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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1970 IFA Shield final
| image =
| caption =
| event = [[IFA Shield|1970 IFA Shield]]
| team1 = [[East Bengal F.C.|East Bengal]]
| team1association = {{flagicon|IND|size=30px}}
| team1score = 1
| team2 = [[PAS Tehran F.C.|PAS Tehran]]
| team2association = {{flagicon|IRN|1964|size=30px}}
| team2score = 0
| details =
| date = 25 September 1970
| stadium = [[Eden Gardens]]
| city = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal, India|West Bengal]]
| man_of_the_match1a = Sudhir Karmakar
| attendance = 60,000 (approx.)
| weather =
| previous = 1969
| next = 1971
}}
The '''1970 IFA Shield final''' was the 74th final of the [[IFA Shield]], the second oldest football competition in [[India]], and was contested between Kolkata giant [[East Bengal F.C.|East Bengal]] and Iranian giant [[PAS Tehran F.C.|PAS Tehran]] on 25 September 1970 at the [[Eden Gardens]] in Kolkata.

East Bengal won the final 1–0 to claim their 10th IFA Shield title. [[Parimal Dey]] scored in the last minute of the game.<ref name=final>{{cite news |author=UNI |date=26 September 1970 |title=East Bengal win IFA Shield with Dey's last-minute goal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fn5lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1926%2C2455530 |work=The Indian Express |access-date=3 November 2021 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103140147/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fn5lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1926%2C2455530 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Ritabrata|last=Banerjee|date=1 Oct 2021|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/lists/maidani-golpo-five-best-results-of-east-bengal-indian/y83zohlf2i041ushc002mnzwf|title=Maidani Golpo: Asean Cup final to beating PAS Tehran - Five memorable results of East Bengal|work=Goal|accessdate=3 Nov 2021|archive-date=20 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520055657/https://www.goal.com/en-in/lists/maidani-golpo-five-best-results-of-east-bengal-indian/y83zohlf2i041ushc002mnzwf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Sabyasachi|last=Chakraborty|date=29 Apr 2020|url=http://www.badgebfansclub.in/throwback-when-east-bengal-fc-became-the-first-indian-team-to-defeat-a-foreign-opponent-to-win-a-trophy-post-independence/|title=THROWBACK: When East Bengal FC became the first Indian team to defeat a foreign opponent to win a trophy post Independence!|work=BADGEB|accessdate=3 Nov 2021|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103140143/http://www.badgebfansclub.in/throwback-when-east-bengal-fc-became-the-first-indian-team-to-defeat-a-foreign-opponent-to-win-a-trophy-post-independence/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Route to the final==
{{see also|IFA Shield}}

===East Bengal===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;margin-left:1em;float:right; font-size:85%;"

!scope=col width="120" | Date
!scope=col width="80" | Round
!scope=col width="120" | Opposition
!scope=col width="80" | Score
|-
| 15 September 1970
!scope=row style="text-align:center"| Third Round
| [[George Telegraph SC|George Telegraph]]
| [[Walkover|w/o]]
|-
| 18 September 1970
!scope=row style="text-align:center"| Quarter-Final
| [[Eastern Railway FC|Eastern Railway]]
| 5–0
|-
| 23 September 1970
!scope=row style="text-align:center"| Semi Final
| [[Mohammedan S.C. (Kolkata)|Mohammedan Sporting]]
| 1–0{{efn|Mohammedan Sporting conceded the game.<ref name=ebsf/>}}
|}

East Bengal entered the 1970 IFA Shield as one of the leading Kolkata giants and was supposed to start their campaign from the third round. They were supposed to face [[George Telegraph SC|George Telegraph]] but they were handed a walkover and East Bengal progressed into the next round. In the quarter-finals, East Bengal defeated Eastern Railway 5–0 with [[Shyam Thapa]] scoring a brace and Samaresh Chowdhury, [[Syed Nayeemuddin]] and [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]] scoring for the team.<ref name=qf>{{cite news |author=PTI |date=19 September 1970 |title=Iranians, E. Bengal breeze thro to semi-finals |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D35lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1836%2C2033455 |work=The Indian Express |access-date=3 November 2021 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103140141/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D35lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1836%2C2033455 |url-status=live }}</ref> East Bengal faced [[Mohammedan S.C. (Kolkata)|Mohammedan Sporting]] in the semi-finals and were leading 1–0 courtesy of a goal from Mohammed Habib, but Mohammedan Sporting walked out of the game and conceded the match. The IFA announced East Bengal as the winners of the semi-final as they reached the final.<ref name=ebsf>{{cite news |author=PTI |date=24 September 1970 |title=E. Bengal declared winners: IFA Shield |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FH5lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1267%2C2343870 |work=The Indian Express |access-date=3 November 2021 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103140148/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FH5lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1267%2C2343870 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===PAS Tehran===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;margin-left:1em;float:right; font-size:85%;"

!scope=col width="120" | Date
!scope=col width="80" | Round
!scope=col width="120" | Opposition
!scope=col width="80" | Score
|-
| 16 September 1970
!scope=row style="text-align:center"| Third Round
| [[Aryan F.C.|Aryan]]
| 1–0
|-
| 18 September 1970
!scope=row style="text-align:center"| Quarter-Final
| [[Bengal Nagpur Railway FC|BNR]]
| 5–0
|-
| 22 September 1970
!scope=row style="text-align:center"| Semi Final
| [[Mohun Bagan]]
| 2–0
|}

PAS Tehran, the runners up of the 1969 [[Tehran Province League]], the top tier of Iranian football, were invited by the [[Indian Football Association|IFA]] to participate in the 1970 IFA Shield tournament. They started their campaign in the third round, where they defeated [[Aryan F.C.|Aryan]] 1–0 with Iran national team forward [[Asghar Sharafi]] scoring the only goal for the team. In the quarter-finals, PAS Tehran defeated [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]] 5–0 with goals from [[Homayoun Shahrokhi]], who scored twice while Jahangir Nassiri, Parviz Mirza-Hassan and Asghar Sharafi scored one each.<ref name=qf/> In the semi-final, PAS Tehran defeated Kolkata giants [[Mohun Bagan]] 2–0 with both the goals in the second half scored by Daud Ahmadzadeh and Asghar Sharifi as they reached the final.<ref>{{cite news |author=PTI |date=23 September 1970 |title=Mohun Bagan pay dearly for poor finish |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E35lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=789%2C2291159 |work=The Indian Express |access-date=3 November 2021 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103140135/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E35lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=789%2C2291159 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Match==
===Details===
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|date=25 September 1970
|time=15:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[East Bengal F.C.|East Bengal]] {{flagicon|IND}}
|report= [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fn5lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wp0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1926%2C2455530 Report]
|team2={{flagicon|IRN|1964}} [[PAS Tehran F.C.|PAS Tehran]]
|score= 1–0
|goals1=[[Parimal Dey]] {{goal|90}}
|goals2=
|penaltyscore=
|location=[[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
|stadium=[[Eden Gardens]]
|referee=Ramakanta Ganguly (West Bengal)
|attendance=60,000 (est.)
}}

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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}} [[Peter Thangaraj]]
|-
|RB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sudhir Karmakar]]
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Syed Nayeemuddin]]
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Prasanta Sinha]]
|-
|LB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Santo Mitra ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Kajal Mukherjee]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Samaresh Chowdhury || || {{suboff|70}}
|-
|RF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Swapan Sengupta
|-
|LF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]] || || {{suboff|87}}
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ashok Chatterjee]]
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Shyam Thapa]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Kalon Guha || || {{subon|70}}
|-
|LF || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Parimal Dey]] || || {{subon|87}}
|-
|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|IRN}} Keyvan Niknafas
|-
|RB || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} Mohsen Houshangi
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Hassan Habibi (footballer)|Hassan Habibi]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Majid Halvaei]]
|-
|LB || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Hossein Kazerani]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Homayoun Shahrokhi]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Sadeghi (footballer, born 1952)|Mohammad Sadeghi]]
|-
|LF || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mehdi Monajati]] || {{suboff|69}}
|-
|RF || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} Jahangir Nassiri || {{suboff|80}}
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} Parviz Mirza-Hassan
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Asghar Sharafi]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} Daud Ahmadzadeh || {{subon|69}}
|-
|MF || ||{{flagicon|IRN}} Mohammad Ali Malkiyan || {{subon|80}}
|-
|colspan=4|'''Coach:'''
|-
|colspan="4"|{{flagicon|IRN}} Mehdi Asadollahi
|}
|}
{| width=100% style="font-size: 90%"
|
'''Hero of the Match:'''<br />Sudhir Karmakar (East Bengal)

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

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

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

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{IFA Shield}}
{{SC East Bengal}}

[[Category:IFA Shield finals]]
[[Category:1970–71 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:PAS Tehran F.C.]]
[[Category:Football competitions in Kolkata]]

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Shivam Babu at 21:20, 23 December 2025