Sushil Bhattacharya

Born in Bagdogra, Bhattacharya used to play both cricket and hockey beside football. He began his playing career with Town Club in Berhampur, representing the team in IFA Shield.{{cite web|url=http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2015/07/19/13704072/legendary-indian-coach-sushil-bhattacharya-passes-away|title=Legendary Indian coach Sushil Bhattacharya passes away|date=19 July 2015|location=Kolkata|access-date=22 July 2015|first=Atanu|last=Mitra|publisher=Goal|website=www.goal.com|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924145235/http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2015/07/19/13704072/legendary-indian-coach-sushil-bhattacharya-passes-away|url-status=dead}} He then appeared with Vidyasagar College and Sporting Union, before signing with East Bengal in 1945. With East Bengal, he achieved the double in 1945 by winning both the Calcutta Football League and IFA Shield.{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/history.php|access-date=18 June 2020|website=eastbengalfootballclub.com|archive-date=9 June 2019|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609144426/https://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/history.php}}{{cite web |title=1940S TO 1960S |url=http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1940s-to-1960s|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329172756/http://eastbengalfootballclub.com/legacy.php?p=1940s-to-1960s|archive-date=29 March 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012 |url-status=usurped |work=East Bengal Football Club}} His consistent performances on both flanks in a 3–2–5 formation helped the team achieving success and earned him a national team callup in 1946. He spent four seasons for the "red and gold brigade", played until 1949, refusing Gostha Pal and Abhilash Ghosh's offers of joining Mohun Bagan.

{{Cquote|When I used to play for East Bengal, names like Apparao, Venkatesh, Dhanraj, Somana and Sunil Ghosh were part of the forward line. Later, Ahmed Khan and Abid joined us. There used to be five forwards and I could play in the position of both right-in and left-in.|source=Bhattacharya on his playing days in East Bengal.|Cquote}}

Bhattacharya moved to Eastern Railway in 1949, returning briefly to East Bengal on loan in 1951, for the Durand Cup. At the tournament, they defeated Rajasthan Club 2–1 in final and lifted their first ever Durand Cup. He also appeared with George Telegraph in Calcutta Football League.{{cite web|url=https://insidesports.in/archives/1892|title=ফুটবলার তুলে আনতে জেলামুখী জর্জ টেলিগ্রাফ স্পোর্টস ক্লাব|website=insidesports.in|publisher=Inside Sports Bengali|language=bn|trans-title=District oriented George Telegraph Sports Club to pick up footballers|location=Kolkata|agency=|date=18 July 2021|access-date=22 October 2022|archive-date=22 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022070623/https://insidesports.in/archives/1892}}

After retiring as a player, Bhattacharya began his coaching career with Eastern Railway, as an assistant coach.{{cite news|url=http://www.goaldentimes.org/eastern-railway-ran-full-steam-1958/ |title=WHEN EASTERN RAILWAY RAN ON FULL STEAM (1958) |website=www.goaldentimes.org |publisher=Goalden Times |last1=Chakraborty |first1=Debojyoti |date=29 August 2017 |access-date=25 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111162448/http://www.goaldentimes.org/eastern-railway-ran-full-steam-1958/ |archive-date=11 November 2021}} He was deputy of Bagha Shome at the club, which was then consisting players like P. K. Banerjee,{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/india-legend-pk-banerjee-dies-age-83-kolkata-illness-1657810-2020-03-20 | title=Indian football legend PK Banerjee dies aged 83 | publisher=India Today | date=20 March 2020 | access-date=24 March 2020 | archive-date=22 November 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122133340/https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/india-legend-pk-banerjee-dies-age-83-kolkata-illness-1657810-2020-03-20 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.iloveindia.com/sports/football/players/pk-banerjee.html|title=P. K. Banerjee Profile — Indian Football Player Pradip Kumar Banerjee Biography — Information on PK Banerjee Indian Footballer|website=www.iloveindia.com|access-date=27 April 2016|archive-date=31 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731173911/http://www.iloveindia.com/sports/football/players/pk-banerjee.html}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/halloffame/banerjee_pk.html|title=Legends of Indian Football – "Hall of Fame": P.K. Banerjee|website=www.indianfootball.de|access-date=27 April 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061656/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/halloffame/banerjee_pk.html|url-status=dead}} Pradyut Barman,{{cite web|first=G. C.|last=Das|url=http://www.kolkatafootball.com/kolkatafootball_indian_legend_footballers_profile.html|title=Indian Legendary Football Players Profile: Goalkeeper Pradyut Barman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914072626/http://www.kolkatafootball.com/kolkatafootball_indian_legend_footballers_profile.html|date=14 September 2008|archive-date=14 September 2008|access-date=25 January 2011|website=www.kolkatafootball.com|publisher=Kolkata Football}} Prashanta Sinha,{{cite web|first1=Gautam|last1=Roy|first2=Swapan|last2=Ball|date=2007|url=http://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/club/famousPlayers4.asp|title=East Bengal Football Club – Famous Players|access-date=25 February 2009|website=www.eastbengalfootballclub.com|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221072439/http://www.eastbengalfootballclub.com/club/famousPlayers4.asp|archive-date=21 February 2009}} Nikhil Nandy, Pakhi Sen and others.{{cite web|url=http://archives.anandabazar.com/e_kolkata/2013/december/anache_kanache.html|title=ইস্টার্ন রেলওয়ে ফুটবল ক্লাব — ১৪১ বছরের পুরনো একটি ক্লাবের ইতিহাস ও ঐতিহ্য|trans-title=Eastern Railway Football Club — History and heritage of a 141-year-old club|website=archives.anandabazar.com|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|language=Bengali|date=21 December 2013|access-date=24 March 2023|location=Kolkata|first=Rajat|last=Karmakar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127103722/http://archives.anandabazar.com/e_kolkata/2013/december/anache_kanache.html|archive-date=27 January 2022}} He later became the first-ever permanent "head coach" coach of East Bengal.{{cite web|first=Novy|last=Kapadia|date=14 September 2017|url=https://scroll.in/field/850633/when-east-bengal-officials-begged-pleaded-cajoled-team-to-beat-arch-rivals-mohun-bagan|title=When East Bengal officials 'begged, pleaded, cajoled' team to beat arch-rivals Mohun Bagan|work=Scroll|access-date=10 September 2021|archive-date=10 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910095947/https://scroll.in/field/850633/when-east-bengal-officials-begged-pleaded-cajoled-team-to-beat-arch-rivals-mohun-bagan}} He won the IFA Shield and Calcutta League with East Bengal in 1961.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/eastbengal_fc/status/1681201776970838018|title=Remembering our former player & first-ever professional coach 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗹 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗮 on his 8th death anniversary. 🙏💐|website=twitter.com (@eastbengal_fc)|publisher=East Bengal Football Club|date=18 July 2023|access-date=18 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718141622/https://twitter.com/eastbengal_fc/status/1681201776970838018|archive-date=18 July 2023}}

Bhattacharya also managed Tollygunge Agragami and helped the team gaining promotion to the CFL first division. He also helped Tollygunge reaching the IFA Shield final in 1971, in which they went down 2–0 to Mohammedan Sporting.{{Cite web|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html|title=List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield|website=indianfootball.de|publisher=Indian Football Network|language=en|date=1998|access-date=20 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007084853/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html|archive-date=7 October 2021|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.kolkatafootball.com/indiafootball_news_2012/mohammedan_sporting_club_history.html|title=Mohammedan Sporting Club, Kolkata: A New Horizon {{!}} IFA Shield archive|first=Kushal|last=Chakrabarty|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182733/https://www.kolkatafootball.com/indiafootball_news_2012/mohammedan_sporting_club_history.html|archive-date=9 July 2021|website=kolkatafootball.com|publisher=Kolkata Football|date=12 July 2012|access-date=1 July 2021}} He then took charge of different age group teams of Bengal alongside the Narendrapur Ramkrishna Mission College football team and Kolkata Veterans Club.{{cite web|url=https://bengali.indianexpress.com/entertainment/a-documentary-on-sushil-bhattacharya/|title=ইস্টবেঙ্গলের প্রথম পেশাদার কোচ, না পাওয়ার বাস্তবে এ এক অন্য তথ্যচিত্র!|trans-title=East Bengal's first professional coach, this is another documentary in reality!|website=bengali.indianexpress.com|publisher=The Indian Express|date=14 May 2019|access-date=9 October 2022|first=Debasmita|last=Das|location=Kolkata|language=bn|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929010448/https://bengali.indianexpress.com/entertainment/a-documentary-on-sushil-bhattacharya/}} During his tenure as coach, he managed players like Tulsidas Balaram, Subhash Bhowmick, Bhaskar Ganguli, Sukumar Samajpati and Krishanu Dey.

{{Cquote|In 1975, an advertisement appeared in the local newspapers that notified that a women’s team will be formed to represent Bengal. 150 girls like us had no idea about how the things work in professional football. Sushil Bhattacharya selected 16 girls that day. Apart from me, Shanti Mullick, Minati Roy, Shukla Dutta and Judy D’Silva were among the few who made the cut. The trial was held at the Kalighat ground. He was more like a father to us. Most of his students have served the nation for a long time. The biggest quality of his was not to get involved in any controversy ever. Also coaches often get criticized for their actions, but this was rarely the case for Sushil Da, such was the respect for the man. It was great to see the whole Kolkata football fraternity getting united to pay him the last homage. As a man who loved to keep himself away from fanfare, he never got his due recognition. We, be it the male or the female footballers, have been lucky to get him as a guide. As Sanjoy was telling today, we have to carry forward his legacy to develop Indian football further.|source=Kuntala Ghosh Dastidar, Indian international, sharing her memories with Goal.com, after Bhattacharya's passing away in 2015.}}

In 1975, he came the first-ever manager of the Bengal women's team, and the first-ever manager of the newly formed India women's national football team.{{cite web|url=http://www.sportskeeda.com/football/sushil-bhattacharya-india-first-women-football-national-team-coach-dies|title=India's first women's football national team coach Sushil Bhattacharya passed away|date=21 July 2015|access-date=22 July 2015|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|website=sportskeeda.com|publisher=Sportskeeda|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924122858/http://www.sportskeeda.com/football/sushil-bhattacharya-india-first-women-football-national-team-coach-dies}}{{cite news |last=Doyle |first=Jennifer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/sports/soccer/29iht-SOCCER.html |title=A World Cup Dream Revives India's Women's Soccer Team |location=India |work=NY Times|date=28 January 2010 |access-date=7 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221010214/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/sports/soccer/29iht-SOCCER.html |archive-date=21 February 2017 }} He is credited for nurturing Indian women talents like Shanti Mullick,{{cite web |title=Women's Asian Cup - When hosts India grabbed the silver medal in 1979 |url=https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/afc-womens-asian-cup-2022-when-india-hosted-1979/3x4o01zf2i231so67diuq19jv |website=Goal.com |date=14 June 2020 |access-date=19 July 2022 |archive-date=19 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719230812/https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/afc-womens-asian-cup-2022-when-india-hosted-1979/3x4o01zf2i231so67diuq19jv }} the first ever Padma Shri awardee. Bhattacharya managed Indian women's team when, from 1975 to 1991, the administration was in hands of the Women's Football Federation of India (WFFI) and the Asian Ladies' Football Confederation (ALFC).{{cite news|title=How women's football in India lost its way|website=www.livemint.com|first=Sidin|last=Vadukut|publisher=Live mint|date=28 July 2017|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/G3GPASolirfv2eoEdinjRO/How-womens-football-in-India-lost-its-way.html|access-date=8 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808073432/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/G3GPASolirfv2eoEdinjRO/How-womens-football-in-India-lost-its-way.html|archive-date=8 August 2018}}

He was in charge of India S at the 1980 AFC Women's Championship in Calicut, in which they achieved second finish.{{cite web|url=https://www.the-aiff.com/article/indian-football-down-the-years-looking-back-at-the-glorious-moments#|title=Indian Football Down the Years: Looking back at the glorious moments|first=AIFF|last=Media Team|website=www.the-aiff.com|publisher=All India Football Federation|language=en|trans-title=|location=New Delhi|agency=|date=15 August 2022|access-date=20 October 2022|archive-date=21 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921011335/https://www.the-aiff.com/article/indian-football-down-the-years-looking-back-at-the-glorious-moments}} In the next edition, at the 1981 AFC Women's Championship, India secured third place, and again finished as runners-up at the 1983. He also guided Bengal in Junior, Sub-Junior, Senior Women's National Football Championship and National Games, achieving nationwide success. In 1985, he was appointed head coach of a noted football coaching academy incorporated jointly by Russa United Club and Tollygunge Agragami.{{Cite web|url=https://bengali.indianexpress.com/sports/indian-football-problems-article-part-two-mithun-bhowmick-58095/|title=ভারতীয় ফুটবলের অসুখসমূহ: পর্ব – ২|trans-title=Diseases of Indian football: Episode – 2|first1=Mithun|last1=Bhowmick|location=Kolkata|publisher=IE Bangla Sports Desk|website=bengali.indianexpress.com|agency=Indian Express News Service|language=bn|date=15 December 2018|access-date=31 January 2019|archive-date=15 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231115165835/https://bengali.indianexpress.com/sports/indian-football-problems-article-part-two-mithun-bhowmick-58095/}} He retired from coaching in 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.india.com/sports/indian-womens-football-team-first-coach-sushil-bhattacharya-dead-466415/|title=Indian women's football team first coach Sushil Bhattacharya dead|website=india.com|publisher=Indo-Asian News Service|date=18 July 2015|access-date=23 October 2022|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001172701/https://www.india.com/sports/indian-womens-football-team-first-coach-sushil-bhattacharya-dead-466415/|archive-date=1 October 2015}}

Bhattacharya died of cancer at his home in Tollygunge, Kolkata, on 18 July 2015, aged 90.{{cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/east-bengal-first-coach-sushil-bhattacharya-dead-1.178613|title=ইস্টবেঙ্গলের প্রথম কোচ প্রয়াত|first=|last=|website=www.anandabazar.com|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|language=bn|trans-title=First coach of East Bengal passed away|location=Kolkata|agency=|date=19 July 2015|access-date=10 October 2022|archive-date=16 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816071947/https://www.anandabazar.com/sports/east-bengal-first-coach-sushil-bhattacharya-dead-1.178613}}

East Bengal{{cite web|url=https://eastbengalclubrecords.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/sushil-bhattacharya-the-first-coach-of-east-bengal-club-1961/|title=EAST BENGAL CLUB, INDIA – RECORDS, FUNS AND FACTS {{!}} SUSHIL BHATTACHARYA – THE FIRST COACH OF EAST BENGAL CLUB – 1961|publisher=East Bengal Club|website=eastbengalclubrecords.wordpress.com|date=24 November 2014|access-date=9 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609103202/https://eastbengalclubrecords.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/sushil-bhattacharya-the-first-coach-of-east-bengal-club-1961/|archive-date=9 June 2019}}

• Calcutta Football League: 1945
• IFA Shield: 1945

Eastern Railway

• Rovers Cup runner-up: 1950

East Bengal{{cite web|first=Rith|last=Basu|date=9 September 2012|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/champion-of-champions-with-cup-full-of-firsts/cid/1283799|title=Champion of champions with cup full of firsts|website=telegraphindia.com|publisher=The Telegraph|location=Kokata|access-date=15 September 2017|archive-date=6 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706122945/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/champion-of-champions-with-cup-full-of-firsts/cid/1283799}}

• Calcutta Football League: 1961
• IFA Shield: 1961
• Dr. H. K. Mookherjee Shield: 1961
• Rovers Cup: 1962

Tollygunge Agragami

• IFA Shield runner-up: 1971

India (women's)

• AFC Women's Championship runner-up: 1980, 1983

Individual

• The Telegraph Hall of Fame: 2012

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• List of East Bengal Club coaches
• Women's football in India

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