AIFF Media Team

NEW DELHI: The draw of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the Sub-Junior Boys' National Football Championship 2024-25, along with Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the Sub-Junior Girls' National Football Championship 2024-25 were conducted at the Football House, on Friday, August 2, 2024.

The Tier 1 of the Sub-Junior Boys' NFC will be played in Karnataka, from September 7. The dates and location of Tier 2 will be announced in due course.

The Tier 1 of the Sub-Junior Girls' National Football Championship will be played in West Bengal from September 2. Tier 2 will be hosted by Madhya Pradesh from September 8.

The Sub-Junior Boys' NFC Tier 1 will see 16 teams equally divided into four groups with the group winners progressing to the semi-finals. The Sub-Junior Boys' NFC Tier 2 will have 17 teams divided into four groups - one group with five and three groups with four - with the group winners progressing to the semi-finals.

Both tiers of the Sub-Junior Girls’ NFC will have 15 teams each divided into four groups - three groups with four and one group with three - and the four group winners will move to the semi-finals.

The 2023-24 edition of the Sub-Junior Boys' NFC Tier 1 saw Mizoram being champions in Berhampore, and Bihar winning the Tier 2 title in Ananthapuram.

Jharkhand were crowned champions of the 2023-24 Sub-Junior Girls' NFC Tier 1 in Amritsar, and Karnataka were the winners of Tier 2 in Belgaum.

The groupings for the Sub-Junior Boys' National Football Championship, Tier 1 (Karnataka, from September 7):

Group A – Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Punjab
Group B - Manipur, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Kerala
Group C - Mizoram, Meghalaya, Odisha, Delhi
Group D - Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal

The groupings for the Sub-Junior Boys' National Football Championship, Tier 2 (Dates and location TBC):

Group A – Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Lakshadweep, Assam, Madhya Pradesh
Group B – Chandigarh, Haryana, Andaman & Nicobar, Tripura
Group C – Pondicherry, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand
Group D - Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh

The groupings for the Sub-Junior Girls' National Football Championship, Tier 1 (West Bengal, from September 2):

Group A – Mizoram, Manipur, Haryana, Tamil Nadu
Group B - Meghalaya, Gujarat, Karnataka, Gujarat
Group C - West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Delhi
Group D – Jharkhand, Punjab, Maharashtra

The groupings for the Sub-Junior Girls' National Football Championship, Tier 2 (Madhya Pradesh, from September 8):

Group A - Pondicherry, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar
Group B - Kerala, Chandigarh, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir
Group C – Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand
Group D – Telangana, Rajasthan, Odisha