List of Mohun Bagan Super Giant captains

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Mohun Bagan Super Giant (commonly referred to as Mohun Bagan) is an Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1889, it is one of the oldest football clubs in Asia. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top tier of Indian football league system. [1]

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Till now the club has won the top-flight football league a record six times — Indian Super League once, I-League twice and National Football League thrice. [2] They are one of the most successful Indian clubs in the history of the Federation Cup, having won the championship a record 14 times. [3] The club had also won several other trophies, including the ISL playoffs (1 time), the Durand Cup (17 times), the IFA Shield (22 times), the Rover's Cup (14 times) and the Calcutta Football League (30 times). [4] [5] [6]

List of captains

As of October 2024

The following is the list of first-choice captains of Mohun Bagan's main football team in each of the Indian football years/seasons: [7] [8]

Note: The list doesn't include players who had been a substitute captain for selective matches.

Bold means player has represented his nation at least once internationally at senior-level.

SeasonNationalityNameNotes/References
1889British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Manilal SenMember of one of the founding families–Sen family of Bagbazar–of the club, was the first and the longest serving captain of the team. [9]
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Monmohan Pandey
1902
1903
1904
1905British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Ramdas Bhaduri
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Shibdas Bhaduri Was the captain of the Immortal XI that won the 1911 IFA Shield. [10]
1912
1913British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Sirishchandra 'Habul' Sarkar
1914
1915
1916British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Bijoydas Bhaduri
1917
1918
1919British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Prakash Ghosh
1920
1921British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Gostha Pal [11]
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Umapati Kumar
1927
1928
1929
1930British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Sudhansu Bose
1931British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Dr. Manmatha Nath Dutta
1932
1933
1934British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Abdul HamidFrom Quetta, Baluchistan; was the first captain not from Bengal.
1935British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Bhola Sarkar
1936British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Satu Chowdhary
1937
1938British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Bimal MukherjeeWas the captain of the first CFL Premier Division winning team in 1939. [12]
1939
1940British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Nanda Roy Choudhury
1941
1942British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Mona Guin
1943British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Anil Dey
1944
1945
1946British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India Sarat Das
1947
1948Flag of India.svg  India Talimeren Ao [13] [14]
1949
1950Flag of India.svg  India Sailen Manna [15]
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955Flag of India.svg  India Md. Abdus Sattar [16]
1956
1957Flag of India.svg  India Swaraj Chatterjee
1958Flag of India.svg  India Samar 'Badru' Banerjee [17]
1959Flag of India.svg  India Sushil Guha
1960Flag of India.svg  India Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami [18] [19]
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965Flag of India.svg  India Jarnail Singh Had become the only ever Indian to lead Asian All-Star team in 1966. [20] [21] [22]
1966
1967
1968Flag of India.svg  India Isaiah Arumainayagam
1969Flag of India.svg  India Chandreswar Prasad
1970
1971
1972Flag of India.svg  India Bhabani Ray
1973Flag of India.svg  India Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar
1974Flag of India.svg  India Syed Nayeemuddin
1975Flag of India.svg  India Nirmal Goswami
1976Flag of India.svg  India Prasanta Mitra
1977Flag of India.svg  India Subrata Bhattacharya [23]
1978Flag of India.svg  India Prasun Banerjee Was the captain of the first club based national tournament–Federation Cup–winning team in 1978.
1979Flag of India.svg  India Dilip Palit
1980Flag of India.svg  India Compton Dutta
1981Flag of India.svg  India Pradip Chowdhury
1982Flag of India.svg  India Shyam Thapa
1983Flag of India.svg  India Gautam Sarkar Was the first former East Bengal captain to lead the team. [24]
1984Flag of India.svg  India Shyamal Bose
1985Flag of India.svg  India Bidesh Bose
1986Flag of India.svg  India Krishnendu Roy
1987Flag of India.svg  India Babu Mani [25]
1988Flag of India.svg  India Prasanta Banerjee
1989Flag of India.svg  India Sisir Ghosh
1990Flag of India.svg  India Satyajit Chatterjee
1991Flag of India.svg  India Sisir Ghosh
1992Flag of India.svg  India Achintya Belei
1993Flag of India.svg  India Amit Bhadra
1994Flag of India.svg  India Tanumoy Basu
1995Flag of India.svg  India Sisir Ghosh
1996
1997Flag of India.svg  India Aloke Das
1998Flag of India.svg  India Biswanath MondalWas the captain of the first national league–National Football League–winning team in 1997-98.
1999Flag of India.svg  India Hemanta Dora
2000Flag of India.svg  India Lolendra Singh
2001Flag of India.svg  India Debjit Ghosh
2002Flag of India.svg  India Dulal Biswas
2003Flag of India.svg  India Renedy Singh [26] [27]
2004Flag of India.svg  India Monitombi Singh
2005Flag of India.svg  India Mehtab Hossain [28]
2006Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil José Ramirez Barreto Was the first foreign national captain of the team. [29] [30] [note 1]
2007-08Flag of India.svg  India Bhaichung Bhutia [31] [32] [33]
2008-09
Flag of India.svg  India Lalkamal Bhowmick [34]
2009-10Flag of India.svg  India Sangram Mukherjee [35]
2010-11Flag of India.svg  India Ishfaq Ahmed [36]
2011-12Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil José Ramirez Barreto [37]
2012-13Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria Odafa Onyeka Okolie [38] [39]
2013-14
2014-15Flag of India.svg  India Shilton Paul Was the captain of the first professional national league–I-League–winning team in 2014-15. [40] [41] [42]
2015-16
2016-17Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Katsumi Yusa [43]
2017-18Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti Sony Nordé [44]
Flag of India.svg  India Kingshuk Debnath [note 2]
2018-19Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria Eze Kingsley Obumneme [45] [46]
Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti Sony Nordé [47] [note 3]
2019-20Flag of India.svg  India Dhanachandra Singh [48] [49]
2020-21Flag of India.svg  India Pritam Kotal [50] [51]
Flag of India.svg  India Arindam Bhattacharya [50] [51]
Flag of India.svg  India Sandesh Jhingan [50] [51]
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Edu García [50] [51]
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji Roy Krishna [50] [51]
2021-22 [52] [53]
Flag of India.svg  India Subhasish Bose [52] [53] [note 4]
Flag of India.svg  India Pritam Kotal [52] [53]
2022-23 [54] [55]
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Joni Kauko [54] [55] [note 5]
Flag of Guinea.svg  Guinea Florentin Pogba [54] [55] [note 5]
Flag of India.svg  India Subhasish Bose [54] [55] [note 5]
2023-24Was the captain of the first ISL winning team in 2023-24. [56] [57]
2024-25
  1. ↑ Although, Nigerian Bernard Operanozie was the first foreigner to lead Mohun Bagan, in 1993, but he was not a first-choice captain and was handed down the captainship after Amit Bhadra missed few games due to injury.
  2. ↑ Kingshuk became the first-choice captain after Nordé left the club before the end of the season.
  3. ↑ Nordé became the first-choice captain after he joined the club mid-season.
  4. ↑ Subhasish Bose did not start any match as the team captain.
  5. 1 2 3 Subhasish Bose, Joni Kauko and Florentin Pogba did not start any match as the team captain.

By nationality

As of August 2024

NationalityNo. of playersFirst (Season)Last (Season)
Asia
Flag of India.svg  India 71Manilal Sen (1889) Subhasish Bose (2024–25)
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1 Katsumi Yusa (2016–17) Katsumi Yusa (2016–17)
Total72
Africa
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 2 Odafa Onyeka Okolie (2012–13) Eze Kingsley Obumneme (2018–19)
Flag of Guinea.svg  Guinea 1 Florentin Pogba (2022–23) Florentin Pogba (2022–23)
Total3
Europe
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1 Edu García (2020–21) Edu García (2020–21)
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1 Joni Kauko (2022–23) Joni Kauko (2022–23)
Total2
North America
Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti 1 Sony Nordé (2017–18) Sony Nordé (2018–19)
Total1
South America
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1 José Ramirez Barreto (2006) José Ramirez Barreto (2011–12)
Total1
Oceania
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 1 Roy Krishna (2020–21) Roy Krishna (2021–22)
Total1

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