Nehru Cup

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The Nehru Cup or Copa Nehru was a football competition in India .

The cup was played between the various participating national teams in tournament mode. In some cases, the B national teams, the Olympic teams, junior national teams and the amateur national representatives also took part. In 1983 and 1984, Haladás Szombathely and Vasas Budapest also represented club teams, with the former taking the name of the Hungarian Olympic team. Between 1982 and 2012 there were a total of 15 staging of this competition. It took place annually until 1989, after which it was changed to a two-year cycle. After the 1997 tournament there was a ten-year break. Since then there have been three more events in 2007, 2009 and 2012.

Winners list

year winner Losing finalist
1982 UruguayUruguay Uruguay China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
1983 HungaryHungary Hungary China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
1984 PolandPoland Poland China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
1985 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia
1986 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
1987 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
1988 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union PolandPoland Poland
1989 HungaryHungary Hungary Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
1991 RomaniaRomania Romania HungaryHungary Hungary
1993 Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea RomaniaRomania Romania
1995 IraqIraq Iraq RussiaRussia Russia
1997 IraqIraq Iraq UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan
2007 IndiaIndia India SyriaSyria Syria
2009 IndiaIndia India SyriaSyria Syria
2012 IndiaIndia India CameroonCameroon Cameroon

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nehru Cup on rsssf.com, accessed June 6, 2013
  2. ↑ India beat Cameroon to lift Nehru Cup for the third consecutive time on ndtv.com