Aryan F.C.

Techno Aryan FC
Full name Techno Aryan Football Club
Nickname(s) Aryan, Aryans Club
Founded 1884
Ground Salt Lake Stadium
Ground Capacity 68,000
Owner India Techno India Group
Chairman India Satyam Roy Chowdhury
Manager India Raghu Nandy
League Calcutta Premier Division
Website Club home page

Techno Aryan Football Club is a Kolkata football club founded in 1884 as Aryan Sports Club. It started playing football some years later, making it one of Asia’s oldest football clubs.

History

Before the advent of East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting, it was Aryan and Mohun Bagan who enjoyed an elite status among Indian football clubs. While Aryan didn’t enjoy the same degree of success as Mohun Bagan, they did perform well in patches. One of Aryan’s greatest moments came in 1940. That year, they won IFA Shield, one of India’s premier tournaments. They became only the 3rd Indian run club to win the prestigious title. Moreover, they crushed Mohun Bagan 4-1 in the final. Sir Dukhiram Majumdar was father figure of the club during those days. It was he who started Aryan’s famous policy of bringing up unknown yet talented footballers.

Aryan enjoyed another spell of success in mid-1950s, reaching the final of Shield in 1955 and 1956 with an ageing Sahu Mewalal in their ranks. As the years progressed they gradually lost their status as a top club, instead Aryan became the breeding ground of some of the most famous players in Kolkata maidan. Players like Pradip Kumar Banerjee, Prasun Banerjee, Goutam Sarkar and Sudhir Karmakar started out in Aryan, before moving on to the bigger clubs. Other than another IFA Shield win in 1983 (title shared with East Bengal), Aryan didn’t achieve a lot of success in modern era.[1]

On the morning of August 5, 1971, the Naxalite intellectual and poet Saroj Dutta was killed by the police in the grounds of the Aryan club on the Calcutta maidan.[2]

Sponsors

The Club is being sponsored by the Techno India Group for last three years.[3][4]

Current Squad

Squad for I-League second Division 2011.[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 India GK Cheeradip Chatterjee
2 India DF Souvik Guha
3 India DF Mohan Sarkar
4 India DF Sukalpa Mondal
6 India MF Gopal Debnath
7 India MF Sirajul Mistri
8 India MF Manik Barman
11 India MF Sagar Das
12 India MF Surajit Roy
13 India GK Shibram Dey
14 India MF Phul Chand Hembram
15 India DF Raju Koley
India DF Santu Das
Nigeria DF Luis Ebami
India MF michael kumar
No. Position Player
16 India DF Avik Guha
17 India DF Avinabo Bagiello
18 India MF Sayantan Das Roy
19 India MF Shubo Kumar
20 India MF Arbaz Ahmad
21 India DF Shyam Mondal
22 Bhutan MF Bulu Jigdung
23 India FW satya
25 India MF Snehasish Dutta
India DF Subhankar Nag
27 India DF Paban Das
29 India FW Godson
31 India GK Jhantu Mondal
India GK Rana Chakrabarty
India DF Sourav Chakravarty

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