Kalyan Chaubey (born 16 December 1976) is an Indian politician of Bhartiya Janta Party[1] and a former professional football player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current president of the All India Football Federation.
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Full name | Kalyan Chaubey | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1976-12-16) 16 December 1976 (age 45) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Kolkata, India | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Tata Football Academy | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Mohun Bagan | 27 | ||||||||||||||
1997–1999 | East Bengal | 67 | ||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Mohun Bagan | |||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Bengal Mumbai | 17 | ||||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Salagaocar | 53 | ||||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Mahindra United | |||||||||||||||
2005–2007 | JCT | |||||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Mumbai FC | |||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Salagaocar | |||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1994 | India U17 | |||||||||||||||
1996 | India U20 | |||||||||||||||
1999–2006 | India | |||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Chaubey hails from Kolkata, West Bengal. His younger sister Bulbuli Panja acts in Bengali TV Serials. Chaubey was married in 2004.
Chaubey graduated from Tata Football Academy in 1995 and became a professional football player through a proper grass-root system. He played as a goalkeeper and won the award – "Indian Goalkeeper of the Year" – in 1997–98 and 2001–02. He was member of the Indian teams at U-17 Asian Youth Championship 1994 in Iran and U-20 Asian Youth Championship 1996 in South Korea in 1996, the senior Indian national team from 1999 to 2006.[2]
He was part of the Indian team that won the SAFF Championship twice. He played the National Championship (Santosh Trophy) for five different states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Goa, Punjab and Maharashtra. He played for Mohun Bagan AC, East Bengal FC, Salgaocar SC, Mahindra United, JCT Phagwara, and Mumbai FC as a goalkeeper. He had a short loan spell at Bangladesh Muktiyodha, Dhaka. He also played for East Bengal and Mohun Bagan from 1996 to 2000.[3][4] In 2002, he trialled for the German club 2. Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC,[5] and Verbandsliga Württemberg outfit VfR Heilbronn.[5]
After his retirement as footballer, he had a brief modelling career. He then took over as the CEO of Mohun Baagan Academy from 2010 to 2013. He was also a co-ordinator for the GOALZ Project 2012, which was developed by Kolkata Police and British Council for the underprivileged children.
In 2015, he turned to politics and joined Bhartiya Janta Party, and unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections from West Bengal in 2019.
On 2 September 2022, Chaubey was elected as the President of the All India Football Federation after his 33–1 victory over rival candidate Bhaichung Bhutia.[6][7][8]
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had nominated Chaubey as the party candidate from Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency) in 2019 Lok Sabha election, when he came second to Mohua Moitra of TMC.[9][10]