Football at the 1951 Asian Games

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 games lasted only 60 minutes.The pitch dimensions were 110 by 65 yards slightly narrower than permitted by international regulations but FIFA had been notified this in advance and sactioned the tournament.

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

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
 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
Amir Araghi
Mohsen Azad
Mahmoud Bayati
Masoud Boroumand
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.[1]

Squads

Results

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

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
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
 

Quarterfinals


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

Semifinals

Iran 0–0 (a.e.t.) Japan

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

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

3rd place match

Japan 2–0 Afghanistan
Iwatani  40', 45'

Final

Iran 0–1 India
Mewalal  34'

Goalscorers

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Final standing

Rank Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 India330070+76
 Iran421153+25
 Japan311143+13
4  Afghanistan200205−50
5  Burma100102−20
6  Indonesia100103−30

References

  1. "Football Draw for Asian Games". The Indian Express. 27 February 1951. p. 4.
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