page_title: Mohun Bagan Ground
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mohun Bagan Ground / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Mohun Bagan Athletic Club Ground and gallery in Kolkata
context_page_description: Mohun Bagan Ground is a football stadium located in the maidan region of central Kolkata, just opposite the Eden Gardens stadium. The stadium is owned by Mohun Bagan and ATK Mohun Bagan, who use the stadium as their training ground. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 spectators at present. The club offices of Mohun Bagan are adjacent to the stadium. This ground is mainly used by Mohun Bagan and ATK Mohun Bagan for Calcutta Football League matches against smaller and local Kolkata sides.
context_section_description: The first ground of the club was inside the famous marble palace, owned by Kirti Mitra of the Mitra family and known as Mohun Bagan Villa. It was situated in Fariapukur lane of north Kolkata. As a football ground however, this ground was not sufficiently large.
  It is believed that Mohun Bagan played the first match on this very ground against the students of Eden Hindu hostel. In 1891, with the help of the Maharaja of Shyampukur, Durga Charan Laha, the club ground was relocated to his ground in Shyampukur. That place is now known as Shyampukur Laha Colony. Later, with the help of Mr. Harry Lee, the chairman of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, the ground was again shifted to Shyam Square. The ground was shared with the Aryan F.C. and Bagbazar Club.
  In 1900, Mohun Bagan became the partner of Presidency College and shared the same ground in Kolkata maidan. Mohun Bagan continued to play here for 15 years. Then in 1915, Mohun Bagan got the ground of National AC. On this ground, Mohun Bagan played till 1963. In 1915, that ground was stretched east–west. But afterwards, it became north–south stretched like the other club grounds in Kolkata. Presently, that ground is occupied by one of the oldest clubs of Kolkata, Aryan F.C., who shares the ground with East Bengal.
caption: Mohun Bagan Club gallery
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