2019–20 Mohun Bagan FC season

Mohun Bagan
2019–20 season
Secretary	Srinjoy Bose
Head coach	Kibu Vicuña
Stadium	Mohun Bagan Ground;; Salt Lake Stadium;; Kalyani Stadium
I-League	Champions
CFL	Runners-up
Durand Cup	Runners-up
Sheikh Kamal Cup	Semi-finalist
Top goalscorer	League: ; Baba Diawara; Fran Gonzalez; (10 each); All: ; Fran Gonzalez (15)
Highest home attendance	63,756
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2019–20 Mohun Bagan FC season was the club's 13th season in I-League and 130th season since its establishment in 1889. The team finished runners-up in the Calcutta Football League and Durand Cup. They were crowned Champions in the I-League and reached the semifinals of the Sheikh Kamal Cup where they were defeated by Terengganu.

Players

Squad No.	Name	Position	Date of Birth & Age
Goalkeepers
1	Sankar Roy	GK	(1995-05-09) 9 May 1995 (age 29)
22	Shilton Paul	GK	(1988-06-10) 10 June 1988 (age 36)
24	Debjit Majumder (on loan from ATK)	GK	(1988-03-06) 6 March 1988 (age 36)
Defenders
4	Francisco Morante Martínez	DF	(1992-06-28) 28 June 1992 (age 32)
5	Gurjinder Kumar (VC)	DF	(1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 (age 33)
6	Ashutosh Mehta	DF	(1991-02-21) 21 February 1991 (age 33)
15	Lalramchullova	DF	(1995-01-14) 14 January 1995 (age 29)
25	Dhanachandra Singh (C)	DF	(1987-03-04) 4 March 1987 (age 37)
28	Bikramjeet Singh (on loan from Mumbai City FC)	DF	(1992-10-15) 15 October 1992 (age 31)
45	Daneil Cyrus	DF	(1990-12-15) 15 December 1990 (age 33)
Midfielders
10	Joseba Agirregomezkorta Beitia	MF	(1990-09-29) 29 September 1990 (age 33)
11	Alexander Romario Jesuraj (on loan from FC Goa)	MF	(1996-07-26) 26 July 1996 (age 27)
16	Nongdamba Naorem (on loan from Kerala Blasters)	MF	(2000-01-02) 2 January 2000 (age 24)
18	Lalramzauva Khiangte	MF	(1997-01-01) 1 January 1997 (age 27)
26	Shilton D'Silva	MF	(1992-09-15) 15 September 1992 (age 31)
27	SK Sahil ^Y	MF	(2000-04-28) 28 April 2000 (age 24)
33	Britto PM	MF	(1993-03-15) 15 March 1993 (age 31)
44	Kiyan Nassiri Giri^Y	MF	(2000-11-17) 17 November 2000 (age 23)
47	Sheikh Faiaz (on loan from ATK)	MF	(1995-03-03) 3 March 1995 (age 29)
50	Francisco Javier González Muñoz	MF	(1989-02-01) 1 February 1989 (age 35)
Forwards
7	Komron Tursunov	FW	(1996-04-24) 24 April 1996 (age 28)
9	Baba Diawara	FW	(1988-01-05) 5 January 1988 (age 36)
20	Suhair VP	FW	(1992-09-27) 27 September 1992 (age 31)
49	Subha Ghosh ^Y	FW	(2000-12-22) 22 December 2000 (age 23)

Last updated: 22 December 2019
Source: themohunbaganac.com

^Y Players promoted from the reserve team.

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Ref.
24 May 2019	DF	Dhanachandra Singh	Jamshedpur	^[1]
24 May 2019	DF	Ashutosh Mehta	Pune City	^[1]
28 May 2019	GK	Dibyendu Sarkar	NBP Rainbow	^[2]
	DF	Koushik Sarkar	East Bengal
	DF	Surabuddin Mollick	East Bengal
	MF	Babun Das	Pathachakra
3 June 2019	GK	Debjit Majumder (on loan)	ATK	^[3]
3 June 2019	FW	Suhair VP	Gokulam	^[3]
5 June 2019	DF	Fran Morante	Internacional de Madrid	^[4]
19 June 2019	FW	Salva Chamorro	Doxa Drama	^[5]
20 June 2019	MF	Sheikh Faiaz (on loan)	ATK	^[6]
	MF	Imran Khan	FC Goa	^[6]
	MF	Nongdamba Naorem (on loan)	Kerala Blasters	^[7]
6 July 2019	MF	Fran González	Lee Man	^[8]
9 July 2019	MF	Alexander Romario Jesuraj (on loan)	FC Goa	^[9]
9 July 2019	MF	Joseba Beitia	Real Unión	^[10]
24 July 2019	DF	Lalramchullova	East Bengal	^[11]
10 August 2019	DF	Daneil Cyrus	Al-Orobah FC	^[12]
31 August 2019	MF	Julen Colinas	UCAM Murcia CF	^[13]
17 December 2019	FW	Baba Diawara	Adelaide United	^[14]
22 December 2019	FW	Komron Tursunov	FC Istiklol	^[15]

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Ref.
14 May 2019	FW	Dipanda Dicka	Southern Samity	^[16]
6 June 2019	DF	Abhishek Ambekar	East Bengal	^[17]
6 June 2019	MF	Pintu Mahato	East Bengal	^[17]
7 June 2019	MF	Sourav Das	Mumbai City	^[18]
9 July 2019	MF	Tirthankar Sarkar	Mohammedan SC	^[19]
10 July 2019	FW	Henry Kisekka	Gokulam Kerala FC	^[20]
16 July 2019	MF	Sony Norde	Zira FK	^[21]
7 August 2019	MF	Darren Caldeira	Kerala Blasters	^[22]
9 September 2019	DF	Amey Ranawade	FC Goa	^[23]
–	GK	Ricardo Cardozo	Released/Out of contract	–
	GK	Mainak Akuli
	DF	Kingsley Obumneme
	DF	Dalraj Singh
	MF	Yuta Kinowaki
	MF	William Lalnunfela
	MF	Omar Elhussieny
	MF	Mehtab Hussain
	MF	Abhinas Ruidas
	MF	Dipankar Das
	FW	Salva Chamorro
	MF	Julen Colinas

Kits

Kit Sponsor	Co-Sponsors
Shiv Naresh	Ripley & Stevedoring, MP Birla Cement

Home

Away

Goalkeeper

Staff

Position	Name
Chief Coach	Kibu Vicuña
Assistant Coach	Tomasz Tchórz
Assistant Coach	Ranjan Chowdhury
Goalkeeping Coach	Dipankar Chowdhury
Physical Trainer/Sports Therapist	Paulius Ragauskas
Team Manager	Satyajit Chatterjee

Last updated: 3 June 2019
Source: themohunbaganac.com

Competitions

Overview

As of matches played till 15 March 2020

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
I-League	30 November 2019	10 March 2020	Round 1	Winners (1st)	16	12	3	1	35	13	+22	075.00
Durand Cup	2 August 2019	24 August 2019	Group Stage	Runners-up	5	4	0	1	9	4	+5	080.00
CFL	6 August 2019	29 September 2019	Round 1	2nd	11	6	2	3	20	10	+10	054.55
Sheikh Kamal Cup	20 October 2019	29 October 2019	Group Stage	Semi-finals	4	2	0	2	6	6	+0	050.00
Total					36	24	5	7	70	33	+37	066.67

Source: Competitions

I-League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Mohun Bagan (C)	16	12	3	1	35	13	+22	39	Qualification for 2021 AFC Cup group stage
2	East Bengal	16	6	5	5	23	18	+5	23
3	Punjab	16	5	8	3	23	21	+2	23
4	Real Kashmir	15	6	4	5	16	14	+2	22
5	Gokulam Kerala	15	6	4	5	20	19	+1	22

Source: I-league, RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
(C) Champions

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
16	13	2	1	35	13	+22	41	8	0	1	20	9	+11	5	2	0	15	4	+11

Last updated: 15 March 2020.
Source: soccerway.com

Matches

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

30 November 2019 1	Aizawl FC	0–0	Mohun Bagan	Aizawl
14:00 IST	Zoherliana 76'	Report	Morante 18' Gurjinder 70'	Stadium: Rajiv Gandhi Stadium Attendance: 7,642 Referee: O.P.Thakur Man of the Match: Lalremruata

8 December 2019 2	Mohun Bagan	2–4	Churchill Brothers	Kalyani
17:00 IST	González 33' (pen.) Subha 90' Morante 90+2'	Report	Plaza 2', 38' Primus 29' Poojary 45' Ceesay 56' Martins 56' Abu Bakr 76'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 14,386 Referee: O.P.Thakur Man of the Match: Willis Plaza

11 December 2019 3	Mohun Bagan	4–0	TRAU	Kalyani
17:00 IST	González 5', 46' Suhair 38' Naorem 57' Gurjinder 75' Subha 90+1'	Report	Tetteh 32' Meitei 71'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 8,834 Referee: R.Saha Man of the Match: Fran González

16 December 2019 4	Mohun Bagan	2–1	Gokulam Kerala	Kalyani
17:00 IST	González 24', (pen.)', 48' Mehta 28' Beitia 73' Gurjinder 79' 90+4'	Report	Naocha 26' Mayakkannan 63' Joseph 45+3', (pen.)'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 14,137 Referee: C.John Man of the Match: Sankar Roy

6 January 2020 5	Real Kashmir	0–2	Mohun Bagan	Srinagar
11:30 IST	Katebe 27' Subhash 36'	Report	Cyrus 64' Beitia 72' Naorem 74'	Stadium: TRC Turf Ground Attendance: 11,521 Referee: U.Bora Man of the Match: Fran Morante

9 January 2020 6	Mohun Bagan	1–0	Indian Arrows	Kalyani
17:00 IST	Cyrus 18' Gonzalez 52' Dhanachandra 61' Beitia 78'	Report	Yumnam 72' Vikram 86'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 10,938 Referee: P.Singh Man of the Match: Daneil Cyrus

13 January 2020 7	Punjab F.C.	1–1	Mohun Bagan	Ludhiana
14:00 IST	Dipanda 20' Danilo 30'	Report	Subha 87'	Stadium: Guru Nanak Stadium Attendance: 1,131 Referee: U.Bora Man of the Match: Danilo Quipapá

19 January 2020 8	Mohun Bagan	2–1	East Bengal	Kalyani
17:00 IST	Beitia 18' González 36' Cyrus 45+1' Diawara 65' Gurjinder 66' Sahil 81' Sankar 90+1'	Report	Crespí 41' Espada 71'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 63,756 Referee: A.Meitei Man of the Match: Joseba Beitia

23 January 2020 9	NEROCA	0–3	Mohun Bagan	Imphal
14:00 IST	Meetei 43'	Report	Mehta 6' Naorem 27' Diawara 53' Tursunov 90+4'	Stadium: Khuman Lampak Stadium Attendance: 8,220 Referee: T.Nagvenkar Man of the Match: Baba Diawara

31 January 2020 10	Chennai City	2–3	Mohun Bagan	Coimbatore
19:00 IST	Eslava 24' Santana 45' Nagappan 65' Balakrishnan 70' Anandraj 75'	Report	Diawara 24' 27', 49' González 29' Suhair 45' Mehta 59'	Stadium: Nehru Stadium Attendance: 3,863 Referee: M.B.Santosh Kumar Man of the Match: Baba Diawara

9 February 2020 11	Mohun Bagan	1–0	Punjab F.C.	Kalyani
17:00 IST	Diawara 42' González 45+1' Morante 45+1' Beitia 63' Sankar 83'	Report	Dipanda 45+1' Shadap 80'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 14,756 Referee: M.B.Santosh Kumar Man of the Match: Baba Diawara

14 February 2020 12	Mohun Bagan	6–2	NEROCA	Kalyani
17:00 IST	González 11', 24', 45' Morante 13' Diawara 37' Sahil 42' Dhanachandra Jesuraj 70'	Report	Adjah 41' Moirangthem 43' Subash 45+2'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium Attendance: 13,255 Referee: R.Moses Raj Man of the Match: Fran González

22 February 2020 13	Churchill Brothers	0–3	Mohun Bagan	Vasco da Gama
19:00 IST	Martins 74' Vinil 89'	Report	Diawara 7' Suhair 51' Komron 58' Mehta 65'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 4,242 Referee: C.R.Srikrishna Man of the Match: Fran González

1 March 2020 14	TRAU	1–3	Mohun Bagan	Imphal
17:00 IST	Luwang 10' Sunday 35'	Report	González 14' Beitia 22' Diawara 23' 82' Tursunov 43' 70'	Stadium: Khuman Lampak Stadium

5 March 2020 15	Mohun Bagan	1–1	Chennai City	Kalyani
17:00 IST	D'Silva 17' Diawara 45' Morante 70'	Report	Katsumi 65' Balakrishnan 80' Thangalakath 88'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium

10 March 2020 16	Mohun Bagan	1–0	Aizawl FC	Kalyani
17:00 IST	Subha 78' Diawara 80' Naorem 87' D'Silva 88'	Report	Lalrosanga 8' Lalnunfela 75'	Stadium: Kalyani Stadium

Canc 17	East Bengal	v	Mohun Bagan	Kolkata
17:00 IST				Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium

Canc 18	Indian Arrows	v	Mohun Bagan	Mumbai
17:00 IST				Stadium: Cooperage Ground

Canc 19	Mohun Bagan	v	Real Kashmir	Kolkata
17:00 IST				Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium

Canc 20	Gokulam Kerala	v	Mohun Bagan	Kozhikode
17:00 IST				Stadium: EMS Stadium

Durand Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mohun Bagan (Q)	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	9	Knockout stage
2	ATK (E)	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Mohammedan (E)	3	1	0	2	6	4	+2	3
4	Indian Navy (E)	3	0	1	2	2	8	−6	1

Updated to match(es) played on 17 August 2019. Source: goal.com
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Matches

2 August 2019	Mohun Bagan	2–0	Mohammedan	Kolkata
18:00 IST	Chamorro 2', 23'	Report		Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Crystal John

8 August 2019	Mohun Bagan	2–1	ATK	Kolkata
15:00 IST	Morante 34' Beitia 53'	Report	Pradhan 78'	Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground Attendance: 17,000 Referee: C.R. Srikrishna

17 August 2019	Mohun Bagan	1–0	Indian Navy	Kolkata
18:30 IST	González 58'	Report		Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 4,000

Knockout stages

Semi-final

21 August 2019	Mohun Bagan	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Real Kashmir	Kolkata
19:30 IST	Chamorro 42' Suhair 92', 112'	Report	Krizo 90+3'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 23,118

Final

24 August 2019	Mohun Bagan	1–2	Gokulam Kerala	Kolkata
18:30 IST	Chamorro 64' Morante 90+7'	Report	Joseph 45+1' (pen.), 51' George 87'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 41,734