India national football team records and statistics

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This is a list of Indian national football team's all kinds of competitive records.

The India national football team represents India in international football and is controlled by the All India Football Federation. Under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and governed in Asia by the AFC, the team is also part of the South Asian Football Federation. The team, which was once considered one of the best teams in Asia, had its golden era during the 1950s and early 1960s. During this period, under the coaching of Syed Abdul Rahim, India won gold during the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games, while finishing fourth during the 1956 Summer Olympics. India has never participated in the FIFA World Cup, although the team did qualify by default for the 1950 World Cup after all the other nations in their qualification group withdrew. However, India withdrew prior to the beginning of the tournament.

India has never participated in a FIFA World Cup.[1] After gaining independence in 1947, India managed to qualify for the World Cup held in 1950. This was due to Myanmar, Indonesia, and the Philippines withdrawing from qualification.[1] However, prior to the start of the tournament, India themselves withdrew due to the expenses required in getting the team to Brazil.[1] Other reasons cited for why India withdrew include FIFA not allowing Indian players to play in the tournament barefoot and the All India Football Federation not considering the World Cup an important tournament compared to the Olympics.[1]

After withdrawing from the 1950 FIFA World Cup, India didn't enter the qualifying rounds of the tournament between 1954 and 1982.[2] Since the 1986 qualifiers, with the exception of the 1990 edition of the tournament, the team started to participate in qualifiers but have yet to qualify for the tournament again.[2]

Honours

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total
AFC Asian Cup 0 1 0 1
Asian Games 2 0 1 3
AFC Challenge Cup 1 0 0 1
SAFF Championship 8 4 1 13
South Asian Games 3 1 2 6
Nehru Cup 3 0 0 3
Colombo Cup 4 0 0 4
Intercontinental Cup 2 0 0 2
Merdeka Cup 0 2 3 5
King's Cup 0 0 2 2
Total 23 8 9 40

Individual records

Player records

Most capped players

As of 16 October 2021, the players with at least 50 caps in career[3] are:
Players with most international caps for India
Rank. Player Career Caps Goals Position Ref.
1. Sunil Chhetri 2005− 125 80 CF [4][5]
2. Bhaichung Bhutia 1995−2011 80 26 CF [6]
3. Climax Lawrence 2003−2011 72 3 CM [7]
4. Gouramangi Singh 2006−2013 71 6 CB [8]
5. Subrata Pal 2007− 67 0 GK [9]
6 Shabbir Ali 1974−1984 66 23 CF [10]
I. M. Vijayan 1989−2004 29 CF [11]
Mahesh Gawli 1999−2011 1 CB [12]
9. Syed Rahim Nabi 2004−2013 61 7 LB [13]
10. Renedy Singh 1998−2011 59 4 LM [14]
11. Jeje Lalpekhlua 2011− 56 23 CF [15]
12. Irungbam Surkumar Singh 2001−2011 52 2 RB [16]
13. Steven Dias 2004−2011 51 7 RM [17]

Top goalscorers

As of 16 October 2021, the players with the most goals[18] are:
Players with most international goals scored for India
Rank. Player Career Goals Caps Avg/Game.
1. Sunil Chhetri (list) 2005– 80 125 0.64
2. I. M. Vijayan (list) 1989−2004 29 66 0.44
3. Bhaichung Bhutia (list) 1995−2011 26 80 0.33
4. Shabbir Ali[10] 1974−1984 23 66 0.35
Jeje Lalpekhlua (list) 2011− 56 0.41
6. Magan Singh Rajvi (list) 1968−1974 15 33 0.45
7. P. K. Banerjee (list) 1952−1967 45 0.33
8. Neville D'Souza 1953−1956 11 15 0.73
9. Tulsidas Balaram 1956−1962 9 29 0.31
Chuni Goswami (list) 1956−1964 32 0.28
Inder Singh 1964−1973 40 0.23
Pappachen Pradeep (list)[19] 2005−2011 42 0.21
13. R. Lumsden (list) 1938 8 5 1.6
Ashok Chatterjee 1965−1968 29 0.28
15. Pansanttom Venkatesh 1951−1954 7 10 0.7
Sheoo Mewalal 1951−1955 10 0.7
Krishanu Dey[20] 1986−1992 10 0.7
Mohammed Habib 1969−1974 22 0.32
Jo Paul Ancheri[21] 1994−2004 33 0.21
Steven Dias[22] 2004−2011 51 0.14
Syed Rahim Nabi[13] 2004−2013 61 0.11
22. Gouramangi Singh (list) 2006−2013 6 71 0.08
23. Mohammed Rahmatullah 1958−1961 5 19 0.26
Subhash Bhowmick 1970−1974 19 0.26
Manvir Singh (list) 2017− 27 0.19
Robin Singh (list) 2012− 30 0.17

Manager records

Manager Period Record
Matches Won Draw Lost Win %
England Stephen Constantine 2002–05 18 4 5 9 22.22%
India Sukhwinder Singh 2005 5 1 1 3 20.00%
India Syed Nayeemuddin 2005–06 7 4 1 2 57.14%
England Bob Houghton 2006–11 44 14 6 24 31.81%
India Armando Colaco 2011 (Interim) 5 0 2 3 0.00%
India Savio Medeira 2011–12 13 5 2 6 38.46%
Netherlands Wim Koevermans 2012–14 20 7 5 8 35.00%
England Stephen Constantine 2015–19 42 23 6 13 54.76%
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Igor Štimac 2019– 22 6 9 7 27.27%

Competition records

FIFA World Cup

India has never played in finals of a FIFA World Cup.[1] The closest they came to qualify was back in 2002 when they were a point away from progressing in to the final round.

FIFA World Cup record FIFA World Cup qualification record
Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
Uruguay 1930 Did not enter Did not enter
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1934
France 1938
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1950 Withdrew Qualified
Switzerland 1954 Denied by FIFA None
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1958
to
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1982 		Did not enter Did not enter
Mexico 1986 Did not qualify 6 2 3 1 7 6
Italy 1990 Withdrew from qualification
United States 1994 8 1 1 6 8 22
France 1998 3 1 1 1 3 7
South Korea Japan 2002 6 3 2 1 11 5
Germany 2006 6 1 1 4 2 18
South Africa 2010 2 0 1 1 3 6
Brazil 2014 2 0 1 1 2 5
Russia 2018 10 2 1 7 7 18
Qatar 2022 To be determined To be determined
Canada Mexico United States 2026 To be determined To be determined
Total - - - - - - - - 43 10 11 22 43 86

AFC Asian Cup

Main article: India at the AFC Asian Cup
AFC Asian Cup record AFC Asian Cup qualification record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
Hong Kong 1956 Did not enter Did not enter
South Korea 1960 Did not qualify 6 2 0 4 7 9
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1964 Runners-up 2nd 3 2 0 1 5 3 Squad Bye
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1968 Did not qualify 3 0 1 2 2 6
Thailand 1972
to
Kuwait 1980		 Did not enter Did not enter
Singapore 1984 Group stage 10th 4 0 1 3 0 7 Squad 4 3 0 1 8 2
Qatar 1988
to
Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Vietnam 2007		 Did not qualify 21 2 4 15 17 57
Qatar 2011 Group stage 16th 3 0 0 3 3 13 Squad 2008 AFC Challenge Cup winners
Australia 2015 Did not qualify Failed to win 2012 & did not qualify for 2014 AFC Challenge Cup
United Arab Emirates 2019 Group stage 17th 3 1 0 2 4 4 Squad 18 8 2 8 25 24
China 2023 To be determined To be determined
Totals Runners-up 4/17 13 3 1 9 12 27 52 15 7 30 59 98

Summer Olympics

See also: India at the Olympics
Summer Olympics record Summer Olympics qualification record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1908–Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1936 Did not enter Did not enter
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1948 Round 1 11th 1 0 0 1 1 2 Squad Qualified automatically
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1952 Preliminaries 25th 1 0 0 1 1 10 Squad
Australia 1956 Semi-finals 4th 3 1 0 2 5 9 Squad Bye
Italy 1960 Round 1 13th 3 0 1 2 3 6 Squad 4 4 0 0 13 4
Italy 1964–South Korea 1988 Did not qualify 20 6 1 13 34 38
Total Semi-finals 4 / 17 8 1 1 6 10 27 24 10 1 13 47 42

Asian Games

Asian Games record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad
India 1951 Champions 1st 3 3 0 0 7 0 Squad
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1954 Round 1 8th 2 1 0 1 3 6 Squad
Japan 1958 Semi-finals 4th 5 2 0 3 12 13 Squad
Indonesia 1962 Champions 1st 5 4 0 1 11 6 Squad
Thailand 1966 Round 1 8th 3 1 0 2 4 7 Squad
Thailand 1970 Third place 3rd 6 3 1 2 8 5 Squad
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1974 Round 1 13th 3 0 0 3 2 14 Squad
Thailand 1978 Round 2 8th 5 1 0 4 5 13 Squad
India 1982 Quarter-finals 6th 4 2 1 1 5 3 Squad
South Korea 1986 Round 1 16th 3 0 0 3 1 8 Squad
China 1990 Did not enter
Japan 1994 Did not enter
Thailand 1998 Round 2 16th 5 1 0 4 3 8 Squad
Total 2 Titles 11 / 13 44 18 2 24 61 83

AFC Challenge Cup

AFC Challenge Cup record AFC Challenge Cup Qualification record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
Bangladesh 2006 Quarter-final 8 4 1 2 1 3 4 Squad Qualified automatically
India 2008 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 9 3 Squad Qualified as hosts
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 2010 Group Stage 8 3 0 0 3 1 6 Squad Qualified automatically
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 2012 Group stage 8th 3 0 0 3 0 8 Squad 3 2 1 0 7 2
Maldives 2014 Did not qualify 3 2 0 1 6 2
Totals 1 Title 4/5 15 5 3 7 13 21 6 4 1 1 13 4

SAFF Championship

SAFF Championship record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA
Pakistan 1993 Champions 1st 3 2 1 0 4 1
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1995 Runners-up 2nd 3 0 2 1 2 3
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1997 Champions 1st 4 3 1 0 12 3
India 1999 Champions 1st 4 3 1 0 6 1
Bangladesh 2003 Third place 3rd 5 2 1 2 8 5
Pakistan 2005 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 9 2
Maldives Error creating thumbnail: File missing 2008 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1 9 3
Bangladesh 2009 Champions 1st 5 3 1 1 3 2
India 2011 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 16 2
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 2013 Runners-up 2nd 5 2 1 2 4 5
India 2015 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 11 4
Bangladesh 2018 Runners-up 2nd 4 3 0 1 8 3
Maldives 2021 Champions 1st 5 3 2 0 8 2
Total 8 Titles 13/13 57 37 12 8 100 36

South Asian Games

South Asian Games record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1984 Did not enter
Bangladesh 1985 Champions 1st 3 2 1 0 6 1
India 1987 Champions 1st 3 2 1 0 6 0
Pakistan 1989 Third place 3rd 3 2 1 0 5 3
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1991 Group stage 6th 2 0 1 1 1 2
Bangladesh 1993 Runners-up 2nd 3 1 2 0 6 4
India 1995 Champions 1st 2 2 0 0 2 0
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1999 Third place 3rd 5 4 0 1 15 4
Totals 3 Titles 7/8 21 13 6 2 41 14

Other tournaments

Error creating thumbnail: File missing Champions : 2007, 2009, 2012

Error creating thumbnail: File missing Champions : 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955

Error creating thumbnail: File missing Champions : 2017, 2018

Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runners-up : 1959, 1964

Template:BronzeMedal 3rd place : 1965, 1966, 1970

Template:BronzeMedal 3rd place : 1977, 2019

Head to head record

The results only include matches considered as FIFA A matches. Other matches played against Club teams, Underage sides or Olympic teams are not included here. Updated as of 14 October 2021 (vs Nepal).[23]

  Positive Record   Neutral Record   Negative Record

Opponents Pld W D L GF GA Confederations
File:Flag of Afghanistan.svg Afghanistan 10 5 3 1 17 6 AFC
 Argentina 1 0 0 1 0 1 CONMEBOL
 Australia 8 3 1 4 27 25 AFC
 Azerbaijan 1 0 0 1 0 3 UEFA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bahrain 6 0 1 5 3 14 AFC
 Bangladesh 28 13 12 3 40 20 AFC
 Bhutan 5 5 0 0 16 1 AFC
Template:Country data CAM 5 4 0 1 17 5 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cameroon 4 0 3 1 5 6 CAF
 China PR 11 0 5 6 6 22 AFC
File:Flag of Chinese Taipei (FIFA).svg Chinese Taipei 8 5 2 1 17 4 AFC
 Curaçao 1 0 0 1 1 3 CONCACAF
 Fiji 2 0 0 2 1 3 OFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Finland 2 0 1 1 0 2 UEFA
 France 2 0 1 1 2 3 UEFA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ghana 1 0 0 1 0 1 CAF
Template:Country data GUM 3 2 0 1 6 2 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Guyana 1 0 0 1 1 2 CONCACAF
 Hong Kong 15 7 4 4 32 20 AFC
 Hungary 2 0 0 2 2 4 UEFA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Iceland 1 0 0 1 0 3 UEFA
 Indonesia 16 5 3 8 19 30 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Iran 8 2 1 5 6 17 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Iraq 6 0 2 4 2 11 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Israel 3 0 0 3 2 7 UEFA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jamaica 2 0 1 1 0 3 CONCACAF
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jordan 1 0 0 1 1 2 AFC
 Japan 13 3 0 10 11 37 AFC
 Kenya 2 2 0 0 5 0 CAF
Error creating thumbnail: File missing North Korea 7 0 1 6 5 21 AFC
 South Korea 19 3 2 14 12 48 AFC
 Kuwait 3 1 0 2 5 17 AFC
 Kyrgyzstan 4 3 0 1 7 3 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Laos 2 2 0 0 7 1 AFC
 Lebanon 5 0 2 3 6 11 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauritius 1 1 0 0 2 1 CAF
 Macau 2 2 0 0 6 1 AFC
 Malaysia 22 7 5 10 28 44 AFC
 Maldives 17 12 2 3 36 14 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Morocco 1 0 0 1 0 1 CAF
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Myanmar 20 9 3 8 32 40 AFC
 Namibia 1 1 0 0 2 0 CAF
Error creating thumbnail: File missing   Nepal 23 17 5 1 40 9 AFC
 New Zealand 2 0 1 1 1 2 OFC
 Oman 10 0 3 7 6 23 AFC
 Pakistan 25 15 7 3 37 18 AFC
Template:Country data PLE 2 0 0 2 4 7 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Peru 2 0 0 2 1 4 CONMEBOL
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Philippines 4 2 1 1 8 4 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Poland 1 0 0 1 1 2 UEFA
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Puerto Rico 1 1 0 0 4 1 CONCACAF
 Qatar 3 0 1 2 0 7 AFC
 Saudi Arabia 3 0 0 3 1 11 AFC
 Singapore 11 4 1 6 11 15 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sri Lanka 19 12 5 2 34 14 AFC
Template:Country data USSR /  Russia 2 0 0 2 1 16 UEFA
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1 0 1 0 1 1 CONCACAF
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Suriname 2 0 0 2 3 10 CONCACAF
File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria 6 2 2 2 7 7 AFC
 Tajikistan 5 1 1 3 7 11 AFC
 Thailand 21 6 6 9 25 33 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trinidad and Tobago 4 1 0 3 3 10 CONCACAF
 Turkmenistan 5 1 1 3 7 9 AFC
 Tunisia 1 0 1 0 2 2 CAF
 United Arab Emirates 13 2 1 10 7 32 AFC
 Uruguay 1 0 0 1 1 3 CONMEBOL
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Uzbekistan 5 0 1 4 3 11 AFC
 Vietnam /  South Vietnam 14 9 2 3 24 15 AFC
Template:Country data YUG 2 0 0 2 2 14 UEFA
 Yemen / Template:Country data YAR 9 1 2 6 12 19 AFC
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zambia 1 0 0 1 0 5 CAF
Total (71) 467 169 97 201 638 775 FIFA

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Choudhury, Chandrahas (11 June 2014). "Blame India's World Cup Drought on the Shoes". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Indian National Team's World Cup qualifying:". Indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Dey, Subrata. "India - Record International Players". rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  4. ↑ Mamrud, Roberto. "Sunil Chhetri - Century of International Appearances". rsssf.com. rsssf. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Chhetri Stats". national-football-teams.com. National Football Teams. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Mamrud, Roberto. "Baichung Bhutia - Century of International Appearances". rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Climax Lawrence". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Gouramangi Singh". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Subrata Pal". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Shabbir Ali". sportskeeda.com. Sportskeeda. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  11. ↑ Mamrud, Roberto. "Invalappil Mani Vijayan - Goals in International Matches". rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Mahesh Gawli". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Syed Rahim Nabi". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "Renedy Singh". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Jeje Lalpekhlua". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  16. ↑ "Irungbam Surkumar Singh". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  17. ↑ "Steven Dias". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  18. ↑ Dey, Subrata. "India - Record International Players". rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  19. ↑ "N.P.Pradeep". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  20. ↑ Dereyk D'souza, Arunava Chaudhari, Novy Kapadia. "Indian Football Hall of fame". IndianFootball.com. IndianFootball. Retrieved 25 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ↑ "Jo Paul Ancheri". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  22. ↑ "Steven Dias". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  23. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-01-13. Retrieved 2019-09-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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