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2020–21 Odisha Women's League
The 2020–21 Odisha Women's League was the 8th edition of the Odisha Women's League, the top Odia professional football league, since its establishment in 2011. East Coast Railway zone, East Coast Railway are the defending champions. The league is organised by the Football Association of Odisha (FAO), the official football governing body of Odisha, in association with the Department of Sports and Youth Services (DSYS) of the Government of Odisha. On 27 February 2021, during the press meet and jersey launch ceremony for the 2020–21 season, the league was rechristened as ''Odisha Women's League''. The ceremony took place in the presence of Principal Secretary of Government of Odisha, Department of Sports and Youth Services, Vishal Kumar Dev, and the Honorary Secretary of the Football Association of Odisha (FAO), Avijit Paul, at the Kalinga Stadium. On 28 February 2021, R. Vineel Krishna, Special Secretary to the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, and Director of Government of Odisha, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisha Women's League
The Odisha Women's League (OWL), also known as the FAO Women's League, is the women's top division association football, football league of Odisha, India. The league is among the existing top tier women's football leagues in India. The league is organised every year by the apex football governing body of Odisha, the Football Association of Odisha (FAO), in association with the Department of Sports and Youth Services (DSYS) of the Government of Odisha. It is currently contested by 6 clubs across the state. Since the inception of the Odisha Women's League, a total of four clubs have been crowned champions. East Coast Railway zone, East Coast Railway and Rising Students Club have won the most titles in league history, being crowned champions thrice. Chand Club, Odisha Police, and Sports Authority of India, SAI-STC have won it once. History Odisha Women's League was brought up as AT Group Women's Football League in the year 2011 as Odisha's premier level women's football league. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naveen Patnaik
Naveen Patnaik (; born 16 October 1946) is an Indian politician and writer, who served as the 14th List of Chief Ministers of Odisha, Chief Minister of Odisha from 5 March 2000 to 12 June 2024. His 24-year reign is the List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers, second longest for a chief minister of any Indian state, after Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim. He is the founder & first president of the Biju Janata Dal since 1997. He served as the Union Minister of Steel and Mines from 1998 to 2000 and a member of the Lok Sabha from Aska from 1997 to 2000. Biography Patnaik was born on 16 October 1946 in an aristocratic Karan (caste), Karan family to Biju Patnaik, former List of Chief Ministers of Odisha, Chief Minister of Odisha, and his wife, Gyan Devi. He was educated at the Welham Boys' School in Dehradun, The Lawrence School, Sanawar and later The Doon School. At Doon, he was a classmate of Sanjay Gandhi and three years junior to Rajiv Gandhi, who later became prime minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Competitions In Odisha
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020–21 Indian Women's League Season
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the emdash , longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontalbar , whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes. Typical uses of dashes are to mark a break in a sentence, to set off an explanatory remark (similar to parenthesis), or to show spans of time or ranges of values. The em dash is sometimes used as a leading character to identify the source of a quoted text. History In the early 17th century, in Okes-printed plays of William Shakespeare, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject. The dashes are variously longer (as in ''King Lear'' reprinted 1619) or comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supriya Routray
Supriya Routray (born 12 June 1990) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kickstart FC in the Indian Women's League and the India women's national football team. She was part of the Indian squad at the 2012 SAFF Women's Championship and the 2015–16 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. She also played for the Gokulam Kerala FC in the Indian Women's League. Honours India * SAFF Women's Championship: 2010, 2012, and 2014 * South Asian Games Gold medal– 2016 Rising Students Club *Indian Women's League: 2017–18 Gokulam Kerala *Indian Women's League: 2019–20 Odisha * Senior Women's National Football Championship: 2010–11 * National Games Silver medal: 2022 Railways * Senior Women's National Football Championship The Senior Women's National Football Championship for Rajmata Jijabai Trophy, also known as Senior Women’s National Football Championship or simply the Rajmata Jijabai Trophy since 2024, is a women's football tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juli Kishan
Juli Kishan (born 8 May 1999) is an Indian professional footballer from Odisha, who plays as a defender for the Indian Women's League club Nita FA and the India women's national football team. She has also played for Odisha Police and East Coast Railways. Early life Juli was born in Rourkela to Yogeshwar Kishan. She started playing football in 2016 with Young Association Club in Kuarmunda village. Former player and coach Gitanjali Khuntia spotted her at the U-19 Odisha State camp. She was appointed as a constable by Odisha State Police in June 2021. Career * 2016: She started playing football and was selected for the Odisha team in July to play in the Junior under-19 women's National Football Tournament at Cuttack. * 10 September 2022: Senior India debut against Maldives at SAFF games. * September 2022: SAFF Women's Football Championship, Dasharath Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal. * February 2023: Two friendly matches against Nepal, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisha Police
The Odisha Police, abbreviated either as OP or OPS, is the law enforcement agency for the state of Odisha in India. It is headquartered in Cuttack, the former capital of Odisha. The Odisha Police is headed by a Director General of Police, currently Y.B. Khurania, IPS and falls under the purview of the state's Home Department of the Government of Odisha. The sanctioned personnel strength of Odisha Police is 72,145; comprising women as one-third of its total sanctioned strength in the directly recruited posts of civil constable, sub-inspector and deputy superintendent of police. This ratio of women's representation in the force makes it one of the foremost in that aspect among the police services of India. History Along with the formation of Odisha, the "Orissa Police" was established on April 1, 1936. The department was a force comprising 4000 trained men of all ranks. The Orissa Police Manual Rules (OPMR) was unveiled in 1940 which boasted rules and regulations of the powers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manisa Panna
Manisa Panna (also Manisha, born 20 April 1991) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for the Indian Women's League club Nita FA and the India women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 2015–16 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. She previously played for Gokulam Kerala and Odisha in the Indian Women's League. International career Manisa was part of the Indian team since 2015 and plays as a defender in the national team. She first played in the 2015-16 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Later she also played in the South Asian Games and 2016 SAFF Women's Championship. Career statistics International Honours India * SAFF Women's Championship: 2016 * South Asian Games Gold medal: 2016 Odisha *Indian Women's League: 2023–24 Gokulam Kerala *Indian Women's League: 2019–20 Odisha (state) * Senior Women's National Football Championship: 2010–11 * National Games Silver medal: 2022 Railways * Senior Women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital High School, Bhubaneswar
Capital High School, located in Bhubaneswar, is one of the oldest schools in the Indian state of Odisha and was established in 1951. The school is situated in unit-III near Ram Mandir and is adjacent to St. Joseph's High School and The Blind School. It is affiliated to the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha under State Government of Odisha. Ganesh Chandra Mishra was the first headmaster, taking charge of the newly established school on 16 July 1951. After Mishra, many other teachers such as Laxman Kara and Sarat Chandra Basu have taken over as headmaster and led the school to more success. The school had its Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in April 2012. India Post has released a Special Cover on 60 years of Capital High School Bhubaneswar. Description The notable features of the Capital High School in Bhubaneswar are as follows: * It has given rise to many well known personalities in science, sports, politics and music etc. * Excellent infrastructure within the school premise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalinga Stadium
The Kalinga Stadium is a Multi-purpose stadium, multi-purpose international sports complex in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Its foundation stone was laid by then chief minister of Odisha Biju Patnaik in 1978. It is best known as the home ground of the Indian Super League club Odisha FC since its inception in 2019–20 Indian Super League season, 2019. It was the home ground of the I-League club Indian Arrows from 2018–19 I-League, 2018 until 2021–22 I-League, 2022. It is situated in the heart of Bhubaneswar near Nayapalli area. It has facilities for Sport of athletics, athletics, association football, football, field hockey, tennis, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, Climbing wall, wall climbing and Swimming (sport), swimming. Other features of the stadium include an 8-lane synthetic athletics track, high performance centres, and India's first Olympic standard pink and blue water-based AstroTurf. History The Government of Odisha gained widespread reputation for the succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Students Club
Rising Students Club is a professional multisports club based in Cuttack, Odisha, India. The club plays in the FAO League, the fourth tier of Indian football and top tier of Odisha state football. It played in the Indian Women's League, the top tier of Indian women's football, and currently participates in the Odisha Women's League. Rising Students Club were the champions of the Indian Women's League in the 2017–18 season. Women's team records Seasons 2019 squad Honours Men's * FAO League **Runners-up (3): 2010, 2015, 2019 *FAO Super Cup **Runners-up (1): 2018 Women's *Indian Women's League **Champions (1): 2017–18 **Runners-up (1): 2016–17 *FAO Women's League **Champions (3): 2013, 2017, 2020–21 References External links Rising Student's Clubat Soccerway at AIFF AIFF may refer to: * Audio Interchange File Format * All India Football Federation, the national governing body of Association football in India Film festivals * Addis In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
