NEW DELHI: East Bengal FC scripted a brand new chapter in Indian soccer historical past on Thursday, producing a staggering 12-0 victory over Rovers FC of Guam within the AFC Girls’s Champions League 2026-27 preliminary stage.The Moshal Ladies’ emphatic triumph is now the biggest-ever victory by an Indian membership in an Asian competitors, surpassing East Bengal’s personal males’s file of a 9-0 win over Membership Valencia of the Maldives within the 1985-86 Asian Membership Championship.The consequence was East Bengal’s second successive win within the preliminary stage and places the Indian Girls’s League champions one victory away from reaching the group stage. They may face Malaysia’s Sabah FA on Sunday, with a spot within the subsequent part at stake.
East Bengal run riot after early breakthrough
East Bengal wasted little time asserting their dominance. Priyangka Devi Naorem opened the scoring within the sixth minute when her effort from exterior the field struck the left submit earlier than discovering the online.Rovers goalkeeper Jae Almonte then spilled Anju Chanu Kayenpaibam’s effort within the fifteenth minute, permitting Astam Oraon to react shortly and rating from the rebound.Priyangka doubled her tally seven minutes later, breaking into the field earlier than calmly lifting the ball over the advancing Almonte to offer East Bengal a commanding 3-0 lead.The IWL champions confirmed no indicators of easing off after the interval. Sulanjana Raul’s Forty eighth-minute cross took a deflection and fell kindly for Olivia Anokye, who completed from shut vary.A minute later, Soumya Guguloth delivered a pinpoint cross for Abigail Antwi, who headed dwelling East Bengal’s fifth.
Objectives hold coming as file is shattered
The floodgates remained open. Almonte parried Shilky Devi Hemam’s curling effort within the 51st minute, however Sulanjana was quickest to the rebound and made it 6-0.Shilky then obtained her personal title on the scoresheet 5 minutes later, curling one other effort from simply exterior the field into the top-left nook.Olivia scored her second within the 58th minute with a low end from contained in the field, earlier than Abena Opoku added one other six minutes later with a strong strike.East Bengal continued their relentless assault deep into the closing phases, with Abena scoring once more within the seventieth minute and Anju discovering the online three minutes later.Soumya accomplished the rout in stoppage time at 90+3, taking East Bengal’s tally to 12 and confirming the largest victory ever recorded by an Indian membership in Asian competitors.After a 4-0 victory over Rajshahi Stars FC of Bangladesh of their opening match, East Bengal now want yet one more win in opposition to Sabah FA to show their historic begin into a spot within the AFC Girls’s Champions League group stage.
