25th Senior Women's National Football Championship 2019–20 champions Manipur. (Photo courtesy: AIFF Media)
The Senior Women’s National Football Championship (NFC) is all set to kick off from November 28, 2021 in four venues from November 28-December 9, 2021 in Kerala.
The AIFF Executive Committee had approved Kerala as the venue for the forthcoming tournament, and had also complimented the Kerala State Government for their unprecedented support for the development of Indian Football.
The Senior Women’s NFC will be held in four venues – Municipal Stadium, Kuthuparamba, EMS Corporation Stadium, Kozhikode, Calicut University, Kozhikode and Calicut Medical College Kozhikode.
There are 32 teams have been divided into eight groups, with the teams in each group set to play against each other for the qualifying stage. The winners of qualifying matches will play the semi-finals, with the two winners from the last four proceeding to the final.
The groups are as follows:
Group A
Manipur
Daman & Diu
Pondicherry
Meghalaya
Group B
Railways
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Tripura
Group C
Himachal Pradesh
Assam
Rajasthan
Bihar
Group D
Jharkhand
Delhi
Goa
Karnataka
Group E
Arunachal Pradesh
Jammu & Kashmir
Sikkim
Maharashtra
Group F
Odisha
Haryana
Gujarat
Andhra Pradesh
Group G
Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
Mizoram
Uttarakhand
Group H
Tamil Nadu
Punjab
West Bengal
Telangana
(AIFF Media)