Aditi Chauhan (born 20 November 1992) is an Indian professional

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who plays as a

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for the

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club Sreebhumi and the

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Early life

Born into a

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family, Aditi with her family moved to

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when she was nine years old. She did her schooling from Amity International School. As a child she participated in

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and

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, even being selected for the youth state basketball team. She was convinced by her coach to attend trials for the football team as a goalkeeper. Chauhan was successful and eventually, appeared on the team for the Delhi women's football team U19 squad.

Club career

She attended

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, completing an MSc in Sports Management and represented their football team. In August 2015, Chauhan joined West Ham United Ladies. She made her debut on 16 August 2015 in a 0–5 defeat by Coventry Ladies and in doing so became the first player from the India national women's team to play competitively in England and the first Indian woman to play in

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. She spent two seasons with the club before returning to India in early 2018. She went on to join India Rush. For the 2019–20 Indian Women's League, she joined

Gokulam Kerala FC Gokulam Kerala Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Kozhikode, Kerala. Founded in 2017, the club competes in the I-League, the second tier of the Indian football league system. They won the 2020–21 I-League title t ...

International career

Chauhan was selected for trials with the India U19 side at age 17. She was a part of the India senior team that won the

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Career statistics

International

Honours

India *

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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Gold medal:

Gokulam Kerala *

: 2019–20, 2021–22 *

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: third place

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual * Asian Football Awards: Women in Football Award 2015

References

External links

Aditi Chauhan
at All India Football Federation * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chauhan, Aditi 1992 births Living people Footballers from Delhi Sportswomen from Delhi Indian women's footballers India women's international footballers India women's youth international footballers Indian expatriate sportspeople in England Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games Indian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in England Women's association football goalkeepers West Ham United F.C. Women players Gokulam Kerala FC Women players Sreebhumi FC players Alumni of Loughborough University Asian Games footballers for India South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in football Indian Women's League players