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Senior Women's National Football Championship
Indian women's professional football league From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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 bilateral matches of tied teams
- Superior goal difference
- Superior number of goal scored
- Drawing of lots
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Participants
Current teams
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
- Daman and Diu (until 2022/23)
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli (until 2022/23)
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Results
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The following is the list of winners and runners-up from every edition of the Championship[4]
Final appearances
See also
References
External links
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