Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 14 April 2003 | ||
Place of birth | Salem, Tamil Nadu, India | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | East Bengal | ||
Number | 59 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Sethu | |||
2022–2023 | Kickstart | ||
2023– | East Bengal | ||
International career‡ | |||
2020 | India U17 | ||
2018–2021 | India U20 | ||
2021– | India | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 September 2023 |
Mariyammal Balamurugan (born 14 April 2003) is an Indian professional footballer from Tamil Nadu, who plays as a midfielder for East Bengal in the Indian Women's League and the India women's national football team. She has also played for Sethu FC and Kickstart.
Mariyammal hails from Salem district, Tamil Nadu and hails from a family of farmers. [1] [2] She started playing football at a young age and was scouted from the 2018 Khelo Indian Games. [3] [4]
Mariyammal has represented India in the U16 and U19 AFC qualifiers. She made her senior international debut in the 2021 International Women's Football Tournament of Manaus against Brazil. [3] In January 2022, she was named in the Indian team to play AFC Women's Asian Cup. [5]
Kickstart