Pappu Hossain
Bangladeshi association football player
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Mohamed Pappu Hossain (Bengali: মোহামদ পাপ্পু হোসাইন; born 7 April 1999),[1] is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bangladesh Premier League club Abahani Limited Dhaka.[2]
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mohamed Pappu Hossain | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 April 1999 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dhaka, Bangladesh | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Dhaka Abahani | |||||||||||||
| Number | 20 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Arambagh FA | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | Mohammedan SC U18 | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Arambagh KS | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | Saif SC | 41 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2019 | → Mohammedan SC (loan) | 11 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Chittagong Abahani | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Dhaka Abahani | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Brothers Union | 11 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2025– | Dhaka Abahani | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2023 | Bangladesh U23 | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17 October 2023 | ||||||||||||||
Early life
Pappu trained under Ibrahim Khalil Kala at Arambagh Football Academy starting in 2009. He also participated in the 2011 JFA Cup and the 2012 Under-14 Festival Football Tournament in Nepal. In 2013, he had the opportunity to practice with the Under-18 team of Mohammedan SC.[3]
Club career
Pappu Hossain started his senior career with Arambagh KS.[2][4] He joined Saif Sporting Club in 2017,[5][6] where he won the award for best goalkeeper in the Bangladesh Premier League from the Bangladesh Football Supporters Forum.[7][8] He was also part of the club's 2018 AFC Cup qualification squad.[9] In 2019, he was loaned to Mohammedan SC.[10][11]
International career
In October 2019, Pappu gets his first-ever senior national team call up for a FIFA friendly against Bhutan.[12][10]
In November 2019, Pappu got a U-23 call up for 2019 South Asian Games.[13][14][15]
In July 2023, he was selected in the main squad for the 2022 Asian Games.[16]
Personal life
He is the nephew of Bangladesh national team player Sohel Rana.[12] His older brother Sujon Hossain also plays as a goalkeeper.[17]
