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India women's national football team

India women's national football team

Women's national football team representing India

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see India national football team.

The India women's national football team represents India at women's international football competitions and is governed by the All India Football Federation. Under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and governed in Asia by the AFC. India is also part of the South Asian Football Federation. The team was one of the best in Asia in the mid-1970s to early 1980s, when they became runners-up in the 1979 and the 1983 AFC Women's Asian Cup.

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The Indian women's national team is yet to participate in the FIFA Women's World Cup and the Olympic Games. The present ranking of the team according to the FIFA Women's World Rankings is 66, the 13th-best team in Asia.

History

Golden years (1975–1991)

Football for women in Asia started later compared to their male counterparts. The seed of women's football in India was planted in the early 1970s. The first manager was Sushil Bhattacharya, in 1975[5][6] and from 1975 until 1991, the administration of the game was in the hands of the Women's Football Federation of India (WFFI), which comes under the Asian Ladies' Football Confederation (ALFC) that had recognition from neither FIFA nor AFC. Both organizations continuously tried to dissuade Asian countries from sending teams to these tournaments, for which the first few editions of AFC Women's Asian Cup seen very few teams. Thus, the 1980 featured two Indian teams (India N & India S), Western Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia.[7] India did well enough in all these tournaments under Sushil Bhattacharya. In the next edition of 1981 India achieved third position, defeated by Thailand, and became runners-up in the 1983, edition losing to Thailand again. This was the best chapter for the Indian women team in the Asian platform as since 1983 the performance declined along with mismanagement in the federation. The game was administered by WFFI from 1975 until the early 1990s, when they were absorbed into the AIFF.[8]

Decline (1991–2009)

The AIFF did very less to lift the women's football from their meager condition. It was the time when FIFA conceptualized and organised FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991 and International Olympic Committee started the women's competition at 1996 Summer Olympics. Time and again, the AIFF officials stated that lifting the standard of women's football to the level of their Asian counterparts was their chief aim. The AIFF failed to sponsor the team's first foreign trip in 1997 to Germany before the Asian Championships. Eventually, the trip was made possibly with the help of the German Football Association and NRI's living in Germany.[9]

1998 Asian Games was first participation for the national team. They were defeated by Chinese Taipei 1–13, before facing the biggest defeat in the history by China PR with an embarrassing scoreline of 0–16.[10]

The women's game reached a new low in June 2009 when FIFA delisted the side from its world rankings, for being out of action for more than 18 months.[11] From 1991 to 2010 the performance of the Indian team was very poor, participating in just 5 editions.

2010–present

After 2009 sanction by FIFA, the AIFF started to better the condition of the national team and women's football, which led to commencing SAFF Women's Championship and also including women's football in the South Asian Games. The women's team resumed playing on 29 January 2010 after nearly a year-long hiatus.[12] Indian team earn massive success in SAFF competitions, winning the SAFF Women's Championship four times in a row without losing a single game. Additionally, they won two gold medals at South Asian Games.[13]

They participated in the qualifiers for the 2012 Summer Olympics in March 2011. In their first match India has beaten group hosts Bangladesh 3–0. In the second round India played Uzbekistan, where they tied the first match 1–1, but lost the second leg 1–5. For the 2016 Summer Olympics they participated in the AFC qualifiers, not passing the group stage.

India participated for the second time at the Asian games in 2014, but the condition was not better than the previous participation, 16 years back in 1998. Though India defeated Maldives easily with 15–0 score, a similar fate was faced by them in the next two matches, being defeated by South Korea and Thailand with the same score of 0–10.

In August 2018, Indian women national team was invited to participate in Cotif Tournament where clubs and national and autonomous teams participate every year since 1984, held at Valencia, Spain. 2018 Cotif was 35th Anniversary of the tournament.[14] At this tournament they faced 3 Spanish club teams and Morocco. First lost to Fundación Albacete, 1–4, then to Levante UD, 0–5, then the Moroccan side defeated India with a score 5–1, but on the last match India played with maturity, though lost to Madrid CFF with 0–1 score.

In November 2018, India qualified to the second round of 2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament for the first time since the qualifying tournament started for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[15][16]

For preparation of 2020 Olympics 2nd round qualifiers India played two matches each against Hong Kong and Indonesia winning all four of them 5–2 & 1–0 against Hong Kong and 3–0 & 2–0 against Indonesia respectively.[17][18] Following these matches India played at the 2019 Gold Cup organised at home, where they won their first match against Iran by 1–0 but lost next two matches to Nepal and Myanmar by 1–2 and 0–2 respectively and failed to reach the final.[19][20][21]

Results and fixtures

Main articles: Indian women's national football team results (2020–present) and India women's national football team results

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Void or postponed   Fixtures

2023

22 March Friendly Jordan  0–0  India Amman, Jordan
18:30 UTC+5:30 Report Stadium: Petra Stadium
28 March Friendly Uzbekistan  3–2  India Tashkent, Uzbekistan
17:30 UTC+5:30
Report
Stadium: Pakhtakor Central Stadium
4 April 2024 Olympic Q 1R Kyrgyzstan  0–5  India Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
20:00 UTC+6 Report
Stadium: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium
Attendance: 354
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)
7 April 2024 Olympic Q 1R India  4–0  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
20:00 UTC+6
Report Stadium: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium
Referee: Kim Yu-jeong (South Korea)
21 September 2022 Asian Games Chinese Taipei  2–1  India Wenzhou, China
17:00 UTC+5:30
Report
Stadium: Wenzhou Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 5,681
Referee: Casey Reibelt (Australia)
24 September 2022 Asian Games India  0–1  Thailand Wenzhou, China
13:30 UTC+5:30 Report Thongrong 51' Stadium: Wenzhou Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 16,047
Referee: Le Thi Ly (Vietnam)
26 October 2024 Olympic Q 2R Japan  7–0  India Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:30 UTC+5:30
Report Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium
Attendance: 100
Referee: Yang Shu-ting (Chinese Taipei)
29 October 2024 Olympic Q 2R India  1–3  Vietnam Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:30 UTC+5:30 R. Sandhiya 80' Report
Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium
Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)
1 November 2024 Olympic Q 2R Uzbekistan  3–0  India Tashkent, Uzbekistan
17:30 UTC+5:30
Report Stadium: Bunyodkor Stadium
Referee: Veronika Bernatskaya (Kyrgyz Republic)

2024

21 February 2024 Turkish Women's Cup India  4–3  Estonia Alanya, Turkey
13:30 UTC+5:30
Report
Stadium: Gold City Sport Complex
Referee: Melis Özçiğdem (Turkey)
24 February 2024 Turkish Women's Cup India  2–0  Hong Kong Alanya, Turkey
19:00 UTC+5:30
Report Stadium: Gold City Sport Complex
Referee: Melek Dakan (Turkey)
27 February 2024 Turkish Women's Cup Kosovo  1–0  India Alanya, Turkey
13:30 UTC+5:30 Memeti 90+2' Report Stadium: Gold City Sport Complex
Referee: Gamze Durmuş (Turkey)

Coaching staff

As of 25 January 2024[22]
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Manager history

As of 27 February 2024, after the match against  Kosovo.
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Note: Only FIFA A matches considered.

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were selected for the 2024 Turkish Women's Cup.[30]

Caps and goals are correct as of 27 February 2024, after the match against  Kosovo.

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Recent call-ups

The following footballers were part of a national selection in the past twelve months, but are not part of the current squad.
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Previous squads

Records

See also: Category:India women's international footballers
As of 27 February 2024
Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.
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Captains

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Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

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*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games

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AFC Women's Asian Cup

More information AFC Women's Asian Cup record, Year ...
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
At 1979 AFC Asia Cup India placed two teams, India Senior(India S) and India Novice(India N), other version called as India North and India South.

Asian Games

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  • DNP: did not participate
  • DNQ: did not qualify
Bold Positions show best finish in the tournaments.

SAFF Women's Championship

India has won the SAFF Women's Championship five times in a row.[38]

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South Asian Games

India has won the South Asian Games three times.

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Red border indicates, India had hosted the games.

Other tournaments

2019 : 3rd place
2019: 6th place
2021: Friendlies
2024: Runners-up[39]
2021: 4th place

FIFA World Ranking

As of 18 April 2021[40]

  Best Ranking    Best Mover    Worst Ranking    Worst Mover  

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See also

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