| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ngangbam Sweety Devi | ||
| Date of birth | 1 December 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Langthabal, Imphal West, Manipur, India | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | East Bengal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Eastern Sporting Union | ||
| 2019–2020 | Sethu FC | ||
| 2020–2021 | KRYPHSA | ||
| 2022 | Kickstart | 9 | (0) |
| 2022–2024 | Odisha | ||
| 2024– | East Bengal | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014 | India U16 | ||
| 2016 | India U19 | 3 | (1) |
| 2018– | India | 67 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 February 2017 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 July 2025 | |||
Ngangbam Sweety Devi (born 1 December 1999) [1] is an Indian professional footballer from Manipur. She plays for East Bengal FC in the Indian Women's League and the India women's national football team. [2] [3]
Sweety is from Manipur, India. She learnt basics of the game from her father Ngangbam Ruhikanta Singh, who is a football coach. [4] He made her play with the boys which improved her game. In her first year in the Indian Women's League, she played for Eastern Sporting Union. [4]
Sweety made her junior debut for India in 2014 for the India under 16 team and later played the AFC under 19 qualifiers in 2016. [1]
She made her Senior India debut in 2017 against South Korea in the 2018 AFC Women’s Asia Cup qualification. [4] Later, she became a regular partner to then skipper Ashalata Devi in the defence. [1]
In November 2019, she played the first round of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifying tournament at Myanmar. [5]
She also scored a goal for the senior team in the match against UAE on 2 October 2021, which India won 4–1 at full-time. [6] [7]
In 2022, she played the AFC Women's Asian Cup. [8] In August 2023, she played the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China. [8]
In 2025, she was part of the Indian team that participated in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifier 2026 at Chiang Mai, Thailand. India beat hosts Thailand in the fourth and final qualifiers Group B match at the 700th Anniversary of Chiang Mai Stadium on 5 July 2025. [9] She was made the captain against Mongolia. Sweety said it was special to qualify as Women's Asian Cup is the road to the FIFA Women's World Cup. In 2022, she missed the qualifier at the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022, which India hosted, due to COVID outbreak in the Indian camp. [9]
| National team | Year | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2017 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 26 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 12 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | |
| Total | 67 | 1 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2 October 2021 | Theyab Awana Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |  United Arab Emirates | 3–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
India
East Bengal
Odisha
Sethu
KRYPHSA
Manipur
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