2021 National Women's League (Nepal)

The 2021 National Women's League, also known as Deputy Mayor National Women's League was the 2021 edition of the first-tier women's club football competition in Nepal organized by the All Nepal Football Association. The season started on 21 January.[3][4] It was the first season since 2017/18, as the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal.[5] APF Club was crowned champions on 17 February 2021.

National Women’s League
Season2021
Dates20 January 2021 - 19 February 2021
ChampionsAPF Club
Top goalscorerSabitra Bhandari (43 goals)[1]
Highest scoringAPF 22–0[2] Chaudandigadhi
(1 February 2021)
Longest unbeaten runAPF Club (12 matches)
Longest losing runChandrapur (12 matches)
2022 →
All statistics correct as of 17 February 2021.

Qualification

The season was made up of the teams that qualified for the2019–20 season, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal; the three departmental teams as well as four regionally qualified teams. For the 2019–20 National Women's League season, the three departmental sports teams APF Club, Nepal Army Club, and Nepal Police Club were qualified and were joined by four local teams determined by all four semi-finalists of the Chandrapur Upa Mayor National Women's League Qualification Tournament played between Waling Municipality, Bangsgadhi Municipality, Biratnagar Metropolitan City, Birendranagar Municipality, Barhabise Municipality, Chaudandigadhi Municipality, Bidur Municipality, and Chandrapur Municipality in Chandrapur, Rautahat in February 2020.[6][7]

Team Qualification Method
Biratnagar Metropolitan City Qualification Tournament semi-finalist
Chandrapur Municipality Qualification Tournament winner
Chaudandigadhi Municipality Qualification Tournament semi-finalist
APF Club
Nepal Army Club
Nepal Police Club
Waling Municipality Qualification Tournament Runner-up

Teams
Team Location
Biratnagar Metropolitan City Biratnagar, Morang, Province No. 1
Chandrapur Municipality Chandrapur, Rautahat, Province No. 2
Chaudandigadhi Municipality Chaudandigadhi, Udayapur, Province No. 1
Nepal A.P.F. Club Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province
Tribhuvan Army F.C.
Nepal Police Club
Waling Municipality Waling, Syangja, Gandaki Province

Personnel and kits
Team Head Coach Captain Foreign players Kit Sponsor
Biratnagar Metropolitan City Nepal Paras Chaudary[8] Nepal Kalpana Karki[9] India Purnima Kumari[10]
Chandrapur Municipality Nepal Noor Raj Kafle[11] Nepal Rojina Shrestha[9]
Chaudandigadhi Municipality Nepal Dipak Thapa[12] Nepal Chumlungma Rai[13] India Aimit Lepcha[14][15]
India Angela Bhutia[15]
India Sujata Rai[15]
India Deepshika Biswakarma[15]
Nepal A.P.F. Club Nepal Bhagwati Thapa[11] Nepal Anita Basnet[16] Agni Mahindra
Tribhuvan Army F.C. Nepal Raju Tamang[4] Nepal Kabita Dhimal[17] Bajaj Pulsar
Nepal Police Club Nepal Sanjeev Joshi[12] Nepal Ghim Kumari Gurung[16] Nepal Telecom
Waling Municipality Nepal Dilip Thapa[18] Nepal Saraswoti Hamal[13] Cameroon Metho Elodie Ruth[19]
Cameroon Kiomegne Djomo Vanessa Noelle
Cameroon Djoubi Soline Diane
Cameroon Touta Ornella Evanick Noelle		 Jagdamba Cement

Venues

The league was played centrally in two venues in two cities in the Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal
Kathmandu Lalitpur
Dasarath Rangasala ANFA Complex
Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 6,000

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Nepal A.P.F. Club (C) 12 12 0 0 77 1 +76 36
2 Tribhuvan Army F.C. 12 8 2 2 63 7 +56 26
3 Nepal Police Club 12 5 3 4 28 10 +18 18
4 Waling Municipality 12 5 2 5 26 22 +4 17
5 Biratnagar Metropolitan City 12 5 1 6 16 28 −12 16
6 Chandrapur Municipality 12 3 0 9 12 49 −37 9
7 Chaudandigadhi Municipality 12 0 0 12 4 106 −102 0
Updated to match(es) played on 19 February 2020. Source: ANFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) head-to-head.
(C) Champions

Results
Home \ Away APF BIR CHAN CHAU NPC TAC WAL
Nepal A.P.F. Club — 7–0 6–0 22–0 2–1 6–0
Biratnagar 0–1 — 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–7 1–1
Chandrapur 0–8 0–5 — 2–1 1–3 0–0
Chaudandigadhi 0–14 1–2 1–7 — 0–6 0–12 1–7
Nepal Police Club 0–3 0–1 3–0 — 1–1 0–1
Tribhuvan Army F.C. 1–1 7–0 6–1 9–0 0–0 — 7–0
Waling 0–3 0–1 3–0 10–0 1–0 —
Updated to match(es) played on 17. Source: ANFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Awards

End-of-season awards
Award Winner[20] Club
Best Goalkeeper Usha Nath Nepal Police Club
Best Defender Amrita Jaisi Nepal Police Club
Best Midfielder Bimala Chaudhary Tribhuvan Army F.C.
Best Forward Sabitra Bhandari APF Club
Best Head Coach Bhagwati Thapa APF Club
Most Valuable Player Saru Limbu APF Club
Fair Play Award Chandrapur

Broadcast rights

All matches were streamed live on MyCujoo.[21]

References
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