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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1961 IFA Shield final
| image =
| caption =
| event = [[IFA Shield|1961 IFA Shield]]
| team1 = [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
| team2 = [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
| details = Joint winners declared after a [[Replay (sports)#Association football|replay]]
| firstleg = Final
| team1score1 = 0
| team2score1 = 0
| date1 = 26 September 1961
| stadium1 = [[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal–Mohun Bagan Ground]]
| city1 = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| referee1 = Nrisingha Chatterjee
| attendance1 = 30,000 (estd.)
| secondleg = Replay
| team1score2 = 0
| team2score2 = 0
| date2 = 27 September 1961
| stadium2 = [[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal–Mohun Bagan Ground]]
| city2 = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| referee2 = Nrisingha Chatterjee
| attendance2 = 30,000 (estd.)
| weather =
| previous = 1960
| next = 1962
}}

The '''1961 IFA Shield final''' was the 60th 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 26 September 1961 first which ended in a draw and then a replay on 27 September 1961 at the [[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal–Mohun Bagan Ground]] in Kolkata respectively.

Both teams failed to score in either of the finals and were declared as joint winners. Mohun Bagan lifted their eight titles while East Bengal won their seventh 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"| [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
!Round
!colspan="2"| [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|- style="background:#C1E0FF"
|Opponent
|colspan="1"|Result
|Round
|Opponent
|colspan="1"|Result
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Burnpur United
|colspan="1"|9–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Third Round
|style="text-align:left"|[[Wari AC|Wari]]
|colspan="1"|3–1
|-
|style="text-align:left"|International
|colspan="1"|3–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter–Final
|style="text-align:left"|Mahishur
|colspan="1"|3–1
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Eastern Railway FC|Eastern Railway]]
|colspan="1"|0–0; 2–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Indian Navy (football team)|Indian Navy]]
|colspan="1"|2–1
|-
|}

==Match==
===Summary===
The IFA Shield final began at the [[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal-Mohun Bagan Ground]] in Kolkata on 26 September 1958 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]]. Mohun Bagan, the defending champions, made their fourteenth appearance in the final after they defeated [[Eastern Railway FC|Eastern Railway]] 2–0 in the semi-final, having won it seven times previously in 1911, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1956, and 1960. East Bengal reached their eleventh final after defeating [[Indian Navy (football team)|Indian Navy]] 2–1 in the semi-final, having won the title six times previously in 1943, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1958.<ref name=rsssf/>

Both teams tried to take control of the game but neither failed to create chances as both teams cancelled each other out. Salauddin of Mohun Bagan and [[Sukumar Samajpati]] of East Bengal got chances but failed to score as the game ended in a 0–0 draw. The IFA Shield committee decided to host the replay final the very next day.<ref name=final>{{cite news |date=27 September 1961 |title= আই এফ এ শিল্ড ফাইনাল অমীমাংসিত |trans-title=IFA Shield Final remains undecided |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=PTI |date=27 September 1961 |title=I.F.A. TOURNEY FINAL UNDECIDED |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19610927&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |work=The Indian Express |access-date=30 November 2022 }}</ref>

===Details===
{{football box
|date=26 September 1961
|time=15:45 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|report=
|team2=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|score= 0–0
|goals1=
|goals2=
|stadium=[[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal-Mohun Bagan Ground]], [[Kolkata]]
|attendance=30,000 (est.)
|referee=Nrisingha Chatterjee}}

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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}} Sanath Sett
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Prasanta Sarkhel
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jarnail Singh (footballer)|Jarnail SIngh]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[T. Abdul Rahman]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mariappa Kempaiah]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amiya Banerjee
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Dipu Das
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amal Chakraborty
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Salauddin
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Chuni Goswami]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arumainayagam]]
|-
|}
|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}} Abani Bose
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chitto Chanda ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bikramjit Debnath
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arun Ghosh]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Srikanta Banerjee
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ram Bahadur Chettri]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sukumar Samajpati]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Nilesh Sarkar
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sunil Nandy
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Baloo
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Dharmalingam Kannan]]
|-
|}
|}

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

|style="width:60%; vertical-align:top;"|
'''Match rules'''
*70 minutes.
*Replay if scores still level.
*No Substitutes.
|}

==Replay==
===Summary===
The replay final began at the [[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal-Mohun Bagan Ground]] in Kolkata on 27 September 1961 after the first game ended in a 0–0 stalemate.

Mohun Bagan kicked off the match and [[Chuni Goswami]] tried a long-range effort at the very first minute which was easily collected by East Bengal custodian Abani Bose. East Bengal counterattacked in the fourth minute, but T. Rahman blocked the shot by [[Dharmalingam Kannan]] for a corner. Kannan got another opportunity in the seventeenth minute when his shot was saved by Sanath Sett and rebounded off the crossbar onto the feet of [[Sukumar Samajpati]], whose shot again struck the crossbar and went out. In the thirty-first minute, Nilesh Sarkar once again hit the crossbar as East Bengal failed to score. The second half begun in the same way as East Bengal struck the post for the fourth time, when Kannan took a powerful shot in the thirty-eighth minute. Mohun Bagan too got some few chances in the second half but failed to score as the game ended 0–0 in regulation time. An additional fifteen minutes of [[Overtime (sports)#Association football|extra time]] was played but both teams failed to break the deadlock as the game ended in a 0–0 draw. The IFA decided to declare both the teams as joint winners of the competition. Mohun Bagan captain Chuni Goswami defeated East Bengal captain Citto Chanda in the coin toss which decided that Bagan would keep the Shield for the first six months, followed by East Bengal.<ref name=rsssf/><ref name=finalreplay>{{cite news |date=28 September 1961 |title= মোহনবাগান ও ইস্টবেঙ্গল যুগ্ম বিজয়ী সাব্যস্ত |trans-title=Mohun Bagan and East Bengal declared joint winners |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=PTI |date=28 September 1961 |title=BAGAN, EAST BENGAL SHARE TROPHY |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19610928&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |work=The Indian Express |access-date=30 November 2022 }}</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=Novy|last=Kapadia|date=5 October 2013|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/tulsidas-balaram-the-tormented-genius-of-indian-football|title=Tulsidas Balaram - The tormented genius of Indian football|work=Sportskeeda|accessdate=20 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=28 August 2017|url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/ahmed-khan-no-more/article19573941.ece|title=Barefoot footballer Ahmed Khan no more|work=The Hindu|accessdate=20 November 2022}}</ref>

===Details===
{{football box
|date=27 September 1961
|time=15:45 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|report=
|team2=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|score= 0–0
|aet=yes
|goals1=
|goals2=
|stadium=[[East Bengal Ground|East Bengal-Mohun Bagan Ground]], [[Kolkata]]
|attendance=30,000 (est.)
|referee=Nrisingha Chatterjee}}

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|-
|{{Football kit
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| pattern_b = _collar_buttons_2
| pattern_ra =
| pattern_sh =
| pattern_so =
| leftarm = 234f1e
| body = 800000
| rightarm = 234f1e
| shorts = ffffff
| socks = ffffff
| title = Mohun Bagan
}}
|{{Football kit
|pattern_b = _EastBengal_12_13_Home
|pattern_la =
|pattern_ra =
|pattern_sh =
|pattern_so = _2 gold stripes
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|body = FFDF00
|rightarm = FF0000
|shorts = 000000
|socks = FF0000
|title = East Bengal
}}
|}

{| width="100%"
|valign="top" width="40%"|
{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
|colspan="4"|
|-
!width="25"| !!width="25"|
|-
|GK || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sanath Sett
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Prasanta Sarkhel
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jarnail Singh (footballer)|Jarnail SIngh]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[T. Abdul Rahman]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mariappa Kempaiah]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amiya Banerjee
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Dipu Das
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amal Chakraborty
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Salauddin
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Chuni Goswami]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arumainayagam]]
|-
|}
|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}} Abani Bose
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chitto Chanda ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bikramjit Debnath
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arun Ghosh]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Srikanta Banerjee
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ram Bahadur Chettri]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sukumar Samajpati]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Nilesh Sarkar
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sunil Nandy
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Baloo
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Dharmalingam Kannan]]
|-
|}
|}

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

|style="width:60%; vertical-align:top;"|
'''Match rules'''
*70 minutes.
*15 minutes of [[Overtime (sports)#Association football|extra time]] if game ends in a draw.
*Joint winners if game ends in a draw after extra time.
*No Substitutes.
|}

==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:1961–62 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:Mohun Bagan Super Giant matches]]
[[Category:Football competitions in Kolkata]]

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