Mohun Bagan AC season awards

The Mohun Bagan AC season awards are the official awards presented every year since 2001 by the Indian multi-sports club Mohun Bagan to commemorate Mohun Bagan Day (29 July) which marks the day on which the club defeated East Yorkshire Regiment's football team to win their first IFA Shield in 1911, thereby becoming the first all-native team to ever win a football tournament dominated by British teams and clubs.[1][2]

Award ceremony

The inaugural award ceremony was held in 2001 under the then general secretary of the club Anjan Mitra and the major highlight of the ceremony was the introduction of Mohun Bagan Ratna, which is a medallion of highest honour awarded to acclaim a recipient's unparalleled contribution to the club.[1] Apart from the Mohun Bagan Ratna, other awards are also presented which often differ in categories each year, except for an award for the best footballer and cricketer of the season which were presented for most of the years.

Mohun Bagan Ratna

Over the years, Mohun Bagan Ratna has been mostly awarded to sportspersons, especially footballers with Sailen Manna being its first recipient, except in 2007 when the club awarded the honour to the club's former general secretary Dhiren Dey for his role during the football team's successes in the 1960s.[1][3] In 2010, the club honoured all the members of the 1911 IFA Shield winning team except Shibdas Bhaduri who was already conferred in 2003.[4] In 2019 the club awarded the medallion to a player of other sport except football for the first time.[5]

Statue of Sailen Manna, who was awarded the inaugural Mohun Bagan Ratna.

Year Recipient Ref
2001 Sailen Manna [1]
2002 Dr. Talimeran Ao
2003 Shibdas Bhaduri [6]
2004 Gostha Paul
2005 Chuni Goswami [7]
2006 Umapati Kumar
2007 Dhiren Dey [3]
2008 Mohammad Abdus Sattar [8][9]
2009 Samar Banerjee [10][11]
2010 Hiralal Mukherjee, Bhuti Sukul,
Sudhir Kumar Chatterjee, Monmohan Mukherjee,
Rajen Sengupta, Neelmadhav Bhattacharya,
Kanu Roy, Habul Sarkar,
Abhilash Ghosh, Bijoydas Bhaduri		 [12]
2011 Pradip Kumar Banerjee [13]
2012 Jarnail Singh [14]
2013 Balaidas Chatterjee [15]
2014 Arumoy Naigam [16]
2015 Karuna Sankar Bhattacharya [17][18]
2016 Syed Nayeemuddin [19][20]
2017 Subrata Bhattacharya [21][22]
2018 Pradip Chowdhury [23][24]
2019 Keshav Dutt, Prasun Banerjee [25]
2020 Gurbux Singh, Palash Nandy [26]
2021 Shibaji Banerjee [27][28]
2022 Shyam Thapa [29][30]
2023 Gautam Sarkar [31]

Trophy

The Mohun Bagan Ratna award is a medallion with the emblem of Mohun Bagan in the center, and along the circumference is etched "Mohun Bagan Athletic Club 1889" and " Mohun Bagan Ratna" with the year of felicitation and the name of the recipient.[32]

Best footballer of the season
José Barreto (in white) was the recipient of Dhiren Dey Award.

Mohun Bagan presents an award to the best footballer for his performance during the preceding season through a voting among the board of members of the club. The award is named in honour of an eminent personality historically associated with the club, with the inaugural ward being named as Dhiren Dey Award which was conferred to José Barreto in 2001 after which the award was stopped being given due various undisclosed management issues until 2012.[1] Presently the award is named Shibdas Bhaduri Award after 1911 IFA Shield winning captain Shibdas Bhaduri.[31]

Year Nationality Recipient Position Notes Ref
2001  Brasil José Barreto Forward Award was named Dhiren Dey Award [1]
2012  India Syed Rahim Nabi Forward Award was named

Karuna Shankar Bhattacharjee Award

 [14]
2013  India Denson Devadas Midfielder [15]
2014  Japan Katsumi Yusa Midfielder [33]
2015  India Debjit Majumder Goalkeeper [33]
2016  Haiti Sony Nordé Forward [19]
 India Jeje Lalpekhlua Forward
2017  India Balwant Singh Forward [34]
2018  India Shilton Paul Goalkeeper [24]
2019  India Arijit Bagui Defender [25]
2020  Spain Joseba Beitia Midfielder [26]
2021  Fiji Roy Krishna Forward [28]
2022  India Liston Colaco Forward Award was named Shibdas Bhaduri Award
2023  India Vishal Kaith Goalkeeper [31]

Best cricketer of the year

Mohun Bagan presents an award to the best cricketer for his performance for the club in CAB organised tournaments during the previous season decided by the votes of the management board. The inaugural award was named Dhiren Dey Memorial Award and was given to Debabrata Das in 2012. Presently the award is named as Arun Lal Award in honour of former Test cricketer Arun Lal.

Year Recipient Role Ref
2012 Debabrata Das Batter [14]
2013 Subhomoy Das Batter [15]
2014 Not awarded due to no
reconisable performance
2015 Jayojit Basu Batter [33]
2016 Wriddhiman Saha Wicket-keeper [19]
2017 Debabrata Das Batter [34]
2018 Sudip Chatterjee Batter [24]
2019 Rajkumar Paul Batter [25]
2020 Not awarded due to
COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Abhimanyu Easwaran Batter [27]
2022 Prinann Dutta Batter
2023 Arnab Nandi All-rounder [31]

Other award winners
Year Best sportsperson of the year Best young footballer of the season Best forward of the season

(Subhash Bhowmick Award)

 Best athlete of the year

(Pranab Banerjee Award)

 Best hockey player of the season Best supporter of the year
2012 Laxmi Ratan Shukla
2013 Asha Roy
2015 Romario Angelo Topno, Pintu Mahata,
Sougata Hansda
2016 Not awarded
2017 Deep Saha Lili Das
2018 Sourav Das Not awarded
2019 U19 Zee Bangla Football League

winning team

 Tapas Dey
2020 Sajal Bag Not awarded
2021 Not awarded Bidisha Kundu
2022 Kiyan Nassiri Not awarded
2023 Ningomba Engson Singh Dimitri Petratos Mohor Mukherjee Nitish Neupane Shanti Chakraborty, Kamalesh Upadhyay

Lifetime achievement award
Year Recipient
2019 Ashok Chatterjee
2020 Ashok Kumar, Pranab Ganguly,
Manoranjan Porel
2022 Balai Dey
2023 Shankar Banerjee

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