History of Indian football team

1938 Indian national team started playing football since 1938.

When Indian was known as British India.

The first game was between Indian and Australia

1948 After the independence, in 1948 AIFF was introduced and

was affiliated by the FIFA.

1950 the team was automatically qualified for the world cup in Brazil 1950.

But due to the cost of travel Indian team could not attend the 1950 world cup.

1951-1962

This period is considered as the golden era of Indian football team.

1951 Asian games was hosted by India

1952 India went to on participate Olympics but lost

Boots was there problems. So AIFF immediately made boots mandatory.

1954 Indian went to finish second in Asian games which was held in manila.

1956 Olympics games India finished fourth which is regarded as
one of the finest achievements of Indian football team.
Neville D’Souza of India became the first Asian to score a hat-trick in the Olympics.

And India was the first Asian team to reach the Olympia’s semifinal.

1962 India went on winning Asian games by beating South Koreans in the finals.

1984 after 22 years India finished in the quarter finals stage of Asian games

After Asia cup India went down.

2011 then after a long period of 25 years India have qualified for the as Asian cup

2016 This year Indian clubs Mohun Bagan and Bengaluru FC has qualified for the knock out stage of AFC CUP.

Off total of 412 games played by India, they have won 143, lost 185 and had drew 85 matches. Which is not bad for a 162nd team under FIFA rankings..

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