India national under-20 football team

India Under-20
Nickname(s) Blue Colts
Association All India Football Federation
Confederation AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach Floyd Pinto
FIFA code IND
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Burma 1–1 India 
(Malaya; 19 April 1963)
Biggest win
 India 7–0 Nepal   
(Bangkok, Thailand; 23 April 1972)
(Non-varifiable)
 India 6–0 Sri Lanka 
(Kannur, India; 13 July 1996)
 India 7–1 Bhutan 
(Bangalore India; 25 August 1998)
 India 6–0 Bangladesh 
(Qatar; 16 October 2002)
Biggest defeat
 India 0–7 Israel 
(Bangkok, Thailand; 16 April 1972)
 India 0–7 South Korea 
(Qatar; 25 October 2002)
 India 0–7 United Arab Emirates 
(Qatar; 4 October 2015)
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Appearances 0
AFC U-19 Championship
Appearances 22 (first in 1963)
Best result Champions (1974)
South Asian Championship
Appearances 2 (first in 2015)
Best result Runners-up (2015)

The India national Under-20 football team, also known as India Under-20s or India U20(s), represents India at all under-20 football tournaments. They are one of the feeder teams for the India national under-23 football team and the senior India national football team.

This team is for Indian players aged under 19 at the start of the calendar year in which a two-year AFC U-19 Championship campaign begins, and as such, some players can remain with the squad until the age of 21. As long as they are eligible, players can play for India at any level, making it possible to play for the U19s first, then the senior side, and again back to playing for the U19s. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (provided the player is eligible).

History

As an Asian U19 team, India competes for the Asian Championship, with the finals every even-numbered year, formerly odd-numbered years. There is no Under-19 World Cup, although there is an Under-20 World Cup. This team also participate in the SAFF U-19 Championship which started from 2015 by South Asian Football federation.

1959−1970

For the first four season of AFC U-19 Championship, from 1959 to 1962 the Indian team did not enter into the tournament though there was no qualification round. India first participated in the AFC U-19 Championships in 1963 but did not moved ahead from the group stage. the first best result came at the 1966 edition where the team entered in the quarter finals with 3 wins against Burma, Japan and Singapore and a defeat by china but in the quarter final they lost to Israel by 4−0. In the next edition at 1967 AFC Youth Championship India again entered in the quarter final. First a draw of 1−1 against Israel and then defeating Malaysia by 4−1 but same as 1966 they again defeated in the quarter final, this time by Indonesia by 2−6. In 1968, the team didn't move beyond group stage, and next two edition of 1969 and 1970 India did not enter in the championships.

1971−1978

In 1971, they again reached the quarter final for the third time in AFC championships, but the fate was same as again saw a defeat, now against Japan by 0−3. But, after a gap of two more edition, it was 1974 AFC Youth Championship, where India seen the golden moment after becoming champions in AFC Under-19 Championships. First in group stage India defeat both Laos and Burma by 1−0 and a draw against Hong Kong by 2−2. Then entering in the quarter final they defeated Singapore by 1(4)−1(1), thus reached semi-finals where defeating Thailand by 2−1, for the first time India reached the final of the Championship. But the final was a draw against Iran by 2−2 thus jointly awarded both the team as the Champions. In 1975 and 1976 edition India didn't do much well but at 1977 AFC Youth Championship they reached the quarter final but the opponent was Iran, the defending Champion who defeated India by 3−0, thus failed to qualify for the first FIFA World Youth Championship in 1977 which later came to be known as FIFA U-20 World Cup and also afiled to qualify at the 1979 edition.

1980−2000, the Decline

These two decades seen a decline in the performance of the Indian team. Qualification round started from 1980 AFC Youth Championship and India failed to qualify in 6 out of 11 edition of the championships and in rest 5 edition the failed to move beyond the group stage, thus also failed to qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup as the finalist only qualify for the competition.

2002−2017 Rise and Fall

In 2002, at the AFC U-19 Championship, India reached the quarter final for the 6th time, by the virtue of third place qualifiers, but defeated heavily by South Korea, where the Korean found the Indian net 7 times. Next two edition they ended their competition in group stages and next 7 editions from 2008 to 2018, India failed to qualify again for the championships and so for the FIFA U20 Worldcup.

In the meanwhile, SAFF started SAFF U-19 Championship from 2015 to develop the youth teams of South Asian countries as they continuously failing to qualify for AFC U-20 championships. In the 2015 inaugural edition, India became runners-up facing a defeat from Nepal through penalty shoot out. In the next edition in 2017, the tournament was a round robin, where India seen two wins against Bhutan and Maldives and two defeats from Bangladesh and Nepal, thus achieved the third place in the tournament.

2018−Present

The AIFF finally acted and opened their eyes to bring out the team from its misery and started various plans and programmes to tackle to present pathetic situation. One of the most important steps is international exposure to the youth and under 17 teams. India's U-20 team was invited to participate in Cotif Tournament where clubs and national and autonomous teams participate every year since 1984, held at Valencia, Spain. 2018 Cotif was 35th Anniversary of the tournament.[1] Though India lost two consecutive matches against Spanish club Murcia then against Mauritania, they managed a draw against a stronger Latin American side of Venezuala, but on the final group match on 5 August 2018, the Indian side written a piece of history when they defeated the most successful U-20 Worldcup winning nation Argentina. The match was historic in many ways, when Indian defender Deepak Tangri headed a corner kick to the net of Argentine side, it was the first goal against them by any Indian side, then with a second goal by Anwar Ali with a fabulous free kick help India to win the match with a score of 2−1 against the stronger Argentine side, made a history as its the first time that any Indian team defeated any Argentine side and also any American national team.[2][3][4] Argentina national team manager Scaloni and Argentine great Pablo Aimar praised the young colt's performances and said the future of the team is bright if there is continued perseverance.[5] AIFF called it as one of the “biggest days for Indian Football” as team coach said "This victory will definitely earn Indian football more respect in the world of football. It opens up a window of opportunity to test ourselves against the best in the world on a regular basis".[6]

Just after the Cotif experience, AIFF announced the team was invited to play in a four-nation tournament between under-20 national teams of France, Croatia and Slovenia and two friendlies against Serbia.[7] This was the first time India was playing in a 4-nations tournament in which all the opponents are European nations.[8][9] In the first match the team faced a big defeat against a mightier Croatian team by 0−5.[10] The second match was against Slovenia, where they played very well within 90 minutes but failed to convert various chances and on the last minute of injury time the Slovenian side found the net, match ended in 0−1 defeat.[11] Third match was against France, which India lost by 2−0.[12] In the friendlies against Serbia India seen defeat in th both the matches, first by 2−0[13] and second by 3−1 where Rahim Ali managed to find the net once.[14]

Current Staff

Name Position
India Floyd Pinto Head Coach
India Mahesh Gawli Assistant Coach
India Yusuf Ansari Goalkeeping Coach
India Deepak Negi General Manager
India Vishnu Nair Physio

Current squad

As of 20 July 2018

The following players were called up to the India squad for the 2018 COTIF Cup[15][16][17] [18] and Europe Tour.[19]

Number Name DOB Club Caps (goals)
Goalkeepers
1Prabhsukhan Singh Gill2 January 2001India Indian Arrows0 (0)
21Samik Mitra1 December 2000India Chennaiyin FC0 (0)
29Sachin Ammanath Suresh18 January 2001India F.C. Kerala0 (0)
Vishal Dube4 January 2000India SAG Football Academy0 (0)
Defenders
2Boris Singh Thangjam3 January 2000India Indian Arrows3 (0)
3Sahil Panwar15 December 1999India Pune City5 (0)
4Anwar Ali28 August 2000India Indian Arrows2 (0)
5Sanjeev Stalin17 January 2001India Indian Arrows4 (0)
12Jitendra Singh13 June 2001India Indian Arrows2 (0)
18Ashish Rai2 February 1999India Indian Arrows2 (1)
19Akash Mishra1 January 2001India U Dream Academy0 (0)
22Deepak Tangri1 February 1999India Chennaiyin FC3 (0)
25Sumit Rathi26 August 2001India Indian Arrows0 (0)
26Narender Gahlot24 April 2001India Indian Arrows0 (0)
27Aimol Chongompipa Reamsochung1 January 1999India Chennaiyin FC0 (0)
Midfielders
6Suresh Singh Wangjam7 August 2000India Indian Arrows2 (1)
7Ninthoinganba Meetei13 July 2001India Indian Arrows4 (2)
8Amarjit Singh Kiyam6 January 2001India Indian Arrows2 (0)
10Abhijit Sarkar5 January 2000India Chennaiyin FC
13Lalengmawia17 September 2000India Indian Arrows
15Jeakson Singh Thounaojam21 June 2001India Indian Arrows3 (0)
16Nongdamba Naorem2 January 2000India Indian Arrows3 (0)
17Rahul Praveen16 March 2000India Indian Arrows3 (0)
20Harmanpreet Singh1 January 2000India Anandpur Sports Academy0 (0)
23Lalengmawia17 October 2000India Indian Arrows0 (0)
28Ribhav Jatin Sardesai6 July 2000India Indian Arrows0 (0)
12Dhawal Rajpurohit30 December 1997India Anandpur Sports Academy0 (0)
Forwards
9Rahim Ali21 April 2000India Chennaiyin FC3 (0)
11Aniket Jadhav13 July 2000India Indian Arrows
14Aman Chhetri26 July 2001India Chennaiyin FC

Past Squads

AFC U-19 Championship squads

Results and fixtures

  Win   Draw   Loss

2018

2018

Competitive records

FIFA U-20 World Cup

FIFA U-20 World Cup record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA
FIFA World Youth Championship
Tunisia 1977
to
Netherlands 2005		 Did not Qualify
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Canada 2007
to
Poland 2019		 Did not Qualify
Total0/220 Titles000000

AFC U-19 Championship

AFC U-19 Championship records
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA
Malaysia 1959
to
Thailand 1962		Did not enter
Malaysia 1963Group Stage7th521265
South Vietnam 1964Group Stage6th302114
Japan 1965Group Stage7th411236
Philippines 1966Quarter Final5th530297
Thailand 1967Quarter Final7th311178
South Korea 1968Group Stage11th310244
Thailand 1969Did not enter
Philippines 1970
Japan 1971Quarter Final6th421155
Thailand 1972Group Stage11th4103513
Iran 1973Group Stage10th302112
Thailand 1974Champions1st6510106
Kuwait 1975Group Stage13th411256
Thailand 1976Group Stage5th311143
Iran 1977Quarter Final5th310258
Bangladesh 1978Group Stage6th411278
Thailand 1980
to
United Arab Emirates 1985		Did not qualify
Saudi Arabia 1986Group Stage6th301228
Qatar 1988Did not enter
Indonesia 1990Group Stage6th310237
United Arab Emirates 1992Group Stage8th300307
Indonesia 1994Did not enter
South Korea 1996Group Stage8th401326
Thailand 1998Group Stage10th4013310
Iran 2000Did not qualify
Qatar 2002Quarter Final8th4103214
Malaysia 2004Group Stage13th300325
India 2006Group Stage13th301237
Saudi Arabia 2008
to
Indonesia 2018		Did not qualify
Total22/401 Title8122164389149

SAFF U-19 Championship

SAFF U-19 Championship record
Host/Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA
Nepal 2015Runners-up2nd422061
Bhutan 2017Round Robin3rd420287
Total2/20 Titles8422148
*Denotes draws includes knockout matches decided on penalty kicks. Red border indicates that the tournament was hosted on home soil. Gold, silver, bronze backgrounds indicates 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishes respectively. Bold text indicates best finish in tournament.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The COTIF lives the presentation of its 35th anniversary". Cotifalcudia. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "History, Beat Argentina 2-1 In COTIF Cup 2018". inuth. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "India's U-20 football side stuns Argentina 2-1". The Hindu. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "India stun Argentina in U-20 COTIF Cup football tourney". TOI. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "AIMAR, SCALONI GREET INDIA U-20 BOYS, PRAISE THEM". AIFF. 9 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "10-MAN INDIA SHOCK U-20 ARGENTINA-20 2-1". AIFF. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "INDIA U-19s TO PLAY BACK-TO-BACK FRIENDLIES AGAINST SERBIA". AIFF. 8 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "India U-20 to face France in four-nation tourney". AIFF. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  9. ↑ https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9139
  10. ↑ "INDIA U-19 GO DOWN TO CROATIA". AIFF. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "INDIA U-19 LOSE BY A SOLITARY GOAL TO SLOVENIA". AIFF. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "INDIA GO DOWN TO U-19 YOUTH TEAM OF WORLD CHAMPIONS FRANCE". the-aiff.com. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "India U-19 football team suffers 0-2 loss against Serbia U-19". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of india. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "INDIA U-19 SIDE SUFFER 3-1 DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF SERBIA IN FRIENDLY". the-aiff.com. AIFF. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "PINTO NAMES 25-MEMBER SQUAD FOR U-20 COTIF TOURNAMENT". AIFF. 20 July 2018.
  16. ↑ http://www.cotifalcudia.com/partido/seleccion-nacional-india-vs-seleccion-aut-r-murcia/
  17. ↑ http://www.cotifalcudia.com/partido/seleccion-nacional-argentina-vs-seleccion-nacional-india/
  18. ↑ http://www.cotifalcudia.com/partido/seleccion-nacional-india-vs-seleccion-nacional-venezuela/
  19. ↑ http://hns-cff.hr/en/matches/28024539/croatia-indija-5-0/
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