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East Bengal Football Club Reserves is the reserve football team of East Bengal. It is the most senior level beneath the first team. The team generally consists of under–21 players but at times senior players also play, if recuperating from injury or not getting first team game time. The reserve side usually plays in the Calcutta Football League.

East Bengal Reserves

Full name	East Bengal Football Club Reserves and Academy
Nickname(s)	Red and Gold Brigade Bangal Brigade Torch Bearers
Short name	EB EBFC
Ground	East Bengal Ground
Capacity	23,500
Owner	Emami East Bengal FC Pvt. Ltd.
President	Dr. Pronab Dasgupta
Head coach	Bino George (reserves) Ranjan Chowdhury (under-18) Chandan Ray (under-15) Tarun Dey (under-13)
League	Elite League (U18) Calcutta Football League (selected matches) Sub Junior League (U13)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Active departments of East Bengal
Football (Men's) Football (Women's) Football (Reserves & Academy) Cricket (Men's) Cricket (Women's) Hockey (Men's) Tennis Athletics eSports

East Bengal Academy are the under–18, under–15 and under–13 team of East Bengal. The under–18 team of the club is generally referred to as the primary youth team as it is the last stage of progression for the promotion of youth players into the first team.[1] The youth teams participate in the Elite league of various age groups. The East Bengal Academy was re-instated on 20 June 2016 with the motive to establish a strong footprint in Indian football by producing quality professional players. The main objective of this project has been to supply professional quality players to the East Bengal senior team & Indian national team.[1]

Reserve team

East Bengal officially did not have a reserve team prior to 2020. However, the club formed a reserve team composed of academy players and few senior team members to participate in minor tournaments like Bordoloi Trophy, Darjeeling Gold Cup etc. In 2018, the East Bengal Reserves team, coached by Ranjan Chowdhury, won the Darjeeling Gold Cup defeating another Kolkata giant Mohammedan Sporting in the final.[2]

The reserve team was formed in 2020 and intended to play in the I-League 2nd Division, along with Calcutta Football League from the 2020–21 season.[3] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the team was scrapped and after new investors Emami group tied up with the club, the reserve team was once again launched in 2022. Former Kerala football team coach Bino George was appointed as the head coach of the reserve team.[4][5] The reserve team would be participating in the 2022 Calcutta Premier Division, and the club also recruited former captain Sangram Mukherjee as the goalkeeper coach for the team.[6] The club also bolstered the squad by making some top signings from the Santosh Trophy teams, including five players from Kerala, the champions of the 2021–22 edition.[7][8]

Reserve squad

As of 24 September 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 99 GK  IND Aditya Patra 50 GK  IND Suryash Jaiswal 65 GK  IND Muhammed Nishad P. 51 DF  IND Subhendu Mandi 61 DF  IND Athul Uninkrishnan 58 DF  IND Niranjan Mondal 53 DF  IND Arpan Polley 60 DF  IND Adil Amal 59 MF  IND Vivek Singh 52 MF  IND Sanjib Ghosh 55 MF  IND Dip Saha

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  IND Sagar Khamaru 56 MF  IND Tanmay Das — MF  IND Sujit Singh 38 MF  IND Mahitosh Roy — MF  IND Vishal Das 54 FW  IND Vishnu TM — FW  IND Aftab Alam 97 FW  IND Subham Bhowmick 64 FW  IND Jesin TK 62 FW  IND Lijo L.

Coaching staff

Role	Name
Head coach	Bino George
Assistant coach	Biswajit Majumdar
Goalkeeper coach	Sangram Mukherjee
Physio therapist	M.D. Ziauddin
Team doctor	Ram Dhal
Team manager	Pratim K.R. Saha

Academy

The East Bengal Academy was founded in the early part of the 21st century and had a major success initially as the U–19 East Bengal team won the first two U–19 National Football League held in 2001–02 and 2002–03[9] and then the club's Under–15 team qualified for the Manchester United Premier Cup after being champions of India defeating Mahindra United 1–0 in the final,[10] and becoming South–East Asian regional runners up in 2007.[11] The Junior team faced the youth teams of Manchester United, A.S. Roma and Shandong Luneng and FK Austria Wien in the final round held in Manchester, however, they lost all the games in the group stages.[12] In the 17–20th place play-off semi-finals, the team defeated Bukit Jalil of Malaysia by 3–1 but lost to Central United of New Zealand in the 17th place play-offs final by 5–3 via tiebreakers after the game ended goalless in regulation time. The U–15 team finished 18th[13] among the 20 teams who had reached the world final stage and is to date the best finish by any Indian club in the Nike Premier Cup.[14] The East Bengal U–19 team was the primary youth team before the Elite League started in 2010. Players like Israil Gurung, Saikat Saha Roy etc. were part of the East Bengal youth setup in the mid–2000s. In 2006, former East Bengal legend and National League winning coach Monoranjan Bhattacharya was appointed as the head coach of the East Bengal U–19 team.[15]

The East Bengal Academy started with new endeavours in 2016 as they brought in Ranjan Chowdhury as head of the project with an aim to produce Indian talents and build up the supply line for the main team of East Bengal.[16] The team finished runners-up in the 2016–17 I-League U18, losing 2–1 to AIFF Elite Academy in the final. The team also reached the semi-final in 2017–18.[17] The team was disbanded after the 2019–20 Indian Elite League was called off due to COVID-19 pandemic in India. In 2022, after new investors Emami group joined the club, the youth teams have been revived and shall be playing in the Youth League across various age groups.

Under-18

The under-18 team participates in the Elite League. The team is coached by former TFA and Pune F.C. Academy coach Ranjan Chowdhury who is also the project head of East Bengal Football Academy.[1]

The National Football League U-19 was launched in 2001 and the East Bengal U-19 team won the inaugural edition defeating India sub-juniors 3–2 in the final.[18] The U-19 team defended the title the following year as they defeated JCT Football Academy 1–0 in the final.[19] The team also finished runners-up in 2003–04 edition as they lost to rivals Mohun Bagan U-19 3–1 in the penalty shoot-out after the final ended 0–0 in regulation time.[9] After the tournament was restarted as the I-League U19 in 2008 and later renamed to Elite League, the East Bengal team became runners-up four times, failing to win to title till now.

Squad

The East Bengal F.C. Academy Under-18 squad for 2019-20 season[20]

As of 4 December 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Mirajuddin Mondal 2 DF  IND Jay Baz 3 DF  IND Saikhom Goutam Singh 4 DF  IND Chandan Oraw 5 DF  IND Arpan Polley 6 FW  IND Salam Johnson Singh 7 MF  IND Deep Samanta 8 DF  IND Ranjit Oraw 9 FW  IND Thokchom Manichand Singh 10 FW  IND Srikumar Karjee 11 MF  IND Akhay Dey 12 MF  IND Akash Mandal 14 MF  IND Bijay Mandal 15 FW  IND Danger Brahma

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  IND Arkaprabha Das 17 MF  IND Shrawan Lama 18 DF  IND Ramesh Limbu Chemjang 19 MF  IND M. Lunminlen Haokip 20 MF  IND Sujit Singh 22 DF  IND Sagolsem Bikash Singh 23 FW  IND Sougata Hansda 24 DF  IND Soumyadip Jyoti 26 FW  IND Rajkumar Kisku 27 MF  IND Veishalou S Pao 29 GK  IND Firaj Molla 38 GK  IND Bacchu Das 41 GK  IND Suros Kumar Das

Performance record

Performance of East Bengal Academy in Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Final Position	Ref
2001	National Football League U-19	Champions	[9][18]
2002–03	National Football League U-19	Champions	[9][21][19]
2003–04	National Football League U-19	Not Held	[9]
2004–05	National Football League U-19	Runners-up	[9]
2005–07	National Football League U-19	Not Held	[9]
2008	I-League U19	Quarter-Finals
2009	I-League U19	Not Held
2010	I-League U19	Runners-up	[22]
2011	I-League U19	Runners-up
2012	I-League U-20	Group Stages
2013	I-League U-20	Final Round
2014	I-League U19	Runners-up
2014–15	I-League U19	Group Stages
2015–16	I-League U-18	Final Round
2016–17	I-League U-18	Runners-up
2017–18	Youth League U-18	Semi-Finals
2018–19	Elite League U-18	Quarter-Finals
2019–20	Elite League U-18	League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic	[23]

Under-15

The under-15 team participates in the Elite Youth League. The team is coached by Chandan Kumar Ray.[24]

Squad

The East Bengal Academy Under-15 squad for 2019–20 season

As of 26 July 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1  IND Firaz Molla 2  IND Avigit Hansda 3  IND Susobhan Naskar 4  IND Shafik Sk. 5  IND Sagar Porel 6  IND Shib Sundar Tudu 7  IND Akhay Dey 8  IND Chiranjit Ghosh 9  IND Kinkar Golui 10  IND Rupam Biswas 11  IND Jit Halder 12  IND Soumyadip Jyoti 13  IND Sagnik Ray 14  IND Toufik Islam

No. Pos. Nation Player 15  IND Argha Manna 16  IND Rohit Singh 17  IND Tohit Laskar 18  IND Baburam Mandi 19  IND Ajibur Rahaman Molla 20  IND Tritam Lodh 21  IND Rajkumar Kisku 22  IND Silton Bhattacharjee 23  IND Ayan Das 24  IND Mohammad Taha Tanvir 25  IND Barun Sarma 26  IND Sattwick Mandal 27  IND Preetam Roy 28  IND Kaioum Ali

Performance record

Performance of East Bengal Academy in U-15 Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Final Position
2005-06	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Runners[25]
2006-07	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Champions[10]
2015-16	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Zonal Round
2016-17	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	Zonal Round
2017-18	U-15 Nike Premier Cup	National Finals[26]
2018-19	U-15 Hero Junior League	National Playoffs[27]
2019-20	U-15 Hero Junior League	Disqualified (League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

Matches at the 2007 Nike Premier Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss

Under-13

The under-13 team participates in the Elite Youth League. The team is coached by former India International and East Bengal FC legend Tarun Dey.[33]

Squad

The SC East Bengal Academy Under-13 squad for 2019-20 season

As of 26 July 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1  IND Apu Palian 2  IND Ankur Adhikary 3  IND Jishan Molla 4  IND Rajibul Halder 5  IND Toufik Alam 6  IND Avijit Paul 7  IND Gazanfar Moin 8  IND Saranya Samaddar 9  IND Abir Ali 10  IND Avijit Sarkar 11  IND Rohan Das 12  IND Tuhin Sardar

No. Pos. Nation Player 13  IND Debashis Bera 14  IND Mohammed Soyab Khan 15  IND Souptik Chakraborty 16  IND Soumojit Das 17  IND Julfikar Gazi 18  IND Sunandan Majhi 19  IND Suranya Samaddar 20  IND Md Azhar 21  IND Sayan Roy 22  IND Hasibul Mondal 23  IND Raj Maity 24  IND Krishnapada Biswas

Performance record

Performance of SC East Bengal Academy in U-13 Youth Leagues
Year	Tournament	Final Position
2017-18	U-13 Hero Sub Junior League	Zonal Round
2018-19	U-13 Hero Sub Junior League	Zonal Round[34]
2019-20	U-13 Hero Sub Junior League	League called-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Noted graduates

Those who made it at the club

East Bengal's youth system has been successful over the last few years; many players who have come through it have gone on to feature in the first-team. The following players have gone on to play over ten competitive matches for the first team.

Players who have represented the National team are in Bold.

Those who made it elsewhere

East Bengal FC academy graduates who didn't make it at the club but made it somewhere else and even went on to play for the national team:

Players who have represented the National team are in Bold.

Honours

Reserves

• Darjeeling Gold Cup (1): 2018[2]

Academy U18

• IFA Shield[upper-alpha 1] (1): 2018[35][36]

• National Football League U-19 (2): 2001, 2002-03^{[citation needed]}

• AIFF Youth Leagues (Runners up) (4): 2010,[22] 2011,[37] 2014, 2016-17[38]

• Zee Bangla Football League (U-19) (1): 2019(Joint Winners)[39]

• SRMB Cup (U-18) (1): 2019[40]

• All Bengal Knockout Tournament (U-19) (1): 2019^{[citation needed]}

Academy U-15

• Manchester United Premier Cup India: 2007[10][41]

References

External links

• Official website

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