Junior Girl's National Football Championship Explained

Junior Girl's National Football Championship
Region:India
Number Of Teams:27
Current Champions:Manipur (10th title)
Most Successful Team:Manipur
(10 titles)
Broadcasters:SportsKPI (YouTube)

The Junior Girl's National Football Championship,[1] is an Indian football girls tournament held for under 19 players. The competition is held every year between the teams representing state associations of India under AIFF. The tournament was instituted by the AIFF in 2001 with the first edition held at Goa.[1]

The 2019–20 edition held at Kolhapur was won by Himachal Pradesh.[2] [3] [4] The latest edition held in 2022 as a Junior (U-17) championship at Guwahati was won by Dadra and Nagar Haveli.[5]

Results

The following is the list of winners and runners-up:[6]

SeasonHost Winner Score Runner-up
2001–02 Goa 0–0 Manipur
2002–03 Manipur 8–0 Orissa
2003–04 Manipur 0–0, 1–0 West Bengal
2005–06 Manipur 1–1 Orissa
2006–07 Manipur 5–0 Tamil Nadu
2007–08 Manipur 1–0 Orissa
2008–09 Tamil Nadu 2–1 Orissa
2010–11 Manipur 6–1 Haryana
2011–12 West Bengal 1–0 Orissa
2013–14 Manipur 3–0 Odisha
2015–16 Manipur 5–0 Odisha
2017–18 Manipur 3–2 Odisha
2018–19 Tamil Nadu 4–1 Manipur
2019–20 Himachal Pradesh 3–1 Jharkhand
2022–23 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1–0 Bihar
2023–24 Manipur 1–0 Tamil Nadu

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hero Junior Girl's NFC . 8 January 2022 . AIFF .
  2. Web site: Hero Junior Girls National Football Championship 2019-20, Jharkhand vs Himachal Pradesh . 2021-12-30 .
  3. Web site: HIMACHAL PRADESH CLINCH HERO JUNIOR GIRLS' NFC TITLE AFTER 3-1 WIN OVER JHARKHAND . AIFF . Jain . Shraishth . 1 May 2019 .
  4. Web site: Bring the cup home - Himachal's fairytale win against Jharkhand . Sportstar . Vasudevan . Shyam . 3 May 2019 .
  5. Web site: Dadra & Nagar Haveli win Hero Junior (U-17) Women's National Football Championship 2022-23 . 4 July 2022 . AIFF .
  6. Web site: List of Winners/Runners-Up of the National Championships for Junior Women (under-19) . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201022180116/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/jwomennationals.html . 22 October 2020 .