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Mohun Bagan

2017–18 season
President	Swapan Sadhan Bose
Head coach	Sanjoy Sen (until 2 January 2018) Sankarlal Chakraborty (from 3 January 2018)
Stadium	Mohun Bagan Ground Salt Lake Stadium
I-League	3rd
Calcutta Football League	Runners-up
Super Cup	Semi-finalist
Top goalscorer	Aser Pierrick Dipanda (17 goals)
Highest home attendance	64,360
Lowest home attendance	5,384
Average home league attendance	17,258
Home colours Away colours
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The 2017–18 Mohun Bagan FC season was the club's 11th season in I-League and 128th season since its establishment in 1889. They finished 3rd in the I-League and runners-up in the Calcutta Football League. Mohun Bagan reached the semifinals of the Super Cup where they were defeated by Bengaluru.

Sanjoy Sen resigned as the coach of Mohun Bagan on 2 January 2018 following three home draws and a defeat against Chennai City placing the team in 4th position, virtually ending their title hopes. Shankarlal Chakraborthy was appointed as head coach for the remainder of the season.

Their title hopes however did stay intact till the last fixture of the season where they could have won the title had other results gone in their favour, but it was not to be and Minerva Punjab ultimately clinched the title. Although the 2017–18 season was not an ideal season for the club after a loss of form and change of coach midway through the season along with injuries to important players like Sony Norde and Yuta Kinowaki, they did manage to win both the home and away fixtures against arch rivals East Bengal.

Sponsor

As of 3 December 2017

Players

Current squad

As of March 2018.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IND Sankar Roy 2 DF  IND Debabrata Roy 3 DF  NGA Kingsley Obumneme 4 DF  IND Kingshuk Debnath 6 DF  IND Ricky Lallawmawma 7 MF  IND Chesterpoul Lyngdoh 8 MF  IND Sourav Das 9 FW  CMR Aser Pierrick Dipanda 11 FW    NEP Bimal Gharti Magar 12 MF  JPN Yuta Kinowaki 13 DF  LBN Akram Moghrabi 14 DF  IND Arijit Bagui 15 DF  IND Abhishek Das 16 DF  IND Rana Gharami 17 MF  IND Surchandra Singh 19 FW  IND Naro Hari Shrestha 21 MF  AUS Cameron Watson 22 GK  IND Shilton Paul 23 MF  IND Nikhil Kadam 25 DF  IND Bikramjeet Singh 26 MF  IND Shilton D'Silva 27 MF  IND Pintu Mahata 28 DF  IND Gurjinder Kumar 29 MF  IND Raynier Fernandes 31 GK  IND Soram Anganba 35 FW  IND Azharuddin Mallick 36 MF  IND Dipendu Dowary 37 MF  IND Beikhokhei Beingaichho 42 GK  IND Shibinraj Kunniyil 45 FW  IND Manandeep Singh 47 MF  IND Sheikh Faiaz

Competitions

Calcutta Football League

I-League

Table

Results by round

Fixtures & results

25 November 2017 1	Minerva Punjab	1–1	Mohun Bagan	Ludhiana
17:30 IST	Moinuddin 89'	Report	Sony Norde 43' Gurjinder Kumar  55'	Stadium: Guru Nanak Stadium Attendance: 5,995 Referee: Umesh Bora Man of the Match: Sony Norde (Mohun Bagan AC)

3 December 2017 2	Mohun Bagan	1–0	East Bengal	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Aser Pierrick Dipanda  34' Kingsley Obumneme 39' Ricky Lallawmawma  45'	Report	Mehtab Singh  14' Gurwinder Singh  37'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 64360 Referee: C. R. Srikrishna Man of the Match: Kingsley Obumneme (Mohun Bagan AC)

10 December 2017 3	Mohun Bagan	5–0	Churchill Brothers	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Ansumana Kromah 23' Shilton D'Silva  27' Aser Pierrick Dipanda 34', 46' Sk.Faiaz 49' Sony Norde 84'	Report	Karthik Govindswamy  21' Precious Emuejeraye  26' Denchandra Meitei  68' Peter Omoduemuke  89'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 11,894 Referee: Venkatesh R Man of the Match: Aser Pierrick Dipanda (Mohun Bagan AC)

14 December 2017 4	Mohun Bagan	1–1	Shillong Lajong	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Aser Pierrick Dipanda 12' (pen.) Shilton D'Silva  43' Kingsley Obumneme 55'  73'	Report	Rakesh Pradhan  12' Daniel Odafin  35' Hardy Nongbri  54' Samuel Lalmuanpuia 72' (pen.)	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 9,882 Referee: Rabichandra Singh Irengbam Man of the Match: Sheikh Faiaz (Mohun Bagan AC)

19 December 2017 5	Mohun Bagan	0–0	NEROCA	Kolkata
17:30 IST		Report	Ngasepam Tondonba  90+4'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 7,722 Referee: Rowan Arumugham Man of the Match: Rana Gharami (Mohun Bagan AC)

29 December 2017 6	Mohun Bagan	1-1	Indian Arrows	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Aser Pierrick Dipanda 27' (pen.) Manandeep Singh  71'	Report	Anwar Ali  6' Rahul Praveen 33' Amarjit Singh Kiyam  50'  65' Jitendra Singh  90'	Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground Attendance: 14,718 Referee: Tejas Visvasrao Nagvenkar Man of the Match: D Singh (Indian Arrows)

2 January 2018 7	Mohun Bagan	1-2	Chennai City	Kolkata
17:30 IST	Ansumana Kromah 36' (pen.) Abhishek Das  57' Nikhil Kadam  76' Manandeep Singh  82'	Report	Jean-Michel Joachim 5' Michael Soosairaj  62' Edwin Sydney Vanspaul  62' Venyamin Shumeyko 71' Tarif Akhand  76'	Stadium: Mohun Bagan Ground Attendance: 18,316 Referee: Santhosh Kumar Bhaskaran Man of the Match: Murilo de Almeida (Chennai City FC)

7 January 2018 8	Mohun Bagan	2-0	Aizawl	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Ricky Lallawmawma  19' Masih Saighani 54' (o.g.) Aser Pierrick Dipanda 75' Kingsley Obumneme  81' Raynier Fernandes  81'	Report	William Lalnunfela  40' Kareem Omolaja  49' Lalthathanga Khawlhring  88' Lalramhmunmawia  90+1'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 5,785 Referee: Ajitkumar Meitei Lairenlakpam Man of the Match: Aser Pierrick Dipanda (Mohun Bagan AC)

10 January 2018 9	Mohun Bagan	1-2	Minerva Punjab	Kolkata
17:30 IST	Kingshuk Debnath  45+1' Cameron Watson  75' Kingsley Obumneme 90+4'	Report	Chencho Gyeltshen 23', 30' Kassim Aidara  26' William Opoku  45+1' Rakshit Dagar  90+5'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 5,384 Referee: Umesh Bora Man of the Match: Chencho Gyeltshen (Minerva Punjab FC)

21 January 2018 10	East Bengal	0-2	Mohun Bagan	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Armand Bazzie  18'	Report	Dicka 2', 35' Kingshuk Debnath  17'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 52,951 Referee: C. R. Srikrishna Man of the Match: Aser Pierrick Dipanda (Mohun Bagan AC)

25 January 2018 11	Aizawl	1-1	Mohun Bagan	Aizawl
14:00 IST	Yugo Kobayashi  1' Lalthathanga Khawlhring 73' C Lalrosanga  85' Alfred Jaryan  89'	Report	Manandeep Singh  56' 77' (pen.) Raynier Fernandes  85'	Stadium: Rajiv Gandhi Stadium (Aizawl) Attendance: 3,272 Referee: Senthil Nathan Man of the Match: Leonce Dodoz Zikahi (Aizawl FC)

3 February 2018 12	Shillong Lajong	0-3	Mohun Bagan	Shillong
17:30 IST		Report	Aser Pierrick Dipanda 30' Akram Moghrabi 86' Sheikh Faiaz 89' Arijit Bagui  90+1'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Shillong) Attendance: 4,700 Referee: Rahul Kumar Gupta Man of the Match: Akram Moghrabi (Mohun Bagan AC)

7 February 2018 13	Chennai City	0-0	Mohun Bagan	Coimbatore
17:30 IST	Tarif Akhand  39' Edwin Sydney Vanspaul  81'  84' Kabir Thaufiq  90+9'	Report	Kingsley Obumneme  47'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Coimbatore) Attendance: 7,680 Referee: Akash Jackson Routh Man of the Match: Jean-Michel Joachim (Chennai City FC)

12 February 2018 14	Mohun Bagan	1-2	Gokulam Kerala	Kolkata
14:00 IST	Nikhil Kadam  16' Aser Pierrick Dipanda  73' 78'	Report	Mahmood Al-Ajmi 76' Henry Kisekka 90'	Stadium: Salt Lake Stadium Attendance: 4,360 Referee: R Palmson Moses Raj Man of the Match: Aser Pierrick Dipanda (Mohun Bagan AC)

18 February 2018 15	NEROCA	2-3	Mohun Bagan	Imphal
14:00 IST	Subhash Singh 16' Felix Chidi Odili 24' Varney Kallon  33' Aryn Williams  58'	Report	Aser Pierrick Dipanda 21' (pen.), 30' Akram Moghrabi  38' 45+1'	Stadium: Khuman Lampak Main Stadium Attendance: 20,428 Referee: Crystal John Man of the Match: Subhash Singh (NEROCA FC)

27 February 2018 16	Indian Arrows	0-2	Mohun Bagan	New Delhi
17:30 IST	Deepak Tangri  45+2'	Report	Aser Pierrick Dipanda 26' Akram Moghrabi 41'	Stadium: Ambedkar Stadium Attendance: 2,743 Referee: Velu Dhayalamani Man of the Match: Aser Pierrick Dipanda (Mohun Bagan AC)

3 March 2018 17	Churchill Brothers	1-2	Mohun Bagan	Vasco da Gama
17:30 IST	Israil Gurung  64' Monday Osagie 74'	Report	Nikhil Kadam 54' Aser Pierrick Dipanda  62' Akram Moghrabi 76'	Stadium: Tilak Maidan Stadium Attendance: 3,173 Referee: Om Prakash Thakur Man of the Match: Nikhil Kadam (Mohun Bagan AC)

8 March 2018 18	Gokulam Kerala	1-1	Mohun Bagan	Kozhikode
15:00 IST	Henry Kisekka 45+1' 64' Mohamed Irshad  50' Daniel Ashley Addo  77' Mahmood Al-Ajmi  84'	Report	Aser Pierrick Dipanda 26' Nikhil Kadam  84'	Stadium: EMS Corporation Stadium Attendance: 9,572 Referee: Ramaswamy Srikrishna Coimbatore Man of the Match: Nikhil Bernard (Gokulam Kerala FC)

Super Cup

Round of 16

1 April 2018	Churchill Brothers	1–2	Mohun Bagan	Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar
20:00 IST	Plaza 30'	Report	Dicka 45+3' (pen.), 70'	Attendance: 8,120 Referee: Venkatesh R

Quarter final

11 April 2018	Mohun Bagan	3–1	Shillong Lajong	Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar
16:00 IST	Faiaz 12' Kadam 22' Moghrabi 59'	Report	Koffi 28'	Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Santosh Kumar

Semi final

Player statistics

Goal scorers

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Player	Goal(s)	Appearance(s)
9	FW		Aser Pierrick Dipanda	17	21
13	FW		Akram Moghrabi	5	12
47	MF		Sheikh Faiaz	3	21
3	DF		Kingsley Obumneme	2	20
10	MF		Sony Norde	2	4
23	MF		Nikhil Kadam	2	19
45	FW		Mandeep Singh	1	3

Last updated: 17 April 2018.
Source: Competitions

Technical staff

Position	Name
Chief coach	Sankarlal Chakraborty
Assistant coach	—
Goalkeeping coach	Arpan Dey
Physical Trainer	Samiran Bag
Physiotherapist	Abhinandan Chatterjee
Club Doctor	Dr. Protim Roy
Team Manager	Satyajit Chatterjee

Last updated: 9 March 2018
Source: mohunbaganac.com

Awards

Player

No.	Player	Award	Tournament	Source
22	Shilton Paul	Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament	I-League
9	Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Highest Scorer of the Tournament

References

1. "'I did not have the mentality to continue' - Sanjoy Sen". 2 January 2018.
2. "I-LEAGUE 2017-18: MOHUN BAGAN APPOINT SHANKARLAL CHAKRABORTY AS HEAD COACH". 2 January 2018.
3. "I-League 2017-18: Minerva Punjab presented with winners' trophy; NEROCA's Gift Raikhan named season's best coach". firstpost.com. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.

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