Ritu Porna Chakma

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Ritu Porna Chakma
Chakma in 2025
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-12-30) 30 December 2003
Place of birth Kawkhali Upazila, Rangamati District, Bangladesh
Height 1.47 m (4 ft 10 in)[1]
Positions
Team information
Current team
 Ayeyawady
Number 17
Youth career
2016–2022 BKSP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2023 Bashundhara Kings 25 (15)
2023–2024 Nasrin 8 (7)
2024 → Royal Thimphu College (loan) 1 (?)
2025 Paro 8 (13)
2025– Rajshahi Stars 10 (11)
2026– → Ayeyarwady (loan) 2 (0)
International career‡
2018–2020 Bangladesh U17
2020–2021 Bangladesh U19 5 (3)
2021– Bangladesh 42 (15)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Bangladesh
SAFF Women's Championship
Winner2022 Nepal
Winner2024 Nepal
SAFF U-20 Women's Championship
Winner2021 Bangladesh
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23 June 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 6 June 2026

Ritu Porna Chakma (Bengali: ঋতুপর্ণা চাকমা; Chakma: 𑄢𑄨𑄖𑄪𑄛𑄧𑄢𑄴𑄚 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟; born 30 December 2003) is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who plays as a winger or midfielder for the Bangladesh national team and Ayeyawady.[2][3]

Early life

Ritu Porna Chakma was born on 30 December 2003 in Kawkhali, Rangamati.[4][5] She is of indigenous Chakma community.[6]

She studied at Mogachhari Government Primary School. At school, a teacher named Birsen Chakma introduced her to football.[7] She started playing football in 2012 while attending primary school. In 2013, at the age of 10, she took part in the Bangamata Gold Cup Football tournament, representing her school.[5][6]

Ritu is the oldest among four sisters and one brother. After the deaths of her father in 2015 and her younger brother in 2022, her mother, Kala Sona Chakma, and her sisters supported her.[8][6][9]

Club career

In the 2023–24 season, Chakma joined Nasrin in the Bangladesh Women's Football League.

In 2024, she was loaned to Bhutanese club Royal Thimphu College for the 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League, scoring once in two preliminary stage appearances against Bam Khatoon.[10] Prior to participating in the tournament, she featured in a league match for the club.[11]

In 2025, she signed with Paro, another Bhutanese club, where she scored four goals in her first two appearances.[12] In the season, she managed to score 13 goals in 8 matches.[13]

In 22 December 2025, she joined Rajshahi Stars for the 2025–26 Bangladesh Women's Football League.[14][15][16]

In 2026, she signed a 3-month deal with Ayeyawady for the Myanmar Women League.[17][18][19] She made her debut for the club in a 4–0 victory against Thitsar Arman.[20]

International career

Chakma made her senior debut for the Bangladesh women's national team in 2019.[21] The following year, she participated in the 2022 SAFF Women's Championship, where Bangladesh secured its first title in the tournament's history, held in Kathmandu. She also played for the Bangladesh U-19 team during this period, including a match where she scored twice against Sri Lanka.[22][23]

She was part of the squad that won the 2022 and 2024 SAFF Women's Championship.[24][25]

On 30 October 2024, Chakma scored the winning goal in the final of the SAFF Women's Championship against Nepal and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.[26] On the next month, she received an offer from a European club, North Macedonian club Brera Tiverija.[27][28]

During the AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers, Chakma scored in Bangladesh's 7–0 victory over Bahrain on 29 June 2025.[29] On 2 July 2025, she scored twice in a 2–1 win against Myanmar in Yangon, helping Bangladesh qualify for the AFC Women's Asian Cup for the first time in the nation's history.[30][31]

Style of play

Chakma primarily plays as a left winger, although she is also capable of operating as an attacking midfielder. She is known for her pace, dribbling ability, creativity in the final third, and powerful left-footed shots.[32][33] She is also capable of delivering inswinging set-pieces and scoring directly from corner kicks, as well as from acute angles.[34][35]

Peter Butler described her as "one of the best wingers in South Asia" in 2026.[36][37]

Career statistics

Scores and results list Bangladesh's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each goal scored by Chakma.
List of international goals scored by Ritu Porna Chakma
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
110 September 2022Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal Pakistan6–06–02022 SAFF Women's Championship
216 September 2022Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal Bhutan4–08–02022 SAFF Women's Championship
34 December 2023BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh Singapore2–08–0Friendly
4 5–0
524 July 2024Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu, Bhutan Bhutan3–15–1Friendly
627 July 2024Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu, Bhutan Bhutan4–24–2Friendly
727 October 2024Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal Bhutan1–07–12024 SAFF Women's Championship
830 October 2024Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal Nepal2–12–12024 SAFF Women's Championship
929 June 2025Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Bahrain2–07–02026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
102 July 2025Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Myanmar1–02–12026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
112–0
125 July 2025Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Turkmenistan5–07–02026 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
137–0
143 June 2026Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Margao, India Nepal1–12–12026 SAFF Women's Championship
156 June 2026Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Margao, India India1–11–32026 SAFF Women's Championship

Awards and honors

Chakma receiving 2025 Begum Rokeya Padak.

On 9 December 2025, Ritu was awarded the Begum Rokeya Padak 2025 in the category of women's awakening (sports).[38][39][40]

Honours

Bashundhara Kings

Rajshahi Stars

Bangladesh U-20

Bangladesh

References

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  37. "'ঋতু আমার কাছে দক্ষিণ এশিয়ার অন্যতম সেরা উইঙ্গার'—বাটলারের প্রশংসা". প্রথম আলো (in Bengali). Retrieved 1 June 2026.
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