Biswajit Bhattacharya is a retired Indian professionalfootballer and football manager.^[1][2][3] He most recently managedCalcutta Football League clubCalcutta Customs and is the current head coach ofWest Bengal football team.

Bhattacharya played as a striker in theIndia national football team and played for both theCalcutta Football League clubsEast Bengal^[4] andMohun Bagan.^[5][6] In 1985, he wonFederation Cup with East Bengal and went on to play at the1985–86 Asian Club Championship in Saudi Arabia.^[7] Managed byP. K. Banerjee,^[8][9][10] East Bengal was part of Central Asia Zone, and the tournament was named "Coca-Cola Cup" where they defeated multiple teams to win it. In the opener againstNew Road Team of Nepal, they earned a massive 7–0 win, where Bhattacharya netted four goals. They also defeatedDhaka Abahani 1–0, thrashedClub Valencia of Maldives 9–0 (the biggest margin of victory by an Indian team over any foreign opponents).^[11]

He representedIndia at the1984 AFC Asian Cup in Singapore.^[12] He scored a goal againstPoland in1984 Nehru Cup. That was India's only goal in the tournament. After a bike accident, Bhattacharya left his playing career and entered into coaching.^[13]

In February 2012, after sacking Sri Lankan manager Pakir Ali,Chirag United Kerala roped in Bhattacharya as technical director.^[14][15] The club finished in twelfth position on league table of2011–12 season, and relegated.^{[16][17][18][19][20]} He left the club, and soon they got dissolved.^{[21][22][23][24]}

He later managedEast Bengal in the 2015–16 season,^[25] and helped them winning prestigiousCalcutta Football League.^[26][27][28]

In 2017–18, he managedMohammedan Sporting.^[29][30][31] With Mohammedan, he wonBordoloi Trophy, defeating Oil India Limited by 3–1 margin in final.^[32]

In 2018, he was appointed head coach ofPeerless in theCalcutta Football League.^[33][34]

In 2019, he moved abroad and managedBhutan Premier League clubParo. In that year, they wonleague title.^[35]

On 1 July 2021,Southern Samity appointed Bhattacharya as their new head coach.^[36][37] The club began their2021 CFL Premier Division campaign with a 3–0 defeat against Mohammedan Sporting,^[38][39][40] and Bhattacharya was succeeded by Nigerian-Indian manager Saheed Ramon in September. He later managed century-old clubCalcutta Customs.^[41]

In 2022, Bhattacharya took charge ofWest Bengal and helped the team clinching gold at the36th National Games of India, defeatingKerala 5–0 in final inAhmedabad.^[42][43] He later guided the team in2022–23 Santosh Trophy, but they failed to break into the semi-finals hosted inSaudi Arabia.^[44]

East Bengal

• Federation Cup: 1984–85
• Coca Cola Cup: 1985

Bengal

• Santosh Trophy:1981-82,1986-87

East Bengal

• Calcutta Football League: 2015–16

Mohammedan Sporting

• Bordoloi Trophy: 2018
• Bodoland Martyrs Gold Cup: 2018^[45]
• Darjeeling Gold Cup runner-up: 2018

Paro

• Bhutan Premier League:2019
• Jigme Dorji Wangchuk Memorial Gold Cup: 2019^[46]

West Bengal

• National Games Gold medal:2022

• List of East Bengal Club coaches
• List of India national football team captains

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• Biswajit Bhattacharya at Global Sports Archive

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