11/23/2023 0 Comments Giant jenga fail![]() The initial players to play for the club were Girin Basu, Pramatha Nath Chattopadhyay, Sachin Bandhyopadhyay, Ram Goswami, Sarat Mitra, Hem Nath Sen, Nalin Basu, Upen Ghosh, Manindra Nath Basu, Manomoham Pandey, Probhas Mitra, and the captain Manilal Sen. ĭuring the initial years, the meager ground inside the palace was used by the club for hosting matches, including their first match that was played against the team of Eden Hindu Hostel students, and lost 1–0. Bhupendra Nath Basu became the first president of the newly founded club and Jyotindra Nath Basu was the first secretary of it. On 15 August 1889, after a meeting of three prominent aristocratic Bengali families of North Kolkata – the Mitra family, the Basu family, and the Sen family – presided over by Bhupendra Nath Basu himself, Mohun Bagan Sporting Club was formed. The foundation of Mohun Bagan AC stretches back into the 1880s when the neighborhood youth of presently known Fariapukur Lane in Shyambazar had set out in search for an ideal place to establish a football club, and came across a marble palace, Mohun Bagan Villa, owned by the family of a leading jute trader, Kirti Chandra Mitra. History Formation and early years (1880s) Bhupendra Nath Bose, the first President of the club In its 130th year of existence, the club was inducted into the " Club of Pioneers", a network of the oldest existing football clubs around the world, on 29 July 2019. Mohun Bagan was one of the founding members of National Football League in 1996, and has never been relegated from the top-tier league of the country. The club annually contests in Asia's oldest rivalry, the Kolkata Derby, against its long-time local rival East Bengal Club, with the first derby match being played on 8 August 1921. From the 2023–24 season, team was rebranded as Mohun Bagan Super Giants. Īfter Kolkata Games and Sports Private Limited, the company that owned ATK FC, took an 80% stake in the football division of Mohun Bagan in 2020, it came to be known as ATK Mohun Bagan FC for sponsorship purpose. The club had also won several other trophies, including the Durand Cup (17 times), the IFA Shield (22 times), the Rovers Cup (14 times) and the Calcutta Football League (30 times). They are one of the most successful Indian clubs in the history of the Federation Cup, having won the championship a record 14 times. Till now the club has won the top-flight football league a record six times - National Football League thrice, I-League twice and Indian Super League once. This victory made Mohun Bagan the first all-Indian club to win a championship over a British club and was a major moment during India's push for independence. ![]() ![]() The club is most notable for its victory over the East Yorkshire Regiment in the 1911 IFA Shield final. The football division, currently named Mohun Bagan Super Giant due to ownership reasons, competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football league system. Founded in 1889 primarily as a football centred club, it is one of the oldest clubs in Asia. Mohun Bagan Athletic Club (commonly referred to as Mohun Bagan) is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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