Sunil Chhetri

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

Sunil Chhetri

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.

Records

World’s 2nd highest international goals/ 2019

Marcus Mergulhao, Every match is war for us, says Sunil, January 7, 2019: The Times of India

So where do we start with Sunil Chhetri? That he now has more international goals (67) than Argentina and Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi (65), and is second behind Cristiano Ronaldo (85) in the list of active international goal-scorers? That he is now India’s topscorer in the Asian Cup with double the goals that the great Inder Singh scored at the Asian Cup in 1964? That he is the only Indian to have played in two editions of the continental tournament?

Prior to India’s opening battle against Thailand at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi, all the chatter was how he was denied the chance to lead India and the armband instead being handed to goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. Never mind coach Stephen Constantine’s rotational policy, but for many fans it was hard to digest that Chhetri was not officially leading the country.

The captaincy hardly mattered for Chhetri, though. From scoring the opening goal with a calm penalty and giving India the lead for the second time with a gem of a strike, Chhetri was at the heart of India’s stunning 4-1 win over Thailand.

2022 June: equals Puskas’ tally

Indian football team captain received a congratulatory message from EPL club Tottenham Hotspur for equalling Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskas' tally of 84 international goals. “Congratulations to India's @chetrisunil11 for equalling the great Ferenc Puskas with his tally of 84 international goals! #IndianFootball,”.

As in 2024 March

March 26, 2024: The Times of India

Sunil Chhetri’s Records and statistics, As in 2024 March
From: March 26, 2024: The Times of India

Sunil Chhetri is set to play his record-extending 150th international match when India will host Afghanistan in the World Cup qualifiers in Guwahati. Bhaichung Bhutia is a distant second having played 88 times for senior India team. Chhetri is the only player to have scored in his debut as well as Match No. 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125. Here’s a look at some of his achievements.