Indian Women’s Football Team Goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan is all set to go to Iceland after she signed with Icelandic club Hamar Hveragerdi, the All India Football Federation confirmed on Twitter on Thursday. Aditi will play for the club in the third division of the women’s football league system in the country.
Hamar Hveragerdi fielded their women’s football team for the first time in 2020. Due to coronavirus pandemic, the league got suspended midway and the team finished sixth, having won four of their 15 matches.
Earlier in 2015, Aditi played for West Ham Ladies in England’s FA Women’s Premier League, thus becoming the first Indian to feature in FA Women’s Premier League club.
She was also the first Indian woman in the country’s football history to win the ‘Woman In Football Award’ at the third Asian Football Awards in London in 2015.
She was the member of the Indian team that won SAFF Women’s Championship in 2016 & 2019 and South Asian Games in 2016.
Last season she won the Indian Women’s League (IWL) last season with Gokulam Kerala FC, will become the second Indian woman footballer to land a professional contract with a European outfit. Bala Devi is the first to do so and has been playing with Scottish club Rangers Women’s FC since last season.
