Colombo Cup

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Template:Infobox football tournament The Colombo Cup was an annual football tournament first held in Colombo, Ceylon. It was also known as Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament. Established in 1952 by the Ceylon Football Association as a part of the Colombo Fair, teams from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) and Burma played each other in a round robin tournament. The tournament was last played in 1955. In 1953 it was hosted in Rangoon, Burma, in 1954 at Calcutta, India, and finally at Dacca, Pakistan.^[1]^[2]

Results[edit]

Year	Host	Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place	4th place
1952 Details	Colombo, Ceylon	Template:Fb-big Template:Fb-big (Trophy shared)^[3]	None	Template:Fb-big Template:Fb-big	None
1953 Details	Rangoon, Burma^[4]	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big
1954 Details	Calcutta, India	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big
1955 Details	Dacca, Pakistan	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big	Template:Fb-big

Medal table[edit]

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
India	4 (1952, 1953, 1954*, 1955)
Pakistan	1 (1952)	2 (1953, 1955)	1 (1954)
Sri Lanka		1 (1954)	1 (1952)
Burma			3 (1952, 1953, 1954)

* = host

References[edit]

↑ "Asian Quadrangular Tournament (Colombo Cup) 1952-1955".
↑ "The Indian National Team at the Colombo Cup". www.indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 2003-06-13.
↑ "History in Timeline of Indian Football". All India Football Federation. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
↑ "Quadrangular Football: India's Win". The Indian Express. Rangoon, Burma. 25 October 1953. p. 9. Archived from the original on 13 May 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.

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[1] "Asian Quadrangular Tournament (Colombo Cup) 1952-1955".

[2] "The Indian National Team at the Colombo Cup". www.indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 2003-06-13.

[3] "History in Timeline of Indian Football". All India Football Federation. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

[4] "Quadrangular Football: India's Win". The Indian Express. Rangoon, Burma. 25 October 1953. p. 9. Archived from the original on 13 May 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.

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