Football at the 1951 Asian Games

Summary

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]

Football
at the 1951 Asian Games
VenueNational Stadium
Date5–10 March
Nations6
1954 →

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
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 edit

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 edit

Results edit

All times are India Standard Time (UTC+05:00)

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
5 March
 
 
  Iran2
 
7–8 March
 
  Burma0
 
  Iran (r)0 (3)
 
 
  Japan0 (2)
 
 
10 March
 
 
  Iran0
 
5 March
 
  India1
 
  India3
 
7 March
 
  Indonesia0
 
  India3
 
 
  Afghanistan0 3rd place match
 
 
9 March
 
 
  Japan2
 
 
  Afghanistan0
 

Quarter-finals edit

Iran  2–0  Burma
Alavinejad   17'
Kouzehkanani   60'
Report

India  3–0  Indonesia
Mewalal   27'
Siregar   42' (o.g.)
Venkatesh   45'
Report

Semi-finals edit

Iran  0–0 (a.e.t.)  Japan
Report

India  3–0  Afghanistan
Venkatesh   10'
Mewalal   16'
Nandy   55'
Report

Replay
Iran  3–2  Japan
Masoud-Ansari   21', 42'
Boroumand   58'
Report Tokita   40'
Ninomiya   50'

Bronze medal match edit

Japan  2–0  Afghanistan
Iwatani   40', 45' Report

Gold medal match edit

Iran  0–1  India
Report Mewalal   34'

Goalscorers edit

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Final standing edit

Rank Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
    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 edit

  1. ^ "Football at the 1951 Asian Games: RSSSF.com". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Indian football team at 1951 Asian Games". Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  3. ^ "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 edit

  • "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 edit

  • Report of the first Asian Games held at New Delhi