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List of Mohun Bagan Super Giant captains

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.[1]

Till now the club has won the top-flight football league a record six times — Indian Super League once, I-League twice and National Football League thrice.[2] They are one of the most successful Indian clubs in the history of the Federation Cup, having won the championship a record 14 times.[3] The club had also won several other trophies, including the ISL playoffs (1 time), the Durand Cup (17 times), the IFA Shield (22 times), the Rover's Cup (14 times) and the Calcutta Football League (30 times).[4][5][6]

List of captains

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As of October 2024

The following is the list of first-choice captains of Mohun Bagan's main football team in each of the Indian football years/seasons:[7][8]

Note: The list doesn't include players who had been a substitute captain for selective matches.

Bold means player has represented his nation at least once internationally at senior-level.

Season Nationality Name Notes/References
1889   India Manilal Sen Member of one of the founding families–Sen family of Bagbazar–of the club, was the first and the longest serving captain of the team.[9]
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901   India Monmohan Pandey
1902
1903
1904
1905   India Ramdas Bhaduri
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911   India Shibdas Bhaduri Was the captain of the Immortal XI that won the 1911 IFA Shield.[10]
1912
1913   India Sirishchandra 'Habul' Sarkar
1914
1915
1916   India Bijoydas Bhaduri
1917
1918
1919   India Prakash Ghosh
1920
1921   India Gostha Pal [11]
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926   India Umapati Kumar
1927
1928
1929
1930   India Sudhansu Bose
1931   India Dr. Manmatha Nath Dutta
1932
1933
1934   India Abdul Hamid From Quetta, Baluchistan; was the first captain not from Bengal.
1935   India Bhola Sarkar
1936   India Satu Chowdhary
1937
1938   India Bimal Mukherjee Was the captain of the first CFL Premier Division winning team in 1939.[12]
1939
1940   India Nanda Roy Choudhury
1941
1942   India Mona Guin
1943   India Anil Dey
1944
1945
1946   India Sarat Das
1947
1948   India Talimeren Ao [13][14]
1949
1950   India Sailen Manna [15]
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955   India Md. Abdus Sattar [16]
1956
1957   India Swaraj Chatterjee
1958   India Samar 'Badru' Banerjee [17]
1959   India Sushil Guha
1960   India Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami [18][19]
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965   India Jarnail Singh Had become the only ever Indian to lead Asian All-Star team in 1966.[20][21][22]
1966
1967
1968   India Isaiah Arumainayagam
1969   India Chandreswar Prasad
1970
1971
1972   India Bhabani Ray
1973   India Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar
1974   India Syed Nayeemuddin
1975   India Nirmal Goswami
1976   India Prasanta Mitra
1977   India Subrata Bhattacharya [23]
1978   India Prasun Banerjee Was the captain of the first club based national tournament–Federation Cup–winning team in 1978.
1979   India Dilip Palit
1980   India Compton Dutta
1981   India Pradip Chowdhury
1982   India Shyam Thapa
1983   India Gautam Sarkar Was the first former East Bengal captain to lead the team.[24]
1984   India Shyamal Bose
1985   India Bidesh Bose
1986   India Krishnendu Roy
1987   India Babu Mani [25]
1988   India Prasanta Banerjee
1989   India Sisir Ghosh
1990   India Satyajit Chatterjee
1991   India Sisir Ghosh
1992   India Achintya Belei
1993   India Amit Bhadra
1994   India Tanumoy Basu
1995   India Sisir Ghosh
1996
1997   India Aloke Das
1998   India Biswanath Mondal Was the captain of the first national league–National Football League–winning team in 1997-98.
1999   India Hemanta Dora
2000   India Lolendra Singh
2001   India Debjit Ghosh
2002   India Dulal Biswas
2003   India Renedy Singh [26][27]
2004   India Monitombi Singh
2005   India Mehtab Hossain [28]
2006   Brazil José Ramirez Barreto Was the first foreign national captain of the team.[29][30][note 1]
2007-08   India Bhaichung Bhutia [31][32][33]
2008-09
  India Lalkamal Bhowmick [34]
2009-10   India Sangram Mukherjee [35]
2010-11   India Ishfaq Ahmed [36]
2011-12   Brazil José Ramirez Barreto [37]
2012-13   Nigeria Odafa Onyeka Okolie [38][39]
2013-14
2014-15   India Shilton Paul Was the captain of the first professional national league–I-League–winning team in 2014-15.[40][41][42]
2015-16
2016-17   Japan Katsumi Yusa [43]
2017-18   Haiti Sony Nordé [44]
  India Kingshuk Debnath [note 2]
2018-19   Nigeria Eze Kingsley Obumneme [45][46]
  Haiti Sony Nordé [47][note 3]
2019-20   India Dhanachandra Singh [48][49]
2020-21   India Pritam Kotal [50][51]
  India Arindam Bhattacharya [50][51]
  India Sandesh Jhingan [50][51]
  Spain Edu García [50][51]
  Fiji Roy Krishna [50][51]
2021-22 [52][53]
  India Subhasish Bose [52][53][note 4]
  India Pritam Kotal [52][53]
2022-23 [54][55]
  Finland Joni Kauko [54][55][note 5]
  Guinea Florentin Pogba [54][55][note 5]
  India Subhasish Bose [54][55][note 5]
2023-24 Was the captain of the first ISL winning team in 2023-24.[56][57]
2024-25
  1. ^ Although, Nigerian Bernard Operanozie was the first foreigner to lead Mohun Bagan, in 1993, but he was not a first-choice captain and was handed down the captainship after Amit Bhadra missed few games due to injury.
  2. ^ Kingshuk became the first-choice captain after Nordé left the club before the end of the season.
  3. ^ Nordé became the first-choice captain after he joined the club mid-season.
  4. ^ Subhasish Bose did not start any match as the team captain.
  5. ^ a b c Subhasish Bose, Joni Kauko and Florentin Pogba did not start any match as the team captain.

By nationality

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As of August 2024

Nationality No. of players First (Season) Last (Season)
Asia
  India 71 Manilal Sen (1889) Subhasish Bose (2024–25)
  Japan 1 Katsumi Yusa (2016–17) Katsumi Yusa (2016–17)
Total 72
Africa
  Nigeria 2 Odafa Onyeka Okolie (2012–13) Eze Kingsley Obumneme (2018–19)
  Guinea 1 Florentin Pogba (2022–23) Florentin Pogba (2022–23)
Total 3
Europe
  Spain 1 Edu García (2020–21) Edu García (2020–21)
  Finland 1 Joni Kauko (2022–23) Joni Kauko (2022–23)
Total 2
North America
  Haiti 1 Sony Nordé (2017–18) Sony Nordé (2018–19)
Total 1
South America
  Brazil 1 José Ramirez Barreto (2006) José Ramirez Barreto (2011–12)
Total 1
Oceania
  Fiji 1 Roy Krishna (2020–21) Roy Krishna (2021–22)
Total 1

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