Kickstart Football Club Women is an Indian women's professional football club from Karnataka. It is the section of Kickstart FC and participates in Indian Women's League, the top flight of Indian women's football. Their best finish in the top tier was runner-up in the 2022–23 season.
History Kickstart FC was founded on 9 July 2016 by Shekar Rajan and Laxman Bhattarai to develop grassroot level football in Karnataka.
Kickstart FC women's team won the Karnataka Women's League seven times continuously in 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 which is the top division women's premier football league in Karnataka.
They have qualified for Indian Women's League twice. In 2019–20 IWL, they finished 3rd in the group stage. They qualified again in 2021-22 where they finished 3rd in the league table, behind eventual champions Gokulam Kerala and Sethu FC.
Kickstart FC directly qualified for 2022–23 IWL as AIFF decided to give direct entry to top 4 teams from 2021 to 2022 season.
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Records and statistics
+ Overall records Season Indian Women's League KWL Top Scorer Player Goals2019–205302679Group stage Champions2021–221190233827Third place Champions2022–231071234816 Runners-up Champions Kioko Elizabeth Katungwa Saru Limbu72023–2412633161821Third place Champions Karishma Shirvoikar8
Honours Domestic Indian Women's League Runners-up (1): 2022–23
Regional Karnataka Women's League Champions (7): 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26
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