East Bengal Club Season Awards

Since 2011, the awards ceremony was launched by the club to commemorate and honour different sporting personalities as per the categories.

East Bengal Club had constituted the ‘Bharat Gaurav Award' in 2011, as the highest decoration by the club to honour the outstanding sports personalities who had made India proud in different fields of sports.

Three times Olympic Champion and Indian Hockey legend Leslie Claudius was the first recipient of the award in 2011.

[16] East Bengal had constituted the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in 2011 to honour a legendary sports personality of the club.

India and East Bengal Legend Sudhir Karmakar and Sukumar Samajpati were the first recipients of this award in 2011.

Milkha Singh - recipient of the Bharat Gourav award in 2016.
Penn Orji - recipient of the Player of the Season award in 2012.