Senior Women's National Football Championship

Senior Women's National Football Championship
Organising body	All India Football Federation (AIFF)
Founded	1991; 33 years ago
Region	India
Number of teams	Group stage: 36; Final round: 11+1;
Related competitions	National Games
Current champions	Manipur (22nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Manipur (22 titles)
Television broadcasters	AIFF (YouTube); SportsKPI
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

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

Current teams

The following teams participate in the tournament as states, union territories and institutions.

Defunct teams

Daman and Diu (until 2022/23)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli (until 2022/23)

Results

The following is the list of winners and runners-up from every edition of the Championship^[4]

Season	Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1st	1991–92	Imphal	Bengal		Manipur
2nd	1992–93	Daltonganj	Manipur	4–0	Bengal
3rd	1994–95	Haldia	Manipur	1–0	Bengal
4th	1995–96	Jorhat	Manipur	6–5 (p)	Bengal
5th	1996–97	Haldia	Bengal	1–0	Manipur
6th	1997–98	Barasat	Manipur	2–1	Bengal
7th	1998–99	Shillong	Manipur	1–0	Bengal
8th	1999–00	Diphu	Manipur	1–0	Bengal
9th	2000–01	Gurusar Sadhar	Manipur	1–0	Bengal
10th	2001–02	Siliguri	Manipur	3–0	Orissa
11th	2002–03	Chennai	Manipur	2–0	Bengal
12th	2003–04	Bhopal	Manipur	0–0 (6–5 p)	Bengal
13th	2004–05	Imphal	Manipur	3–0	Bengal
14th	2005–06	Rourkela	Manipur	2–0	Kerala
15th	2006–07	Rourkela	Manipur	2–1	West Bengal
16th	2007–08	Haldia	Manipur	4–1	Orissa
17th	2008–09	Neyveli	Manipur	2–0	West Bengal
18th	2009–10	Imphal	Manipur	1–0	Orissa
19th	2010–11	Bhilai	Orissa	5–0	West Bengal
20th	2013–14	Golaghat	Manipur	3–1	Orissa
21st	2015–16	Jabalpur	Railways	3–3 (4–3 p)	Manipur
22nd	2016–17	Jalandhar	Manipur	3–1^[5]	Railways
23rd	2017–18	Cuttack	Tamil Nadu	2–1^[6]	Manipur
24th	2018–19	Cuttack	Manipur	2–1^[7]	Odisha
25th	2019–20	Pasighat	Manipur	1–0	Railways
26th	2021–22	Kozhikode	Manipur	0–0 (2–1 p)	Railways
27th	2022–23	Ludhiana	Tamil Nadu	2–1	Haryana
28th	2023–24	Kolkata	Manipur	2–0	Haryana
29th	2024–25

Final appearances

Team	Wins	Runners-up	Last win
Manipur	22	4	2023–24
Bengal / West Bengal	2	13	1996–97
Tamil Nadu	2	0	2022–23
Orissa / Odisha	1	5	2011–12
Railways	1	3	2015–16
Haryana	0	2	–
Kerala	0	1	–

References

^ "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.

External links

Official website

[1] "Senior Women's NFC named Rajmata Jijabai Maharaja National Football Championship". AIFF. 4 March 2024.

[2] "Hero Senior Women's NFC". www.the-aiff.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.

[3] "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.

[4] "India – List of Women Champions". Rsssf. 21 December 2009. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2010.

[5] "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.

[6] "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.

[7] "Fixtures & Results". aiff.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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