India women's national under-20 football team explained

India Women's U-20
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Badge Size:140px
Fifa Trigramme:IND
Nickname:Blue Fillies
Association:All India Football Federation
Confederation:Asian Football Confederation (Asia)
Sub-Confederation:SAFF (South Asia)
Coach:Sukla Dutta
Captain:Martina Thokchom
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First Game: 0–4
(Goa, India; 19 April 2002)
Largest Win: 18–0
(Chonburi, Thailand; 24 October 2018)
Largest Loss: 18–0
(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 12 November 2008)
Regional Name:FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2Ndregional Name:Asian Cup
2Ndregional Cup Apps:3
2Ndregional Cup First:2002
2Ndregional Cup Best:Quarter final (2004)
3Rdregional Name:SAFF Championship
3Rdregional Cup Apps:5
3Rdregional Cup First:2018
3Rdregional Cup Best:Champions (2022, 2024)
Type:Women

The India women's national under-20 football team represents India in international women's under-20 football in the AFC U-19 Women's Championship and the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. It is controlled by the AIFF. They also participated in the 2021–22 Indian Women's League season, as Indian Arrows Women.

History

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

FIFA organised U20 women's world cup in 2002 for the first time, and for qualification from Asian teams, only the finalist from AFC U-19 Women's Championship is allowed to enter into the tournament, which was also the same criteria for the next edition and since 2006 the top three teams from AFC U19 championships would be allowed to enter into U20 world cup. India failed to qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as they failed to be finalist in any AFC U19 Championships till 2017 edition.[1] [2]

AFC U-19 Women's Championship

The AFC U-19 Women's Championship serves as a qualifying competition for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. For first three edition from 2002, it had been organised on every even years, and in all those three championships India participated. After 2006 Championship, it had been organised on every odd years since 2007 and coincidentally India failed to qualify for the Championships since then.

India hosted the inaugural AFC U-19 Women's Championship in 2002.[3] India U-19 failed to advance beyond group stage, finishing third in group. Indian girls lost to eventual champions Japan by 9−0 and South Korea by 4−0, only had a win against Guam by 6−0 but did not help much to move forward.

In next edition of championship held in China, India done well to reach quarter finals, winning against Hong Kong by 2−1, Singapore by 1−0 and a loss against Chinese Tapei by 0−3, and reaching the quarter final, their FIFA U20 Worldcup dream was shattered as was knocked out by North Korea by 0−10.[4]

For 2006 edition the qualification round started for AFC U19 Women's Championship, where India easily qualified, defeating Kyrgyzstan by 7−0 and Bangladesh by 9−0 which was their biggest win that time. 2006 AFC U-19 Women's Championship saw India finishing bottom of group, consisting of Asian heavyweights South Korea, North Korea and Japan, defeated by all these three team by huge goal difference of 11−0, 14−0 and 6−0 respectively. That's the last time India made it into the group stage of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship.[5]

At the 2007 qualification India lost two games in the group stage against Myanmar by 1−2 and Thailand by 1−5 which cost the AFC Championships for the first time in 2007 edition.[6] Similar fate was in 2009 qualification tournament which was worse than before as India lost all the group matches and the worst performance came against Australia, where the Australian girls defeated the Indian by a huge 18−0, thus their biggest defeat till now.[7] Next four edition, the girls seen similar scenario with zero luck to enter in the championships. For 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship India faced Pakistan, Nepal and Thailand in round 1 at the 2019 Championship qualification where they won two match defeating Pakistan by 18−0 which is their biggest win till now[8] and host Thailand by 1−0 and a defeat by Nepal with 0−2,[9] but India failed to move to round 2 courtesy of their head-to-head result against Nepal. While Thailand, Nepal and India finished on three points, the goal difference between just these three teams were counted, which left Thailand at the top with a +2 goal difference, while India and Nepal were tied at -1, due to this, the head-to-head result between India and Nepal came into play again, and Nepal go through and India left behind.[10]

SAFF U-18 Women's Championship

2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, at Bhutan, is the inaugural edition of the SAFF U18 championships being organised by SAFF on every even years to align with the AFC U19 Championships and FIFA U20 Worldcup. It's a preparatory tournament for the South Asian teams for AFC U19 championship qualification round. India thrashed host Bhutan and Maldives by 4−0[11] and 8−0[12] respectively in the group matches, reaching to the semi-finals they lost to Nepal through penalty shoot-out by 1−3 as the full-time ended in a 1−1 tie,[13] thus their dream of first SAFF u18 champion ended here but they won the third place in the tournament by defeating Bhutan again by a solitary goal.[14]

SAFF U-19 Women's Championship

The 2024 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship is the fifth edition of the SAFF U-18/19/20 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under–19 national teams organized by SAFF. On 07 February 2024, India beat Nepal 4–0 to enter SAFF U-19 Women's Championships final and shared the title in the final with Bangladesh.[15] [16]

Results and fixtures

For past match results of the under-20 team, see the results in Indian football seasons.

Matches in the last 12 months, and future scheduled matches

Legend

India U-19 fixtures

2024

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

PositionName
Head coach Sukla Dutta
Assistant coach Sradhanjali Samantaray
GK Coach Lourembam Ronibala Chanu
Team Manager Nirali Thakkar

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were called for the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification.[17]

Recent call-ups

Competitive record

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

India has never qualified for the under-20 women's world cup, but had come close to qualify in 2004 where they needed to qualify for finals but ended up getting knocked out in quarterfinals.[18]

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup record
Host/YearResultPosition
2002 to
2024
Did not qualify
2026To be determined
Total0/120000000

AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

India was the first nation to host AFC U-20 women's championship. In that edition, they failed to progress to the knockouts stage as they finished below South Korea and Japan. However, in the next edition India qualified for the quarterfinals, but were thrashed 10–0 by North Korea. In the next edition, which was also the last time they played this tournament, India suffered massive defeats as they finished bottom of their group of four teams with -31 as goal difference.[19]

AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup record
Host/YearResultPosition
Group Stage 7th3102613-7
QuarterFinal8th4202314-11
Group Stage 7th3003031-31
Did not qualify
Total 3/1110 3 0 7 9 58 -49
AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup History
YearRoundScoreResult
2002Round 1 0–4 Loss
6−0 Won
0–9 Loss
2004Round 1 2–1 Won
1–0 Won
0–3 Loss
Quarter-final 0–10 Loss
2006Round 1 0–11 Loss
0−14 Loss
0–6 Loss

SAFF U-18/U-19/U-20 Women's Championship

SAFF U-18/U-19/U-20 Women's Championship record
Host/YearResultPosition
Semi-final 3rd 4 3 0 1 14 1 +13
Runners-up 2nd 5 3 0 2 9 2 +7
Winners 1st 4 3 0 1 13 2 +11
Group stage 3rd 3 1 1 1 13 3 +10
Winners 1st 4 2 1 1 15 2 +13
Total 5/5 2 Titles 20 12 2 6 64 10 +54

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Asian Women u19 2006. 17 February 2024.
  2. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2004. 17 February 2024.
  3. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2002. 5 October 2022.
  4. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2004. 5 October 2022.
  5. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2006. 5 October 2022.
  6. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2007. 5 October 2022.
  7. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2009. 5 October 2022.
  8. Web site: India bs pakistan 2019 AFC qualification . the-aiff.com . AIFF . 29 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191207204958/https://the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9281 . 7 December 2019 . dead .
  9. Web site: NEPAL BEAT INDIA 2-0 IN AFC U-19 WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS . the-aiff.com . AIFF . 29 October 2018.
  10. Web site: INDIA UPSET THAILAND 1-0 IN AFC U-19 WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS . the-aiff.com . AIFF . 29 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191207204959/https://the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9292 . 7 December 2019 . dead .
  11. Web site: INDIA ROUT BHUTAN 4-0 IN SAFF U-18 WOMEN'S U-18 CHAMPIONSHIP OPENER . the-aiff.com . AIFF . 10 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191207205000/https://the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9235 . 7 December 2019 . dead .
  12. Web site: INDIA THRASH MALDIVES 8-0 TO BOOK SPOT IN SAFF U-18 WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINAL . the-aiff.com . AIFF . 10 October 2018.
  13. Web site: INDIA LOSE TO NEPAL IN SAFF U-18 WOMEN'S C'SHIP SEMIFINAL AFTER HEARTBREAKING PENALTY SHOOTOUT . the-aiff.com/ . AIFF . 10 October 2018.
  14. Web site: INDIA U-18s DEFEAT BHUTAN TO FINISH THIRD IN SAFF CHAMPIONSHIP . the-aiff.com . AIFF . 10 October 2018.
  15. Web site: Pti . 2024-02-07 . www.ptinews.com.
  16. Web site: PTI . SAFF U-19 Women's final: India face gritty Bangladesh in summit clash . 2024-02-07 . Deccan Herald . en.
  17. Web site: Maymol Rocky announces squad for AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualifiers. AIFF . 2 March 2023 .
  18. Web site: Asian Women U-19 Championship 2004. 17 February 2024.
  19. Web site: Asian Women u19 2006. 17 February 2024.