South Asian Football Federation Championships:
In the early 90s the "South Asian Football Federation" had the idea of setting up its own championships. The first Championships were held in 1993 and the championship was called the "South Asian Association of regional Co-operation" Gold Cup. It was held in Lahore, Pakistan. The Trophy was won by India, the regional powerhorse! In 1995 Sri Lanka won the second edition of the SAARC championships at home in Colombo. In the next edition in 1997 the championship got a new name, it was now called "South Asian Football Federation" championships. The first SAFF Cup was held in Kathmandu, Nepal and India won back the championship it had lost two years earlier and reinstated itself as the regions best and strongest team, winning the record sum of $50,000. Now the championship was suppost to be carried out every year but
in 1998 the championships had to be postponed as the title sponsor was hit by the Asian financial crisis. The second SAFF Championships was held in Goa in April 1999 with India defending it's title. Now the tournament is held as a biannual event, though it had to be postponed from December 2007 to June 2008.
1st SAARC Gold Cup Championships
(Lahore, Pakistan; 1993)
Round-robin League
16/07/1993 India 2 - 0 Sri Lanka
[IM Vijayan, Gunabir Singh]
16/07/1993 Pakistan 1 - 1 Nepal
18/07/1993 Pakistan 0 - 4 Sri Lanka
19/07/1993 Sri Lanka 0 - 0 Nepal
21/07/1993 India 1 - 0 Nepal
[IM Vijayan]
23/07/1993 Pakistan 1 - 1 India
[P: Muhammad Nauman Khan; I: IM Vijayan]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. India 3 2 1 0 4-1 + 3 5
2. Sri Lanka 3 1 1 1 4-2 + 2 3
3. Nepal 3 0 2 1 1-2 - 1 2
4. Pakistan 3 0 2 1 2-6 - 4 2
2nd SAARC Gold Cup Championships
(Colombo, Sri Lanka; 1995)
Group A
25/03/1995 Pakistan 1 - 0 Bangladesh
27/03/1995 Nepal 0 - 2 Bangladesh
29/03/1995 Nepal 2 - 0 Pakistan
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Bangladesh 2 1 0 1 2-1 + 1 3
2. Nepal 2 1 0 1 2-2 0 3
3. Pakistan 2 1 0 1 1-2 - 1 3
Group B
29/03/1995 India 2 - 2 Sri Lanka
[I: 2xBaichung Bhutia]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0 2-2 0 1
1. India 1 0 1 0 2-2 0 1
Sri Lanka placed first after toss
Semifinals:
31/03/1995 India 4 - 2 Bangladesh [extratime]
31/03/1995 Sri Lanka 2 - 1 Nepal [extratime]
Final:
02/04/1995 Sri Lanka 1 - 0 India [extratime]
[108 Sarath Wellage]
1st South Asian Football Federation Championships
(Kathmandu, Nepal; 1997)
Group A
04/09/1997 Nepal 0 - 2 Pakistan
[28 Mohammed Nauman, 68 Mohammed Ijaz]
06/09/1997 Sri Lanka 2 - 0 Pakistan
[S: 54 Roshan Pereira; P: 86 Mohammed Amanulla]
08/09/1997 Nepal 1 - 3 Sri Lanka
[N: 72 Deepak Amayta; S: 15,70,86 Roshan Pereira]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Sri Lanka 2 2 0 0 5-1 + 4 6
2. Pakistan 2 1 0 1 2-2 0 3
3. Nepal 2 0 0 2 1-5 - 4 0
Group B
05/09/1997 Maldives 1 - 1 Bangladesh
[M: Saeed Lirugam; B: 53 Imtiaz Ahmed]
07/09/1997 India 3 - 0 Bangladesh
[74,76 IM Vijayan, 88 Baichung Bhutia]
09/09/1997 India 2 - 2 Maldives
[I: 30 Baichung Bhutia, 55 Jo Paul Ancheri; M: 65 Ibrahim Rasheed, 83 Nizam Mohammed]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. India 2 1 1 0 5-2 + 3 4
2. Maldives 2 0 2 0 3-3 0 2
3. Bangladesh 2 0 1 1 1-4 - 3 1
Semifinals
10/09/1997 Maldives 2 - 1 Sri Lanka
[M: 19 Shah Ismail, 89 Mohammed Nizam; S: 21 KM Kabeer]
11/09/1997 India 2 - 0 Pakistan
[42,76 IM Vijayan]
3rd Place
13/09/1997 Pakistan 1 - 0 Sri Lanka
[76 Haseemdeen (own goal)]
Final
13/09/1997 India 5 - 1 Maldives
[I: 9 Jo Paul Ancheri, 15 Baichung Bhutia, 20,53 IM Vijayan, 49 Amit Das; M: 43 Adam Abdul Lateef]
2nd South Asian Football Federation Championships
(Goa, India; 1999)
Group A
22/04/1999 India 0 - 0 Bangladesh
24/04/1999 Pakistan 0 - 4 Bangladesh
[7 Hossain Iqbal, 33 Alfaz Ahmed, 62,65 Mizanur Rehman]
26/04/1999 India 2 - 0 Pakistan
[23 Baichung Bhutia, 87 Syed Shabir Pasha]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Bangladesh 2 1 1 0 4-0 + 4 4
2. India 2 1 1 0 2-0 + 2 4
3. Pakistan 2 0 0 2 0-6 - 6 0
Group B
23/04/1999 Sri Lanka 0 - 0 Maldives
25/04/1999 Sri Lanka 2 - 3 Nepal
[S: 22 Roshan Pereira, 24 Mohammed Amanullah; N: 4,41,81 Naresh Joshi]
27/04/1999 Nepal 2 - 3 Maldives
[N: 65,90 Hari Khadka; M: 1 Shah Ismail, 74 Mohamed Wildhan, 85 Mausoon Bul Ghafoor]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Maldives 2 1 1 0 3-2 + 1 4
2. Nepal 2 1 0 1 5-5 0 3
3. Sri Lanka 2 0 1 1 2-3 - 1 1
Semifinal
29/04/1999 India 2 - 1 Maldives
[I: 30 Baichung Bhutia, 84 Bruno Coutinho; M: 43 Mohamed Wildhan]
29/04/1999 Bangladesh 2 - 1 Nepal
[B: 55 Mihazur Rehman, 62 Alfaz Ahmed; N: 74 Balgopal Maharajan]
3rd Place
01/05/1999 Maldives 2 - 0 Nepal
[60 Mohamed Wildhan, 85 Mohamed Ibrahim]
Final
01/05/1999 India 2 - 0 Bangladesh
[26 Bruno Coutinho, 44 Baichung Bhutia]
3rd South Asian Football Federation Championships
(Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2003)
Group A
10/01/2003 India 0 - 1 Pakistan
[50 Sarfraz Rasool]
10/01/2003 Sri Lanka 1 - 0 Afghanistan
[41 Dudley Lincoln Steinwell]
12/01/2003 Pakistan 2 - 1 Sri Lanka
[P: 50 Zahid Niaz, 86 Sarfraz Rasool; S: 89 Chathura Maduranga Weerasinghe]
12/01/2003 India 4 - 0 Afghanistan
[30,63 Ashim Biswas, 77,86 Alvito D'Cunha]
14/01/2003 Afghanistan 0 - 1 Pakistan
[9 Sarfraz Rasool]
14/01/2003 India 1 - 1 Sri Lanka
[I: 88 Ashim Biswas; S: 89 Chryshantha Abeysekera]
TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Pakistan 3 3 0 0 4-1 + 3 9
2. India 3 1 1 1 5-2 + 3 4
3. Sri Lanka 3 1 1 1 3-3 0 4
4. Afghanistan 3 0 0 3 0-6 - 6 0
Group B
11/01/2003 Maldives 6 - 0 Bhutan
[2 Mohammad Nizam, 11 Ashraful Luphfy, 24,25,67 Ali Shiham, 77 Ali Umar]
11/01/2003 Bangladesh 1 - 0 Nepal
[30 Alfaz Ahmed]
13/01/2003 Nepal 2 - 0 Bhutan
[15 Niranjan Rayanaji, 89 Kumar Thapa]
13/01/2003 Bangladesh 1 - 0 Maldives
[89 Arif Khan Joy]
15/01/2003 Nepal 2 - 3 Maldives
[N: 60 Niranjan Rayanajhi, 90+3 Devnarayan Chawdhary;
M: 66 Mohamed Nizam, 80 Ashraf Lutfy, 85 Ali Umar]
15/01/2003 Bangladesh 3 - 0 Bhutan
[4,54 Ariful Kabir Farhad, 79 Rokonuzzaman Kanchan]
TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Bangladesh 3 3 0 0 5-0 + 5 9
2. Maldives 3 2 0 1 9-3 + 6 6
3. Nepal 3 1 0 2 4-4 0 3
4. Bhutan 3 0 0 3 0-11 -11 0
Semifinal
18/01/2003 Pakistan 0 - 1 Maldives
[12 Ibrahim Fazeel]
18/01/2003 Bangladesh 2 - 1 India [extratime]
[B: 77 Rokonuzzaman Kanchan, 96 Motiur Rahman Munna; I: 81 Alvito D'Cunha]
3rd Place
20/01/2003 Pakistan 1 - 2 India [extratime]
[P: 66 Sarfraz Rasool; I: 56 I.M.Vijayan, 99 Abhishek Yadav]
Final
20/01/2003 Bangladesh 6 - 4 Maldives [penalties]
[B: 12 Rokonuzzaman Kanchan; M: 58 Ali Umar]
4th South Asian Football Federation Championships
(Karachi, Pakistan; 2005)
Group A
07/12/2005 Pakistan 1 - 0 Sri Lanka
[38 Imran Hussain]
07/12/2005 Maldives 9 - 1 Afghanistan
[M: 11 Umar Ali, 27,45+2,60 Ibrahim Fazeel, 32,88 Ali Ashfaq, 45+3,46,86 Ahmed Thariq;
A: Sayed Maqsood 39]
09/12/2005 Maldives 2 - 0 Sri Lanka
[15 Ali Ashfaq,83 Umar Ali (pen)]
09/12/2005 Pakistan 1 - 0 Afghanistan
[55 Muhammad Essa]
11/12/2005 Sri Lanka 1 - 2 Afghanistan
[S: 85 GPC Karunarathne; A_: 35 Hafizullah Qadami, 41 Abdul Maroof Gullistani]
11/12/2005 Pakistan 0 - 0 Maldives
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Maldives 3 2 1 0 11-01 +10 7
2. Pakistan 3 2 1 0 02-00 + 2 7
3. Afghanistan 3 1 0 2 03-11 - 8 3
4. Sri Lanka 3 0 0 3 01-05 - 4 0
Group B
08/12/2005 Bangladesh 3 - 0 Bhutan
[42,58 Ariful Kabir Farhad, 85 Zahid Hasan Ameli]
08/12/2005 India 2 - 1 Nepal
[I: 6,28 Mehtab Hussain; N: 35 Basanta Thapa]
10/12/2005 Bangladesh 2 - 0 Nepal
[27,87 Rokonuzzaman Kanchan]
10/12/2005 India 3 - 0 Bhutan
[45 Baichung Bhutia, 51 Mahesh Gawli, 64 MA Abdul Hakkim]
12/12/2005 Nepal 3 - 1 Bhutan
[N: 10 Surendra Tamang, 16 Basanta Thapa, 29 Bijay Gurung 29; B: 47 Bikash Pradhan]
12/12/2005 Bangladesh 1 - 1 India
[B: 77 Zahid Hasan Ameli; I: 17 Climax Lawrence]
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Bangladesh 3 2 1 0 6-1 + 5 7
2. India 3 2 1 0 6-2 + 4 7
3. Nepal 3 1 0 2 4-5 - 1 3
4. Bhutan 3 0 0 3 1-9 - 8 0
Semifinal
14/12/2005 Maldives 0 - 1 India
[38 Nanjangud Shivananju Manju]
14/12/2005 Bangladesh 1 - 0 Pakistan
[44 Mohammad Sujan (pen)]
Final
17/12/2005 Bangladesh 0 - 2 India
[33 Mehraj Din Wadoo, 81 Baichung Bhutia]
5th South Asian Football Federation Championships
(Male, Maldives & Colombo, Sri Lanka; 2008)
Group A
03/06/2008 Nepal 0 - 4 India
03/06/2008 Maldives 3 - 0 Pakistan
05/06/2008 Pakistan 1 - 2 India
05/06/2008 Maldives 4 - 1 Nepal
07/06/2008 Pakistan 1 - 4 Nepal
07/06/2008 Maldives 0 - 1 India
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. India 3 3 0 0 7-1 + 6 9
2. Maldives 3 2 0 1 7-2 + 5 6
3. Nepal 3 1 0 2 5-9 - 4 3
4. Pakistan 3 0 0 3 2-9 - 7 0
Group B
04/06/2008 Bangladesh 1 - 1 Bhutan
04/06/2008 Sri Lanka 2 - 2 Afghanistan
06/06/2008 Afghanistan 2 - 2 Bangladesh
06/06/2008 Sri Lanka 2 - 0 Bhutan
08/06/2008 Afghanistan 1 - 3 Bhutan
08/06/2008 Sri Lanka 1 - 0 Bangladesh
# TEAM P W D L GF-GA GDIF PTS
1. Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0 5-2 + 3 7
2. Bhutan 3 1 1 1 4-4 0 4
3. Bangladesh 3 0 2 1 3-4 - 1 2
4. Afghanistan 3 0 2 1 5-7 - 2 2
Semifinal
11/06/2008 India 2 - 1 Bhutan [extratime]
11/06/2008 Sri Lanka 0 - 1 Maldives
Final
14/06/2008 India 0 - 1 Maldives
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