Personal information | |||
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Place of birth | Hisar, Haryana, India | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Minerva Punjab | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2011 | Pailan Arrows | 14 | (2) |
2011–2012 | Air India | 18 | (9) |
2012–2013 | East Bengal | 20 | (3) |
2013–2014 | Rangdajied United | 6 | (2) |
2014 | Delhi Dynamos | 2 | (0) |
2015 | Kerala Blasters | 2 | (0) |
2016 | Salgaocar | 7 | (0) |
2017– | Minerva Punjab | 0 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2007–2008 | India U16 | 5 | (3) |
2009 | India U19 | 4 | (0) |
2011 | India U23 | 5 | (1) |
2012– | India | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:44, 25 December 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:38, 20 March 2015 (UTC) |
Manandeep Singh (born in Hisar, Haryana) is an Indian footballer who plays as a striker for Minerva Punjab in the I-League.
Singh started his professional career in 2010 with Pailan Arrows (then known as Indian Arrows) of the I-League. While with Arrows Singh scored only one goal which came against Air India on 13 March 2011 in which Singh scored the equaliser for Arrows in a match that Arrows eventually won 5–2. Singh then left Pailan Arrows after one season and signed for Air India for the 2011–12 I-League season. Singh scored his first two goals for Air India on 1 November 2011 when he scored a brace against Salgaocar in the I-League in a match that Air India won 3–1. Singh then scored again in his next match for Air India against Chirag United Kerala on 6 November 2011 when he scored from a penalty in the 45th minute as Air India won 2–1. Singh continued his good form for Air India by scoring another brace against HAL on 20 November 2011 which helped Air India clinch a 4–2 victory. Singh then ended 2011 by scoring another brace against eventual champions Dempo on 18 December 2011 in which Air India won 2–0 and in which was surprising after Air India lost 14–0 to Dempo the season before. At the end of 2011 Singh had scored nine goals. Singh did not score again for Air India till 26 March 2012 in which he scored a brace against Mohun Bagan. After the season ended Singh was named the Football Players Association of India Young Player of the Season for the 2012–13 season.
After the season ended Manandeep signed for East Bengal. He made his first-team debut for the club on 21 September 2012 against Sporting Goa in East Bengal's first match of the 2012 Federation Cup by coming on as a 59th-minute substitute for Baljit Sahni. Then two days later Singh scored his first goal for East Bengal against ONGC after converting an 80th-minute penalty which won East Bengal the game 2–1. Singh then scored a brace for East Bengal on 25 September 2012 against Kalighat MS to send East Bengal to the semi-finals of the Federation Cup. East Bengal won the match 4–3. Singh then scored for East Bengal in the Final of the 2012 Federation Cup on 30 September 2012 scoring in the 100th minute to give East Bengal a 2–1; eventually East Bengal won the game and the tournament 3–2.