Sub–Junior Girl's National Football Championship

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]

Sub–Junior Girl's National Football Championship

Founded	2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Region	India
Number of teams	29
Current champions	Jharkhand (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Manipur (5 titles)
Website	Hero Sub Junior Girl's NFC

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

Results

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

Season	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up
2003–04	Ooty	Manipur	1–0	Orissa
2004–05	Tamil Nadu	Manipur	4–0	Orissa
2006–07	Chandigarh	Orissa	1–0	Manipur
2008–09	Uttarakhand	Manipur	2–0	Orissa
2009–10	Uttarakhand	Manipur	1–0	Orissa
2010–11	Uttarakhand	West Bengal	1–0	Orissa
2014–15	Cuttack	Mizoram	3–0	Haryana
2017–18	Manipur	Chandigarh	3–1	Manipur
2018–19	Cuttack	Manipur	2–1	Odisha
2019–20	Cuttack	Jharkhand	4–0	Arunachal Pradesh
2023–24	Ludhiana	Jharkhand	7–1	West Bengal

References

1. "Hero Sub Junior Girl's NFC". AIFF. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
2. "Hero Sub-Junior Girls National Football Championship 2019-20, Jharkhand vs Arunachal Pradesh". Retrieved 30 December 2021.
3. "Women's football in Jharkhand – What are they doing right?". The Bridge. 25 February 2021.
4. Mukherjee, Soham (12 July 2020). "How Jharkhand became the hotbed of women's football in India?". The Bridge.
5. . Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2022.