List of India international footballers

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This is a list of Indian international footballers , who have played for the India national football team since its foundation in 1938, before the country's independence. Players with 22 or more official caps are listed here. [1] [2] [3]

All statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 26 September 2024.

#NameCareerCapsGoals
1 Sunil Chhetri [4] 2005–24151 94
2 Bhaichung Bhutia [5] 1995–20118227
3 Shabbir Ali [6] 1974–847223
Climax Lawrence [7] 2003–11723
5 Gouramangi Singh [8] 2006–13716
6 Gurpreet Singh Sandhu [9] 2011–7486 (conceded)
7 Subrata Pal [10] 2007–20176792 (conceded)
8 I. M. Vijayan [11] 1989–20046629
Mahesh Gawli [12] 2000–11661
10 Sandesh Jhingan [13] 2015–635
11 Syed Rahim Nabi [14] 2004–13617
12 Anirudh Thapa [15] 2017–594
13 Renedy Singh [16] 1999–2011594
14 Jeje Lalpekhlua [17] 2011–20195623
15 Surkumar Singh [18] 2001–11522
Pritam Kotal [19] 2015–520
17 Steven Dias [20] 2004–11517
18 Udanta Singh [21] 2016–2024502
19 Deepak Mondal [22] 1999–2011470
20 Manvir Singh [23] 2017–467
Clifford Miranda [24] 2005–14456
22 N. P. Pradeep [25] 2005–11429
23 V. P. Sathyan [26] [27] 1985–199540+4
24 Subhasish Bose [28] 2017–400
25 Samir Subash Naik [29] 2002–12380
26 P. K. Banerjee [6] 1952–673619
27 Abhishek Yadav [30] 2002–11354
Rowllin Borges [31] 2015–2023352
29 Jo Paul Ancheri [32] 1992–2005337
Anwar Ali Sr. [33] 2008–2019330
Ashique Kuruniyan [34] 2018–332
32 Mehrajuddin Wadoo [35] 2005–11322
33 Mehtab Hossain [36] 2005–15312
Francis Fernandes [37] 2005-2015311
Rahul Bheke [38] 2019–311
36 Robin Singh [39] 2012–2019305
Sahal Abdul Samad [40] 2019–393
38 Anthony Pereira [41] 2009–2013293
Narayan Das [42] 2011–2019291
Nikhil Poojary [43] 2017–291
41 Jewel Raja [44] 2010–2013283
42 Sushil Kumar Singh [45] 2008–2012272
Arnab Mondal [46] 2013–2016271
Halicharan Narzary [47] 2015–2021271
45 Raju Gaikwad [48] 2011–2022250
46 Eugeneson Lyngdoh [49] 2015–2021240
Pronay Halder [50] 2017–2022231
48 Lenny Rodrigues [51] 2012–2015220
Note. There might be more footballers who have played 22 or more official international matches for India.

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