2003–04 East Bengal FC season

East Bengal

season
Chairman	Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Manager	Subhash Bhowmick
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium
National Football League	Champions[1]
Calcutta Premier Division	Champions[2]
Federation Cup	Quarter Finals[3]
Super Cup	Runners-up[4]
ASEAN Cup	Champions
Durand Cup	Runners-up[5]
IFA Shield	Runners-up[6]
← 2002–03  →

The 2003–04 season was East Bengal Football Club's 8th season in the National Football League, and also marked the club's 84th season. East Bengal successfully defended their league title from the previous season, competing in the 2003-04 NFL. They have also won the 2003 Calcutta Football League and the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship. They became runners-up in the 2003 Super Cup, 2003 Durand Cup and 2003 IFA Shield.

First-team squad[]

East Bengal FC squad for the 2003–04 season.^[7]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Sangram Mukherjee 2 DF  IND M Suresh 3 DF  IND Deepak Mondal 4 DF  IND Mahesh Gawli 5 MF  IND Malsawmtluanga 6 MF  IND Kulothungan 8 MF  IND Sasthi Duley 9 MF  IND Alvito D'Cunha 10 FW  NGA Mike Okoro 11 FW  IND Bijen Singh 12 FW  IND Bhaichung Bhutia 13 GK  IND Sandip Nandy 14 MF  IND Chandan Das 15 MF  BRA Douglas Silva

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  IND Debjit Ghosh 17 DF  IND Surkumar Singh (c) 18 MF  IND Subhash Chakraborty 19 FW  IND Raman Vijayan 22 DF  NGA Suley Musah 26 FW  BRA Cristiano Júnior — GK  IND Arpan Dey — GK  IND Jitu Chhetri — DF  IND Surya Bikash Chakraborty — DF  IND Subhashish Roy Choudhury — DF  IND Anit Ghosh — MF  IND Dipankar Roy — MF  IND Sujoy Dutta — MF  IND Arunava Sarkar — MF  IND Tushar Rakshit

• Coach: Subhash Bhowmick^[7]
• Physical Trainer: Kevin Jackson
• Team Doctor: Dr. S R Dasgupta
• Team Manager: Swapan Ball

Stadiums[]

Kingfisher East Bengal F.C. have been using both the Salt Lake Stadium and the East Bengal Ground sense Salt Lake Stadium opened in 1984. As of today the Salt Lake Stadium is used for East Bengal's I-League, AFC Cup, and Federation Cup games. The East Bengal Ground is used for the Calcutta Football League matches.

Competitions[]

Overall[]

Competition	First match	Last match	Final Position
Calcutta Football League	20 June 2003	2 November 2003	Champions
ASEAN Cup	14 July 2003	26 July 2003	Champions
Federation Cup	31 July 2003	4 August 2003	Quarter Finals
IFA Shield	20 September 2003	28 September 2003	Runners-up
Durand Cup	4 November 2003	10 November 2003	Runners-up
Super Cup	14 November 2003		Runners-up
National Football League	30 November 2003	12 May 2004	Champions

Matches[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

Calcutta Football League[]

ASEAN Club Championship[]

Federation Cup[]

IFA Shield[]

Durand Cup[]

Super Cup[]

National Football League[]

Statistics[]

Top Scorers[]

Goal Scorers for East Bengal FC in 2003–04 season
Rank	No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL	ASEAN	Fed Cup	IFA Shield	Durand Cup	Super Cup	NFL	Total
1	12	FW		Bhaichung Bhutia	9	9	0	0	2	0	12	32
2	10	FW		Mike Okoro	10	1	0	0	3	0	3	17
3	26	FW		Cristiano Júnior	—	—	—	—	—	—	15	15
4	22	DF		Suley Musah	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	10
5	6	MF		Dipankar Roy	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	8
6	11	FW		Bijen Singh	2	1	2	3	0	0	0	6
7	9	MF		Alvito D'Cunha	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	5
	15	MF		Douglas De Silva	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	5
	5	MF		Shylo Malsawmtluanga	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	5
				Own Goals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Sponsors[]

• Main Sponsor: Kingfisher (Parent Company United Breweries Group is 50% stake holder in the club).

References[]