List of India international footballers

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]

  • Bold denotes players still playing international football.

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

# Name Career Caps Goals
1 Sunil Chhetri[4] 2005–24 151 94
2 Bhaichung Bhutia[5] 1995–2011 82 27
3 Shabbir Ali[6] 1974–84 72 23
Climax Lawrence[7] 2003–11 72 3
5 Gouramangi Singh[8] 2006–13 71 6
6 Gurpreet Singh Sandhu[9] 2011– 74 86 (conceded)
7 Subrata Pal[10] 2007–2017 67 92 (conceded)
8 I. M. Vijayan[11] 1989–2004 66 29
Mahesh Gawli[12] 2000–11 66 1
10 Sandesh Jhingan[13] 2015– 63 5
11 Syed Rahim Nabi[14] 2004–13 61 7
12 Anirudh Thapa[15] 2017– 59 4
13 Renedy Singh[16] 1999–2011 59 4
14 Jeje Lalpekhlua[17] 2011–2019 56 23
15 Surkumar Singh[18] 2001–11 52 2
Pritam Kotal[19] 2015– 52 0
17 Steven Dias[20] 2004–11 51 7
18 Udanta Singh[21] 2016–2024 50 2
19 Deepak Mondal[22] 1999–2011 47 0
20 Manvir Singh[23] 2017– 46 7
Clifford Miranda[24] 2005–14 45 6
22 N. P. Pradeep[25] 2005–11 42 9
23 V. P. Sathyan[26][27] 1985–1995 40+ 4
24 Subhasish Bose[28] 2017– 40 0
25 Samir Subash Naik[29] 2002–12 38 0
26 P. K. Banerjee[6] 1952–67 36 19
27 Abhishek Yadav[30] 2002–11 35 4
Rowllin Borges[31] 2015–2023 35 2
29 Jo Paul Ancheri[32] 1992–2005 33 7
Anwar Ali Sr.[33] 2008–2019 33 0
Ashique Kuruniyan[34] 2018– 33 2
32 Mehrajuddin Wadoo[35] 2005–11 32 2
33 Mehtab Hossain[36] 2005–15 31 2
Francis Fernandes[37] 2005-2015 31 1
Rahul Bheke[38] 2019– 31 1
36 Robin Singh[39] 2012–2019 30 5
Sahal Abdul Samad[40] 2019– 39 3
38 Anthony Pereira[41] 2009–2013 29 3
Narayan Das[42] 2011–2019 29 1
Nikhil Poojary[43] 2017– 29 1
41 Jewel Raja[44] 2010–2013 28 3
42 Sushil Kumar Singh[45] 2008–2012 27 2
Arnab Mondal[46] 2013–2016 27 1
Halicharan Narzary[47] 2015–2021 27 1
45 Raju Gaikwad[48] 2011–2022 25 0
46 Eugeneson Lyngdoh[49] 2015–2021 24 0
Pronay Halder[50] 2017–2022 23 1
48 Lenny Rodrigues[51] 2012–2015 22 0
Note. There might be more footballers who have played 22 or more official international matches for India.

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