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India U-23
AssociationAIFF
ConfederationAFC (Asia)
Sub-confederationSAFF (South Asia)
Head coachIgor Štimac
FIFA codeIND
First colours
Second colours
First international
India  1–1  Oman
(Hyderabad, India; 4 August 1991)
Olympic Games
AppearancesNone
AFC U-23 Championship
AppearancesNone
Asian Games
Appearances4 (first in 2002)
Best resultRound of 16 (2010)
South Asian Games
Appearances4 (first in 2004)
Best resultRunners-up (2016)

The India national under-23 football team represents India in international under-23 football and is controlled by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). Currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) the team can compete in three competitions: the Olympic Games, the AFC U-23 Championship, and the Asian Games.

Since only allowing under-23 sides to compete in the Olympic Games in 1992, India have never qualified for the summer games. The under-23 side have also never participated in the AFC U-23 Championship while at best only making it to the round of 16 in the Asian Games.

History

Asian Games

2002 Busan Games

The under-23 side participated in their first ever tournament during the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. They were put into a group with China, Turkmenistan, and Bangladesh. Their first match was against Bangladesh. India won 3–0 through a brace from future senior captain Baichung Bhutia and a strike from Renedy Singh. India played their second match two days later against Turkmenistan. They won 3–1. Bhutia again scored a brace while Abhishek Yadav scored the third goal as India ran out 3–1 winners. Unfortunately, in their final match against China, India could not find the net as they fell 2–0 and thus were knocked-out of the Asian Games.[1]

2006 Doha Games

During the 2006 Asian Games India were placed in a group with Iran, Hong Kong, and Maldives. In their first match against Hong Kong, India drew 1–1 with Pappachen Pradeep scoring the lone Indian goal. In their second match, India faced off against Maldives and won 2–1. Irungbam Surkumar Singh and Subhas Sumbhu Chakrobarty were the scorers for India that night. Finally, in their last match against Iran, India once again lost 2–0 and thus were once again knocked-out of the Asian Games.[2]

2010 Guangzhou Games

During the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, India were placed in a group with Qatar, Kuwait Athletes, and Singapore. India lost their first match against the Kuwait Athletes 2–0 and then lost their second match against Qatar 2–1 with the lone India goal coming from Dharmaraj Ravanan. India went on to win their final match of the group stage against Singapore 4–1. Four players scored each goal, Jewel Raja, Balwant Singh, Jibon Singh, and Manish Maithani. The victory managed to help India finish in third-place which then helped India become the best third-place team out of all the other third-placed teams and thus qualified them for the Round of 16.

In the Round of 16, India took on powerhouse Japan at the Huangpu Sports Center. India went on to lose the match 5–0 with Kensuke Nagai scoring a brace and Ryohei Yamazaki, Kazuya Yamamura, and Kota Mizunuma scoring a goal each.[3]

2014 Incheon Games

For the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, India were placed in Group G with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. In their first match against the United Arab Emirates, India went down 5–0. Seven days later, India were defeated by Jordan 2–0 to end their Asian Games participation.[4]

Other tournaments

2009 SAFF Championship

Before the 2009 SAFF Championship in Bangladesh, it was announced that India would send the under-23 side to the tournament.[5] India were placed in Group A with Afghanistan, Maldives, and Nepal. In their first match against Afghanistan, India won 1–0 through Jeje Lalpekhlua.[6] In their next match against Nepal, a Sushil Kumar Singh goal was the difference as India won again 1–0.[7] Despite losing the last match of the group stage to Maldives 2–0 India were still through to the semi-finals.

India defeated Bangladesh in the semi-finals 1–0 through Sushil Kumar Singh.[8] Finally, in the final against Maldives, India won through penalties 3–1 after finishing extra-time with the score at 0–0 to win the championship.[9]

Coaching staff

Position Name
Head Coach Croatia Igor Štimać

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were called up in 2020

Caps and goals are updated as of 20 December 2020.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem (2000-07-04) 4 July 2000 (age 24) 0 0 India ATK
1GK Prabhsukhan Singh Gill (2001-01-02) 2 January 2001 (age 23) 0 0 India Kerala Blasters
1GK Mohammad Nawaz (2000-01-21) 21 January 2000 (age 24) 0 0 India Goa
2DF Narender Gahlot (2001-04-24) 24 April 2001 (age 23) 0 0 India Jamshedpur
2DF Sarthak Golui (1997-11-03) 3 November 1997 (age 27) 2 0 India Mumbai City
2DF Gaurav Bora (1998-07-13) 13 July 1998 (age 26) 0 0 India Odisha
2DF Mehtab Singh (1998-06-05) 5 June 1998 (age 26) 0 0 India East Bengal
2DF Anwar Ali (2000-07-28) 28 July 2000 (age 24) 0 0 India Mumbai City
2DF Ashish Rai (1999-02-02) 2 February 1999 (age 25) 0 0 India Indian Arrows
2DF Nishu Kumar (1997-11-05) 5 November 1997 (age 27) 4 0 India Kerala Blasters
3MF Vinit Rai (1997-10-10) 10 October 1997 (age 27) 7 0 India Odisha
3MF Amarjit Singh Kiyam (2001-01-06) 6 January 2001 (age 23) 0 0 India Jamshedpur
3MF Anirudh Thapa (1998-01-15) 15 January 1998 (age 26) 5 0 India Chennaiyin
3MF Komal Thatal (2000-09-18) 18 September 2000 (age 24) 0 0 India ATK
3MF Rahul KP (2000-03-16) 16 March 2000 (age 24) 0 0 India Kerala Blasters
4FW Liston Colaco (1998-11-12) 12 November 1998 (age 26) 0 0 India Hyderabad
4FW Daniel Lalhlimpuia (1997-09-12) 12 September 1997 (age 27) 4 0 India Odisha
4FW Rohit Danu (2002-07-10) 10 July 2002 (age 22) 0 0 India Indian Arrows
4FW Aniket Bharti (2003-05-10) 10 May 2003 (age 21) 0 0 India Znicz Pruszkow

Past squads

Asian Games

Results and schedule

For past match results of the national team, see the team's results page.

2019

11 March 2019 Friendly India  0−1  Qatar Doha, Qatar
21:30 IST Report Ali Surag Stadium: Aspire Academy Ground
22 March 2019 2020 ACQ India  0–3  Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan
17:30 IST AFC AIFF
Stadium: Pakhtakor Central Stadium
Attendance: 2,452
Referee: Ahmed Al-Kaf (Oman)
24 March 2019 2020 ACQ Tajikistan  2–0  India Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15:30 IST
AFC AIFF Stadium: Pakhtakor Central Stadium
Attendance: 282
Referee: Ho Wai Sing (Hong Kong)

Competitive record

Summer Olympics

See also: India at the Olympics

From 1908 to 1988, football at the Olympics was played by senior national teams.[10] and between these years India national football team competed at all Games from 1948 to 1960.[10] From 1992, FIFA allowed only U-23 national teams to play the tournament at the Olympics.[10] Though U-23 players were allowed, the qualifying matches of 1992 Olympics to 2012 Olympics were played by the Senior national team of India but failed to qualify to the Olympics finals from 1992 to 2012. AFC started AFC U-23 Championship from 2013 which is now acted as the qualifying tournament for the Olympics for the Asian countries, where top three teams are allowed entry to Olympic finals.[11] India is yet to qualify for the AFC U-23 Championship and thus also at Olympics since then.

AFC U-23 Championship

AFC U-23 Championship was initially set to be held as AFC U-22 Championships in 2013 and its qualification matches in 2012, but the finals tournament was postponed to be played in January 2014.[12][13] Till now, three championships held, in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. However, India failed to qualify to any of the championships.[14]

Asian Games

Asian Games record
Year Result Position Pld W T L GF GA
Senior National Team
1951 – 1998 See India national football team
Under-23 National Team
South Korea 2002 Group stage 10th 3 2 0 1 6 3
Qatar 2006 Group stage 14th 3 1 1 1 3 4
China 2010 Round of 16 14th 4 1 0 3 5 10
South Korea 2014 Group stage 26th 2 0 0 2 0 7
Indonesia 2018 Did not enter
Total 4/5 0 Titles 12 4 1 7 14 24

South Asian Games

South Asian Games record
Year Result Position Pld W T L GF GA
Senior National Team
1984 – 1999 See India national football team
Under-23 National Team
Pakistan 2004 Silver 2nd 5 3 1 1 7 2
Sri Lanka 2006 Semifinals 4th 5 1 3 1 4 5
Bangladesh 2010 Semifinals 4th 5 1 2 2 5 3
India 2016 Silver 2nd 4 2 0 2 7 5
Total 4/4 0 Titles 19 7 6 6 23 15

Other honours

See also

References

  1. ^ "Asian Games 2002 (South Korea)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Asian Games 2006 (Qatar)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 15 June 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  3. ^ "2010 Asian Games". Olympic Association of Asia. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  4. ^ "2014 Asian Games". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  5. ^ "SAFF Cup Comment: India U-23, Not India, Signal Better Times For Indian Football". Goal.com. 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  6. ^ "India 1 - 0 Afghanistan: Jeje's winner". Maldives Soccer. 5 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  7. ^ "India 1 – 0 Nepal: India into semi final". Maldives Soccer. 7 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Bangladesh 0 - 1 India: Hosts crash out". Maldives Soccer. 11 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Maldives 0 - 0 India: India wins on penalties". Maldives Soccer. 13 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ^ a b c "FIFA FACTS of Olympics" (PDF). www.fifa.com. FIFA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  11. ^ "QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD – RIO 2016 – Football" (PDF). Rio 2016 Official Website. 23 April 2014. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  12. ^ "Call to improve AFC competitions". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 27 July 2011. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Competitions Committee takes key decisions". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 22 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  14. ^ "India thump Turkmenistan in AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers". hindustantimes.com. Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 10 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
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