List of East Bengal FC records and statistics

East Bengal is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which competes in Indian Super League, the top tier of Indian football. The club was formed when the vice-president of Jorabagan, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, resigned when 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 when they were about to face Mohun Bagan in the Cooch Behar Cup semi-final on 28 July 1920. He along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal, in Jorabagan home of Suresh Chandra on 1 August 1920; 99 years ago. East Bengal started playing in the Calcutta Football League 2nd division from 1921 and in 1925 they qualified for the first division for the first time and since then they have won numerous titles in Indian Football.
East Bengal joined the National Football League since its inception in 1996 and is the only club to play all seasons till date, even after its name changed to I-League in 2007. East Bengal have won the National Football League thrice: 2000–01, 2002–03 and 2003–04, and became runners-up 7 times, the most of any Indian clubs. Among other trophies, East Bengal have won the Calcutta Football League 39 times, IFA Shield 29 times, Federation Cup 8 times and the Durand Cup 16 times. East Bengal holds the joint-record for most Quintuples (5 trophies) in Club football, having 3 to their name.
On 28 July 1920, Mohun Bagan was scheduled to play Jorabagan in the Cooch Behar 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, named after the region they hailed from. East Bengal Club played their first match in the 1920 Hercules Cup, which was a 7-a-side tournament that they won. After the tournament, the club became affiliated with the Indian Football Association. They won their first-ever full tournament in 1921, lifting the Khogendra Shield. The red and gold brigade qualified for the Calcutta Football League 1st division in 1925. They won their first 1st title in 1942. East Bengal won their first IFA Shield in 1943. In 1945, East Bengal won their first double of winning both Calcutta Football League and IFA Shield. From 1949 to 1951, East Bengal became the first team to make a hat-trick of wins in IFA Shield. In 1970, the club defeated Asian giants PAS Tehran to win the IFA Shield trophy. In 1972, East Bengal won Calcutta Football League, IFA Shield, Durand Cup and Rovers Cup in a single season, thus becoming the first team to do so. In 1972, East Bengal also made a record of being the first and till date only Indian team winning the Calcutta Football League without conceding a single goal, which they again repeated in 1991. In 1973, the club defeated Pyongyang City SC to lift the IFA Shield title and went on to defeat another North Korean team Dok Ro Gang to lift the DCM Trophy in the same season. In 1975, East Bengal broke the record by winning the Calcutta Football League consecutively for the 6th time (1970–75), bettering the record held by Mohammedan Sporting of winning it 5 times (1934–38). In 1975, East Bengal also created history as they defeated their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan by a record margin of 5–0, which is still being held today, in the IFA Shield final at the Mohun Bagan Ground. In 1976, East Bengal made a record of winning the IFA Shield 5 times in a row. In 1978, East Bengal participated in the Federation Cup for the first time and became joint champions with Mohun Bagan. In 1985, East Bengal won the Federation Cup and qualified for Asian Club Championships for the first time. East Bengal won the Coca-Cola Cup held in Colombo as a preliminary tournament for Central Asia Zone, and reached the group stages held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 1991 East Bengal qualified for the Asian Cup Winners' Cup for the first time and reached the quarter-finals. In 1993, East Bengal won their second tournament on foreign soil as they won the Wai Wai Cup in Nepal. In 2000–01, East Bengal won their maiden NFL title, winning it again in 2002-03 and 2003–04. In 2003, they won a major international trophy at Jakarta when they defeated BEC Tero Sasana to lift the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship. The club won their third trophy outside of India when they defeated South Korean Hannam University to lift the San Miguel Cup in Nepal. Between 2007 and 2012, East Bengal won the Federation Cup 4 times (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012). From 2010 to 2017, East Bengal again bettered their own record as they won the Calcutta Football League for 8 consecutive times.
In 2020, the club joined the Indian Super League and rebranded as SC East Bengal. They finished ninth in their debut season, having won three of the twenty league matches. The team finished eleventh, at the bottom in the 2021–22 season, winning just one game in the entire campaign. In 2022, the club rebranded itself as East Bengal FC and finished ninth again, having won six of the twenty league matches. In 2024, East Bengal won the Super Cup defeating Odisha in the final to break a twelve-year wait for a national cup trophy.
East Bengal Club has won honours both domestically and in international competitions. They have won the National Football League title 3 times and the Federation Cup 8 times. They also won the Calcutta Football League a record 39 times and the IFA Shield a record 29 times. Till date, the club has won more than 150 trophies which are listed below:
Competitive, professional matches only.
The list of players with the most appearances in the Indian Super League for East Bengal. Indian midfielder Naorem Mahesh Singh holds the record with 78 total appearances with 69 from the starting line-up for the club.
The list of players with the most number of appearances in the I-League era for East Bengal, starting from 2007-08 I-League till 2019-20 I-League before the Red and Gold brigade moved into Indian Super League. Indian former International and former East Bengal captain Mehtab Hossain holds the record for the most appearances for the East Bengal having made 175 total appearances with 165 starts.
East Bengal club holds the record among Indian clubs to produce most players to have represented the national team in the Olympic Games.
The fees in the record transfer tables below are all sourced from news portals that cover Indian football.
Below is the list of the 5 most successful East Bengal head-coaches as per most honours won:
Top scorers for East Bengal in each season: Current season
Top scorers for East Bengal in each season:
List of all hat-tricks for East Bengal in the NFL and I-League:
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East Bengal has 4 W/O wins over Mohun Bagan and Mohun Bagan has 3 W/O wins over East Bengal as of 2 September 2024.
East Bengal also has a minor rivalry against another giant from Kolkata — Mohammedan SC. The rivalry started in the mid—1930s when Mohammedan won five consecutive Calcutta Football League titles between 1934 and 1938, while East Bengal finished runner-up in three of those seasons. East Bengal managed to overtake Mohammedan and bettered their record in the 1970s by winning the league for six consecutive seasons from 1970 to 1975. In 1980, the rivalry took another fresh revival as thirteen East Bengal players moved to Mohammedan in a mass exodus from the club. However, East Bengal still managed to build a strong team and eventually win the 1980 Rovers Cup jointly with Mohammedan after the game ended 1–1. In the 1990s, East Bengal slowly moved the tide to their favour as the National Football League started and East Bengal remains unbeaten against Mohammedan in the top-tier league in India till date.
Apart from AFC tournaments, East Bengal club have participated in several invitational tournaments on foreign soil and have been victorious on three occasions.