Football at the South Asian Games

Football at the South Asian Games
Founded	Men: 1985 ; Women: 2010
Region	SAFF (South Asia)
Current champions	M: Nepal; W: India; (2019)
Most successful team(s)	M: Nepal & Pakistan; (4 titles each); W: India (3 titles)
	2019 (M), 2019 (W)

Football has been a sport at the South Asian Games since it commenced in 1984. Since the 2004 South Asian Games, the age limit for men's teams is under 23, plus up to three overaged players for each squad, which is the same as the age limit in football competitions at the Summer Olympics and Asian Games. Nepal and Pakistan are currently the most successful countries in the Men's event with 4 Gold Medals each while India is the most successful in Women's event with 3 Gold Medals.^[1]^[2]

Women's football tournaments were introduced in 2010.^[3]^[4]

Results

Men's tournament

Accurate as of 10 December 2019.^[5]

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
1984 details	Kathmandu, Nepal	Nepal	4−2	Bangladesh	Maldives	unclear whether a match for third place was held; Maldives were awarded bronze, possibly because of the group record
1985 details	Dhaka, Bangladesh	India	1−1 (4–1 p)	Bangladesh	Nepal	2–2 (3–2 p)	Pakistan
1987 details	Culcutta, India	India	1−0	Nepal	Pakistan	1–0	Bangladesh
1989 details	Islamabad, Pakistan	Pakistan	1−0	Bangladesh	India	2–1	Nepal
1991 details	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Pakistan	2−0	Maldives	Bangladesh	2–0	Nepal
1993 details	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Nepal	2−2 (4–3 p)	India	Sri Lanka	3–1	Maldives
1995 details	Madras, India	India	1−0	Bangladesh	Sri Lanka	0–0 (5–3 p)	Nepal
1999 details	Kathmandu, Nepal	Bangladesh	1−0	Nepal	India	3–1	Maldives

Since 2004 the tournament is for Under-23 teams.

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
2004 details	Islamabad, Pakistan	Pakistan	1−0	India U-20	Sri Lanka	0–0 (3–2 p)	Bhutan
2006 details	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Pakistan	1−0	Sri Lanka	Nepal	2–0	India U-20
2010 details	Dhaka & Chittagong, Bangladesh	Bangladesh	4−0	Afghanistan	Maldives	0–0 (3–1 p)	India U-19
2016 details	Guwahati & Shillong, India	Nepal	2−1	India	Bangladesh	2–2 (5–4 p)	Maldives
2019 details	Kathmandu & Pokhara, Nepal	Nepal	2−1	Bhutan	Bangladesh	As a result of Round-robin	Maldives

Women's tournament

Accurate as of 9 December 2019.^[5]

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
2010 details	Dhaka, Bangladesh	India	3−1	Nepal	Bangladesh	As a result of Round-robin	Pakistan
2016 details	Guwahati & Shillong, India	India	2−1	Nepal	Bangladesh	As a result of Round-robin	Maldives
2019 details	Kathmandu & Pokhara, Nepal	India	2−0	Nepal	Maldives	As a result of Round-robin	Sri Lanka

Medal table

Men's medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nepal/ Nepal U-23	4	2	2	8
2	Pakistan/ Pakistan U-23	4	0	1	5
3	India/ India U-23/ India U-20	3	3	2	8
4	Bangladesh/ Bangladesh U-23	2	4	3	9
5	Sri Lanka/ Sri Lanka U-23	0	1	3	4
6	Maldives/ Maldives U-23	0	1	2	3
7	Afghanistan U-23	0	1	0	1
7	Bhutan/ Bhutan U-23	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		13	13	13	39

Women's medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	3	0	0	3
2	Nepal	0	3	0	3
3	Bangladesh	0	0	2	2
4	Maldives	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		3	3	3	9

Total


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	6	3	2	11
2	Nepal (NEP)	4	5	2	11
3	Pakistan (PAK)	4	0	1	5
4	Bangladesh (BAN)	2	4	5	11
5	Maldives (MDV)	0	1	3	4
5	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	1	3	4
7	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	1	0	1
7	Bhutan (BHU)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

^ "Nepal win gold in men's football, earning hard-fought victory over Bhutan". Retrieved 14 September 2022.
^ "South Asian Games". IndianFootball.De. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
^ "South Asian Games: Bala Devi grabs brace as India mauls Maldives 5–0". Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "Indian women's football team trounces Sri Lanka 6–0 in South Asian Games". Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b "South Asian Federation Games". RSSSF. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2022-05-05.

[1] "Nepal win gold in men's football, earning hard-fought victory over Bhutan". Retrieved 14 September 2022.

[SAG-2] "South Asian Games". IndianFootball.De. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.

[3] "South Asian Games: Bala Devi grabs brace as India mauls Maldives 5–0". Retrieved 14 September 2023.

[4] "Indian women's football team trounces Sri Lanka 6–0 in South Asian Games". Retrieved 14 September 2023.

[rsssf1-5] "South Asian Federation Games". RSSSF. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2022-05-05.

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