The All India Football Federation has determined to revamp and restructure Women’s Football in the nation, in line with the Strategic Roadmap Vision 2047 as selected January 7, 2023.
To give girls’s soccer a refreshed look and create improved financial alternatives, the AIFF’s has taken up the duty of revamping the Indian Women’s League (IWL). Starting subsequent season, will probably be obligatory for the highest eight collaborating groups in the IWL, to have minimal 10 Indian gamers on a totally skilled annual contract price a minimal of Rs 3.2 lakhs.
Having arrived at this resolution, the Executive committee of the AIFF, which met on the Football House on Friday, April 14, 2023, additionally careworn its purpose to additional strengthen Women’s Football in India by quickly increasing the IWL in the approaching seasons. While the 2024-25 season could have 10 groups in the highest division adopted by two different divisions, the 2025-26 season could have a four-tier league with the final tier being the state leagues throughout the nation.
AIFF President Kalyan Chaubey stated, “This was a landmark Executive Committee assembly, the place essential selections had been taken that may instantly impression the way forward for soccer in India and take it in a course that was elaborated by the Strategic Roadmap, Vision 2047. We have, collectively, as a crew, deliberated on numerous challenges, gaps and have give you initiatives and initiatives that may impression the way forward for Women’s Football, in a means that has not occurred in India in the previous.
“The members of the Executive Committee are skilled, and with their knowledge, we had been capable of give you options that may assist us create a vibrant construction. We have taken selections for the league construction of Women’s Football, minimal wage rules, and we predict it will entice extra ladies to play soccer and can assist the expansion of Women’s Football in India. Women’s Football in India will be capable of transfer forward to succeed in the worldwide stage.
“This is a World Cup 12 months for Women’s Football and we’ll set a number of actions for the ladies’s sport,” Mr. Chaubey said.
The Executive Committee has decided to create ‘Project Diamond’ for elite players’ development. The FIFA Talent Development Scheme (TDS), led by FIFA Chief of Global Football Development, Arsene Wenger, will play an active role in Project Diamond. All development wings of Indian Football, including those of ISL and I-League clubs, and elite academies, are expected to be a part of it. Project Diamond is aimed at producing an ‘Iconic Star’, who has the quality and skills to play at the highest level of the beautiful game.
An Elite League will be created as a part of Project Diamond — FIFA Talent Development Scheme officials will visit India early in May 2023 to hold discussions on the subject.
Apart from these decisions, the Executive Committee has taken up the task of creating a comprehensive grassroots programme, Blue Cubs, that would help in developing the foundation for Blue Tigers. It also includes an elite grassroots programme that is thoroughly multi-dimensional with collaborations at multiple levels including government NGOS, clubs and others. This is again a part of the Strategic Roadmap ‘Vision 2047’, which aims to engage 35 million children in football by 2026 and take the number up to 100 million by 2047.
AIFF Secretary General Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran said, “We made our vision and our goals very clear and published and articulated them. We will use them as the guiding light and the principles for our work going forward. Based on that, we have come up with action plans and initiatives today. I would like to thank the Executive Committee for deliberating on and approving the projects that will shape the future of Indian Football. This will help us achieve our short and long term goals under Vision 2047.
“We think that this is a day we should celebrate for all the decisions taken towards the improvement of Women’s Football. We are hopeful that this is one decision that will excite, incite and inspire women playing football and the supporters of Women’s Football in India. I am confident that this will lead to an increase in participation and we will see women stars emerge due to the new thrusts and initiatives.
“We have never had a comprehensive grassroots structure and initiatives and we hope that through Blue Cubs and Project Diamond we will be able to have a robust grassroots and an elite player development structure in our system,” he stated.
The Executive Committee has determined to offer equal significance to the novice construction in soccer to boost the extent of aggressive alternative and safety for the gamers at this stage. To execute this, it has determined to introduce the Institutional League, the place 10 groups from throughout the nation will play on a house and away foundation. The winners of the league, the place the groups will likely be determined in a bidding course of, might get a possibility to play in the Cup event on the National stage. This will certainly assist the legacy institutional groups get the heritage remedy.
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