The club was founded by S. M. Seeni Mohaideen in 2016, in order to provide a platform for women's footballers of
Tamil Nadu to play competitively at the national tiers. With the girls recruited from veteran football coach Mariappan's academy who had earlier represented
Jeppiaar Institute, they went to form the core of the team and then of the
Tamil Nadu women's football team which won the nationals in 2018. They participated and won the inaugural edition of the
Tamil Nadu Women's League in the 2019–20 season. Sethu made their IWL debut in the
2017–18 season. They won their maiden league title in the
2018–19 season. ==Ground==