Up to date on: Aug 02, 2025 10:06 pm IST
India’s first FIFA women’ residential academy opens in Hyderabad this month, that includes 30 gamers, alongside a boys’ academy, funded by AIFF and Telangana.
Kolkata: India’s first FIFA residential academy for women with 30 gamers will begin in Hyderabad this month. Beneath a head coach chosen by FIFA, the academy venture at Gachibowli Stadium Complicated may even have 30 boys. The boys’ cohort can be under-14 and the women’ under-16. Each classes may have 10 gamers completely from Telangana.
The choices have been introduced on Saturday following a memorandum of understanding between All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) and the Telangana authorities on the first Telangana Sports activities Conclave in Hyderabad.
“It’s not solely the primary of its type in India but additionally one of many only a few globally underneath FIFA’s Expertise Improvement Scheme,” stated Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy. “It’s a sturdy step ahead in the direction of our purpose of qualifying for the U17 males’s and girls’s FIFA World Cups,” stated AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey.
To be operational from this month, the venture’s value can be round ₹7.23 crore yearly, in response to an AIFF official. FIFA pays round ₹65 lakh which can comprise the top coach’s wage and dwelling value, the official stated. AIFF pays for the remainder of the assist employees, round 10 in all, for the boys’ and women’ academies and it’ll value round ₹61 lakh per 12 months.
The remainder of the quantity, round ₹5.97 crore per 12 months, can be offered by the Telangana authorities, stated the AIFF official. Not authorised to talk to the media, the official didn’t wish to be named. With FIFA, AIFF will repair the coaching curriculum.
The AIFF official stated the top coach, chosen by a crew underneath FIFA’s chief of world soccer Arsene Wenger, for the academy is predicted in Hyderabad on August 26. “The gamers have additionally been chosen after trials supervised by AIFF scouts and FIFA representatives,” stated the official. A brand new coach can also be seemingly for the FIFA academy in Bhubaneswar changing Sergi Fontrodona, the official stated.
