Sri Lanka national football team results (1950–1979)

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Sri Lanka national football team fixtures and results between 1950 and 1979 are as follows:^[1]

Results

1952

9 March 1952 (1952-03-09) 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Ceylon	0–2	India	Colombo, Ceylon
		Report	Venkatesh 13', 20' Sheoo Mewalal 15'	Stadium: Colombo Oval, Colombo Referee: Mr. A. Roy (India)

18 March 1952 (1952-03-18) 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Ceylon	0–2	Pakistan	Colombo, Ceylon
		Report	Wahid 8' Kutty 34'	Stadium: Colombo Oval, Colombo Referee: U. Kim Teikh (Burma)

1953

24 October 1953 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Burma	3–2	Ceylon	Rangoon, Burma
	Samuel 22', 60', 64'	Report	Ossen 21' Aziz 47'

27 October 1953 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	India	2–0	Ceylon	Rangoon, Burma
	Venkatesh ?' Khan 35'	Report

2 November 1953 1953 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Pakistan	6–0	Ceylon	Rangoon, Burma
	Akbar 7' Ismail 10', 13' Gunaid 11' (o.g.) Kutty 37', 42'	Report

1954

18 December 1954 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Pakistan	2–1	Ceylon	Calcutta, India
	Jamil Amin	Report	M. Sainoon

21 December 1954 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	India	1–1	Ceylon	Calcutta, India
	N. Mohammed ?'	Report	A.Fernando ?'	Stadium: Eden Gardens

25 December 1954 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Ceylon	2–1	Burma	Calcutta, India
	T.M. Deen ?' A.Fernando ?'	Report

1955

18 December 1955 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	India	4–3	Ceylon	Dacca, East Pakistan
	Banerjee ?', ?' Mewalal Sattar	Report Report	Ranasinghe ?', ?' Fernando	Stadium: Dacca Stadium

21 December 1955 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Pakistan	2–1	Ceylon	Dacca, East Pakistan
	Fakhri ?', ?'	FIFA RSSSF Report	Ranasinghe	Stadium: Dacca Stadium Attendance: 20,000

25 December 1955 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament	Burma	3–1	Ceylon	Dacca, East Pakistan
	Suk Bahadur ?', ?' (pen.) Aung Myint	Report Report	Sainoon	Stadium: Dacca Stadium

1956

26 August 1956 Friendly	Ceylon	3–5	Pakistan	Colombo, Ceylon
		Report

28 August 1956 Friendly	Ceylon	N/A	Pakistan	Colombo, Ceylon
		Report

1963

27 November 1963 1964 Olympic Q. P.R.	Ceylon	3–5	India	Colombo, Ceylon
	Mahinda ?', ?' Sirisena ?'	Report	Appalaraju 11', ?', 80' Y. Khan ?', ?'	Stadium: Sugathadasa Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: I. Mansoor (Malaysia)

7 December 1963 1964 Olympic Q. P.R.	India	7–0	Ceylon	Bangalore, India
	Appalaraju ?', ?', ?' Sarmad Khan ?', ?' I. Singh ?' Samajpati ?'	Report		Stadium: Sree Kanteerava Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: U Kyin Maung Aye (Burma)

1964

East Germany also played against Ceylon Army in 8 January ending in 0–14.^[2]

12 January 1964 Friendly	Ceylon	1–12	East Germany	Ceylon
	D.Walles 70'	Report	Heino 1', 40', 62', 88' Wolfgang 3', 61' Hermann 20', 47', 89' Jürgen 37' Gerd 42' Otto 79'	Stadium: Sugathadasa Stadium Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Mantare(SRI)

23 February 1964 Friendly	Ceylon	3–9	Indonesia	Ceylon
	Amidon N/A N/A		Komar N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

29 February 1964 Friendly

Ceylon

1–4

Indonesia

Ceylon

1965

28 February 1965 Friendly	Ceylon	3–1	Pakistan	Colombo, Ceylon
	Amidon ?' Wickremasuriya 60' Zainulabdeen ?'	Report	Umer ?'	Stadium: Sugathadasa Stadium Attendance: 40,000

7 March 1965 Friendly	Ceylon	0–0	Pakistan	Colombo, Ceylon
		Report		Stadium: Sugathadasa Stadium

29 April 1965 Friendly

Indonesia

5–0

Ceylon

Indonesia

1966

5 April 1966 Friendly	Ceylon	0–3	Burma	Colombo, Ceylon
				Stadium: Sugathadasa Stadium

8 April 1966 Friendly	Ceylon	1–3	Burma	Colombo, Ceylon
		Report		Stadium: Sugathadasa Stadium

1968

17 March 1968 1968 Olympic Q.	Israel	7–0	Ceylon	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel
	George Borba 1', 63' Mordechai Spiegler 11', 59', 85' W.N.C. Perera 30' (o.g.) Giora Spiegel 47'	Report		Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Wanchai Suwaree (Thailand)

22 March 1968 1968 Olympic Q.	Israel	4–0	Ceylon	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel
	Giora Spiegel 55' Rahamim Talbi 62' Shmuel Rosenthal 66' George Borba 77'	Report		Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Joseph Heymann (Switzerland)

1971

13 December 1971 Asian Cup Q.	Iraq	5–0	Ceylon	Kuwait
	Kadhim 32', 42', 69' Kamil 51' Khalaf 88'	Report		Referee: Sarkis Demirdjian (Lebanon)

16 December 1971 Asian Cup Q.	Jordan	2–1	Ceylon	Kuwait
		Report

20 December 1971 Asian Cup Q.	Bahrain	3–0	Ceylon	Kuwait
		Report

1972

22 March 1972 1972 Olympic Q.	Israel	3–0	Ceylon	Rangoon, Burma
	Calderon 12' Dror Bar-Nur 52' Borba 70'			Stadium: Bogyoke Aung San Stadium

24 March 1972 1972 Olympic Q.	Burma	5–1	Ceylon	Rangoon, Burma
	Than Soe 20', 80' Aye Maung Lay 38' Win Maung 55' Khin Maung Tint 73'		Fawzeer 60'	Stadium: Bogyoke Aung San Stadium

26 March 1972 1972 Olympic Q.	Thailand	5–0	Ceylon	Rangoon, Burma
	Sudsa-ard 17', 27', 29' Suvantada 39' Kitboon 44'			Stadium: Bogyoke Aung San Stadium

7 June 1972 Jakarta Anniversary t.

Malaysia

3–0

Sri Lanka

Jakarta

9 June 1972 Jakarta Anniversary t.	Burma	4–2	Sri Lanka	Jakarta
	Maung Soe Myint 52' Maung Myint Kyu 70' Maung Sein Win Lay Maung Khin Maung Tint	Report	Hassimdeen 28' Perera 40'

11 June 1972 Jakarta Anniversary t.	Indonesia	8–0	Sri Lanka	Jakarta
	Jacob Sihasale ?', ?', ?' Abdul Kadir ?', ?' Risdianto ?', ?' Waskito ?'

13 June 1972 Jakarta Anniversary t.

Sri Lanka

3–1

Laos

Jakarta

23 June 1972 Friendly	Singapore	3–1	Sri Lanka	Singapore, Kallang
	Krishnan 6', 50' Samad 10' (pen.)	Report	Preena 21'	Stadium: Jalan Besar Stadium

12 July 1972 Merdeka Tournament	Malaysia	4–1	Sri Lanka	Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
	Hamzah Hussein 48' S. Abdullah 56', 58', 61'		M. Nizarden 76'	Stadium: Merdeka Stadium Attendance: 15.000

16 July 1972 Merdeka Tournament	Japan	5–0	Sri Lanka	Malaysia, Ipoh
	Kamamoto 5', 9', 58', 65', 89'			Stadium: Perak Stadium

20 July 1972 Merdeka Tournament	Philippines	4–1	Sri Lanka	Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
	Juan Gutierrez 34' M. Martinez 44' I.Lozano 59' Miguel Crame 63'		Hassimdeen 70'	Stadium: Merdeka Stadium

22 July 1972 Merdeka Tournament	Khmer Republic	6–1	Sri Lanka	Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
	Doeur Soekhom 35' Sea Cheng Eang 39', 66' Sok Sun Seah 42' Doeuk Miladord 63' (pen.), 87'		Hassimdeen 69'	Stadium: Merdeka Stadium

25 July 1972 Merdeka Tournament	Singapore	6–1	Sri Lanka	Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
	S. P. Leong 24', 62', 84' Samad 44', 56' S. Rajagopal 87'		Clement da Silva 25'	Stadium: Merdeka Stadium

2 August 1972 1972 Pesta Sukan Cup	Singapore	6–1	Sri Lanka	Kallang, Singapore
	Samad 1', 25', 66', 72' Arshad 51', 52'	Report	M.S. Dain ?'	Stadium: Jalan Besar Stadium

4 August 1972 1972 Pesta Sukan Cup	Hong Kong	2–1	Sri Lanka	Kallang, Singapore
	Wong Tak Choi 6', ?'	Report	Fawzeer ?'	Stadium: Jalan Besar Stadium

3 September 1972 Friendly

Sri Lanka

2–3

China

Sri Lanka

12 September 1972 Friendly

Sri Lanka

0–1

China

Sri Lanka

1979

2 May 1979 Asian Cup Q.

Malaysia

3–1

Sri Lanka

Bangkok

4 May 1979 Asian Cup Q.

Thailand

4–0

Sri Lanka

Bangkok

6 May 1979 Asian Cup Q.

Hong Kong

5–0

Sri Lanka

Bangkok

8 May 1979 Asian Cup Q.	Sri Lanka	4–0	Singapore	Bangkok
	Zaheer ?', ?', ?' Fernando ?'	Report

10 September 1979 President's Cup	Bahrain	1–0	Sri Lanka	South Korea, Seoul
15:45 UTC+9	Dosanghud 18'			Stadium: Seoul Stadium

12 September 1979 President's Cup	South Korea	6–0	Sri Lanka	South Korea, Daegu
18:45 UTC+9	Huh Jung-Moo 27' Shin Hyun-Ho 36', 40' Lee Jang-Soo 64' Yoo Gun-Soo 71' Lee Young-Moo 87'			Stadium: Daegu Civil Stadium

14 September 1979 President's Cup	Bangladesh	3–1	Sri Lanka	South Korea, Cheongju
14:00 UTC+9	Chunnu ?' Halim ?' Salahuddin ?'			Stadium: Cheongju Stadium

16 September 1979 President's Cup	Sudan	1–0	Sri Lanka	South Korea, Incheon
14:00 UTC+9	Abryu 71'			Stadium: Incheon Civil Stadium

22 November 1979 King's Cup

Thailand

5–1

Sri Lanka

Thailand

References

↑ "World Football Elo Ratings". www.eloratings.net. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
↑ Die Neue Fussball Woche (in German). 21 January 1964. pp. 8–9.

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[:1-1] "World Football Elo Ratings". www.eloratings.net. Retrieved 2025-11-30.

[2] Die Neue Fussball Woche (in German). 21 January 1964. pp. 8–9.

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Sri Lanka national football team results (1950–1979)

Contents

Results

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1963

1964

1965

1966

1968

1971

1972

1979

References