2001 Calcutta Women's Football League

Template:Infobox football league season 2001 Calcutta Women's Football League was the 9th season of the Calcutta Women's Football League.

The season consisted of twelve teams divided into two groups. The top four teams of each group would qualify for the knockouts where they would face each other in the quarterfinals. This was the first season that Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan formed and fielded their women's teams with East Bengal clinching the final 1–0 against Mohun Bagan to lift their first-ever title. Shanta Dhara scored the winning goal in the final.

Teams

CWFL Participants

Group A	Group B
Bidyut Sporting	Bally Gramanchal
East Bengal	Itika Memorial
Income Tax	Jubak Sangha
Kasba Samannay	Mohun Bagan
Nabajanma Sangha	NPC Academy
Young Footballers	Rampur Milan Sangha

Knockout stage

Qualified teams

The top four placed teams from each of the two groups qualified for the knockout stage.

Group A	Group B
Mohun Bagan	Income Tax
Jubak Sangha	East Bengal
Bally Gramanchal	Nabajanma Sangha
Itika Memorial	Young Footballers

Quarter-finals

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Mohun Bagan	2–0	Young Footballers
Nabajanma Sangha	2–0	Jubak Sangha
Income Tax	3–0	Itika Memorial
East Bengal	4–0	Bally Gramanchal

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Semi-finals

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Mohun Bagan	6–0	Nabajanma Sangha
Income Tax	0–1	East Bengal

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Final

Summary

The 2001 Calcutta Women's Football League final was held at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium on 16 March 2001 between Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, in the very first season of their formation. This match would thus remain recorded as the first-ever women's Kolkata Derby between the two teams. East Bengal women's team clinched the match 1–0 courtesy of a solitary goal from forward Shanta Dhara in the twenty-third minute of the game as East Bengal held onto the lead and lifted their first-ever Calcutta Women's Football League title.

Match

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GK Ranjita Khan RB Maria D'Rebello CB Madhu Kumari CB Dulali Ghosh LB Jayanti Barua CM Naushaba Alam Template:Suboff CM Mausam Kumari Template:Suboff RW Swati Kumari LW Kalpana Sahoo CF Anjana Kumari Template:Suboff LF Rinku Ghosh Substitutions: CM Sanju Kumari Template:Subon CM Seema Dey Template:Subon FW Papia Ghosh Template:Subon

GK Namita Bag RB Prathama Priyadarshini CB Nesha Kumari CB Momo Gogoi LB Nazda Tabassum CM Rajani Alankar CM Sharmila Sapui RW Swapna Kumari LW Sashi Kumari FW Sujata Kar FW Shanta Dhara Template:Goal Substitutions: Template:Sort dash

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Player of the Match: Shanta Dhara (East Bengal)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Golden goal ends game. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions allowed.