Aryan F.C.

AraynFootball Club is a Kolkata football club founded in 1884 as AraynSports Club.[1] It started playing football some years later, making it one of Asia's oldest football clubs.

AraynFC

Full name	Arayn Football Club
Nickname(s)	Arayn, Arayns Club
Founded	1884 (1884)
Ground	East Bengal-Aryan Ground
Capacity	23,500
Owner	India Group
Chairman	Satyam Roy Chowdhury
Manager	Rajdeep Nandy
League	Calcutta Premier Division
Website	Club website

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 (1875 - 16.06.1929) 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.[2]

On the morning of 5 August 1971, the Naxalite intellectual and poet Saroj Dutta was killed by the police in the grounds of the Aryan club on the Calcutta maidan.[3]

Sponsors

The Club is being sponsored by the Techno India Group for last three years.[4][5]

Current squad

Squad for CFL Premier Division A 2018.[6] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  IND Omeer Hossain 3 DF  IND Mohan Sarkar 4 DF  IND Pitambar Das 6 MF  IND Ankit Mukherjee 7 MF  IND Sourav Dasgupta 8 MF  IND Raju Koley 9 MF  IND Firoj Ali 10 MF  IND Chattu Mondal 11 FW  IND Souvik Santra 12 MF  IND Anubrata Maity 13 DF  IND Manash Sarkar 14 DF  IND Sukdeb Murmu 15 DF  CIV Seidu Made 16 MF  IND Hiralal Chettri

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  IND Rajib Ghorui 18 DF  IND Suraj Bahadur Gurung 19 MF  IND Sabir Ali 20 MF  IND Prasenjit Chakraborty 21 MF  IND Goutam Thakur 22 DF  IND Bapan Mondal 9 FW  CIV Gatch Arthure Diomande 24 FW  NGA Emmanuel Chinedu 25 MF  IND Asit Hazra 28 FW  IND Mahitosh roy rajbonshi 27 DF  IND Paban Das 30 FW  IND Godson 31 GK  IND Jhantu Mondal 32 GK  IND Rana Chakrabarty 33 DF  IND Sourav Chakravarty

External links

• Official Website
• Aryan Club - Rising From the Ashes

References

1. "India - Techno Aryan XI FC - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
2. "Aryan Club - Rising From the Ashes". thehardtackle.com. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
3. "Countering the Maoists - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dnaindia.com. 12 July 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "Aryans Club ties up with Techno India". thaindian.com. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)