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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1965 IFA Shield final
| image =
| caption =
| event = [[IFA Shield|1965 IFA Shield]]
| team1 = [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
| team2 = [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
| details = East Bengal won the final after a [[Replay (sports)#Association football|replay]]
| firstleg = Final
| team1score1 = 0
| team2score1 = 0
| date1 = 22 September 1965
| stadium1 = [[Mohun Bagan Ground]]
| city1 = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| referee1 = Sailen Bhattacharya
| attendance1 = 30,000 (estd.)
| secondleg = Replay
| team1score2 = 0
| team2score2 = 1
| date2 = 16 October 1965
| stadium2 = [[Mohun Bagan Ground]]
| city2 = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| referee2 = Sailen Bhattacharya
| attendance2 = 30,000 (estd.)
| weather =
| previous = 1964
| next = 1966
}}

The '''1965 IFA Shield final''' was the 64th 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 22 September 1965 first which ended in a draw and then a replay on 16 October 1965 at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground]] in Kolkata.

East Bengal won the replayed final 1–0 to claim their 8th IFA Shield title. Ashim Moulik scored the only goal in the replay final as East Bengal lifted their eighth 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"|[[Wari AC|Wari]]
|colspan="1"|1–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Third Round
|style="text-align:left"|Burdwan District XI
|colspan="1"|6–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Eastern Railway FC|Eastern Railway]]
|colspan="1"|0–0; w/o
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter–Final
|style="text-align:left"|Hyderabad XI
|colspan="1"|2–1
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Bangalore XI
|colspan="1"|5–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bengal Nagpur Railway FC|Bengal Nagpur Railway]]
|colspan="1"|2–0
|-
|}

==Match==
===Summary===
The IFA Shield final began at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground]] in Kolkata on 22 September 1965 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 made their seventeenth appearance in the final after they defeated Bangalore XI 5–0 in the semi-final, having won it nine times previously in 1911, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, and 1962. East Bengal reached their thirteenth final after defeating [[Bengal Nagpur Railway FC|Bengal Nagpur Railway]] 2–0 in the semi-final, having won the title seven times previously in 1943, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1958, and 1961.<ref name=rsssf/>

Both Mohun Bagan and East Bengal tried to dominate the game from the first minute but cancelled each other out. The goalkeepers [[Pradyut Barman]] and [[Peter Thangaraj]] were the stars of the game as both of them made some terrific saves as the game ended in a goalless draw. The committee decided to host the final in a later date.<ref name=final>{{cite news |date=23 September 1965 |title= আই এফ এ শিল্ড ফাইনাল গোলশূন্য |trans-title=IFA Shield Final remains goalless |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref>

===Details===
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|date=22 September 1965
|time=15:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|report=
|team2=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|score= 0–0
|goals1=
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Mohun Bagan Ground]], [[Kolkata]]
|attendance=30,000 (est.)
|referee=Sailen Bhattacharya}}

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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}} [[Pradyut Barman]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bikramjit Debnath
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jarnail Singh (footballer)|Jarnail SIngh]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[T. Abdul Rahman]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bidyut Mazumdar
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bimal Chakraborty
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Kajal Mukherjee]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amal Chakraborty
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ashok Chatterjee]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Chuni Goswami]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arumainayagam]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
| {{sort dash}}
|-
|}
|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}} [[Peter Thangaraj]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shanto Mitra
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chandreshwar Prasad
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sushil Sinha
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Srikanta Banerjee
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Prasanta Sinha]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sukumar Samajpati]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Parimal Dey]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Ashim Moulik
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Satish Das || {{suboff|}}
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sambhu Das Chowdhury
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sujato || || {{subon|}}
|}
|}

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

|style="width:60%; vertical-align:top;"|
'''Match rules'''
*70 minutes.
*Replay if scores still level.
|}

==Replay==
===Summary===
The replay final began at the [[Mohun Bagan Ground]] in Kolkata on 16 October 1965 after the first game ended in a 0–0 stalemate.

East Bengal and Mohun Bagan both tried to dominate the game once again from the first minute with both the teams creating multiple chances but failed to break the deadlock. [[Kajal Mukherjee]] got the best chance for Mohun Bagan in the first half but he missed an open net as the game remained goalless at halftime. The match slowed down in the second half and was almost going to end in another goalless tie, when Ashim Moulik received the ball from Parimal Dey in the very last minute of the game and scored with a powerful long range effort to make it 1–0 for East Bengal as they lifted their eighth IFA Shield title.<ref name=rsssf/><ref name=finalreplay>{{cite news |date=17 October 1965 |title= শিল্ডের পুনরনুশ্তহানে ইস্টবেঙ্গলের জয় |trans-title=East Bengal wins the replay final |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=PTI |date=17 October 1965 |title=Moulik wins IFA Shield for E. Bengal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19651017&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |work=The Indian Express |access-date=30 November 2022 }}</ref>

===Details===
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|date=16 October 1965
|time=15:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|report=
|team2=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|score= 0–1
|goals1=
|goals2=* [[Ashim Moulik|Moulik]] {{goal|69}}
|stadium=[[Mohun Bagan Ground]], [[Kolkata]]
|attendance=30,000 (est.)
|referee=Sailen Bhattacharya}}

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| body = 800000
| rightarm = 234f1e
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| socks = ffffff
| title = Mohun Bagan
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|pattern_la =
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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}} [[Pradyut Barman]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bikramjit Debnath
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jarnail Singh (footballer)|Jarnail SIngh]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[T. Abdul Rahman]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bidyut Mazumdar
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bimal Chakraborty
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Kajal Mukherjee]] || {{suboff|}}
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Amal Chakraborty
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ashok Chatterjee]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Chuni Goswami]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arumainayagam]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Dulal Mondal || {{subon|}}
|-
|}
|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}} [[Peter Thangaraj]]
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shanto Mitra
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chandreshwar Prasad
|-
|DF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sushil Sinha || {{suboff|}}
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ram Bahadur Chettri]]
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Prasanta Sinha]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sukumar Samajpati]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sujato
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Ashim Moulik
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Parimal Dey]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sambhu Das Chowdhury
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} S. Thomas || {{subon|}}
|}
|}

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

|style="width:60%; vertical-align:top;"|
'''Match rules'''
*70 minutes.
*15 minutes of extra time if game ends in a draw.
*Joint winners if game ends in a draw after extra time.
|}

==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:1965–66 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:Mohun Bagan Super Giant matches]]
[[Category:Football competitions in Kolkata]]

1965 IFA Shield final - Revision history

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