Robin Singh

Early career

Born in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Singh started playing cricket and football at an academy in Noida at the age of nine years. He played with them at many youth tournaments. He started playing his football with former Indian footballer, Anadi Barua. At the age of thirteen Singh had to make a choice between either football or cricket and choose football as that was the sport he enjoyed most playing out of the two. Gaining support from his parents Singh started to attend St. Stephen's Football Academy which is located in Chandigarh. A short time later Singh was selected by the UT Sports Department to join the Chandigarh Football Academy. While there Singh played a role in Chandigarh's tournaments like the Junior Challenge Administrator's Cup Football Tournament and the Pre-Subroto Mukerjee Football Tournament. However, Singh was axed by the academy in 2005 after the Subroto Cup for not being in synch with the training program. However, after leaving the Chandigarh Football Academy Singh joined the famed Tata Football Academy in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in 2005. While at Tata Football Academy Singh was converted into a striker after playing his entire life as a winger in most cases due to his fast pace.

East Bengal

After spending four years at Tata Football Academy and spending almost a year in both United Arab Emirates (where he trained with a UAE Pro League club) and England (where he was trained by Mel Eves) Singh signed for East Bengal of the I-League…

Robin Singh has represented India at the India U16, India U23, and India senior level. He represented the under-16s when he was at Tata Football Academy and even played against clubs like VfL Wolfsburg youth and FC Augsburg youth teams. He made his debut at the under-23 level on 9 March 2011 against Myanmar during the 2012 Olympic qualifiers in which he came on as a 67th-minute substitute for Malsawmfela as India U23's drew 1–1 which was enough on aggregate to send them to the 2nd Round of Asian Olympic qualification. Robin made his senior debut for India on 25 August 2012 during the 2012 Nehru Cup against Maldives at the Nehru Stadium in the Indian capital of Delhi, coming on as a 46th-minute substitute for his East Bengal teammate Sanju Pradhan; India won the match 3–0. Then on 2 September 2012 Singh helped India win the Nehru Cup by beating Cameroon B in the final 5–4 on penalties with Singh coming on in the 63rd minute for Sanju Pradhan and then scoring the first penalty for India in the penalty shoot-out after the match ended in regulation time 2–2. Robin then scored his first ever goal for India's seniors on 2 March 2013 against Chinese Taipei during the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers when he found the net in the 90th minute to give India a last minute winner, 2–1. He scored his second international goal against Guam in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 12 November 2015 which turned out to be the winner. He scored his 3rd and 4th goal against Sri Lanka in the 2015…

Club

As of 13 May 2022

National team statistics

As of 31 December 2019

India national under-23 football team statistics

As of 31 December 2019

International goals

Score and Result lists India's goals first.

India

SAFF Championship: 2015; runner-up: 2013 Nehru Cup: 2012 Tri-Nation Series: 2017