List of India national football team captains

This article lists all the captains of the India national football team.

The first India captain in their maiden international tour was Gostha Pal,{{cite web|url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/legends-of-indian-football-gostha-pal/|title=LEGENDS OF INDIAN FOOTBALL : GOSTHA PAL|publisher=The Hard Tackle|website=thehardtackle.com|date=20 August 2011|first=Somnath|last=Sengupta|access-date=2018-08-20|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820140949/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/legends-of-indian-football-gostha-pal/|url-status=live}} organised under the control of Indian Football Association (Bengal) before the formation of All India Football Federation in 1937. The first captain to lead India in their first AIFF organised international tour was Karuna Bhattacharya,{{cite web |title=1938 Indian Tour of Australia |url=http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/tours/252-1938-indian-tour-of-australia |website=ozfootball.net |publisher=Australian Online Football Museum |accessdate=24 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923052751/http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/tours/252-1938-indian-tour-of-australia |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Greg Stock |first1=Thomas Esamie, John Punshon |title=Socceroo Internationals for 1938 |url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1938A.html |website=ozfootball.net |publisher=OZfootball |accessdate=24 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806202225/http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/1938A.html |archive-date=6 August 2018 |url-status=live }} who captained India in their first international match against Australia on 3 September 1938.

The following table includes players who have captained the India national football team, along with the vice-captains and the international tournaments they led in.{{cite news|title=India national football team|url=https://www.11v11.com/teams/india/|work=11v11.com - Home of Football Statistics}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhdmCQAAQBAJ |title=Indian Football Records |last=Chattopadhyay |first=Hari Prasad |publisher=Kolkatatoday.com |access-date=10 October 2022 }}

List of captains

class="wikitable"
Tenure !Incumbent !Vice-captains !Tournaments/Notes !Ref
1924 \|Mani Das \| \|Calcutta Indians / IFA XI IFA organised national teams \|{{cite web \|title=South East Asia Trip of Calcutta Indians 1924 \|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/calcindians-javatrip24.html \|website=RSSSF \|access-date=30 July 2022 \|archive-date=13 July 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713124758/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/calcindians-javatrip24.html \|url-status=live }}
1926 \|Syed Abdus Samad \| \|Calcutta Wanderers / IFA XI \|{{cite web \|title=South East Asia Trip of Calcutta Wanderers 1926 \|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/calcutta-w-javatrip26.html \|website=RSSSF }}
1933 \|Gostha Pal \|Sanmatha Dutta, Karuna Bhattacharya \|All India XI / IFA XI 1st all-India national team organised by IFA \|{{cite web\|url=https://www.prothomalo.com/sports/football%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87\|title=ভারত যেদিন নেমেছিল খালি পায়ে... [The day India landed barefoot ...]\|website=www.prothomalo.com\|publisher=Prothom Alo\|date=1 August 2018\|access-date=4 April 2022\|first=Mehedi\|last=Hassan\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404094319/https://www.prothomalo.com/sports/football/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87\|archive-date=4 April 2022\|language=bn}}
1934–36 \|Sanmatha Dutta \| \|All India XI / IFA XI \|{{cite news \|title=India Draws with China \|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19360706&printsec=frontpage&hl=en \|access-date=17 October 2022 \|work=The Indian Express \|date=6 July 1936 \|page=4 \|archive-date=16 October 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016212153/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19360706&printsec=frontpage&hl=en \|url-status=live }}
1938 \|Karuna Bhattacharya \| \|1st AIFF organised national team (India tour of Australia 1938) \|{{cite web \|title=1938 Indian Tour of Australia \|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/tours/252-1938-indian-tour-of-australia \|website=ozfootball.net \|publisher=Australian Online Football Museum \|accessdate=16 September 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923052751/http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/tours/252-1938-indian-tour-of-australia \|archive-date=23 September 2018 \|url-status=live }}
1948 \|Talimeren Ao \| \|1948 Summer Olympics \|
1949–54 \|Sailen Manna \|Ahmed Khan \|1951 Asian Games, 1952 Colombo Cup, 1952 Summer Olympics, 1953 Colombo Cup, 1954 Colombo Cup, 1954 Asian Games \|
1955/58 \|Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din \| \|1955 Colombo Cup, 1958 Asian Games \|{{cite web \|last1=Chaudhuri \|first1=Arunava \|title=1955 Dhaka quadrangular \|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1955quadrangularcup.html \|website=indianfootball.de \|publisher=indiafootball.de \|access-date=22 September 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104165526/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1955quadrangularcup.html \|archive-date=4 November 2016 \|url-status=live }}
1956 \|Samar Banerjee \|Neville D'Souza, J. Krishnaswamy \|1956 Summer Olympics \|
1959–60 \|Sheikh Abdul Latif \| \|1959 Merdeka Tournament \|{{cite web\|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1959merdekacup.html\|title=The Indian Senior Team at the 1959 Merdeka Cup\|website=Indianfootball.de\|last=Chaudhuri\|first=Arunava\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180608085202/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1959merdekacup.html\|archive-date=8 June 2018}}
1960–61 \|P. K. Banerjee \| \|1961 Merdeka Tournament, 1960 Summer Olympics \|
1962–64 \|Chuni Goswami \| \|1962 Asian Games, 1964 AFC Asian Cup, 1964 Merdeka Tournament \|{{cite web \|title=The senior National Team at 1964 Asian Cup \|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1964asiacup.html \|website=indiafootball.de \|publisher=IndiaFootball \|access-date=30 September 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002024/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1964asiacup.html \|archive-date=4 March 2016 \|url-status=dead }}
1965–67 \|Jarnail Singh \| \|1965 Merdeka Tournament, 1966 Merdeka Tournament, 1966 Asian Games, 1967 Merdeka Tournament \|{{cite web \|title=The Indian Senior Team at the 1965 Merdeka Cup \|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1965merdekacup.html \|website=indiafootball.de \|publisher=IndiaFootball \|access-date=30 September 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233522/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1965merdekacup.html \|archive-date=3 March 2016 \|url-status=live }}
1967–68 \|Arun Ghosh \| \|1968 Merdeka Tournament \|{{cite web \|title=The Senior National Team at 1968 Merdeka Cup \|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1968merdekacup.html \|website=indiafootball.de \|publisher=IndiaFootball \|access-date=30 September 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819220342/http://indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1968merdekacup.html \|archive-date=19 August 2016 \|url-status=live }}
1969/73 \|Inder Singh \| \|1969 Merdeka Tournament, 1973 Merdeka Tournament \|
1970 \|Syed Nayeemuddin \| \|1970 Merdeka Tournament, 1970 Asian Games \|
1971 \|Chandreshwar Prasad \| \|1971 Merdeka Tournament, 1971 Pesta Sukan Cup \|
1971 \|Arun Ghosh \| \| \|{{cite web \|title=USSR vs India 1971 \|url=http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/matchi/1971/sssr_indija_50/42-1-0-575 \|website=russia-matches.ucoz.ru \|access-date=2 January 2022 \|archive-date=2 January 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102124446/http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/matchi/1971/sssr_indija_50/42-1-0-575 \|url-status=live }}
1972 \|Mohammed Habib \| \| \|
1974 \|Magan Singh Rajvi \|Ranjit Thapa \|1974 Merdeka Tournament, 1974 Asian Games \|
1976–77 \|Pradip Chowdhury \|Gurdev Singh Gill \| \|
1978 \|Gurdev Singh Gill \| \|1978 Asian Games \|
1980 \|Prasun Banerjee \| A. Devraj Doraiswamy \| \|
1981–82 \|Bhaskar Ganguly \| \|1981 Merdeka Tournament, 1982 Nehru Cup, 1982 President's Cup, 1982 Merdeka Tournament, 1982 Asian Games \|
1982 \|Shabbir Ali \| \| \|{{cite web\|url=https://scroll.in/field/1020550/indian-football-of-captains-and-controversies\|title=Indian football: Of captains and controversies\|website=scroll.in\|publisher=Scroll\|date=29 March 2022\|access-date=6 September 2022\|first=Jaydeep\|last=Basu\|archive-date=23 June 2022\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623023836/https://scroll.in/field/1020550/indian-football-of-captains-and-controversies\|url-status=live}}
1982/84 \|Prasanta Banerjee \| \|1984 Nehru Cup \|
1982 \|Parminder Singh \| \| \|
1982–83 \|Brahmanand Sankhwalkar \| \|1983 Nehru Cup \|
1982 \|Pem Dorji \| \| \|
1982 \|Biswajit Bhattacharya \| \| \|
1982 \|Monoranjan Bhattacharya \| \| \|
1984–86/88–89 \|Sudip Chatterjee \|Biswajit Bhattacharya, Tarun Dey \|1984 AFC Asian Cup, 1985 Nehru Cup, 1986 Merdeka Tournament, 1986 Asian Games, 1985 South Asian Games, 1988 Nehru Cup, 1989 South Asian Games \|{{cite web \|url=http://www.goaldentimes.org/maidan-masters-sudip-chatterjee/ \|title=Maidan Masters – Sudip Chatterjee \|work=Goalden Times \|last=Saha \|first=Kaushik \|date=11 October 2014 \|access-date=9 October 2022 \|archive-date=20 July 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720050857/http://www.goaldentimes.org/maidan-masters-sudip-chatterjee/ \|url-status=dead }}
1986 \|Atanu Bhattacharya \|Mauricio Afonso \|1986 Nehru Cup \|
1987 \|Abdul Majeed Kakroo \| \|1987 Nehru Cup \|
1987 \|Babu Mani \| \|1987 South Asian Games \|
1989 \|Mauricio Afonso \| \|1989 Nehru Cup \|
1991 \|Bikash Panji \| \|1991 Nehru Cup \|
1992 \|Krishanu Dey \| \| \|
1993–95 \|V. P. Sathyan \| \|1993 Nehru Cup, 1993 SAARC Gold Cup, 1993 South Asian Games 1995 Nehru Cup, 1995 South Asian Gold Cup \|
1995–96/97/99 \|Bruno Coutinho \| \|1995 South Asian Games, 1997 Nehru Cup, 1999 SAFF Gold Cup \|
1996/98/99 \|I. M. Vijayan \| \|1998 Asian Games \|
1997 \|Carlton Chapman \| \|1997 SAFF Gold Cup \|
1999/2001/03 \|Jo Paul Ancheri \| \|1999 South Asian Games, 2001 Merdeka Tournament \|
2000 \|Roberto Fernandes \| \| \|
2000–11 \|Bhaichung Bhutia \|I. M. Vijayan, Debjit Ghosh, Shanmugam Venkatesh, Renedy Singh, Climax Lawrence \|2005 SAFF Gold Cup, 2007 Nehru Cup, 2008 SAFF Championship, 2008 AFC Challenge Cup, 2009 Nehru Cup, 2011 AFC Asian Cup \|
2001 \|Basudeb Mondal \| \| \|
2003 \|Debjit Ghosh \| \|2003 SAFF Gold Cup \|
2005 \|Shanmugam Venkatesh \| \| \|
2009 \|Renedy Singh \| \| \|
2011 \|Climax Lawrence \| \|2011 SAFF Championship \|
2012–2024 2025– \|Sunil Chhetri \|Gouramangi Singh, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Sandesh Jhingan \|2012 AFC Challenge Cup, 2012 Nehru Cup, 2013 SAFF Championship, 2015 SAFF Championship, 2018 Intercontinental Cup, 2019 AFC Asian Cup, 2019 King's Cup, 2019 Intercontinental Cup, 2021 SAFF Championship, 2023 Tri-Nation Series 2023 Intercontinental Cup, 2023 SAFF Championship 2023 AFC Asian Cup \|
2015 \|Subrata Pal \| \| \|
2016/2023 2024–2025 \|Gurpreet Singh Sandhu \|Rahul Bheke \|2023 King's Cup, 2024 Intercontinental Cup \|
2017 \|Sandesh Jhingan \| \|2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series \|
2018 \|Subhasish Bose \| \|2018 SAFF Championship \|

class="wikitable"

Tenure

!Incumbent

!Vice-captains

!Tournaments/Notes

!Ref

1924

|Mani Das

|Calcutta Indians / IFA XI
IFA organised national teams

|{{cite web |title=South East Asia Trip of Calcutta Indians 1924 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/calcindians-javatrip24.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=13 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713124758/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/calcindians-javatrip24.html |url-status=live }}

1926

|Syed Abdus Samad

|Calcutta Wanderers / IFA XI

|{{cite web |title=South East Asia Trip of Calcutta Wanderers 1926 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/calcutta-w-javatrip26.html |website=RSSSF }}

1933

|Gostha Pal

|Sanmatha Dutta,
Karuna Bhattacharya

|All India XI / IFA XI
1st all-India national team organised by IFA

|{{cite web|url=https://www.prothomalo.com/sports/football%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87|title=ভারত যেদিন নেমেছিল খালি পায়ে... [The day India landed barefoot ...]|website=www.prothomalo.com|publisher=Prothom Alo|date=1 August 2018|access-date=4 April 2022|first=Mehedi|last=Hassan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404094319/https://www.prothomalo.com/sports/football/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87|archive-date=4 April 2022|language=bn}}

1934–36

|Sanmatha Dutta

|All India XI / IFA XI

|{{cite news |title=India Draws with China |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19360706&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=17 October 2022 |work=The Indian Express |date=6 July 1936 |page=4 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016212153/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19360706&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |url-status=live }}

1938

|Karuna Bhattacharya

|1st AIFF organised national team (India tour of Australia 1938)

|{{cite web |title=1938 Indian Tour of Australia |url=http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/tours/252-1938-indian-tour-of-australia |website=ozfootball.net |publisher=Australian Online Football Museum |accessdate=16 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923052751/http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.php/tours/252-1938-indian-tour-of-australia |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}

1948

|Talimeren Ao

|1948 Summer Olympics

1949–54

|Sailen Manna

|Ahmed Khan

|1951 Asian Games, 1952 Colombo Cup, 1952 Summer Olympics,
1953 Colombo Cup, 1954 Colombo Cup, 1954 Asian Games

1955/58

|Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din

|1955 Colombo Cup, 1958 Asian Games

|{{cite web |last1=Chaudhuri |first1=Arunava |title=1955 Dhaka quadrangular |url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1955quadrangularcup.html |website=indianfootball.de |publisher=indiafootball.de |access-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104165526/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1955quadrangularcup.html |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=live }}

1956

|Samar Banerjee

|Neville D'Souza,
J. Krishnaswamy

|1956 Summer Olympics

1959–60

|Sheikh Abdul Latif

|1959 Merdeka Tournament

|{{cite web|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1959merdekacup.html|title=The Indian Senior Team at the 1959 Merdeka Cup|website=Indianfootball.de|last=Chaudhuri|first=Arunava|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180608085202/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1959merdekacup.html|archive-date=8 June 2018}}

1960–61

|P. K. Banerjee

|1961 Merdeka Tournament, 1960 Summer Olympics

1962–64

|Chuni Goswami

|1962 Asian Games, 1964 AFC Asian Cup, 1964 Merdeka Tournament

|{{cite web |title=The senior National Team at 1964 Asian Cup |url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1964asiacup.html |website=indiafootball.de |publisher=IndiaFootball |access-date=30 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002024/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1964asiacup.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

1965–67

|Jarnail Singh

|1965 Merdeka Tournament, 1966 Merdeka Tournament,
1966 Asian Games, 1967 Merdeka Tournament

|{{cite web |title=The Indian Senior Team at the 1965 Merdeka Cup |url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1965merdekacup.html |website=indiafootball.de |publisher=IndiaFootball |access-date=30 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233522/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1965merdekacup.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=live }}

1967–68

|Arun Ghosh

|1968 Merdeka Tournament

|{{cite web |title=The Senior National Team at 1968 Merdeka Cup |url=http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1968merdekacup.html |website=indiafootball.de |publisher=IndiaFootball |access-date=30 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819220342/http://indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/1968merdekacup.html |archive-date=19 August 2016 |url-status=live }}

1969/73

|Inder Singh

|1969 Merdeka Tournament, 1973 Merdeka Tournament

1970

|Syed Nayeemuddin

|1970 Merdeka Tournament, 1970 Asian Games

1971

|Chandreshwar Prasad

|1971 Merdeka Tournament, 1971 Pesta Sukan Cup

1971

|Arun Ghosh

|{{cite web |title=USSR vs India 1971 |url=http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/matchi/1971/sssr_indija_50/42-1-0-575 |website=russia-matches.ucoz.ru |access-date=2 January 2022 |archive-date=2 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102124446/http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/matchi/1971/sssr_indija_50/42-1-0-575 |url-status=live }}

1972

|Mohammed Habib

1974

|Magan Singh Rajvi

|Ranjit Thapa

|1974 Merdeka Tournament, 1974 Asian Games

1976–77

|Pradip Chowdhury

1978

1980

| A. Devraj Doraiswamy

1981–82

|Bhaskar Ganguly

|1981 Merdeka Tournament, 1982 Nehru Cup, 1982 President's Cup,
1982 Merdeka Tournament, 1982 Asian Games

1982

|Shabbir Ali

|{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/field/1020550/indian-football-of-captains-and-controversies|title=Indian football: Of captains and controversies|website=scroll.in|publisher=Scroll|date=29 March 2022|access-date=6 September 2022|first=Jaydeep|last=Basu|archive-date=23 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623023836/https://scroll.in/field/1020550/indian-football-of-captains-and-controversies|url-status=live}}

1982/84

|Prasanta Banerjee

|1984 Nehru Cup

1982

|Parminder Singh

1982–83

|Brahmanand Sankhwalkar

|1983 Nehru Cup

1982

|Pem Dorji

1982

|Biswajit Bhattacharya

1982

|Monoranjan Bhattacharya

1984–86/88–89

|Sudip Chatterjee

|Biswajit Bhattacharya, Tarun Dey

|1984 AFC Asian Cup, 1985 Nehru Cup, 1986 Merdeka Tournament,
1986 Asian Games, 1985 South Asian Games, 1988 Nehru Cup,
1989 South Asian Games

|{{cite web |url=http://www.goaldentimes.org/maidan-masters-sudip-chatterjee/ |title=Maidan Masters – Sudip Chatterjee |work=Goalden Times |last=Saha |first=Kaushik |date=11 October 2014 |access-date=9 October 2022 |archive-date=20 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720050857/http://www.goaldentimes.org/maidan-masters-sudip-chatterjee/ |url-status=dead }}

1986

|Atanu Bhattacharya

|Mauricio Afonso

|1986 Nehru Cup

1987

|Abdul Majeed Kakroo

|1987 Nehru Cup

1987

|Babu Mani

|1987 South Asian Games

1989

|Mauricio Afonso

|1989 Nehru Cup

1991

|Bikash Panji

|1991 Nehru Cup

1992

|Krishanu Dey

1993–95

|V. P. Sathyan

|1993 Nehru Cup, 1993 SAARC Gold Cup, 1993 South Asian Games
1995 Nehru Cup, 1995 South Asian Gold Cup

1995–96/97/99

|Bruno Coutinho

|1995 South Asian Games, 1997 Nehru Cup, 1999 SAFF Gold Cup

1996/98/99

1997

1999/2001/03

|1999 South Asian Games, 2001 Merdeka Tournament

2000

|Roberto Fernandes

2000–11

|Bhaichung Bhutia

|I. M. Vijayan, Debjit Ghosh,
Shanmugam Venkatesh,
Renedy Singh, Climax Lawrence

|2005 SAFF Gold Cup, 2007 Nehru Cup, 2008 SAFF Championship,
2008 AFC Challenge Cup, 2009 Nehru Cup, 2011 AFC Asian Cup

2001

|Basudeb Mondal

2003

2005

2009

2011

|2011 SAFF Championship

2012–2024
2025–

|Sunil Chhetri

|Gouramangi Singh,
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu,
Sandesh Jhingan

|2012 AFC Challenge Cup, 2012 Nehru Cup,
2013 SAFF Championship, 2015 SAFF Championship,
2018 Intercontinental Cup, 2019 AFC Asian Cup,
2019 King's Cup, 2019 Intercontinental Cup,
2021 SAFF Championship, 2023 Tri-Nation Series
2023 Intercontinental Cup, 2023 SAFF Championship
2023 AFC Asian Cup

2015

|Subrata Pal

2016/2023
2024–2025

|Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

|Rahul Bheke

|2023 King's Cup, 2024 Intercontinental Cup

2017

|Sandesh Jhingan

|2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series

2018

|Subhasish Bose

|2018 SAFF Championship

=Captains by major tournaments=

Bold indicates tournament winners
Italics indicates tournament hosts

Player !Tournament(s)
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
style="text-align:left;"\|Talimeren Ao	* 1948 Summer Olympics
style="text-align:left;"\|Sailen Manna	* *1951 Asian Games* 1952 Summer Olympics 1954 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Samar Banerjee	* 1956 Summer Olympics
style="text-align:left;"\|Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din	* 1958 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|P. K. Banerjee	* 1960 Summer Olympics
style="text-align:left;"\|Chuni Goswami	* 1962 Asian Games 1964 AFC Asian Cup
style="text-align:left;"\|Jarnail Singh	* 1966 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Syed Nayeemuddin	* 1970 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Magan Singh Rajvi	* 1974 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Gurdev Singh Gill	* 1978 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Bhaskar Ganguly	* 1982 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Sudip Chatterjee	* 1984 AFC Asian Cup 1986 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|I. M. Vijayan	* 1998 Asian Games
style="text-align:left;"\|Bhaichung Bhutia	* 2008 AFC Challenge Cup 2011 AFC Asian Cup
style="text-align:left;"\|Sunil Chhetri	* 2019 AFC Asian Cup 2023 AFC Asian Cup

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20180209052156/http://www.indianfootball.de/specials/india/indianteam/indianteam.html Indian football international teams database] (archived)

captains

India captains

Category:Association football player non-biographical articles