Kickstart Football Club Women is an Indian women's professional football club from Karnataka. It forms the women's section of the club Kickstart FC and participates in Indian Women's League, the top flight of Indian women's football. Their best finish in the top tier was runner-up in the 2022âÂÂ23 season.
Kickstart FC was founded on 9 July 2016 by Shekar Rajan and Laxman Bhattarai to develop grassroot level football in Karnataka.
Kickstart FC women's team won the Karnataka Women's League seven times continuously in 2018âÂÂ19, 2019âÂÂ20, 2020âÂÂ21, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 which is the top division women's premier football league in Karnataka.
They have qualified for Indian Women's League twice. In 2019âÂÂ20 IWL, they finished 3rd in the group stage. They qualified again in 2021-22 where they finished 3rd in the league table, behind eventual champions Gokulam Kerala and Sethu FC.
Kickstart FC directly qualified for 2022âÂÂ23 IWL as AIFF decided to give direct entry to top 4 teams from 2021 to 2022 season.