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Mohun Bagan in Group C of ACL2

AFC Champions League Two Draw

Mohun Bagan has been drawn into Group C of the AFC Champions League Two ‘2025–26, Asia’s second-tier club competition.

The other three contenders of the group are:

    • Sepahan SC (Iran) – Persian Gulf Pro League runners-up

    • Al Hussein SC (Jordan) – Jordanian Pro League champions

    • Ahal FC (Turkmenistan) – Yokary Liga runners-up.

The draw took place in Kuala Lumpur on 15th August, adding a poetic layer to the club’s historic foundation day and nation’s independence day.

Here are the group game fixtures of Mohun Bagan in ACL2 as per the latest updates available from AFC.

Meme courtesy: MBSG Official Media and AFC

Mohun Bagan dominates in YBK against DHFC

Mohun Bagan produced a dominant display in a must win situation to beat Diamond Harbour FC 5-1 in the Durand Cup 2025 Group league in Yuva Bharati Krirangan. Mohun Bagan moves to second round of the tournament after this comfortable win.

 

The lively Sahal Abdul Samad showed his magic as two of his passes find goals in the first half – first by a brilliant long ranger by Anirudh Thapa and then an opportunist Jamie Maclaren got the ball past the goalie. In the second half Sahal continued to perform and scored a brilliant goal himself.

However, the second half was more dramatic due to a marching order on Naresh who fouled Liston inside the penalty box. The referee’s decision was perhaps harsh as Bagan was already awarded a penalty by the referee. DHFC could not come back to the game, and it was all Mohun Bagan in the second half. Jason Cummings, who substituted Jamie, showed a fantastic performance as he assisted Sahal and scored a goal himself from an Ashish Rai pass. Jason created three more opportunities, but Baan boys failed to convert them to a goal!

However, Ashish Rai was found in false position during the DHFC goal – his position was enough to not to call the goal an offside one.

Deepak Tangri and Abhishek were outstanding in the defense today – and that helped Tom to play with an ease. The midfield was outstanding too. Sahal, Thapa, Apuia , Liston and Pasang played well. Leewan took some workloads as well.

The match details can be found here : Mohun Bagan vs DHFC – MOHUN BAGAN CLUB.COM

31st July : 1st Olympic campaign of Indian Football Team

oon after the independence, India got a chance to field their football side in an international match and that too in the prestigious summer Olympic Games, 1948 held in London. The squad had 4 representatives from Mohun Bagan – Talimeran Aao (better known as T. Aao as the captain), Sailen Manna and Mahabeer Prasad as the key players, and Balaidas Chatterjee as the coach.

Today, July 31 is definitely a red-letter day in Indian sports. On 31st July 1948, the first eleven men in our independent India’s footballing history led by T. Aao walked into the middle of Cricklefields Stadium to take on France, eight of them wearing thick socks cut off at the ankles and bare feet strapped up to protect them and to provide grip, while other three preferred to put on boots. India really put up a splendid show lauded by all 17,000 spectators present at the arena for their skills, as well as, sportsmanship and went down fighting to the mighty French side by 2-1. Trailing by one goal at the lemon break, India scored the equaliser in the 70th minute through Sarangpani Raman, who also later joined Mohun Bagan. With just one minute to go before the final whistle, France scored the winner to edge past India to earn the quarter-final berth. The history could have been penned very differently if the brilliant French custodian Guy Rouxel didn’t manage to save two spot-kicks from Manna and Prasad respectively in two halves. 

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