List of SC East Bengal coaches

Sporting Club East Bengal is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top flight of Indian football, as well as the Calcutta Premier Division A, the top tier state football league of West Bengal. Founded in August 1920, the club became affiliated with the Indian Football Association (IFA) in 1922 before earning promotion to the Calcutta Football League first division in 1924. East Bengal won their first league title in 1942 and have since gone on to win the title a record 39 times. The club was also a founding member of the National Football League in 1996 and have won the league title three times. They have also won eight Federation Cups, three Super Cups, a record 29 IFA Shield titles, and a record 16 Durand Cup titles making the club one of the most decorated in Indian football.

Main article: East Bengal F.C.
Current East Bengal manager, Robbie Fowler.

East Bengal has had 33 full-time managers. Many of them had managed the club for multiple occasions. The most successful person to manage East Bengal is PK Banerjee, who won a total of 30 trophies for the club in his total nine seasons as manager.

Managerial History

East Bengal FC has been one of the finest footballing institutions in the country and have seen huge success since its inception in 1920. Legends like Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Amal Dutta have successfully managed East Bengal FC in the past. Subhas Bhowmick, Trevor James Morgan are the Managers who got numerous success for the Red and Golds in this Millenia.

East Bengal FC have had a total of 33 Managers and Coaches since its inception. The first-ever professionally appointed Coach/Manager for East Bengal FC was Sushil Bhattacharya in the year 1961.[1] Before that East Bengal FC's legendary secretary Late Shri J. C. Guha used to look and coach the team as he himself was a great player back in his days.[2]
Below is the list as per seasons:[3]

1920 - 1960

No Professional Coach

1960 - 1970
Season Name Honours
1960-61 None Durand Cup, D.C.M. Trophy
1961-62 Sushil Bhattacharya CFL, IFA Shield
1962-63 Poritosh Chakraborty
Promod Dasgupta		 Rovers Cup
1963-64 Amal Dutta
1964-65 Amal Dutta
1965-66 None IFA Shield
1966-67 Mohammed Hussein CFL, IFA Shield
1967-68 Mohammed Hussein Durand Cup, Rovers Cup
1968-69 None Bordoloi Trophy
1969-70 None Rovers Cup

1970 - 1980
Season Name Honours
1970-71 Mohammed Hussein CFL, IFA Shield, Durand Cup
1971-72 Swaraj Ghosh CFL
1972-73 Pradip Kumar Banerjee CFL, IFA Shield, Durand Cup, Rovers Cup, Bordoloi Trophy
1973-74 Pradip Kumar Banerjee CFL, IFA Shield, Rovers Cup, D.C.M. Trophy, Bordoloi Trophy
1974-75 Pradip Kumar Banerjee CFL, IFA Shield, D.C.M. Trophy
1975-76 Pradip Kumar Banerjee CFL, IFA Shield, Rovers Cup
1976-77 Amal Dutta IFA Shield
1977-78 Amal Dutta CFL, Bordoloi Trophy
1978-79 Arun Ghosh Federation Cup, Durand Cup
1979-80 Arun Ghosh

1980 - 1990
Season Name Honours
1980-81 Pradip Kumar Banerjee Federation Cup, Rovers Cup
1981-82 Prabir Mazumdar
Santo Mitra IFA Shield
1982-83 Amal Dutta CFL, Durand Cup
1983-84 Pradip Kumar Banerjee IFA Shield, D.C.M. Trophy
1984-85 Amal Dutta IFA Shield
1985-86 Pradip Kumar Banerjee Federation Cup
Shyam Thapa CFL
1986-87 Shyam Thapa IFA Shield
1987-88 Shyam Thapa CFL, All Airlines Gold Cup
1988-89 Pradip Kumar Banerjee CFL, All Airlines Gold Cup
1989-90 Pradip Kumar Banerjee CFL, Durand Cup

1990 - 2000
Season Name Honours
1990-91 Shyam Thapa
Syed Nayeemuddin IFA Shield, Durand Cup, Rovers Cup, All Airlines Gold Cup
1991-92 Syed Nayeemuddin CFL, IFA Shield, Durand Cup
1992-93 Amal Dutta
Shymal Ghosh Bordoloi Trophy, All Airlines Gold Cup
1993-94 Shymal Ghosh CFL, Durand Cup, Wai Wai Cup, Kalinga Cup
1994-95 Shymal Ghosh
Syed Nayeemuddin IFA Shield, Rovers Cup, Mcdowell's Cup
1995-96 Syed Nayeemuddin CFL, IFA Shield, Durand Cup, All Airlines Gold Cup
1996-97 Monoranjan Bhattacharya CFL, Federation Cup
1997-98 Monoranjan Bhattacharya Super Cup, IFA Shield, McDowells Cup
1998-99 Monoranjan Bhattacharya CFL, All Airlines Gold Cup
1999-00 Subhas Bhowmick CFL

2000 - 2010
Season Name Honours
2000-01 Syed Nayeemuddin CFL, IFA Shield, Mcdowell's Cup
Monoranjan Bhattacharya National Football League
2001-02 Monoranjan Bhattacharya IFA Shield, All Airlines Gold Cup
Subhash Bhowmick
2002-03 Subhash Bhowmick National Football League, CFL, IFA Shield, Durand Cup, Independence Cup[4]
2003-04 Subhash Bhowmick ASEAN Club Championship, National Football League, CFL
2004-05 Subhash Bhowmick CFL, Durand Cup, San Miguel International Cup
2005-06 Subhash Bhowmick
Bikash Panji[5]
Philippe De Ridder Super Cup
2006-07 Carlos Roberto Pereira CFL
2007-08 Subrata Bhattacharya Federation Cup
Monoranjan Bhattacharya
Aloke Mukherjee
2008-09 Monoranjan Bhattacharya
Stanley Rozario
Subhash Bhowmick
2009-10 Subhash Bhowmick
Philippe De Ridder Federation Cup

2010 – 2020
Season Name Honours
2010–11 Trevor Morgan Federation Cup, CFL
2011–12 Trevor Morgan Super Cup, CFL
2012–13 Trevor Morgan Federation Cup, CFL, IFA Shield
2013–14 Marcos Falopa
Armando Colaco CFL
2014–15 Armando Colaco CFL
Eelco Schattorie
2015–16 Biswajit Bhattacharya CFL
Trevor Morgan
2016–17 Trevor Morgan CFL
Ranjan Chowdhury Sr.[lower-alpha 1]
Mridul Banerjee
Ranjan Chowdhury
2017–18 Khalid Jamil CFL
2018–19 Bastob Roy
Alejandro Menéndez[6]
2019–20 Alejandro Menéndez
Mario Rivera Campesino[7]

2020 – present
Season Name Honours
2020–21 Robbie Fowler[8]

Statistics

Record for East Bengal Managers
Record in competitive matches for East Bengal managers since 2000-01 season.
As of 2 February 2021
Record in Competitive matches for East Bengal FC managers
Name Nat. From To P W D L Win%
Syed Nayeemuddin  India 4 April 2000 13 January 2001 32 25 2 5 078.13
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 13 January 2001 24 January 2002 52 31 13 8 059.62
Subhash Bhowmick  India 25 January 2002 2 December 2005 200 133 29 38 066.50
Bikash Panji[lower-alpha 2]  India 4 December 2005 15 December 2005 2 1 0 1 050.00
Philippe De Ridder  Belgium 15 December 2005 31 May 2006 18 10 4 4 055.56
Carlos Roberto Pereira  Brazil 4 July 2006 22 May 2007 38 18 9 11 047.37
Subrata Bhattacharya  India 23 May 2007 16 January 2008 30 15 4 11 050.00
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 16 January 2008 19 February 2008 7 3 2 2 042.86
Aloke Mukherjee  India 20 February 2008 31 May 2008 9 2 2 5 022.22
Monoranjan Bhattacharya  India 1 July 2008 15 September 2008 14 7 4 3 050.00
Stanley Rozario  India 16 September 2008 24 December 2008 15 6 4 5 040.00
Subhash Bhowmick  India 24 December 2008 25 October 2009 20 5 6 9 025.00
Philippe De Ridder  Belgium 6 November 2009 31 May 2010 46 16 17 13 034.78
Trevor James Morgan  England 16 July 2010 24 May 2013 178 112 31 35 062.92
Marcos Falopa  Brazil 12 June 2013 14 November 2013 12 6 2 4 050.00
Armando Colaco  India 14 November 2013 19 February 2015 54 30 15 9 055.56
Eelco Schattorie  Netherlands 20 February 2015 30 June 2015 20 8 4 8 040.00
Biswajit Bhattacharya  India 19 June 2015 11 April 2016 29 19 5 5 065.52
Trevor James Morgan  England 14 April 2016 17 April 2017 33 22 4 7 066.67
Ranjan Chowdhury Sr.[lower-alpha 1]  India 19 September 2016 30 September 2016 5 4 0 1 080.00
Mridul Banerjee  India 18 April 2017 19 April 2017[11] 0 0 0 0 !—
Ranjan Chowdhury[lower-alpha 3]  India 20 April 2017 31 May 2017 6 3 2 1 050.00
Khalid Jamil  India 21 July 2017 26 April 2018 31 18 9 4 058.06
Bastob Roy[lower-alpha 4]  India 18 May 2018 19 August 2018 11 7 2 2 063.64
Alejandro Menéndez[lower-alpha 5]  Spain 19 August 2018 21 January 2020 41 24 7 10 058.54
Mario Rivera Campesino  Spain 23 January 2020 31 May 2020 8 3 3 2 037.50
Robbie Fowler  England 9 October 2020 Present 15 2 7 6 013.33
  1. Academy Head Coach Ranjan Chowdhury was announced as the head-coach cum manager for the Bordoloi Trophy as Trevor Morgan left for holidays after the CFL.[10]
  2. Caretaker manager after Subhash Bhowmick was sacked due to legal reasons.[9]
  3. Caretaker manager under Technical-Director Monoranjan Bhattacharya.[11]
  4. Head-coach under Technical-Director Subhash Bhowmick.[12]
  5. Does not include two walkovers East Bengal F.C. awarded;
    1. vs Delhi Dynamos FC in 2019 Indian Super Cup
    2. vs Calcutta Customs in 2019-20 Calcutta Premier Division.

Most Successful East Bengal FC Managers

East Bengal Club in its history of 100 years have had a number of coaches/managers who won quite a few honours for the club. The legendary P.K. Banerjee in his 9 season spell with the club has won a total of 30 trophies, including 5 trophies in a season twice in 1972 and 1973, which is the highest for any coach in the club's history. Dronacharya award winner Syed Nayeemuddin comes second in the most honours list with a total of 17 titles to his name as the coach of Red and Gold brigade including another "Triple Crown" in 1990. Former player and coach Subhash Bhowmick too brought in huge success in the current millennia with 12 titles on his regime including 5 trophies in a season again in 2002-03, winning back to back National League titles and the famous 2003 ASEAN Club Championship in Jakarta. Club legend Monoranjan Bhattacharya too is on the list with 10 trophies as the head coach, including the very first National League title in 2001. British coach Trevor James Morgan makes the cut, being the only foreign name in the list with a total of 9 titles to his name as the head coach of East Bengal in two spells.

Below is the list of the 5 most successful East Bengal head-coaches/managers as per most honours won:

No Name I-League/NFL Fed Cup Calcutta League IFA Shield Durand Cup Rovers Cup Others[lower-alpha 1] Total
1 PK Banerjee — 265246 30
PK Banerjee (as Technical Director) 0110000 2
2 Syed Nayeemuddin 0035324 17
3 Subhash Bhowmick 2041203 12
4 Monoranjan Bhattacharya 1122004 10
5 Trevor James Morgan 02410— 2 9
  1. Includes ASEAN Club Championship, D.C.M. Trophy, All Airlines Gold Cup, Bordoloi Trophy, Wai Wai Cup, Kalinga Cup, Super Cup, San Miguel International Cup, McDowell's Cup, Independence Cup, Platinum Jubilee Cup.

Most Trophies Won in a Single Stint

East Bengal Club have had managers who had won a huge number of silverware in different spells, however, it is P.K. Banerjee again in his first-ever coaching spell with the club between 1972-76 that can be dubbed as the most successful stint as the head coach of the club as he won 16 titles in 4 seasons, including winning 5 trophies in a season twice in 1972 and 1973, completing the coveted Triple Crown for the very first time in the history of Indian football by any club in 1972.[13][14]

No Seasons Name I-League/NFL Federation Cup Calcutta League IFA Shield Durand Cup Rovers Cup Others[lower-alpha 1] Total
1 1972-73 to 1975-76 PK Banerjee - - 4 4 1 3 4 16
2 2001-02 to 2005-06 Subhash Bhowmick 2 0 3 1 2 0 3 11
3 2010-11 to 2012-13 Trevor James Morgan 0 2 3 1 0 - 2 8
4 1990-91 to 1991-92 Syed Nayeemuddin - 0 1 2 2 1 1 7
1994-95 to 1995-96 Syed Nayeemuddin - 0 1 2 1 1 2 7
1996-97 to 1998-99 Monoranjan Bhattacharya - 1 2 1 0 0 3 7
  1. Includes ASEAN Club Championship, D.C.M. Trophy, All Airlines Gold Cup, Bordoloi Trophy, Wai Wai Cup, Super Cup, San Miguel International Cup, McDowell's Cup, Independence Cup, Platinum Jubilee Cup.

List of Technical Directors for East Bengal FC

East Bengal Club has appointed a Technical Director at times to over-head the head-coaches. The very first Technical Director was the legendary P.K. Banerjee who was appointed in 1996-97 season over head-coach Monoranjan Bhattacharya. Later Monoranjan Bhattacharya himself and Subhash Bhowmick too were appointed as the Technical Directors of the team in separate occasions.


Season Name
1996–97 Pradip Kumar Banerjee
2016–17 Monoranjan Bhattacharya
2017–18 Subhash Bhowmick[15]

Foreign Managers for East Bengal

East Bengal appointed their very first foreign manager in 2005 when they signed Belgian head coach Philippe De Ridder. The club has since appointed 8 foreign managers, the latest being Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler who joined the Red and Gold brigade in the 2020-21 season.

List of Foreign Managers for East Bengal FC
Trevor James Morgan
Fowler playing for Liverpool.
List of Foreign Managers for East Bengal FC
Tenure Nationality Name
2005–06
2009–10		 Belgium Philippe De Ridder
2006–07 Brazil Carlos Roberto Pereira
2010–13
2016–17		 England Trevor James Morgan
2013–14 Brazil Marcos Falopa
2014–15 Netherlands Eelco Schattorie
2018–20 Spain Alejandro Menéndez
2020 Spain Mario Rivera Campesino
2020– England Robbie Fowler

Record for Foreign Managers
Record in competitive matches for foreign managers
As of 2 February 2021
Record for Foreign Managers for East Bengal FC
Name Nat. From To P W D L Win%
Philippe De Ridder  Belgium 15 December 2005 31 May 2006 18 10 4 4 055.56
Carlos Roberto Pereira  Brazil 4 July 2006 31 May 2007 38 18 9 11 047.37
Philippe De Ridder  Belgium 6 November 2009 31 May 2010 46 16 17 13 034.78
Trevor James Morgan  England 16 July 2010 24 May 2013 178 112 31 35 062.92
Marcos Falopa  Brazil 12 June 2013 14 November 2013 12 6 2 4 050.00
Eelco Schattorie  Netherlands 20 February 2015 30 June 2015 20 8 4 8 040.00
Trevor James Morgan  England 14 April 2016 17 April 2017 33 22 4 7 066.67
Alejandro Menéndez[lower-alpha 1]  Spain 19 August 2018 21 January 2020 41 24 7 10 058.54
Mario Rivera Campesino  Spain 23 January 2020 31 May 2020 8 3 3 2 037.50
Robbie Fowler  England 9 October 2020 Present 15 2 7 6 013.33
  1. Does not include two walkovers East Bengal F.C. awarded;
    1. vs Delhi Dynamos FC in 2019 Indian Super Cup
    2. vs Calcutta Customs in 2019-20 Calcutta Premier Division.

List of Foreign Physical Trainers for East Bengal FC

In 2003-04 season, East Bengal FC brought in South African Kevin Jackson as the physical trainer for the team ahead of participating in the 2003 ASEAN Club Championship. He was the first foreign physical trainer that the club has ever roped in.[16][17]

Season Name
2003–04 Kevin Jackson[16]
2004–05 Peter McKnight[18][19]
2005–06
2009–10 Mashidi Suleiman[20]
Monica Ahluwalia[21]
2013–14 Americo Falopa[22]
2017–18 Djair Miranda Garcia[23]
2018–19 Carlos Nodar Paz[24]
2019–20
2020–21 Michael Harding[25]


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