The 2010–11 Mohun Bagan Football Club season was the club's 4th season in I-League and 121st season since its establishment in 1889. The team finished runners-up in the Calcutta Football League Federation Cup, Platinum Jubilee Cup, IFA Shield and sixth in the I-League with 34 points in 26 games, winning 8, drawing 10, and losing 8 in the process.
The Kolkata giants, who had a disappointing 2009–10 season that saw three coaches at the helm and the team finishing fifth in I-League, also announced Stanley Rozario as their new head coach for the 2010-11 Season.
On 13 December 2010, less than 24 hours after the green and maroons lost 0–2 to Churchill Brothers in Margao, Stanley Rozario stepped down as the head coach. Next day on 15.12.2010, Mohun Bagan, roped in Subhash Bhowmick as the team's Technical Director and they also announced that Bagan would submit a coach's name who holds an A-licence to the AFC, by 31 December.
Keeping the 31 December deadline for fulfilling Asian Football Confederation's guidelines in mind, Mohun Bagan on Friday 24 December 2010, appointed Sujit Chakraborty as the team coach.
Muritala Ali was their top goalscorer during the season, scoring 32 goals in all competitions. The Nigerian International was signed from Mahindra United.
Transfers In Source: Sl No. Name Position From1Sudipta BanerjeeGKRailways FC 2Kingshuk DebnathDF Chirag United3R. Dhanarajan4Nagimuddin MollickTollygunge Agragami5Suman Dutta Peerless SC6Okwy DiamondstarBayswater City SC7Jayanta SenMF Chirag United8Gouranga Dutta 9Surabuddin Mollick Mohammedan AC10Santosh Oraon Railways FC 11Satish Kumar JrHAL12Jewel RajaDempo SC13Muritala AliFWMahindra United14Ashim BiswasChirag United15Jagtar SinghTata Football Academy16Jacken Sebastian Malabar United FC
Out Sl No. Name1Chiradeep Chattopadhyay2 Mashangva Genius Zenith3 Subhojit Majumdar4Rino Anto5 Nanjangud Shivananju Manju6Deepak Kumar Mondal7Joseph Anandavasan8Nallappan Mohanraj9James Lukram Singh10Tomba Singh11 Micky Fernandes12Subho Kumar13 Kalia Perumal Kulothungan14Marcos Alexandro de Carvalho Pereira15 Santha Kumar16Lalramluaha17 Kartick Kisku18 Branco Vincent Cardozo19Ryuji Sueoka20Suraj Mondal
Squad Source:
Overview Overall Competition First match Last match Final positionCalcutta Football League31 August 201029 November 2010RunnersFederation Cup22 September 20102 October 2010RunnersPlatinum Jubilee Cup12 November 201014 November 2010RunnersI-League3 December 201029 May 20116thIFA Shield14 March 201131 March 2011Runners
Overview
Kit Main Sponsor: McDowell's No.1 (Parent Company United Breweries Group is 50% stake holder in the club). Kit manufacturer: Reebok
Platinum Jubilee Cup Fixtures & results
Calcutta Football League
Federation Cup
Mohun Bagan entered the 2010 Indian Federation Cup automatically as they were already in the I-League. They were placed in Group D along with Mumbai, Salgaocar and Shillong Lajong and their matches were played in Cuttack.The tournament got off to a mix start as well for Bagan as they won against Shillong Lajong 1–0 in their first match with Muritala Ali scoring the winner for Bagan and then drew goalless with Mumbai FC in their second match. In the last game of the group they required a win against Salgaocar to qualify and Bagan thrashed the Goan club by 6–1 with José Ramirez Barreto and Muritala Ali scoring hattricks each. In the semi-finals Mohun Bagan took on Dempo and the game ended 1–1 after 120 minutes. Ranti Martins put Dempo ahead in the 2nd minute while Chidi Edeh scored the equaliser in the 66th minute for Bagan. In the penalty shootout, Sangram Mukherjee saved Ogba Kalu Nnanna's shot as they won 5–3 to reach the finals. Group D
Matches
Semi Finals
Finals
I-League
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Fixtures & results
IFA Shield Group Stage
Matches
Semi Finals
Finals
Player Statistics Sl No. Name CFLFederation Cup Jublee CupI-League IFA Shield Total1Muritala Ali18 4 0 100322Chidi Edeh12 1 0 94263Barreto8 3 0 50164Ashim Biswas0022375Surkumar Singh0003036Satish Kumar Jr001102Ishfaq Ahmed00020Souvik Chakraborty20000Manish Maithani10010Snehasish Chakraborty100107Kingshuk Debnath100001Jayanta Sen10000Harpreet Singh00100Own Goal(s)100012Total458434899
See also
Mohun Bagan Super Giant 2009-10 Mohun Bagan FC season 2011–12 Mohun Bagan season 2012–13 Mohun Bagan FC season
References