The 2017–18 Indian Women's League season was the second season of the

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. The qualifiers for the league will start from 25 November 2017.

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won the 2017–18 Indian Women's League.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was scheduled to be held from 25 November 2017 to 8 December 2017 at Rajarshi Shahu Stadium in

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. 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

Team locations

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Eastern Sporting Union Eastern Sporting Union, generally known as ESU in Manipur, is an Indian professional association football, football club based in Imphal, Manipur. It's women's team competed in the Indian Women's League. Eastern Sporting Union is one of the mos ...

qualified for final round by topping

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respectively. Due to unavailability of teams from

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, four more teams from qualification round Sethu FC,

Indira Gandhi AS&E Indira Gandhi AS&E (formerly known as ''Jeppiaar Institute FC'') is an Indian women's association football club based in Puducherry, that competes in the Indian Women's League. History Indira Gandhi AS&E was formed as Jeppiaar Institute F.C. i ...

, India Rush Soccer and KRYPHSA are promoted to final round.

Foreign players

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

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Group stage

Knock-out Stage

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Season awards

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

References

External links

All India Football Federation
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