Asian Games Football: How Indian Men and Women Performed in Every Asian Games

India has won 2 Gold medals and a Bronze besides finishing 4th once. India did not play in 1990, 1994 and 2018 Asian Games. Indian Women played first time in 2014 Asian games. Check the complete result of matches of Indian Men’s and Women’s Football team in every Asian Games where they participated.

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Indian Men’s Football Team Results

Gold Medal: 1951 and 1962
Bronze: 1970
4th: 1958
QF: 1978, 1982
2nd Round: 1998, 2010
Eliminated at Round Robin: 1954, 1966, 1974, 1986, 2002, 2006, 2010

1951 Asian Games: Gold Medal
India did not concede a goal and Mewalal with 4 goals emerged as top scorer, scoring in every match.

First Round: March 5: India 3-0 Indonesia (2 S Mewalal, 1 P Venkatesh)
Semifinal: March 7: India 3-0 Afghanistan
(1 P Venkatesh, S Mewalal, S Nundy)
Final: March 10, India 1-0 Iran
(S Mewalal)

1954 Asian Games: Eliminated at Round Robin

Round Robin: May 3: India 3-2 Japan
(2 Moin, 1 Joe D Sa)
May 5: Indonesia 4-0 India

1958 Asian Games: 4th

Round Robin: May 26: India 3-2 Burma
((P. K. Banerjee, Damodaran, Chuni Goswami)
May 28: Indonesia 2-1 India (Damodaran)
QF: May 30 India 5-2 Hong Kong (2 Rahmatullah 1 Chuni Goswami, Tulasidas Balaram; Daomdaran)
Semifinal: May 31 South Korea 3-1 India (Damodaran)
Third Place Playoff: Indonesia 4-1 India (Tulasidas Balaram)

1962 Asian Games: Gold Medal

Round Robin: Aug 26 South Korea 2-0 India
Aug 28: India 4-1 Thailand
(2 P. K. Banerjee; 1 Chuni Goswami, Tulasidas Balaram)
Aug 29: India 2-0 Japan (Tulasidas Balaram, P. K. Banerjee)
Semifinal: Sept 1: India 3-2 South Vietnam
(2 Chuni Goswami, 1 Jarnail Singh)
Final: Sept 4: India 2-1 South Korea
(P. K. Banrejee; Jarnail Singh)

1966 Asian Games: Eliminated at Group

Round Robin: Dec 10: Japan 2-1 India (P.K. Banerjee)
Dec 12: India 2-1 Malaysia
(Inder Singh, Jarnail Singh (pen))
Dec 13: Iran 4-1 India
(Jarnail Singh)

1970 Asian Games: Bronze Medal

Round Robin: Dec 10: India 2-2 Thailand
(S.Bhowmick)
Dec 11: India 2-0 South Vietnam
(Habib, Manjit Singh)
QF League: Dec 15 India 3-0 Indonesia
(D.Natraj, Magan Singh, Shyam
Thapa)
Dec 17: Japan 1-0 India
Semifinal: Dec 18: Burma 2-0 India
3rd Position: Dec 19: India 1-0 Japan
(Manjit Singh)

1974 Asian Games: Eliminated at Group

Round Robin:
Sept 2: Iraq 3-0 India
Sept 4: China 7-1 India (Magan Singh)
Sept 9: North Korea 4-1 India (Magan Singh)

1978 Asian Games: QF

Round Robin:
Dec 10: Malaysia 1-0 India
Dec 14: India 3-0 Bangladesh
(Bidesh Bose, Harjinder Singh, Xavier Pius)
QF League:
Dec 16: Kuwait 6-1 India (Surajit Sen Gupta)
Dec 18: North Korea 3-1 India (Devraj)
Dec 19: Iran 3-0 India

1982 Asian Games: QF

Round Robin:
Nov 20: India 2-0 Bangladesh
(Prasun Banerjee)
Nov 22: India 1-0 Malaysia
(Kartick Sett)
Nov 24: India 2-2 China
(Shabbir Ali, Kartick Sett)
QF: Saudia Arabia 1-0 India

1986 Asian Games: Eliminated at Group
Lost all the matches.

First Round: Sept 20: South Korea 3-0 India
Sept 22: China 2-1 India (Debashis Misra)
Sept 26: Bahrain 3-0 India

1998 Asian Games: 2nd Round

First Round:
Dec 2: Japan 1-0 India
Dec 4: India 1-0 Nepal (Carlton Chapman)
2nd Round League:
Dec 6: Turkmenistan 3-2 (I.M. Vijayan , Tushar Rakshit)
Dec 9: Uzbekistan 2-0 India
Dec 11 North Korea 2-0 India

2002 Asian Games: Eliminated at Group
Despite winning two games, India finished 2nd in the group and was eliminated.

First Round:
Sept 27: India 3-0 Bangladesh (2 Baichung Bhutia, 1 Rennedy Singh)
Sept 20: India 3-1 Turkmenistan (2 Baichung Bhutia, 1 Abhishek Yadav)
Oct 3: China 2-0 India

2006 Asian Games: Eliminated at Group Stage

First Round: Nov 29 India 1-1 Hong Kong (NP Pradeep)
Dec 3 India 2-1 Maldives
(Surkumar Singh, Subhas Chakravarty)
Dec 6: Iran 2-0 India

2010 Asian Games: 2nd Round

Round Robin:
Nov 7: Kuwait 2-0 India
Nov 11 Qatar 2-1 India (D Ravanan)
Nov 13: India 4-1 Singapore (Jewel Raja, Balwant Singh, Jeevan Singh, Manish
Maithani)
2nd Round: Japan 5-0 India

2014 Asian Games: 1st Round

Round Robin:
Sept 15: UAE 5-0 India
Sept 22: Jordan 5-0 India

Women’s Football Team
The Women’s Football team played in 2014 Asian Games winning one and losing two.
Results

Def Maldives 15-0 (Goals: Sasmita Malik and Kamala Devi Yumnam 5 goals each, Ngangom Bala Devi 2 goals, Loitongbam Ashalata Devi, Oinam Bembem Devi and Irom Prameshwori Devi 1 goal each)
Lost to South Korea 10-0
Lost to Thailand 10-0