68th Santosh Trophy: West Bengal name state squad for East Zone qualifiers

The Indian Football Association (West Bengal) have named their 20 players squad for the East Zone qualifiers for the 68th Santosh Trophy which will be held later this month.

West Bengal have been drawn along with Chhattisgarh (January 27), Bihar (January 27) and Odisha (January 31) in their qualification group with their matches to be played at the Paljor Stadium in Gangtok.

The IFA have appointed former India striker Sishir Ghosh as the head coach with Biswajit Bhattacharya as technical director.

WEST BENGAL

Sheikh Sadikuddin, Shuvan Sen, Raju Ganguly, Saikat Saha Roy, Sukhdev Murmu, Amit Chakraborty, Satyajit Dutta, Sukanta Banerjee, Rana Gharami, Goutam Debnath, Babu Mondal, Goutam Thakur, Debayan Saha, Kallol Paul, Sumit Orao, Kartick Kisku, Paresh Sardar, Nilkanta Paria, Bijoy Mandi, Tanmay Kundu

OfficialsSishir Ghosh (Head Coach), Biswajit Bhattacharya (Technical Director), Pradip Dutta (Mentor), Basudeb Roy (Manager), Ranjit Das (Assistant Manager), Ashok Saha (Physio), Dinesh Gayen (Attendant)