Sujata Kar

Sujata Kar
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-05-13) 13 May 1980 (age 46)
Place of birth Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 Sribhumi
Southern Samity (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2001 East Bengal
International career
1998–2007 India ? (12)
Managerial career
2017 Taltala Dipti Sangha
2021 Southern Samity (assistant)
2021–2022 ARA (assistant)
2022 ARA (interim)
2022–2023 East Bengal
2022–2025 West Bengal (state)
2023– Sribhumi
2025– Southern Samity
2026– India Women (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sujata Kar (born 13 May 1980) is an Indian football manager and former footballer. She serves as the head coach of the Indian Women's League club Sribhumi and the Calcutta Football League club Southern Samity. She also served as the head coach of the East Bengal side in their maiden appearance in the Indian Women's League season. She also represented and served as the captain of the India women's national football team in 2007.

Early life

Kar grew up in the Jadavpur area of Kolkata.

Career

In February 2000, she signed a contract with the German Bundesliga second division by TSV Crailsheim. She trained for two months in Germany along with Alpana Seal, but lack of proper documentation denied her a chance to play in the foreign league.

In 2001, she captained the East Bengal club team, which won the Kolkata Women's Football League.

As a coach, she guided Sribhumi to their Indian Women's League 2 title in 2024.

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.9 November 1999Iloilo Sports Complex, Iloilo City, Philippines Malaysia?–03–01999 AFC Women's Championship
2.12 December 2001Taipei Municipality Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan Malaysia1–03–02001 AFC Women's Championship
3.2–0
4.9 June 2003Nakhon Sawan Stadium, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand Uzbekistan4–06–02003 AFC Women's Championship
5.13 June 2003 Vietnam1–21–22003 AFC Women's Championship
6.12 June 2005Mỹ Đình National Stadium, Hanoi, Vietnam Guam2–010–02006 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers
7.3–0
8.8–0
9.9–0
10.10–0
11.20 June 2005Mỹ Đình National Stadium, Hanoi, Vietnam Thailand1–02–32006 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers
12.2–0

Honours

Player

East Bengal

Manager

Taltala Dipti Sangha

East Bengal

Sribhumi

Awards

2024: Best women's coach of the year awarded by AIFF.

References

  1. ↑ "Sujata Kar". Arquivo dos Mundiais. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Dey, Aneesh (8 March 2023). "After historic Kanyashree Cup win with East Bengal, Sujata Kar hopes to uplift Bengal footballers in IWL". Sportstar. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "India to face Korea on Sunday". The Times of India. 24 February 2007. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 Kulkarni, Abhijeet (27 April 2020). "An Indian footballer in Europe: Before Bala Devi, there was Sujata Kar and a huge lost opportunity". Scroll.in. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Some want to win title, we want to give game time to local players: East Bengal coach Sujata Kar on IWL". thebridge.in. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "News for the month of March, 2001". indianfootball.de. 16 March 2001. Archived from the original on 25 February 2002. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "East Bengal wins Kanyashree Cup; books IWL berth". The Bridge. 28 January 2023. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "16 tournaments, 11,000 players: A hectic 2023–24 domestic season with class and character". the-aiff.com. New Delhi: All India Football Federation. 18 June 2024. Archived from the original on 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Mohun Bagan Star Subhasish Bose Named India's Best Footballer — Full AIFF Awards List Inside!". Sportstar. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 3 May 2025.