Shanti Mullick

Shanti Mullick
Personal information
Full name	Shanti Mullick
Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Bengal
International career
1980–1986	India
Managerial career
1996–1997	Bengal
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Shanti Mullick is an Indian former women's footballer who played as a forward for the India women's national football team.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Mullick is the first Indian women's footballer to receive the Arjuna Award, the second-highest Indian sports award.^[1]^[6]

Career[edit]

Football[edit]

Mullick was born in Kalighat,^[1] Kolkata, West Bengal and her father was also a footballer who served in the military.^{[citation needed]}

Mullick represented India at the AFC Women's Championships where the team reached the finals twice and finished as runners-up in the 1980 and 1983 editions.^[7]^[8]^[9] She played for the national team managed by legendary Sushil Bhattacharya.^[10]^[11]^[12] Her team also finished in third place in the 1981 edition. She captained the Indian team between 1981 and 1983. Mullick was the first women's footballer to score a hat-trick for India in a 5–0 victory over Singapore in the 1981 AFC Women's Championship.^[13]^[2]^[14]

Following her retirement, she runs a football academy and coaches youth women's footballers.^[2]^[4]

Field hockey[edit]

Mullick also played field hockey from 1986 to 1994 while posted at Eastern Railway.^[1]^[4]

Honours[edit]

Player[edit]

India

AFC Women's Championship runner-up: 1980, 1983; third place: 1981

Manager[edit]

Bengal

Senior Women's National Football Championship: 1996–97^[1]

Individual[edit]

Arjuna Award: 1983^[15]^[16]^[17]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Biswas, Sudipta (14 October 2019). "Shanti Mullick: A Rebel Who Embraces Hardships". Delhi Post News. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bontra, Soumya (7 February 2022). "'Who will tell our story?': Shanti Mullick, the woman who took India to two AFC Cup finals". The Bridge. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ Rathod, Kalwyna (2 November 2020). "Meet Shanti Mallick, India's First Female Footballer Arjuna Awardee". Femina. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Raghunandan, Vaibhav (29 January 2022). "Shanti Mullick: A Mystical Passer in a Physical World Indian Women's Football History Special Series". Newscllick. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ Media Team, AIFF (15 August 2022). "Indian Football Down the Years: Looking back at the glorious moments". www.the-aiff.com. New Delhi: All India Football Federation. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
^ Nag, Utathya (24 March 2022). "Beacons who lit the way for women's football in India". Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ "Women's Asian Cup - When hosts India grabbed the silver medal in 1979". Goal.com. 14 June 2020. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ Raghunandan, Vaibhav (14 January 2022). "Trailblazers go down memory lane as India hosts AFC Women's Asian Cup". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
^ Das, Debasmita (14 May 2019). "ইস্টবেঙ্গলের প্রথম পেশাদার কোচ, না পাওয়ার বাস্তবে এ এক অন্য তথ্যচিত্র!" [East Bengal's first professional coach, this is another documentary in reality!]. bengali.indianexpress.com (in Bengali). Kolkata: The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
^ Mitra, Atanu (19 July 2015). "Legendary Indian coach Sushil Bhattacharya passes away". www.goal.com. Kolkata: Goal. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
^ "EAST BENGAL CLUB, INDIA – RECORDS, FUNS AND FACTS | SUSHIL BHATTACHARYA – THE FIRST COACH OF EAST BENGAL CLUB – 1961". eastbengalclubrecords.wordpress.com. East Bengal Club. 24 November 2014. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
^ "ইস্টবেঙ্গলের প্রথম কোচ প্রয়াত" [First coach of East Bengal passed away]. www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Kolkata: Anandabazar Patrika. 19 July 2015. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
^ "Asian Women's Championship 1981". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
^ Shreekumar, S.S. (2020). The Best way forward: for India's Football. HSRA. ISBN 978-81-947216-9-7. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
^ "LIST OF ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS - Football | Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports". yas.nic.in. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
^ "List of Arjuna Awardees (1961–2018)" (PDF). Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (India). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
^ Chaudhuri, Arunava (2000). "National Award winning Footballers". indianfootball.de. IndianFootball. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

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