The 2005–06 season was East Bengal's 10th season in the National Football League and 86th season in existence.
Competitions
Overall Competition First match Last match Final position Calcutta Football League 31 July 2005 30 September 2005 Runners-UpFederation Cup 19 October 2005 23 October 2005 Quarter-FinalsIFA Shield 24 November 2005 1 December 2005 Semi-FinalsDurand Cup 11 December 2005 13 December 2005 Group StageNational Football League 10 January 2006 15 May 2006 Runners-UpSuper Cup 27 May 2006 Champions
Overview
Calcutta Football League
East Bengal finished the 2005 Calcutta Premier Division as runner-up with 34 points from 14 matches, 6 points behind champions Mohun Bagan.
Fixtures & results
Federation Cup
East Bengal started the Federation Cup campaign in the Pre-Quarter Finals against Air India and won 3–1 with goals from Sydney Nkalanga, Dipankar Roy and Mike Okoro. Syed Rahim Nabi scored an own-goal in the dying minutes to give consolation to Air India. In the quarter-final, however, East Bengal lost to Churchill Brothers in the sudden-death after the game ended 0–0 after 120 minutes.
Fixtures & results
IFA Shield
Group A
East Bengal was grouped alongside the other two Kolkata Giants Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting in Group A. East Bengal lost 2–3 against Mohammedan Sporting in the opening game. However, in the second game, against arch-rivals Mohun Bagan, East Bengal registered a 4–1 win with goals from Chandan Das, Mike Okoro and a brace from Alvito D'Cunha. In the semi-finals, East Bengal faced EverReady and surprisingly lost 2–1 with Chibueze Francis Maduako scoring a brace for EverReady after Kalia Kulothungan put East Bengal ahead in the 3rd minute.
Fixtures & results
Durand Cup
Group D
East Bengal was grouped alongside JCT and HAL in Group D. East Bengal won 2–0 against HAL in the opening fixture withgoals from RC Prakash and Jatin Singh Bisht. However, they lost 1–2 against JCT as they were eliminated from the group stages.
Fixtures & results
National Football League
League table
Fixtures & results
Super Cup
Since Mahindra United won both the 2005-06 National Football League and the 2005 Federation Cup, National League runner-up East Bengal faced them in the 2006 Indian Super Cup and won 2–1 with goals from Ndem Guy Herve and Alvito D'Cunha.
Fixtures & results
Statistics Appearances Players with no appearances are not included in the list. Appearances for East Bengal in 2005–06 season No.Pos.Nat.NameCFLNFLFed CupIFA ShieldDurand CupSuper CupTotalAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStartsAppsStarts Goalkeepers 1 GK Naseem Akhtar 4 4 8 8 2 2 2 2 16 16 21 GK Abhra Mondal 4 4 2 2 1 1 7 7 24 GK Rajat Ghosh Dastidar 7 6 7 7 2 2 1 1 17 16 Defenders 2 DF Muttah Suresh 5 4 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 18 15 5 DF Habibur Rehman Mondal 4 4 3 2 2 2 9 8 12 DF Arun Malhotra 7 7 1 1 1 1 9 9 12 DF Anupam Sarkar 15 15 15 15 16 DF Covan Lawrence 11 10 11 11 2 2 3 3 2 2 1 0 30 28 17 DF Surya Bikash Chakraborty 4 4 1 1 5 5 22 DF Debabrata Roy 5 5 10 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 19 12 26 DF Ngassa Guy Martial 12 12 1 1 13 13 27 DF Gurpreet Singh 4 4 3 2 7 6 29 DF Saumik Dey 11 11 11 11 1 1 2 2 2 2 27 27 DF Debkumar Sashmal 7 5 7 5 DF Debjit Ghosh 7 6 2 1 9 7 Midfielders 6 MF Dipankar Roy 7 7 9 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 20 9 7 MF Jayanta Sen 6 3 15 15 1 1 22 19 8 MF Sasthi Duley 8 8 10 5 3 3 1 1 22 17 9 MF Alvito D'Cunha 7 6 12 7 1 1 2 2 1 1 23 17 11 MF Kalia Kulothungan 8 4 10 8 3 1 1 0 22 13 14 MF Chandan Das 7 2 2 2 1 1 10 5 18 MF Tushar Rakshit 3 0 3 0 19 MF Syed Rahim Nabi 12 11 15 14 2 2 1 1 30 28 20 MF Ndem Guy Herve 13 13 1 1 14 14 27 MF Amandeep Singh 1 1 1 1 2 2 28 MF Shylo Malsawmtluanga 10 7 17 17 1 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 33 27 30 MF Bernard Pires 5 5 3 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 13 10 32 MF Gouranga Dutta 3 1 11 7 1 1 15 9 MF Jatin Singh Bisht 11 8 2 2 1 1 14 11 MF Sandip Das 5 5 5 5 MF Liswa Nduti 2 1 1 0 2 2 5 3 Forwards 10 FW Mike Okoro 2 1 9 6 2 2 3 3 2 2 18 14 12 FW I.M. Vijayan 5 3 2 0 7 3 15 FW Bhaichung Bhutia 16 16 16 16 25 FW R.C. Prakash 8 6 2 2 1 0 2 1 13 9 FW Sydney Nkalanga 2 2 3 3 2 2 7 7
Goal scorers Goals for East Bengal in 2005–06 seasonRankNameCFLNFLFed CupIFA ShieldDurand CupSuper CupTotal 1 15 FW Bhaichung Bhutia 12 12 2 19 MF Syed Rahim Nabi 8 3 0 0 0 0 11 3 9 MF Alvito D'Cunha 2 0 0 2 0 1 5 10 FW Mike Okoro 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 5 28 MF Shylo Malsawmtluanga 2 1 0 1 0 0 4 6 6 MF Dipankar Roy 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 12 FW I.M. Vijayan 3 0 0 0 3 20 MF Ndem Guy Herve 2 1 3 9 11 MF Kalia Kulothungan 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 14 MF Chandan Das 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 22 DF Debabrata Roy 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 25 FW R.C. Prakash 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 32 MF Gouranga Dutta 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 7 MF Jayanta Sen 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 MF Sasthi Duley 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 DF Arun Malhotra 1 0 0 0 0 1 29 DF Saumik Dey 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 30 MF Bernard Pires 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 FW Sydney Nkalanga 1 0 0 1 MF Jatin Singh Bisht 0 0 0 1 0 1 Own goals 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Total 25 25 3 7 3 2 65
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