Sivasakthi Narayanan

Sivasakthi Narayanan (born 9 July 2001) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Bengaluru.

Sivasakthi Narayanan
Personal information
Full name Sivasakthi Narayanan
Date of birth (2001-07-09) 9 July 2001
Place of birth Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Bengaluru
Number 39
Youth career
2018–2020 Raman Vijayan Soccer School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2021 Bengaluru B 11 (15)
2021– Bengaluru 22 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:45, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Club career

Youth

Sivasakthi's youth career began when he was picked up by a local team during trials in Karaikudi.[1] Sivasakthi was scouted by Raman Vijan Soccer School and he was the top scorer in the 2018-19 season of Elite League with 22 goals for the club. He then joined Bengaluru FC's B team,[2] where he played for the club in the 2020-21 season of Bangalore Super Division league. He emerged as the top goal scorer after scoring a staggering 15 goals for the club, which includes two hat-tricks.[3][4]

Bengaluru FC

On 8 April 2021, Bengaluru FC announced their squad for their AFC Cup campaign, which saw the 20-year-old getting maiden call up for the senior team.[5] He made his senior team debut when he replaced Suresh Singh in the game against Bashundhara Kings at the group stage of 2021 AFC Cup.[6] He scored his first goal for Bengaluru, ten minutes after being substituted against Maziya S&RC.[7]

Personal life

Hailing from a football frenzy district of Karaikudi, Sivasakthi picked up football as an interest and went on to get selected for the trials held in his hometown, when he was in 7th grade at school. When he and his friends began to pick their favourite ISL teams, Sivasakthi chose to be a fan of Bengaluru FC.[8] Sivasakthi lost his father when he was young and is now survived by his mother, who according to Sivasakthi, raised and supported him to follow his passion. During the 2020-21 Bangalore Super Division season, Bengaluru FC B team's Head Coach, Sandesh Bhoite said that Sivasakthi is tall, lanky and has the kind of core strength that gets him past even the heaviest challenges.[8]

Career statistics

Club
As of 28 January 2023[9]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup AFC Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bengaluru B 2020–21 Bangalore Super Division 111500—1115
Bengaluru 2021–22 Indian Super League 705[lower-alpha 1]32[lower-alpha 2]1144
2022–23 Indian Super League 1346[lower-alpha 1]5—199
Total 204118213313
Career total 3119118214428
  1. Appearance(s) in Durand Cup
  2. Appearance(s) in AFC Cup

Honours

Bengaluru

Individual

References
  1. "Small town boy with big time dreams". bengaluru fc.com. Bengaluru FC. 6 February 2021. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023.
  2. "RVSS Product Sivasakthi Makes Dream BFC 'B' Debut". DT Next. 18 January 2021. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021.
  3. "Sivasakthi on song as blue Colts regain top spot". Bengaluru FC. 22 February 2021.
  4. "Blue Colts reach summit with 8-1 rout of Income Tax". Bengaluru FC. 27 January 2021.
  5. "Blues announce 29-man squad for AFC Cup qualifiers". Bengaluru FC. 8 April 2021.
  6. @bengalurufc (21 August 2021). "Final change for the blues..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. @bengalurufc (24 August 2021). "Quality Touch, Quality Finish!..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. "Small town boy with big time dreams". Bengaluru FC. 6 February 2021.
  9. Sivasakthi Narayanan at Soccerway
  10. Narayan, Aaditya (19 September 2022). "Durand Cup 2022 review: The perfect curtain-raiser to the Indian football season". www.espn.in. Kolkata: ESPN. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
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