Edmund Lalrindika’s hat-trick ends East Bengal’s 22-year Durand drought; 4–1 over Mohun Bagan, 17th title, level at the top.

East Bengal beat Mohun Bagan Super Giant 4–1 in the final of the 135th IndianOil Durand Cup on Sunday, 23 August 2026, at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata. The win is East Bengal’s seventeenth Durand title, drawing them level with Mohun Bagan for the most titles in Asia’s oldest football tournament. East Bengal’s previous Durand triumph was in 2004, also against Mohun Bagan, by 2–1. The wait this time was twenty-two years. In between, they had lost the 2023 Durand final 0–1 to the same rival. Sunday’s derby therefore closed both a title drought and a recent final wound.

Bipin Singh scored in the tenth minute. Edmund Lalrindika completed a first-half hat-trick with goals in the twelfth, twenty-second and forty-fourth minutes. Manvir Singh pulled one back for Mohun Bagan in the thirty-third minute. The half-time shape of the contest was already 4–1 on the combined clock of those five strikes. Edmund becomes the second East Bengal player after Bhaichung Bhutia to score a Kolkata-derby hat-trick in the post-independence period; Bhutia’s hat-trick came in the 1997 Federation Cup semi-final. Those are match and history lines on this card. This desk will not invent a possession percentage, a shot count, or a foul tally the tip does not lock.

Antonio López Habas coached East Bengal on the night. Vishal Kaith kept goal for Mohun Bagan. Tournament awards desks, separate from the final scoreline, named Edmund Lalrindika for the Golden Ball, Vishal Kaith for the Golden Glove, and Alaaeddine Ajaraie of NorthEast United for the Golden Boot. An awards desk is not the match report; the 4–1 and the seventeenth title are.

Kolkata’s Salt Lake stadium — the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan — is the geography. A Kolkata derby in Asia’s oldest cup carries local weight that does not need invented crowd figures. Form B and any poll date are not notified on a sports cutting. This desk will not invent a league-table consequence for the Indian Super League season from a Durand final the tip has not mapped that way.

The public ledger of Sunday’s derby final is a 4–1 score, Bipin’s tenth-minute opener, Edmund’s twelfth-, twenty-second- and forty-fourth-minute hat-trick, Manvir’s thirty-third-minute reply, a seventeenth Durand title that levels the all-time list with Mohun Bagan, a twenty-two-year wait ended, a 2004 precedent against the same opponent, a 2023 final loss reversed in result if not in exact scoreline, and award names that sit beside — not above — the cup. The cup stays in red and gold.