Mohun Bagan AC (field hockey)

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Mohun Bagan Athletic Club
Full nameMohun Bagan Athletic Club
Nickname(s)The Mariners
Short nameMBAC
Founded15 August 1889;134 years ago (1889-08-15)
Colors  Green
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Home ground Mohun Bagan Ground
(Capacity 22,000)
President Swapan Sadhan Bose
CoachSiddharth Pandey
League Calcutta Hockey League
2022–23Champions
Website www.themohunbaganac.com
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Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is an Indian professional field hockey club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It participates in various tournaments conducted by Hockey Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the Mohun Bagan Ground and also at the SAI Sports Complex at Salt Lake Stadium. The club participates in the Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup. The team have won 41 major state titles which includes 25 CHL and 14 Beighton Cup titles. [1] [2]

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History

Mohun Bagan started their field hockey section in the early thirties and got affiliated with the Bengal Hockey Association (BHA). The Club participated in the Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup and were the second Indian field hockey club to win the Calcutta Hockey League after Greer Sporting in the 1935 season. [3]

The club disbanded their hockey section in 2000, [4] but was eventually revived after 22 years in 2022. [5]

Honours

League

Cup

Notable players

Notable players who have represented Mohun Bagan includes olympians Keshav Dutt, [6] [7] Ashok Kumar, [8] Jaswant Singh Rajput, Joginder Singh, Inam-ur Rahman etc.

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References

  1. ↑ "Trophy room". themohunbaganac.com. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Teams with Most Wins in Prestigious Beighton Cup". Hockey Passion. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF CALCUTTA HOCKEY LEAGUE COMPETITION (1905)". www.hockeybengal.org. Kolkata: Hockey Bengal. 2022. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Bhattacharya, Nilesh (7 August 2021). "As hockey regains its place in the sun, Bengal experts rue lack of basic infra". The Times of India.
  5. ↑ Morrison, Ashley (30 August 2022). "NTFS #110 – An Indian Hockey Giant Returns To The Fold, The Laws of Cricket, and The Shelf Life of Sport As A Product". Not the Footy Show.
  6. ↑ "Olympic gold-winning hockey legend Keshav Datt dies". India Today. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.{{cite magazine}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Sarangi, Y. B. (7 July 2021). "Olympic gold-winning hockey legend Keshav Datt dies". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "Hockey stalwart Ashok Kumar to receive Mohun Bagan Lifetime Achievement Award". Sportstar. 13 July 2020.
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