Football at the 1951 Asian Games
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Football at the 1951 Asian Games was held in New Delhi, India from March 5 to March 11, 1951.
In this tournament, 6 teams played in the men's competition. The games lasted only 60 minutes.
Contents |
Medal summary
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  India (IND) |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 |  Iran (IRI) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |  Japan (JPN) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | India (IND) Berland Anthony K. L. Varadaraj Sailen Manna Syed Khwaja Azizuddin T. M. Varghese Sunil Chatterjee Sheikh Abdul Latif Noor Mohammed Chandan Singh Rawat Abhoy Ghosh D. N. Devine Jones T. Shanmugham Pansanttom Venkatesh G. Y. S. Laiq Madar Abdus Sattar P. B. A. Saleh Runu Guha Thakurta Sahu Mewalal Santosh Nandy Ahmed Mohammed Khan Loganathan A. M. Bachan |
Iran (IRI) Amir Aghahosseini Ghorban Ali Tari Amir Araghi Aref Gholizadeh Mehdi Nasiroghli Nader Afshar Naderi Hossein Fekri Abbas Hajian Mahmoud Bayati Mohsen Azad Nader Afshar Alavinejad Parviz Kouzehkanani George Markarian Mehdi Gholi Masoud-Ansari Masoud Boroumand Hossein Soroudi Mahmoud Shakibi |
Japan (JPN) Yukio Tsuda Megumu Tamura Yoshio Okada Koji Miyata Nobuyuki Kato Ko Arima Masanori Tokita Taro Kagawa Hirokazu Ninomiya Toshio Iwatani Takashi Kano Shigeo Sugimoto Ken Noritake Seki Matsunaga |
Results
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| March 5 | ||||||||||
| Iran |
2 | |||||||||
| March 7 (rep. March 8) | ||||||||||
 Burma |
0 | |||||||||
| Iran (rep.) |
0 (3) | |||||||||
| Japan |
0 (2) | |||||||||
| Japan |
||||||||||
| March 10 | ||||||||||
| Bye | ||||||||||
| Iran |
0 | |||||||||
| March 5 | ||||||||||
| India |
1 | |||||||||
| India |
3 | |||||||||
| March 7 | ||||||||||
 Indonesia |
0 | |||||||||
| India |
3 | 3rd place match | ||||||||
 Afghanistan |
0 | |||||||||
| Afghanistan |
Japan |
2 | ||||||||
| Bye | Afghanistan |
0 | ||||||||
| March 9 | ||||||||||
Quarterfinals
| March 5 15:00 |
Iran |
2 – 0 | Burma |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alavinejad  17'Kouzehkanani 60' |
| March 5 16:15 |
India |
3 – 0 | Indonesia |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mewalal 27', 42' Venkatesh 44' |
Semifinals
| March 7 15:00 |
Iran |
0 – 0 (a.e.t.) | Japan |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 7 16:15 |
India |
3 – 0 | Afghanistan |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venkatesh 10' Mewalal 16'Nandy 55' |
- Replay
| March 8 15:00 |
Iran |
3 – 2 | Japan |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masoud-Ansari 21', 42' Boroumand 58' |
Tokita 40' Ninomiya 50' |
3rd place match
| March 9 17:00 |
Japan |
2 – 0 | Afghanistan |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iwatani 40', 45' |
Final
| March 10 17:00 |
Iran |
0 – 1 | India |
National Stadium, New Delhi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mewalal 34' |
Goalscorers
- 4 goals
- 2 goals
Pansanttom Venkatesh (IND)
Mehdi Gholi Masoud-Ansari (IRI)
Toshio Iwatani (JPN)
- 1 goals
- Santosh Nandy (IND)
- Nader Afshar Alavinejad (IRI)
- Masoud Boroumand (IRI)
- Parviz Kouzehkanani (IRI)
- Hirokazu Ninomiya (JPN)
- Masanori Tokita (JPN)
