Mohun Bagan SG Youth and Academy

Mohun Bagan Youth

Nickname(s)	The Mariners
Short name	MBSG
Founded	2002;23 years ago (2002)
Ground	Mohun Bagan Ground
Capacity	22,000
Owner	RPSG Mohun Bagan Pvt. Ltd.: RPSG Group (80%) Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Pvt. Ltd. (20%)
Chairman	Sanjiv Goenka
Head coach	Deggie Cardozo (Reserves)
League	CFL Premier Division (Reserves) RF Development League AIFF Elite League
Home colours Away colours

Mohun Bagan SG Under-23s, Under-21s, Under-17s, Under-15s, and Under-13s generally known as Mohun Bagan, is the reserve team and youth system of the Indian Super League side Mohun Bagan SG. The U-21 and the reserve teams are generally referred to as last stage of progression into the senior squad. The reserve team participates in the Calcutta Football League. Youth teams also participate in the RF Development League and the AIFF Elite League. The concept for a youth team was conceived and materialised under the leadership of Balai Das Chattopadhyay in 1944. ^[1]

History

Mohun Bagan collaborated with Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) to establish a residential academy for youth development in 2002. On 20 July 2002 Mohun Bagan SAIL Football Academy was set up in Durgapur, and the primary objective of the academy was "Spot and Groom the Youth", with the best of training using modern techniques, tactics, physical and psychological conditioning, and related inputs, so that in near future, India could see them in the national platform.

In 2007 the club had appointed a famous Brazilian football expert Prof. Luiz Greco, as the Technical Director of the youth teams of Mohun Bagan SAIL Football Academy. ^[2]

The academy teams won various trophies across the country. The academy's greatest feat was achieved in 2006 when the club's U14 team qualified for the Final Round of Nike Premier Cup (Under-14), a worldwide club tournament hosted by Manchester United, by beating East Bengal in the National Qualifier and Singapore Sports School in the final of South-East Asia Qualifier. Till then no Indian team had ever participated at the premier level since independence. ^[3] The team faced some of the top clubs like Manchester United, São Paulo, Athletic Bilbao and Ferencvárosi in the group stage and, Brussels and Universidad Católica in the 17-20th place play-offs semi-finals and 19th place play-off final respectively. Unfortunately the team didn't win any match and ranked 20th in the tournament among the 20 qualified teams over the world. ^[4]

From 2015 to 2018 the U-19 team participated in the prestigious IFA Shield, which was organised as an U-19 tournament due to the busy schedules of the clubs' senior teams. Mohun Bagan was the runners-up for two consecutive seasons, 2017 and 2018. ^{[5] [6]}

In 2017 the U-15 team defeated ATK by a record 13–0 scoreline in the opening match of AIFF U15 Youth League. ^[7]

In 2019 the U-19 team also participated in a regional franchise-based Talent Hunt league called Zee Bangla Football League that featured the top 4 clubs of West Bengal (Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, Mohammedan and Aryan) along with 16 franchise teams representing various districts of the state. ^[8] The organisers declared both Mohun Bagan and East Bengal as the winners after the final match was abandoned due to fan unrest. ^[9]

In 2020, after KGSPL, owners of ATK FC, disbanded ATK and acquired an 80% stake in the footballing section of Mohun Bagan, the youth academy team was disbanded for the next two seasons. ^[10]

In June 2022, fresh trials were conducted under senior team head coach Juan Ferrando to set up new under-13, under-15 and under-18 teams, and UEFA Pro License holder Spanish coach Josep Maria Roma Gilbert was appointed from Al Hilal to take charge of the U-21 team. ^{[11] [12]} In the 2022–23 U-17 Youth Cup, the team failed to qualify for the knockout stages. The reserve team of Mohun Bagan participated in the Reliance Foundation Development League for the first time. This competition is predominantly for the under-21 age group, with five under-23 players allowed in the squad and three in the playing XI. ^[13] They successfully secured a third place and qualified for Next Gen Cup where they ranked 6th. The reserve side also participated in the CFL Premier Division under the senior team's assistant coach Bastob Roy who replaced Gilbert from the new season.

As of the 2024–25 season, the Mohun Bagan Youths team participates in various age group Regional and National level tournaments -

• AIFF Sub Junior League (U13)
• AIFF Junior League (U15)
• Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (U15)
• Indian Youth League (U17)
• Dream Sports Championship (U17)
• Chief Minister's Cup (U21/Reserves)
• Bhadreshwar Gold Cup (U21/Reserves)
• Reliance Foundation Development League (U21/Reserves)
• Calcutta Premiere Division (U23/Reserves)

U23

Squad

Mohun Bagan squad for the Calcutta Football League 2025.

As of 29 June 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 61 GK   IND Deeprobhat Ghosh 51 GK   IND Nandan Roy 91 GK   IND Priyansh Dubey 70 DF   IND Achinta Das 78 DF   IND Piyush Thakuri 96 DF   IND Pabitra Mandi 65 DF   IND Marshal Kisku 32 DF   IND Aditiya Mondal 22 DF   IND Dippendu Biswas 4 DF   IND Sahil Inamdar 73 DF   IND Umer Muhther 36 DF   IND Muhammad Bilal CV 53 DF   IND Leewan Castanha 77 DF   IND Thangjam Roshan Singh 44 MF   IND Nishar 74 MF   IND Sahil Kar 56 MF   IND Sandeep Malik

No. Pos. Nation Player 80 MF   IND Mingma Sherpa 17 MF   IND Muhammad Niyaj 81 MF   IND Thumsol Tongsin 25 MF   IND Tushar Biswakarma 50 MF   IND Gogocha Chungkham 42 MF   IND Gurnaj Singh Grewal 30 MF   IND Pallujam Rohan Singh 55 MF   IND Yendrembam Rohit Singh 79 MF   IND Taibangnganba Pangabam 98 FW   IND Karan Rai 90 FW   IND Adil Abdullah 43 FW   IND Shibam Munda 27 FW   IND Bharat Lairenjam 62 FW   IND Bivan Jyoti Laskar 71 FW   IND Salahudheen Adnan K 72 FW   IND Pasang Tamang

Performance record

As of 30 August 2025

Performance of Mohun Bagan in Calcutta Football League
Season	Result	Played	Won	Draw	Lose	GF	GA
2023	5th of 6 in super six	15	8	3	4	33	16
2024	7th of 12 in Group Stage	12	4	4	4	28	15
2025	5th of 12 in Group Stage	11	5	2	4	21	14

U21

Squad

Mohun Bagan squad for the Reliance Foundation Development League 2025.

As of 14 January 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 GK   IND Syed Zahid 51 GK   IND Nandan Roy 91 GK   IND Priyansh Dubey 55 RB   IND Pritam Meetei 77 RB   IND Ravi Bahadur Rana (U-23) 79 LB   IND Jetlee Singh 65 LB   IND Marshal Kisku 36 LB   IND Amandeep Vrish Bhan 3 CB   IND Raj Basfore 4 CB   IND Sahil Inamdar 73 CB   IND Umer Muhther 78 CB   IND Abhishek Mondal 53 CB   IND Leewan Castanha 54 LM   IND Dev Mal 43 LM   IND Shibam Munda 72 LM   IND Pasang Tamang 50 RM   IND Taison Singh 37 RM   IND Rahul Halder

No. Pos. Nation Player 40 RM   IND Haodamlian Vaiphei 44 CM   IND Nishar 74 CM   IND Sahil Kar 66 CM   IND Sibajit Singh 30 CM   IND Ningomba Engson Singh (U-23) 56 CM   IND Sandeep Malik 81 CM   IND Thumsol Tongsin 93 CM   IND Lungoulal Kipgen 70 AM   IND Tapan Halder 25 AM   IND Tushar Biswakarma 10 FW   IND Serto Kom 90 FW   IND Adil Abdullah 99 FW   IND Prem Hansdak 27 FW   IND Fardin Ali Molla(U-23) 62 FW   IND Vian Vinay Murgod 7 FW   IND Suhail Bhat 80 FW   IND Thangngaisang Haokip

Performance record

As of 18 May 2025

Performance of Mohun Bagan in Reliance Foundation Development League
Season	Result	Played	Won	Draw	Lose	Reference
2022	Did not participate					[14]
2023	3rd	15	10	3	2	[15]
2024	3rd of 5 in National Group	14	6	3	5	[16] [17]
2025	Champions	20	12	5	3	[18] [19]

Performance of Mohun Bagan in Next Gen Cup
Season	Result	Played	Won	Draw	Lose
2022	Did not participate
2023	6th	4	0	2	2
2024	Did not qualify
2025

U17

Squad

Mohun Bagan squad for the AIFF U17 Youth League 2025.

As of 5 January 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Suva Barai 51 GK   IND Nandan Roy 99 GK   IND Seiminlal Haokip 24 DF   IND Jetlee Singh 4 DF   IND Rupam Barik 28 DF   IND Adrito Mahato 3 DF   IND Aditya Mondal 44 DF   IND Jayanta Mondal 21 DF   IND Monu Rajbanshi 2 DF   IND Abhishek Mondal 40 DF   IND Rajdeep Kshetrapal 26 DF   IND Mahammad Sarfaraz 29 MF   IND Abrar Ali 7 MF   IND Anish Das 33 MF   IND Rintu Malik

No. Pos. Nation Player 10 MF   IND Bobby Singh 6 MF   IND Sainak Ghosh 22 MF   IND Rajib Bauldas 15 MF   IND Aniket Biswas 16 MF   IND Sabyasachi Dhar 19 MF   IND Ali Hossain Khan 8 MF   IND Stephen Doungle 27 MF   IND Lungoulal Kipgen 31 MF   IND Khaiminlal Khongsai 85 FW   IND Thangngaisang Haokip 86 FW   IND Prem Hansdak 87 FW   IND Sagun Hembram 88 FW   IND Akash Singh 89 FW   IND Pritam Gain

Performance record

As of 8 May 2025

Performance of Mohun Bagan in Youth Leagues
Season	Tournament	Result	Reference
2002–03	NFL U-19	??	[20]
2003–04		Not Held	[20]
2004–05		Champions	[20]
2005–06		Not Held	[20]
2006–07
2008	I-League U19	Semi Finals	[21]
2009		Not Held
2010		Championship Group Stage	[22]
2011		Group Stage	[23]
2012	I-League U20	Group Stage	[24]
2013		5th of 6th in Final Round	[25]
2014	I-League U19	Group Stage	[26]
2014-15		6th of 8th in Final Round	[27]
2015–16	I-League U-18	Group Stage	[28]
2016–17		Disqualified [a]	[30]
2017–18	Youth League U-18	Zonal Group Stage	[31]
2018–19	Elite League U-18	Quarter Finals	[32]
2019–20		Abandoned [b]	[33]
2020-21		Not Held	[34]
2021-22
2022–23	U17 Youth Cup	Group Stages	[35]
2023–24		National Group Stage	[36]
2024–25		Quarter Finals	[37]

1. Mohun Bagan disqualified for fielding over-age player. ^[29]
2. League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[33]

U15

Squad

Mohun Bagan squad for the AIFF U15 Junior League 2025.

As of 8 February 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Ranjan Malo 21 GK   IND Priyanshu Das 31 GK   IND Debayan Dutta Roy 18 DF   IND Paban Das 48 DF   IND Rupam Mahi 4 DF   IND Papu Sarkar 25 DF   IND Naim Mondal 17 DF   IND Dipra Sarkar 16 DF   IND Mikael Besra 23 DF   IND Tapas Mondal 20 DF   IND Sayan Paswan 3 DF   IND Sandip Karmakar 22 DF   IND Biswajit Debnath

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF   IND Roki Das 6 MF   IND Akash SK 42 MF   IND Hans Biswas 19 MF   IND Dipanjan Das 2 MF   IND Rohit Barman 11 MF   IND Arko Bhaskar 12 MF   IND Sahid Chowdhury 14 MF   IND Joy Chakraborty 7 MF   IND Oyshik Roy Chowdhury 9 FW   IND Sumit Singh 8 FW   IND Suroj Halder 10 FW   IND Rajdeep Paul

Performance record

Performance of Mohun Bagan in U-15 Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Final Position	Played	Won	Draw	Loss	GF	GA
2005-06	U-15 Nike Premier Cup Indian Qualifiers	Champions [38]	4	4	0	0	7	2
2006-07		Semi Finals	3	1	1	1	9	2
2007-08		Group Stage	2	0	2	0	2	2
2008-09		Disqualified [39]
2015-16	U-15 Youth League	Zonal Round	10	2	1	7	11	17
2016-17	U-16 Youth League	National Finals	13	8	3	2	24	4
2017-18	Nike Premier Cup	Zonal Round	10	6	2	2	26	7
2018-19	U-15 Hero Junior League	National Group Stage [40]	9	6	1	2	24	16
2019-20		League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic	10	8	2	0	31	7
2020-21		Not Held
2021-22
2022-23
2023-24		Quarter Finals	14	9	2	3	26	13
2024-25		Quarter Finals	14	11	1	2	54	22

U13

Squad

Source: ^[41]

As of 2 March 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   IND Sayan Debnath 21 GK   IND Hiranmoy Das 31 GK   IND Rupam Biswas 2 DF   IND Ishan Manna 3 DF   IND Gourav Sil 4 DF   IND Jishu Chakraborty 5 DF   IND Srijan Koley 27 DF   IND Ali Hussain 32 DF   IND Souvik Sikdar 6 MF   IND Nirab Roy 7 MF   IND Karthik Hembram 8 MF   IND Syed Bashir Anowar 11 MF   IND Jiyon Hansda 12 MF   IND Ehsan Mondal 28 MF   IND Lorence Kishku

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF   IND Bijoy Das 33 MF   IND Rony Karmakar 34 MF   IND Subrata Mandi 42 MF   IND Rupam Manna 45 MF   IND Sk Sakib 46 MF   IND Sk Sakibuddin 48 MF   IND Bakibillah 49 MF   IND Abhijit Hansda 9 FW   IND Shagnik Kundu 10 FW   IND Sidu Soren 30 FW   IND Archisman Paul 35 FW   IND Anubrata Baul Das 36 FW   IND Raj Mudi 37 FW   IND Sandip Roy

Coach : Chanchal Saha

Performance record

Performance of Mohun Bagan in U-13 Youth Leagues
Season	Tournament	Result	Played	Won	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	Top Scorer (Goals)
2017-18	U13- Hero Sub Junior League	Zonal Group Stage (3rd)	10	3	4	3	9	6	Dip Mahata (4)
2018-19		Zonal Group Stage (2nd)	8	5	1	2	13	5	Miraj Mullick (4)
2019-20		Abandoned [a]	8	2	2	4	5	9	Ajoy Oraw(2)
2020-21		Not Held
2021-22
2022-23
2023-24	U13 AIFF Sub Junior League	Group Stage (3rd)	10	5	2	3	32	22	Dipra Sarkar (10)
2024-25		National Group Stage	13	8	1	4	43	24	Shagnik Kundu (13)

1. League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honours

Global

• South-East Asia Qualifiers for Manchester United Premier Cup  : 2006 ^[42]

National

• National Football League U-19 (1): 2004–05 ^[43]
• Reliance Foundation Development League: 2024-25, 2023-24
• Chief Minister's Cup (1): 2024-25
• Dream Sports Championship u17: 2024-25

Regional

• Zee Bangla U-19 Football League (1): 2019 ^{[note 1]}
• Bhadreshwar Gold Cup (1): 2024-25

Notable players

• Sunil Chhetri
• Subrata Pal
• Sandip Nandy
• Subhankar Adhikari
• Abhash Thapa
• Pintu Mahata
• Deepak Tangri
• Souvik Chakrabarti
• Subha Ghosh
• Deep Saha
• Rahim Ali
• Sourav Das
• Akshunna Tyagi
• Sheikh Sahil
• Kiyan Nassiri
• Suhail Bhat
• Arsh Anwer Shaikh
• Lalrinliana Hnamte
• Mahroos siddiquee Nadim

Notes

1. Joint winners with East Bengal

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