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Aryan Football Club[2] (also known as both Aryans[3] and Aryan;[4][5] formerly Techno Aryan FC) is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, that competes in the Calcutta Football League.[6][7][8][9] The club was founded in 1884 as Aryan Sports Club.[10] It started playing football some years later, making it one of Asia's oldest football clubs. It plays home matches at the East Bengal-Aryan Ground.[11]

Aryan FC

Full name	Aryan Football Club[1]
Founded	1884; 138 years ago (1884) (as Aryan Sports Club)
Ground	East Bengal-Aryan Ground
Capacity	23,500
Owner	Techno India Group
Chairman	Satyam Roy Chowdhury
Manager	Rajdeep Nandy
League	Calcutta Premier Division A
Home colours

History

Formation and journey (1884–1930)

During the age of associations of Bengali nationalism in late 19th century, Sir Dukhiram Majumder, Kalicharan Mitra, Manmatha Ganguly were the pupils of Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, who practiced and popularized football.[12][13] Majumder founded a sporting organization named "Students Union" in Mohun Bagan Villa.[14][15] When the organization discontinued due to disagreements over wearing boots, Majumder went on to form Aryans Club in Maharaja Durga Charan Laha's Telipara field in Shyampukur.[16][17] Before the advent of East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting club, it was Aryan (then known as Aryans Club)[18] and Mohun Bagan AC,[19] who enjoyed an elite status among Indian football clubs.[20][21][22] Founded in 1884 as a multi-sports club, association football was introduced in Aryan few years later and thus it became one of the oldest football clubs in India.[23][24][25]

Majumder (1875 – 16 June 1929) became father figure of Aryans during the pre-independence era, regarded as first coach of India who brought up and guided players like Syed Abdus Samad,[26][27] Gostha Pal,[28] Shibdas Bhaduri and others.[29] Forming a coaching institute within the club,[30] he managed the team throughout his life.[31][32] It was Majumder, who started Aryan's famous policy of bringing up unknown yet talented footballers. In 1914, the Indian Football Association (IFA) permitted only two native clubs in the CFL Second Division; It Aryan one of them. In that season, Mohun Bagan earned promotion to the Premier Division but Aryan was promoted to the top division two years later.[33][34] Under Majumdar's coaching, Aryan achieved fourth place in 1920–21 Calcutta Football League and reached the semi-finals of Rovers Cup in 1928. Legendary footballers Balaidas Chatterjee and Karuna Bhattacharya appeared with Aryan at that time.[35][36]

1930–1960

While Aryan didn't enjoy the same degree of success as Mohun Bagan, they did perform well in patches. The club participated consecutively in the Calcutta Football League with their rivals, and Mohammed Salim (first Indian footballer who played for an overseas club) was one of the legendary players who appeared with Aryan in 1933–34.[37][38][39] One of Aryan's greatest moments came in 1940, that year, they won IFA Shield defeating Mohun Bagan 4–1, one of India's premier tournaments.[40] They became only the 3rd Indian run club to win the prestigious title. Moreover, they crushed Mohun Bagan 4–1 in the final. In the 40s, Alil Dey and Modassar Yasin Ali Khan from Tangail, became two of the earliest known Bangladeshi footballers to play for the club.[41]

Aryan enjoyed another spell of success in mid-1950s, reaching the final of IFA Shield in 1955 and 1956 with an ageing Sahu Mewalal in their ranks, who scored multiple hat-tricks for the team.[43][44] He also emerged as top scorer of CFL in 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, and 1958.[45] Before or after gaining independence from the British raj, Aryan participated in every Calcutta Football League editions (until the formation of Premier Division B),[4][46][47] which is Asia's oldest football league.[48] During that time, legendary players from Bengal including Sanat Seth[49] have appeared with the club colours.

1960–1980

As the years progressed they gradually lost their status as a top club, instead Aryan became the breeding ground of some of the most famous players in Kolkata maidan. Players like Pradip Kumar Banerjee,[50][51][52] Prasun Banerjee, Sanat Seth,[53] Pradyut Barman,[53] Goutam Sarkar and Sudhir Karmakar started out in Aryan, before moving on to the bigger clubs. Balai Dey, the only footballer who represented the two nations India and Pakistan in international football,[54] appeared with Aryan in 1967.[55][56] Other than another IFA Shield win in 1983 (title shared with East Bengal), Aryan didn't achieve a lot of success in modern era.[57]

On the morning of 5 August 1971, the Naxalite intellectual and poet Saroj Dutta was killed by the police in the grounds of the Aryan club on the Calcutta maidan.[58]

In 1975, Aryan emerged champion of Churachand Singh Invitation Trophy defeating Rajasthan Club.[59]

1990–present

In 1998, Aryan reached the final of All Airlines Gold Cup but lost 4–3 to East Bengal in penalty-shootout.[60] They again finished on second position in 2010.

Home ground

Aryan FC plays most of their home matches of Calcutta Premier Division at the East Bengal Ground,[61][62] which is located in Kolkata Maidan area and has a capacity of 23,500 spectators.[63][64]

The stadium is officially known as East Bengal–Aryan Ground,[65] having Aryan AC gallery in its northeastern part.

Sponsorship

The club is currently being sponsored by the Techno India Group,[66] which is a group of engineering and management colleges, public schools.[67][68]JIS University is the shirt sponsor. The club also acquired service of Trak-Only as their main shirt sponsor.[69]

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  IND Omeer Hossain 3 DF  IND Mohan Sarkar 4 DF  IND Pitambar Das 6 MF  IND Ankit Mukherjee 8 MF  IND Raju Koley 9 MF  IND Firoj Ali 10 MF  IND Chattu Mondal 11 FW  IND Rohan Khan 12 MF  IND Anubrata Maity 13 DF  IND Manash Sarkar 14 DF  IND Sukdeb Murmu 16 MF  IND Hiralal Chettri 17 MF  IND Rajib Ghorui 18 DF  IND Suraj Bahadur Gurung

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  IND Sabir Ali 20 MF  IND Prasenjit Chakraborty 7 MF  IND Goutam Thakur 22 DF  IND Bapan Mondal 25 MF  IND Asit Hazra 30 MF  IND Akash Dave 28 MF  IND Rakesh Karmakar 54 MF  IND Sandeep Oraon 64 DF  IND Pravakar Naskar 75 MF  IND Shamsad Ali 58 MF  LBR Alfred Jaryan 79 DF  NGA Kareem Omolaja 10 FW  CMR Aristide Vaillant

Notable players

For current and former notable Aryan FC players with a Wikipedia article, see: Aryan FC players.

Honours

League

• CFL Second Division
  • Champions (2): 1991,[70] 1996–97[71]

Cup

• IFA Shield[note 1][72]
  • Champions (1): 1940, 1983 (joint winners)[73][74]
  • Runners-up (2): 1955, 1956[75]
• Trades Cup
  • Champions (1): 1913[76]
• Bordoloi Trophy
  • Champions (2): 1965, 1966[77]
• All Airlines Gold Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 1998, 2010[60]
• Churachand Singh Trophy
  • Champions (1): 1975[78]
• Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup
  • Champions (1): 1978 (co-winners)[79]
• Rovers Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1950[80]
• Independence Day Cup (WB)
  • Runners-up (1): 1999[81]
• Manik Upadhayay Memorial Trophy
  • Runners-up (1): 2022[82]

See also

• Football in Kolkata
• List of football clubs in Kolkata
• List of football clubs in India

Notes

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References

External links

• Official website (technoaryanclub.com)
• Aryan Football Club archive at Kolkata Football
• Aryan FC at ifawb.org – IFA (archived)
• Aryan Club – Rising From the Ashes at The Hard Tackle (archived)
• Aryan FC on Facebook
• Aryan FC at Soccerway
• Aryan FC at Flashscore
• Aryan FC at Soccerstand
• Aryan FC at WorldFootball.net

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