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{{Infobox football match
| title = 1978–79 Durand Cup final
| image =
| caption =
| event = [[Durand Cup|1978–79 Durand Cup]]
| team1 = [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
| details =
| team1score = 3
| team2score = 0
| date = 17 January 1979
| stadium = [[Ambedkar Stadium]]
| city = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| referee = J. P. Coutinho
| attendance = 20,000 (estd.)
| weather =
| previous = 1977
| next = 1979
}}

The '''1978–79 Durand Cup final''' was the 74th 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 FC|Mohun Bagan]] on 17 January 1979 at the [[Ambedkar Stadium]] in [[New Delhi]].

East Bengal won the final 3–0 to claim their 8th Durand Cup title. [[Surajit Sengupta]], Mihir Bose and Tapan Das scored the three goals in the final as East Bengal lifted their eighth 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="4"| [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
!Round
!colspan="4"| [[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|- style="background:#C1E0FF"
|Opponent
|colspan="3"|Result
|Quarter Final Group League
|Opponent
|colspan="3"|Result
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Indian Air Force (football team)|Indian Air Force]]
|colspan="3"|2–1
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 1
|style="text-align:left"|[[Kidderpore SC|Kidderpore]]
|colspan="3"|4–0
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Orkay Club
|colspan="3"|0–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 2
|style="text-align:left"|Tiliam
|colspan="3"|5–1
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[JCT F.C.|JCT]]
|colspan="3"|3–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 3
|style="text-align:left"|Mafatlal
|colspan="3"|2–2; 2–0
|-
|- style="background:#C1E0FF"
|Opponent
|colspan="3"|Result
|Knockout Stage
|Opponent
|colspan="3"|Result
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Mafatlal
|colspan="3"|2–0
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi–Final
|style="text-align:left"|[[JCT F.C.|JCT]]
|colspan="3"|0–0; 4–2
|-
|}

==Match==
===Summary===
The Durand Cup final began at the [[Ambedkar Stadium]] in [[New Delhi]] on 17 January 1979 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 tenth Durand Cup final after defeating Mafatlal 2–0 in the semi-final, having won the tournament seven times previously in 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1967, 1970, and 1972. Mohun Bagan reached their thirteenth Durand Cup final after they defeated [[JCT F.C.|JCT]] 4–2 in the semi-final, having won the tournament eight times previously in 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1974, and 1977.<ref name=rsssf/>

East Bengal dominated the proceedings from the start and took the lead early in the fifteenth minute when [[Surajit Sengupta]] dribbled past the Mohun Bagan defence to score with a powerful shot to make it 1–0. East Bengal doubled their lead in the thirty-sixth minute when Surajit Sengupta found Mihir Bose unmarked inside the box who made no errors to make it 2–0 before halftime. East Bengal scored their third with just four minutes remaining when Surajit Sengupta once again played a perfect pass to unmarked Tapan Das inside the box who made the scoreline 3–0 as East Bengal lifted their eighth Durand Cup title.<ref name=rsssf/><ref name=final>{{cite news |date=18 January 1979 |title= ডুরান্ড পেল ইস্টবেঙ্গল |trans-title=East Bengal wins the Durand Cup |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref name=final2>{{cite news |date=18 January 1979 |title= মোহনবাগান তিন গোলে পরাজিত |trans-title=Mohun Bagan defeated by three goals |language=bn |work=Jugantor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=17 February 2022|title=Surajit Sengupta, former East Bengal captain, passes away at 70 due to Covid-19|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/surajit-sengupta-former-east-bengal-captain-passes-away-at-70-due-to-covid-19-1914305-2022-02-17|access-date=29 November 2022|website=India Today|language=en|archive-date=17 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217103921/https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/surajit-sengupta-former-east-bengal-captain-passes-away-at-70-due-to-covid-19-1914305-2022-02-17|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Details===
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|date=17 January 1979
|time=15:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|team1=[[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]]
|report=
|team2=[[Mohun Bagan FC|Mohun Bagan]]
|score= 3–0
|goals1=* [[Surajit Sengupta|Sengupta]] {{goal|15}}
* [[Mihir Bose (footballer)|Bose]] {{goal|36}}
* [[Tapan Das (footballer)|Das]] {{goal|86}}
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Ambedkar Stadium]], [[New Delhi]]
|attendance=20,000 (est.)
|referee=J. P. Coutinho}}

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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}} [[Bhaskar Ganguly]]
|-
|LB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Satyajit Mitra
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Monoranjan Bhattacharya]]
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shyamal Ghosh
|-
|RB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Chinmay Chatterjee
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Prasanta Banerjee]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Samaresh CHowdhury
|-
|RW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Surajit Sengupta]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|LW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Narayanswami Ulaganathan]] || || {{suboff|}}
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mihir Bose (footballer)|Mihir Bose]]
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Shabbir Ali]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|FW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Tapan Das || || {{subon|}}
|-
|colspan=4|'''Head Coach:'''
|-
|colspan="4"|{{flagicon|IND}} [[Arun Ghosh]]
|}
|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}} [[Shibaji Banerjee]]
|-
|RB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Sudhir Karmakar
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Shyamal Banerjee
|-
|CB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Compton Dutta
|-
|LB || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Pradip Chowdhury
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Gautam Sarkar]]
|-
|CM || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Prasun Banerjee]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]])
|-
|RW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Manas Bhattacharya || {{suboff|}}
|-
|LW || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Bidesh Bose
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Shyam Thapa]] || {{suboff|}}
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]]
|-
|colspan=4|'''Substitutes:'''
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} Mohammed Akbar || {{subon|}}
|-
|ST || ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Subhash Bhowmick]] || {{subon|}}
|-
|colspan=4|'''Head coach:'''
|-
|colspan="4"|{{flagicon|IND}} [[P. K. Banerjee]]
|}
|}

{| 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}}
{{Mohun Bagan Super Giant}}

[[Category:Durand Cup finals]]
[[Category:1978–79 in Indian football]]
[[Category:East Bengal Club matches]]
[[Category:Mohun Bagan Super Giant matches]]
[[Category:Football competitions in New Delhi]]
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