List of India international footballers

For a complete list of players with a Wikipedia 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.^{[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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