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2024 SAFF Women's Championship
The 2024 SAFF Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the SAFF Women's Championship, the Women's association football, international women's football championship contested by the List of women's national association football teams, national teams of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The tournament was played 17–30 October 2024 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Bangladesh women's national football team, Bangladesh was the defending champion. In the 2024 SAFF Women's Championship#Final, final, Bangladesh women's national football team, Bangladesh played against Nepal women's national football team, Nepal on 30 October 2024 at the Dasharath Rangasala, Dasharath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu. Bangladesh won the final match 2–1, claiming their second SAFF title. Participating teams The following seven teams were participated in the tournament. Venue All matches were played at this ground. Draw The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental Dhaka, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deki Lhazom
Deki Lhazom is a Bhutanese professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for the Bhutan women's national football team, Bhutan women's national team. She is the joint highest goal scorer of Bhutan's senior national team with 3 goals. Club career Lhazom began playing football at age eight. She was noticed by a district coach while playing for her school club. She was then invited to the 2017 Milo Cup before entering into the women's academy in Gelephu. After impressing in senior international friendlies against Saudi Arabia women's national football team, Saudi Arabia, she was offered a contract with Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah, women), Al-Ittihad of the Saudi Women's Premier League. By joining the club, she became the first female Bhutanese player in history to play abroad. The Bhutan Football Federation reported that it was initially a one-year contract worth $3000 US Dollar, USD or about Bhutanese ngultrum, Nu. 240,000 per mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 SAFF Women's Championship
The 2014 SAFF Women's Championship was an association football tournament for women's national teams organised by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). It was the third edition of the tournament since the first one in 2010. The competition was contested by the eight SAFF members. The tournament was hosted in Islamabad, Pakistan from 11 to 21 November 2014. In the final, India successfully defended their title by beating Nepal in the final. Host selection On 10 September 2013, SAFF executive committee decided that 3rd SAFF Women's Championship will be held in Pakistan. Venue Jinnah Sports Stadium in Islamabad hosted all the matches. Although entry to all games was free, there were very few local spectators. After a suicide attack one week before start, there were some security concerns but the tournament was considered safe by the Pakistan Football Federation. Some matches were televised. Fixtures and results Draw was done on 10 November 2014 at Manager's meeting. Grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Nepal Football Association
The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) (Nepali language, Nepali: अखिल नेपाल फुटबल संघ (एन्फा)) is the governing body of football in Nepal. It is responsible for the Nepal national football team, men's and Nepal women's national football team, women's national teams as well as club competitions. The organisation was founded in 1951 as the All Nepal Football Association and became affiliated with FIFA in 1972. The current President of ANFA is Pankaj Bikram Nembang. Its current headquarters is located in the ANFA House in ANFA Complex, ANFA Complex, Satdobato. History Pre-ANFA (1921–1950) The entry and initial start-up of football came in Nepal during the Rana regime in 1921. The game was introduced in Nepal by the young players who had learnt this game from other countries. Games was watched by a huge mass of audience and became very famous at that time. However, it is believed that the pioneer of this game in Nepal was Narayan Nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyoti Chouhan
Jyoti Chouhan (born 6 July 1999) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Indian Women's League club Gokulam Kerala and the India national football team. Personal life Chouhan's father died when she was twelve years old. Chouhan has four sisters. She is a native of Sardarpur, India. Club career In 2022, Chouhan signed for Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb after doing well in the trials. She then helped the club winning the domestic league. She scored a hat-trick against Croatian side ZNK Agram, becoming the first Indian professional player to score a hat-trick for a European club. Previously, she played for Indian sides Kenkre and Gokulam Kerala, where she was regarded as one of the club's most important players. International career Chouhan was called up to India women's national football team training camps in 2016 and 2018. She made her national team debut against Chinese Taipei at the 2022 Asian Games. Career statistics International Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bala Devi
Ngangom Bala Devi (born 2 February 1990) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Indian Women's League club Sreebhumi and the India national team. Club career Born in Irengbam village, Bishnupur district in Manipur, Bala Devi grew up playing the game with mainly boys. She was a part of the Manipur U-19 team that took part in the Under-19 Women's Championship in Assam in 2002. After the tournament she was declared the best player of the tournament. She was awarded the same title the next year in 2003. She also earned top-scorer awards at the under-17 level for her state. Eventually, Devi went on to represent the Manipur Senior Women's Football Team in the Senior Women's National Football Championship. She was very influential in her state, winning the women's football championship in 2014, scoring a brace as Manipur defeated Odisha in the final 3–1. This was Manipur's first championship since 2010 and their 17th overall. While playing with Mani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manisha Kalyan
Manisha Kalyan (born 27 November 2001) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek A Division club PAOK and the India women's national team. She won the 2020–21 AIFF Women's Emerging Footballer of the Year and the 2022–23 AIFF Women's Player of the Year awards. She is the first Indian footballer to play in the UEFA Women's Champions League. Early life Manisha was born in Muggowal, located in the district of Horshiarpur, Punjab. She studied in Sant Attar Singh Khalsa Senior Secondary School and graduated from Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women. She started playing football at the age of 13. Brahmjit Singh was the coach who spotted Kalyan's talent as a PE teacher at Government Middle School in her village Muggowal. Club career Gokulam Kerala In 2018, Manisha signed with the newly formed Indian Women's League club Gokulam Kerala. She played a pivotal role in Gokulam's success in the 2019–20 IWL campaign. She scored 2 goals ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Dangmei
Grace Dangmei (born 5 February 1996) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kickstart and the India women's national team. She was part of the team at the 2014 Asian Games and at the 2016 South Asian Games where she scored two goals against Sri Lanka. During the 2016 SAFF Women's Championship, she scored a goal in the first half of the final, helping India clinch its fourth consecutive title at the tournament. Early life Grace Dangmei was born to Simon Dangmei and Rita Dangmei. She belongs to the Rongmei tribe from Dimdailong Village, Kangvai Sub-Division, Churachandpur District, Manipur. Club career Dangmei played the inaugural edition of the Indian Women's League with KRYPHSA and spent another season with the club. She joined Sethu in 2019 for the 3rd edition of the IWL. During the 2018 Indian Women's League, she was awarded the Emerging Player Award. She scored a brace in her first match with Sethu FC against Manipur Police Sports Club on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knockout Stage
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group B
Group B was a set of regulations for Grand tourer, grand touring (GT) cars used in sports car racing and rallying introduced in 1982 by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Although permitted to enter a GT class of the World Sportscar Championship alongside the faster and more popular Group C Sports prototype, prototypes, Group B cars are commonly associated with international rallying during 1982 World Rally Championship, 1982 to 1986 World Rally Championship, 1986, when they were the highest class used in the World Rally Championship (WRC) and regional and national rally championships. The Group B regulations fostered some of the fastest, most powerful, and most sophisticated rally cars ever built, and their era is commonly referred to as the golden era of rallying.''Top Gear'' websiteThe corner that killed Group B However, a series of major accidents, some fatal, were believed to be caused by their outright speed. There was also a major lack of crowd control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group A
Group A is a set of motorsport regulations administered by the FIA covering production derived touring cars for competition, usually in touring car racing and rallying. In contrast to the short-lived Group B and Group C, Group A vehicles were limited in terms of power, weight, allowed technology and overall cost. Group A was aimed at ensuring numerous entries in races of privately owned vehicles. Group A was introduced by the FIA in 1982 to replace the outgoing Group 2 as "modified touring cars", while Group N would replace Group 1 as "standard touring cars". During the early years there were no further formula for production based race cars. Cars from multiple Groups could contest the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers for example until 1997 when the specific World Rally Car formula was introduced as the only option. In recent years Groups A and N have begun to be phased out in eligibility in championships though they continue to form the homologation basis for m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list of cities proper by population density, most densely populated cities in the world with a density of about 34,000 citizens per square kilometers within a total area of approximately 300 square kilometers. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Greater Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia, as well as a major list of largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries, Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks list of cities by GDP, third in South Asia and 39th in the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InterContinental Dhaka
The InterContinental Dhaka is a prominent luxury hotel in Ramna in central Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It opened in 1966 and is owned by the Bangladeshi government. Location The vicinity of the hotel includes the Shahbag roundabout, the Suhrawardy Udyan, Ramna Park, the Dhaka Club, the University of Dhaka, BSMMU, BIRDEM Hospital, the Bangladesh National Museum and official state guest houses. History The Inter-Continental Dacca opened in 1966, when the city, then known as Dacca, was the capital of East Pakistan. The hotel was the first international five-star hotel in what would soon become the nation of Bangladesh. It was designed by architect William B. Tabler. The hotel played host to many important political events in the run up to the independence of Bangladesh, including negotiations on the transfer of power after the 1970 elections. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, it was declared a neutral zone by the International Red Cross. Many buildings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
