Maria Manda

Maria Manda Sangma is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Farashganj and the Bangladesh women's national football team. She has also played for the Bangladesh women's national futsal team.

Early life

Maria Manda Sangma was born on 10 May 2003 in Mandirgona village, Dhobaura, Mymensingh. She belongs to Garo tribe.

Maria became involved in football in 2011. In 2013, they became the first champion for the famous Kalsindur Government Primary School in Dhobaura, where she was a player.

In the 2023–24 season, Maria joined Nasrin Sporting Club in the Bangladesh Women's Football League. In 2024, she was loaned to Royal Thimphu College SC in Bhutan to play in the preliminary stage of the 2024-25 AFC Women's Champions League.

Maria joined Farashganj SC in the Bangladesh Women's Football League. She scored her first goal in her debut for the club.

She was selected the captain of Bangladesh U-15 team. Under her leadership, Bangladesh became the undefeated champion after defeating India. She was then called up to the Under-14 national team in 2014. Bangladesh won the AFC U-14 Regional Championship in Tajikistan under her co-captaincy. She was also the co-captain of the undefeated champion team in the AFC U-16 qualifiers.
After she was selected for the Bangladesh women's national football team, she contributed to the runners-up of SAFF. As a result, Bangladesh under-15 armband was tied to her arm in the safe. Afterwards, India lost twice in the same tournament.
She was selected to the Bangladesh U16 team for the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification – Group B matches in 2014. Bangladesh participated in the AFC U-14 Girls' Regional Championship – South and Central held in Nepal in 2015. Bangladesh women's national U16 football team played the qualifier for the 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship. And, she played in 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification – Group C matches where Bangladesh became group C champion. Being group C champion, Bangladesh qualified for the 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship in Thailand in September 2017.
She was the member of the Bangladesh U19 team who won the 2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship and Bangamata U-19 Women's International Gold Cup in 2019. She later played in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification.

Maria was selected to Bangladesh women's national football team for 2016 South Asian Games, where they became third in the women's football category and won Bronze. Also she was in the team for 2016 SAFF Women's Championship.Bangladesh were in the Group B. She played two of the group B matches and being group B unbeaten champion, Bangladesh demolish Maldives 6–0 to barge in the semi-final into SAFF Championship final where they lost against India and became Runner-up. And in 2018, she also played in the 2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. She played in 2019 SAFF Women's Championship for Bangladesh where they became semi-finalist.
Maria scored her first international goal on 2 December 2025 against Azerbaijan during the 2025 Bangladesh Tri-Nations Cup at the National Stadium.

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