The Mohun Bagan AC season awards are the official awards ceremony presented every year since 2001 by the Indian multi-sports club Mohun Bagan to commemorate Mohun Bagan Day (29 July) which marks the day on which the club defeated East Yorkshire Regiment's football team to win their first IFA Shield in 1911, thereby becoming the first all-native team to ever win a football tournament dominated by British teams and clubs.
Award ceremony The inaugural geometry dash award ceremony was held in 2001 under the then general secretary of the club Anjan Mitra and the major highlight of the ceremony was the introduction of Mohun Bagan Ratna, which is a medallion of highest honour awarded to acclaim a recipient's unparalleled contribution to the club. Apart from the Mohun Bagan Ratna, other awards are also presented which often differ in categories each year, except for an award for the best footballer and cricketer of the season which were presented for most of the years.
Mohun Bagan Ratna
Over the years, Mohun Bagan Ratna has been mostly awarded to sportspersons, especially footballers with Sailen Manna being its first recipient, except in 2007 when the club awarded the honour to the club's former general secretary Dhiren Dey for his role during the football team's successes in the 1960s. In 2010, the club honoured all the members of the 1911 IFA Shield winning team except Shibdas Bhaduri who was already conferred in 2003. In 2019 the club awarded the medallion to a player of other sport except football for the first time.
YearRecipient2001Sailen Manna2002Dr. Talimeran Ao 2003Shibdas Bhaduri2004Gostha Paul 2005Chuni Goswami2006Umapati Kumar 2007Dhiren Dey2008Mohammad Abdus Sattar2009Samar Banerjee2010Hiralal Mukherjee, Bhuti Sukul,Sudhir Kumar Chatterjee, Monmohan Mukherjee,Rajen Sengupta, Neelmadhav Bhattacharya,Kanu Roy, Habul Sarkar,Abhilash Ghosh, Bijoydas Bhaduri2011Pradip Kumar Banerjee2012Jarnail Singh2013Balaidas Chatterjee2014Arumoy Naigam2015Karuna Sankar Bhattacharya2016Syed Nayeemuddin2017Subrata Bhattacharya2018Pradip Chowdhury2019Keshav Dutt, Prasun Banerjee2020Gurbux Singh, Palash Nandy2021Shibaji Banerjee2022Shyam Thapa2023Gautam Sarkar2024Sourav Ganguly2025Swapan Sadhan Bose Trophy The Mohun Bagan Ratna award is a medallion with the emblem of Mohun Bagan in the center, and along the circumference is etched "Mohun Bagan Athletic Club 1889" and " Mohun Bagan Ratna" with the year of felicitation and the name of the recipient.
Best footballer of the season
Mohun Bagan presents an award to the best footballer for his performance during the preceding season through a voting among the board of members of the club. The award is named in honour of an eminent personality historically associated with the club, with the inaugural ward being named as Dhiren Dey Award which was conferred to José Barreto in 2001 after which the award was stopped being given due various undisclosed management issues until 2012. Presently the award is named Shibdas Bhaduri Award after 1911 IFA Shield winning captain Shibdas Bhaduri. YearNationalityRecipientPositionNotes2001José BarretoForwardAward was named Dhiren Dey Award2012Syed Rahim NabiForwardAward was named Karuna Shankar Bhattacharjee Award2013Denson DevadasMidfielder2014Katsumi YusaMidfielder2015Debjit MajumderGoalkeeper2016Sony NordéForwardJeje LalpekhluaForward2017Balwant SinghForward2018Shilton PaulGoalkeeper2019Arijit BaguiDefender2020Joseba BeitiaMidfielderAward was named Shibdas Bhaduri Award2021Roy KrishnaForward2022Liston ColacoForward2023Vishal KaithGoalkeeper2024Dimitri PetratosForward
Best cricketer of the year Mohun Bagan presents an award to the best cricketer for his performance for the club in CAB organised tournaments during the previous season decided by the votes of the management board. The inaugural award was named Dhiren Dey Memorial Award and was given to Debabrata Das in 2012. Presently the award is named as Arun Lal Award in honour of former Test cricketer Arun Lal. +YearRecipient Role2012Debabrata DasBatter2013Subhomoy DasBatter2014Not awarded due to norecognizable performance2015Jayojit BasuBatter2016Wriddhiman SahaWicket-keeper2017Debabrata DasBatter2018Sudip ChatterjeeBatter2019Rajkumar PaulBatter2020Not awarded due toCOVID-19 pandemic2021Abhimanyu EaswaranBatter2022Prinann DuttaBatter2023Arnab NandiAll-rounder2024Avilin GhoshBatter
Other award winners +YearBest sportspersonBest young footballerBest forward (Subhash Bhowmick Award)Best athlete (Pranab Banerjee Award)Best hockey playerBest supporterBest sports official (Anjan Mitra Award)Best sports journalist (Moti Nandi Award)Best referee (Pramod Chakraborty Award)2012Laxmi Ratan Shukla2013Asha Roy2015Romario Angelo Topno, Pintu Mahata,Sougata Hansda2016Not awarded2017Deep SahaLili Das2018Sourav DasNot awarded2019 Football League winning teamTapas Dey2020Sajal BagNot awardedJoydeep Mukherjee2021Not awardedBidisha KunduNot awarded2022Kiyan NassiriNot awardedV. C. PraveenAshok Dasgupta2023Ningomba Engson SinghDimitri PetratosMohor MukherjeeNitish NeupaneShanti Chakraborty, Kamalesh UpadhyaySiddhartha 'Nabab' BhattacharyaJayanto Chakraborty2024Suhail BhatManvir SinghKarunamoy MahatoSourabh PahineBapi Maji, Ajoy PasawanSourav PalDebashish DattaDilip Sen
Lifetime achievement award +YearRecipient2019Ashok Chatterjee2020Ashok Kumar, Pranab Ganguly,Manoranjan Porel2022Balai Dey2023Shankar Banerjee2024Bimal Mukherjee
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