2008–09 East Bengal FC season

Indian football club season August 2022 August 2022 East Bengal 2008–09 IND Monoranjan Bhattacharya(until 15 September 2008)IND Stanley Rozario(until 24 December 2008)IND Subhash Bhowmick(from 24 December 2008) Head-Coach Dr Pranab Dasgupta President Ground Salt Lake StadiumBarasat StadiumEast Bengal Ground I-League 6th Calcutta Football League 3rd Federation Cup Semi-finals Yusif Yakubu (11) Sunil Chhetri (13) _EastBengal_08_09_Home FFC90E FFC90E 000000 FF0000 _EastBengal_09_10_Away _EastBengal_09_10_Away _EastBengal_09_10_Away _goldtop ffffff ffffff ffffff 000000 ffffff 2007–08 2009-10 The 2008–09 season was East Bengal's 2nd season in the I-League and 89th season in existence. Competitions Overall Competition First match Last match Final positionCalcutta Football League 14 July 2008 12 September 2008 3rdI-League 26 September 2008 16 April 2009 6thFederation Cup 11 December 2008 18 December 2008 Semi-finals Overview 3 Calcutta Football League 7 3 4 21 12 I-League 7 8 7 31 26 Federation Cup 3 0 1 5 1 1 June 2009 Calcutta Football League Calcutta Football League East Bengal finished the 2008 Calcutta Premier Division in 3rd place with 25 points from 14 matches behind champions Mohun Bagan and runners-up Mohammedan Sporting.Arunava Chaudhuri 14 Feb 2019 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-reg08.html IFA-Calcutta Premier League 2008 (first level) Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 11 Aug 2021 11 May 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130511202527/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/india-reg08.html#calc live Amoy Ghoshal 14 Sep 2008 https://www.goal.com/en/news/1263/india-south-central-asia/2008/09/14/863041/mohun-bagan-crowned-champions-of-kolkata Mohun Bagan Crowned Champions Of Kolkata Goal 11 Aug 2021 11 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210811152909/https://www.goal.com/en/news/1263/india-south-central-asia/2008/09/14/863041/mohun-bagan-crowned-champions-of-kolkata live Fixtures & results #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA 14 July 2008 1 East Bengal 2–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200807.html Calcutta Port Trust Mehtab Hussain 9Kima 73 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W Jayanta Sen (East Bengal) Rathin Mukherjee 17 July 2008 2 East Bengal 1–1 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200807.html George Telegraph Alvito D'Cunha 52 Francis Chibueze Maduako 65 Kolkata Barasat Stadium D Francis Chibueze Maduako (George Telegraph) Dhanapati Roy 20 July 2008 3 East Bengal 1–3 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200807.html Mohammedan Sporting Khelemba Singh 75 Theodore Sunday Wrobeh 1 85Mike Okoro 90+2 pen Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium L Theodore Sunday Wrobeh (Mohammedan Sporting) Minangshu Bhattacharya 24 July 2008 4 East Bengal 1–1 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200807.html Railway FC Parveen Kumar 16 Suraj Mandal 33 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Suraj Mandal (Railway FC) Kashinath Sen 29 July 2008 5 East Bengal 1–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200807.html Chirag United Ashim Biswas 49 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W Ashim Biswas (East Bengal) Dilip Ghosh 1 August 2008 6 East Bengal 3–1 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200808.html Peerless Ashim Biswas 22Parveen Kumar 28 67 Uzozle Emmanuel Junior 45+3 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W Parveen Kumar (East Bengal) Debashish Mishra 5 August 2008 7 Mohun Bagan 2–1 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200808.html East Bengal Lalawmpuia Pachuau 72 82 Alvito D'Cunha 19 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium L Lalawmpuia Pachuau (Mohun Bagan) Minangshu Bhattacharya 11 August 2008 8 Calcuta Port Trust 0–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200808.html East Bengal Kolkata Barasat Stadium D Simanta Das (Calcuta Port Trust) Barun Saha 14 August 2008 9 George Telegraph 1–2 https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/hard-fought-win-for-eb/cid/557172 East Bengal Freebone Ipekere 90 Saumik Dey 32Suley Musah 53 pen Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Abhra Mondal (East Bengal) Kashinath Sen 25 August 2008 10 Mohammedan Sporting 0–2 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200808.html East Bengal Nirmal Chettri 23Ashim Biswas 27 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Ashim Biswas (East Bengal) Rathin Mukherjee 30 August 2008 11 Railway FC 0–3 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/east-bengal-defeat-railway-fc-in-cfl/articleshow/3426270.cms East Bengal Mehrajuddin Wadoo 78Edmilson Marques Pardal 82Sunil Chhetri 85 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Sanju Pradhan (East Bengal) Debashish Mukherjee 5 September 2008 12 Chirag United 1–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200809.html East Bengal Lalmalswama Hmar 8 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium L Lalmalswama Hmar (Chirag United) Rathin Mukherjee 8 September 2008 13 Peerless 1–3 https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/comfortable-win-for-east-bengal/cid/548013 East Bengal Uzozle Emmanuel Junior 77 pen Sunil Chhetri 2Parveen Kumar 53Alvito D'Cunha 60 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Surkumar Singh (East Bengal) Tushar Kanti Guha 12 September 2008 14 East Bengal 1–1 https://www.goal.com/en/news/1263/india-south-central-asia/2008/09/14/863041/mohun-bagan-crowned-champions-of-kolkata Mohun Bagan Edmilson Marques Pardal 84 Jose Ramirez Barreto 25 pen Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Rakesh Masih (Mohun Bagan) Minangshu Bhattacharya I League 2008–09 I-League League table EB Fixtures & results #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA 26 September 2008 1 18:30 IST East Bengal 3–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/09/26/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/chirag-united-sc/716150/ Chirag United Surkumar Singh 10Yusif Yakubu 19Sunil Chhetri 28 Shankar Oraon 79 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W Sunil Chhetri (East Bengal) S. Suresh 30 September 2008 2 18:30 IST East Bengal 0–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/09/30/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/mumbai-fc/716156/ Mumbai Felix Aboagye 23 Kolkata Barasat Stadium L Selwyn Fernandes (Mumbai) A. Arjunan 12 October 2008 3 15:30 IST Air India 2–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/10/12/india/i-league/air-india/east-bengal-club-fc/716166/ East Bengal Surojit Roy 48Michael Tayo 79 Mumbai Cooperage Ground L Michael Tayo (Air India) O.P. Thakur 18 October 2008 4 18:00 IST East Bengal 2–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/10/18/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/vasco-sports-club/716170/ Vasco Yusif Yakubu 7 90 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Yusif Yakubu (East Bengal) P.K. Bose 25 October 2008 5(KD) 17:00 IST Mohun Bagan 1–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/10/25/india/i-league/mohun-bagan-ac/east-bengal-club-fc/716177/ East Bengal Bhaichung Bhutia 2 Syed Rahim Nabi 39Surkumar Singh 0 49 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Ishfaq Ahmed (Mohun Bagan) Pradeep Kumar 2 November 2008 6 17:00 IST Mohammedan Sporting 0–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/11/02/india/i-league/mohammedan-sporting-club/east-bengal-club-fc/716185/ East Bengal Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Tharangachan Tungshang (Mohammedan Sporting) P.K. Bose 7 November 2008 7 17:00 IST East Bengal 1–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/11/07/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/mahindra-united/716186/ Mahindra United Sunil Chhetri 61 Paresh Shivalkar 58 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Dharmaraj Ravanan (Mahindra United) P. Bhaskar 15 November 2008 8 17:00 IST East Bengal 3–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/11/15/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/sporting-club-de-goa/716193/ Sporting Club de Goa Sunil Chhetri 14Syed Rahim Nabi 27 32 Harmanjot Khabra 54 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Syed Rahim Nabi (East Bengal) A. Arjunan 22 November 2008 9 14:30 IST JCT 1–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/11/22/india/i-league/jagajit-cotton-textile-fc/east-bengal-club-fc/716200/ East Bengal Eduardo da Silva Escobar 68 pen Ludhiana Guru Nanak Stadium L Jaspal Parmar (JCT) Dinesh Nair 26 November 2008 10 16:00 IST Dempo 1–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/11/26/india/i-league/dempo-sports-club/east-bengal-club-fc/721465/ East Bengal Climax Lawrence 79 Margao Fatorda Stadium L Climax Lawrence (Dempo) P. Bhaskar 1 December 2008 11 15:30 IST East Bengal 1–2 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2008/12/01/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/churchill-brothers-sc/721473/ Churchill Brothers Chitrasen Chandam 2 Ogba Kalu 32Mehrajuddin Wadoo 61 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium L Ogba Kalu (Churchill Brothers) S. Suresh 24 January 2009 12 14:45 IST Chirag United 0–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/01/24/india/i-league/chirag-united-sc/east-bengal-club-fc/729456/ East Bengal Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Somnath Khara (Chirag United) P.K. Bose 24 January 2009 13 15:30 IST Mumbai 2–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/01/31/india/i-league/mumbai-fc/east-bengal-club-fc/729460/ East Bengal Abhishek Yadav 47Abel Hammond 88 Yusif Yakubu 13 pen Mumbai Cooperage Ground L Abel Hammond (Mumbai) A. Rowan 7 February 2008 14 15:00 IST East Bengal 3–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/02/07/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/air-india/729470/ Air India Yusif Yakubu 49Sunil Chhetri 56Sanju Pradhan 81 Subhash Singh 88 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Sanju Pradhan (East Bengal) Dinesh Nair 14 February 2008 15 16:15 IST Vasco 1–4 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/02/14/india/i-league/vasco-sports-club/east-bengal-club-fc/729475/ East Bengal Sherzod Nazarov 52 Sunil Chhetri 28 90Yusif Yakubu 46 56 Margao Fatorda Stadium W Yusif Yakubu (East Bengal) Pratap Singh 22 February 2008 16(KD) 18:30 IST East Bengal 3–0 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/02/22/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/mohun-bagan-ac/729482/ Mohun Bagan Syed Rahim Nabi 22 40Sunil Chhetri 47 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium W Syed Rahim Nabi (East Bengal) Dinesh Nair 28 February 2008 17 18:30 IST East Bengal 2–2 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/02/28/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/mohammedan-sporting-club/729486/ Mohammedan Sporting Nirmal Chettri 49Sunil Chhetri 54 Mike Okoro 4Eugene Gray 30 Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium D Sunil Chhetri (East Bengal) Shaji Kurian 6 March 2008 18 16:00 IST Mahindra United 2–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/03/06/india/i-league/mahindra-united/east-bengal-club-fc/729490/ East Bengal Chidi Edeh 54 pen 70 pen Sunil Chhetri 50 Mumbai Cooperage Ground L Chidi Edeh (Mahindra United) A. Arjunan 15 March 2008 19 16:15 IST Sporting Club de Goa 1–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/03/15/india/i-league/sporting-club-de-goa/east-bengal-club-fc/729500/ East Bengal Joseph Pereira 64 Ishmael Addo 42 Margao Fatorda Stadium D Joseph Pereira (Sporting Club de Goa) 22 March 2008 20 16:15 IST Churchill Brothers 3–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/03/22/india/i-league/churchill-brothers-sc/east-bengal-club-fc/729506/ East Bengal Odafa Onyeka Okolie 33 74Ogba Kalu 47 Yusif Yakubu 90+1 Margao Fatorda Stadium L Odafa Onyeka Okolie (Churchill Brothers) P. Bhaskar 3 April 2008 21 18:30 IST East Bengal 2–1 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/04/03/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/jagajit-cotton-textile-fc/742862/ JCT Yusif Yakubu 35 69 Eduardo da Silva Escobar 76 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W Yusif Yakubu (East Bengal) O.P. Thakur 16 April 2008 22 15:45 IST East Bengal 2–2 https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/04/16/india/i-league/east-bengal-club-fc/dempo-sports-club/767074/ Dempo Yusif Yakubu 12Ishmael Addo 60 Creson Antao 21Beto 22 Kolkata Barasat Stadium D Yusif Yakubu (East Bengal) P.K. Bose Federation Cup 2008 Indian Federation Cup East Bengal started the Federation Cup campaign as defending champions and was allotted into Group C alongside JCT, New Delhi Heroes and Sporting Club de Goa. East Bengal won all the group matches and reached the semi-finals where they lost to their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan in the penalty shoot-out after the game ended 1–1 in regulation time.Arunava Chaudhuri 26 Feb 2009 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiacup09.html 30th Federation Cup 2008 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 11 Aug 2021 11 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210811154725/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/indiacup09.html#fedcup live Sudeep Pakrashi 19 Dec 2008 http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/bagan-hold-nerve-move-into-final/400376/ Bagan hold nerve, move into final Indian Express 11 Aug 2021 Group C main WDL Q n Group C EBG IND East Bengal JCT IND JCT NDH IND New Delhi Heroes SCG IND Sporting Club de Goa 3 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 4 1 0 2 1 3 2 0 1 3 1 #ccffcc A EBG complete 30th Federation Cup 2008 Fixtures & results #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA 11 December 2008 QF Group Stage 17:45 IST East Bengal 2–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200812.html New Delhi Heroes Sunil Chhetri 46Alvito D'Cunha 83 Santosh Singh 2 72 90+2 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W Shaji Kurian 13 December 2008 QF Group Stage 17:45 IST East Bengal 1–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200812.html JCT Sunil Chhetri 47 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W T. Pradip Kumar 15 December 2008 QF Group Stage 17:45 IST East Bengal 1–0 http://www.indianfootball.de/news/m200812.html Sporting Club de Goa Sanju Pradhan 79 Kolkata Barasat Stadium W A. Arjunan 18 December 2008(KD) Semi-final 18:30 IST East Bengal 1–1 yes http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/bagan-hold-nerve-move-into-final/400376/ Mohun Bagan Sanju Pradhan 61 Jose Ramirez Barreto 65 Parveen Kumar Hossain Sen Chhetri 3–5 Barreto Pereira Bhowmick Pachuau JL Singh Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium L A. Arjunan Statistics Appearances Players with no appearances are not included in the list. Appearances for East Bengal in 2008–09 season No.Pos.Nat.NameCFLI LeagueFed CupTotalAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStarts Goalkeepers 24 GK IND Subrata Paul 4 4 13 13 1 1 18 18 1 GK IND Abhra Mondal 6 6 9 8 3 3 18 17 21 GK IND Avijit Ghosh 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 31 GK IND Arnab Das Sharma 4 4 4 4 Defenders 19 DF IND Syed Rahim Nabi 4 4 22 22 3 2 29 28 26 DF IND Mehrajuddin Wadoo 4 4 21 20 4 4 29 28 3 DF IND Nirmal Chettri 10 8 19 17 4 4 33 29 29 DF IND Saumik Dey 10 10 18 18 4 4 32 32 22 DF GHA Suley Musah 9 8 14 14 3 3 26 25 27 DF IND Surkumar Singh 3 3 13 13 0 0 16 16 2 DF IND Muttah Suresh 6 6 9 8 0 0 15 14 5 DF IND Khelemba Singh 9 8 3 2 0 0 12 10 17 DF IND Jeevan Singh 4 3 1 0 5 3 20 DF IND Poibang Pohshna 4 4 2 1 6 5 16 DF IND Saheb Ali Mondal 1 0 1 0 33 DF IND Saikat Saha Roy 5 3 5 3 12 DF IND Anupam Sarkar 7 7 7 7 Midfielders 7 MF IND Jayanta Sen 10 9 20 14 4 4 34 27 14 MF IND Mehtab Hossain 9 9 17 13 4 4 30 26 22 MF IND Sanju Pradhan 7 7 17 6 4 3 28 16 8 MF IND Renedy Singh 2 2 16 15 2 2 20 19 9 MF IND Alvito D'Cunha 11 7 10 2 4 0 25 9 18 MF GHA Ishmael Addo 10 8 10 8 28 MF IND Malsawmkima 13 9 9 4 2 1 24 14 6 MF IND Dipankar Roy 6 2 2 0 8 2 15 MF IND Dharamjit Singh 2 1 1 0 3 1 23 MF IND Mumtaz Akhtar 1 0 1 0 2 0 Forwards 12 FW GHA Yusif Yakubu 21 21 4 4 25 25 11 FW IND Sunil Chhetri 5 5 17 17 4 4 26 26 25 FW IND Parveen Kumar 12 3 8 3 3 0 23 6 10 FW IND Ashim Biswas 13 13 5 1 18 14 30 FW BRA Edmilson Marques Pardal 7 3 2 2 9 5 32 FW IND Goutam Kujur 5 3 3 0 8 3 Goal scorers Goals for East Bengal in 2008–09 seasonRankNo. Squad NumberPos. PositionNat. NationalityNameCFLI LeagueFed CupTotal 1 11 FW IND Sunil Chhetri 2 9 2 13 2 12 FW GHA Yusif Yakubu 11 0 11 3 19 DF IND Syed Rahim Nabi 0 5 0 5 4 9 MF IND Alvito D'Cunha 3 0 1 4 25 FW IND Parveen Kumar 4 0 0 4 6 10 FW IND Ashim Biswas 3 0 3 22 MF IND Sanju Pradhan 0 1 2 3 8 3 DF IND Nirmal Chettri 1 1 0 2 18 MF GHA Ishmael Addo 2 2 30 FW BRA Edmilson Marques Pardal 2 0 2 11 5 DF IND Khelemba Singh 1 0 0 1 14 MF IND Mehtab Hossain 1 0 0 1 22 DF GHA Suley Musah 1 0 0 1 26 DF IND Mehrajuddin Wadoo 1 0 0 1 27 DF IND Surkumar Singh 0 1 0 1 28 MF IND Malsawmkima 1 0 0 1 29 DF IND Saumik Dey 1 0 0 1 Own goals 0 1 0 1 Total 21 31 5 57 References Category:East Bengal Club seasons