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The Sub Junior Girls' 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[edit | edit source]
The NFC structure was converted into a two tiered championship format from the 2023ā24 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 | |
|---|---|
| Tier | Division |
| I | Sub Junior Girl's NFC Tier 1 |
| II | Sub Junior Girl's NFC Tier 2 |
Results[edit | edit source]
The following is the list of winners and runners-up:[5]
Tier 1[edit | edit source]
| Season | Host | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003ā04 | Ooty | Manipur | 1ā0 | Orissa |
| 2004ā05 | Tamil Nadu | Manipur | 4ā0 | Orissa |
| 2006ā07 | Chandigarh | Orissa | 1ā0 | Manipur |
| 2008ā09 | Uttarakhand | Manipur | 2ā0 | Orissa |
| 2009ā10 | Uttarakhand | Manipur | 1ā0 | Orissa |
| 2010ā11 | Uttarakhand | West Bengal | 1ā0 | Orissa |
| 2014ā15 | Cuttack | Mizoram | 3ā0 | Haryana |
| 2017ā18 | Manipur | Chandigarh | 3ā1 | Manipur |
| 2018ā19 | Cuttack | Manipur | 2ā1 | Odisha |
| 2019ā20 | Cuttack | Jharkhand | 4ā0 | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 2020ā23 | Not held | |||
| 2023ā24 | Ludhiana | Jharkhand | 7ā1 | West Bengal |
| 2024ā25 | Berhampore | Manipur | 7ā5 | Jharkhand |
| 2025ā26 | Jorhat | Jharkhand | 3ā2 | Manipur |
Tier 2[edit | edit source]
| Season | Host | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023ā24 | Belgaum | Karnataka | 7ā2 | Delhi |
| 2024ā25 | Neemuch | Madhya Pradesh | 2ā1 | Odisha |
| 2025ā26 | Narayanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 2ā1 | Kerala |
References[edit | edit source]
- ā 1.0 1.1 "Hero Sub Junior Girl's NFC". AIFF. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ā "Hero Sub-Junior Girls National Football Championship 2019-20, Jharkhand vs Arunachal Pradesh". Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ā "Women's football in Jharkhand ā What are they doing right?". The Bridge. 25 February 2021.
- ā Mukherjee, Soham (12 July 2020). "How Jharkhand became the hotbed of women's football in India?". The Bridge.
- ā "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the National Championships for Sub-Junior Women (under-17)". Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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