2022–23 Calcutta Women's Football League

Calcutta Women's Football League

Season	2022–23
Dates	20 December 2022–28 January 2023[1]
Champions	East Bengal (2nd title)
Matches played	100
Goals scored	614 (6.14 per match)
Best Player	Sulanjana Raul (East Bengal)
Top goalscorer	Sujata Mahata (23 goals) (New Alipore Suruchi Sangha)
Best goalkeeper	Gurubari Mandi (Sreebhumi)
Biggest home win	East Bengal 35–0 Behala Aikya Sammilani 10 January 2023
Biggest away win	Jubak Sangha 0–16 KFA Southern Samity 27 December 2022 Akhil Bhartiya AVP 0–16 Sreebhumi 20 January 2023
Highest scoring	East Bengal 35–0 Behala Aikya Sammilani
Longest winning run	10 matches East Bengal
Longest unbeaten run	10 matches East Bengal
Longest losing run	6 matches Kolkata Union Sporting Club Behala Aikya Sammilani Durbar Sports Academy Akhil Bhartiya
← 2021–22 2023–24 → All statistics correct as of 28 January 2022.

2022–23 Calcutta Women's Football League was the 27th season of the Calcutta Women's Football League, also known as the Kanyashree Cup.^[2][3][4]

The season consists of 32 teams participating in the league, with the teams in the group stage divided into four groups consisting of eight teams each. The top two teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage. Each team consists of a maximum of four outstation players and every team has two under-17 players. IFA has also appointed an "Integrity Officer" in each team for the sake of women footballers.^[5] On 28 January 2023, East Bengal defeated Sreebhumi 1–0 in the final to lift the Kanyashree Cup title and qualified for the Indian Women's League.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

CWFL Participants

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Akhil Bhartiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad	Adivasi United Students Club	Adivasi Taruni Bragen Sangha	Bhangore Sports Welfare Foundation
Chandney SC	All Airlines Recreation Club	ASOS Rainbow AC	Durbar Sports Academy
Invention FCC	Bally Gramanchal Krira Samity	Bidyut Sporting Club	GC Roy Memorial FC
J.B. Pur Women FA	Behala Aikya Sammilani	Jubak Sangha	Jyotirmoy Athletic Club
Manick Football CC	Dipti Sangha FC	KFA Southern Samity	Kalighat Sports Lovers Association
Sevayani S.W. Org	East Bengal	New Alipore Suruchi Sangha	Mohammedan Sporting
Sreebhumi FC	Kolkata Union Sporting Club	Police AC	Moitree Sansad
Youth Footballers Welfare Association	WB Police Club	Sarojini Naidu OSC	Rampur Milan Sangha

• Rabindra Sarobar Stadium
• East Bengal Ground
• Naihati Stadium
• Amal Dutta Stadium (Dumdum Surer Match)
• Mohammedan Sporting Ground
• Rishi Aurobindo Maidan, Konnagar
• Bidhannagar Sports Complex
• SAI Ground, Salt Lake
• Mohun Bagan Ground
• Netaji Sports Complex, Kamalgazi
• Barrackpore Stadium
• Dr Ambedkar Ground, Gayeshpur
• Kishore Bharati Krirangan

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sreebhumi	7	7	0	0	77	0	+77	21	Advanced to Knockout stage
2	Chandney SC	6	5	0	1	27	13	+14	15
3	Invention FCC	7	4	1	2	22	17	+5	13
4	Sevayani S.W. Org	6	3	0	3	14	24	−10	9
5	Manick Football CC	7	2	2	3	8	16	−8	8
6	J.B. Pur Women FA	5	1	1	3	10	25	−15	4
7	Youth Footballers Welfare Association	4	0	0	4	3	14	−11	0
8	Akhil Bhartiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad	6	0	0	6	0	52	−52	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	East Bengal	7	7	0	0	64	0	+64	21	Advanced to Knockout stage
2	WB Police Club	7	5	1	1	34	7	+27	16
3	Bally Gramanchal Krira Samity	7	4	1	2	35	14	+21	13
4	Adivasi United Students Club	7	3	2	2	22	9	+13	11
5	All Airlines Recreation Club	7	2	2	3	22	17	+5	8
6	Dipti Sangha FC	7	2	2	3	15	10	+5	8
7	Kolkata Union Sporting Club	6	0	0	6	1	50	−49	0
8	Behala Aikya Sammilani	6	0	0	6	0	86	−86	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	ASOS Rainbow AC	6	6	0	0	51	2	+49	18	Advanced to Knockout stage
2	New Alipore Suruchi Sangha	5	4	0	1	45	4	+41	12
3	KFA Southern Samity	5	3	0	2	25	6	+19	9
4	Sarojini Naidu OSC	5	2	0	3	13	21	−8	6
5	Jubak Sangha	5	2	0	3	6	46	−40	6
6	Adivasi Taruni Bragen Sangha	5	1	0	4	5	36	−31	3
7	Police AC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Bidyut Sporting Club	5	0	0	5	0	30	−30	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Moitree Sansad	7	5	1	1	29	4	+25	16	Advanced to Knockout stage
2	Mohammedan Sporting	6	5	1	0	25	1	+24	16
3	Kalighat Sports Lovers Association	6	5	0	1	39	3	+36	15
4	Jyotirmoy Athletic Club	7	4	0	3	10	9	+1	12
5	GC Roy Memorial FC	6	2	0	4	7	16	−9	6
6	Bhangore Sports Welfare Foundation	6	2	0	4	7	31	−24	6
7	Rampur Milan Sangha	6	1	0	5	6	27	−21	3
8	Durbar Sports Academy	6	0	0	6	1	33	−32	0

The top two placed teams from each of the four groups qualified for the knockout stage.

Group	Winners	Runner-up
A	Sreebhumi	Chandney SC
B	East Bengal	WB Police Club
C	ASOS Rainbow AC	New Alipore Suruchi Sangha
D	Mohammedan Sporting	Kalighat SLA

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	22 January 2023
	Sreebhumi	4
					25 January 2023
	Kalighat SLA	1
					Sreebhumi	1
	22 January 2023
					WB Police Club	0
	WB Police Club	4
									28 January 2023
	ASOS Rainbow AC	0
									Sreebhumi	0
	23 January 2023
									East Bengal	1
	Chandney SC	0
					25 January 2023
	Mohammedan Sporting	1
					Mohammedan Sporting	0
	23 January 2023
					East Bengal	3
	East Bengal	2
	New Alipore Suruchi Sangha	1

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sreebhumi	4–1	Kalighat SLA
WB Police Club	4–0	ASOS Rainbow AC
East Bengal	2–1	New Alipore Suruchi Sangha
Chandney SC	0–1	Mohammedan Sporting

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sreebhumi	1–0	WB Police Club
Mohammedan Sporting	0–3	East Bengal

The 2022–23 Kanyashree Cup final was held at the Kishore Bharati Krirangan on 28 January 2023 between Sreebhumi and East Bengal. East Bengal reached their fourth final, having won the tournament once previously back in 2001, and been runner-up twice in 2002 and 2020. They had defeated Mohammedan Sporting 3–0 in the semi-final. Whereas, Sreebhumi reached their second final, being runner-up in 2019. They had defeated W.B. Police Club 1–0 in the semi-final. The match kicked off with East Bengal leading the proceedings from the beginning and dominating possession but could not break the deadlock. The solitary goal game in the eighty-eighth minute of the match when a long throw-in from Anita Oraon was partially cleared which fell onto the feet of Kabita Saren, who put in a cross and was met by Sulanjana Raul with a header that found the back of the net at the far post. East Bengal managed to hold onto the lead for the remainder of the game and was crowned as the 2022–23 Kanyashree Cup winners, lifting their second title after 2001.^[6][7]

Sreebhumi

East Bengal

GK 21 Gurubari Mandi RB 27 Atasi Pal CB 3 Mugli Soren CB 4 Mamata Singh (c) LB 5 Pratima Mahata CM 14 Mugli Hembram CM 7 Mamata Hansda RW 9 Mamata Mahata  90+3' LW 11 Chapa Mistry CF 28 Roshni Verma LF 12 Tulsi Hembram Substitutions: GK 1 Hansika Gond FW 8 Sombari Hembram DF 36 Sonia Murmu MF 20 Dolly Kumari  90+3' FW 4 Pungi Mandi MF 17 Kakali Hansda MF 15 Singo Murmu FW 16 Sonali Mondal FW 18 Priyasa Sarkar FW 25 Sonali Karmakar Head Coach: Pratima Biswas

GK 41 Buli Sarkar (c) RB 2 Anita Oraon CB 5 Ratna Halder  64' CB 4 Mini Roy LB 3 Riya Sarkar CM 7 Puja Karmakar  45' CM 8 Kabita Saren LW 25 Shivani Toppo CF 14 Rimpa Halder CF 22 Sulanjana Raul RW 21 Mousumi Murmu Substitutions: GK 51 Mamani Das FW 10 Aishwarya Arun Jagtap DF 24 Poli Koley MF 20 Trisha Mallick FW 18 Tanushre Oraon MF 9 Tamalika Sarkar MF 11 Barnali Karar  45' FW 28 Deblina Bhattacharjee FW 15 Gita Das FW 16 Sushmita Bardhan Head Coach: Sujata Kar

Player of the Match: Sulanjana Raul (East Bengal) Assistant referees: Sujata Palit Sandhya Rana Fourth official: Monika Jana Match commissioner: Debjit Das

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Ten named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.

The following awards were announced at the end of the season:^[2]

• Emerging Player of the Tournament: Sulanjana Raul (East Bengal)
• Highest Goalscorer: Sujata Mahata (New Alipore Suruchi Sangha) – 23 goals in 7 matches
• Best Goalkeeper: Gurubari Mandi (Sreebhumi)