Seriton Benny Fernandes (born 26 October 1992), is an Indian professional

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who plays as a defender for

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

in the

Indian Super League The Indian Super League (ISL) is a professional association football league in India and the highest level of the Indian football league system. Administered by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and its commercial partner Football Sport ...

Career

Born in

, Fernandes started his career with the

Dempo Dempo Mining Corporation Limited is a prominent mining company from the western Indian state of Goa. The mineral business was founded by Vasantrao S. Dempo in 1941, along with his younger brother Vaikuntrao Dempo. Vasantrao was the founding c ...

youth set-up. After leaving Dempo, Fernandes played with both Laxmi Prasad and Churchill Brothers in the

Goa Professional League The Goa Football League is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of Goa, organised by the Goa Football Association as part of the state leagues. It was formed in 1951 as the Goa Primeira Divisão or Goa First Division, and ...

. Before the 2015–16 I-League season, Fernandes was loaned to Sporting Goa. He made his professional debut for the club on 6 February 2016 against

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. He started the match and played 70 minutes as Sporting Goa won the match 2–1. On 8 July 2016, it was announced that Fernandes had signed on permanently with Sporting Goa. Seriton then was selected by Derick Periera to play for

for the 2017-18 Indian Super League season. He has also appeared with Goa in the

2021 AFC Champions League The 2021 AFC Champions League was the 40th edition of Asia's premier club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 19th under the current AFC Champions League title. Al-Hilal won their fourth title by ...

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club

;FC Goa * Indian Super Cup:

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 ...

* Indian Super League Premiers: 2019–20 *

Durand Cup The Durand Cup (also called the IndianOil Durand Cup Powered by Coal India Limited for sponsorship reasons) is an annual domestic football competition in India which was first held in 1888 in Annadale, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Hosted by the ...

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International

; India *

SAFF Championship The SAFF Championship (erstwhile SAARC Gold Cup and SAFF Gold Cup), is the primary association football competition contested by the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the South Asian Football Fede ...

References

1992 births Living people Indian men's footballers 21st-century Indian sportsmen Footballers from Goa India men's international footballers Dempo SC players Churchill Brothers FC Goa players Sporting CG players Men's association football midfielders I-League players Indian Super League players FC Goa players {{India-footy-midfielder-stub