Sweety Devi Ngangbam (, born 1 December 1999) is an Indian professional

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from

Manipur Manipur () is a state in northeastern India with Imphal as its capital. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizoram to the south, and Nagaland to the north and shares the international border with Myanmar, specifically t ...

. She plays as a defender for and captains both the

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club

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and the

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Early life

Sweety is from Manipur, India. She learnt basics of the game from her father Ngangbam Ruhikanta Singh, who is a football coach. He made her play with the boys which improved her game. In her first year in the Indian Women's League, she played for Eastern Sporting Union.

International career

Sweety made her junior debut for India in 2014 for the India under 16 team and later played the AFC under 19 qualifiers in 2016. She made her Senior India debut in 2017 against South Korea in the 2018 AFC Women’s Asia Cup qualification. Later, she became a regular partner to then skipper Ashalata Devi in the defence. In November 2019, she played the first round of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifying tournament at Myanmar. She also scored a goal for the senior team in the match against

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on 2 October 2021, which India won 4–1 at full-time. In 2022, she played the AFC Women's Asian Cup. In August 2023, she played the

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at Hangzhou, China. In 2025, she was part of the Indian team that participated in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifier 2026 at Chiang Mai, Thailand. India beat hosts Thailand in the fourth and final qualifiers Group B match at the 700th Anniversary of Chiang Mai Stadium on 5 July 2025. She was made the captain against Mongolia. Sweety said it was special to qualify as Women's Asian Cup is the road to the FIFA Women's World Cup. In 2022, she missed the qualifier at the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022, which India hosted, due to COVID outbreak in the Indian camp.

Personal life

She is in a relationship with the Indian

Chinglensana Singh Konsham.

Career statistics

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list India's goal tally first.''

Honours

India *

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Gold medal:

East Bengal *

: 2024–25 Odisha *

: 2023–24 Sethu *

: 2018–19 KRYPHSA *

runner-up: 2019–20 Manipur *

Senior Women's National Football Championship The Senior Women's National Football Championship for Rajmata Jijabai Trophy, also known as Senior Women’s National Football Championship or simply the Rajmata Jijabai Trophy since 2024, is a women's football tournament contested by state a ...

: 2019–20 * National Games Gold medal:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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Ngangbam Sweety Devi
at All India Football Federation * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ngangbam, Sweety Devi 1999 births Living people Indian women's footballers India women's international footballers India women's youth international footballers People from Imphal West district Footballers from Manipur Sportswomen from Manipur Women's association football defenders Indian Women's League players Kickstart FC players Eastern Sporting Union players Sethu FC players KRYPHSA FC players Odisha FC Women players East Bengal FC Women players Footballers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games footballers for India South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in football 21st-century Indian sportswomen