Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal
This article is about the association football club. For the parent club, see Mohun Bagan AC.
Football club
Mohun Bagan Super Giant
Full name
Mohun Bagan Super Giant
Nickname(s)
The Mariners
Short name
MBSG
Founded
15 August 1889; 134 years ago (1889-08-15) (as Mohun Bagan Sporting Club)[1]
Ground
Salt Lake Stadium
Mohun Bagan Ground
Capacity
85,000
22,000
Owner
RPSG Mohun Bagan Pvt. Ltd.:
Kolkata Games and Sports Pvt. Ltd. (80%)
Mohun Bagan Football Club Pvt. Ltd. (20%)
Chairman
Sanjiv Goenka
Head coach
Antonio López Habas
League
Indian Super League
2023–24
Indian Super League, 1st of 12 (champions) Playoffs: Final
Home colours
Away colours
Current season
Mohun Bagan Super Giant commonly referred to as Mohun Bagan, is an Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1889, it is one of the oldest football clubs in Asia. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top tier of Indian football league system. The club is most notable for its victory over the East Yorkshire Regiment in the 1911 IFA Shield final. This victory made Mohun Bagan the first all-Indian club to win a championship over a British club and was a major moment during India's push for independence.[2]
The club is commonly referred to as Mohun Bagan, and had several sponsored names. In 2020, KGSPL, the company that owned ATK, took an 80% stake in the football division of Mohun Bagan alongside dissolving its own club.[3] This disbanded club was absorbed into the football of Mohun Bagan and Mohun Bagan was rebranded as ATK Mohun Bagan FC.[3] In 2023, the team was rebranded as Mohun Bagan Super Giant after continuous protest from the fans.[4]
Till now the club has won the top-flight football league a record six times — National Football League thrice, I-League twice and Indian Super League once.[5] They are one of the most successful Indian clubs in the history of the Federation Cup, having won the championship a record 14 times.[6]The club have also won the 2023–24 ISL shield. The club had also won several other trophies, including the Durand Cup (17 times), the IFA Shield (22 times), the Rovers Cup (14 times) and the Calcutta Football League (30 times).[7][8][9]
The club annually contests in Asia's oldest rivalry, the Kolkata Derby against its long-time local rival East Bengal FC,[10] with the first derby match being played on 8 August 1921.[11] Mohun Bagan was one of the founding members of National Football League in 1996, and has never been relegated from the top-tier league of the country. In its 130th year of existence, the club was inducted into the "Club of Pioneers", a network of the oldest existing football clubs around the world, on 29 July 2019.[12]
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