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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1970–71 Durand Cup final
| image =
| caption =
| event = [[Durand Cup|1970–71 Durand Cup]]
| team1 = [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Mohun Bagan]]
| details =
| team1score = 2
| team2score = 0
| date = 4 February 1971
| stadium = [[Ambedkar Stadium|Corporation Stadium]]
| city = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| referee = Trilok Lao
| attendance = 15,000 (estd.)
| weather =
| previous = 1969
| next = 1971
}}

The '''1970–71 Durand Cup final''' was the 66th final of the [[Durand Cup]], the oldest football competition in [[India]], and was contested between Kolkata giants [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] and [[Mohun Bagan]] on 4 February 1971 at the [[Ambedkar Stadium|Corporation Stadium]] in [[New Delhi]].

East Bengal won the final 2–0 to claim their 6th Durand Cup title. [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]] scored both the goals in the final as East Bengal lifted their sixth Durand Cup title.<ref name=rsssf>{{cite web|first=Neil|last=Morrison|date=11 October 2022|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiadurandcuphist.html|title=India - List of Durand Cup Finals|work=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|accessdate=25 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]]
|- style="background:#C1E0FF"
|Opponent
|colspan="1"|Result
|Round
|Opponent
|colspan="1"|Result
|-
|style="text-align:left"|''bye''
|colspan="1"|–
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|First round
|style="text-align:left"|Modernities
|colspan="1"|5–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Rajasthan Police|Rajasthan Armed Constabulary]]
|colspan="1"|3–2
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Second round
|style="text-align:left"|LRDI Bengaluru
|colspan="1"|2–1
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Sikh Regimental Centre
|colspan="1"|4–2
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter-final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Madras Regiment|Madras Regimental Centre]]
|colspan="1"|2–1
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Mafatlal
|colspan="1"|0–0; 1–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi-final
|style="text-align:left"|[[Mohammedan S.C. (Kolkata)|Mohammedan Sporting]]
|colspan="1"|1–1; 3–0
|-
|}

==Match==
===Summary===
The Durand Cup final began at the [[Ambedkar Stadium|Corporation Stadium]] in [[New Delhi]] on 4 February 1971 in front of a packed crowd as Kolkata giants [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] and [[Mohun Bagan]] faced each other in a [[Kolkata Derby]]. East Bengal reached their eighth Durand Cup final after defeating Mafatlal 1–0 in the semi-final, having won the tournament five times previously in 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1967. Mohun Bagan reached their ninth Durand Cup final after they defeated another Kolkata giant [[Mohammedan S.C. (Kolkata)|Mohammedan Sporting]] 3–0 in the semi-final, having won the tournament six times previously in 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, and 1965.<ref name=rsssf/> -

East Bengal started the game with a positive intent and made multiple attacks at the Mohun Bagan goal and took the lead in the tenth minute when [[Ashok Chatterjee]] found [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]] open inside the box and the latter made no error to make it 1–0. East Bengal kept on attacking in the first half however, failed to increase their lead as the teams went onto halftime break. The second half began in the same way like the first and East Bengal doubled their lead in just ten minutes of the half when Mohammed Habib once again scored with a brilliant header from a cross by Swapan Sengupta to make it 2–0. East Bengal defence led by Sudhir Karmakar, [[Syed Nayeemuddin]], Sunil Bhattacharya and Santo Mitra managed to hold onto the lead as East Bengal lifted their sixth Durand Cup title.<ref name=rsssf/><ref name=final>{{cite news |date=5 February 1971 |title= ইস্টবেঙ্গলের ডুরান্ড বিজয় |trans-title=East Bengal are the champions of the Durand Cup |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Ritabrata |last=Banerjee |date=7 April 2020|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/indian-football-down-the-memory-lane-east-bengal-golden-era-1970/sm5c7t807v011wmkp5wjj6zvs|title=Indian Football: Down the memory lane - East Bengal’s ‘Golden era’ of 1970s|work=Goal|accessdate=28 November 2022}}</ref>

===Details===
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|date=4 February 1971
|time=15:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|report=
|team2=[[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan]]
|score= 2–0
|goals1=* [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Habib]] {{goal|10||55}}
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Ambedkar Stadium|Corporation Stadium]], [[New Delhi]]
|attendance=15,000 (est.)
|referee=Trilok Lao}}

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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}} Kanai Sarkar
|-
|RB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sudhir Karmakar
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shanto Mitra ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Syed Nayeemuddin]]
|-
|LB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sunil Bhattacharya
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Prasanta Sinha]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Kajal Mukherjee]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Swapan Sengupta
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ashok Chatterjee]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Shyam Thapa]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Coach:'''
|-
|colspan="4"|{{flagicon|IND}} Mohammed Hussain
|}
|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}} [[Balai Dey]]
|-
|RB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chandreshwar Prasad
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bhabani Ray
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Kalon Saha
|-
|LB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shankar Sarkar
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shyamsundar Manna
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Priyalal Mazumdar
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mahabir Prasad (footballer)|Mohabir Prasad]] || {{suboff|}}
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Subhash Bhowmick]]
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Pranab Ganguly || {{suboff|}}
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Debi Dutta || {{subon|}}
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chandan Gupta || {{subon|}}
|-
|colspan=4|'''Coach:'''
|-
|colspan="4"|{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arun Ghosh]]
|}
|}

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

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

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiadurandcuphist.html Durand Cup Finals]

{{Durand Cup}}
{{East Bengal Club}}

[[Category:Durand Cup finals]]
[[Category:1970–71 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:Football competitions in New Delhi]]
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