2001 Calcutta Women's Football League was the 9th season of the Calcutta Women's Football League.
The season consisted of twelve teams divided into two groups. The top four teams of each group would qualify for the knockouts where they would face each other in the quarterfinals. This was the first season that Kolkata giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan formed and fielded their women's teams with East Bengal clinching the final 1–0 against Mohun Bagan to lift their first-ever title. Shanta Dhara scored the winning goal in the final.
Teams +CWFL ParticipantsGroup A Group B Bidyut Sporting Bally Gramanchal East Bengal Itika Memorial Income Tax Jubak Sangha Kasba Samannay Mohun Bagan Nabajanma Sangha NPC Academy Young Footballers Rampur Milan Sangha
Group stage
Group A
Matches
Group B
Matches
Knockout stage Qualified teams The top four placed teams from each of the two groups qualified for the knockout stage.
Group A Group B Mohun Bagan Income Tax Jubak Sangha East Bengal Bally Gramanchal Nabajanma Sangha Itika Memorial Young Footballers
Bracket
Quarter-finals
+Team 1ScoreTeam 2Mohun Bagan2–0Young FootballersNabajanma Sangha2–0Jubak SanghaIncome Tax3–0Itika MemorialEast Bengal4–0Bally Gramanchal Matches
Semi-finals
+Team 1ScoreTeam 2Mohun Bagan6–0Nabajanma SanghaIncome Tax0–1East Bengal
Matches
Final Summary The 2001 Calcutta Women's Football League final was held at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium on 16 March 2001 between Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, in the very first season of their formation. This match would thus remain recorded as the first-ever women's Kolkata Derby between the two teams. East Bengal women's team clinched the match 1–0 courtesy of a solitary goal from forward Shanta Dhara in the twenty-third minute of the game as East Bengal held onto the lead and lifted their first-ever Calcutta Women's Football League title.
Match
GK Ranjita KhanRB Maria D'RebelloCB Madhu KumariCB Dulali GhoshLB Jayanti BaruaCM Naushaba Alam CM Mausam Kumari RW Swati KumariLW Kalpana SahooCF Anjana Kumari LF Rinku GhoshSubstitutions:CM Sanju Kumari CM Seema Dey FW Papia Ghosh GK Namita BagRB Prathama PriyadarshiniCB Nesha KumariCB Momo GogoiLB Nazda TabassumCM Rajani AlankarCM Sharmila SapuiRW Swapna KumariLW Sashi KumariFW Sujata KarFW Shanta Dhara Substitutions: Player of the Match:Shanta Dhara (East Bengal)Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Golden goal ends game. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions allowed.
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