East Bengal Club is an Indian professional

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

club located in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, West Bengal. It participates in various tournaments conducted by Hockey Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the

East Bengal Ground The East Bengal Ground, also known as East Bengal–Aryan Ground, is the home stadium of East Bengal and Aryan. The stadium has a capacity of 23,500 people. It is one of the venues for Calcutta Football League. The stadium lies in the Kolkata ...

and also at the SAI Sports Complex at

Salt Lake Stadium The Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK; ), commonly known as the Salt Lake Stadium, is an all-seater multi-purpose stadium located in Bidhannagar, with current capacity of 85,000 spectators. Named after Swami Vivekananda, the stadium f ...

. The club participates in the

Calcutta Hockey League Calcutta Hockey League is a field hockey league organized by Hockey Bengal (formerly the Bengal Hockey Association). The first edition was held in 1905. It is a division based league held at Kolkata and is the oldest field hockey league in India. ...

and the

Beighton Cup Beighton Cup is a field hockey tournament organized by Hockey Bengal (formerly the Bengal Hockey Association). Instituted in 1895, it is one of the oldest field hockey tournaments in the world and is held every year at Kolkata. History Aristocr ...

. The team have won fourteen major state titles as of the 2022 season,

History

East Bengal Club started their hockey section after the Indian Independence in 1947 and got affiliated with the Bengal Hockey Association (BHA). The Club participated in the

and the

and were the fourth Indian hockey team to win the Calcutta Hockey League in the 1960 season. The club disbanded their hockey section in 2000, but was eventually revived after 21 years in 2021. In the next season in 2022, East Bengal won their tenth CHL title after 33 years.

Honours

League

**Champions (10): 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1989, 2022

Cup

**Champions (4): 1957, 1962, 1964, 1967 **Runners-up (3): 1963, 1970, 1987

Current squad

The squad for the 2022 season: * Vikas Dahiya *

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*Anup Valmiki *

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*Manpreet *Ajit Pandey *Roshan Kumar * Harjeet Singh *Chandan Singh *Maninder Singh *Prabhjot Singh *Iqtidar Israt *First Sharma *Aditya Singh *Nitish Neopane *Rohit *Balkar Singh *Yograj Singh *Raju Pal *Atul Island *Mohit *Arjun Yadav *Pawan Singh Chauhan *Naresh Kumar Chowdhury

Notable players

Notable players who have represented East Bengal Club includes Olympians Gurbux Singh, Joginder Singh, B. P. Govinda, Inam-ur Rahman, Vece Paes,

Mohammed Shahid Mohammed Shahid (14 April 1960 – 20 July 2016) was an Indian field hockey player. He is considered one of India's best to have played the game and was known for his dribbling skills. He was a member of the Indian team that won the gold medal ...

References

External links

Club website
{{West Bengal Sports East Bengal Club Field hockey in West Bengal Sports clubs and teams in Kolkata Field hockey clubs in India