A women's football academy built for the professional pathway
The She Kicks Football Academy is a girls' and women's football academy built around one idea: give a girl a serious route from her first touch to the professional game. It runs on a women-specific curriculum designed by Aditi Chauhan, with sports technology woven through every stage of development. This is She Kicks, India's first women-centric football programme, established in 2018.
Age-Specific Professional Coaching designed for Women, by a woman who played at the TOP
Most academies in this country teach girls a version of the men's game and hope it transfers. She Kicks starts somewhere else. The academy runs on a women-specific football curriculum designed by Aditi Chauhan, who captained India and became the first Indian to play for a Premier League club, and who has since put that experience into how young female players are actually developed. Technology is woven in across the pyramid, so the way a beginner is coached and the way a committed player is measured come from the same considered plan rather than being left to chance.
Built for women and girls from the ground up, not adapted from a men's programme as an afterthought.
Designed by an expert coach and former India captain, so the football content is credible at every level.
Supported by sports technology across the pyramid, so progress is tracked and coached, not guessed.
She Kicks is India's first women-centric football programme, and the academy is where that idea becomes daily coaching. It is a soccer development academy in the truest sense: a place whose job is not to fill an hour but to move a player forward, session after session, toward wherever her game can take her.
Centres of Excellence
The curriculum is delivered through Centres of Excellence: focused training environments, run by AFC Professional coaches, where girls develop in a safe and supportive setting rather than being thrown in at the deep end. These centres run pan-India, with established bases in Gurgaon and Manipur and a new centre opening in Bangalore, and they are built for holistic development, the football alongside the fitness, the confidence and the care that let a young player keep going. If you have been searching for serious football coaching for a girl, this is what it should look like.
AFC Professional coaches
Expert coaching from qualified staff, so the standard on the pitch is real, not improvised.
A safe environment
Supportive, secure spaces designed for girls, where a player can focus on her game without hesitation.
Pan-India reach
Centres in Gurgaon and Manipur, a new one opening in Bangalore, with the reach extended further through partner schools.
Holistic development
The whole athlete matters, football, fitness, mindset and wellbeing, developed together.
Clinics and workshops that reach girls where they already are
Not every player finds an academy on her own, so the academy goes to her. She Kicks runs excellence clinics and workshops for residential schools and institutions, bringing structured, grassroots football coaching into places where girls are already gathered. Crucially, these clinics are led with National Team players, so a young girl does not just hear that women can go far in this game, she trains next to someone who has. That is how role models are built, and how talent gets spotted early.
If you run a school or institution and want to bring a clinic to your girls, or you are a player wondering how to get a first trial, the honest starting point is the same: tell us through the enquiry form and we will take it from there. Scouted girls who need support can also be backed through the Aditi Chauhan Foundation, so a lack of means does not end a promising player's road.
In schools and institutions
Clinics and workshops brought directly to residential schools and institutions, widening the base of the game.
Led with National Team players
Sessions run alongside international players, turning distant role models into people a girl trains beside.
A route to being seen
Talent identification runs through these sessions, so a standout player can be invited to go further.
How players are actually developed: coaching, backed by data
Good coaching sets the direction; data tells you whether a player is really moving along it. The academy's development approach draws on measurement across the areas that decide how far a footballer goes, so decisions about a girl's training are informed rather than guessed. It is what separates a modern development academy from a place that simply runs drills, and it is built around the specific needs of female athletes, not borrowed wholesale from the men's game.
Physical performance
Fitness, speed and strength tracked as a player grows.
Skill and technique
Technical progress measured, not left to impression.
Tactical intelligence
Match and game understanding built and assessed.
Health and injury prevention
Long-term safety and growth kept in view throughout.
Psychological and cognitive
Mindset and decision-making treated as trainable.
Menstrual-cycle and load
Training load managed around the female athlete's body.
Real-time feedback
Players learn from data close to the moment it happens.
Player engagement
Keeping girls motivated and in the game for the long run.
Data-driven scouting
Talent identified on evidence, so no one is overlooked.
One connected picture of each player, so coaching decisions are made on what she needs next.
An academy that opens onto a real pathway
What makes She Kicks different from a standalone academy is what sits above and around it. A girl does not develop into a vacuum here. The academy builds her game, the club gives her a professional summit to climb toward, the league gives her competitive minutes and a stage to be scouted on, and the foundation makes sure that money is not the reason a talented girl stops. It is one connected ecosystem, and this bigger role in women's football is exactly what Aditi set out to build after her playing career.
Academy
Where a player is developed, from a first touch to structured, data-backed training.
Foundation
Access and support through the Aditi Chauhan Foundation, so cost is not a wall.
This is not a story on paper. A She Kicks player has already progressed to a top-tier club competing in the Indian Women's League, India's top division, and the AFC Championships, and Aditi built this platform so more girls who aspire to go professional have the same road to walk.
Girls' football academy: your questions
What players and families ask most before joining the academy.
The She Kicks Football Academy runs a women-specific football curriculum designed by Aditi Chauhan, delivered through Centres of Excellence with AFC Professional coaches and supported by sports technology. It is part of She Kicks, India's first women-centric football programme, established in 2018, and it develops girls from grassroots toward the professional game.
The curriculum is designed by Aditi Chauhan, the first Indian to play for a Premier League club and an expert coach. Sessions are led by AFC Professional coaches, and clinics are run with National Team players so girls train alongside real role models. You can read Aditi's story on the about page.
There is no single right age to begin. The academy is built as a pathway, from a first touch at grassroots clinics through to serious, structured development for committed players, so girls join at the stage that fits them. For most families the honest step is to enquire and we will guide you.
Fees depend on the programme, the centre and the level a player joins at, so there is no single figure that fits everyone. Rather than quote a number that may not apply to you, we share the current structure directly. Email contact@shekicksfa.com or use the enquiry form and we will send details.
Start by registering your interest through the enquiry form on this page, by email at contact@shekicksfa.com, or by phone. Players are then invited into clinics and talent identification sessions, and those who stand out move into the wider She Kicks pathway. There is no barrier of prior standing to begin.
Three things: a curriculum built specifically for women rather than borrowed from the men's game, a development approach that uses data across fitness, skill, health and load management, and a genuine pathway that connects the academy to a club, a league and a foundation that funds access. It is built to take a player somewhere.
She Kicks runs Centres of Excellence in Gurgaon and Manipur, with a new centre opening in Bangalore, and extends its reach through clinics at schools and institutions across India. Wherever a player is based, the enquiry form is the quickest way to find the nearest session or to ask about bringing a clinic to a school or institution.
The academy develops players, the She Kicks Football Club is the professional summit they aim for, the league gives competitive match minutes and scouting, and the Aditi Chauhan Foundation funds access for girls who need support. Together they form one pathway, so progress in one part opens the door to the next.
Start at the academy in three steps
Whether your daughter is taking her first touch or is ready to be pushed, there is a way in.
Register interest
Tell us the player's age, city and a little about her football so far.
Find the right session
We point you to the nearest centre, clinic or partner-school programme that fits.
Train and progress
Develop through the curriculum and, if she is ready, move up the pathway.
Email contact@shekicksfa.com, call +91 85953 10341, or click on the contact button above.