2015 16 East Bengal F.C. season

The 2015-16 season is East Bengal FC's 96th season in existence. The club had won the Calcutta Football League this season and became the runners of 2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup.

Pre-Season Overview

The club signed Do Dong-hyun, a South Korean attacking mid-fielder to support the stricking part. With the arrival of veteran defender Bello Razaq from Mohun Bagan, the team became stronger and the Red and Gold Brigade are hoping to seal the CFL championship and set another hexa record. With the help of recent performances, The Club clinched to the 74th spot in the recent AFC Club Ranking, the highest among all Indian football clubs.

Season Overview

August

The club started their Calcutta Football League (CFL) campaign on 8 August by beating SVF Tollygunge Agragami FC by 1-0. In the next match, against Aryan F.C., the club managed a draw, the only draw of this CFL campaign. Then they went on winning all the matches against Bengal Nagpur Railway, Army XI, Mohammedan S.C., Police AC and Sports Authority of India.

September

Maintaining their winning streak of August, East Bengal started their September by beating Kalighat Milan Sangha F.C. by 4-3. This fixture was their toughest in this campaign as at a time, the team was trailing by 0-2 and then they managed to win it.
The next fixture of the club was a prestigious Kolkata Derby against their arch rivals Mohun Bagan in which the team managed an easy 4-0 win with two stunning free kicks by Do Dong-hyun, the top scorer of the club, one of which came in just after 82 seconds from the kick off. This win sealed their league victory and their 118th win against their arch rivals. Moreover, it was the club's 6th consecutive CFL championship which is itself a record and they hold a similar 6 consecutive CFL League wins between the period 1970-75.
The last fixture was against Southern Samity on 10 September. East Bengal with their reserved squad managed to win it and became the unbeatable champions of this CFL. Do Dong-hyun became the top scorer of both the club and the CFL.

October

The club went to play an international tournament in Bangladesh named 2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup. The team draw set East Bengal in Group B on the fixture of this tour. Due to the absence of almost all the main and first team players of the club (all out on loan in different clubs of Indian Super League), the junior and reserve bench players had taken part in it. The club brought Orok Essien and Subodh Kumar on loan for the tournament. East Bengal started off well by defeating Bangladesh club Abahani Limited (Chittagong) by 2-1 on 21st Oct 2015. Young Prohlad scored on the match along with Mohammed Rafique. After that the most important player of midfield, Do Dong-hyun, had a knee injury which couldn't let him play for the rest of the tour. The club kept on its winning streak by defeating the current best club of Pakistan K-Electric F.C. by a comfortable margin of 3-1. Then the club had its first draw of the tournament which was against Abahani Limited (Dhaka). Then the club went into the semis where they defeated (on 28th oct 2015) Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka) by 3-0 to enter into the final. Ranti Martins scored a couple on the semis. On 30th Oct 2015, East Bengal FC played the final against Abahani Limited (Chittagong) once again after the very first match. But the young brigade could not seal the victory at the end in spite of taking a lead on the 9th minute by the goal scored by Avinabo Bag. This time East Bengal lost to the Bangladeshi club by 1-3. The brilliant performance of the junior players throughout the tournament came to an end with the defeat in final match. But the fight of the junior brigade were appreciated whole heartedly by the supporters of the club.

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Name	Signed from	Month	Ref.
21	MF	Template:Flagicon Do Dong-hyun	Free Agent	N/A
6	DF	Template:Flagicon Bello Razaq	Template:Flagicon Mohun Bagan	June
43	FW	Template:Flagicon Orok Essien (on loan)		October
	MF	Template:Flagicon Subodh Kumar (on loan)	Template:Flagicon Tollygunge Agragami	October

Out

Pos.	Name	Sold to	Month	Ref.
DF	Template:FlagiconSafar Sardar	Template:Flagicon Mohun Bagan	N/A
MF	Template:Flagicon Raju Gaikwad	Template:Flagicon Mohun Bagan	N/A

Kit

Supplier: Shiv Naresh / Sponsors: Kingfisher Premium, Peerless

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Technical Staff

Position	Name
Chief Coach	Template:Flagicon Biswajit Bhattacharya
Assistant Coach	Template:Flagicon Debjit Ghosh
Goalkeeping Coach	Template:Flagicon Sanjay Majhi
Defence Coach	Template:Flagicon Sammy Omollo
Physiotherapist	Template:Flagicon Rajesh Basak
Club Doctor	Template:Flagicon Dr. Santiranjan Dasgupta
Team Manager	Template:Flagicon Manish Banerjee
Team Media Officer	Template:Flagicon Gautam Roy

Competitions

Overall

Competition	First match	Last match	Final position
Calcutta Football League	8 August 2015	10 September 2015	Champions
Sheikh Kamal Trophy	21 October 2015	30 October 2015	Runners-up
I-League	10 January 2016	24 April 2016	3rd
Federation Cup	1 May 2017	4 May 2017	Quarter Finals

Calcutta Football League

Table

2015-16 Calcutta Premier Division

Fixtures & results

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Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup

Group B

2015 Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup

Fixtures & results

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I-League

Table

2015–16 I-League

Fixtures & results

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Federation Cup

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Statistics

Appearances

Players with no appearances are not included in the list.

Appearances for East Bengal in 2015–16 season
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	CFL		I League		Fed Cup		S.K. Int. Cup		Total
				Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts
Goalkeepers
13	GK	Template:Flagicon	TP Rehnesh			8	8	2	2			10	10
30	GK	Template:Flagicon	Luis Barreto	9	9	8	8	0	0			17	17
26	GK	Template:Flagicon	Abhra Mondal	1	1	0	0			0	0	1	1
31	GK	Template:Flagicon	Dibyendu Sarkar	0	0	0	0			5	5	5	5
Defenders
6	DF	Template:Flagicon	Bello Razaq	8	8	16	16	2	2	5	5	31	31
3	DF	Template:Flagicon	Arnab Mondal	3	3	13	13	2	2			18	18
5	DF	Template:Flagicon	Rahul Bheke	5	4	10	9	0	0			15	13
45	DF	Template:Flagicon	Bernard Mendy			9	9	1	0			10	9
28	DF	Template:Flagicon	Soumik Dey	7	6	8	7	0	0			15	13
38	DF	Template:Flagicon	Samad Ali Mallick	6	6	6	6	0	0	2	1	12	12
19	DF	Template:Flagicon	Robert Lalthlamuana	3	3	5	5	0	0			8	8
4	DF	Template:Flagicon	Narayan Das			3	3	2	2			5	5
12	DF	Template:Flagicon	Deepak Mondal	7	7	2	1	2	2	5	5	16	15
16	DF	Template:Flagicon	Gurwinder Singh	2	1	0	0	0	0			2	1
24	DF	Template:Flagicon	Babu Mondal	1	1					3	0	4	1
40	DF	Template:Flagicon	Biswajit Saha	0	0					5	5	5	5
22	DF	Template:Flagicon	Avinavo Bag	1	1	0	0			4	4	5	5
Midfielders
14	MF	Template:Flagicon	Mehtab Hossain	8	8	14	14	2	2			24	24
21	MF	Template:Flagicon	Do Dong-Hyun	10	10	13	10	2	2	1	1	26	23
8	MF	Template:Flagicon	Mohammed Rafique	9	8	12	6	2	0	5	5	28	19
23	MF	Template:Flagicon	Bikash Jairu	8	8	11	9	0	0			19	17
11	MF	Template:Flagicon	Cavin Lobo	5	3	9	2	0	0			14	5
15	MF	Template:Flagicon	Sanju Pradhan			9	7	2	1			11	8
2	MF	Template:Flagicon	Sehnaj Singh			8	3	0	0			8	3
34	MF	Template:Flagicon	Abhinash Ruidas	5	4	8	8	1	0	4	3	18	15
7	MF	Template:Flagicon	Harmanjot Khabra	8	7	7	5	2	2			17	14
28	MF	Template:Flagicon	Shylo Malsawmtluanga	9	2	7	4	2	1			18	7
17	MF	Template:Flagicon	Joaquim Abranches			7	4	0	0			7	4
20	MF	Template:Flagicon	Lalrindika Ralte			2	1	2	2			4	3
35	MF	Template:Flagicon	Anthony Soren	2	1					3	1	5	2
36	MF	Template:Flagicon	Prohlad Roy	6	6	0	0			5	5	11	11
18	MF	Template:Flagicon	Subodh Kumar	0	0	0	0			5	5	5	5
33	MF	Template:Flagicon	Jagannath Sana	1	0					3	1	4	1
Forwards
10	FW	Template:Flagicon	Ranti Martins	6	0	16	16	2	2	5	5	29	23
25	FW	Template:Flagicon	Jiten Murmu	6	3					0	0	6	3
43	FW	Template:Flagicon	OrokOrok Essien							4	4	4	4
27	FW	Template:Flagicon	CS Sabeeth			5	2	0	0			5	2

Goal Scorers

Goals for East Bengal in 2015–16 season
Rank	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Tooltip	Name	CFL	I League	Fed Cup	S.K. Int. Cup	Total
1	10	FW	Template:Flagicon	Ranti Martins	1	12	1	3	17
2	21	FW	Template:Flagicon	Do Dong-hyun	12	3	1	0	16
3	8	MF	Template:Flagicon	Mohammed Rafique	4	1	0	3	8
4	23	MF	Template:Flagicon	Bikash Jairu	1	3	0		4
5	5	DF	Template:Flagicon	Rahul Bheke	3	0	0		3
6	6	MF	Template:Flagicon	Bello Razaq	1	1	0	0	2
	7	MF	Template:Flagicon	Harmanjot Khabra	2	0	0		2
	36	MF	Template:Flagicon	Prohlad Roy	1	0		1	2
	45	DF	Template:Flagicon	Bernard Mendy		2	0		2
10	14	DF	Template:Flagicon	Mehtab Hossain	1	0	0		1
	20	MF	Template:Flagicon	Lalrindika Ralte		0	1		1
	22	MF	Template:Flagicon	Avinabo Bag	0	0		1	1
	25	FW	Template:Flagicon	Jiten Murmu	1				1
	29	DF	Template:Flagicon	Saumik Dey	1	0	0		1
	34	MF	Template:Flagicon	Abhinas Ruidas	1	0	0	0	1
	43	MF	Template:Flagicon	Orok Essien				1	1
Own goals					0	0	0	0	0
Total					29	22	3	9	63

See also

• 2015–16 in Indian football