Football at the National Games of India

Football at the National Games of India
Founded	Men: 1985 ; Women: 1999
Region	India
Current champions	M: Kerala; W: Haryana; (2025)
Most championships	M: Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal (3 titles each); W: Manipur (5 titles)
	2025

Football has been a sport at the National Games of India since 1985, while the women's tournament was introduced in 1999.^[1] Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal are currently the most successful states in the men's category with 3 gold medals, while Manipur is the most successful women's team with 5 gold medals

Results[edit | edit source]

Men's tournament[edit | edit source]

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
1985	Delhi	Punjab	−	West Bengal	−	−	−
1987	Kerala	Kerala	−	Punjab	Bihar	–	−
1994	Pune	West Bengal	−	Kerala	−	–	−
1997	Bangalore	Kerala	−	Goa	Karnataka	–	–
1999	Manipur	Maharashtra	−	Assam	West Bengal	–	–
2001	Punjab	Punjab	1−0	Goa	Maharashtra	1–0	Services
2002	Hyderabad	Punjab	2−1	West Bengal	Tamil Nadu	1–1 Template:Pso	Services
2007	Guwahati	Assam	1−1 Template:Pso	Tamil Nadu	Meghalaya	1–0	West Bengal
2011	Jharkhand	West Bengal	1−0	Punjab	Goa	3–1	Services
2015	Kerala	Mizoram	1−0	Punjab	Maharashtra	3–1	Goa
2022	Gujarat	West Bengal	5−0	Kerala	Services	4–0	Karnataka
2023	Goa	Services	3−1	Manipur	Kerala	0–0 Template:Pso	Punjab
2025	Uttarakhand	Kerala	1−0	Uttarakhand	Delhi	2–1	Assam

Women's tournament[edit | edit source]

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
1999	Manipur	Manipur	−	West Bengal	Kerala	–	–
2001	Punjab	Manipur	3−2	Punjab	West Bengal	3–1	Bihar
2002	Hyderabad	Manipur	1−0	West Bengal	Odisha	4–0	Andhra Pradesh
2007	Guwahati	Odisha	0−0 Template:Pso	Manipur	West Bengal	2–1	Goa
2011	Jharkhand	Odisha	2−1	Manipur	West Bengal	1–0	Tamil Nadu
2015	Kerala	Manipur	1−1 Template:Pso	Odisha	Haryana	2–0	Kerala
2022	Gujarat	Manipur	2−0	Odisha	Tamil Nadu	5–1	Assam
2023	Goa	Odisha	1−1 Template:Pso	Manipur	Haryana	1–0	West Bengal
2025	Uttarakhand	Haryana	0−0 Template:Pso	Odisha	West Bengal	2−2 Template:Pso	Delhi

Medal table[edit | edit source]

Men's[edit | edit source]

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Punjab	3 (1985, 2001, 2003)	3 (1997, 2011, 2015)	0
West Bengal	3 (1994, 2011, 2022)	2 (1985, 2002)	1 (1999)
Kerala	3 (1987, 1997, 2025)	2 (1994, 2022)	1 (2023)
Assam	1 (2007)	1 (1999)	0
Maharashtra	1 (1999)	0	2 (2001, 2015)
Services	1 (2023)	0	1 (2022)
Mizoram	1 (2015)	0	0
Goa	0	2 (1997, 2001)	1 (2011)
Tamil Nadu	0	1 (2007)	1 (2002)
Manipur	0	1 (2023)	0
Uttarakhand	0	1 (2025)	0
Bihar	0	0	1 (1987)
Karnataka	0	0	1 (1997)
Meghalaya	0	0	1 (2007)
Delhi	0	0	1 (2025)

Women's[edit | edit source]

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Manipur	5 (1999, 2001, 2002, 2015, 2022)	3 (2007, 2011, 2023)	0
Odisha	3 (2007, 2011, 2023)	3 (2015, 2022, 2025)	1 (2002)
Haryana	1 (2025)	0	2 (2015, 2023)
West Bengal	0	2 (1999, 2002)	4 (2001, 2007, 2011, 2025)
Punjab	0	1 (2001)	0
Kerala	0	0	1 (1999)
Tamil Nadu	0	0	1 (2022)

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "National Games". olympic.ind.in. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.

[1] "National Games". olympic.ind.in. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.

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