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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.
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 61, the 11th-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[1][2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
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.[10] 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.[11][12]
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.[13][14] 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.[15][16][17]
Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
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- Official Fixtures and Results – The-AIFF.com
Coaching staff
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Template:Flagicon Thomas Dennerby |
| Assistant coach | Template:Flagicon Maymol Rocky |
| Goalkeeping coach | Template:Flagicon Lourebam Ronibala Chanu |
| Team managers | Template:Flagicon Kajol Kamble Template:Flagicon Nirali Thakkar |
| Physiotherapy | Template:Flagicon Sadhvi Koyande |
Manager history
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| Name | Years | Played | Won | Draw | Lost | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Flagicon Sushil Bhattacharya | 1975 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Template:Flagicon J. Krishnaswamy | 1980 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 50 |
| unknown | 1981 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60 |
| unknown | 1983 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 66.67 |
| unknown | 1986 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50 |
| Template:Flagicon I. Arumainayagam[19] | 1994 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| unknown | 1995 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| unknown | 1997 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66.67 |
| Template:Flagicon S. Arumainayagam[20] | 1998 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Template:Flagicon Harjinder Singh[21] | 1999 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| Template:Flagicon P. K. Kabui[22] | 2001 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| Template:Flagicon Moirangthem Ratankumar Singh[23] | 2003 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| Template:Flagicon Harjinder Singh[24] | 2005−07 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14.29 |
| Template:Flagicon Sapam Premkanta Singh[25] | 2007 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50 |
| Template:Flagicon Mohammad Shahid Jabbar | 2009–12 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 85.71 |
| Template:Flagicon Anadi Barua | 2013 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 40 |
| Template:Flagicon Tarun Roy | 2014 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 75 |
| Template:Flagicon Sajid Dar | 2015–17 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 53.33 |
| Template:Flagicon Maymol Rocky | 2017–21 | 33 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 54.55 |
| Template:Flagicon Thomas Dennerby | 2021– | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 38.89 |
| Template:Flagicon Suren Chettri (interim) | 2022 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 50 |
| Total | 157 | 79 | 16 | 62 | 50.32 | |
Note: Only FIFA A matches considered.
Players
Current squad
On 27 August 2023, 22 players were named in the squad for the 2022 Asian Games.[26]
Caps and goals are correct as of 24 September 2023, after the match against Template:Fbw.
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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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INJ Withdrew due to injury
PRE Preliminary squad / standby
RET Retired from the national team
SUS Serving suspension
WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.
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Previous squads
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- AFC Women's Asian Cup squads
- Asian Games squads
- SAFF Women's Championship
- South Asian Games
Records
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Most capped players
Top 5 appearances
| # | Player | Year(s) | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oinam Bembem Devi | 1995–2016 | 85 | 32 |
| 2 | Loitongbam Ashalata Devi | 2011–present | 87 | 4 |
| 3 | Bala Devi | 2007–present | 58 | 52 |
| 5 | Aditi Chauhan | 2011–present | 57 | 0 |
| 4 | Yumnam Kamala Devi | 2011–2022 | 51 | 33 |
Top goalscorers
Top 4 goalscorers
| # | Player | Year(s) | Goals | Caps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bala Devi | 2007–present | 52[27] | 58 |
| 2 | Sasmita Mallik | 2007–2017 | 40 | 38 |
| 3 | Yumnam Kamala Devi | 2011–2022 | 33 | 51 |
| 4 | Oinam Bembem Devi | 1995–2016 | 32 | 85 |
Captains
Competitive record
FIFA Women's World Cup
| FIFA Women's World Cup record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host/Year | Result | Position | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr |
| Template:Flagicon 1991 | did not enter | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1995 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1999 | did not qualify | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2003 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2007 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2011 | did not enter | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2015 | did not qualify | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2019 | |||||||||
| Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon 2023 | Withdrew from qualification | ||||||||
| 2027 | to be determined | ||||||||
| Total | 0/9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
AFC Women's Asian Cup
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- *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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| Asian Games record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr |
| Template:Flagicon 1990 | DNP | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1994 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1998 | Group stage | 8th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 36 | −35 |
| Template:Flagicon 2002 | DNP | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2006 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2010 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2014 | Group stage | 9th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 20 | −5 |
| Template:Flagicon 2018 | DNP | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2022 | Group stage | 13th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 |
| Total | 3/9 | 0 Titles | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 59 | −42 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Score | Result |
| 1998 | Round 1 | Template:Fbw-rt 0–7 Template:Fbw | Loss |
| Template:Fbw-rt 1–13 Template:Fbw | Loss | ||
| Template:Fbw-rt 0–16 Template:Fbw | Loss | ||
| 2014 | Round 1 | Template:Fbw-rt 15–0 Template:Fbw | Won |
| Template:Fbw-rt 0–10 Template:Fbw | Loss | ||
| Template:Fbw-rt 0–10 Template:Fbw | Loss | ||
| 2022 | Round 1 | Template:Fbw-rt 1–2 Template:Fbw | Loss |
| Template:Fbw-rt 0–1 Template:Fbw | Loss | ||
- 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.[33]
| SAFF Women's Championship record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr |
| Template:Flagicon 2010 | Winners | Template:Goca | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | +40 |
| Template:Flagicon 2012 | Winners | Template:Goca | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 1 | +32 |
| Template:Flagicon 2014 | Winners | Template:Goca | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 1 | +35 |
| Template:Flagicon 2016 | Winners | Template:Goca | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 |
| Template:Flagicon 2019 | Winners | Template:Goca | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | +17 |
| Template:Flagicon 2022 | Semi-final | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | +8 | |
| Total | 6/6 | 5 Titles | 27 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 150 | 10 | +140 |
South Asian Games
India has won the South Asian Games three times.
| South Asian Games record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr | Template:Abbr |
| Template:Flagicon 2010 | Winners | Template:Goca | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 | +27 |
| Template:Flagicon 2016 | Winners | Template:Goca | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 1 | +13 |
| Template:Flagicon 2019 | Winners | Template:Goca | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | +14 |
| Total | 3/3 | 3 Titles | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 57 | 3 | +54 |
Red border indicates, India had hosted the games.
Other tournaments
- 2019 : 3rd Place
- 2021: 4th place
FIFA World Ranking
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| Rank | Year | Games Played |
Won | Lost | Drawn | Best | Worst | ||
| Rank | Move | Rank | Move | ||||||
| 59 | 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 59 | Template:Steady 0 | 59 | Template:Steady 0 |
| 55 | 2021 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 55 | Template:Increase 2 | 57 | Template:Decrease 4 |
| 53 | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | Template:Increase 2 | 55 | Template:Increase 2 |
| 57 | 2019 | 27 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 57 | Template:Increase 6 | 63 | Template:Decrease 1 |
See also
- Women's youth teams
- Sport in India
- Miscellaneous
References
- ↑ India's first women's football national team coach Sushil Bhattacharya passed away. Sportskeeda(21 July 2015). Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ A World Cup Dream Revives India's Women's Soccer Team. NY Times(2010-01-28). Retrieved 2012-11-07.
- ↑ How women's football in India lost its way(28 July 2017). Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- ↑ Gender and sport in India: aspects of women's football by Arunava Chaudhuri (english). indien-netzwerk.de. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ↑ Indian Football: This One Is for the Ladies. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ↑ India Women's International Matches. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ↑ A World Cup Dream Revives India's Women's Team. The New York Times(29 January 2010). Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ↑ AIFF Wants A Fresh Start For Women's National Team. Goal(28 June 2009). Retrieved 31 July 2012.
- ↑ Clubs are showing interest in women's football: Kushal Das. Indian Sports News(17 December 2014). Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ The COTIF lives the presentation of its 35th anniversary. Cotifalcudia(19 July 2018). Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ↑ Indian Women enter Olympic Qualifiers second round for the first time ever despite fighting loss to Myanmar(13 November 2018). Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ↑ CLEARING ROUND 1 OF OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS OUR BIGGEST FEAT SO FAR: WOMEN'S TEAM COACH MAYMOL ROCKY. AIFF. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ↑ Indian women's football team to play friendlies against Hong Kong and Indonesia. Times of India(16 January 2019).
- ↑ India women's football team beat Indonesia 2-0 - Sports News. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ↑ With Iran in hindsight, Indian Women gear up for Nepal. AIFF. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- ↑ Nepal rides on Sabitra's early braces to breeze past India. AIFF. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- ↑ Myanmar completes 2-goals Victory over India. AIFF. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- ↑ 34 players selected for Blue Tigresses' camp in Bhubaneswar(24 July 2023). Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ↑ How Amma organised India's first international women's football tournament, the Gold Cup in 1994. Scroll.in(7 December 2016). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ↑ AIFF names probables for Asian Games. The Tribune(12 October 1998). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ↑ News for the month of November 1999. indianfootball.de(5 November 1999). Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ↑ News for the month of December 2001. indianfootball.de(1 December 2001). Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ↑ FIFA WWC 2003 Prel. Comp. AFC. FIFA. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ↑ Harjinder Singh has been named chief coach.. indianfootball.de(10 September 2005). Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ↑ AFC Women's Asian Cup 2008 Qualifiers India vs Iran. AFC. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ↑ Thomas Dennerby names 22-member squad for 19th Asian Games Women's Football Competition. the-aiff.com(27 August 2023). Retrieved 30 August 2023.
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- ↑ Mother, daughter team up to bring football glory. The Hindustan Times(24 August 2014). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ↑ Smart planning needed to outwit India's mightier group opponents in U-17 Women's World Cup, say former stars, Mukherjee, Sayan. News9Live(27 June 2022). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ↑ Grit, craze, equality: Why Manipur dominates the Indian team at Women's Asian Cup, Kalita, Parashar. The Bridge(7 February 2022). Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ↑ India to face Korea on Sunday. The Times of India(24 February 2007). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ↑ SAFF Championships: Indian Women Complete Record Hattrick of Football Title. newschoupal.com(21 November 2014). Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ↑ The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking – Associations – India – Women's. FIFA. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
Further reading
- Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Penguin Random House(2017). ISBN 978-0-143-42641-7
- Football: From England to the World: The Many Lives of Indian Football{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Routledge(2009). ISBN 978-1-138-88353-6
- Taylor & Francis: Soccer and Society (2005). The gendered kick: Women's soccer in twentieth century India, Soccer & Society, 6:2–3, 270–284, DOI: 10.1080/14660970500106469.
- Triumphs and Disasters: The Story of Indian Football, 1889—2000.. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- A Social History Of Indian Football: Striving To Score{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Routledge(2006). ISBN 9780415348355
External links
- Official website the-AIFF.com Template:In lang
- Profile at FIFA.com Template:In lang
- India women's national football team picture at Hindustan Times
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