List of Mohun Bagan Super Giant captains

Mohun Bagan Super Giant (commonly referred to as Mohun Bagan) is an Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1889, it is one of the oldest football clubs in Asia. The club competes in the Indian Super League, the top tier of Indian football league system.^[1]

Till now the club has won the top-flight football league a record seven times — Indian Super League and I-League twice and National Football League thrice.^[2] They are one of the most successful Indian clubs in the history of the Federation Cup, having won the championship a record 14 times.^[3] The club had also won several other trophies, including the ISL playoffs (2 times), the Durand Cup (17 times), the IFA Shield (22 times), the Rover's Cup (14 times) and the Calcutta Football League (30 times).^[4][5][6]

List of captains

As of October 2024^[update]

The following is the list of first-choice captains of Mohun Bagan's main football team in each of the Indian football years/seasons:^[7][8]

Note: The list doesn't include players who had been a substitute captain for selective matches.

Bold means player has represented his nation at least once internationally at senior-level.

Season	Nationality	Name	Notes/References
1889	India	Manilal Sen	Member of one of the founding families–Sen family of Bagbazar–of the club, was the first and the longest serving captain of the team.[9]
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901	India	Monmohan Pandey
1902
1903
1904
1905	India	Ramdas Bhaduri
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911	India	Shibdas Bhaduri	Was the captain of the Immortal XI that won the 1911 IFA Shield.[10]
1912
1913	India	Sirishchandra 'Habul' Sarkar
1914
1915
1916	India	Bijoydas Bhaduri
1917
1918
1919	India	Prakash Ghosh
1920
1921	India	Gostha Pal	[11]
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926	India	Umapati Kumar
1927
1928
1929
1930	India	Sudhansu Bose
1931	India	Dr. Manmatha Nath Dutta
1932
1933
1934	India	Abdul Hamid	From Quetta, Baluchistan; was the first captain not from Bengal.
1935	India	Bhola Sarkar
1936	India	Satu Chowdhary
1937
1938	India	Bimal Mukherjee	Was the captain of the first CFL Premier Division winning team in 1939.[12]
1939
1940	India	Nanda Roy Choudhury
1941
1942	India	Mona Guin
1943	India	Anil Dey
1944
1945
1946	India	Sarat Das
1947
1948	India	Talimeren Ao	[13][14]
1949
1950	India	Sailen Manna	[15]
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955	India	Md. Abdus Sattar	[16]
1956
1957	India	Swaraj Chatterjee
1958	India	Samar 'Badru' Banerjee	[17]
1959	India	Sushil Guha
1960	India	Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami	[18][19]
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965	India	Jarnail Singh	Had become the only ever Indian to lead Asian All-Star team in 1966.[20][21][22]
1966
1967
1968	India	Isaiah Arumainayagam
1969	India	Chandreswar Prasad
1970
1971
1972	India	Bhabani Ray
1973	India	Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar
1974	India	Syed Nayeemuddin
1975	India	Nirmal Goswami
1976	India	Prasanta Mitra
1977	India	Subrata Bhattacharya	[23]
1978	India	Prasun Banerjee	Was the captain of the first club based national tournament–Federation Cup–winning team in 1978.
1979	India	Dilip Palit
1980	India	Compton Dutta
1981	India	Pradip Chowdhury
1982	India	Shyam Thapa
1983	India	Gautam Sarkar	Was the first former East Bengal captain to lead the team.[24]
1984	India	Shyamal Bose
1985	India	Bidesh Bose
1986	India	Krishnendu Roy
1987	India	Babu Mani	[25]
1988	India	Prasanta Banerjee
1989	India	Sisir Ghosh
1990	India	Satyajit Chatterjee
1991	India	Sisir Ghosh
1992	India	Achintya Belei
1993	India	Amit Bhadra
1994	India	Tanumoy Basu
1995	India	Sisir Ghosh
1996
1997	India	Aloke Das
1998	India	Biswanath Mondal	Was the captain of the first national league–National Football League–winning team in 1997-98.
1999	India	Hemanta Dora
2000	India	Lolendra Singh
2001	India	Debjit Ghosh
2002	India	Dulal Biswas
2003	India	Renedy Singh	[26][27]
2004	India	Monitombi Singh
2005	India	Mehtab Hossain	[28]
2006	Brazil	José Ramirez Barreto	Was the first foreign national captain of the team.[29][30][note 1]
2007-08	India	Bhaichung Bhutia	[31][32][33]
2008-09
	India	Lalkamal Bhowmick	[34]
2009-10	India	Sangram Mukherjee	[35]
2010-11	India	Ishfaq Ahmed	[36]
2011-12	Brazil	José Ramirez Barreto	[37]
2012-13	Nigeria	Odafa Onyeka Okolie	[38][39]
2013-14
2014-15	India	Shilton Paul	Was the captain of the first professional national league–I-League–winning team in 2014-15.[40][41][42]
2015-16
2016-17	Japan	Katsumi Yusa	[43]
2017-18	Haiti	Sony Nordé	[44]
	India	Kingshuk Debnath	[note 2]
2018-19	Nigeria	Eze Kingsley Obumneme	[45][46]
	Haiti	Sony Nordé	[47][note 3]
2019-20	India	Dhanachandra Singh	[48][49]
2020-21	India	Pritam Kotal	[50][51]
	India	Arindam Bhattacharya	[50][51]
	India	Sandesh Jhingan	[50][51]
	Spain	Edu García	[50][51]
	Fiji	Roy Krishna	[50][51]
2021-22			[52][53]
	India	Subhasish Bose	[52][53][note 4]
	India	Pritam Kotal	[52][53]
2022-23			[54][55]
	Finland	Joni Kauko	[54][55][note 5]
	Guinea	Florentin Pogba	[54][55][note 5]
	India	Subhasish Bose	[54][55][note 5]
2023-24			Was the captain of the first ISL winning team in 2023-24.[56][57]
2024-25

1. Although, Nigerian Bernard Operanozie was the first foreigner to lead Mohun Bagan, in 1993, but he was not a first-choice captain and was handed down the captainship after Amit Bhadra missed few games due to injury.
2. Kingshuk became the first-choice captain after Nordé left the club before the end of the season.
3. Nordé became the first-choice captain after he joined the club mid-season.
4. Subhasish Bose did not start any match as the team captain.
5. Subhasish Bose, Joni Kauko and Florentin Pogba did not start any match as the team captain.

By nationality

As of August 2024^[update]

Nationality	No. of players	First (Season)	Last (Season)
Asia
India	71	Manilal Sen (1889)	Subhasish Bose (2024–25)
Japan	1	Katsumi Yusa (2016–17)	Katsumi Yusa (2016–17)
Total	72
Africa
Nigeria	2	Odafa Onyeka Okolie (2012–13)	Eze Kingsley Obumneme (2018–19)
Guinea	1	Florentin Pogba (2022–23)	Florentin Pogba (2022–23)
Total	3
Europe
Spain	1	Edu García (2020–21)	Edu García (2020–21)
Finland	1	Joni Kauko (2022–23)	Joni Kauko (2022–23)
Total	2
North America
Haiti	1	Sony Nordé (2017–18)	Sony Nordé (2018–19)
Total	1
South America
Brazil	1	José Ramirez Barreto (2006)	José Ramirez Barreto (2011–12)
Total	1
Oceania
Fiji	1	Roy Krishna (2020–21)	Roy Krishna (2021–22)
Total	1