Steffi Sarge Kaur d/o Sergeant Singh Sidhu (born 25 October 1988) is a Malaysian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a defender for the Malaysia women's national football team.

Early life

She played badminton, hockey, and netball as a child.

Club career

Steffi played for several football clubs in Malaysia. She played for MBSJ FC in the FAS Women's Super League. She also played for Melaka in 2022 Piala Tun Sharifah Rodziah, LMS Tigress in 2023 Malaysia Women's National League and Kelana United in 2024 Malaysia Women's National League. She also played in the

2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League The 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League was the first edition of the AFC Women's Champions League, Asia's premier club women's association football, women's football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Wuhan Jiangha ...

with

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International career

Steffi has represented Malaysia internationally at football, futsal, and footgolf. She made her debut with Malaysia women's football team in 2007. She participated in the

2007 AFF Women's Championship The 2007 AFF Women's Championship was hosted by Myanmar and was held from 6 to 15 September 2007. The host defeated Thailand in the final to win their second title. Group stage Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Knockout stage ...

2007 Southeast Asian Games The 2007 Southeast Asian Games (), officially known as the 24th Southeast Asian Games, were a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand. This was the sixth time Thailand hosted the ...

2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. Etymology English ''eight'', from Old English '', æhta'', Proto-Germanic ''*ahto'' is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European '' *oḱtṓ(w)-'', and as such cognate wi ...

, and

2011 AFF Women's Championship The 2011 AFF Women's Championship was held from 16 to 25 October 2011, hosted by Laos. All games were played at the Laos National Stadium and New Laos National Stadium. Thailand won the tournament for the first time after beating Myanmar 2–1 ...

. Few years later, she played for Malaysia women's futsal team for

AFC Women's Futsal Championship The AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup (previously the AFC Women's Futsal Championship before 2021), is the quadrennial premier national women's futsal competition of the Asian Football Confederation nations. The first edition was held in Malaysia in 20 ...

, ASEAN Women's Futsal Championship and the

Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...

. After 10 years, she return to the women's national team for

2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification was the qualification tournament for the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup. A total of twelve teams qualified to play in the final tournament in India. The host country India and the top three teams of the pr ...

in 2021. She scored her first international goal in a 2-0 win against Palestine.

Style of play

She mainly operates as a defender and has been described as "definitely has the leadership quality required to be a good team captain".

International goals

Personal life

She is of

Chindian Chindian (; zh, c=中印人, p=Zhōngyìnrén, cy=Jūngyanyàn; ; ); is an informal term used to refer to a person of mixed Chinese and Indian ancestry; i.e. from any of the host of ethnic groups native to modern China and modern India. There ...

and

Malaysian Siamese The Malaysian Siamese (Malay language, Malay: ''Orang Siam Malaysia'') are an ethnicity or community who principally resides in Peninsular Malaysia which is a relatively homogeneous cultural region to southern Burma and southern Thailand but wa ...

descent.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaur, Steffi Sarge Living people 1988 births Malaysian women's footballers Malaysian people of Chinese descent Malaysia women's international footballers Women's association football defenders Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent Malaysian sportspeople of Chinese descent Malaysian people of Punjabi descent Malaysian Sikhs Malaysian people of Thai descent Footgolf players