The Indian National Team at the Asian Games:
The indian national team has won the Asian Games title twice but that was in its glorious days in the 50&60s!!! In 1998 India took part again after a break of 12 years and it played better than expected.
I. Asian Games (New Delhi, India; 1951)
04/05/1951 1.Round:        India   3 - 0   Indonesia
 [2x S. Mewalal, Venkatesh]
07/05/1951 Semifinal:      India   3 - 0   Afghanistan
 [S. Mewalal, Venkatesh, Santosh Nandy]
11/05/1951 Final:          India   1 - 0   Iran
 [S. Mewalal]
India won the Title at the first ever Asian Games!!!

II. Asian Games (Manila, Philipines; 1954)
1st Round: Group 3:
??/04/1954                 Japan  3 - 5  Indonesia
01/05/1954                 India  3 - 2  Japan
 [I: 2xMoinuddin, Joe D'Sa]
03/05/1954                 India  0 - 4  Indonesia

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Indonesia                 2   2  0  0   9-3    + 6     4
2. India                     2   1  0  1   3-6    - 3     2
3. Japan                     2   0  0  2   5-8    - 3     0
Indonesia move on.

III. Asian Games (Tokyo, Japan; 1958)
1st Round: Group 2:
25/05/1958                 Burma  2 - 4  Indonesia
26/05/1958                 India  3 - 2  Burma
27/05/1958                 India  1 - 2  Indonesia

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Indonesia                 2   2  0  0   6-3   + 3     4
2. India                     2   1  0  1   4-4     0     2
3. Burma                     2   0  0  2   4-7   - 3     0
Indonesia & India move on.

29/05/1958 Quarterfinal:   India  5 - 2  HongKong
31/05/1958 Semifinal:      India  1 - 3  South Korea
01/06/1958 3rd Place:      India  1 - 4  Indonesia

IV. Asian Games (Djakarta, Indonesia; 1962)
1st Round: Group 1:
24/08/1962                 India  0 - 2  South Korea
??/08/1962                 Japan  3 - 1  Thailand
??/08/1962                 Japan  0 - 1  South Korea
27/08/1962                 India  2 - 0  Japan
 [P.K. Banerjee, T. Balaram]
30/08/1962                 India  4 - 1  Thailand
 [I: 2x P.K. Banerjee, Chuni Goswami, T. Balaram]
??/08/1962           South Korea  3 - 2  Thailand

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. South Korea               3   3  0  0  06-02   + 4     6
2. India                     3   2  0  1  06-03   + 3     4
3. Japan                     3   1  0  2  03-04   - 1     2
4. Thailand                  3   0  0  3  04-10   - 6     0
South Korea & India move on.

01/09/1962 Semifinal:      India  3 - 2  South Vietnam
 [I: 2x Chuni Goswami, Jarnail Singh]
04/09/1962 Final:          India  2 - 1  South Korea
 [I: P.K. Banerjee, Jarnail Singh]
India won it's second and last Asian Games Title!!!

V. Asian Games (Bangkok, Thailand; 1966)
1st Round: Group 2:
09/12/1966                 India  1 - 4  Iran
09/12/1966              Malaysia  0 - 1  Japan
10/12/1966                 India  2 - 1  Malaysia
10/12/1966                  Iran  2 - 0  Malaysia
11/12/1966                 Japan  2 - 1  India
11/12/1966                  Iran  1 - 3  Japan

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Japan                     3   3  0  0   6-2    + 4     6
2. Iran                      3   2  0  1   7-4    + 3     4
3. India                     3   1  0  2   4-7    - 3     2
4. Malaysia                  3   0  0  3   1-5    - 4     0
Japan move on.

VI. Asian Games (Bangkok, Thailand; 1970)
1st Round: Group C:
11/12/1970              Thailand  1 - 3  South Vietnam
12/12/1970                 India  2 - 0  South Vietnam
 [Shyam Thapa, Amar Bahadur]
13/12/1970                 India  2 - 2  Thailand
 [I: 2x Subhash Bhowmick]

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. India                     2   1  1  0   3-1    + 2     3
2. Thailand                  2   1  1  0   3-2    + 1     3
3. South Vietnam             2   0  0  2   0-3    - 3     0
India move on.

Quarterfinal: Group A:
15/12/1970                 India  0 - 1  Japan
16/12/1970                 India  4 - 1  Indonesia
 [I: 2xSubhash Bhowmick, D. Nataraj, Amar Bahadur]
17/12/1970                 Japan  2 - 1  Indonesia

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Japan                     2   2  0  0   3-1    + 2     4
2. India                     2   1  0  1   4-2    + 2     2
3. Indonesia                 2   0  0  2   2-5    - 4     0
Japan & India move on.

18/12/1970 Semifinal:      Burma  1 - 0  India

20/12/1970 3.Place Match:  India  1 - 0  Japan
 [Manjit Singh]

VII. Asian Games (Teheran, Iran; 1974)
1st Round: Group 2:
03/09/1974                 India  0 - 3  Iraq
03/09/1974           North Korea  2 - 0  Taiwan
05/09/1974                 India  1 - 4  North Korea
 [I: Magan Singh]
05/09/1974                  Iraq  1 - 0  Taiwan
07/09/1974                 India  1 - 7  Taiwan
 [I: Magan Singh]
07/09/1974                  Iraq  1 - 0  North Korea

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Iraq                      3   3  0  0  05-00   + 5     6
2. North Korea               3   2  0  1  06-02   + 4     4
3. Taiwan                    3   1  0  2  07-04   + 3     2
4. India                     3   0  0  3  02-14   -12     0
Iraq move on.

VIII. Asian Games (Bangkok, Thailand; 1978)
1st Round: Group 2:
12/12/1978                 India  3 - 0  Bangladesh
13/12/1978              Malaysia  1 - 0  Bangladesh
14/12/1978                 India  0 - 1  Malaysia

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Malaysia                  2   2  0  0   2-0    + 2     4
2. India                     2   1  0  1   3-1    + 2     3
3. Bangladesh                2   0  0  2   0-4    - 4     0
Malaysia & India move on.

Quarterfinal: Group B:
16/12/1978                 India  1 - 6  Kuwait
16/12/1978                  Iraq  0 - 1  North Korea
18/12/1978                 India  1 - 3  North Korea
  [I: Mohammed Akbar]
18/12/1978                  Iraq  3 - 0  Kuwait
20/12/1978                 India  0 - 3  Iraq
20/12/1978                Kuwait  2 - 2  North Korea

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. North Korea               3   2  1  0  06-03   + 3     5
2. Iraq                      3   2  0  1  06-01   + 5     4
3. Kuwait                    3   1  1  1  08-06   + 2     3
4. India                     3   0  0  3  02-12   -10     0
North Korea move on.

IX. Asian Games (New Delhi, India; 1982)
1st Round: Group 1:
20/11/1982                 India  2 - 0  Bangladesh
 [2x Prasun Banerjee]
??/11/1982                 China  1 - 0  Malaysia
23/11/1982                 India  1 - 0  Malaysia
 [Kartick Sett]
??/11/1982                 China  1 - 0  Bangladesh
26/11/1982                 India  2 - 2  China
 [I: Kartick Sett, Shabbir Ali]
??/11/1982            Bangladesh  2 - 1  Malaysia

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. India                     3   2  1  0   5-2    + 3     5
2. China                     3   2  1  0   4-2    + 2     5
3. Bangladesh                3   1  0  2   2-4    - 2     2
4. Malaysia                  3   0  0  3   1-4    - 3     0
India move on.
28/11/1982 Quarterfinal:   India   0 - 1   Saudi Arabia

X. Asian Games (Seoul, South Korea 1986)
1st Round: Group 2:
??/??/1986            South Korea  4 - 2  China
??/??/1986            South Korea  0 - 0  Bahrain
??/??/1986            South Korea  3 - 0  India
??/??/1986                  China  5 - 1  Bahrain
??/??/1986                  China  2 - 1  India
 [I: Debashish Mishra]
??/??/1986                Bahrain  3 - 0  India

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. South Korea               3   2  1  0   7-2    + 5     5
2. China                     3   2  0  1   6-4    + 2     4
3. Bahrain                   3   1  1  1   1-4    - 3     3
4. India                     3   0  0  3   1-8    - 7     0
South Korea move on.

XI. Asian Games (Beijing, China 1990)
didn't participate
XII. Asian Games (Hiroshima, Japan 1994)
didn't participate
XIII. Asian Games (Bangkok, Thailand 1998)
Preliminary Round - Group C
01/12/1998                 Japan  5 - 0  Nepal
03/12/1998                 Japan  1 - 0  India
 [55 Kenji Fukinda]
05/12/1998                 India  1 - 0  Nepal
 [46 Carlton Chapman]

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Japan                     2   2  0  0   6-0    + 6     6
2. India                     2   1  0  1   1-1      0     3
3. Nepal                     2   0  0  2   0-6    - 6     0
Japan & India move on.

Second Round - Group 1
07/12/1998          Turkmenistan  3 - 2  India
 [T: 39 Nejelev Dmitry, 49 Agaev Muslim , 74 Igor Kislov;
   I: 83 IM Vijayan, 87 Tushar Rakshit]
07/12/1998            Uzbekistan  4 - 0  North Korea
09/12/1998          Turkmenistan  1 - 1  North Korea
09/12/1998            Uzbekistan  2 - 0  India
 [34 Igor Shkvyrin, 50 Shuhratlon]
11/12/1998           North Korea  2 - 0  India
 [13 So Min-Chol, 73 Ju Song-Il]
11/12/1998          Turkmenistan  1 - 1  Uzbekistan

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Uzbekistan                3   2  1  0   7-1    + 6     7
2. Turkmenistan              3   1  2  0   5-4    + 1     5
3. North Korea               3   1  1  1   3-5    - 2     4
4. India                     3   0  1  3   2-7    - 5     0
Uzbekistan move on.

XIV. Asian Games (Busan, South Korea 2002)
Preliminary Round - Group C
27/09/2002          Turkmenistan  0 - 4  China
27/09/2002            Bangladesh  0 - 3  India
 [46,65 Baichung Bhutia, 66 Renedy Singh]
30/09/2002          Turkmenistan  1 - 3  India
 [T: 21 Vladimir Bayramov; I: 54,78 Baichung Bhutia, 57 Abhishek Yadav]
30/09/2002            Bangladesh  0 - 3  China
03/10/2002                 China  2 - 0  India
 [16,45 Tao Yu]
03/10/2002          Turkmenistan  3 - 1  Bangladesh

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. China                     3   3  0  0   9-0    + 9     9
2. India                     3   2  0  1   6-3    + 3     6
3. Turkmenistan              3   1  0  2   4-8    - 4     3
4. Bangladesh                3   0  0  3   1-9    - 8     0
China move on.

XV. Asian Games (Doha, Qatar 2006)
Preliminary Round - Group D
29/11/2006                 India  1 - 1  Hongkong
 [I: 89 NP Pradeep; H: 90+2 Chan Siu-Ki]
29/11/2006                  Iran  3 - 1  Maldives
03/12/2006                 India  2 - 1  Maldives
 [I: 34 Irungbam Surkumar Singh, 89 Subhas Chakraborty; M: 38 Ali Ashfaq]
03/12/2006              Hongkong  1 - 2  Iran
06/12/2006                  Iran  2 - 0  India
 [78 Jalal Akbari Kelishadi, 90+2 Arash Borhani]
06/12/2006              Maldives  0 - 1  Hongkong

#  TEAM			     P	 W  D  L  GF-GA  GDIF   PTS
1. Iran                      3   3  0  0   7-2    + 5     9
2. Hongkong                  3   1  1  1   3-3      0     4 
3. India                     3   1  1  1   3-4    - 1     4
4. Maldives                  3   0  0  3   2-6    - 4     0
Iran move on.

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