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Sunil Chhetri is a professional football (soccer) player from India who has been one of the country's most prominent athletes in the sport. He matters because he has played a significant role in raising the profile of Indian football both domestically and internationally through his career.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Secunderabad
- Occupation
- association football player
- Participant in
- 2014 Asian Games
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Mumbai City FC
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- India
- Image
- The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, 2021 to Shri Sunil Chhetri for Football, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 13 November 2021 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 170
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- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- social media followers
- 1762372
- date of birth
- 1984-08-03
- Commons category
- Sunil Chhetri
- sport number
- 11
- name in native language
- सुनील छेत्री
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16:30, 12 April 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:30, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
Sunil Chhetri ( Nepali: [sunil t͡sʰet̪ri], born 3 August 1984) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Bengaluru. He is the all-time top scorer in ISL history, the fourth-highest international goalscorer, and the most-capped player and all-time top goalscorer of the India national team. He is widely regarded as the greatest Indian football player.
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