Football at the National Games of India
FoundedMen: 1985
Women: 1999
RegionIndia
Current championsM: Services
W: Odisha
(2023)
Most successful team(s)M: Punjab & West Bengal (3 titles each)
W: Manipur (5 titles)
2023

Football has been a sport at the National Games of India since the 1985 edition, while the Women's football tournament was introduced in the 1999 edition. The 1985 National Games was the first modern National Games to be held since its inception in 1924 and was also the first to be held on the lines of the Olympics.[1] Punjab and West Bengal are currently the most successful states in the Men's event with 3 Gold Medals each while Manipur is the most successful in Women's event with 5 Gold Medals.[2][3]

At the 2022 edition, West Bengal won its third gold medal in the men's event[4][5] while Manipur won its fifth gold medal in the women's event.[6]

Results

Men's tournament

Year Host Final Third Place Match
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold Score 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
(5−4 p) 		Services
2007 Guwahati Assam 1−1
(6−5 p) 		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
(4–3 p) 		Punjab

Women's tournament

Year Host Final Third Place Match
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold Score 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 Orissa 4–0 Andhra Pradesh
2007 Guwahati Orissa 0−0
(4−2 p) 		Manipur West Bengal 2–1 Goa
2011 Jharkhand Orissa 2−1 Manipur West Bengal 1–0 Tamil Nadu
2015 Kerala Manipur 1−1
(4−2 p) 		Odisha Haryana 2–0 Kerala
2022 Gujarat Manipur 2−0 Odisha Tamil Nadu 5–1 Assam
2023 Goa Odisha 1−1
(4−2 p) 		Manipur Haryana 1–0 West Bengal

Medal table

Men's medal table

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 2 (1987, 1997) 2 (1994, 2022) 1 (2023)
Mizoram 1 (2015) 0 0
Assam 1 (2007) 1 (1999) 0
Maharashtra 1 (1999) 0 2 (2001, 2015)
Services 1 (2023) 0 1 (2022)
Goa 0 2 (1997, 2001) 1 (2011)
Tamil Nadu 0 1 (2007) 1 (2002)
Manipur 0 1 (2023) 0
Bihar 0 0 1 (1987)
Karnataka 0 0 1 (1997)
Meghalaya 0 0 1 (2007)

Women's medal table

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

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Games". olympic.ind.in. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  2. ^ "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the National Games Men's Football Tournament". indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  3. ^ "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the National Games Women's Football Tournament". indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  4. ^ "National Games: W Bengal hammer Kerala 5–0 to clinch gold in men's football". wap.business-standard.com. Business Standard India. IANS. 12 October 2022. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  5. ^ Sarangi, Y. B. (11 October 2022). "National Games: West Bengal routs Kerala 5–0, wins men's football gold medal after 11 years". sportstar.thehindu.com. Sportstar. The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  6. ^ "National Games 2022, October 10 HIGHLIGHTS: Manipur wins women's football gold; Tamil Nadu tops Group A in men's volleyball". Sportstar. 10 October 2022. Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
Categories