Football at the South Asian Games

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]

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)

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
			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
			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
			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
	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

See also

• SAFF Championship

References

1. "Nepal win gold in men's football, earning hard-fought victory over Bhutan". Retrieved 14 September 2022.
2. "South Asian Games". IndianFootball.De. 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.
5. "South Asian Federation Games". RSSSF. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2022-05-05.