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.

• 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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.