Football at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games

2003 Afro-Asian Games Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	India
City	Hyderabad
Dates	22–31 October 2003
Teams	7 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium
Final positions
Champions	Uzbekistan U-21
Runners-up	India
Third place	Zimbabwe
Fourth place	Rwanda
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Albert Mbano I.M. Vijayan (4 goals each)

Football at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games was held in Hyderabad, India from 22 to 31 October 2003. ^[1] The football preliminaries commenced two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games.

The football tournament was a men's-only event. Eight teams were set to participate, but only seven played. The Uzbekistan U-21 youth team were the gold medalists beating the host country India in the final. ^[2] The host country took silver, while Zimbabwe won bronze.

Original setting and withdrawals

Initially, eight teams were set to participate in the football events - Burkina Faso, Cameroon, India, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, the U-21 youth teams of Uzbekistan and Malaysia, and the U-23 youth team of Malavan F.C. which is an Iranian football club that represented their country.

Cameroon withdrew, and Ghana was chosen as the replacement. However, just before the preliminaries, Ghana pulled out of the event, leaving only seven teams participating.

Venues

The football events were held in two stadiums - the GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium, which was the main stadium of the Games; and the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium. The football finals were held in the latter stadium.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	2	2	0	0	5	2	3	6
Rwanda	2	1	0	1	3	4	1	3
Malaysia U-21	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	0
Ghana	Withdrew

Matches

22 October

India	3–1	Rwanda
IM Vijayan 13' Muttah Suresh 54' Ashim Biswas 79'		Aziz Balinda 61'

24 October

India	2–0	Malaysia U-21
Jatin Singh Bisht 50' IM Vijayan 64'

26 October

Rwanda	2–1	Malaysia U-21
Jimmy Iraguha 81', 87'		Mohd Amri Yahyah 28'

Group B

Iran were represented by U-23 club side Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Uzbekistan U-21	3	2	1	0	3	1	2	7
Zimbabwe	3	1	2	0	6	3	3	5
Burkina Faso	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
Malavan U-23	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Matches

23 October

Zimbabwe	4–1	Burkina Faso
Prince Vusumuzi Nyoni 3', 74' Albert Mbano 26', 82'		Barro Samba Seydou 16'

23 October

Malavan U-23	0–1	Uzbekistan U-21
		Marat Bikmoev 48'

25 October

Zimbabwe	1–1	Malavan U-23
Brian Badza 3'		Seyed Jalal Hosseini-Khoshkbijari 59' (pen.)

25 October

Burkina Faso	0–1	Uzbekistan U-21
		Yaroslav Krushilnitskiy 66'

27 October

Uzbekistan U-21	1–1	Zimbabwe
Ilkom Suyunov 50'		Leonard Tsipa 17'

27 October

Burkina Faso	2–1	Malavan U-23
Abdul Moctar Diallo Germain Bationo		Germain Bationo o.g.'

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	India	5
	Zimbabwe	3
					India	0
					Uzbekistan U-21	1
	Uzbekistan U-21	2
	Rwanda	1

Semi-finals

29 October 2003 (2003-10-29)

Uzbekistan U-21	2–1	Rwanda
Mansur Saidov 63' Konstantin Boev 102'	Report	Mulisa 73'

29 October 2003 (2003-10-29)

India	5–3	Zimbabwe
Vijayan 25', 33' Bhutia 41', 83' (pen.) R.Singh 58'	Report	Mbano 5' Edmore Mashiri 81' (pen.) Simon Chipunza 87'

Third place match

31 October 2003 (2003-10-31)

Zimbabwe	2–2 [asdet, 5–3 pen.]	Rwanda
Prince Vusumuzi Nyoni 65' Mbano 90'	Report	Hassan Milly 37' Jimmy Iraguha 75'

Final

31 October 2003 (2003-10-31)

India	0–1	Uzbekistan U-21
	Report	Islom Inomov 90'

Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad

Referee: Lu Chun (China)

Overall ranking

Results		Teams
		Uzbekistan U-21	India	Zimbabwe	Rwanda	Malavan U-23	Burkina Faso	Malaysia U-21	Ghana
	Quarter-finals								Withdrew
	Victories	1	2	1	1	1	1	0
	Losses	1	0	0	1	1	2	2
	Draws	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
	Points	7	6	5	3	3	3	0
	Semi-finals
	Semifinalists					-	-	-
	Points	3	3	0	0	-	-	-
	Final
	Finalists			-	-	-	-	-
	Final Statistics
	Ranking	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Medal	Gold	Silver	Bronze	-	-	-	-
	Total points	13	9	5	3	3	3	0

References

1. Chaudhuri, Arunava; Stokkermans, Karel (2001). "Afro-Asian Games 2003". RSSSF . Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
2. "How have the Indian national team performed against African opponents?" . Retrieved 22 December 2023.

External links

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