Football at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games

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2003 Afro-Asian Games Football Tournament
I.M. Vijayan

(4 goals each)

Hyderabad, India from 22 to 31 October 2003.[1]
The football preliminaries commenced two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games.

The football tournament was a men's-only event. Eight teams were set to participate, but only 7 played. Uzbekistan U-21 youth team were the gold medalists beating the host country India in the final.[2] The host country took silver, while Zimbabwe won bronze.

Original setting and withdrawals

Initially, eight teams were set to participate in the football events - India, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, the U-21 youth teams of Uzbekistan and Malaysia, and the U-23 youth team of Malavan F.C. which is an Iranian football club that represented the country. However, Cameroon withdrew, and Ghana was decided to replace Cameroon.

Just before the preliminaries were to begin, Ghana pulled out of the football events, leaving only seven teams participating.

Venues

The football events were held in two stadiums - the

GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium, which was the main stadium of the Games; and the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium
. The football finals were held in the latter stadium.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 India 2 2 0 0 5 2 3 6
 Rwanda 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 3
 
Malaysia U-21
2 0 0 2 1 4 −3 0
 Ghana Withdrew

Matches

 India3–1 Rwanda
Muttah Suresh 54'
Ashim Biswas
79'
Aziz Balinda 61'
 
Malaysia U-21
IM Vijayan
64'
 
Malaysia U-21
Jimmy Iraguha 81', 87' Mohd Amri Yahyah 28'

Group B

Iran were represented by U-23 club side Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club. Cameroon were replaced by Zimbabwe.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 
Uzbekistan U-21
3 2 1 0 3 1 2 7
 Zimbabwe 3 1 2 0 6 3 3 5
 Burkina Faso 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
Malavan Anzali U-23
3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 1

Matches

Zimbabwe 4–1 Burkina Faso
Prince Vusumuzi Nyoni 3', 74'
Albert Mbano 26', 82'
Barro Samba Seydou 16'
Uzbekistan U-21
Marat Bikmoev 48'
Malavan Anzali U-23
Brian Badza 3' Seyed Jalal Hosseini-Khoshkbijari 59' (pen.)
Uzbekistan U-21
Yaroslav Krushilnitskiy 66'
Uzbekistan U-21 
1–1 Zimbabwe
Ilkom Suyunov 50' Leonard Tsipa 17'
Malavan Anzali U-23
Abdul Moctar Diallo
Germain Bationo
Germain Bationo o.g.'

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 
 
 
 India5
 
 
 
 Zimbabwe3
 
 
Uzbekistan U-21
1
 
 
Uzbekistan U-21
2
 
 
 Rwanda1
 

Semi-finals

 Uzbekistan U-212–1 Rwanda
  • Mansur Saidov 63'
  • Konstantin Boev 102'
Report
 India5–3 Zimbabwe
Report
  • Mbano 5'
  • Edmore Mashiri 81' (pen.)
  • Simon Chipunza 87'

Third place match

 Zimbabwe2–2
[asdet, 5–3 pen.]
 Rwanda
  • Prince Vusumuzi Nyoni 65'
  • Mbano 90'
Report
  • Hassan Milly 37'
  • Jimmy Iraguha 75'

Final

India 0–1 Uzbekistan U-21
Report
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad
Referee: Lu Chun (China)

Overall ranking

Results Teams
 
Uzbekistan U-21
 India  Zimbabwe  Rwanda
Malavan Anzali U-23
 Burkina Faso  
Malaysia U-21
 Ghana
Quarter-finals Withdrew
Victories 1 2 1 1 1 1 0
Losses 1 0 0 1 1 2 2
Draws 1 0 2 0 1 0 0
Points 7 6 5 3 3 3 0
Semi-finals
Semifinalists - - -
Points 3 3 0 0 - - -
Final
Finalists - - - - -
Final Statistics
Ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Medal Gold Silver Bronze - - - -
Total points 13 9 5 3 3 3 0

References

  1. ^ Chaudhuri, Arunava; Stokkermans, Karel (2001). "Afro-Asian Games 2003". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  2. ^ "How have the Indian national team performed against African opponents?". Retrieved 22 December 2023.

External links

Preceded by
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Afro-Asian Games
Host City

I Afro-Asian Games (2003)
Succeeded by
Algiers