Kidderpore SC

Initially starting in the year of 1917, the club was founded by a Britisher Napier McDonald and assumed the current name after Indian independence in 1947. The club used to play its matches at the premises of the Bhukailash Rajbari in Kidderpore, before shifting its current base to the Kolkata Maidan.[2] They took part in numerous editions of IFA Shield; at the 1985 tournament, they faced Uruguayan champions Peñarol.[8][9]

Notable players who have played or have started their careers at the club include Sheoo Mewalal,[10][11][12] Mangal Purakayastha, Dipu Das, Gautam Sarkar,[13] Surajit Sengupta, Prasun Banerjee, Amit Bagchi,[2] and Arun Kumar Ghosh.[14] In May 2022, the club roped in Managya Nakarmi from Nepal, their first ever Asian footballer.[15] In June 2023, Indian Football Association (IFA) made an announcement that the merger of both Premier Division A and B of the Calcutta Football League have done ahead of its 125th edition, in which Kidderpore allowed to compete in Group II.[16][17][18][19] In September, the club qualified for CFL "Super Six" round.[20]

• Bordoloi Trophy[21][22]
  • Champions (1): 1987
  • Runners-up (1): 1970
• Independence Day Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2004[23]

• Football in Kolkata
• List of football clubs in West Bengal

Biography

• Mitra, Soumen (1 January 2006). In Search of an Identity: The History of Football in Colonial Calcutta. Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co. Private Ltd. ISBN 978-8182110229. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022.
• Kapadia, Novy (2017). Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-143-42641-7.
• Dineo, Paul; Mills, James (2001). Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora. London, United Kingdom: Frank Cass Publishers. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-7146-8170-2. Archived from the original on 25 July 2022.
• Martinez, Dolores; Mukharji, Projit B (2009). Football: From England to the World: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-88353-6. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022.
• Nath, Nirmal (2011). History of Indian Football: Upto 2009–10. Readers Service. ISBN 9788187891963. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022.
• Majumdar, Boria; Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (2006). A Social History Of Indian Football: Striving To Score. Routledge. ISBN 9780415348355. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021.
• Basu, Jaydeep (2003). Stories from Indian Football. UBS Publishers' Distributors. ISBN 9788174764546. Archived from the original on 11 October 2022.

Cited sources

• "Olympian Tulsidas Balaram, the once don of Maidan soccer is no more". getbengal.com. Kolkata: Get Bengal Information Desk. 16 February 2023. Archived from the original on 2 April 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
• Sengupta, Somnath; Ghosh, Aindrila; Sengupta, Bhaktimoy (23 August 2013). ""Lack of Focus on Youth Development Is The Biggest Problem of Indian Football" – Arun Ghosh (Exclusive Interview)". thehardtackle.com. Kolkata: The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.

• Kidderpore SC (Soccerway)
• Kidderpore SC at IFA