ANFA Cup
Appearance
Founded | 1980 |
---|---|
Region | |
Current champions | |
Most successful club(s) | |
Website | Official website |
The ANFA Cup refers to a series of invitational association football knockout tournaments organised by the All Nepal Football Association. Both National football teams as well as football clubs participated in the past.[1]
History
[edit]Although Nepal had been playing football with the teams of various neighboring countries and friendly countries but the necessity to invite countries for competitive matches in Nepal was realized only in 1979 and hence ANFA cup football match was introduced. In the first match of ANFA cup Kathmandu XI team was the winner which was held in Chaitra. To encourage young players Federation of Nepal Football Association started ANFA President shield in the year 1981 in which Three Star Club secured the first position.[2]
Series
[edit]Year | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Comment |
---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | Unknown | Unknown | 1st ANFA Cup | |
1981 | 5–1 | 2nd ANFA Cup | ||
1982 | 3–1 | Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament' | ||
1983 | 3–0 | |||
1984 | 1–0 | |||
1985 | 2–0 | |||
1986 | 3–1 | |||
1987 | 2–2 (a.e.t.) 3–2 (pen.) |
|||
1988 | Not Held | |||
1989 | 2–0 | |||
1998 | Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament', sponsored by Bottlers Nepal Ltd (Feb 2–11). | |||
1999 | 1–0 | National League Cup | ||
2000 | 2–0 | Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament' | ||
2009 | 0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–2 (pen.) |
Titled as 'Prime Minister's Invitational Tournament' | ||
2010 | — | — | — | Youth tournament: titled as 'HISSAN Cup'[3] |
2014 | 4–0 | Domestic tournament |
- *Selection of Nepalese players. Effectively a full national team.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ANFA Invitational Tournament (Nepal)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ "FOOTBALL HISTORY IN NEPAL". the-anfa.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ "HISSAN to provide scholarship". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 28 August 2014.