Full name | East Bengal Club |
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Short name | East Bengal |
Founded | 1947[1] |
Colors | Red and Gold |
Home ground | East Bengal Ground (Capacity 23,500) |
Coach | Jagraj Singh |
League | Calcutta Hockey League |
2024 | CHL: 1st |
Website | Club website |
Active departments of East Bengal | ||||||||||||||||||
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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,
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[2] and were the fourth Indian hockey team to win the Calcutta Hockey League in the 1960 season.[3]
The club disbanded their hockey section in 2000,[4] 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.[5][6]
The squad for the 2022 season:[7]
Notable players who have represented East Bengal Club includes Olympians Gurbux Singh,[8] Joginder Singh, B. P. Govinda, Inam-ur Rahman, Vece Paes, Mohammed Shahid.