India women's national under-20 football team

For men's football team, see India national under-20 football team.

India Women's U-20

Nickname(s)	The Blue Fillies
Association	All India Football Federation
Confederation	Asian Football Confederation (Asia)
Sub-confederation	SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach	Joakim Alexandersson
FIFA code	IND
First colours Second colours
First international
India   0–4   South Korea (Goa, India; 19 April 2002)
Biggest win
India   18–0   Pakistan (Chonburi, Thailand; 24 October 2018)
Biggest defeat
Australia   18–0   India (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 12 November 2008)
Asian Cup
Appearances	3 (first in 2002 )
Best result	Quarter final (2004)
SAFF Championship
Appearances	5 (first in 2018 )
Best result	Champions (2022, 2024)
Medal record SAFF Championship 2022 India 2024 Bangladesh 2021 Bangladesh 2018 Bhutan

The India women's national under-20 football team represents India in international women's under-20 football in the AFC U-19 Women's Championship and the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. It is controlled by the AIFF.

History

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

FIFA organised U20 women's world cup in 2002 for the first time, and for qualification from Asian teams, only the finalist from AFC U-19 Women's Championship is allowed to enter into the tournament, which was also the same criteria for the next edition and since 2006 the top three teams from AFC U19 championships would be allowed to enter into U20 world cup. India failed to qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as they failed to be finalist in any AFC U19 Championships till 2017 edition. ^{[1] [2]}

AFC U-19 Women's Championship

The AFC U-19 Women's Championship serves as a qualifying competition for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. For first three edition from 2002, it had been organised on every even years, and in all those three championships India participated. After 2006 Championship, it had been organised on every odd years since 2007 and coincidentally India failed to qualify for the Championships since then.

India hosted the inaugural AFC U-19 Women's Championship in 2002. ^[3] India U-19 failed to advance beyond group stage, finishing third in group. Indian girls lost to eventual champions Japan by 9−0 and South Korea by 4−0, only had a win against Guam by 6−0 but did not help much to move forward.

In next edition of championship held in China, India done well to reach quarter finals, winning against Hong Kong by 2−1, Singapore by 1−0 and a loss against Chinese Tapei by 0−3, and reaching the quarter final, their FIFA U20 Worldcup dream was shattered as was knocked out by North Korea by 0−10. ^[4]

For 2006 edition the qualification round started for AFC U19 Women's Championship, where India easily qualified, defeating Kyrgyzstan by 7−0 and Bangladesh by 9−0 which was their biggest win that time. 2006 AFC U-19 Women's Championship saw India finishing bottom of group, consisting of Asian heavyweights South Korea, North Korea and Japan, defeated by all these three team by huge goal difference of 11−0, 14−0 and 6−0 respectively. That's the last time India made it into the group stage of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship. ^[5]

At the 2007 qualification India lost two games in the group stage against Myanmar by 1−2 and Thailand by 1−5 which cost the AFC Championships for the first time in 2007 edition. ^[6] Similar fate was in 2009 qualification tournament which was worse than before as India lost all the group matches and the worst performance came against Australia, where the Australian girls defeated the Indian by a huge 18−0, thus their biggest defeat till now. ^[7] Next four edition, the girls seen similar scenario with zero luck to enter in the championships. For 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship India faced Pakistan, Nepal and Thailand in round 1 at the 2019 Championship qualification where they won two match defeating Pakistan by 18−0 which is their biggest win till now ^[8] and host Thailand by 1−0 ^[9] and a defeat by Nepal with 0−2, ^[10] but India failed to move to round 2 courtesy of their head-to-head result against Nepal. While Thailand, Nepal and India finished on three points, the goal difference between just these three teams were counted, which left Thailand at the top with a +2 goal difference, while India and Nepal were tied at -1, due to this, the head-to-head result between India and Nepal came into play again, and Nepal go through and India left behind. ^[9]

SAFF U-18 Women's Championship

2018 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship, at Bhutan, is the inaugural edition of the SAFF U18 championships being organised by SAFF on every even years to align with the AFC U19 Championships and FIFA U20 Worldcup. It's a preparatory tournament for the South Asian teams for AFC U19 championship qualification round. India thrashed host Bhutan and Maldives by 4−0 ^[11] and 8−0 ^[12] respectively in the group matches, reaching to the semi-finals they lost to Nepal through penalty shoot-out by 1−3 as the full-time ended in a 1−1 tie, ^[13] thus their dream of first SAFF u18 champion ended here but they won the third place in the tournament by defeating Bhutan again by a solitary goal. ^[14]

SAFF U-19 Women's Championship

The 2024 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship is the fifth edition of the SAFF U-18/19/20 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under–19 national teams organized by SAFF. On 07 February 2024, India beat Nepal 4–0 to enter SAFF U-19 Women's Championships final and shared the title in the final with Bangladesh. ^{[15] [16]}

Results and fixtures

For past match results of the under-20 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   Jordan

19 February Pink Ladies U20 Youth Cup	India	2–1	Jordan	Manavgat, Turkey
17:30  UTC+5:30	Lhingdeikim Kipgen 63' Pooja 77'	Report	Jinan Said pen.' (35)	Stadium: Arslan Zeki Demirci Sports Complex

India   v   Hong Kong

22 February Pink Ladies U20 Youth Cup	India	1–0	Hong Kong	Manavgat, Turkey
17:30  UTC+5:30	Sibani Nongmeikapam 53'	Report		Stadium: Arslan Zeki Demirci Sports Complex

India   v   Russia

25 February Pink Ladies U20 Youth Cup	India	0–3	Russia	Manavgat, Turkey
17:30  UTC+5:30		Report	Mariia Nachaeva 15' Polina Pavlova 17' Natalia Perminova 47'	Stadium: Arslan Zeki Demirci Sports Complex

India   v TBD

July 2025 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship	India	v	TBD	Dhaka, Bangladesh
				Stadium: BSSSMK Stadium

India   v TBD

July 2025 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship	India	v	TBD	Dhaka, Bangladesh
				Stadium: BSSSMK Stadium

India   v TBD

July 2025 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship	India	v	TBD	Dhaka, Bangladesh
				Stadium: BSSSMK Stadium

Coaching staff

As of 5 December 2024, following are the current coaching staffs: ^[17]

Position	Name
Head coach	Joakim Alexandersson
Assistant coaches	Nivetha Ramadoss
Goalkeeper Coaches	KK Hameed
Team Manager	Hemanshi Gour

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were called for the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification. ^[18]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1 GK	Monalisha Devi Moirangthem	(2006-07-03) 3 July 2006 (age 18)	0	0	KRYPHSA FC
13	1 GK	Anshika Malik	(2004-02-22) 22 February 2004 (age 21)	3	0	Arya Football Samiti
23	1 GK	Anjali Munda	(2005-06-10) 10 June 2005 (age 19)	0	0	Jharkhand
4	2 DF	Shilky Devi Hemam	(2005-11-23) 23 November 2005 (age 19)	11	1	The Young Welfare Club
5	2 DF	Astam Oraon	(2005-02-05) 5 February 2005 (age 20)	10	0	Lords FA
16	2 DF	Shubhangi Singh	(2006-06-11) 11 June 2006 (age 18)	7	0	Lords FA
2	2 DF	Purnima Kumari	(2005-02-10) 10 February 2005 (age 20)	8	1	Sethu
19	2 DF	Varshika	(2006-09-22) 22 September 2006 (age 18)	2	0	HOPS FC
	2 DF	Heirangkhongjam Linda Chanu	(2005-02-05) 5 February 2005 (age 20)			Eastern Sporting Union
	2 DF	Sahena TH	{{{age}}}
7	3 MF	Martina Thokchom	(2004-07-13) 13 July 2004 (age 20)	7	0	Gokulam Kerala
8	3 MF	Kajol Hubert D'Souza	(2006-04-28) 28 April 2006 (age 18)	6	1	Parikrma FC
6	3 MF	Babina Devi Lisham	(2005-02-01) 1 February 2005 (age 20)	3	0	The Young Welfare Club
17	3 MF	Nitu Linda	(2006-04-05) 5 April 2006 (age 18)	11	5	Jharkhand
18	3 MF	Tania Kanti	(2005-07-23) 23 July 2005 (age 19)	3	0	Kickstart
15	3 MF	Shailja	(2005-08-29) 29 August 2005 (age 19)	0	0	HOPS FC
9	4 FW	Lynda Kom Serto	(2005-02-28) 28 February 2005 (age 20)	11	8	Odisha FC
21	4 FW	Apurna Narzary (Captain)	(2004-01-08) 8 January 2004 (age 21)	7	4	Kerala Blasters
14	4 FW	Sunita Munda	(2004-04-13) 13 April 2004 (age 20)	7	1	Sethu
10	4 FW	Sumati Kumari	(2004-01-15) 15 January 2004 (age 21)	3	0	Sethu
12	4 FW	Neha	(2006-05-19) 19 May 2006 (age 18)	3	3	Mohammedan Sporting
	4 FW	Mousumi Murmu	{{{age}}}			East Bengal
11	4 FW	Anita Kumari	(2005-08-09) 9 August 2005 (age 19)	6	4	Mohammedan Sporting

Competitive record

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

India has never qualified for the under-20 women's world cup, but had come close to qualify in 2004 where they needed to qualify for finals but ended up getting knocked out in quarterfinals. ^[19]

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup record
Host/Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2002 to 2024	Did not qualify
2026	To be determined
Total	0/12	0 Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

India was the first nation to host AFC U-20 women's championship. In that edition, they failed to progress to the knockouts stage as they finished below South Korea and Japan. However, in the next edition India qualified for the quarterfinals, but were thrashed 10–0 by North Korea. In the next edition, which was also the last time they played this tournament, India suffered massive defeats as they finished bottom of their group of four teams with -31 as goal difference. ^[20]

AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup record Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA GD 2002 Group Stage 7th 3 1 0 2 6 13 -7 2004 QuarterFinal 8th 4 2 0 2 3 14 -11 2006 Group Stage 7th 3 0 0 3 0 31 -31 2007 to 2024 Did not qualify Total 3/11 0 Titles 10 3 0 7 9 58 -49

AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup History Year Round Score Result 2002 Round 1 India  0–4  South Korea Loss India  6−0  Guam Won India  0–9  Japan Loss 2004 Round 1 India  2–1  Hong Kong Won India  1–0  Singapore Won India  0–3  Chinese Taipei Loss Quarter-final India  0–10  North Korea Loss 2006 Round 1 India  0–11  South Korea Loss India  0−14  North Korea Loss India  0–6  Japan Loss

SAFF U-18/U-19/U-20 Women's Championship

SAFF U-18/U-19/U-20 Women's Championship record
Host/Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2018	Semi-final	3rd	4	3	0	1	14	1	+13
2021	Runners-up	2nd	5	3	0	2	9	2	+7
2022	Winners	1st	4	3	0	1	13	2	+11
2023	Group stage	3rd	3	1	1	1	13	3	+10
2024	Winners	1st	4	2	1	1	15	2	+13
Total	5/5	2 Titles	20	12	2	6	64	10	+54

• DNP : Did Not Participate
• DNQ : Did not qualify

Pink Ladies U20 Youth Cup

• Pink Ladies U20 Youth Cup

See also

• India women's national football team
• India women's national under-17 football team
• India national football team
• Indian Women's League

References

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External links

• India women's U-20 team page on the AIFF website