Football at the 1951 Asian Games

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Football
at the 1951 Asian Games
VenueNational Stadium
Date5–10 March
Nations6
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
Men
details
 
Thenmaddom Varghese
Pansanttom Venkatesh
   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-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

Iran 2–0 Burma
Kouzehkanani
60'
Report

Semi-finals



Replay

Bronze medal match

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

Gold medal match

Iran 0–1 India
Report Mewalal 34'

Goalscorers

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Final standing

Rank Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1st place, gold medalist(s)  India 3 3 0 0 7 0 +7 6
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Iran 4 2 1 1 5 3 +2 5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

  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.

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