2005–06 East Bengal FC season

The 2005–06 season was East Bengal's 10th season in the National Football League and 86th season in existence.

East Bengal

2005–06 season
President	Dr Pranab Dasgupta
Head-Coach	Subhash Bhowmick (until 2 December 2005) Bikash Panji[a] (until 15 December 2005) Philippe De Ridder (from 15 December 2005)
Ground	Salt Lake Stadium East Bengal Ground
National Football League	Runners-up
Calcutta Football League	Runners-up
Federation Cup	Quarter-Finals
IFA Shield	Group Stage
Durand Cup	Group Stage
Super Cup	Champions
Top goalscorer	League: Bhaichung Bhutia (12) All: Bhaichung Bhutia (12)
Home colours Away colours
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Competitions[]

Overall[]

Competition	First match	Last match	Final position
Calcutta Football League	31 July 2005	30 September 2005	Runners-Up
Federation Cup	19 October 2005	23 October 2005	Quarter-Finals
IFA Shield	24 November 2005	1 December 2005	Semi-Finals
Durand Cup	11 December 2005	13 December 2005	Group Stage
National Football League	10 January 2006	15 May 2006	Runners-Up
Super Cup	27 May 2006		Champions

Overview[]

Competition	Record
	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Calcutta Football League	14	11	1	2	25	7	+18	078.57
Federation Cup	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	050.00
IFA Shield	3	1	0	2	7	6	+1	033.33
Durand Cup	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	050.00
National Football League	17	9	4	4	25	16	+9	052.94
Super Cup	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	100.00
Total	39	24	6	9	65	33	+32	061.54

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Calcutta Football League[]

East Bengal finished the 2005 Calcutta Premier Division as runner-up with 34 points from 14 matches, 6 points behind champions Mohun Bagan.^[2]

Fixtures & results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

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Federation Cup[]

East Bengal started the Federation Cup campaign in the Pre-Quarter Finals against Air India and won 3–1 with goals from Sydney Nkalanga, Dipankar Roy and Mike Okoro. Syed Rahim Nabi scored an own-goal in the dying minutes to give consolation to Air India.^[3] In the quarter-final, however, East Bengal lost to Churchill Brothers in the sudden-death after the game ended 0–0 after 120 minutes.^[4]

Fixtures & results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

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IFA Shield[]

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
East Bengal	2	1	0	1	6	4	+2	3
Mohammedan Sporting	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
Mohun Bagan	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2	3

East Bengal was grouped alongside the other two Kolkata Giants Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting in Group A. East Bengal lost 2–3 against Mohammedan Sporting in the opening game.^[5] However, in the second game, against arch-rivals Mohun Bagan, East Bengal registered a 4–1 win with goals from Chandan Das, Mike Okoro and a brace from Alvito D'Cunha.^[6] In the semi-finals, East Bengal faced EverReady and surprisingly lost 2–1 with Chibueze Francis Maduako scoring a brace for EverReady after Kalia Kulothungan put East Bengal ahead in the 3rd minute.^[7][8]

Fixtures & results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

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Durand Cup[]

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
JCT	2	2	0	0	6	1	+5	6
East Bengal	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3
HAL	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0

East Bengal was grouped alongside JCT and HAL in Group D. East Bengal won 2–0 against HAL in the opening fixture withgoals from RC Prakash and Jatin Singh Bisht.^[9] However, they lost 1–2 against JCT as they were eliminated from the group stages.^[10][11]

Fixtures & results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

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National Football League[]

League table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mahindra United	17	11	3	3	27	13	+14	36	Champions
2	East Bengal	17	9	4	4	25	16	+9	31
3	Mohun Bagan	17	8	6	3	17	10	+7	30
4	Goa	17	6	7	4	24	16	+8	25
5	Dempo	17	6	7	4	29	22	+7	25

Fixtures & results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Void

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Super Cup[]

Since Mahindra United won both the 2005-06 National Football League and the 2005 Federation Cup, National League runner-up East Bengal faced them in the 2006 Indian Super Cup and won 2–1 with goals from Ndem Guy Herve and Alvito D'Cunha.^[13]

Fixtures & results[]

  Win   Draw   Loss

Statistics[]

Appearances[]

Players with no appearances are not included in the list.

Appearances for East Bengal in 2005–06 season
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL		NFL		Fed Cup		IFA Shield		Durand Cup		Super Cup		Total
				Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Naseem Akhtar	4	4	8	8			2	2	2	2			16	16
21	GK		Abhra Mondal	4	4	2	2			1	1					7	7
24	GK		Rajat Ghosh Dastidar	7	6	7	7	2	2					1	1	17	16
Defenders
2	DF		Muttah Suresh	5	4	6	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	18	15
5	DF		Habibur Rehman Mondal	4	4	3	2					2	2			9	8
12	DF		Arun Malhotra	7	7			1	1	1	1					9	9
12	DF		Anupam Sarkar			15	15									15	15
16	DF		Covan Lawrence	11	10	11	11	2	2	3	3	2	2	1	0	30	28
17	DF		Surya Bikash Chakraborty	4	4	1	1									5	5
22	DF		Debabrata Roy	5	5	10	3	2	2	1	1			1	1	19	12
26	DF		Ngassa Guy Martial			12	12							1	1	13	13
27	DF		Gurpreet Singh	4	4					3	2					7	6
29	DF		Saumik Dey	11	11	11	11	1	1	2	2	2	2			27	27
	DF		Debkumar Sashmal	7	5											7	5
	DF		Debjit Ghosh	7	6					2	1					9	7
Midfielders
6	MF		Dipankar Roy	7	7	9	0	2	1	1	1			1	0	20	9
7	MF		Jayanta Sen	6	3	15	15							1	1	22	19
8	MF		Sasthi Duley	8	8	10	5			3	3			1	1	22	17
9	MF		Alvito D'Cunha	7	6	12	7	1	1	2	2			1	1	23	17
11	MF		Kalia Kulothungan	8	4	10	8			3	1			1	0	22	13
14	MF		Chandan Das	7	2					2	2	1	1			10	5
18	MF		Tushar Rakshit	3	0											3	0
19	MF		Syed Rahim Nabi	12	11	15	14	2	2					1	1	30	28
20	MF		Ndem Guy Herve			13	13							1	1	14	14
27	MF		Amandeep Singh	1	1	1	1									2	2
28	MF		Shylo Malsawmtluanga	10	7	17	17	1	0	3	1	1	1	1	1	33	27
30	MF		Bernard Pires	5	5	3	0	1	1	2	2	2	2			13	10
32	MF		Gouranga Dutta	3	1	11	7							1	1	15	9
	MF		Jatin Singh Bisht	11	8			2	2			1	1			14	11
	MF		Sandip Das	5	5											5	5
	MF		Liswa Nduti					2	1	1	0	2	2			5	3
Forwards
10	FW		Mike Okoro	2	1	9	6	2	2	3	3	2	2			18	14
12	FW		I.M. Vijayan	5	3			2	0							7	3
15	FW		Bhaichung Bhutia			16	16									16	16
25	FW		R.C. Prakash	8	6	2	2			1	0	2	1			13	9
	FW		Sydney Nkalanga					2	2	3	3	2	2			7	7

Goal scorers[]

Goals for East Bengal in 2005–06 season
Rank	No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL	NFL	Fed Cup	IFA Shield	Durand Cup	Super Cup	Total
1	15	FW		Bhaichung Bhutia		12					12
2	19	MF		Syed Rahim Nabi	8	3	0	0	0	0	11
3	9	MF		Alvito D'Cunha	2	0	0	2	0	1	5
	10	FW		Mike Okoro	1	1	1	1	1	0	5
5	28	MF		Shylo Malsawmtluanga	2	1	0	1	0	0	4
6	6	MF		Dipankar Roy	1	1	1	0	0	0	3
	12	FW		I.M. Vijayan	3		0	0	0		3
	20	MF		Ndem Guy Herve		2				1	3
9	11	MF		Kalia Kulothungan	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
	14	MF		Chandan Das	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
	22	DF		Debabrata Roy	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
	25	FW		R.C. Prakash	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
	32	MF		Gouranga Dutta	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
14	7	MF		Jayanta Sen	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
	8	MF		Sasthi Duley	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	12	DF		Arun Malhotra	1		0	0	0	0	1
	29	DF		Saumik Dey	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	30	MF		Bernard Pires	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
		FW		Sydney Nkalanga			1	0	0		1
		MF		Jatin Singh Bisht	0		0	0	1	0	1
Own goals					1	1	0	0	0	0	2
Total					25	25	3	7	3	2	65

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