| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thoibisana Chanu Toijam | ||
| Date of birth | 7 March 2007 | ||
| Place of birth | Manipur, India | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sreebhumi | ||
| Number | 4 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2022 | Manipur | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –2022 | Young Welfare Club | ||
| 2022–2023 | East Bengal | ||
| 2023– | Sreebhumi | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023 | India U17 | 4 | (1) |
| 2024 | India U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 2024– | India | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 May 2025 | |||
Thoibisana Chanu Toijam (Meitei : Toijam Thoibisana Chanu, born 7 March 2007) is an Indian professional footballer from Manipur who plays as a midfielder for the Indian Women's League club Sreebhumi and the India women's national football team. [1]
Chanu is from Manipur. She was selected for the senior National camp in December 2024, ahead of the two FIFA international friendlies with Maldives to be played at Bengaluru. Later, she made it to the 23–member squad. [2] [3] In April 2022, she played for Young Welfare Club, Langthabal in the Hero Indian Women League qualifying round. [4]
She made her senior international debut coming in as a substitute in the second half of the first match against Maldives at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence in Bengaluru on 30 December 2024. [5] The new chief coach of the Indian women's team Crispin Chettri named 32 probables including Chanu for the Pink Ladies Cup to be played at Dubai in February 2025. [6] Earlier in February 2024, she was part of the Indian team that became joint winners of the SAFF Under 19 Women's Championship 2024. [7] In June 2022, she represented Manipur unit, AMFA, in the Hero Women's Junior Under–17 National Football Championship 2022 at Guwahati, Assam. [8]
| National team | Year | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 2 | 0 | |