Kidderpore

Full name	Kidderpore Sporting Club
Founded	1917; 108 years ago (1917)
Ground	Braun Field Square
Head coach	Sanjib Pal
League	CFL Premier Division
Home colours Away colours

Kidderpore Sporting Club^[1] (Bengali:খিদিরপুর স্পোর্টিং ক্লাব) is an Indian professionalmulti-sports club based inKidderpore inSouth Kolkata,West Bengal.^[2][3][4] Its association football team competes in theCalcutta Football League Premier Division A,^[5] alongside taking part inIFA Shield.^[6] They also have afutsal section.

Initially incorporated in 1917, the club was founded by a Britisher Napier McDonald and assumed the current name after Indian independence in 1947.^[1] The club used to play its matches at the premises of the Bhukailash Rajbari inKidderpore, before shifting its current base to the Kolkata Maidan.^[1] The club came into limelight during the coaching days of Achyut Banerjee, who managed Kidderpore in the 1950s–60s.^[7] They took part in numerous editions ofIFA Shield; at the 1985 tournament, they faced Uruguayan championsPeñarol.^[8][9]

Notable players who have played or have started their careers at the club includeSheoo Mewalal,^[10][11][12] Mangal Purakayastha, Dipu Das,Gautam Sarkar,^[13]Surajit Sengupta,Prasun Banerjee, Amit Bagchi,^[1] and Arun Kumar Ghosh.^[14] In May 2022, the club roped in Managya Nakarmi from Nepal, their first ever Asian footballer.^[15] In June 2023, Indian Football Association (IFA) made an announcement that the merger of both Premier Division A and B of theCalcutta Football League have done ahead of its 125th edition, in which Kidderpore allowed to compete in Group II.^{[16][17][18][19]} In September, the club qualified for CFL "Super Six" round.^[20]

• Bordoloi Trophy^[21][22]
  • Champions (1): 1987
  • Runners-up (1): 1970
• All India Independence Day Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2004^[23]

Kidderpore SC also operates men's team, which is affiliated to theCricket Association of Bengal (CAB), and competes in domestic tournaments including CAB First Division League and P. Sen Memorial Trophy.^[24]

• Football in Kolkata
• List of football clubs in West Bengal

Biography

• Mitra, Soumen (1 January 2006).In Search of an Identity: The History of Football in Colonial Calcutta. Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co. Private Ltd.ISBN 978-8182110229. Archived fromthe original on 21 October 2022.
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• Dineo, Paul; Mills, James (2001).Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora.London, United Kingdom: Frank Cass Publishers. p. 33.ISBN 978-0-7146-8170-2. Archived fromthe original on 25 July 2022.
• Martinez, Dolores; Mukharji, Projit B (2009).Football: From England to the World: The Many Lives of Indian Football.Routledge.ISBN 978-1-138-88353-6. Archived fromthe original on 2 July 2022.
• Nath, Nirmal (2011).History of Indian Football: Upto 2009–10. Readers Service.ISBN 9788187891963. Archived fromthe original on 22 July 2022.
• Majumdar, Boria; Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (2006).A Social History Of Indian Football: Striving To Score.Routledge.ISBN 9780415348355. Archived fromthe original on 29 June 2021.
• Basu, Jaydeep (2003).Stories from Indian Football. UBS Publishers' Distributors.ISBN 9788174764546. Archived fromthe original on 11 October 2022.

Cited sources

• "Olympian Tulsidas Balaram, the once don of Maidan soccer is no more".getbengal.com. Kolkata: Get Bengal Information Desk. 16 February 2023. Archived fromthe original on 2 April 2023. Retrieved20 February 2023.
• Sengupta, Somnath; Ghosh, Aindrila; Sengupta, Bhaktimoy (23 August 2013).""Lack of Focus on Youth Development Is The Biggest Problem of Indian Football" – Arun Ghosh (Exclusive Interview)".thehardtackle.com. Kolkata: The Hard Tackle. Archived fromthe original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved26 August 2022.
• Bhattacharya, Ayan (10 September 2023)."বাংলা ভাগের ক্ষত কিভাবে বিষিয়ে দিল মোহনবাগান আর ইস্টবেঙ্গলকে?" [How did the wound of the partition of Bengal poisoned both Mohun Bagan and East Bengal?].inscript.me (in Bengali). Kolkata: ইনস্ক্রিপ্ট বাংলা নিউজ. Archived fromthe original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved7 November 2023.
• "Calcutta Football League Premier Division B — Championship Round".kolkatafootball.com. Kolkata: Kolkata Football News. Archived fromthe original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved18 December 2023.

• Kidderpore SC at Soccerway
• Kidderpore SC at IFAWB.org

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