2017–18 Indian Women's League

Indian Women's League
Season	2017–18
Champions	Rising Students Club; 1st title
Matches played	55
Goals scored	225 (4.09 per match)
Best Player	Irom Prameshwori Devi
Top goalscorer	Bala Devi (KRYPHSA); (12 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Elangbam Panthoi Chanu
Highest scoring	Indira Gandhi AS&E 1-10 KRYPHSA
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 Indian Women's League was the second season of the Indian Women's League, a women's football league in India. The qualifiers for the league will start from 25 November 2017.^[1] Rising Student's Club won the 2017–18 Indian Women's League.^[2]

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was scheduled to be held from 25 November 2017 to 8 December 2017 at Rajarshi Shahu Stadium in Kolhapur. Thirteen teams entered the preliminary round. Teams were split into two groups and the top-ranked team from each group qualified for the final round.

Teams

J&K State Sports Council

Chandney Sporting Club

United Warriors SC

Imphal

Indira Gandhi AS&E

Baroda Football Academy

India Rush Soccer

Sethu FC

Capital Complex SC

Hans Women’s FC

Rising Student's Club

Gokulam Kerala FC (Women's)

Imphal teams
Eastern Sporting Union
KRYPHSA

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Locations of the 2017–18 Indian Women's League teams

Team locations


Group A	State/UT	Group B	State/UT
Sethu	Madurai, Tamil Nadu	Chandney Sporting Club	West Bengal
Indira Gandhi AS&E	Pondicherry	United Warriors SC	Phagwara, Punjab
Capital Complex	Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh	Hans Women	Delhi
Baroda Football Academy	Vadodara, Gujarat	India Rush Soccer	Maharashtra
Rising Students Club	Cuttack, Odisha	KRYPHSA	Manipur
J&K State Sports Council	Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir	Eastern Sporting Union	Manipur
		SAI Women

Rising Student's Club and Eastern Sporting Union qualified for final round by topping Group A and Group B respectively. Due to unavailability of teams from I-League and Indian Super League, four more teams from qualification round Sethu FC, Indira Gandhi AS&E,^[3] India Rush Soccer and KRYPHSA are promoted to final round.

Personnel

Team	Head coach	Captain
Eastern Sporting Union	Oinam Bembem Devi	Irom Prameshwori Devi
Gokulam Kerala	Priya P. V.	Anita Rawat
Indira Gandhi AS&E	Amrutha Arvind
KRYPHSA	Langam Chaoba Devi	Bala Devi
Rising Students Club	Sukla Dutta	Suprava Samal
Rush Soccer	Claude Bolton
Sethu	Kalpana Dass	Indumathi Kathiresan

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Eastern Sporting Union	—	—	—
Gokulam Kerala	Fazila Ikwaput^[4]	Ritah Nabbosa^[4]	—
Indira Gandhi AS&E	—	—	—
KRYPHSA	—	—	—
Rising Students Club	—	—	—
Rush Soccer	—	—	—
Sethu	Tanvie Hans^[5]	Sabina Khatun^[6]	Krishna Rani Sarkar^[6]

Final round

Final round will be played among seven teams who face each other once with the top four teams advancing to the semifinals. Gokulam Kerala FC women's team will be joined by Six teams from preliminary round.^[7]

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	KRYPHSA	6	4	2	0	24	3	+21	14	Semi Final
2	Eastern Sporting Union	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	14
3	Sethu	6	4	1	1	11	9	+2	13
4	Rising Students Club	6	3	1	2	11	5	+6	10
5	Gokulam Kerala	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4
6	Indira Gandhi AS&E	6	1	0	5	8	29	−21	3
7	Rush Soccer	6	0	1	5	4	12	−8	1

Source: AIFF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots

Knock-out Stage

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Semifinals
KRYPHSA	0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	Rising Students Club
Eastern Sporting Union	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Sethu
Final
Rising Students Club	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Eastern Sporting Union

Season awards

Hero Indian Women's League 2017–18 awards were given on April 14.^[2]

Award	Recipient
Top Scorer	Bala Devi (KRYPHSA)
Best Goalkeeper	Panthoi Chanu (Eastern Sporting Union)
Most Valuable Player	Prameshwori Devi (Eastern Sporting Union)
Emerging Player	Grace Dangmei (KRYPHSA)

References

^ "IWL - INDIAN WOMEN'S LEAGUE 2017-18 QUALIFIERS FIXTURES ANNOUNCED". 6 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b "RISING STUDENT CLUB CROWNED CHAMPIONS OF HERO IWL". 14 April 2018.
^ "For the Indira Gandhi Academy team, the experience of the Indian Women's League is a hard-earned one". scroll.in. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "We have secured the services of Ugandan national team players, Fazila Ikwaput and Ritah Nabbosa, for the upcoming HeroIWL". Gokulam Kerala (twitter). 21 March 2018.
^ "Im excited! Playing for SethuFC as a foreign player". Tanvie Hans (twitter). 25 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Krishna, Sabina to fly for India today". thedailystar.net. 25 March 2018.
^ "INDIAN WOMEN'S LEAGUE TO KICK-OFF ON MARCH 25". Aiff.com. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

External links

All India Football Federation.

[1] "IWL - INDIAN WOMEN'S LEAGUE 2017-18 QUALIFIERS FIXTURES ANNOUNCED". 6 November 2017.

[the-aiff.com-2] "RISING STUDENT CLUB CROWNED CHAMPIONS OF HERO IWL". 14 April 2018.

[3] "For the Indira Gandhi Academy team, the experience of the Indian Women's League is a hard-earned one". scroll.in. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.

[GKForeigners-4] "We have secured the services of Ugandan national team players, Fazila Ikwaput and Ritah Nabbosa, for the upcoming HeroIWL". Gokulam Kerala (twitter). 21 March 2018.

[5] "Im excited! Playing for SethuFC as a foreign player". Tanvie Hans (twitter). 25 March 2018.

[SethuBAN-6] "Krishna, Sabina to fly for India today". thedailystar.net. 25 March 2018.

[7] "INDIAN WOMEN'S LEAGUE TO KICK-OFF ON MARCH 25". Aiff.com. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

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