Sethu FC
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| Full name | Sethu Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 2016[1] | |||
| Ground | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (league matches) | |||
| Capacity | 40,000 | |||
| Owner | S. M. Seeni Mohaideen | |||
| Head coach | Manoj Joshi | |||
| League | Indian Women's League | |||
| 2024–25 | IWL, 5th of 8 | |||
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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.[2][3][4] They won their first IWL in 2018–19 season.
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.[5] They participated and won the inaugural edition of the Tamil Nadu Women's League in the 2019–20 season.[6][7][8]
Sethu made their IWL debut in the 2017–18 season. They won their maiden league title in the 2018–19 season.[9][10]
Ground
Sethu are based in Madurai, but play their home matches in the top tier league at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Chennai.[11][12]
Squad
- As of December 2025[13]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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