Kaviya Pakkirisamy

{{Short description|Indian football player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{Use Indian English|date=February 2025}}

{{Indian patronymic|Kaviya|Pakkirisamy}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2002|12|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tamil Nadu, India

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| position = Midfielder

| currentclub = Sethu

| clubnumber = 7

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| years1 = –2023

| clubs1 = Kickstart

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| years2 = 2023–

| clubs2 = Sethu

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| nationalteam-update = 24 September 2023

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Kaviya Pakkirisamy (born 23 December 2002){{Cite web |title=Kaviya Pakkirisamy |url=https://www.the-aiff.com/players/profile/108310?type=club |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=www.the-aiff.com}} is an Indian professional footballer from Tamil Nadu, who plays as a forward for Sethu in the Indian Women's League and the India women's national football team. She has also played for the club Kickstart.{{Cite web |last=Menon, DHNS |first=Sandeep |title=Kickstart, Misaka look for strong IWL show |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/football/kickstart-misaka-look-for-strong-iwl-show-1212853.html |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}

Career

In 2022, Kaviya played for Kickstart and was the top scorer of the Karnataka Women's League with 22 goals.{{Cite web |title=Karnataka Women's League |url=https://theawayend.co/karnataka-womens-football-league/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=The Away End |language=en-GB}} She played for Kickstart in the 2021–22 Indian Women's League which finished third in the regular season.{{Cite web |last=Guha |first=Sayantan |date=2022-05-26 |title=IWL 2021-22: Kickstart FC finish their season on a high with a narrow victory against Indian Arrows |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/news-iwl-2021-22-kickstart-fc-finish-season-high-narrow-victory-indian-arrows |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.sportskeeda.com |language=en-us}} In the 2023 season, she played for Kickstart FC in the Indian Women's League.{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=2023-05-03 |title=IWL: Kickstart FC massacres Churchill Brothers 10-0 |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/iwl-2023-kickstart-fc-10-0-win-chirchill-odisha-fc-crpf-victory-indian-womens-football-news-updates/article66809497.ece |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Sportstar |language=en}} Kaviya scored her first IWL hattrick and received the Hero of the match award in the regular season match against Churchill Brothers.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-04 |title=IWL 2023: Kickstart FC outplay Churchill Brothers; CRPF, Odisha FC win |url=https://scroll.in/field/1048509/iwl-2023-kickstart-fc-outplay-churchill-brothers-crpf-odisha-fc-win |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}} She represented Tamil Nadu in the 2022–23 Senior Women's National Football Championship.{{Cite web |title=Sr Women's Football final round to kick off today |url=https://ahmedabadmirror.com/sr-womens-football-final-round-to-kick-off-today/81858198.html |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Ahmedabad Mirror |language=en}}

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