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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1949 IFA Shield final
| image =
| caption =
| event = [[IFA Shield|1949 IFA Shield]]
| team1 = [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
| team1score = 2
| team2 = [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
| team2score = 0
| details =
| date = 15 September 1949
| stadium = [[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]]
| city = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| man_of_the_match1a =
| referee = Major F. Upfold
| attendance = 15,000<ref name=indianexpress/>
| weather =
| previous = 1948
| next = [[1950 IFA Shield final|1950]]
}}

The '''1949 IFA Shield final''' was the 56th 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 15 September 1949 at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]] in Kolkata.

East Bengal won the final 2–0 to claim their 3rd IFA Shield title. [[Pansanttom Venkatesh]] and [[Ahmed Khan (footballer)|Ahmed Khan]] scored the two goals as East Bengal lifted their third 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><ref name=indianexpress>{{cite web|author=PTI|date=16 September 1949|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mgFFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZLcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1240%2C6855297|title=E. BENGAL WIN I. F. A. SHIELD|work=The Indian Express|accessdate=22 December 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"|[[Eastern Railway FC|Eastern India Railway]]
|colspan="1"|2–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Second Round
|style="text-align:left"|[[Kalighat Milan Sangha FC|Kalighat]]
|colspan="1"|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Raisina Sporting
|colspan="1"|4–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Third Round
|style="text-align:left"|Rajasthan
|colspan="1"|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Silchar Town
|colspan="1"|6–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Mohammedan S.C. (Kolkata)|Mohammedan Sporting]]
|colspan="1"|2–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Maharana Club
|colspan="1"|8–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[New Delhi Heroes FC|New Delhi Heroes]]
|colspan="1"|4–1
|-
|}

==Match==
===Summary===
The IFA Shield final began at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]] in Kolkata on 15 September 1949 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]]. East Bengal reached their sixth final, having won twice in 1943 and 1945, after defeating Maharana Club 8–0 in the semi-final. Mohun Bagan, the two-time defending champions, made their fourth consecutive appearance in the final after they defeated [[New Delhi Heroes FC|New Delhi Heroes]] 4–1 in the semi-final.<ref name=rsssf/>

Mohun Bagan was the first to attack in the very first minute as [[Runu Guha Thakurta]] passed to Selim and the latter set Rashid on move with a backpass but [[Taj Mohammed (footballer)|Taj Mohammed]] intercepted the attack near the East Bengal goal. Selim got another chance immediately after but he shot wide after being played through by Nayar. East Bengal slowly got back into the game and made their first attack in the seventh minute as [[P. B. A. Saleh]] shot over the bar after receiving a pass from [[Pansanttom Venkatesh]]. East Bengal opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute after Apparao provided a forward pass to Venkatesh, who sped away from two defenders and beat Mohun Bagan custodian D. Sen with a left-footed shot to make it 1–0. In the twenty-third minute, East Bengal doubled the lead, after Saleh rolled the ball to [[Ahmed Khan (footballer)|Ahmed Khan]] who sent an angular shot into the net through a number of legs to make it 2–0. In the second half, Mohun Bagan made several attempts to get back into the game but Manilal Ghatak managed to keep a clean sheet as East Bengal emerged victorious and lifted their third IFA Shield title, also managing to win the coveted ''Double'' of winning both the League and Shield for the second time in their history, after 1945.<ref name=final>{{cite news |date=16 September 1949 |title=East Bengal Achieve Coveted Double For The Second Time |language=en |work=Amrita Bazar Patrika }}</ref><ref name=final1>{{cite news |date=16 September 1949 |title= শিল্ড ফাইনালে ইস্টবেঙ্গলের জয়লাভ |trans-title=East Bengal wins the Shield Final |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 name=indianexpress/>

===Details===
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|date=15 September 1949
|time=14:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|report=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mgFFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZLcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1240%2C6855297
|team2=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|score= 2–0
|goals1=* [[Pansanttom Venkatesh|Venkatesh]] {{goal|14}}
* [[Ahmed Khan (footballer)|Khan]] {{goal|23}}
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Mohun Bagan Ground|Calcutta Ground]], [[Kolkata]]
|attendance=30,000 (est.)
|referee=Major F. Upfold}}

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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|IND}} Manilal Ghatak
|-
|FB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Byomkesh Bose]]
|-
|FB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Taj Mohammed (footballer)|Taj Mohammed]]
|-
|HB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Dhirendranath Chanda
|-
|HB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[S. M. Kaiser]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|HB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Khogen Sen
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Pansanttom Venkatesh]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} M. Apparao
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[K. P. Dhanraj]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ahmed Khan (footballer)|Ahmed Khan]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[P. B. A. Saleh]]
|-
|}
|valign="top"|
|valign="top" width="50%"|
{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center
|colspan="4"|
|-
!width="25"| !!width="25"|
|-
|GK || ||{{flagicon|IND}} D. Sen
|-
|FB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Dr. P. Kumar
|-
|FB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Debu Pal
|-
|HB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Anil Dey ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|HB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Talimeren Ao]]
|-
|HB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Abhoy Ghosh
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Rashid
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Runu Guha Thakurta]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Selim
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amol Mazumdar
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Swami Nayar
|-
|}
|}

{| 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:1949–50 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:Mohun Bagan Super Giant matches]]
[[Category:Football competitions in Kolkata]]

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DelmarTroiano at 21:17, 23 December 2025