Mehtab Hossain

Mehtab Hossain (born 5 September 1985) is a former Indian professional footballer and current manager of Southern Samity who played as a defensive midfielder.

Mehtab Hossain
Personal information
Full name Mehtab Hossain
Date of birth (1985-09-05) 5 September 1985
Place of birth Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Southern Samity (manager)
Youth career
Food Corporation of India
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2003 Tollygunge Agragami 17 (1)
2003–2006 Mohun Bagan 39 (3)
2006–2007 ONGC 0 (0)
2007–2017 East Bengal 91 (2)
2014–2016 → Kerala Blasters (loan) 38 (0)
2017–2018 Jamshedpur 12 (0)
2018–2019 Mohun Bagan 9 (0)
National team‡
2005–2015 India 31 (2)
Teams managed
2019– Southern Samity
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:08, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 November 2017

During his career, Hossain has played for both of the Kolkata football giants, Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. He played with East Bengal for ten seasons, winning the Federation Cup three times. He also managed to gain 31 caps for the India national football team between 2005 and 2014, scoring twice for the country. On 2019, Mehtab started his coaching career as manager at Southern Samity in 2019-20 Calcutta Premier Division. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 21st July 2020 by taking party flag from BJP president of West Bengal Dilip Ghosh but within 24 hour he changed his decision and resigned from Bharatiya Janata Party.

Career

Mehtab is a product of IFA's Baby League, which was the brain child of Legendary Football Secretary Shri Prodyut Dutta, which promoted football amongst the children and youth of Bengal.

He signed a contract extension which will see him play for East Bengal till the end of 2012–13 season.[1]

It was reported on June 2012 that he was on trial with Falkirk and Airdrie, on recommendation of his former teammate Alan Gow.

He scored his first goal in the 2012–13 I-League in their penultimate match in the 6–0 win against United Sikkim F.C. on 8th May at Kolkata.[2]Then he scored in the 5–1 win in Round of 16 match in 2013 AFC Cup match against Yangon United F.C. on 15th May at Kolkata.[3]

Mehtab in 2013 (bottom right)

On 2015, Mehtab retired from international duty after being omitted from the 26-man squad for World Cup Qualifiers.[4]

Kerala Blasters

On 2014, he was picked by Kerala Blasters FC of Indian Super League on a three years contract.

Jamshedpur

On 23 July 2017, Hossain was selected in the third round of the 2017–18 ISL Players Draft by Jamshedpur for the 2017–18 Indian Super League season.[5] He made his debut for the club during the first ever match on 18 November 2017 against NorthEast United. He started the match and played 69 minutes as Jamshedpur drew 0–0.[6]

Mohun Bagan

After ending the season with Jamshedpur, Hossain reportedly decided not to renew his contract with the club since he wanted to return to Kolkata and be near his family.[7] Despite stating previously that he would like to return to East Bengal, it was reported that he was in talks with Mohun Bagan.[7] Then, on 22 May 2018, it was officially announced that Hossain had signed with Mohun Bagan, after last playing for them 12 years prior.[8]

Honours

Club
Mohun Bagan

Career statistics

Club statistics
As of 27 January 2019[10]
Club Season League
DivisionAppsGoals
Tollygunge Agragami 2001-02 NFL171
2002-03 NFL00
Total 171
Mohun Bagan 2003-04 NFL00
2004-05 NFL200
2005-06 NFL193
Total 393
ONGC 2006-07 I-League 2nd Division00
Total 00
East Bengal 2007-08 I-League141
2008-09 I-League00
2009-10 I-League00
2010-11 I-League00
2011-12 I-League00
2012-13 I-League231
2013-14 I-League80
2014-15 I-League160
2015-16 I-League140
2016-17 I-League160
Total 912
Kerala Blasters (loan) 2014 ISL90
2015 ISL130
2016 ISL160
Total 380
Jamshedpur FC 2017-18 ISL120
Total 120
Mohun Bagan 2018-19 I-League90
Total 90
Career total 20306

International stats
India national team
YearAppsGoals
200530
200630
201150
201260
2013120
201420
Total310

References
  1. "East Bengal's squad for the 2012/13 season". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. "East Bengal 6-0 United Sikkim FC: The Red and Gold trample the Snow Lions". Goal. 14 August 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. "EAST BENGAL VS. YANGON UNITED 5 - 1". SOCCERWAY. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. Gehlot, Saransh (4 March 2015). "Indian midfielder Mehtab Hossain retires from International duty". Yahoo News. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  5. "ISL 2017 player draft, as it happened: ATK, Jamshedpur FC and Pune strike big". The Field. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  6. "NorthEast United 0-0 Jamshedpur". Soccerway.
  7. Bhattacharya, Nilesh (22 May 2018). "Mohun Bagan, East Bengal in tug-of-war over Mehtab". Times of India. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  8. "Mehtab Hossain: I have a problem with a section of East Bengal fans". Goal.com. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  9. "Mohun Bagan Win Calcutta Football League After Eight Years". sports.ndtv.com. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  10. "Mehtab Hossain". National Football Teams.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Manitombi Singh		 Mohun Bagan captain
2006–2007		 Succeeded by
Jose Ramirez Barreto
Preceded by
Sanju Pradhan		 Kingfisher East Bengal captain
2013–2014		 Succeeded by
Harmanjot Khabra
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