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]

ANFA Cup
Founded1980
Region Kathmandu
Current champions Jhapa XI
Most successful club(s)   Nepal
Guangdong (2 titles each)
WebsiteOfficial website
2014 ANFA Cup

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 Kathmandu XI Unknown Unknown 1st ANFA Cup
1981 Shandong Arambagh KS 5–1 2nd ANFA Cup
1982 Kunming Army Unit    Nepal 3–1 Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament'
1983 Sichuan  India 3–0
1984 Guangdong    Nepal 1–0
1985 Brooklyn College  Tibet 2–0
1986 Guangdong    Nepal 3–1
1987    Nepal East-West 2–2 (a.e.t, 3–2 pen)
1988Not Held
1989 Uralmash Sverdlovsk    Nepal 2–0
1998 Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament', sponsored by Bottlers Nepal Ltd (Feb 2-11).
1999 Mahendra Police Tribhuvan Army 1–0 National League Cup
2000 Soongsil Nepal Red* 2–0 Titled as 'ANFA Coca Cola Invitational Tournament'
2009 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 Jhapa XI 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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