India women's national under-17 football team

For men's football team, see India national under-17 football team.

India Women's U-17

Nickname(s)	The Blue Fillies
Association	All India Football Federation
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation	SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach	Joakim Alexandersson
FIFA code	IND
First colours Second colours
First international
Thailand   6–4   India (Namhae, South Korea; 16 April 2005)
Biggest win
India   12–0   United Arab Emirates (Dhaka, Bangladesh; 21 October 2014) Sri Lanka   0–12   India (Thimphu, Bhutan; 9 August 2018)
Biggest defeat
India   0–8   United States (Bhubaneswar, India; 11 October 2022) South Korea   8–0   India (Buriram, Thailand; 19 September 2023)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2022 )
Best result	Group Stage (2022)
Asian Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2005 )
Best result	Group stage (2005)
SAFF Championship
Appearances	6 (first in 2017 )
Best result	Champions (2018, 2019, 2025)
Medal record SAFF U-17 Women's Championship 2018 Bhutan 2019 Bhutan 2017 Bangladesh 2024 Nepal 2023 Bangladesh

The Indian women's national under-17 football team represents India in international women's under-17 football. The team is controlled by the governing body for football in India, the All India Football Federation (AIFF). The federation is a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional South Asian Football Federation (SAFF).

The team have only participated once in the AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, back during the tournament's inaugural edition.

History

FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

FIFA first organised the U-17 Women's World Cup in the year 2008 and has since organised it on every even years. From Asia, the top three teams from AFC U-16 Women's Championship get qualified for the world cup, but India failed to qualify any of AFC championships since 2007 edition to 2017, thus failed to qualify for the first six editions of the World Cup. ^{[1] [2]}

India is selected as the host of the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and thus automatically got qualified for the tournament. It is supposed to be their first participation in the World Cup, but their participation was under threat after the All India Football Federation was suspended by FIFA and the hosting rights for the tournament were stripped from India. However, the AIFF was later reinstated by FIFA and the tournament rights were given back to India, confirming their participation for the tournament. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

India women's U17 team first played their international match at the inaugural edition of AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup in 2005 where they first faced Thailand and got defeated by 6−4 on 16 April 2005. In the second match South Korea defeated them again by 7−0, but in the third match India registered their first win defeating Indonesia by 6−0 but they failed to proceed beyond the group stage. This was India's only AFC Women's U16 Championship campaign, as they failed to qualify any of the championships held since, which is being organised by AFC on every odd years. ^[1]

SAFF U-15 Women's Championship

SAFF U15 Women's championship was first organised in 2017, where India became runners-up after being defeated by Bangladesh by a solitary goal. ^{[6] [7]} In the next edition in 2018, the final was repeated again, but this time India beat Bangladesh by a solitary goal and become the SAFF champion. ^[8] In the 2019 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, India and Bangladesh reached the final for the third time. Both the teams failed to score any goals within the regulation time. Thus penalty shoot-out became the match decider where Bangladesh failed to convert the first spot kick, which resulted in India becoming the champion by a 5−3 result in the shoot-out. ^[9]

BRICS U-17 Football Cup

In 2018, at the second edition of BRICS U-17 Football Cup, which is a U-17 Football tournament played among teams of five BRICS countries, the U17 women's teams of the respective countries were invited to play in the tournament. ^[10] India played round robin matches, first against South Africa, and suffered a loss by 5−1, then suffered another defeat against Russia by 3−1. In their next match Brazil defeated them by 5−0 and in their last match they lost 2−1 to China.

Results and fixtures

For past match results of the under-17 team, see the results in Indian football seasons.

Matches in the last 12 months, and future scheduled matches

Legend

  Win  Draw  Loss  Fixture

2025

India   v     Nepal

20 August 2025 2025 SAFF U17	India	7–0	Nepal	Thimphu, Bhutan
14:30 IST	Basnett 16', 41' Longjam 25', 56' A. Kumari 33', 62' Nongmaithem 45+1'	Report		Stadium: Changlimithang Stadium Referee: Sharaban Tahura (Bangladesh)

Bangladesh   v   India

22 August 2025 2025 SAFF U17	Bangladesh	0–2	India	Thimphu, Bhutan
14:30 IST		Report	P. Fernandes 14' Shullai 76'	Stadium: Changlimithang Stadium Referee: Pabasara Minisarani Yapa (Sri Lanka)

Bhutan   v   India

24 August 2025 2025 SAFF U17	Bhutan	0–8	India	Thimphu, Bhutan
14:30 IST		Report	Basnett 23', 88' A. Kumari 53', 61', 72' P. Fernandes 71' Linda 77' V. Fernandes 90+2'	Stadium: Changlimithang Stadium Referee: Sharaban Tahura (Bangladesh)

India   v   Bhutan

27 August 2025 2025 SAFF U17	India	5–0	Bhutan	Thimphu, Bhutan
17:30 IST	A. Kumari 4', 16' Rani 24' Nongmaithem 77' Longjam 90+5'	Report		Stadium: Changlimithang Stadium Referee: Kriti Sen (Nepal)

India   v     Nepal

29 August 2025 2025 SAFF U17	India	5–0	Nepal	Thimphu, Bhutan
17:30 IST	Longjam 5' P. Fernandes 15', 43' Linda 79', 90+2'	Report		Stadium: Changlimithang Stadium Referee: Sharaban Tahura (Bangladesh)

Bangladesh   v   India

31 August 2025 2025 SAFF U17	Bangladesh	4–3	India	Thimphu, Bhutan
14:30 IST	Purnima 1' Alpi 34' Prity 49', 90+5'	Report	Anushka 9' Pritika 65' Nongmaithem 89'	Stadium: Changlimithang Stadium Referee: Meera Tamang (Bhutan)

Kyrgyzstan   v   India

13 October 2025 (2025-10-13) 2026 AFC U17 WACQ	Kyrgyzstan	v	India	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
				Stadium: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium

India   v   Uzbekistan

17 October 2025 (2025-10-17) 2026 AFC U17 WACQ	India	v	Uzbekistan	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
				Stadium: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium

Coaching staff

As of August 2025 ^[11]

Position	Name
Head coach	Joakim Alexandersson
Assistant coach	Nivetha Ramadoss
Goalkeeper coach	Dipankar Choudhury
Strength and conditioning coach	Saifulla

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were named for the 2025 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship. ^[11]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Tamphasana Devi Konjengbam	(2009-05-14) 14 May 2009 (age 16)			Manipur
	1 GK	Munni	(2010-04-02) 2 April 2010 (age 15)	4		Rajasthan
	1 GK	Surajmuni Kumari	(2009-03-12) 12 March 2009 (age 16)			Jharkhand
	2 DF	Alena Devi Sarangthem				Manipur
	2 DF	Alisha Lyngdoh	(2009-11-23) 23 November 2009 (age 15)			Meghalaya
21	2 DF	Binita Horo				Jharkhand
5	2 DF	Divyani Linda	(2009-01-01) 1 January 2009 (age 16)			Jharkhand
4	2 DF	Elizabed Lakra	(2009-06-16) 16 June 2009 (age 16)			Jharkhand
	2 DF	Priya	(2009-12-15) 15 December 2009 (age 15)
	2 DF	Ritu Badaik	(2011-06-05) 5 June 2011 (age 14)			Odisha
	2 DF	Taniya Devi Tonambam	(2010-05-18) 18 May 2010 (age 15)			Manipur
17	3 MF	Abhista Basnett	(2011-03-11) 11 March 2011 (age 14)	4	4	Sikkim
	3 MF	Anita Dungdung	(2009-01-01) 1 January 2009 (age 16)			Jharkhand
	3 MF	Beena Kumari				Jharkhand
	3 MF	Bonifilia Shullai	(2010-02-02) 2 February 2010 (age 15)			Meghalaya
7	3 MF	Julan Nongmaithem	(2011-02-15) 15 February 2011 (age 14)			Manipur
22	3 MF	Pritika Barman		3	1	West Bengal
	3 MF	Shveta Rani	(2009-01-26) 26 January 2009 (age 16)			Haryana
	3 MF	Thandamoni Baskey	(2010-03-09) 9 March 2010 (age 15)			West Bengal
8	4 FW	Anushka Kumari	(2010-12-09) 9 December 2010 (age 14)	4	7	Jharkhand
18		Nira Chanu Longjam				Manipur
	4 FW	Pearl Fernandes	(2009-06-09) 9 June 2009 (age 16)			Goa
	4 FW	Valaina Fernandes	(2009-09-03) 3 September 2009 (age 15)			Goa

Recent call-ups

The following footballers were part of a national selection in the past twelve months, but are not part of the current squad.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Rubina					NT camp, February 2024
GK	Thameena Fathima				Kerala	NT camp, February 2024
DF	Anjali Patel				Uttar Pradesh	NT camp, February 2024
DF	Tia Zamora Fernandes				Karnataka	NT camp, February 2024
DF	Amrita Ghosh				West Bengal	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
DF	Gauri Gurav				Maharashtra	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
DF	Rheanna Liz Jacob				Karnataka	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
DF	Rupashree Munda				Odisha	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
MF	Anwita Raghuraman				Tamil Nadu	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
MF	H Yashica				Karnataka	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
FW	Anchal Singh				Odisha	NT camp, February 2024
FW	Sandhya				Haryana	NT camp, February 2024
FW	Gurleen Kaur				Punjab	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
FW	Gurnaz Kaur				Punjab	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
FW	Neha Saji				Kerala	NT squad, 2024 SAFF
PRE Preliminary squad / standby

Competitive record

FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup record Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA GD 2008 Did not qualify 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2022 Group stage 16th 3 0 0 3 0 16 −16 2024 Did not qualify 2025 Total 1/9 0 Titles 3 0 0 3 0 16 −16 Red border indicates the team played as the host of the tournament.

FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup History Year Round Score Result 2022 Group Stage India  0–8  United States Loss India  0–3  Morocco Loss India  0–5  Brazil Loss

AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup

AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup record Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA GD 2005 Group stage 8/11 3 1 0 2 10 13 −3 2007 Did not qualify 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2024 2026 To be determined Total 1/9 0 Titles 3 1 0 2 10 13 −3

AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup History Year Round Score Result 2005 Group Stage India  4–6  Thailand Loss India  0–7  South Korea Loss India  6–0  Indonesia Win

SAFF U-15/U-16/U-17 Women's Championship

SAFF U-15/U-16/U-17 Women's Championship record
Host/Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2017	Runners-up		4	2	0	2	13	4	+9
2018	Champion		4	4	0	0	16	1	+15
2019	Champion		4	2	2	0	15	3	+12
2023	Third		4	2	0	2	13	4	+9
2024	Runners-up		4	2	1	1	19	4	+15
2025	Champion		6	5	0	1	30	4	+26
Total	6/6	3 Titles	26	17	3	6	106	20	+86

Head-to-head record

As of 31 August 2025 vs   Bangladesh

The following table shows India's head-to-head record in the official tournaments of FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup and SAFF U-17 Women's Championship.

  Positive Record  Neutral Record  Negative Record

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bangladesh	10	2	3	5	9	14	−5	020.00
Bhutan	7	7	0	0	43	1	+42	100.00
Brazil	1	0	0	1	0	5	−5	000.00
Indonesia	1	1	0	0	6	0	+6	100.00
Morocco	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	000.00
Nepal	7	7	0	0	42	3	+39	100.00
Russia	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	000.00
South Korea	1	0	0	1	0	7	−7	000.00
Sri Lanka	1	1	0	0	12	0	+12	100.00
Thailand	1	0	0	1	4	6	−2	000.00
United States	1	0	0	1	0	8	−8	000.00
Total	32	18	3	11	116	49	+67	056.25

See also

• Sport in India
  • Football in India
    • Women's football in India
• India women's national football team
• India women's national under-20 football team
• India men's national football team
• Indian Women's League

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External links

• India women's national under-17 football team – official website (in English)