| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1999-11-21)21 November 1999 (age 25) | ||
| Place of birth | Karipatti,Salem,Tamil Nadu, India | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | East Bengal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Sethu | |||
| 2022 | Lords FA Kochi | ||
| 2022–2024 | Odisha | ||
| 2024– | East Bengal | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021– | India | 13 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 July 2024 | |||
Karthika Angamuthu (born 21 November 1999) is an Indian professionalfootballer from Tamil Nadu, who plays as a midfielder for the clubEast Bengal in theIndian Women's League and theIndia women's national football team. She has also played forSethu FC andOdisha.
Karthika hails fromSalem district,Tamil Nadu. She comes from a lower-middle-class family and her parents are Cotton Mill workers.[1] She started playing football at the age of 15 years.[2][3] Initially, the parents were reluctant to send their daughter on outstation trips but later after watching her success encourage her.[4]
In 2019 Karthika started playing theHero Indian Women's League and she was selected to the Indian team after a good performance in the league. She made her Senior India debut in Venezuela in December 2021.[5] In January 2022, she was named in the Indian team to play AFC Women's Asian Cup.[6] The year 2023 has been a busy season for Karthika. In March, she played in the international friendly match against Uzbekistan at Tashkent.[7] And in April, she was part of the Indian team that played the Women's Olympic Qualifier Round 1 at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.[8] Later, she played two friendlies againstNepal inChennai.[9][10][11] In June, she played for Tamil Nadu in the Senior Women's National Football Championship at Amritsar, Punjab.[12]
| International caps and goals | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Caps | Goals |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 13 | 0 |
Odisha
East Bengal
