Senior Women's National Football Championship
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| Organising body | All India Football Federation (AIFF) |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Region | India |
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| Related competitions | National Games |
| Current champions | Manipur (23rd title) |
| Most successful team(s) | Manipur (23 titles) |
| Television broadcasters | SSEN SportsKPI (YouTube) |
| Website | Senior Women's NFC |
 2024–25 | |
The Senior Women's National Football Championship for Rajmata Jijabai Trophy, also known as Senior Women’s National Football Championship or simply the Rajmata Jijabai Trophy since 2024,[1] is a women's football tournament contested by state associations and government institutions in India.[2] The first edition was held in 1991 and is organized by the All India Football Federation to crown the national women's football champion each year. It is based on a league and knockout format.
Format
[edit]The format consists of zonal group stages where all the state teams participate. It is followed by the final round.[3]
When the number of teams is known, those are divided into eight groups with equal number of teams. The preliminary qualifying league will be played on a single leg league basis. The eight winners move on to the two quarter final leagues. That is played as a single leg league, with the best two teams of each group qualifying for the semi-finals stage. From there on it is a knock out format with single leg matches. Tie breakers in the league stages are:
- Superior number of points in all matches
- Superior number of points in matches of tied teams
- Superior goal difference
- Superior number of goal scored
- Drawing of lots
Participants
[edit]Current teams
[edit]The following teams participate in the tournament as states, union territories and institutions.
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha / Orissa
- Pondicherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Railways
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal / Bengal
Defunct teams
[edit]- Daman and Diu (until 2022/23)
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli (until 2022/23)
Results
[edit]The following is the list of winners and runners-up from every edition of the Championship[4]
Final appearances
[edit]| Team | Wins | Runners-up | Last win |
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| Manipur | 23 | 4 | 2024–25 |
| Bengal / West Bengal | 2 | 13 | 1996–97 |
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 0 | 2022–23 |
| Orissa / Odisha | 1 | 6 | 2010–11 |
| Railways | 1 | 3 | 2015–16 |
| Haryana | 0 | 2 | – |
| Kerala | 0 | 1 | – |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Senior Women's NFC named Rajmata Jijabai Maharaja National Football Championship". AIFF. 4 March 2024.
- ^ "Hero Senior Women's NFC". www.the-aiff.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ "76th Hero Sr Men's NFC for Santosh Trophy, Hero Sr Women's NFC to be conducted in new formats". www.the-aiff.com. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ "India – List of Women Champions". Rsssf. 21 December 2009. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ "Manipur beat Railways to win the Womens National Football Championship". twitter.com. 5 June 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "TAMIL NADU CREATE HISTORY BY WINNING THEIR FIRST SENIOR WOMEN'S NFC". aiff.com. 14 February 2018. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Fixtures & Results". aiff.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
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