1975 IFA Shield final

The 1975 IFA Shield Final was the 79th final of the IFA Shield, the second oldest football competition in India, and was contested between Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan on 30 September 1975 at the Mohun Bagan Ground in Kolkata.

1975 IFA Shield Final

Event	1975 IFA Shield
East Bengal Mohun Bagan 5 0
Date	30 September 1975
Venue	Mohun Bagan Ground, Kolkata, West Bengal
Man of the Match	Shyam Thapa
Attendance	30,000 (approx.)
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East Bengal won the final 5–0 to claim their 14th IFA Shield title. Shyam Thapa scored a brace while Surajit Sengupta, Ranjit Mukherjee and Subhankar Sanyal scored one each as East Bengal defeated their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan in a record margin to lift their fourth consecutive IFA Shield title.^[1][2][3]

Route to the final

See also: IFA Shield

East Bengal

Date	Round	Opposition	Score
23 September 1975	Quarter-Final	Police AC	5–0
26 September 1970	Semi Final	Behala Youth	7–0

East Bengal entered the 1975 IFA Shield as the three times defending champions, and started their campaign directly from the quarter-final stage. East Bengal faced Police AC in the last eight and defeated them 5–0 with Surajit Sengupta scoring a hattrick for the team while Samaresh Chowdhury and Shyam Thapa scored the other two. In the semi-final, East Bengal faced Behala Youth and won 7–0 with Surajit Sengupta scoring four goals and Ranjit Mukherjee, Pradip Dutta and Subhankar Sanyal scoring one each as East Bengal reached the IFA Shield final for the twenty-second time.^[4]

Mohun Bagan

Date	Round	Opposition	Score
25 September 1975	Quarter-Final	Kalighat Club	w/o
27 September 1970	Semi Final	Tollygunge Agragami	4–1

Mohun Bagan entered the 1975 IFA Shield as one of the Kolkata giants and was supposed to start their campaign directly from the quarter-finals against Kalighat Club however, Kalighat had informed the Indian Football Association about their inability to field a team and Mohun Bagan received a walkover into the semi-finals. In the semi-final, Mohun Bagan defeated Tollygunge Agragami 4–1 with Sisir Guha Dastidar scoring twice and Bijoy Dikpati and Johor Das scoring one each as Mohun Bagan reached the finals. Srikumar Chakraborty scored the only goal for Tollygunge in the defeat.^[4]

Match

Details

East Bengal	5–0	Mohun Bagan
Sengupta 6' Thapa 14', 24', 50' Mukherjee 38' Sanyal 84'	Report

30 September 1975

15:00 IST

Mohun Bagan Ground, Kolkata, West Bengal

Attendance: 35,000 (est.)

Referee: Babul Barmese (Assam)

East Bengal

Mohun Bagan

GK Tarun Bose RB Sudhir Karmakar CB Ashokelal Banerjee (c) CB Shyamal Ghosh LB Kajal Dhali  75' CM Gautam Sarkar CM Samaresh Chowdhury LF Surajit Sengupta RF Subhash Bhowmick ST Ranjit Mukherjee ST Shyam Thapa  80' Substitutes: LB Mridul Mutsuddi  75' ST Subhankar Sanyal  80' Coach: P. K. Banerjee

GK Bhaskar Ganguly  51' RB Bijoy Dikpati CB Nimai Goswami  75' CB Subrata Bhattacharya LB Dilip Palit CM Tapan Bose CM Prasun Banerjee LF Narayanswami Ulaganathan RF Kesto Mitra ST Johor Das ST Sisir Guha Dastidar (c) Substitutes: GK Prasanta Mitra  51' CB Compton Dutta  75' Coach: Arun Ghosh

Hero of the Match: Shyam Thapa (East Bengal)

Match rules 90 minutes.

See also

• IFA Shield Finals