Nita Football Academy (NFA) has been in a position to safe a ticket to compete within the 2024-25 season of the Indian Women’s League (IWL) – well-known as the highest tier girls’s skilled soccer league in India.
Bhubaneswar, May 30, 2024: Going down within the annals of Odisha soccer historical past in addition to including an excellent feather in its cap, Nita Football Academy (NFA) has been in a position to safe a ticket to compete within the 2024-25 season of the Indian Women’s League (IWL) – well-known as the highest tier girls’s skilled soccer league in India.
NFA achieved the glory by ending as runners-up within the inaugural version of the IWL-2, the second tier girls’s soccer league of the nation, which concluded with the ultimate spherical at Mapusa-based Duler Stadium in Goa on May 28, 2024.
Both NFA and Sreebhumi Football Club (Kolkata) tied for the title by garnering 10 factors every within the closing spherical that featured six groups.
The purpose distinction additionally couldn’t break the impasse as each groups (NFA & Sreebhumi) have been levelled at 8-8.
However, Sreebhumi FC emerged champions on the idea of head-to-head and emerged champions in addition to certified for IWL 2024-25.
Notably, NFA began their marketing campaign with a 1-3 loss to Sreebhumi FC earlier on May 10. But, the resurgent Odisha crew NFA bounced again into the titlte race by profitable three of their final 4 matches and drawing one.
NFA capped the Final Round marketing campaign trouncing SAG Football Academy 8-1 of their fifth and final match. Sikha Mallik spearheaded the NFA assault by scoring 4 targets and a complete of seven within the Final Round.
Eventually, NFA certified for the Final Round by ending second with eight factors within the Preliminary League (Group-A), which was held earlier at Amal Dutta Krirangan in Kolkata from March 24 to April 1, 2024. While the Odisha crew (NFA) performed 4 matches, gained two and drew two.
Pertinent to notice that, NFA is the third crew from Odisha to function in IWL 24-25 .The different two groups are Odisha FC and Sports Odisha.
Group Stage (Group-B):
March 24, 2024 (Match 1) : NFA (Lalita Boypai 39) drew with CASA Barwani (Kuni Munda 72-P) 1-1. PoM: Priya Rui Das (NFA).
March 26, 2024 (Match 2) : NFA (Priya Rui Das 4, 69, Nibedita Nayak 21) beat Pune Krida Prabhodhini (Aditi Gadekar 39, Vaishnavi Pawar 49) 3-2. PoM: Priya Rui Das.
March 28, 2024 (Match 3) : NFA (Deblina Bhattacharjee 46, Babita Kumar 90+1) beat MGM Ambush 2-0. PoM: Babita Kumari.
April 1, 2024 (Match 4) : NFA drew with Sreebhumi FC 0-0. PoM: Sujata Mahata (Sreebhumi FC).
FINAL ROUND:
May 20, 2024 (Match 1) : NFA (Sikha Mallik 70) misplaced to Sreebhumi FC (Kai Rumi 2, Rimpa Haldar 57, Mousumi Murmu 74) 1-3. PoM: Mousumi Murmu.
May 22, 2024 (Match 2): NFA (Babita Kumari 61, Roshni Tigga 67) beat Pudhuvai Unicorns (Keerthana M 8) 2-1. PoM: Babita Kumari.
May 24, 2024 (Match 3) : NFA (Babita Kumari 64) drew with Tuem (Fatima Braganza 56) 1-1. PoM: Laxmi Tamnag (Tuem).
May 26, 2024 (Match 4): NFA (Sikha Mallik 57, 90, Roshni Tigga 83) beat Gharwal United (Shruti Kumari 86) 3-1. PoM: Sikha Mallik.
May 28, 2024 (Match 5) : NFA (Sikha Mallik 27, 33, 80, 88, Babita Kumari 44, 87, Lalita Boypai 71, Roshni Tigga 90+1) beat SAG Football Academy (Guddi Gundiya 55) 8-1. PoM: Sikha Mallik.
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About NFA: Nita Football Academy (NFA) – a personal soccer academy based mostly at Dhabaleswar Polytechnique Institute, Radha Damodarpur, Khuntuni, Cuttack – was based on August 20, 2018 headed by Er Subrat Das as its Chairman and Arun Parija as Secretary.
While this residential academy (NFA) has 110 registered gamers from Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal, it’s geared up with high quality infrastructure, certified coaches and assist employees. It additionally gives free schooling to its trainees.
NFA TEAM: Malti Kumari (GK), Pipli Mohanty (Captain), Pratima Bangal, Joshna Lakra, Nishima Kumari, Roshni Tigga, Deblina Bhattacharjee, Lalita Boypai, Babita Kumari, Priya Rui Das, Sikha Mallik, Sakro Hembram, Sushmita Kumari, Nibedita Nayak, Anjali Gurumayum, Provati Barla, Asrafi Khatun, Titli Sarkar, Kranti Oraon, M, Roshni, Roshni Baskey, Gayatri Das, Naina Kumari, Anisha Oraon, Anju Kavita, Mamta Kumari.
Chief Coach: Surajit Ghosh and Pratima Biswas
Assistant Coach: Dhaneswar
Tirkey and Sasmita Sahoo
Manager: Pradeep Kumar Rout.
