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Mohun Bagan

Prior to January 2020:

Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was founded in 1889 as Mohun Bagan Sporting Club. The club eventually changed its name to Mohun Bagan Athletic Club. For more than a century, the football side for Mohun Bagan was operated by the athletic club only and as a public club. In 1998, Mohun Bagan partnered with United Breweries Group and formed a private company, United Mohun Bagan Private Limited. The club was the same, just under a private ownership group now.

The club operated under United Mohun Bagan Private Limited from 1998 until around 2016 or 2017. At that time, United Breweries Group dropped out and the company was reformed as Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited. The company was owned by the directors and board of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club.

On 16 January 2020:

RPSG Group, the majority owners of ATK Football Club of the Indian Super League, bought an 80% stake in Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited. ATK did not buy into Mohun Bagan FC Group. It was announced that RPSG Group would merge ATK FC with Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited to form a new club. The new club will be launched on 1 June 2020 and that the club will have the brand names of ATK and Mohun Bagan.

In actuality, Kolkata Games and Sports (the owners of ATK Football Club) will be merged into Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited to form a brand new company. The new entity will compete in the Indian Super League from the 2020-21 season onwards.

Post 16 January 2020:

According to the Telegraph India, RPSG Group will have an 80% stake in the new company while the remaining 20% will belong to Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited.

In July 2020:

According to the Times of India on 5 July 2020, the team name for the “new club” has not been selected. RPSG Group will own an 80% stake in the new club while Mohun Bagan own the final 20%. A few days later, it was revealed that the “newly formed club” will be known as ATK Mohun Bagan FC. The new club will continue with the boat logo.

The club also has a Facebook page which states “this is a new, merged club that was formed as part of a merger between the football section of Mohun Bagan and the now former ISL side ATK.”

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Prior to 16 January 2020

• Goal.com
  • "The new company (Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Pvt Ltd) now belongs to all the members of Mohun Bagan Athletic club and not just to the four of us."
• Goal.com
  • Mohun Bagan Athletic Club will pay ₹45 lakh to Mohun Bagan Football Club India Private Limited

16 January 2020

• Scroll.in
  • The new club will come into existence from June 1, 2020, and will feature the brand names of both ATK and Mohun Bagan.
  • RPSG Group, who own Indian Super League outfit ATK, acquired an 80 per cent majority stake in Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan that will see the two clubs merge.
  • The new club will come into existence from June 1, 2020, and will feature the brand names of both ATK and Mohun Bagan.
  • The new team is likely to don the red and white strips of ATK instead of the famous maroon and green of Mohun Bagan, its chairman Swapan Sadhan Bose hinted. The members of Mohun Bagan Atletic Club will continue to get discounted prices for the home games.
  • RPSG Group, which owns and runs professional football club ATK FC will acquire majority shareholding in Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited.
  • The new football club will have brand names of ATK and Mohun Bagan. RPSG Group will become 80 % majority shareholder alongside Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited owning the remaining 20 % shares.
  • The merged club will come into existence from First of June, 2020
• Goal.com
  • The century-old club along with two-time ISL champions ATK will form a new club and enter the cash-rich league in the next season
  • The merger will see RP-Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) group owned ATK hold 80% of the newly formed entity while Mohun Bagan will own the rest of the 20% shares
  • The new club will have brand names of both ATK and Mohun Bagan
• ESPN India
  • ATK, Mohun Bagan confirm merger; new club to compete in ISL 2020-21
  • RPSG Group, which owns ATK, announced on Thursday that they will acquire a majority stake in Mohun Bagan Football Club, which will make them 80% shareholders with Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited owning the remaining 20%.
• Outlook India
  • The merged club will come into existence in June and will compete in the ISL 2020-21. The two sides will, however, play separately in the current I-League and ISL seasons
  • As per the deal, the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, who are the principal owners of ATK, will acquire majority shareholding of 80 per cent in Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited.
  • The new football club will have brand names of ATK and Mohun Bagan. This move will see the two football clubs coming together into a new merged identity to compete in the rapidly growing professional Indian football landscape," a statement said.
• Business Standard
  • Kolkata Games and Sports (KGS), an RPSG venture, which owns the ATK brand, will be merged with Mohun Bagan Football Club Pvt Ltd to form a new company
  • Both brands will be merged into a single identity, where RPSG Group will have 80 per cent stake. Come June 1, the merged entitiy — ATK Mohun Bagan — will come into force.
  • According to the agreement, Kolkata Games and Sports (KGS), an RPSG venture, which owns the ATK brand, will be merged with Mohun Bagan Football Club Pvt Ltd to form a new company. This new entity will come into effect by June 1 this year.
  • This merged entity, which is yet to be named, will own ATK Mohun Bagan. KGS has a paid-up capital of around Rs 227 crore and Mohun Bagan’s paid-up capital stands at Rs 1 lakh.
  • The new brand identity ATK Mohun Bagan will compete in the Hero Indian Super League season 2020-21, along with other important competitions of the All India Football Federation calendar.
• The Hindu
  • The RPSG Group, which owns ATK, will acquire 80 per cent shares in the merged club while Mohun Bagan will own the remaining 20 per cent.
  • The RPSG Group, which owns and runs ATK FC, will acquire majority shares in Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited.
  • The merged club will come into existence from June 1, 2020 and will compete in the 2020-21 Indian Super League season and the other competitions organised by the All India Football Federation.
  • The new football club will have brand names of ATK and Mohun Bagan. RPSG Group will own 80 per cent of the shares, while Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited will own the remaining 20 per cent.

Post 16 January 2020

• The Quint
  • On 16 January 2020, Thursday, RPSG Group, the owner of ATK FC, acquired 80 per cent shares of Mohun Bagan FC.
  • On 16 January 2020, Thursday, the RPSG Group, – headquartered in Mumbai – the owner of ISL football club ATK FC, acquired 80 per cent shares of Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited.
• Indian Express
  • “Since 1998, when Bagan had entered into a fifty-fifty shareholding partnership with the UB Group, the club’s football team has been run by a company. Back then it was United Mohun Bagan Private Limited. Following the UB Group’s exit, the company became Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited. The club nominates directors to the company. The merger will not change the governance structure of the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club, for the club and its football team are run by two separate bodies. In fact, this will help us remodel ourselves in the way our next generation wants their football. This will eventually help us get among the top 10 clubs in Asia.”

March 2020

• Indian Express
  • But since the Mariners have entered into a merger with ATK, after the RP-Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) Group acquired 80 percent stake in the Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited on January 16, the new ATK-Mohun Bagan entity will likely avail the spot.
  • ATK’s owner and RPSG Group chairperson, Sanjiv Goenka even confirmed that the club’s manager, Antonio Lopez Habas will be leading the new entity next season.
• Scroll.in
  • The merged team will be formed on June 1 and the RPSG Group chairman, who had acquired a majority shareholding of 80 per cent in the century-old club
• ESPN India
  • The merged team will be formed on June 1 and the RPSG Group chairman, who had acquired a majority shareholding of 80 per cent in the century-old club
• Telegraph India
  • The ISL franchise, controlled by industrialist Goenka’s RPSG Group, will have 80 per cent stake in the merged entity while the remaining 20 per cent would be with Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Private Limited, whose directors are Swapan Sadhan Bose, Srinjoy Bose, Debashis Dutta and Sohini Mitra Chaubey.

May 2020

• Telegraph India

June 2020

• Outlook India
  • In the merged entity, ATK, the original ISL franchise owned by Sanjiv Goenkas RPSG Group, would have 80 per cent stake while the remaining 20 per cent would be with Mohun Bagan, who bagged the I-League title with four rounds to spare.
• News18

July 2020

• Times of India
  • Team name not decided.
  • ATK owning 80%, Mohun Bagan owning 20%
• New club
  • The board decided that the newly formed club which will take part in the ISL 2020-21 season will be known as ATK Mohun Bagan FC and will wear the iconic Green and Maroon jersey as their home kit. Mohun Bagan’s logo too was left unaltered as the new club will continue with the iconic Pal Tola Nauka emblem.
• RPSG Group website
• The Sprint News
  • formation of the new club after merging the brands of former ISL side ATK and I-League club Mohun Bagan. The club is owned by ATK Mohun Bagan Private Limited, a company founded in June 2020 with RPSG Group, the owners of ATK, owning an 80% stake and Mohun Bagan owning the remaining 20%.
• Facebook
  • This new merged club was formed as part of a merger between football section of multi-sport club Mohun Bagan AC and former ISL side ATK