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Will Indian women footballers win a World Cup before the men? | Let’s Talk About Indian Football

As the FIFA World Cup 2026 wraps up, we ask the question India keeps avoiding: what’s stopping us from competing on that stage, and why do we forget football the moment the tournament ends?

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TOISA 2024 Nominees: Celebrating excellence in football

NEW DELHI: India's most celebrated football stars will come together for the Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) 2024, set in Lucknow on February 22.

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Odisha Women eye redemption against Ho Chi Minh

KOLKATA: Odisha FC Women will take the field at Thong Nhat Stadium in Vietnam on Wednesday, with horrors of their previous encounter at the same venue still vivid in their memory. Their 17-0 demolition at the hands of reigning AFC women's club champions Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies was testimony to…

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AIFF League Committee recommends invitation of bids for new Indian Women's League team

NEW DELHI: The All India Football Federation's (AIFF) League Committee on Tuesday recommended inviting bids from interested parties to establish a new Indian Women's League (IWL) team, expanding the tournament to 10 teams.

The Times of India

AIFF league committee suggests promotion-relegation system in IWL

The AIFF league committee recommends promotion and relegation system for Indian Women's League, starting from 2024-25 season.

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India’s Manisha Kalyan: From a village in Punjab to European football

The 22-year-old golden girl of Indian football has been marked as one for the future by her coach and experts.

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With Chennai’s Nehru Stadium unavailable, IWL club Sethu FC to play ‘home’ matches in Goa

CHENNAI: Indian Women’s League (IWL) club Sethu FC will play their ‘home’ matches at the Tilak Maidan in Vasco da Gama, Goa, after the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai was made unavailable for use early next year.

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Anthony Andrews, who guided Gokulam Kerala to back-to-back IWL titles, recommended as national women's football coach

Anthony Andrews, who guided Gokulam Kerala FC to back-to-back Indian Women’s League (IWL) titles in the last two seasons, was on Thursday recommended by the All India Football Federation’s (AIFF) technical committee to take over as head coach of the national women’s team.

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Kerala Blasters pulling the plug on their women’s team raises eyebrows

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Gokulam Kerala FC face threat of losing their home base in Kozhikode

KOCHI: Days after kids attending Kerala Blasters’ selection trials were denied entry into the training ground at Panampilly Stadium in Ernakulam by the Ernakulam District Sports Council authorities, another prominent football club in the state, Gokulam Kerala FC, are facing a similar experiencing in Kozhikode. Two-time I-league champions, Gokulam, have…

The Times of India

Odisha FC Women debut with half a dozen past CRPF in IWL

Odisha FC Women (OFCW) began their Indian Women’s League (IWL) journey in style by thrashing CRPF FC 6-0 at TranStadia in Ahmedabad on Thursday.

The Times of India

Sports Odisha promise fighting challenge to others

As the sixth edition of Indian Women's League kicks off on Wednesday, Odisha FC Women will expectedly hog all the limelight considering all the big names that have been signed up by them.

The Times of India

Former champs overcome fund crunch in bid to add to IWL glory

They were the champions of the inaugural edition of Indian Women's League in 2016, followed by their runners-up finish the next season. They missed out on the next seasons but even a week ahead of the deadline for sending their final entry for IWL 2023, Eastern Sporting Union (ESU) were…

The Times of India

Bala & Co ready to dazzle

As 6th season of an expanded 16-team IWL beckons debutants Odisha FC women

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11 Kanyashree Cup winners make EB squad for Indian Women’s League

KOLKATA: East Bengal FC will kick-start their Indian Women’s League (IWL) campaign with a match against Gokulam Kerala FC in Ahmedabad on April 26.

The Times of India

Indian Women's League to start from April 25, confirms AIFF

NEW DELHI: In their constant effort to promote women's football in the country, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Monday decided to kick start Indian Women's League (IWL) from April 25.

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Manisha Kalyan: First Indian footballer in UEFA Champions League

How a young athletics-loving girl from a small village in India rewrote history books on the football pitch.

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Footballer Manisha Kalyan joins Cypriot champions Apollon Ladies

India international attacker Manisha Kalyan could become the first Indian footballer to play in the UEFA Women's Champions League after she signed a multi-year contract with Cypriot's Apollon Ladies FC.

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Odisha FC launch women's team; Crispin Chettri named new coach

On the auspicious day of Rath Yatra, Odisha FC started a new journey. The Indian Super League (ISL) side chose the most celebrated day for the Odias to announce the launch of their senior women's team.

The Times of India

Manisha Kalyan close to realising her dream of playing abroad

KOCHI: After a blistering season with Gokulam Kerala FC, where she scored 14 goals from 11 Indian Women's League (IWL) matches and was named the player of the tournament, 20-year-old attacker Manisha Kalyan is eager to display her skills abroad.

The Times of India

Gokulam Kerala script more history with Indian Women's League triumph

Gokulam Kerala FC continued their dominance of Indian domestic circuit as they became the first club to win both the I-League and Indian Women's League titles during the same season after their women's team clinched their second straight IWL crown defeating Sethu FC 3-1 at the Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on…

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IWL: Odisha maul Mata Rukmani FC 7-0, Kickstart FC beat Indian Arrows 1-0

BHUBANESWAR: Sports Odisha dished out a dominant 7-0 win against Mata Rukmani FC, while Kickstart FC registered a narrow 1-0 win over Indian Arrows in the Indian Women's League on Thursday.

The Times of India

Sethu face Gokulam Kerala as IWL title beckons

With the 66th match of a season that started on April 15, not to forget the two years of pandemic-induced delay in its commencement, the fifth season of the Indian Women's League will draw curtains on Thursday with a virtual final between Gokulam Kerala and Sethu FC at Kalinga Stadium…

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Sethu FC confident of winning IWL title despite 20-goal difference with leaders Gokulam

The lack of adequate publicity of the Indian Women’s League has not deterred the competitiveness of the teams and the quality of football that the women have put on show in Bhubaneswar.

The Times of India

Fighting past life’s struggles, SSB skipper Dular Marandi ready to shine for India

Although she has been reaching one high after the other on the football field, her past has been full of loss and misery. Coming from a very poor family in Kadokhicha village of Dumka district in Jharkhand, she lost her mother and then her father, and even one of her…

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