Nehru Cup

Template:Infobox football tournament The Nehru Cup was an international association football tournament organised by the All India Football Federation (AIFF), named after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. It was launched in 1982, but was not held from 1998 to 2006. After the trophy was won by Iraq in 1997, it was reinstated only in 2007 before officially being held last in 2012 and was replaced in 2017.

TV coverageEdit

1st Nehru Cup was covered by Prabir Roy with a 5 on-line camera operation. This was long before Doordarshan started the same during the Delhi Asian Games in November 1982. It was inaugurated by Indira Gandhi. This was apparently the first Color T.V. coverage.

Absence, revival and replacementEdit

The tournament was shelved after 1997 due to lack of sponsorship and other reasons. It was revived in 2007 mainly due to persuasion by the former coach of India national football team Bob Houghton. The original rolling trophy could not be recovered from Iraq, and a new trophy was designed.

The tournament held during 2007 was called the ONGC Nehru Cup, to acknowledge sponsorship from the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. The 2007 Nehru Cup took place from 17 to 29 August 2007 with Syria, Kyrgyzstan, India, Cambodia and Bangladesh as participating nations where India won their first title after hosting it for the last couple of decades defeating the much higher ranked Syria in the final by a 1-0 margin, on a goal scored by N. P. Pradeep in the 44th minute on a back pass from Bhaichung Bhutia.^[1]

2009 Nehru Cup took place in New Delhi from 19 to 31 August 2009. After the participation of Palestine was cancelled by the AIFF, the tournament was changed into a round-robin format with five teams playing each other and the top two clashing in the final.^[2] India defeated Syria by 5–4 on penalties after a 1–1 draw in the final on 31 August 2009.

The 2012 Nehru Cup was the 15th edition of the Nehru Cup and 3rd Nehru Cup since it was revived in 2007. It was held from 22 August to 2 September.^[3] The tournament was hosted in New Delhi, India. A total of 5 teams participated in the tournament through being invited by the All India Football Federation. The final match happened between India and Cameroon and India won the match in penalty shoot out 5-4 after the match ended 2-2 after 120 minutes of play.^[4]^[5]

Hopes to have another tournament in 2014 were shelved in August 2014 due to the AIFF not being able to pursue capital investment.^[6]

AIFF revealed on 17 May 2016 that it plans to replace Nehru Cup with a new Intercontinental Cup.^[7]

ResultsEdit

Year	Host city	Final			Third place match			Num. teams
Year	Host city	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place	Num. teams
1982	Kolkata	Uruguay	2–0	China PR	South Korea	– ^{[note 1]}	Template:Fbo	6
1983	Kochi	Hungary ^{[note 2]}	2–1	China PR U-19	Cameroon	–	Romania U-21	7
1984	Kolkata	Poland	1–0	China PR	Argentina	–	Vasas SC	6
1985	Kochi	Template:Country data Soviet Union	2–1	Template:Country data Yugoslavia	Morocco	–	South Korea U-20	8
1986	Thiruvananthapuram	Template:Country data Soviet Union	1–0	China PR	East Germany	–	Peru	6
1987	Kozhikode	Template:Fbo ^{[note 2]}	2–0	Template:Fbo ^{[note 2]}	Denmark	–	East Germany	8
1988	Siliguri	Template:Fbo ^{[note 2]}	2–0	Template:Fbo ^{[note 2]}	Template:Fbo ^{[note 2]}	–	Hungary ^{[note 2]}	8
1989	Margao	Hungary ^{[note 2]}	2–0	Template:Country data Soviet Union	North Korea	–	Iraq U-20	6
1991	Thiruvananthapuram	Romania B	3–1	Hungary	Template:Country data URS	–	China PR	6
1993	Chennai	North Korea	2–0	Romania	Cameroon	–	Finland	7
1995	Kolkata	Iraq	1–0	Russia U-20	Thailand	–	India	5
1997	Kochi	Iraq	3–1	Uzbekistan U-19	China PR	2–1	India	5
2007	New Delhi	India	1–0	Syria	Kyrgyzstan	–	Bangladesh	5
2009	New Delhi	India	1–1 Template:Aet Template:Pso	Syria	Kyrgyzstan	–	Lebanon	5
2012	New Delhi	India	2–2 Template:Aet Template:Pso	Cameroon	Maldives	–	Syria	5

Notes

↑ Round-robin format, no third match held.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 Olympic team

Medal summaryEdit

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Template:Country data URS	4	1	1	6
2	India	3	0	0	3
3	Hungary	2	1	0	3
4	Iraq	2	0	0	2
5	Romania	1	1	1	3
6	Poland	1	1	0	2
7	North Korea	1	0	1	2
8	Uruguay	1	0	0	1
9	China PR	0	4	1	5
10	Syria	0	2	0	2
11	Cameroon	0	1	2	3
12	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
13	Template:Country data YUG	0	1	0	1
13	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
15	East Germany	0	0	2	2
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	2	2
	South Korea	0	0	2	2
18	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Maldives	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		15	14	20	49