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Dalhousie Athletic Club is an Indian multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.[3][4] It was established in 1880,[5] during the British rule in India.[6][7][8] The club tent is located in Mayo Road, Kolkata Maidan, in Esplanade.

Dalhousie AC

Full name	Dalhousie Athletic Club
Short name	DAC
Founded	1878; 144 years ago (1878) (as Trades Club)[1] 1880; 142 years ago (1880) (as Dalhousie Club)[2]
Ground	Maidan Ground
League	Calcutta Football League

History

Dalhousie AC, founded as the Trades Club in 1878, is the oldest fooball club established in the country,[1][9][10] and won the prestigious Calcutta football league 4 times in 1910, 1921, 1928 and 1929. In 1905, they clinched the prestigious IFA Shield title.[11] It currently plays in the CFL Premier Division.

In 2014, they participated in the 14th Darjeeling Gold Cup and reached the final, but finished as runner-up after losing 5–0 to ONGC FC.[12]

Dalhousie AC participated in Calcutta Premier Division B first in 2014–15. They were relegated to First Division in 2015–16.

Honours

Football

• Calcutta Football League[13]
  • Champions (4): 1910, 1921, 1928, 1929
• IFA Shield[note 1]
  • Champions (2): 1897, 1905[14]
  • Runners-up (5): 1900, 1902, 1922, 1927, 1928
• Trades Cup
  • Champions (2): 1889,[15] 2019[16]
  • Runners-up (1): 1907
• Darjeeling Gold Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2014[12]

See also

• Football in Kolkata
• History of Indian football
• Football clubs in Kolkata

Notes

Bibliography

• Kapadia, Novy (2017). Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-143-42641-7.
• Martinez, Dolores; Mukharjiim, Projit B (2009). Football: From England to the World: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-88353-6. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022.
• Dutta, P. L., Memoir of 'Father of Indian Football' Nagendraprasad Sarbadhikary (Calcutta: N. P. Sarbadhikary Memorial Committee, 1944) (hereafter Memoir)
  Ghosh, Saurindra Kumar. Krira Samrat Nagendraprasad Sarbadhikary 1869–1940 (Calcutta: N. P. Sarbadhikary Memorial Committee, 1963) (hereafter Krira Samrat).
• Roselli, John. Self Image of Effeteness: Physical Education and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Bengal. Past & Present (journal). 86 (February 1980). p. 121–48.
• Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity, The Manly Englishman and the Effeminate Bengali in the Late Nineteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995).
• Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Post-colonial Histories (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1995).
• Mason, Football on the Maidan, p. 144; Dimeo, Football and Politics in Bengal, p. 62.
• Nath, Nirmal (2011). History of Indian Football: Upto 2009–10. Readers Service. ISBN 9788187891963. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022.
• D'Mello, Anthony (1959). Portrait Of Indian Sport. P R Macmillan Limited, London.

References

External links

• Dalhousie AC on Facebook

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