Indian Women's League
The Indian Women's League is the top division women's professional football league in India with the first season kicking off in Cuttack in October 2016. The league is run by the All India Football Federation.
History
Since 1991, the top women's football tournament in India has been the Indian Women's Football Championship. The tournament served as a female equivalent of the Santosh Trophy, with states competing against each other. There had never been an organized national football league for women; however, leagues were started by state associations for women. The first women's state football league was set up in 1976 in Manipur. The Indian Football Association of West Bengal founded the Calcutta Women's League in 1993. Leagues were also started in Mumbai and Goa in 1998 and 1999 respectively.In 2014, after the success of the India women's team, mainly in the SAFF Women's Championship, a push to start a women's football league, mainly along the lines of the recently started and successful Indian Super League, started. Clubs such as Pune and Bengaluru FC had expressed interest in the joining a women's league. It was around this time that the All India Football Federation started plans to create the ISL-style league for women.
On 21 April 2016, over a year after the AIFF started plans for a women's football league, the AIFF President, Praful Patel, said that a women's football league would kick off in October 2016 with six teams to be decided, with the goal to expand to eight teams by 2017. Just over two months later, on 5 July 2016, the AIFF organized a workshop to discuss the India women's national team and discuss the proposed women's football league. Five Indian Super League sides and three I-League teams attended the workshop. It was announced that the league would feature the eight teams in the league and two other spots would be determined through a pre-qualification round.
On 14 October, the AIFF announced that the preliminary rounds for the Women's League would begin on 17 October 2016 in which ten teams are split into two groups of five teams each, with the winner from each group qualifying for the national finals.
Seasons
Season 1 (2016–17 )
On 24 January 2017, AIFF launched the first ever women's professional league with six teams. The participating teams – FC Alakhpura, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology FC, Aizawl FC , FC Pune City , Rising Student's Club and Eastern Sporting Union play each other in a round-robin format with the top four teams advancing to the semifinals. All matches of the two-week Indian Women's League were played at Delhi's Ambedkar Stadium with the first match scheduled for Saturday, January 28.Season 2 (2017–18)
The final round of the season was played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Shillong. Rising Student's Club from Odisha were crowned champions after beating Eastern Sporting Union.Season 3 (2018–19)
Indian Women's League season 3 main round started on 5 May 2019. All matches to be played in Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana, Punjab. The 2018–19 IWL will have 12 teams, divided into two groups. The teams will play each other once and the top two teams will compete in the semi-final.Season 4 (2019–20)
Indian Women's League season 4 main round started on 24 January 2020. All matches were played in Bangalore Football Stadium, Bengaluru, Karnataka. The 2019–20 IWL will have 12 teams, divided into two groups. The teams will play each other once and the top two teams will compete in the semi-final. Gokulam Kerala were crowned champions after beating KRYPHSA F.C. 3-2 in the final.| Group A | Group B |
| Baroda Football Academy | Bangalore United FC |
| BBK Dav FC | Bidesh XI FC |
| FC Kolhapur City | Odisha Police FC |
| Kickstart FC | Kenkre FC |
| KRYPHSA | Sreebhumi FC |
| Sethu | Gokulam Kerala |
Results
Winning head coaches
| Head Coach | Club | Wins | Winning season |
 | Eastern Sporting Union | 1 | 2016−17 |
| Sukla Dutta | Rising Student's Club | 1 | 2017−18 |
| Amrutha Aravind | Sethu FC | 1 | 2018−19 |
| Priya PV | Gokulam Kerala | 1 | 2019–20 |
Prizes
Prize money
As updated on 14 February 2020.| Position | Purse |
| Champions | 10 Lakhs |
| 1st Runners-up | 5 Lakhs |
| Most Valuable Player | 1.25 Lakhs |
| Top Goalscorer | 1 Lakh |
| Best Goalkeeper | 1 Lakh |
| Emerging Player | 75 Thousand |
Stats and Players
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Seasons | Goals |
| 1 | Ngangom Bala Devi | 2 | 38 |
| 2 |  Sabitra Bhandari | 2 | 31 |
| 3 | Nongmaithem Ratanbala Devi | 3 | 25 |
| 3 | Sandhiya Ranganathan | 4 | 25 |
| 5 | Yumnam Kamala Devi | 3 | 22 |
| 6 | Dangmei Grace | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Anju Tamang | 4 | 15 |
| 8 | Karishma Shirvoikar | 2 | 11 |
| 9 | Manisha Kalyan | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | Irom Prameshwori Devi | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | Kashmina M. S. | 3 | 9 |
| 12 | Sanju Yadav | 3 | 8 |
| 13 | Sasmita Malik | 1 | 7 |
| 13 | Pyari Xaxa | 3 | 7 |
| 13 | Soumya Guguloth | 1 | 7 |
| 16 |  Sabina Khatun | 1 | 6 |
| 16 | Jabamani Tudu | 3 | 6 |
| 18 |  Fazila Ikwaput | 1 | 5 |
| 18 | Heigrujam Daya Devi | 1 | 5 |
| 18 | Indumathi Kathiresan | 3 | 5 |
| 18 | Pradeepa Sekar | 3 | 5 |
| 18 | Sumithra Kamaraj | 2 | 5 |