Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

Early football and goalkeeper role

AIFF records Gurpreet’s birth date as 3 February 1992, his position as goalkeeper and his club as Bengaluru. The league’s March 2025 interview describes his route through St. Stephen’s Football Academy before East Bengal. His own account says school coaches placed him in goal. The profile does not treat an unverified academy claim as an established career step.

From Norway to Bengaluru

Gurpreet spent 2014–2017 at Stabæk. AIFF’s September 2020 interview describes the difficulty of proving himself for the bench and starting team abroad. The 2017 Bengaluru signing report states that regular football ahead of the Asian Cup was important to his return.

Bengaluru’s February 2023 extension announcement runs to 2028. The October 2026 opener report gives newer club context. A contract duration is not a promise that a player starts every club or India fixture.

Club and national records are different

The 25th India clean sheet is a November 2023 milestone. The over-150 ISL appearance and 50-clean-sheet records come from a March 2025 league interview. They measure different competitions and dates.

The official player page selected 2024–25 when checked on 9 October 2026: eight clean sheets, 82 saves and 33 conceded. ESPN shows regular and playoff rows separately. This profile labels the source and scope instead of converting those rows into a guessed all-time total.

Reading a goalkeeper’s statistics

Starts indicate selection in the initial eleven; appearances can include substitute entries. Minutes show playing time. Saves describe recorded stops, while clean sheets describe a no-concession outcome under each provider’s criteria. Goals against are goals conceded, not goals scored.

AIFF’s account of the 2019 Qatar draw records eleven Gurpreet saves and his acknowledgement of the outfield players’ work. It is a dated match example, not proof that every later clean sheet came from the same performance pattern.

Europa League qualifying and interrupted debut

Gurpreet’s 2016 Europa League appearance for Stabæk against Connah’s Quay Nomads was a qualifying fixture. AIFF’s interview records that he broke his hand after about thirty minutes and had to leave the field. He described the opportunity positively despite the injury.

The 2017 signing report connects his return to India with the need for regular games. The European milestone should not be rewritten as a group-stage appearance or as evidence of a large European match total.

Active-player status and source date

The 9 October 2026 league report identifies Gurpreet as a Bengaluru player returning from national duty. The February 2023 extension announcement runs to 2028. There is no retirement claim or invented post-playing job. The sources do not guarantee future first-choice selection.

Awards without outdated exclusivity

Gurpreet won the 2019–20 AIFF Men’s Player of the Year award. The league’s September 2020 report also records consecutive Golden Gloves in 2018–19 and 2019–20. Those seasons remain valid historical achievements; a statement that no other player has ever won twice would need a current league-wide check and is not retained. Unverified commercial ventures and private financial details are not added.

Why Gurpreet’s totals differ across sources

Read the season and metric before comparing two numbers. The official 2024–25 selected season shows eight clean sheets. ESPN separates regular-season and playoff rows and uses starts in its offensive table. The official appearance count and ESPN’s starts are not automatically interchangeable.

The table preserves the rows as published on 9 October 2026. We do not add league, cup, national-team and club-spell figures together, and we do not interpret missing or template-filled fields as confirmed zeros. Historical milestones retain their report dates. Source-check date is not proof of a complete current-match cutoff.