Sethu Football Club is an Indian women's professional football club based in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, that participates in the Indian Women's League, the top flight of Indian women's football. They won their first IWL in 2018–19 season.
History The club was founded by S. M. Seeni Mohaideen in 2016, in order to provide a platform for women's footballers of Tamil Nadu to play competitively at the national tiers. With the girls recruited from veteran football coach Mariappan's academy who had earlier represented Jeppiaar Institute, they went to form the core of the team and then of the Tamil Nadu women's football team which won the nationals in 2018. They participated and won the inaugural edition of the Tamil Nadu Women's League in the 2019–20 season.
Sethu made their IWL debut in the 2017–18 season. They won their maiden league title in the 2018–19 season.
Ground Sethu are based in Madurai, but play their home matches in the top tier league at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Chennai.
Squad
Personnel Technical staff
Position Name Head coach Manoj Joshi Assistant coach Surbhi Manjrekar Goalkeeping coach Jeya Prakash J. Physio Akshayaa Head of Women's Football Kusum Bi Shaikh Head of Operations Parthiban Media manager Vivian Paul Kit manager Suman
Honours Domestic Indian Women's League Champions (1): 2018–19 Runners-up (1): 2021–22
Regional Tamil Nadu Women's League Champions (3): 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
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