East Bengal Club (field hockey)

East Bengal Club is an Indian professional field hockey club located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It participates in various tournaments conducted by Hockey Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the East Bengal 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 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 Calcutta Hockey League and the Beighton Cup 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

• Calcutta Hockey League
  • Champions (10): 1960, 1961, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1989, 2022, 2024

Cup

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

Current squad

The squad for the 2022 season:

• Vikas Dahiya
• Pardeep Mor
• Anup Valmiki
• Yuvraj Valmiki
• 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.

References

External links

• Club website