The Odisha women's football team (), earlier the Orissa women's football team, is an Indian women's

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team representing the state of

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. The

Football Association of Odisha Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

, a state association of

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, manages the team. The team competes as a member of the

, in the

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, the topmost women's knock-out league of Indian football.

Stadium

Established in 1978, the

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 ...

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, serves as the home ground of Odisha. The 15,000-capacity stadium has hosted several national and international tournaments including the

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, and 2019 Gold Cup. It was one of the venues for the

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. The stadium is also the home base for the national and youth team camps.

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's developmental side, is also based at the Kalinga Stadium.

Personnel

Players

Current squad

The following 22 players were called up for the 2024–25 Senior Women's National Football Championship.

Results and fixtures

2021

2022

2023

Management

Board of directors

Honours

State (senior)

: Winners (1): 2010–11 : Runners-up (6): 2001–02, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2018–19, 2024–25 * National Games : Gold medal (3):

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: Silver medal (3):

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: Bronze medal (1): 2002

State (youth)

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: Runners-up (8): 2002–03, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2017–18 *

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: Winners (1): 2006–07 : Runners-up (7): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2018–19

Others

*Pem Dorjee Memorial Cup : Runners-up: 2009

Notable players

''Below the players, are Indian senior international women's footballers who represented the Odisha women's football team.'' * Sradhanjali Samantaray * Ranjita Mohanty *

Pinky Bompal Magar Pinky Bompal Magar is an Indian former women's association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. She was elected as a member of the technical committee of the All India Football Federation in September 202 ...

* Gitanjali Khuntia * Sasmita Mallik * Prasanti Pradhan * Alochana Senapati * Gayatri Mallick *

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 Wome ...

* Sita Sharma * Suprava Samal * Rashmita Patra * Lochana Munda * Swarnamayee Samal * Bijayalaxmi Sahoo * Tikina Samal *

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 AF ...

Pyari Xaxa Pyari Xaxa (born 18 May 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Indian Women's League club Odisha and the India national team. Club career Xaxa began her football career with the club Kunwarmunda based in he ...

* Jabamani Tudu *

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 Coas ...

References

{{Football in India Football in Odisha Senior Women's National Football Championship teams Organizations with year of establishment missing