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Association	All India Football Federation
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation	SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach	Maymol Rocky
Captain	Ashalata Devi[1]
Most caps	Oinam Bembem Devi (85)
Top scorer	Sasmita Malik (40)
FIFA code	IND
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	62 3 (7 December 2018)[2]
Highest	49[3](December 2013)
Lowest	92[3](September 2009)
First international
India 5–0 Singapore  (Hong Kong; 7 June 1981)
Biggest win
India 18–0 Bhutan  (Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; 13 December 2010)
Biggest defeat
China PR 16–0 India  (Bangkok, Thailand; 11 December 1998)
AFC Women's Asian Cup
Appearances	8 (first in 1979)
Best result	Runners-up (1979 and 1983)

The India women's national football team is controlled by the All India Football Federation and represents India in women's international football competitions. The women's team resumed playing on 7 September 2012 after nearly a year-long hiatus.^[4] Under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and governed in Asia by the AFC, the team is also part of the South Asian Football Federation. The team was one of the best teams in Asia in the mid 70s to early 80s, when they become runners-up at 1980 and 1983 AFC Women's Asian Cup. Presently, the Indian team had won all the SAFF Women's Championship which commenced since 2010.

India yet to participate in the FIFA Women's World Cup and Olympic Games and failed to participate in the last 5 Asian Cup since 2003 at Thailand, as their last participation. Present ranking of the team according to FIFA Women's World Rankings is 60 and 13th among the Asian countries.

History

1970-2009 Rise and Fall

Football for women started lately in Asia with compared to the male counterparts. The seed of women’s football in India was planted almost forty years ago in the early 1970s. The first manager was Sushil Bhattacharya, in 1975^[5][6] and from 1975 till 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 (Asian Football Confederation). 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 other unofficial tournaments seen very few teams to participate and thus the 1980 Calicut edition of Asian Championship featured two Indian teams (India N & India S), Western Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia.^[7] India did well enough in all these unofficial tournaments under Sushil Bhattacharya and India S become runners-up at Calicut. In the next edition of 1981 India achieved third position, defeated by Thailand and again 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 and failing to promote the games at all level in every state of India. The game was administered by WFFI from 1975 until the early 1990s, when they were absorbed into the AIFF as despite their impressive display at the Asian level, women’s football in India went into the state of gloom by the end of the eighties due to the previous federation failure of promoting the women's football to the level it had deserved.^[8]

But the AIFF too did very less to lift the women's football from their meager condition. It was the time when FIFA conceptualised 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 but they never backed up their words with actions. AIFF was treating women’s football as an extra burden was a fact which was hidden from no one but it became evident when they 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 but came out to be nightmare as they defeated by Chinese Taipei with a score line of 1-13 in the second match and again on the 3rd match they faced the biggest defeat in the history by China PR with an embarrassing scoreline of 0-16.

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.^[10] From 1991 to 2010 the performance of the Indian team was very poor, participating in just 5 editions of Asian Championships, 2003 as their last participation in which they faced a repeated embarrassing defeat with 0-12 scoreline from China PR. FIFA Women's World Cup and Olympics participation is yet be a reality for the Indian team.

2010-Present

After 2009 sanction by FIFA, the AIFF started to put their minds in place 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. Indian team earn massive success in SAFF competitions. Winning the SAFF Women's Championship four times in row without losing a single game. Additionally they won two gold medals at South Asian Games.

On 17 December 2014, AIFF Secretary Kushal Das stated that the goal for women's football from 2014 to 2017 was to increase the ranking of the India senior team to the top 40s and the top 8 in Asia, start a professional women's league by 2015, and to qualify for both the U19 and U16 versions of the AFC championships.^[11] which is now far from reality as India is 60th by FIFA World Rankings and 13th among the Asian countries and yet to qualify for AFC Women's Asian Cup since 2003, FIFA Women's World Cup and Olympic Games.

They participated in the qualifiers for the 2012 Olympics in March 2011. In their first match they beat rivals and group hosts Bangladesh 3–0. In the second round India Women played Uzbekistan where they tied the first match 1–1 but lost the second leg 1–5 and were officially knocked out. Again for Rio 2016 Olympics they participated in the AFC qualifiers, first match was a win defeating Sri Lanka with score 4-1 then shocking defeat from Myanmar with a score line 0-7 which led the way out from the qualifiers.

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, but a similar fate of Maldives was faced by them in the next two matches where they were defeated by both South Korea and Thailand with the same score of 0-10.

Recently, 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.^[12] 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.

Team officials and coaching staff

As of September 2018^[13]

Team Management Table

Name	Position
Maymol Rocky	Head Coach
Chaoba Devi Langam	Assistant Coach
Lourembam Ronibala Chanu	Goalkeeping Coach
Priyanka Bodkhe	Physiotherapist

Players

Current squad

As of 13 November 2018

The following 20 players were called up for the 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournament going to hold at Myanmar.^[14][13].mw-parser-output .nat-fs-player th{background-color:inherit;border:0}.mw-parser-output .nat-fs-player td{text-align:center;border:0}

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Aditi Chauhan	20 November 1992 (age 24)	12	0	India Rush S.C.
13	1GK	Maibam Linthoingambi Devi		0	0	Eastern Sporting Union
20	1GK	Elangbam Panthoi Chanu	(1996-12-23) 23 December 1996 (age 21)	5	0	Eastern Sporting Union
2	2DF	Nganbam Sweety Devi	(1998-01-01) 1 January 1998 (age 20)	5	0	Eastern Sporting Union
3	2DF	Manisha Panna	(1991-04-20) 20 April 1991 (age 27)	16	1	Eastern Sporting Union
4	2DF	Loitongbam Ashalata Devi (Captain)	(1993-07-03) 3 July 1993 (age 25)	37	3	KRYPHSA F.C.
5	2DF	Jabamani Tudu	(2001-04-10) 10 April 2001 (age 17)	3	0	Rising Student Club
17	2DF	Dalima Chhibber	(1997-08-20) 20 August 1997 (age 21)	12	0	India Rush S.C.
16	2DF	Pyari Xaxa	(1997-05-18) May 18, 1997 (age 21)	6	2	Rising Student Club
6	3MF	Sangita Basfore	(1997-05-18) 18 May 1997 (age 21)	7	0	Rising Student Club
8	3MF	Sanju Yadav	(1997-12-09) 9 December 1997 (age 21)	10	3	Rising Student Club
12	3MF	Indumathi Kathiresan		11	8	Indira Gandhi AS&E
14	3MF	Sorokhaibam Ranjana Chanu		0	0	KRYPHSA F.C.
18	3MF	Kshetrimayum Margaret Devi		0	0
7	4FW	Nongmaithem Ratanbala Devi		6	2	KRYPHSA F.C.
9	4FW	Yumnam Kamala Devi	(1992-03-04) 4 March 1992 (age 26)	34	29	Eastern Sporting Union
10	4FW	Ngangom Bala Devi	(1990-02-02) 2 February 1990 (age 28)	44	36	KRYPHSA F.C.
11	4FW	Dangmei Grace	(1996-02-05) 5 February 1996 (age 22)	15	4	KRYPHSA F.C.
15	4FW	Anju Tamang	(1995-12-22) 22 December 1995 (age 22)	6	0	Rising Student Club
19	4FW	Sandhiya Ranganathan		1	1	Indira Gandhi AS&E

Recent call-ups

The following players were also named to the Indian squad in the latest tournaments and friendlies .

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Okram Roshini Devi	(1994-02-08) 8 February 1994 (age 24)	7	0	KRYPHSA F.C.	2018 Cotif Cup
DF	Purnima Linda		0	0		2020 Olympic QPRE
DF	W. Linthoingambi Devi		0	0	KRYPHSA F.C.	2020 Olympic QPRE
DF	W. Ranjibala Devi		0	0	Eastern Sporting Union	2020 Olympic QPRE
DF	Thokchom Umapati Devi	(1994-03-10) 10 March 1994 (age 24)	12	1	Eastern Sporting Union	2018 Cotif Cup
DF	Gurumayum Radharani Devi	(1991-01-03) January 3, 1991 (age 27)	8	1	Eastern Sporting Union	2018 AFC Q
DF	Poonam Sharma		0	0	FC Pune City (women)	2018 AFC Q PRE
MF	Prameshwori Devi		13	9	Eastern Sporting Union	2018 Cotif Cup
MF	Moirangthem Mandakini Devi	(1991-03-01) 1 March 1991 (age 27)	10	7	Eastern Sporting Union	2018 Cotif Cup
MF	Sasmita Malik	(1989-05-08) May 8, 1989 (age 29)	35	40	Rising Student Club	2018 AFC Q
MF	Lochana Munda	(1989-04-10) April 10, 1989 (age 29)	0	0	Rising Student Club	2018 AFC QPRE
MF	Ngoubi Devi		0	0	Rising Student Club	2018 AFC QPRE
MF	Yumlembem Premi Devi	(1993-12-06) December 6, 1993 (age 25)	16	2	Eastern Sporting Union	v.  Malaysia; July 31, 2017
FW	Jyoti Chauhan		0	0		2020 Olympic QPRE
FW	Michael Margaret Constanha	(1995-12-24) December 24, 1995 (age 22)	3	0	FC Pune City (women)	2018 AFC Q
FW	Kashmina	(1995-03-03) March 3, 1995 (age 23)	0	0	Eastern Sporting Union	2018 AFC QPRE
INJ = Withdrew from this squad due to injury SUS = Serving suspension PRE = Preliminary squad / standby RET = Retired from international football

Past Squads

Asian Games squads

• 2014 Asian Games Squad


• 1998 Asian Games Squad

Head coaches

As of 13 November 2018

Name	Years	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	Win %
Sushil Bhattacharya	1975–	35	16	3	16	45.71%
Harjinder Singh	2005[15] –2010	9	2	0	7	22.22%
Mohammad Shahid Jabbar	2010–2013	21	19	1	1	90.47%
Anadi Barua	2013–14	5	2	1	1	40%
Tarun Roy	2014–15	8	6	0	2	75%
Sajid Dar	2015-17	14	7	3	6	50%
Maymol Rocky	2017–	5	3	1	1	60%
Totals		97	55	9	34	56.70%

Results and fixtures

For all past match results of the national team, see the team's results page.

  Win
  Draw
  Loss

2018

UD Alzira v  India

31 July 2018 Friendly	UD Alzira	1–3	India	Valencia, Spain
	60'	Report	19' Bala Devi  51' Dangmei Grace  56' Kamala Devi Yumnam

Fundación Albacete v  India

1 August 2018 Cotif Cup 2018	Fundación Albacete	4–1	India	Valencia, Spain
19:00 CEST	Alba Redondo 30' Leles 42' Miriam Costa 53' Tomo Matsukawa 70'	Report	Kamala Devi Yumnam  19' (pen.)	Stadium: Estadi municipal Els Arcs de L'alcúdia Attendance: 2,000 Referee: José L M Montero FIFA (Spain)

India  v Levante UD

3 August 2018 Cotif Cup 2018	India	0–5	Levante UD	Valencia, Spain
19:00 CEST		Report	Nerea Pérez Machado 25' Jéssica Silva 27', 37' María Alharilla  52' (pen.) Sonia Bermúdez 58'	Stadium: Estadi municipal Els Arcs de L'alcúdia Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Guillermo Cuadra(Spain)

India  v  Morocco

5 August 2018 Cotif Cup 2018	India	1–5	Morocco	Valencia, Spain
17:45 CEST	Sandhiya  42'	Report	Ghizlane Chebbak  49' (pen.) Najat  51', 56' Ibtissam  70' (pen.) Aziza 93'	Stadium: Estadi municipal Els Arcs de L'alcúdia Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos BengoetseaFIFA (Spain)

Madrid CFF v  India

6 August 2018 Cotif Cup 2018	Madrid CFF	1–0	India	Valencia, Spain
19:30 CEST	Alba Mellado  70' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Estadi municipal Els Arcs de L'alcúdia Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Eduardo Prieto Iglesias (Spain)

India  v    Nepal

8 November 2018 2020 Olympics Q	India	1–1	Nepal	Yangon, Myanmar
14:00 IST	Kamala Devi  37'	FIFA AFC	Niru Thapa  11'	Stadium: Thuwunna Stadium Attendance: 150 Referee: Lee Yi-Chi (Taiwan)

Bangladesh  v  India

11 November 2018 2020 Olympics Q	Bangladesh	1–7	India	Yangon, Myanmar
14:00 IST	Krishna Rani  81'	FIFA AFC	Kamala Devi  16' (pen.), 53' Bala Devi  22', 23', 62', 75' Sanju  73'	Stadium: Thuwunna Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Mi Siyu (China)

Myanmar  v  India

13 November 2018 2020 Olympics Q	Myanmar	2–1	India	Yangon, Myanmar
17:00 IST	Win Theingi Tun  3' Nge Nge Htwe  83'	FIFA AFC	Ratanbala Devi	Stadium: Thuwunna Stadium Attendance: 1698 Referee: Ri Hyang-ok (DPR Korea)

2019

India  v  Maldives

13 March 2019 SAFF W	India	v	Maldives	Sahid Rangsala, Nepal
15:00 UTC+05:45				Stadium: Sahid Rangsala Stadium

Sri Lanka  v  India

17 March 2019 SAFF W	Sri Lanka	v	India	Sahid Rangsala, Nepal
15:00 UTC+05:45				Stadium: Sahid Rangsala Stadium

FIFA Women's World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Host/Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter
1995
1999	Did Not Qualify
2003
2007
2011	Did Not Enter
2015	Did Not Qualify
2019
Total	0/8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Asian competitions record

AFC Women's Asian Cup

AFC Women's Asian Cup record Host/Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA GD 1975 Did Not Enter 1977 1979 Runners Up 2nd 7 4 2 1 8 3 +5 1981 Third Place 3rd 5 3 1 1 15 1 +14 1983 Runners Up 2nd 6 4 0 2 11 5 +6 1986 Did Not Enter 1989 1991 1993 1995 Group Stage 10th 3 0 0 3 3 12 −9 1997 Group Stage 5th 3 2 0 1 13 1 +12 1999 Group Stage 11th 4 1 0 3 3 12 −9 2001 Group Stage 9th 4 1 0 3 3 13 −10 2003 Group Stage 9th 3 1 0 2 7 14 −7 2006 Did Not Qualify 2008 2010 Did Not Enter 2014 Did Not Qualify 2018 Total 8/18 0 Titles 35 16 3 16 63 61 2 AFC Women's Asia Cup History Year Round Score Result 1979 Round 1 India S  2–0  Western Australia Won India S  2−0  Hong Kong Won India S  0–0  Chinese Taipei Draw India S  1–0  India N Won India S  0–0  Malaysia Draw Semi-final India S  3–1  Hong Kong Won Final India S  0–2  Chinese Taipei Loss

AFC Women's Asia Cup History Year Round Score Result 1981 Round 1 India  5–0  Singapore Won India  8–0  Philippines Won India  0–0  Hong Kong Draw Semi-final India  0–1  Thailand Loss 3rd Place India  2–0  Hong Kong Won 1983 Round 1 India  5–0  Philippines Won India  1–0  Hong Kong Won India  3–0  Malaysia Won India  1–2  Thailand Loss India  1–0  Singapore Won Final India  0–2  Thailand Loss 1995 Round 1 India  0–1  Uzbekistan Loss India  0–6  Japan Loss India  0–5  South Korea Loss 1997 Round 1 India  3–0  Hong Kong Won India  0–1  Japan Loss India  10–0  Guam Won 1999 Round 1 India  0–7  North Korea Loss India  3–0  Malaysia Won India  0–3  Vietnam Loss India  0–3  Chinese Taipei Loss 2001 Round 1 India  0–7  South Korea Loss India  0–5  Chinese Taipei Loss India  0–1  Thailand Loss India  3–0  Malaysia Won 2003 Round 1 India  6–0  Uzbekistan Won India  0–12  China PR Loss India  1–2  Vietnam Loss

*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

Asian Games record Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA GD 1990 DNP 1994 1998 Group stage 8th 3 0 0 3 1 36 -35 2002 DNP 2006 2010 2014 Group stage 9th 3 1 0 2 15 20 -5 2018 DNP Total 2/7 0 Titles 6 1 0 5 16 56 -40

Asian Games History Year Round Score Result 1998 Round 1 India  0–7  South Korea Loss India  1–13  Chinese Taipei Loss India  0–16  China PR Loss 2014 Round 1 India  15–0  Maldives Won India  0–10  South Korea Loss India  0–10  Thailand Loss

• DNP: did not participate


• DNQ: did not qualified

Bold Positions show best finish in the tournaments.

South Asian Football Federation record

SAFF Women's Championship

India has won the SAFF Women's Championship four times in a row.^[16]

SAFF Women's Championship
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
2010	Winners		5	5	0	0	40	0	40
2012	Winners		5	5	0	0	33	1	32
2014	Winners		5	5	0	0	36	1	35
2016	Winners		4	3	1	0	11	3	8
Total	4/4		19	18	1	0	120	5	115

South Asian Games

India has won the South Asian Games two times.

South Asian Games
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
2010	Winners		5	5	0	0	29	2	27
2016	Winners		5	3	2	0	14	1	13
Total	2/2	2 Titles	10	8	2	0	43	3	40

See also

References

External links

• Official website


• FIFA profile