2015–16 East Bengal F.C. season

East Bengal F.C.

2015–16 season
Manager	Biswajit Bhattacharya
Stadium	Salt Lake Stadium Barasat Stadium East Bengal Ground
I-League	Pre-season
Calcutta Premier Division	Champions
Top goalscorer	League: All: Do Dong-hyun (12)
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The 2015-16 season is the club's 95th season in existence. The club has already won the Calcutta Football League this season and became the runners of 2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup.

Pre-Season Overview

The club signed Do Dong-hyun, a South Korean attacking mid-fielder to support the stricking part. With the arrival of veteran defender Bello Razaq from Mohun Bagan, the team became stronger and the Red and Gold Brigade are hoping to seal the CFL championship and set another hexa record. With the help of recent performances, The Club clinched to the 74th spot in the recent AFC Club Ranking, the highest among all Indian football clubs.

Season Overview

August

The club started their Calcutta Football League campaign on 8 August by beating SVF Tollygunge Agragami FC by 1-0. In the next match, against Aryan F.C., the club managed a draw, the only draw of this CFL campaign. Then they went on winning all the matches against Bengal Nagpur Railway, Army XI, Mohammedan S.C. (Kolkata), Police AC and Sports Authority of India.

September

Maintaining their winning streak of August, East Bengal started their September by beating Kalighat Milan Sangha F.C. by 4-3. This fixture was their toughest in this campaign as at a time, the team was trailing by 0-2 and then they managed to win it.
The next fixture of the club was a prestigious Kolkata Derby against their arch rivals Mohun Bagan in which the team managed an easy 4-0 win with two stunning free kicks by Do Dong-hyun, the top scorer of the club, one of which came in just after 82 seconds from the kick off. This win sealed their league victory and their 118th win against their arch rivals. Moreover, it was clubs 6th consecutive CFL championship which is itself a record and they hold a similar 6 consecutive CFL League wins between the period 1970-75.
The last fixture was against Southern Samity on 10 September. East Bengal with their reserved squad managed to win it and became the unbeatable champions of this CFL. Do Dong-hyun became the top scorer of both the club and the CFL.

October

The club went to play an imternational tournament in Bangladesh named 2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup. The team draw set East Bengal in Group B on the fixture of this tour. Due to the absence of almost all the main and first team players of the club (all out on loan in different clubs of Indian Super League), the junior and reserve bench players had taken part in it. The club brought Orok Essien and Subodh Kumar on loan for the tournament. East Bengal started off well by defeating Bangladesh club Abahani Limited (Chittagong) by 2-1 on 21st Oct 2015. Young Prohlad scored on the match along with Mohammed Rafique. After that the most important player of midfield, Do Dong-hyun, had a knee injury which couldn't let him play for the rest of the tour. The club kept on its winning streak by defeating the current best club of Pakistan K-Electric F.C. by a comfortable margin of 3-1. Then the club had its first draw of the tournament which was against Abahani Limited (Dhaka). Then the club went into to semis where they defeated (on 28th oct 2015) Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka) by 3-0 to enter into the final. Ranti Martins scored a couple on the semis. On 30th Oct 2015, East Bengal FC played the final against Abahani Limited (Chittagong) once again after the very first match. But the young brigade couldnot seal the victory at the end in spite of taking a lead on the 9th minute by the goal scored by Avinabo Bag.This time East Bengal lost to the Bangladeshi club by 1-3. The brilliant performance of the junior players throughout the tournament came to an end with the defeat in final match. But the fight of the junior brigade were appreciated whole heartedly by the supporters of the club.

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Name	Signed from	Month	Ref.
21	MF	Do Dong-hyun	Free Agent	N/A
6	DF	Bello Razaq	Mohun Bagan	June
43	FW	Orok Essien (on loan)		October
	MF	Subodh Kumar (on loan)	SVF Tollygunge Agragami FC	October

Out

Pos.	Name	Sold to	Month	Ref.
DF	Safar Sardar	Mohun Bagan	N/A
MF	Raju Gaikwad	Mohun Bagan	N/A

Kit

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Home

Away

Squad

Updation needed

Technical Staff

Position	Name
Chief Coach	Biswajit Bhattacharya
Assistant Coach	Debjit Ghosh
Goalkeeping Coach	Sanjay Majhi
Defence Coach	Sammy Omollo
Physiotherapist	Rajesh Basak
Club Doctor	Dr. Santiranjan Dasgupta
Team Manager	Manish Banerjee
Team Media Officer	Gautam Roy

Statistics

Calcutta Football League Stats

  Win   Draw   Loss

Last Updated: 12 September 2015

2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup Stats

  Win   Draw   Loss

Last Updated: 3 November 2015

I-League Stats

  Win   Draw   Loss

Last Updated: 12 September 2015

Goal Scorers

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL	Sheikh Kamal Cup	I-League	AFC Cup	AFC Champions League	Total
21	FW		Do Dong-hyun	12	-	-	-		12
8	MF		Mohammed Rafique	3	3	-	-		6
10	FW		Ranti Martins	1	3	4	-		8
5	DF		Rahul Bheke	3	-	-	-		3
7	MF		Harmanjot Khabra	2	-	-	-		2
34	MF		Abhinas Ruidas	1	-	-	-		1
43	MF		Orok Essien		1	-	-		1
6	MF		Bello Razaq	1	-	-	-		1
14	DF		Mehtab Hossain	1	-	-	-		1
29	DF		Saumik Dey	1	-	-	-		1
40	MF		Prohlad Roy	1	1	-	-		1
22	MF		Avinabo Bag		1	-	-		1
23	MF		Bikash Jairu		-	2	-		2

Competitions

Overall

Last Updated: 3 November 2015

Overview

Last updated: 3 November 2015
Source: Competitions

I-League

Table

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

See also

• 2015–16 in Indian football