India women's national under-17 football team

FIFA first organised the U-17 Women's World Cup in the year 2008 and has since organised it on every even years. From Asia, the top three teams from AFC U-16 Women's Championship get qualified for the world cup, but India failed to qualify any of AFC championships since 2007 edition to 2017, thus failed to qualify for the first six editions of the World Cup.[1][2]

India is selected as the host of the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and thus automatically got qualified for the tournament. It is supposed to be their first participation in the World Cup, but their participation was under threat after the All India Football Federation was suspended by FIFA and the hosting rights for the tournament were stripped from India. However, the AIFF was later reinstated by FIFA and the tournament rights were given back to India, confirming their participation for the tournament.[3][4][5]

India women's U17 team first played their international match at the inaugural edition of AFC U-16 Women's Championship in 2005 where they first faced Thailand and got defeated by 6−4 on 16 April 2005. In the second match South Korea defeated them again by 7−0, but in the third match India registered their first win defeating Indonesia by 6−0 but they failed to proceed beyond the group stage. This was India's only AFC Women's U16 Championship campaign, as they failed to qualify any of the championships held since, which is being organised by AFC on every odd years.[1]

SAFF U15 Women's championship was first organised in 2017, where India became runners-up after being defeated by Bangladesh by a solitary goal.[6][7] In the next edition in 2018, the final was repeated again, but this time India beat Bangladesh by a solitary goal and become the SAFF champion.[8] In the 2019 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, India and Bangladesh reached the final for the third time. Both the teams failed to score any goals within the regulation time. Thus penalty shoot-out became the match decider where Bangladesh failed to convert the first spot kick, which resulted in India becoming the champion by a 5−3 result in the shoot-out.[9]

In 2018, at the second edition of BRICS U-17 Football Cup, which is a U-17 Football tournament played among teams of five BRICS countries, the U17 women's teams of the respective countries were invited to play in the tournament.[10][11] India played round robin matches, first against South Africa, and suffered a loss by 5−1, then suffered another defeat against Russia by 3−1. In their next match Brazil defeated them by 5−0 and in their last match they lost 2−1 to China.

• The following 20 players were called up for 2023 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship.[13]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
20	1GK	Khushi Kumari		3	0
	1GK	Sarangthem Khambi Chanu				Delhi
	1GK	Anisha Oraon	(2006-11-28) 28 November 2006	1
2	2DF	Akhila Rajan		1		Gokulam Kerala
3	2DF	Thoibisana Chanu Toijam		2		Manipur
4	2DF	Heena Khatun (Captain)		4	0
5	2DF	Vikshit Bara		2
6	2DF	Juhi Singh		3	0	Delhi
	2DF	Nishima Kumari
	2DF	Thoi Thoi Devi Yendrenbam		1		Manipur
	2DF	Arya Anilkumar
	2DF	Irom Sonibia Devi		1		Manipur
7	3MF	Shibani Devi Nongmeikapam		4	1	Manipur
8	3MF	Babita Kumari		2	1	Manipur
10	3MF	Shilji Shaji		3	11	Gokulam Kerala
12	3MF	Lalita Boypai		4	0
	3MF	Menaka Devi Lourembam		2	0	Manipur
	3MF	Ribahunshisha Kharshiing				Manipur
	3MF	Shaulina Dang				Gokulam Kerala
	3MF	Shivani Toppo	(2008-11-28) 28 November 2008	1		Gokulam Kerala
	3MF	Shevta Rani
	3MF	Sulanjana Raul		2	1	East Bengal
	3MF	Remi Thokcham		1
17	4FW	Cindy Remruatpuii Colney		2		Mizoram
15	4FW	Pooja		4	4
	4FW	Kajal Kumari