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Mehtab Hossain
Personal information
Full name Mehtab Hossain
Date of birth (1985-09-05) 5 September 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Southern Samity (manager)
Youth career
Food Corporation of India
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2003 Tollygunge Agragami 17 (1)
2003–2006 Mohun Bagan 39 (3)
2006–2007 ONGC 0 (0)
2007–2017 East Bengal 91 (2)
2014–2016 → Kerala Blasters (loan) 38 (0)
2017–2018 Jamshedpur 12 (0)
2018–2019 Mohun Bagan 9 (0)
International career‡
2005–2015 India 31 (2)
Managerial career
2019– Southern Samity
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:08, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 November 2017

Mehtab Hossain (born 5 September 1985) is a former Indian professional footballer and current manager of Southern Samity who played as a defensive midfielder.

During his career, Hossain has played for both of the Kolkata football giants, Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. He played with East Bengal for ten seasons, winning the Federation Cup three times. He also managed to gain 31 caps for the India national football team between 2005 and 2014, scoring twice for the country. On 2019, Mehtab started his coaching career as manager at Southern Samity in 2019-20 Calcutta Premier Division. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 21st July 2020 by taking party flag from BJP president of West Bengal Dilip Ghosh but within 24 hour he changed his decision and resigned from Bharatiya Janata Party.

Career

Mehtab is a product of IFA's Baby League, which was the brain child of Legendary Football Secretary Shri Prodyut Dutta, which promoted football amongst the children and youth of Bengal.

He signed a contract extension which will see him play for East Bengal till the end of 2012–13 season.[1]

It was reported on June 2012 that he was on trial with Falkirk and Airdrie, on recommendation of his former teammate Alan Gow.

He scored his first goal in the 2012–13 I-League in their penultimate match in the 6–0 win against United Sikkim F.C. on 8th May at Kolkata.[2]Then he scored in the 5–1 win in Round of 16 match in 2013 AFC Cup match against Yangon United F.C. on 15th May at Kolkata.[3]

Mehtab in 2013 (bottom right)

On 2015, Mehtab retired from international duty after being omitted from the 26-man squad for World Cup Qualifiers.[4]

Kerala Blasters

On 2014, he was picked by Kerala Blasters FC of Indian Super League on a three years contract.

Jamshedpur

On 23 July 2017, Hossain was selected in the third round of the 2017–18 ISL Players Draft by Jamshedpur for the 2017–18 Indian Super League season.[5] He made his debut for the club during the first ever match on 18 November 2017 against NorthEast United. He started the match and played 69 minutes as Jamshedpur drew 0–0.[6]

Mohun Bagan

After ending the season with Jamshedpur, Hossain reportedly decided not to renew his contract with the club since he wanted to return to Kolkata and be near his family.[7] Despite stating previously that he would like to return to East Bengal, it was reported that he was in talks with Mohun Bagan.[7] Then, on 22 May 2018, it was officially announced that Hossain had signed with Mohun Bagan, after last playing for them 12 years prior.[8]

Honours

Club

Mohun Bagan

Career statistics

Club statistics

As of 27 January 2019[10]
Club Season League
Division Apps Goals
Tollygunge Agragami 2001-02 NFL 17 1
2002-03 NFL 0 0
Total 17 1
Mohun Bagan 2003-04 NFL 0 0
2004-05 NFL 20 0
2005-06 NFL 19 3
Total 39 3
ONGC 2006-07 I-League 2nd Division 0 0
Total 0 0
East Bengal 2007-08 I-League 14 1
2008-09 I-League 0 0
2009-10 I-League 0 0
2010-11 I-League 0 0
2011-12 I-League 0 0
2012-13 I-League 23 1
2013-14 I-League 8 0
2014-15 I-League 16 0
2015-16 I-League 14 0
2016-17 I-League 16 0
Total 91 2
Kerala Blasters (loan) 2014 ISL 9 0
2015 ISL 13 0
2016 ISL 16 0
Total 38 0
Jamshedpur FC 2017-18 ISL 12 0
Total 12 0
Mohun Bagan 2018-19 I-League 9 0
Total 9 0
Career total 203 06

International stats

India national team
Year Apps Goals
2005 3 0
2006 3 0
2011 5 0
2012 6 0
2013 12 0
2014 2 0
Total 31 0

References

  1. ^ "East Bengal's squad for the 2012/13 season". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. ^ "East Bengal 6-0 United Sikkim FC: The Red and Gold trample the Snow Lions". Goal. 14 August 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. ^ "EAST BENGAL VS. YANGON UNITED 5 - 1". SOCCERWAY. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. ^ Gehlot, Saransh (4 March 2015). "Indian midfielder Mehtab Hossain retires from International duty". Yahoo News. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  5. ^ "ISL 2017 player draft, as it happened: ATK, Jamshedpur FC and Pune strike big". The Field. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  6. ^ "NorthEast United 0-0 Jamshedpur". Soccerway.
  7. ^ a b Bhattacharya, Nilesh (22 May 2018). "Mohun Bagan, East Bengal in tug-of-war over Mehtab". Times of India. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Mehtab Hossain: I have a problem with a section of East Bengal fans". Goal.com. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Mohun Bagan Win Calcutta Football League After Eight Years". sports.ndtv.com. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Mehtab Hossain". National Football Teams.
Sporting positions
Preceded by Mohun Bagan captain
2006–2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Kingfisher East Bengal captain
2013–2014 		Succeeded by

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