List of India international footballers

For a complete list of players with a Misplaced Pages article who have played for India, see Category:India men's 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.

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

General

Venues

Records and stats

Players

Results

Men's	Official 1938–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19 2020–present Unofficial 1924–47 1948–99 2000–present
Women's	Official 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–present Unofficial

Notable matches

2008 AFC Challenge Cup final
2012 Nehru Cup final
SAFF Championship finals
- 2011
- 2013
- 2015
- 2018
- 2023

Other teams

Lists of international association football players
- men's
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Capped for two teams

UEFA
European

Men's	Albania 25+ caps 1–24 caps born outside Andorra Armenia Austria 25+ caps 1–24 caps Azerbaijan Belgium 20+ caps 5–20 caps 1–4 caps Bosnia and Herzegovina born outside Croatia born outside Czech Republic Denmark 25+ caps 1–24 caps England 10+ caps 4–9 caps 2–3 caps 1 cap born outside Capped while at lower division club Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany born outside Gibraltar Greece Hungary born outside Iceland Israel Italy born outside Kosovo born outside Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands born outside Northern Ireland North Macedonia Norway 25+ caps 10–24 caps 2–9 caps 1 cap Poland Portugal born outside Republic of Ireland born outside Romania Russia born outside San Marino Scotland 10+ caps 4–9 caps 2–3 caps 1 cap born outside Serbia born outside Slovakia Slovenia Spain born outside Sweden born outside Switzerland born outside Turkey Ukraine born outside Wales born outside
Women's	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia France Germany Israel Kosovo Luxembourg Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Scotland Spain Turkey
Defunct	East Germany Saarland Yugoslavia
Unofficial	Basque Country Catalonia Galicia Silesia

CONMEBOL
South American

Men's	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile born outside Colombia Peru Uruguay
Women's	Brazil

CONCACAF
North American

Men's	Aruba Canada Costa Rica Mexico Panama Turks and Caicos Islands United States born outside
Women's	Bermuda Canada Guatemala El Salvador Guyana Mexico Nicaragua Panama United States

CAF
African

Men's	Algeria born outside Angola Chad Kenya South Africa Tunisia
Women's	Botswana DR Congo Ghana Ivory Coast Kenya Morocco Nigeria South Africa Tunisia

AFC
Asian

Men's	Australia born outside Bahrain China naturalized India born outside Indonesia born outside Iran Iraq Japan Lebanon born outside Malaysia born outside Palestine born outside Philippines born outside Qatar born outside Singapore born outside Thailand born outside Syria Vietnam born outside
Women's	Australia born outside Hong Kong Indonesia Iran Japan Jordan Lebanon born outside Myanmar Pakistan Philippines born outside Saudi Arabia Tajikistan Uzbekistan

OFC
Oceanian

Men's	American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati New Caledonia New Zealand born outside Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu
Women's	American Samoa New Zealand

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