Sub–Junior Girl's National Football Championship Explained

Sub–Junior Girl's National Football Championship
Region:India
Number Of Teams:29
Current Champions:Manipur (6th title)
Most Successful Team:Manipur
(6 titles)

The Sub–Junior Girl's National Football Championship[1] is an Indian football girls tournament held for under 17 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 2003 with the first edition held at Ooty in Tamil Nadu.[1]

The latest edition held in 2019 at Cuttack was won by Jharkhand.[2] [3] [4]

Championship structure

The NFC structure was converted into a two tiered championship format from the 2023–24 season. The state associations are eligible to participate in the championship through the two tiers of the competition played across the country.

Sub–Junior Girl's National Football Championship
TierDivision
ISub Junior Girl's NFC Tier I
IISub Junior Girl's NFC Tier 2

Results

The following is the list of winners and runners-up:[5]

SeasonHost Winner Score Runner-up
2003–04 Manipur 1–0 Orissa
2004–05 Manipur 4–0 Orissa
2006–07 Orissa 1–0 Manipur
2008–09 Manipur 2–0 Orissa
2009–10 Manipur 1–0 Orissa
2010–11 West Bengal 1–0 Orissa
2014–15 Mizoram 3–0 Haryana
2017–18 Chandigarh 3–1 Manipur
2018–19 Manipur 2–1 Odisha
2019–20 Jharkhand 4–0 Arunachal Pradesh
2020–23 Not held
2023–24 Jharkhand 7–1 West Bengal
2024–25 Manipur 7–5 Jharkhand

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hero Sub Junior Girl's NFC . 8 January 2022 . AIFF .
  2. Web site: Hero Sub-Junior Girls National Football Championship 2019-20, Jharkhand vs Arunachal Pradesh . 2021-12-30 .
  3. Web site: Women's football in Jharkhand – What are they doing right? . The Bridge . 25 February 2021 .
  4. Web site: How Jharkhand became the hotbed of women's football in India? . The Bridge . Mukherjee . Soham . 12 July 2020 .
  5. Web site: List of Winners/Runners-Up of the National Championships for Sub-Junior Women (under-17) . 8 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201022180101/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/sjwomennationals.html . 22 October 2020 .