[3] Spending most of his career in Mohun Bagan, Pal is regarded as the best Indian defender of all time and best player ever to have played for the century-old club.

I had thought I will give it to someone who will carry forward the tradition and heritage of Mohun Bagan, someone who will always be with the Club.Since his childhood, he used to play both football and cricket, alongside hockey and tennis.

[10] Pal went to Vidyasagar College in Calcutta and came close to then principal Saradaranjan Ray,[7] who is regarded as father of cricket in Bengal.

[7] Sir Dukhiram Majumder was the father figure of football in India during the pre-independence era, credited for bringing up players like Pal,[12][13] Shibdas Bhaduri and others.

[4] In 1925, Mohun Bagan became the first civilian Indian team to be invited to the oldest football tournament in Asia, Durand Cup, where they lost to Sherwood Foresters in the semi-finals.

[31][32] On 28 May 1925, he captained Mohun Bagan at the first official match of Kolkata Derby against East Bengal in the Calcutta Football League,[33][34] in their 1–0 defeat.

[35][36] In the 1930s, Pal played for Mohun Bagan alongside some of club's legendary players including Karuna Bhattacharya, Syed Abdus Samad,[37][38] Umapati Kumar,[39] Balaidas Chatterjee,[40][41] Sanmatha Dutta, Bimal Mukherjee, and Satu Chowdhury.

[44][45][46][47][48] During a match between Mohun Bagan and Calcutta FC in 1935, Pal protested against the biased refereeing, that angered then British-dominated Indian Football Association.

[52][53] In next year, he missed an opportunity to play for India in their South Africa tour due to injury, in which Sanmatha Dutta succeeded him in leading the team.

[56] Beside football, Pal also appeared in the silent era movie Gouri Shankar, which was directed by Anandamohan Roy, produced by National Pictures Limited, and released on 26 October 1932.

After his death, a statue was erected in memory of him at the Gostha Pal Sarani (named after him)[59][60] in 1984, in opposite to the Eden Gardens at Kolkata Maidan area.

[63] In memory of him, Gostha Pal Football Academy was incorporated by the Government of West Bengal, in which noted Indian player Prasun Banerjee served as chief advisor.