India women's national football team

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see India national football team.

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.

India

Nickname(s)	The Blue Tigresses
Association	All India Football Federation (AIFF)
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation	SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach	Thomas Dennerby
Captain	Ashalata Devi
Most caps	Ashalata Devi (86)
Top scorer	Bala Devi (52)^[1]^[2]
FIFA code	IND
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	61 1 (25 August 2023)^[3]
Highest	49^[4] (December 2013)
Lowest	63^[4] (March 2019)
First international
As India S  India S 2–0  Hong Kong (Calicut, India; 12 January 1980) As India  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 16–0 India  (Bangkok, Thailand; 11 December 1998)
Women's Asian Cup
Appearances	9 (first in 1980)
Best result	Runners-up (1980 and 1983)
SAFF Women's Championship
Appearances	6 (first in 2010)
Best result	Champions (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019)
Medal record Women's Asian Cup 1980 India 1983 Thailand 1981 Hong Kong SAFF Women's Championship 2010 Bangladesh 2012 Sri Lanka 2014 Pakistan 2016 India 2019 Nepal South Asian Games 2010 Dhaka Team 2016 Guwahati & Shillong Team 2019 Kathmandu & Pokhara Team

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^[5][6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8]

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.^[9]

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.^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12] 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.^[13]

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.^[14] 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.^[15][16]

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.^[17][18] 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.^[19][20][21]

Results and fixtures

Main articles: Indian women's national football team results (2020–present) and India women's national football team results

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Void or postponed   Fixtures

2023

India   v     Nepal

15 February Friendly	India	2–2	Nepal	Chennai, India
19:30 UTC+5:30	Guguloth   56' Indumathi   68'	Report	Bhandari   90' (pen.), 90+2'	Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Alamgir Sarker (Bangladesh)

India   v     Nepal

18 February Friendly	India	0–0	Nepal	Chennai, India
19:30 UTC+5:30		Report		Stadium: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Referee: Alamgir Sarker (Bangladesh)

Jordan   v   India

19 March Friendly	Jordan	2–1	India	Amman, Jordan
18:30 UTC+5:30	Jbarah   8' Al-Jamaeen   12'	Report	Renu   74'	Stadium: Petra Stadium

Jordan   v   India

22 March Friendly	Jordan	0–0	India	Amman, Jordan
18:30 UTC+5:30		Report		Stadium: Petra Stadium

Uzbekistan   v   India

28 March Friendly	Uzbekistan	3–2	India	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
17:30 UTC+5:30	Khabibullaeva   7' Karachik   23' Zaripova   90+2'	Report	Dangmei   22' Indumathi   61'	Stadium: Pakhtakor Central Stadium

Kyrgyzstan   v   India

4 April 2023 (2023-04-04) 2024 Olympic Qualifiers Round 1	Kyrgyzstan	0–5	India	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
20:00 UTC+6		Report	Tamang   6', 42' Guguloth   45+3' Shilky Devi   61' Renu   63'	Stadium: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium Attendance: 354 Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

India   v   Kyrgyzstan

7 April 2023 (2023-04-07) 2024 Olympic Qualifiers Round 1	India	4–0	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
20:00 UTC+6	Sandhiya   18', 56' Tamang   24' Renu   85'	Report		Stadium: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium Referee: Kim Yu-jeong (South Korea)

Chinese Taipei   v   India

21 September 2023 (2023-09-21) 2022 Asian Games	Chinese Taipei	2–1	India	Wenzhou, China
17:00 UTC+5:30	Li-chin   68' Yu-hsuan   84'		Tamang   46'	Stadium: Wenzhou Olympic Stadium Attendance: 5,681 Referee: Casey Reibelt (Australia)

India   v   Thailand

24 September 2023 (2023-09-24) 2022 Asian Games	India	0–1	Thailand	Wenzhou, China
13:30 UTC+5:30			Thongrong   51'	Stadium: Wenzhou Olympic Stadium Attendance: 16,047 Referee: Le Thi Ly (Vietnam)

Japan   v   India

26 October 2023 2024 Olympic Q 2R	Japan	7–0	India	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:30 UTC+5:30	Nakashima   17', 46' Hayashi   53' Tanaka   54' Moriya   56' Seike   73' Naomoto   81'	Report		Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Yang Shu-ting (Chinese Taipei)

India   v   Vietnam

29 October 2023 2024 Olympic Q 2R	India	1–3	Vietnam	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:30 UTC+5:30	R. Sandhiya   80'	Report	Huỳnh Như   4' Trần Thị   22' Phạm Hải Yến   73'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

Uzbekistan   v   India

1 November 2023 2024 Olympic Q 2R	Uzbekistan	3–0	India	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
17:30 UTC+5:30	Kudratova   2' Karachik   51', 83'	Report		Stadium: Bunyodkor Stadium Referee: Veronika Bernatskaya (Kyrgyz Republic)

• Official Fixtures and Results – The-AIFF.com

Coaching staff

As of 24 July 2023^[22]

Position	Name
Head coach	Thomas Dennerby
Assistant coach	Maymol Rocky
Goalkeeping coach	Lourembam Ronibala Chanu
Team manager	Nirali Thakkar
Video analyst	Anand Vardhan
Doctor	Shikha Dhaundiyal
Physiotherapist	Sadhvi Koyande
Masseuse	Kajol Kamble
Media officer	Akhil Rawat

Manager history

As of 1 November 2023, after the match against   Uzbekistan.

Name	Years	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Win %
Sushil Bhattacharya	1975	–	–	–	–	–
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
I. Arumainayagam^[23]	1994	3	0	0	3	0
unknown	1995	3	0	0	3	0
unknown	1997	3	2	0	1	66.67
S. Arumainayagam^[24]	1998	3	0	0	3	0
Harjinder Singh^[25]	1999	4	1	0	3	25
P. K. Kabui^[26]	2001	4	1	0	3	25
Moirangthem Ratankumar Singh^[27]	2003	5	1	0	4	20
Harjinder Singh^[28]	2005−07	7	1	0	6	14.29
Sapam Premkanta Singh^[29]	2007	2	1	0	1	50
Mohammad Shahid Jabbar	2009–12	21	18	1	2	85.71
Anadi Barua	2013	5	2	1	2	40
Tarun Roy	2014	8	6	0	2	75
Sajid Dar	2015–17	15	8	3	4	53.33
Maymol Rocky	2017–21	33	18	5	10	54.55
Thomas Dennerby	2021–	21	7	3	11	33.33
Suren Chettri (interim)	2022	4	2	0	2	50
Total		160	79	16	65	49.38

Note: Only FIFA A matches considered.

Players

Current squad

The following 22 players were named for the 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifiers Round 2.^[30]

Caps and goals are correct as of 1 November 2023, after the match against   Uzbekistan.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Elangbam Panthoi Chanu	(1996-02-01) 1 February 1996 (age 27)	10	0	Eastern Sporting Union
20	1GK	Shreya Hooda	(1999-05-25) 25 May 1999 (age 24)	10	0	Odisha
21	1GK	Sowmiya Narayanasamy	(2000-07-25) 25 July 2000 (age 23)	3	0	Gokulam Kerala
4	2DF	Loitongbam Ashalata Devi (Captain)	(1993-07-03) 3 July 1993 (age 30)	86	4	Gokulam Kerala
2	2DF	Ngangbam Sweety Devi	(1999-12-01) 1 December 1999 (age 23)	57	1	Odisha
17	2DF	Dalima Chhibber	(1997-08-30) 30 August 1997 (age 26)	49	2	Kickstart
8	2DF	Sanju Yadav	(1997-09-12) 12 September 1997 (age 26)	47	11	Sethu
14	2DF	Sorokhaibam Ranjana Chanu	(1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 24)	31	3	Gokulam Kerala
3	2DF	Manisa Panna	(1991-04-20) 20 April 1991 (age 32)	32	1	Odisha
22	2DF	Ritu Rani	(1997-05-25) 25 May 1997 (age 26)	14	0	Mumbai Knights
19	2DF	Hemam Shilky Devi	(2005-11-23) 23 November 2005 (age 17)	9	1	Gokulam Kerala
5	2DF	Astam Oraon	(2005-02-05) 5 February 2005 (age 18)	4	0	Kickstart
12	3MF	Indumathi Kathiresan (Vice Captain)	(1994-06-05) 5 June 1994 (age 29)	54	15	Gokulam Kerala
9	3MF	Anju Tamang	(1995-12-22) 22 December 1995 (age 27)	53	13	Odisha
6	3MF	Sangita Basfore	(1996-07-12) 12 July 1996 (age 27)	50	3	SSB Women
18	3MF	Naorem Priyangka Devi	(2003-04-09) 9 April 2003 (age 20)	7	2	Sethu
10	4FW	Bala Devi	(1990-02-02) 2 February 1990 (age 33)	64	52	Odisha
11	4FW	Grace Dangmei	(1996-02-05) 5 February 1996 (age 27)	74	20	Gokulam Kerala
16	4FW	Manisha Kalyan	(2001-11-27) 27 November 2001 (age 21)	33	5	Apollon Limassol
13	4FW	Sandhiya Ranganathan	(1998-05-20) 20 May 1998 (age 25)	37	10	Gokulam Kerala
7	3MF	Soumya Guguloth	(2001-01-18) 18 January 2001 (age 22)	21	4	Gokulam Kerala
15	4FW	Renu Rani	(2001-01-16) 16 January 2001 (age 22)	22	4	HOPS

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.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Aditi Chauhan^INJ	(1992-11-20) 20 November 1992 (age 30)	57	0	Lords FA	v.     Nepal, 15 February 2023
GK	Maibam Linthoingambi Devi	(1999-02-02) 2 February 1999 (age 24)	9	0	Kickstart	NT camp, August 2023
GK	Anisha		0	0		NT camp, October 2023
DF	Juli Kishan	(2000-04-10) 10 April 2000 (age 23)	5	0	Odisha	NT camp, October 2023
DF	Michel Margaret Castanha	(1992-12-23) 23 December 1992 (age 30)	7	0	Gokulam Kerala	NT camp, August 2023
DF	Jabamani Tudu	(2000-04-10) 10 April 2000 (age 23)	26	1	East Coast Railway	NT camp, August 2023
DF	Thounaojam Kritina Devi	(2003-02-10) 10 February 2003 (age 20)	0	0	Gokulam Kerala	v.     Nepal, 18 February 2023
DF	Arifa Zaheer	(1998-02-17) 17 February 1998 (age 25)	0	0	Odisha	NT camp, August 2022
DF	Kowsalya S	(2001-08-19) 19 August 2001 (age 22)	0	0	Lords FA	2022 SAFF Women's Championship
MF	Jyoti Chouhan	(1999-07-06) 6 July 1999 (age 24)	1	0	Dinamo Zagreb	2022 Asian Games
MF	Kajol D'Souza	(2006-04-28) 28 April 2006 (age 17)	0	0	Sethu	NT camp, August 2023
MF	Asem Roja Devi	(2000-04-15) 15 April 2000 (age 23)	13	0	Gokulam Kerala	NT camp, August 2023
MF	Karthika Angamuthu	(2000-01-01) 1 January 2000 (age 23)	9	0	Odisha	NT camp, August 2023
MF	M. K. Kashmina	(1999-03-03) 3 March 1999 (age 24)	4	1	Dinamo Zagreb	v.   Uzbekistan, 28 March 2023
MF	Nongmaithem Ratanbala Devi	(1999-12-02) 2 December 1999 (age 23)	38	12	Gokulam Kerala	v.     Nepal, 18 February 2023
MF	Martina Thokchom	(2004-07-13) 13 July 2004 (age 19)	9	0	Gokulam Kerala	2022 SAFF Women's Championship
MF	Kaviya Pakkirisamy	(2002-12-23) 23 December 2002 (age 20)	0	0	Kickstart	NT camp, August 2022
MF	Aveka Singh	(2003-12-30) 30 December 2003 (age 19)	0	0	UC Irvine Anteaters	NT camp, October 2023
FW	Pyari Xaxa	(1997-05-18) 18 May 1997 (age 26)	20	7	Odisha	NT camp, October 2023
FW	Apurna Narzary	(2004-01-08) 8 January 2004 (age 19)	5	0	Sethu	NT camp, August 2023
FW	Neha	(2006-05-19) 19 May 2006 (age 17)	0	0	HOPS	NT camp, August 2023
FW	Sumati Kumari	(2004-01-15) 15 January 2004 (age 19)	2	0	Gokulam Kerala	NT camp, August 2023
FW	Karishma Shirvoikar	(2001-08-04) 4 August 2001 (age 22)	7	0	Mumbai Knights	NT camp, August 2023
FW	Dular Marandi	(1995-07-15) 15 July 1995 (age 28)	0	0	SSB	2022 SAFF Women's Championship
FW	Kiran Pisda	(2001-01-01) 1 January 2001 (age 22)	4	0	Dinamo Zagreb	2022 SAFF Women's Championship
^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.

Previous squads

AFC Women's Asian Cup squads 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup squad Asian Games squads 1998 Asian Games Squad 2014 Asian Games Squad 2022 Asian Games Squad

SAFF Women's Championship 2016 SAFF Women's Championship Squad South Asian Games 2016 South Asian Games Squad

Records

See also: Category:India women's international footballers

As of 8 April 2022

*Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.

Most capped players # Player Year(s) Caps Goals 1 Loitongbam Ashalata Devi 2011–present 86 4 2 Oinam Bembem Devi 1995–2016 85 32 3 Grace Dangmei 2013–present 74 0 4 Bala Devi 2007–present 64 52 5 Aditi Chauhan 2011–present 57 0 6 Ngangbam Sweety Devi 2018–present 57 1 7 Indumathi Kathiresan 2014–present 54 15 8 Anju Tamang 2016–present 53 13 9 Yumnam Kamala Devi 2011–2022 51 33 10 Sangita Basfore 2016–present 50 3

Top goalscorers Top 4 goalscorers # Player Year(s) Goals Caps 1 Bala Devi 2007–present 52^[1] 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

Tenure	Incumbent	Vice-captains	Notable Tournaments	Ref
1975–1978	Bharathi			^[31]
1978–1980	Chitra Gangadharan	Yolanda D'Souza	1980 AFC Women's Championship	^[32]
1981	Kuntala Ghosh Dastidar		1981 AFC Women's Championship 1981 Women's World Invitational Tournament	^[33]
1981–1983	Shanti Mullick		1983 AFC Women's Championship
1994–1997	unknown
1998–2001	Maria Rebello	Thongam Tababi Devi	1998 Asian Games, 2001 AFC Women's Championship
1999	Langam Chaoba Devi		1999 AFC Women's Championship	^[34]
2003–2016	Oinam Bembem Devi	Sradhanjali Samantaray, Sujata Kar, Sasmita Mallik, Tuli Goon, Ashem Romi Devi, Bala Devi	2003 AFC Women's Championship, 2010 SAFF Women's Championship, 2010 South Asian Games, 2012 SAFF Women's Championship, 2014 Asian Games, 2014 SAFF Women's Championship, 2016 South Asian Games
2005	Sradhanjali Samantaray
2007	Sujata Kar			^[35]
2011	Sasmita Mallik
2013	Tuli Goon
2016–2018	Bala Devi		2016 SAFF Women's Championship
2018–present	Loitongbam Ashalata Devi	Aditi Chauhan, Sangita Basfore, Indumathi Kathiresan, Dalima Chhibber, Grace Dangmei	2019 SAFF Women's Championship, 2019 South Asian Games, 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup, 2022 SAFF Women's Championship
2019	Aditi Chauhan

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record
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
2023	Withdrew from qualification
2027	to be determined
Total	0/9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics record
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1996 to   2004	Did not enter
2008	Did not qualify
2012
2016
2020
2024
2028	To be determined
2032
Total	0/8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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   1980 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   2022 Originally qualified as host, but withdrew due to COVID-19 pandemic inside the team^[a] Total 9/19 0 Titles 35 16 3 16 63 61 +2 Notes: India failed to name the required 13 players and were unable to play their match of the group stage against Chinese Taipei due to them having only fewer than 13 players left with the remaining team members testing positive for COVID-19. They were considered to have withdrawn from the competition, and all previous matches played by them were considered "null and void" and would not be considered in determining the final group rankings.^[36]

AFC Women's Asia Cup History Year Round Score Result 1980 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 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 Loss India   1–2   Vietnam Loss 2022 Round 1 India   0–0   Iran Voided India   Cancelled   Chinese Taipei Cancelled India   Cancelled   China Cancelled

*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   2022 Group stage 13th 2 0 0 2 1 3 −2 Total 3/9 0 Titles 8 1 0 7 17 59 −42

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 Loss 2014 Round 1 India   15–0   Maldives Won India   0–10   South Korea Loss India   0–10   Thailand Loss 2022 Round 1 India   1–2   Chinese Taipei Loss India   0–1   Thailand 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.^[37]

SAFF Women's Championship record
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
2019	Winners		4	4	0	0	18	1	+17
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	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
2019	Winners		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

• Gold Cup

2019 : 3rd Place

• Turkish Women's Cup

2019: 6th Place

2021: 4th Place

• Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino

2021: 4th place

FIFA World Ranking

As of 18 April 2021^[38]

  Best Ranking    Best Mover    Worst Ranking    Worst Mover  

India's FIFA World Ranking History
Rank	Year	Games Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Best		Worst
						Rank	Move	Rank	Move
59	2022	2	2	0	0	59	0	59	0
55	2021	12	3	9	0	55	2	57	4
53	2020	0	0	0	0	53	2	55	2
57	2019	27	17	6	4	57	6	63	1

See also

• Women's youth teams
  • India U-20
  • India U-17
• Sport in India
  • Football in India
    • Women's football in India
• Miscellaneous
  • Indian Women's League
  • India women's football championship
  • List of India women's national football team hat-tricks
  • Women's association football around the world

•  Asia portal
•  India portal
•  Sports portal
•  Association football portal
•  Women's association football portal

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Further reading

• Kapadia, Novy (2017). Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-143-42641-7.
• Martinez, Dolores; Mukharjiim, Projit B (2009). . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-88353-6. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022.
• 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.
• (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
• Majumdar, Boria; Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (2006). . Routledge. ISBN 9780415348355. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021.

External links

• Official website the-AIFF.com (in English)
• (in English)
• India women's national football team picture at Hindustan Times