Howrah Union

Howrah Union is an Indian multisports club based in the city of Kolkata, whose football team competes in the Calcutta Football League. The club previously competed in Super Division of CFL. Their cricket team plays in the CAB tournaments.

History

Howrah Union club was formed in 1922, by Panchanon Choungda from Amta, Howrah. Initially they played football at Howrah Maidan and eventually got affiliation from the Indian Football Association and joined Calcutta Football League. They got promoted to the First Division in 1929 and won the Trades Cup in 1932. In the 1936 IFA Shield, they went till the semi-finals by defeating the 1933 winners Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

They shifted to their current ground at the Kolkata Maidan in 1962 which they share with Mohammedan Sporting. Russi Mody, the former chairman and managing director of Tata Steel and a prominent member of the Tata Group was a longtime President of the club.

Notable players

Notable players who have played or have started their careers at the club include Sailen Manna, Arun Ghosh, Samar Banerjee, Ashok Chatterjee, Mohammad Abdus Sattar, Poongam Kannan, and Jahar Das.

Home ground

Howrah Union uses Mohammedan Sporting—Howrah Union Ground for its sporting events.

Honours

Domestic tournaments

• Stafford Cup
  • Winners (1): 1964
• Bordoloi Trophy
  • Runners-up (1): 1962
• Trades Cup
  • Winners (3): 1932, 2011, 2018
  • Runners-up (2): 2012, 2019
• Cooch Behar Cup
  • Winners (1): 1967

Other departments

Cricket

Howrah Union has its men's cricket section, which is affiliated with the Cricket Association of Bengal, and competes in the CAB Second Division League.

Field hockey

Men's hockey team of the club is affiliated to Bengal Hockey Association (known as 'Hockey Bengal'), and competes in the Calcutta Hockey League.

Volleyball

Howrah Union also operate men's volleyball team that participates in Elliot Shield State Volleyball Championship in Kolkata.

References

Further reading

Bibliography

• 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.
• 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.
• Majumdar, Boria, Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (2006). Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation. Penguin India. ISBN 9780670058747.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Ghosh, Saurindra Kumar. Krira Samrat Nagendraprasad Sarbadhikary 1869–1940 (Calcutta: N. P. Sarbadhikary Memorial Committee, 1963) (hereafter Krira Samrat).
• Nath, Nirmal (2011). History of Indian Football: Upto 2009–10. Readers Service. ISBN 9788187891963. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022.
• Dineo, Paul; Mills, James (2001). Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora. London, United Kingdom: Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7146-8170-2. Archived from the original on 25 July 2022.
• Basu, Jaydeep (2003). Stories from Indian Football. UBS Publishers' Distributors. ISBN 9788174764546. Archived from the original on 11 October 2022.

Others

• "CALCUTTA FC WIN". telegraphindia.com. Kolkata: The Telegraph. 13 July 2001. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
• "Triumphs and Disasters: The Story of Indian Football, 1889—2000" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
• "SportMob – Best Indian football players of all time". SportMob.com. 12 May 2021. Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
• From recreation to competition: Early history of Indian football. Archived 9 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 124–141. Published online: 6 Aug 2006. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

External links

• Clubs Archived 9 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine at IFA