CONDUCTED BY: All India Football Federation (AIFF)

DESCRIPTION:
*     Indian Women League, founded in 2016, is first professional football league for women in India.
*     A total of 16 teams, including two from Odisha, would compete in the 2023 edition.
*     Odisha teams are: Odisha FC and Sports Odisha.
*     Odisha FC would participate in the tournament for the first time.
*     Matches will be held in at two venues in Ahmedabad _ TransStadia and Shahibaug Police Stadium.
*     Winner of the IWL will get a chance to represent India in the AFC Women Club Championship, top-tier women club football competition in Asia.
*     Teams would play league matches in two groups of eight teams each.
*     Top four teams from each group will qualify for the knockout round consisting of single-leg quarter-final, semi-final and the final.
*     Sports Odisha and Odisha FC have been placed in Group A and B respectively.
*     Odisha FC qualified for the IWL by winning the Odisha Women League (OWL) while remaining unbeaten in their 10 games they played.
*     Sports Odisha qualified as the top-four finishers of the IWL 2021-22.
*     Four clubs have been crowned as champions in the IWL so far.
*     The four clubs are: Eastern Sporting Union, Rising Students Club, Sethu FC and Gokulam Kerala FC.
*     Out of them Gokulam Kerala lifted the championship trophy twice.

GROUPINGS:
Group A: Sports Odisha, East Bengal FC, Gokulam Kerala FC, HOPS Football Club, Kahaani Football Club, Mata Rukmani Football Club, Misaka United FC, Mumbai Knights FC.
Group B: Odisha FC, Sethu FC (Tamil Nadu), Kickstart FC (Karnataka), Celtic Queens FC (Pondicherry), Lords FA Kochi (Kerala), Eastern Sporting Union (Manipur), Churchill Brothers (Goa), CRPF FC (Punjab).

MATCHES OF ODISHA FC:
27 April (4:30 PM): Vs Central Reserve Police Force Football Club at TransStadia, Ahmedabad
30 April (8:00 AM): Vs Kickstart FC at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
3 May (8:00 AM): Vs Eastern Sporting Union at TransStadia, Ahmedabad
5 May (8:00 AM): Vs Churchill Brothers FC at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
7 May (4:30 PM): Vs Lords FA Kochi-YMAA at TransStadia, Ahmedabad
10 May (4:30 PM): Vs Celtic Queens FC at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
13 May (4:30 PM): Vs Sethu FC at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad

MATCHES OF SPORTS ODISHA:
26 April (8:00 AM): Vs HOPS Football Club at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
29 April (4:30 PM): Vs Gokulam Kerala FC at TransStadia, Ahmedabad
2 May (4:30 PM): Vs Kahaani Football Club at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
4 May (4:30 PM): Vs Mata Rukmani Football Club at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
6 May (4:30 PM): Vs Mumbai Knights FC at TransStadia, Ahmedabad
9 May (4:30 PM): Vs East Bengal FC at Shahibaug Police Stadium, Ahmedabad
12 May (8:00 AM): Vs Misaka United FC at TransStadia, Ahmedabad