Indian Club to Compete in AFC Women’s Club Championship 2021 Pilot Tournament

2022 shall be a landmark yr for Indian girls’s soccer with two main worldwide occasions — the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022 and the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 — set to be hosted in India. In the build-up to the mega-events, one other milestone shall be achieved as an Indian membership is ready to function in the AFC Women’s Club Championship 2021, a pilot match being applied quickly by the Asian Football Confederation.

The match will function eight groups from eight completely different nations and shall be performed between October 30 to November 14, 2021. Group A (East) will include consultant golf equipment from Chinese Taipei, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, whereas Group B (West) is ready to function a membership every from India, IR Iran, Jordan and Uzbekistan whereby India are to be represented by the Hero Indian Women’s League champions.

AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das said that the competitors will present a “big enhance” to women’s football in India. “An Indian club playing in the AFC Women’s Club Championship is a great opportunity to boost the growth of women’s football in India. We already have two International events – the AFC Women’s Asian Cup, and the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup lined up in 2022. As a prelude to that, Indian representation in the Club Championship will further redefine women’s football in India to a large extent by capturing the imagination of all fans,” the General Secretary averred.