India qualify for AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2026 after 23 years | Meet the Indian women’s football team

Indian women’s football team has quietly made history by qualifying for the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2026.

With grit, determination and passion, the team transformed into a match winner, with clear wins against Mongolia, Timur-Leste, Iraq and Thailand in the qualifiers.

DH’s Hita Prakash met the players while they were training for over a month in Bengaluru, to find out what brought about the transformation in an incredibly short time.

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