East Bengal had to come from behind again after Kalighat took the lead again to go up 3–2 with Edeh scoring two goals to win the game for East Bengal 4–3 and send them to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals East Bengal took on Churchill Brothers and after finishing regulation time tied at 0–0 the match went into 30-minute extra-time where East Bengal would eventually take the lead from former Churchill Brothers youngster Lalrindika Ralte in the 111th minute of play which then allowed East Bengal to win the match 1–0 and send them to the final. Then in the final East Bengal found themselves down 1–0 after 51 minutes after their opponents, Dempo, scored through former India captain Climax Lawrence but East Bengal managed to equalize through newly signed defender Arnab Mondal in the 60th minute which would then send both clubs to 30-minute extra-time at 1–1 and that is where East Bengal start to show good form by scoring twice through Manandeep Singh in the 100th minute and Chidi Edeh in the 109th minute to give East Bengal a 3–1 lead which would then be cut down to a 3–2 after another former India international, Mahesh Gawli scored in the 111th minute but that was still enough for East Bengal to win the Federation Cup for the 2nd time in 3 years and their eighth overall.

#### Fixtures & results

Win  Draw  Loss

### I-League
#### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Churchill Brothers (C) | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 56 | 22 | +34 | 55 | Qualification for 2014 AFC Cup group stage |
| 2 | Pune | 26 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 53 | 26 | +27 | 52 | Qualification for 2014 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off |
| 3 | East Bengal | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 44 | 18 | +26 | 47 | |
| 4 | Prayag United | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 55 | 35 | +20 | 44 | |
| 5 | Dempo | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 45 | 33 | +12 | 40 | |
* ↑ Pune were chosen to represent India in the AFC Champions League as they passed the club licensing requirements.

#### Fixtures & results

Win  Draw  Loss

### IFA Shield
#### Group A

| Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| East Bengal | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 9 |
| Prayag United | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 6 |
| ONGC | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
| Pailan Arrows | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 0 |

#### Fixtures & results

Win  Draw  Loss

### AFC Cup

Due to East Bengal's 2012 Indian Federation Cup victory the club automatically qualified for the 2013 AFC Cup which is the 2nd tier Asian competition ran by the Asian Football Confederation. On 6 December 2012 the AFC made their official 2013 AFC Cup group-stage draw and East Bengal was placed in Group H along with reigning 2012 S.League champions Tampines Rovers of Singapore, Malaysia Super League third place team Selangor FA, and V-League third place team Saigon Xuan Thanh.

#### Table
##### Group H

| Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | KEB | SEL | SG | TPR |
| East Bengal | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 14 | | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Selangor | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 8 | 2–2 | | 3–1 | 3–3 |
| Sài Gòn Xuân Thành | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | −3 | 8 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 2–2 |
| Tampines Rovers | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | −5 | 2 | 2–4 | 2–3 | 2–3 | |

#### Fixtures & results

Win  Draw  Loss

## Statistics
### Appearances

    Players with no appearances are not included in the list.
Appearances for East Bengal in 2012–13 season :
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | CFL | CFL | I League | I League | Fed Cup | Fed Cup | IFA Shield | IFA Shield | AFC Cup | AFC Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts | Apps | Starts |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | | Abhijit Mondal | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 25 |
| 30 | GK | | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu | 10 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 33 | 31 |
| 31 | GK | | Jayanta Pal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | | Arnab Mondal | 4 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 28 |
| 4 | DF | | Uga Okpara | 8 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 44 | 42 |
| 8 | DF | | Naoba Singh | 7 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 41 | 35 |
| 29 | DF | | Soumik Dey | 8 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 42 | 40 |
| 2 | DF | | Raju Gaikwad | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 19 |
| 19 | DF | | Robert Lalthlamuana | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 17 |
| 16 | DF | | Gurwinder Singh | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 25 |
| 33 | DF | | Saikat Saha Roy | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | DF | | Sunil Kumar | 5 | 4 | | | | | | | | | 5 | 4 |
| 36 | DF | | Safar Sardar | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | DF | | Abhishek Das | 2 | 0 | | | | | | | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||||
| 18 | MF | | Penn Orji | 9 | 9 | 26 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 52 | 49 |
| 14 | MF | | Mehtab Hossain | 2 | 2 | 23 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 36 |
| 35 | MF | | Ishfaq Ahmed | 6 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 32 |
| 21 | MF | | Lalrindika Ralte | 11 | 9 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 47 | 32 |
| 7 | MF | | Harmanjot Khabra | 5 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 32 |
| 15 | MF | | Sanju Pradhan | 9 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 38 | 22 |
| 24 | MF | | Cavin Lobo | 14 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 16 |
| 12 | MF | | Reisangmei Vashum | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 9 |
| 34 | MF | | Subodh Kumar | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 14 |
| 9 | MF | | Alvito D'Cunha | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | | | | | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | | Sushanth Matthews | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | 4 | 2 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | FW | | Chidi Edeh | 6 | 5 | 26 | 25 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 45 |
| 26 | FW | | Manandeep Singh | 6 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 21 |
| 23 | FW | | Robin Singh | 8 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 14 |
| 27 | FW | | Andrew Barisić | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | | | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 25 | 16 |
| 6 | FW | | Baljit Singh Sahni | 12 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 19 |
| 38 | FW | | Semilen Doungel | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | 5 | 3 |
| 27 | FW | | Branco Vincent Cardozo | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | 1 | 0 |
* ↑ Does not include two Walkover matches against Prayag United.

### Goal scorers

Goals for East Bengal in 2012–13 season :
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | CFL | I League | Fed Cup | IFA Shield | AFC Cup | Total |
| 1 | 10 | FW | | Chidi Edeh | 6 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 38 |
| 2 | 6 | FW | | Baljit Singh Sahni | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 3 | 18 | MF | | Penn Orji | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | 21 | MF | | Lalrindika Ralte | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | 27 | FW | | Andrew Barisić | 5 | 1 | | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 26 | FW | | Manandeep Singh | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | 23 | FW | | Robin Singh | 5 | 3 | | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | 7 | MF | | Harmanjot Khabra | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | 15 | MF | | Sanju Pradhan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | 24 | MF | | Cavin Lobo | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | 14 | MF | | Mehtab Hossain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | 2 | DF | | Raju Gaikwad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 3 | DF | | Arnab Mondal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 12 | MF | | Reisangmei Vashum | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 34 | MF | | Subodh Kumar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 35 | MF | | Ishfaq Ahmed | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 38 | FW | | Semilen Doungel | 1 | 0 | | 0 | | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 51 | 42 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 128 |