Mohammedan SC (India)
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- For the Dhaka club with the same name, see Mohammedan Sporting Club (Bangladesh)
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| Full name | Mohammedan Sporting Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Black Panthers (Kaale Tenduye), MIB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1891 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Mohammedan Sporting Ground (Capacity 15,000) |
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| Chairman |  M.J. Akbar |
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| Manager | Shabbir Ali |
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| League | I-League 2nd Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Promoted to I-League 1st Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | [[1] Club home page] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[edit] Mohammedan SC
Mohammedan Sporting Club, founded in 1892, is one of the leading football clubs in Kolkata, along with East Bengal Club and Mohun Bagan AC. They play currently in the second division in the I-League. Their home ground in NFL is The Salt Lake Stadium. They play Calcutta Super Division on their own ground - Mohammedan Sporting Ground, Kolkata.
They are the third most favourite football club in India[Citations Needed}. But they have faced a dearth of quality players and lack of money, which combined to affect their performance in domestic tournaments resulting in demotion to the 2nd Division of the National Football League.
Mohammedan Sporting already have SPS Group, makers of Elegant Steel, as sponsor and Reebok supplies the players' kit. However, recently the club has bagged a sponsorship deal of Rs.10 million ($226,085) with Anil Ambani's Reliance group. This deal is a big achievement for the club as it will allow them to get better foreign players and also provide other players with better facilities. Mohammedan SC are also known to their fans as The Black Panthers or in Hindi as Kaale Tenduye (which means the same). Some fans also call them "Men in Black" based on the Indian Cricket team nicknamed "Men in Blue". They usually use the formation 4-4-2. Website for MSC
[edit] History
The soccer history of India is replete with the tales of “The Big Three” Clubs of Calcutta, or rather of India. These three Clubs are Mohun Bagan AC, Mohammedan Sporting Club and East Bengal. Of these three Clubs, Mohun Bagan earned the distinction of being the first Indian team to lift the IFA Shield by defeating an English football team, the East York Regiment by 2-1 in 1911. No doubt, a very laudable achievement and at least this victory provided the Indian people something to cheer about.
But the joy proved to be ephemeral. The cheer died down very soon and the Indian nationalists relapsed into slumber. After about two decades, a new spectre arose and began to haunt the British in the sports arena and haunted them continuously for about eight years from 1934 to 1941 (if we take into accounts the B.F.A League Championship of Mohammedan Sporting in 1939). That spectre was that of Mohammedan Sporting Club which created a history by becoming the First Indian Club to win the Calcutta Football League continuously for 5 yrs from 1934 to 1938. Then again the team won in 1940 and 1941 with the IFA Shield Championship. It was also the first to smash the monopoly of the British regimental football teams in 1941 in the Durand Cup, the oldest football tournament in India. The club became the only Second Indian Football team after Bangalore Muslim Club to win the Rover’s Cup (Bombay) in 1940. It became the first Indian team to win the Du Mont Morency Cup (Lahore) in 1939.
[edit] Team Management
| Name | Position |
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| M.J. Akbar |
Chairman |
| Mohammed Qamruddin |
Manager |
| Shabbir Ali |
Coach |
| Sultan Ahmed |
Club Secretary |
| Akbar Khan |
Club President |
| Samir Chakraborty |
Physio |
[edit] Transfers
Goalkeepers::: Sk. Nazibul Haque, Gautam Das(All stay with the Club), Pronoy Roy (Garhwal Heroes, Delhi), Sandip Singh Bisth(Not yet Signed - Churchill Brothers).
Defenders::: Mir Farooq Hyder (Captain), Rajib Ahmed (All Syay with the Club), Akshay Das(Calcutta Port Trust), Rajib Ghosh(Calcutta Port Trust), Dipak Singh (George Telegraph), Seby Martins(Sporting Goa-Not yet Signed) Akbar Abidi-Abbas,(Not yet Signed) Sk Azim (Chirag United), Kali Allauddin,(Not yet Signed) V.Prem Kumar, Shameel C.,(Not yet Signed) Saneesh P.S., (Not yet Signed)Subhas Mondal(Air India), Tapan Giri(Eastern Railway SC, Calcutta)
Mid-fielders: Mohammed Munir K.P(Viva Kerala), Prosun R, (Not yet Signed -(Universal Soccer School, Kerala)A.Jothi Kumar(AGORC, Chennai), Jose Carvalho,(Not yet Signed - Sporting Goa) Basudeb Mondal (Vice-Captain Stay with Club), Roque Barreto,(Not yet Signed - Raja Sporting Club,Goa))Prasantha Chakraborty(Chirag United), Subrato Guha (Stay with the Club),Mohammed Yasin Ansari(Nagpur Blues, Maharashtra), Somy P.C.(Not yet Signed), Matthew Thangjom (SAI SC, Guwahati), Avinash Thapa(Calcutta Port Trust),Akbar Abidi Abbas
Forwards: Md.Zubair K.T(Mohammedan A.C), Raman Vijayan(Stay with the Club), Mohammed Nisam,(Stay with the Club) Nirapada Mondal(Railway F.C),Md. Moinuddin Siddike(George Telegraph), Shyju K.(Viva Kerala), Kalia Koluthungan(Stay with the Club),Eheteasam Bucks(Calcutta Customs)
[edit] Honours
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- 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1957, 1967, 1981
- Durand Cup: 1
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- 1940
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- 1983. 1984
- IFA Shield: 5
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- 1936, 1941, 1942, 1957, 1971
2004/05 2nd Division National League
2004 Bodoland Martyrs Gold Cup
4x Sait Nagjee Cup
Years: 1971, 1984, 1991, 1992
1991 Kalinga Cup
6x Rovers Cup
Years: 1940, 1956, 1959, 1980, 1984, 1987
4x DCM Trophy
Years: 1958, 1961, 1964, 1980
5x Bordoloi Trophy
Years: 1969,1970, 1985, 1986, 1991
3x Independence Day Cup
Years: 19??(Unknown), 1972, 1988
2x Airlines Gold Cup
Years: 1986, 1996
1962 Dhaka Aga Khan Gold Cup
1983 Nizam Cup
1986 Vizag Trophy
[edit] Performance in AFC competitions
- Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance
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- 1992/93: First Round
[edit] Stadium
As its homeground, the club boasts of the enigmatic Yuba Bharati Krirangan, or the Salt Lake Stadium, Asia's biggest composite stadium. It is the biggest of its kind in Asia. The Salt Lake Stadium has seating arrangement for 120,000 people at a time.
[edit] References
- Mohammedan Sporting club finds another sponsor
- Indian Football - Mohammedan SC
- Season ending Transfers 2006 (NFL India)
- - kolkatafootball.com
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