Sports News | Senior Women's National Football Championship to Begin on March 25
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. The qualifying round of the Senior Women's National Football Championship will get underway on March 25 in six venues across the country with 31 teams competing in it.
New Delhi, Mar 6 (PTI) The qualifying round of the Senior Women's National Football Championship will get underway on March 25 in six venues across the country with 31 teams competing in it.
The teams will be divided into six groups.
The final round of the competition will have 12 teams -- six group winners, five best runners-up, and the Railways, who have been given direct entry.
The 12 teams will be divided into two groups of six each. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the semi-finals.
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Manipur are the record 21-time champions and have also won the previous three editions. They had defeated Railways on penalties in the 2021-22 final in Kerala.
Group I: GNDU Sports Complex, Amritsar
Punjab, Telangana, Sikkim and Haryana.
Group II: IGIS Complex, Haldwani/Rudrapur
Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Pondicherry, Kerala, Maharashtra and Mizoram.
Group III: Navelim and Benaulim
Goa, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
Group IV: Pant Stadium, Bhilai
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Ladakh, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh.
Group V: Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Mathura
Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
Group VI: Bangalore Football Stadium, Bengaluru
Karnataka, Bihar, Manipur, Gujarat and Assam.
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