Reaching milestones and creating new records became an “everyday thing” for the East Bengal Club. In 1945, the East Bengal Club secured the Double Crown after winning the Calcutta Football League and IFA Shield.
Seated (from the left): J. N. Sengupta, S. Ghosh (Football Secretary), J. C. Gupta (General Secretary), P. Chakroborty (Captain), A. Mukherjee, I. B. Sen (Vice President), S. Dutta (Assistant Secretary), Noni Gosain
Standing (front row from the left): J. Seal, A. Nandy, S. Ghosh, S. Roy Chowdhury, Somana, Sunil Ghosh, Pagsley, S. Chatterjee, N. Guha, N. Roy, M. Goswami, S. Sen, R. Poddar, S. Bose, R. Banerjee
Standing (back row from the left): Kaiser, S. Talukdar, F. Singha, Nayar, Appa Rao, P. Dasgupta, Saley, T. Kar, D. Chanda