Football at the 1951 Asian Games
Football at the 1951 Asian Games | |
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Venue | National Stadium |
Date | 5–10 March |
Nations | 6 |
1954 → |
Football at the 1951 Asian Games was held in New Delhi, India from 5 to 11 March 1951. In this tournament, six teams played in the men's competition. The pitch dimensions were 110 by 65 yards slightly narrower than permitted by international regulations but FIFA had been notified this in advance and sanctioned the tournament.[1][2]
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men details | India Berland Anthony Syed Khwaja Azizuddin A. M. Bachan Sunil Chatterjee Abhoy Ghosh D. N. Devine Jones Ahmed Khan G. Y. S. Laiq Sheikh Abdul Latif Loganathan Sailen Manna Sheoo Mewalal Santosh Nandy Muhammad Noor Chandan Singh Rawat P. B. A. Saleh Mohammad Abdus Sattar T. Shanmugham Runu Guha Thakurta Kenchappa Varadaraj Thenmaddom Varghese Pansanttom Venkatesh | Iran Nader Afshar Alavinejad Nader Afshar Naderi Amir Aghahosseini Mohsen Azad Mahmoud Bayati Masoud Boroumand Amir Eraghi Hossein Fekri Aref Gholizadeh Mansour Hajian Parviz Kouzehkanani George Markarian Mehdi Masoud-Ansari Mehdi Nassiroghloo Mahmoud Shakibi Hossein Soroudi Ghorban Ali Tari | Japan Ko Arima Toshio Iwatani Taro Kagawa Takashi Kano Nobuyuki Kato Seki Matsunaga Koji Miyata Hirokazu Ninomiya Ken Noritake Yoshio Okada Shigeo Sugimoto Megumu Tamura Masanori Tokita Yukio Tsuda |
Draw
The draw for the Games was held on 25 February 1951 at a conference chaired by Guru Dutt Sondhi, who headed an executive committee for the purpose, in New Delhi. Japan and Afghanistan received byes in the first round; the former would play the winner of Iran v. Burma and the latter to play the winner of India v. Indonesia games. It was also announced that the matches would be played in two halves of 30 minutes each with a 5-minute interval, and a 15 minute extra-time with a 1-minute interval, when a result is not produced in regulation time.[3]
Squads
Results
All times are India Standard Time (UTC+05:00)
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
5 March | ||||||||||
Iran | 2 | |||||||||
7–8 March | ||||||||||
Burma | 0 | |||||||||
Iran (r) | 0 (3) | |||||||||
Japan | 0 (2) | |||||||||
10 March | ||||||||||
Iran | 0 | |||||||||
5 March | ||||||||||
India | 1 | |||||||||
India | 3 | |||||||||
7 March | ||||||||||
Indonesia | 0 | |||||||||
India | 3 | |||||||||
Afghanistan | 0 | 3rd place match | ||||||||
9 March | ||||||||||
Japan | 2 | |||||||||
Afghanistan | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Iran | 2–0 | Burma |
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Alavinejad 17' Kouzehkanani 60' | Report |
Semi-finals
India | 3–0 | Afghanistan |
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Venkatesh 10' Mewalal 16' Nandy 55' | Report |
- Replay
Bronze medal match
Japan | 2–0 | Afghanistan |
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Iwatani 40', 45' | Report |
Gold medal match
Goalscorers
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
- Chairuddin Siregar (INA) (against IND)
Final standing
Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 6 | |
Iran | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 | |
Japan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 | |
4 | Afghanistan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 |
5 | Burma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0 |
6 | Indonesia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 |
References
- ^ "Football at the 1951 Asian Games: RSSSF.com". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Indian football team at 1951 Asian Games". Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Football Draw for Asian Games". The Indian Express. 27 February 1951. p. 4. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
Further reading
- "এশিয়ান গেমস অনেক দূরে চলে গেছে" [The Asian Games going far away]. kalerkantho.com. Dhaka: কালের কণ্ঠ. 19 September 2014. Archived from the original on 13 February 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
External links
- Report of the first Asian Games held at New Delhi