Much in line with top football clubs of the world , Kolkata football giants Kingfisher East Bengal club is all set to start their long pending residential academy in the Saltlake Sector –V from December 05 .A three storied building has been hired for this purpose where work is going on in full swing for the remaining kitchen and dinning hall . It will be a full fledged residential academy with a staying arrangement for 30 footballers . The building will have 6 rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floor respectively . It will also have an office, and guest rooms .
Academy director Ranjan Chowdhury, is now in Punjab to search for new talent. Junior team coach Sujit
Chakraborty too will be travelling to North Bengal in search of footballers .It is decided that the selected footballers will undergo a trial from from December 05 at the CA ground. From there as many as 30 footballers will be selected finally for the academy.10 footballers will be on a standby who will regularly come from their residence .If any footballers performance is dropping then one from the stand bye list will replace him.Teachers will be appointed too to look after their academics . The club officials can hope to see promising footballers from the academy going on to make the senior team .