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Senior Women's National Football Championship for Rajmata Jijabai Trophy, also known as Senior Women's National Football Championship or Rajmata Jijabai Trophy since 2024, [77] is a women's football tournament contested by state associations and government institutions in India. [78]
From 3 September 1938 at Sydney, India played 5 friendly matches. At the Sydney match they saw a defeat of 5–3. [14] Second match was at Brisbane, where the Indians fought back for a draw of 4–4. In the third match at Newcastle on 17 September, India registered their first win by a margin of 4–1. However, the Australians defeated India in ...
The Sikkim football team represents Sikkim, a former protectorate and now state of India. When a protectorate, they were not affiliated with FIFA or the Asian Football Confederation, and therefore did not compete for the FIFA World Cup or Asian Cup. They compete in the Santosh Trophy under the Sikkim Football Association.
[w] [149] During the 1950s and 1960s, known as the golden era, India was the first Asian team to reach the semi-finals in an Olympic football tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, and Neville D'Souza became the first Asian and Indian to score a hat-trick in an Olympic match. [151]
The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved ...
Uzbekistan lost the match but won over the crowd on Wednesday as competition at the Paris Olympics officially began with soccer matches in Paris and Saint-Etienne. Uzbekistan fans chanted and ...
The 150th anniversary of what is reckoned to be the world’s first international football match is being celebrated with charity games in the UK and abroad. On November 30 1872, Scotland and ...
After drawing the second match in Brisbane 4–4, India won the third match at Newcastle 4–1 to claim their first international win. [10] The national team played their first match as an independent nation in the first round of the 1948 Summer Olympics against France, in a 2–1 defeat. Famously, the Indian team did not wear boots, playing ...