East Bengal FC Reserves and Academy

East Bengal Reserves and Academy

Full name	East Bengal Football Club Reserves and Academy
Nickname(s)	Red and Gold Brigade Bangal Brigade Torch Bearers
Short name	EBFC
Ground	East Bengal Ground
Capacity	23,500
Owner	Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd. East Bengal Pvt. Ltd. (25%) Emami Group (75%) [1]
President	Dr. Pronab Dasgupta
Head coach	Bino George (Reserves)
League	Calcutta Premier Division RF Development League AIFF Elite League (Academy)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

East Bengal Football Club Reserves and Academy is the reserve team and youth system of the Indian Super League side East Bengal FC. Reserves generally consist of younger players, but at times senior players also play, if recuperating from injury or not getting first team game time. Apart from the I-League 2 (formerly), the reserve side usually plays in the Calcutta Football League.

History

East Bengal FC Reserves and Academy are the under-21, under-17, under-15 and under-13 teams of East Bengal. The under-21 team is often the last stage before the promotion into the first team. ^[2] The youth teams participate in the Elite league of various age groups. The East Bengal Academy was re-instated on 20 June 2016 with the motive to establish a strong footprint in Indian football by producing quality professional players. The main objective of this project has been to supply professional quality players to the East Bengal senior team & Indian national team. ^[2]

The East Bengal Academy was founded in the early part of the 21st century and had a major success initially as the U-19 East Bengal team won the first two U-19 National Football leagues held in 2001-02 and 2002-03 ^[3] and then the club's Under-15 team qualified for the Manchester United Premier Cup after being champions of India defeating Mahindra United 1–0 in the final, ^[4] and becoming South–East Asian regional runners up in 2007. ^[5] The Junior team faced the youth teams of Manchester United, A.S. Roma and Shandong Luneng and FK Austria Wien in the final round held in Manchester, however, they lost all the games in the group stages. ^[6] In the 17–20th place play-off semi-finals, the team defeated Bukit Jalil of Malaysia by 3-1, but lost to Central United of New Zealand in the 17th place play-offs by 5-3 via tiebreakers, after the game ended goalless. The U-15 team finished 18th ^[7] among the 20 teams who had reached the world final stage and is to date the best finish by any Indian club in the Nike Premier Cup. ^[8] The East Bengal U-19 team was the primary youth team before the Elite League started in 2010. Players like Israil Gurung, Saikat Saha Roy etc. were part of the East Bengal youth setup in the mid 2000s. In 2006, former East Bengal legend and National League winning coach Monoranjan Bhattacharya was appointed as the head coach of the East Bengal U-19 team. ^[9]

The East Bengal Academy started with new endeavours in 2016 as they brought in Ranjan Chowdhury as head of the project with an aim to produce Indian talents and build up the supply line for the main team of East Bengal. ^[10] The team finished runners-up in the 2016–17 I-League U18, losing 2-1 to AIFF Elite Academy in the final. The team also reached the semi-final in 2017–18. ^[11] The team was disbanded after the 2019–20 Indian Elite League was called off due to COVID-19 pandemic in India. In 2022, after the new investors Emami Group joined the club, the youth teams have been revived

Reserve team

East Bengal officially did not have a reserve team prior to 2020. However, the club formed a reserve team composed of academy players and few senior team members to participate in minor tournaments like Bordoloi Trophy, Darjeeling Gold Cup etc. In 2018, the East Bengal Reserves team, coached by Ranjan Chowdhury, won the Darjeeling Gold Cup defeating another Kolkata giant Mohammedan Sporting in the final. ^[12]

The reserve team was formed in 2020 and intended to play in the I-League 2, along with the Calcutta Football League from the 2020–21 season. ^[13] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the team was scrapped and after new investors Emami group tied up with the club, the reserve team was once again launched in 2022. Former Kerala football team coach Bino George was appointed as the head coach of the reserve team. ^{[14] [15]} The club also recruited former captain Sangram Mukherjee as the goalkeeper coach for the team. ^[16] The club also bolstered the squad by making some top signings from the Santosh Trophy teams, including five players from Kerala, the champions of the 2021–22 edition. ^{[17] [18]} The reserve participated in the 2022 Calcutta Premier Division and finished fourth in the Super Six. ^[19] The reserve team also participated in the 2022–23 I-League 2 along with the reserve teams of other Indian Super League sides – Bengaluru FC, Chennaiyin FC , FC Goa, Hyderabad FC and Mumbai City FC. The club also roped in AFC A license holder Archisman Biswas as the assistant coach for the reserve side. ^[20] In the first season, East Bengal reserves side finished third in the group behind United and Shillong Lajong. ^[21]

Reserve squad

As of 6 September 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 99 GK   IND Aditya Patra 50 GK   IND Suryash Jaiswal 65 GK   IND Muhammed Nishad P. — GK   IND Ranit Sarkar — GK   IND Bacchu Das 61 DF   IND Athul Uninkrishnan 58 DF   IND Niranjan Mondal 53 DF   IND Arpan Polley 60 DF   IND Adil Amal — DF   IND Ramesh Limbu Chemjang — DF   IND Pranav Mandavi — DF   IND Rahul Naskar — DF   IND Bunando Singh Khangembam 52 MF   IND Sanjib Ghosh 55 MF   IND Dip Saha — MF   IND Sagar Khamaru 56 MF   IND Tanmay Das

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   IND Sujit Singh 38 MF   IND Mahitosh Roy — MF   IND Naseeb Rahman — MF   IND Shyamal Besra — MF   IND Avishek Kunjam — MF   IND Danger Brahma — MF   IND Razibul Mistry — MF   IND Koustav Dutta 54 FW   IND Vishnu TM — FW   IND Aftab Alam 97 FW   IND Subham Bhowmick 64 FW   IND Jesin TK 62 FW   IND Lijo L. 82 FW   IND Vishnu PV — FW   IND Sayan Banerjee

Coaching staff

Role	Name
Head coach	Bino George
Assistant coach	Archisman Biswas
Goalkeeper coach	Sangram Mukherjee
Physiotherapist	MD Shakil
Head of Performance & Video Analyst	Aromal Vijayan
Team manager	Pratim K. Saha

Under-21

The East Bengal U-21 team participates in the Reliance Foundation Development League, the primary U-21 tournament in Indian Football from 2023. ^{[22] [23] [24]} The Reserve team head coach Bino George has been in charge of the developmental league squad. ^[25] On 14 March 2024, in the first RFDL game, East Bengal defeated United SC. ^[26] On 21 April 2023, East Bengal defeated arch-rivals Mohun Bagan U-21 2–0 to become the East zone champions and qualify for the national group stage in their very first season in the RFDL. ^{[27] [28]} East Bengal finished second in the national group stage and ended their maiden campaign. ^[29] In 2024, East Bengal once again became the East Zone champions. ^[30]

Squad

East Bengal squad for the Reliance Foundation Development League 2024.

As of 14 April 2024 ^[31]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Rohit Goyat 4 DF   IND Prajjal Saha 10 FW   IND Debojit Roy 13 GK   IND Prabhsukhan Singh Gill (U-23) 30 MF   IND Vanlalpeka Guite 35 MF   IND Gurnaj Singh Grewal 40 DF   IND Tingku Kangujam(U-23) 53 DF   IND Arpan Polley(U-23) 54 DF   IND Adil Amal(U-23) 61 MF   IND Tanmay Das(U-23) 62 MF   IND Aman C. K. 63 MF   IND Muhammed Roshal P P 64 MF   IND Naseeb Rahman(U-23) 65 DF   IND Rahul Naskar(U-23) 66 MF   IND Shyamal Besra 67 FW   IND Sourav Biswas(U-23) 70 FW   IND Avishek Kunjam 73 MF   IND Razibul Mistry

No. Pos. Nation Player 74 DF   IND Bunando Singh Khangembam 75 GK   IND Ranit Sarkar 80 DF   IND Malsawmtluanga Hrasel 81 FW   IND Suman Dey 82 FW   IND Vishnu P. V. (U-23) 84 MF   IND Sayan Banerjee 85 DF   IND Nayan Tudu 86 DF   IND Tuhin Paul 87 FW   IND Faizan Waheed 88 DF   IND Abhishek Baxla 89 MF   IND Muhammed Musharaf 90 DF   IND Joseph Justin 92 DF   IND Naorem Borish Singh 93 DF   IND Priyoka Thounaojam 94 DF   IND Manabir Basumatary 95 GK   IND Gourab Shaw 96 FW   IND Chabungbam Linky Meitei 97 FW   IND Kartick Oraon

Performance record

As of 20 April 2024

Performance of East Bengal Academy in Reliance Foundation Development League
Year	Zonal Round	National Group Stage	National Championship	Next Gen Cup	Ref
2022	Did not participate			—	[32]
2023	Champions	2nd	Did not qualify	Did not qualify	[33]
2024	Champions	Champions	Semi-Finals	Qualified

Under-17

The under-17 team participates in the U17 Youth Cup. The team is coached by former East Bengal captain Tarun Dey. ^[34]

The National Football League U-19 was launched in 2001 and the East Bengal U-19 team won the inaugural edition defeating India sub-juniors 3–2 in the final. ^[35] The U-19 team defended the title the following year as they defeated JCT Football Academy 1–0 in the final. ^[36] The team also finished runners-up in the 2003–04 edition as they lost to their rivals Mohun Bagan U-19 3–1 in the penalty shoot-out after the final ended 0–0 in regulation time. ^[3] After the tournament was restarted as the I-League U19 in 2008 and later renamed to Elite League, the East Bengal team became runners-up four times, failing to win to the title. In 2022, the tournament was redesigned as a U-17 category, after not being held for two seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[37] In 2024, the team clinched Kolkata leg of the Dream Sports Championship title defeating United SC in final. ^[38]

Squad

The East Bengal Under-17 squad for 2023-24 season ^[39]

As of 10 December 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Aniket Kar 2 DF   IND MD Yusuf 4 DF   IND Prajjal Saha 5 DF   IND Haru Roy 7 MF   IND Ajay Sahani 8 MF   IND Mohammed Yasin 9 FW   IND Raj Jyoti Majhi 10 FW   IND Debojit Roy 11 MF   IND Sumit Durlov 12 DF   IND Ashish Roy 13 MF   IND Pradip Mishra 14 MF   IND Md Afjal 15 MF   IND Sujoy Pal 16 MF   IND Mainak Saha 17 MF   IND Roktim Jana

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF   IND Dipu Sardar 19 MF   IND Nababrata Baul Das 20 DF   IND Naorem Ibungo Singh 21 MF   IND Salman Dewan 22 MF   IND Debobrato Roy Choudhary 23 MF   IND Ranit Mondal 24 DF   IND Sk Riyajul Islam 25 MF   IND Alfred Lalrinpuia 26 DF   IND Kartik Hansda 27 GK   IND Deep Barman 28 MF   IND Gopal Das 35 MF   IND Gunraj Singh Grewal 55 GK   IND Sutirtha Das 99 GK   IND Koushik Chhatui

Coaching Staff

As of 18 December 2023

Role	Name
Head coach	Barun Sengupta
Assistant coach	Hirak Saha
Physiotherapist	Ankan Roy Chowdhury
Team manager	Aritra Dutta
Assistant team manager	Arun Kumar Jaiswal

Performance record

As of 15 January 2024

Performance of East Bengal Academy in Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Final Position	Ref
2001	National Football League U-19	Champions	[3] [35]
2002–03	National Football League U-19	Champions	[3] [40] [36]
2003–04	National Football League U-19	Not Held	[3]
2004–05	National Football League U-19	Runners-up	[3]
2005–07	National Football League U-19	Not Held	[3]
2008	I-League U19	Quarter-Finals	[41]
2009	I-League U19	Not Held
2010	I-League U19	Runners-up	[42]
2011	I-League U19	Runners-up	[43]
2012	I-League U-20	Group Stages	[44]
2013	I-League U-20	Final Round	[45]
2014	I-League U19	Runners-up	[46]
2014–15	I-League U19	Group Stages	[47]
2015–16	I-League U-18	Final Round	[48]
2016–17	I-League U-18	Runners-up	[49]
2017–18	Youth League U-18	Semi-Finals	[11]
2018–19	Elite League U-18	Quarter-Finals	[50]
2019–20	Elite League U-18	Abandoned [lower-alpha 1]	[51]
2020–22	Elite League U-18	Not Held	[37]
2022–23	U17 Youth Cup	Group Stages	[52]
2023–24	U-17 Youth League	Disqualified [lower-alpha 2]	[54]

1. League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[51]
2. East Bengal was disqualified after fielding an overaged player in the league. ^[53]

Under-15

The under-15 team participates in the Elite Youth League. The team is coached by Chandan Kumar Ray. ^[55]

Squad

The East Bengal Academy Under-15 squad for 2019–20 season

As of 26 July 2019

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1   IND Firaz Molla 2   IND Avigit Hansda 3   IND Susobhan Naskar 4   IND Shafik Sk. 5   IND Sagar Porel 6   IND Shib Sundar Tudu 7   IND Akhay Dey 8   IND Chiranjit Ghosh 9   IND Kinkar Golui 10   IND Rupam Biswas 11   IND Jit Halder 12   IND Soumyadip Jyoti 13   IND Sagnik Ray 14   IND Toufik Islam

No. Pos. Nation Player 15   IND Argha Manna 16   IND Rohit Singh 17   IND Tohit Laskar 18   IND Baburam Mandi 19   IND Ajibur Rahaman Molla 20   IND Tritam Lodh 21   IND Rajkumar Kisku 22   IND Silton Bhattacharjee 23   IND Ayan Das 24   IND Mohammad Taha Tanvir 25   IND Barun Sarma 26   IND Sattwick Mandal 27   IND Preetam Roy 28   IND Kaioum Ali

Performance record

Performance of East Bengal Academy in U-15 Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Final Position
2005-06	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Runners [56]
2006-07	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Champions [4]
2015-16	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Zonal Round
2016-17	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Zonal Round
2017-18	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	National Finals [57]
2018-19	U-15 Hero Junior League	National Playoffs [58]
2019-20	U-15 Hero Junior League	Disqualified (League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

Matches at the 2007 Nike Premier Cup

  Win  Draw  Loss

Manchester United U15 v East Bengal U15

1 August 2007Group stage	Manchester United U15	5–0 [59]	East Bengal U15	Manchester
09:30 BST	Nicholas Jackson 11' David Mellor 17', 28', 38' Rory Gorman 20'	Report		Stadium: Carrington

Shandong Luneng U15 v East Bengal U15

1 August 2007Group stage	Shandong Luneng U15	3–0 [60]	East Bengal U15	Manchester
14:30 BST	??	Report		Stadium: Carrington

FK Austria Wien U15 v East Bengal U15

2 August 2007Group stage	FK Austria Wien U15	2–0 [61]	East Bengal U15	Manchester
09:30 BST	David 11' Christoph 15'	Report		Stadium: Carrington

AS Roma U15 v East Bengal U15

2 August 2007Group stage	AS Roma U15	2–0 [62]	East Bengal U15	Manchester
15:30 BST	Mattia Montini 2', 42'	Report		Stadium: Carrington

East Bengal U15 v Bukit Jalil U15

3 August 200717-20th Semi Final	East Bengal U15	3–1 [63]	Bukit Jalil U15	Manchester
09:30 BST	Suprovan Dhar 4' Ajoy Ray 7', 20'	Report	Fouzan 30'	Stadium: Carrington

East Bengal U15 v Central United U15

3 August 200717-20th Final	East Bengal U15	0–0 [7] (3–5 p)	Central United U15	Manchester
11:30 BST		Report		Stadium: Carrington
	Penalties
	Rakesh Roy Supravan Dhar Joydeb Chakraborty Pintu Dutta

Under–13

The under–13 team participates in the Elite Youth League. The team is coached by Suraj Singh Bisht. ^[64]

Squad

The East Bengal Under–13 squad for the 2023–24 season

As of 20 April 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Sayan Sarkar 13 GK   IND Sk Samim 30 GK   IND Ayush Ghosh 2 DF   IND Koustav Das 5 DF   IND Raj Limbu 20 DF   IND Sanjit Sardar 22 DF   IND Sisir Sarkar 7 MF   IND Arnab Halder 17 MF   IND Abhara Dey 25 MF   IND Rimo Saha

No. Pos. Nation Player 8 MF   IND Jeet Samanta 24 MF   IND Raktiam Roy 29 MF   IND Dipak Mondal 21 MF   IND Sayan Paik 28 MF   IND Bijay Bala 11 MF   IND Anuruddha Das 16 MF   IND Ranajit Ghosh 18 MF   IND Saptadeep Das 9 FW   IND Manab Marjit 19 FW   IND Chand Khatrapal

Performance record

Performance of SC East Bengal Academy in U-13 Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Zonal Round	National Finals	Top Scorer	Goals	Ref
2017–18	U-13 Hero Sub Junior League	4th	Did not qualify	Souvik Dari Jit Sarkar	2
2018–19	U-13 Hero Sub Junior League	2nd	Did not qualify	Rajibul Halder	3	[65]
2019–20	U-13 Hero Sub Junior League	League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic		Avijit Kotal	3
2023–24	U-13 Sub Junior Youth League	Champions	To be decided	Sisir Sarkar	12

Noted graduates

Those who made it at the club

East Bengal's youth system has been successful over the last few years; many players who have come through it have gone on to feature in the first-team. The following players have risen up the ranks from the under age teams and gone on to play over ten competitive matches for the first team.

Players who have represented the National team are in Bold.

2000s Anupam Sarkar Kingshuk Debnath Priyant Singh Saikat Saha Roy Gouranga Biswas Budhiram Tudu Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

2010s Abhinas Ruidas Seiminlen Doungel Jiten Murmu Mehtab Singh Prakash Sarkar Manoj Mohammed Bidyashagar Singh PC Rohlupuia

2020s Gurpreet Singh Sandhu playing for East Bengal senior team Ankit Mukherjee Hira Mondal Dip Saha

Those who made it elsewhere

East Bengal FC academy graduates who didn't make it at the club but made it somewhere else and even went on to play for the national team:

Players who have represented the National team are in Bold.

2000s Arup Debnath Israil Gurung

2010s Milan Singh Pankaj Moula Ankit Mukherjee Rafique Ali Sardar

2020s Telem Suranjit Singh Salam Johnson Singh Bikash Singh Sagolshem Saurav Mandal

Honours

Reserves

• Darjeeling Gold Cup (1): 2018 ^[12]
• Madhyamgram MLA Cup (1): 2023 ^[66]
• Kulodakanta Memorial Shield (1): 2023 ^[67]

Academy U18

• IFA Shield ^{[upper-alpha 1]} (1): 2018 ^{[68] [69]}

• National Football League U-19 (2): 2001, 2002–03 ^[70]

• AIFF Youth Leagues (Runners up) (4): 2010, ^[42] 2011, ^[71] 2014, ^[46] 2016-17 ^[72]

• Zee Bangla Football League (U-19) (1): 2019(Joint Winners) ^[73]

• SRMB Cup (U-18) (1): 2019 ^[74]

• All Bengal Knockout Tournament (U-19) (1): 2019^{[ citation needed ]}

Academy U-15

• Manchester United Premier Cup India: 2007 ^{[4] [75]}

Others

• Gothia Cup (U16) runners-up: 1996 ^[76]

1. Under-19 Tournament from 2015–2018

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