66th Santosh Trophy: Defending champions Bengal name squad

The Indian Football Association (West Bengal) today announced their final 20 players squad for the 66th edition of the National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy which is being played from May 11 to 27 across Orissa. The IFA had held trials in Kolkata to select their state team.

Former India striker Tarif Ahmed has been named captain of the defending champions West Bengal state team, while Shabbir Ali has been once more appointed by the IFA as the coach of the Bengal team.

West Bengal have been drawn in the quarterfinal league Group A along with Punjab, Cluster-II winner and Cluster-IV winner playing their matches on May 18 (vs Cluster-IV winner), on May 20 (vs Cluster-II winner) and May 22 (vs Punjab).


WEST BENGAL

Goalkeepers
Arnab Das Sharma (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Prasenjit Ghosh (ONGC), Chiradeep Chattopadhyay (Aryan Club)

Defenders
Mohan Sarkar (Ayran Club), Sukanta Banerjee (Bhowanipore Club), Gurpreet Singh (Southern Samity), Gour Naskar (Southern Samity), Sagram Mandi (Bhowanipore Club), Samik Roy (BNR), Rana Ghorami (Police AC)

Midfielders
Jamir Ali Mondal (Southern Samity), Tapan Maity (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Mohammed Mukhtar (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Dipankar Das (Kalighat Milan Sangha), Santosh Oraon (Bhowanipore Club), Surabuddin Mallick (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Binod Bauri

Forwards
Tarif Ahmed (Captain), Tanmoy Kundu (Kalighat Milan Sangha), Mithun Oraon (IFA Academy)

Officials
Shabbir Ali (Chief Coach), Debashish Mukherjee (Goalkeeper Coach), Biswajit Guha Roy (Manager), Indranil Sarkar (Assistant Manager), Atanu Das Adhikary (Physio)