Sabina Khatun (; born 25 October 1993) is a Bangladeshi professional

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who plays as a forward. She is a member of the

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, and the former

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. She also represented Bashundhara Kings. She holds the record of most international goals for Bangladesh (38), male or female. She is also the all-time top goalscorer (male or female) in Bangladeshi club football, with 333 goals.

Early years

Khatun was born at Satkhira in

Khulna Division Khulna Division () is the second largest of the eight divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of and a population of 17,416,645 at the 2022 Bangladesh census (preliminary returns). Its headquarters and largest city is Khulna city in Khulna Dist ...

. She is the fourth child of Md. Syed Ghazi and Mumtaz Begum. Khatun's relationship with football started back in 2007 when she was in class eight. She was introduced to football by the Satkhira district football coach Akbar. She was called up to the

Bangladesh women's national football team The Bangladesh women's national football team is the women's national association football team of Bangladesh controlled by the Bangladesh Football Federation under the supervision of the women's football committee. It is a member of the Asian ...

after finding success at the school, inter-school and inter-district levels.

International career

In 2009, Khatun received her first call-up to the Bangladesh national team, which she captained from 2015 to 2024.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Bangladesh's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sabina Khatun goal.''

Honours

Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club *

Bangladesh Women's Football League * 2023–24 The Bangladesh Women's Football League (),officially known as UCB Women's Football League for sponsorship reasons and simply as WFL, is the highest level of women's club football competition of Bangladesh. Established in 2011, the ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Bashundhara Kings *

: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22 Bangladesh *

SAFF Women's Championship The SAFF Women's Championship, also called the ''South Asian Football Federation Women's Cup'', is a competition for women's national football teams governed by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). All seven members are eligible to partici ...

:Champion :

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

:Runner-up :

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

South Asian Games The South Asian Games is a quadrennial multi-sport event held among athletes from South Asia. The South Asia Olympic Council, which was formed in 1983, governs it. The Games consist of seven countries, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, N ...

:Bronze (2) :

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Individual * SAFF Women's Championship Most Valuable Player: 2022 *

Anannya Top Ten Awards Anannya Top Ten Awards () is the prize for women in Bangladesh recognition of contribution to the fields of agriculture, industrial, trade, economics, acting, music, sports, education, liberation war, social welfare and development-work-law, hum ...

: 2016

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1993 births Living people Bangladesh women's international footballers Bangladeshi women's footballers 21st-century Bangladeshi sportswomen Women's association football forwards People from Satkhira District Bashundhara Kings Women players Sethu FC players Bangladesh Women's Football League players Bangladeshi expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in India Bangladeshi expatriate sportspeople in India Bangladeshi women's futsal players South Asian Games bronze medalists for Bangladesh South Asian Games medalists in football Indian Women's League players Footballers from Khulna Division Kickstart FC players Long stubs with short prose {{Bangladesh-women-footy-bio-stub