ANFA Cup

Football tournament
ANFA Cup
Founded1980
RegionNepal Kathmandu
Current championsNepal Jhapa XI
Most successful club(s)   Nepal
China Guangdong (2 titles each)
WebsiteOfficial website
2014 ANFA Cup

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

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

Year Winner Runner-up Score Comment
1980 Nepal Kathmandu XI Unknown Unknown 1st ANFA Cup
1981 China Shandong Bangladesh Arambagh KS 5–1 2nd ANFA Cup
1982 China Kunming Army Unit    Nepal 3–1 Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament'
1983 China Sichuan  India 3–0
1984 China Guangdong    Nepal 1–0
1985 United States Brooklyn College  Tibet 2–0
1986 China Guangdong    Nepal 3–1
1987    Nepal United States East-West 2–2 (a.e.t.)
3–2 (pen.)
1988 Not Held
1989 Soviet Union Uralmash Sverdlovsk    Nepal 2–0
1998 Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament', sponsored by Bottlers Nepal Ltd (Feb 2–11).
1999 Nepal Mahendra Police Nepal Tribhuvan Army 1–0 National League Cup
2000 South Korea Soongsil Nepal Nepal Red* 2–0 Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament'
2009 Nepal Nepal Red*  Sri Lanka 0–0 (a.e.t.)
4–2 (pen.) 		Titled as 'Prime Minister's Invitational Tournament'
2010 — — — Youth tournament: titled as 'HISSAN Cup'[3]
2014 Nepal Jhapa XI Nepal Sankata Boys SC 4–0 Domestic tournament
*Selection of Nepalese players. Effectively a full national team.

See also

References

  1. ^ "ANFA Invitational Tournament (Nepal)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. ^ "FOOTBALL HISTORY IN NEPAL". the-anfa.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  3. ^ "HISSAN to provide scholarship". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

 

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