Minnows Air-India humbled East Bengal 2-0 in a third round match of the I-League football tournament in Mumbai on Sunday. Left-wing back Surojit Roy (48th minute) and central midfielder Michael Tayo (79th minute) delivered the knock-out blows that silenced the listless three-times National Football League champions.
A 2-0 victory virtually ensured Bagan the Kolkata Premier League football tournament.
The under-15 East Bengal squad got a special mention for their grit by the English football legend.
After three losses on the trot, laggards SCEB finally opened their account
Carlos Roberto Da Pereira asserted that he will strive to make the club national champions.
East Bengal paid a heavy price for inept defending and went down 2-4 to Jordan's Al Wihdat in an action-packed AFC Cup Group B outing in Kolkata on Wednesday. Riding high after two successive wins, the red and gold brigade's quarter-final hopes hit a speed breaker as the Jordanians avenged their April 2 loss in Amman.
East Bengal began their I-League campaign in style, thrashing Shillong Lajong FC 4-0 in a one-sided match in Shillong on Wednesday. In Goa, Dempo fought back from a goal down to hold Salgaocar 1-1.
Foreign recruit Tolgay Ozbey struck a goal in the dying minutes to help East Bengal snatch a 3-3 draw against South China in their return leg AFC Cup match at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday.
They beat Mohun Bagan and JCT Football Academy respectively in the semi-finals of the Nike Manchester United Premier Cup under-15 football tournament.
Brazilian Edmilson Marques scored twice to help East Bengal beat Mahindra United 2-1 in the final.
Mohun Bagan beat East Bengal 1-0 in a closely-fought match of the IFA Premier Division\nFootball League in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Former India defender Ilyas Pasha dead, AIFF, East Bengal condole
Dempo beat East Bengal through Tolgay Ozbey's 75th minute goal in the 18th round encounter of the I-League, played at the Nehru Stadium, Margao on Sunday.
Title-holders East Bengal continued their awesome run decimating Tollygunge Agragami 5-0 in a one-sided NFL contest in Kolkata.
Saumik Dey's goal gave East Bengal a 1-0 victory over Mohun Bagan and took them to the top of the league.
East Bengal beat Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 in their opening match of the National Football League.
Strikes from Syed Rahim Nabi and skipper Alvito D'Cunha in the first half settled the issue in favour of the Kolkata giants.
East Bengal will open their campaign with a home match against Muktijoddha of Bangladesh on March 9.
The victory at home turf Salt Lake stadium took East Bengal to the second place in the league table.
East Bengal beat Salgaocar Sports Club 1-0 to register their fifth consecutive victory in the ninth National Football League.
The Kolkata giants take on the Bangladesh side in the AFC Cup Group A league match on Wednesday.
The Indian champions beat Indonesia's Petrokimia Putra after a sudden-death penalty shoot-out.
Dempo were held by Air India 1-1, but exited from the Durand Cup after the toss of the coin.
Syed Nahim Nabi's goal gave East Bengal a 1-0 win over JCT in the second semi-final of the Durand Cup football tournament.
Federation Cup champions East Bengal played out a goal-less draw against Xuan Thanh FC of Vietnam in an away match of AFC Cup at Ho Chi Minh city on Wednesday.
The Kolkata giants will leave on July 28 to participate in Leicester City's 120th anniversary celebrations.
We are back to the 1971 moment with both China and the US supporting Pakistan, asserts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Salgaocar FC picked up their first home win of the season today as they breezed past East Bengal by a margin of 3-1 at the Tilak Maidan. The result came as a shocking performance as the Greens had been struggling for a while to get the required results, but an inspiring performance against the Red and Golds gave them much needed three points. There were a plethora of changes in Salgaocar FC lineup from their loss to Mohun Bagan. Calvin Mbarga, Semboi Haokip started in the forward line with Darryl Duffy while Saran Singh started in the back. The game got off the best possible start for Salgaocar FC, as Haokip put the Goan side ahead in the third minute. Darryl Duffy's cross from the right was received by the striker who took one touch and blasted it past Luis Barreto into the back of the net. However, there was an immediate blow to Salgaocar in the 10th minute as the Hero I-League's leading goal scorer, Darryl Duffy, picked up a groin injury, and had to be substituted by Jackichand Singh.
Runners-up for the last two years, East Bengal ended their I-League campaign on a miserable note, going down to Shillong Lajong FC by a solitary goal at the Kalyani Stadium on Sunday.
East Bengal prevailed over Tollyhunge Aggragami 1-0 to consolidate their position atop the National Football League.
'When I signed, I only knew that East Bengal are a big club with great history. I have no idea about ISL or any other tournament. I came here because East Bengal are a big club'.
The Kolkata giants were beat 0-1 by the Jordanian side in their second leg AFC Cup meeting at home.
The NFL champions play Geylang United FC in the first round of the AFC Cup on February 10.
Lalrindika Ralte struck in the second-half of the extra time to help East Bengal advance into the final of the 34th Federation Cup with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Churchill Brothers at the floodlit Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri on Thursday.
His goals enabled East Bengal down HAL 4-1 in a National Football League match.
A 3-2 victory kept the IFA Shield winners on top of the National Football League.
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The Kolkata giants will be strong favourites when they taken on Army XI in the final on Friday.
Last year's runners-up East Bengal registered a thrilling 4-3 win over Kalighat Milan Sangha to set up a semi-final clash against Churchill Brothers in the 34th Federation Cup.
