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Sanju Yadav (born 12 September 1997) is an Indian women's professional footballer who plays as a forward for Sethu in the Indian Women's League and represents the India women's national football team.

Sanju Yadav

Personal information
Full name	Sanju Yadav
Date of birth	(1997-09-12) 12 September 1997 (age 25)
Place of birth	Alakhpura, Haryana, India
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current team	Sethu
Number	8
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2016–2017	Alakhpura FC	10	(15)
2017–2018	Rising Student's Club	8	(3)
2019–2021	Gokulam Kerala FC
2022–	Sethu
National team‡
2014–2015	India U19	3	(0)
2016–	India	43	(11)
Honours South Asian Games 2016 India Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 May 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 December 2021

Career

Born in the village of Alakhpura, Yadav began playing football at the age of ten in order to gain scholarships and money for her family.[1] She mainly trained with her village and India national team.[2] In October 2016, Sanju was part of the Alakhpura side that took part in the preliminary round of the Indian Women's League. On 17 October 2016, she scored a hattrick for the club against Bodyline. This helped her side win 4–0.[3] She was emerge as top scorer at league's preliminary round phase. Netting 11 times and thus help her team to qualify tournament's final round proper. At the final round of women's league proper she help her team to qualify in semi finale with scoring three times.

On 21 December 2016, after her performances for both club and country, Yadav was named as the AIFF Emerging Player of the Year.[4]

She then joined Rising Student's Club for 2017-18 Indian Women's League and scored 2 goalsfor club in Final Round. In 2019 she joined Gokulam Kerala FC.

International

In February 2016, Yadav was selected as part of the 20-woman India squad that would participate in the 2016 South Asian Games.[5] She made her debut and scored her first goal internationally on 13 February 2016 against Bangladesh. Her goal in the 74th minute was the fourth as India won 5–1 and moved into the gold medal match.[6] Two days later she came on as a substitute in the 69th minute as India won the tournament, defeating Nepal 4–0 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong.[7]

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	13 February 2016	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Shillong, India	Bangladesh	4–1	5–1	2016 South Asian Games
2.	27 December 2016	Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri, India	Afghanistan	5–1	5–1	2016 SAFF Women's Championship
3.	11 November 2018	Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar	Bangladesh	6–0	7–1	2020 Olympic Qualifiers
4.	21 January 2019	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	3–1	5–2	Friendly
5.	30 January 2019	Benteng Taruna Stadium, Tangerang, Indonesia	Indonesia	1–0	2–0	Friendly
6.	1 March 2019	Alanya, Turkey	Turkmenistan	2–0	10–0	2019 Turkish Women's Cup
7.				3–0
8.				7–0
9.	13 March 2019	Sahid Rangasala, Biratnagar, Nepal	Maldives	4–0	6–0	2019 Turkish Women's Cup
10.				6–0
11.	9 April 2019	Mandalar Thiri Stadium, Mandalay, Myanmar	Myanmar	2–2	3–3	2020 Olympic Qualifiers

Goals Year

• _{As of 9 April 2019}

Year	Caps	Goals
2016	2	2
2017	5	0
2018	3	1
2019	18	8
Total	28	11

Honours

India

• SAFF Women's Championship: 2016, 2019
• South Asian Games Gold medal: 2016

Rising Students Club

• Indian Women's League: 2017–18

Individual

• AIFF Women's Emerging Player of the Year: 2016

References

External links

• Sanju Yadav at All India Football Federation
• Sanju Yadav at Global Sports Archive

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