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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1945 IFA Shield final
| image = 1945 IFA Shield Final - East bengal captain P chakraborty and Mohun Bagan captain Anil Dey.png
| caption = East Bengal captain Paritosh Chakravarti and Mohun Bagan captain Anil Dey before the start of the match
| event = [[IFA Shield|1945 IFA Shield]]
| team1 = [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
| team1score = 1
| team2 = [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
| team2score = 0
| details =
| date = 9 August 1945
| stadium = [[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]]
| city = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| man_of_the_match1a =
| referee = Segt. McBride
| attendance =
| weather =
| previous = 1944
| next = 1947
}}

The '''1945 IFA Shield final''' was the 53rd final of the [[IFA Shield]], the second oldest football competition in [[India]], and was contested between Kolkata giants [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] and [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]] on 9 August 1945 at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]] in Kolkata.

East Bengal won the final 1–0 to claim their 2nd IFA Shield title. [[Fred Pugsley]] scored the only goal of the match in the second half as East Bengal lifted their second IFA Shield title.<ref name=rsssf>{{cite web|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|date=10 October 2022|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-ifahist.html|title=India - List of IFA Shield Finals|work=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|accessdate=18 November 2022}}</ref>

==Route to the final==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan="2"| [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
!Round
!colspan="2"| [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|- style="background:#C1E0FF"
|Opponent
|colspan="1"|Result
|Round
|Opponent
|colspan="1"|Result
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Barisal F.A.
|colspan="1"|2–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Second Round
|style="text-align:left"|B & A Railway
|colspan="1"|2–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Hyderabad City Police FC|Hyderabad Police]]
|colspan="1"|2–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Third Round
|style="text-align:left"|[[Wari Club Dhaka]]
|colspan="1"|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Bogra Town
|colspan="1"|3–1
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bhawanipore FC|Bhawanipore]]
|colspan="1"|2–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Kalighat Milan Sangha FC|Kalighat]]
|colspan="1"|2–1
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Calcutta Cricket and Football Club|Calcutta F.C.]]
|colspan="1"|1–0
|-
|}

==Match==
===Summary===
The IFA Shield final began at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]] in Kolkata on 9 August 1945 in front of a packed crowd as Kolkata giants [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] and [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]] faced each other in a [[Kolkata Derby]] for the first time ever in a major tournament final. East Bengal reached their fourth consecutive final, having lost the previous one to [[Eastern Railway FC|Eastern Bengal Railway]] in 1944. Mohun Bagan also made their fourth appearance in the final after having lost the previous two in 1923 and 1940, being champions in 1911, after they defeated [[Calcutta Cricket and Football Club|Calcutta F.C.]] 1–0 in the semi-final.<ref name=rsssf/>

East Bengal however, were dominant from the start as they created multiple scoring opportunities with their forward line consisting of [[Fred Pugsley]], Appa Rao, Sunil Ghosh, Swami Nayar, and T. Kar constantly creating pressure on the Mohun Bagan defense. The Mohun Bagan custodian D. Sen made a few excellent saves to keep them in the match however, it was in the sixteenth minute of the second half when a powerful attempt by Sunil Ghosh got deflected of a defender and fell onto the feet of Pugsley, who scored with a powerful right footed shot to make in 1–0. Mohun Bagan did get a few chances in the dying minutes of the match but East Bengal goalkeeper A. Mukherjee managed to keep a clean sheet as East Bengal lifted their second IFA Shield title.<ref name=final>{{cite news |date=10 August 1945 |title=EAST BENGAL ANNEX I.F.A. SHIELD |language=en |work=Amrita Bazar Patrika }}</ref><ref name=final1>{{cite news |date=10 August 1945 |title=ইস্টবেঙ্গল দলের দ্বিতীয়বার আই এফ এ শিল্ড বিজয় |trans-title=East Bengal are the IFA Shield Champions for the second time |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Debayan|last=Sen|date=1 August 2020|url=https://www.espn.in/football/east-bengal/story/4139529/a-century-of-excellence-east-bengals-greatest-hits|title=A century of excellence: East Bengal's greatest hits|work=ESPN|accessdate=18 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Jaydeep|last=Basu|date=15 April 2020|url=https://www.newsclick.in/fred-pugsley-anglo-burmese-refugee-who-helped-shape-east-bengal-mohun-bagan-rivalry|title=Fred Pugsley: The Anglo-Burmese Refugee Who Helped Shape the East Bengal-Mohun Bagan Rivalry|work=News Click|accessdate=19 November 2022}}</ref>

===Details===
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|time=14:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|report=
|team2=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|score= 1–0
|goals1=[[Fred Pugsley|Pugsley]] {{goal|41}}
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]], [[Kolkata]]
|attendance=30,000 (est.)
|referee=Segt. McBride}}

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{| width="100%"
|valign="top" width="40%"|
{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
|colspan="4"|
|-
!width="25"| !!width="25"|
|-
|GK || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Amitabha Mukherjee
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|British India}} N. Guha
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Paritosh Chakravarti ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Dhirendranath Chanda
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|British India}} [[S. M. Kaiser]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Mahabir Prasad (footballer)|Mohabir Prasad]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Titu Kar
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} M. Apparao
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British Burma}} [[Fred Pugsley]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Sunil Ghosh
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Swami Nayar
|-
|}
|valign="top"|
|valign="top" width="50%"|
{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center
|colspan="4"|
|-
!width="25"| !!width="25"|
|-
|GK || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Dwipen Sen
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Sarat Das
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Sailen Manna]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Anil Dey ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Talimeren Ao]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Dwipen Sen
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Nirmal Chatterjee
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Butchi
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Bijon Bose
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Nimu Bose
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|British India}} Nirmal Mukherjee
|-
|}
|}

{| width=100% style="font-size: 90%"

|style="width:60%; vertical-align:top;"|
'''Match rules'''
*50 minutes.
*Joint winners if both finals ends in a draw
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-ifahist.html IFA Shield Finals]

{{IFA Shield}}
{{East Bengal Club}}
{{Mohun Bagan Super Giant}}

[[Category:IFA Shield finals]]
[[Category:1945–46 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:Mohun Bagan Super Giant matches]]
[[Category:Football competitions in Kolkata]]

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