India national football team results (1970–1979)

Results of India national football team from 1970–1979.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Summary Matches 104–161
Games	Won	Draw	Lost	GF	GA	Win %
58	18	9	31	80	139	31.03%
Biggest win
India 6–0 Malaysia 26 August 1971
Biggest defeat
India 1–9 Burma 6 August 1971
South Korea 8–0 India 18 August 1976
Honours
1970 Asian Games, Thailand
← 1960–69				1980–89 →

1970

30 July 1970

1970 Merdeka

Taiwan	1–0	India
Hu San Wah	FIFA RSSSF

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1 August 1970

1970 Merdeka

Malaysia	1–3	India
Wong Choon Wah	FIFA RSSSF	Shyam Thapa Syed Nayeemuddin Ranjit Thapa

Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia

3 August 1970

1970 Merdeka

India	0–2	Burma
	FIFA RSSSF	Win Maung

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

9 August 1970

1970 Merdeka

India	2–1	South Vietnam
Subhash Bhowmick Mohammed Habib	FIFA RSSSF	Nguyen Van Xe

Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia

12 August 1970

1970 Merdeka

South Korea	3–2	India
Chung Kang Ji Park Yi Chung Lee Hae Taik	FIFA RSSSF	Subhash Bhowmick Mohammed Habib

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

15 August 1970

1970 Merdeka

India	3–2	Hong Kong
Magan Singh Mohammed Habib	FIFA RSSSF

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

10 December 1970

16:00

Asian Games GS

Thailand	2–2	India
Sahas Pornsavan 13' Preecha Kitboon 21'	RSSSF FIFA	Subhash Bhowmick 35', 57'

Bangkok, Thailand

11 December 1970

16:00

Asian Games GS

India	2–0	South Vietnam
Habib 76' Rajvi 85'	RSSSF FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

15 December 1970

Asian Games QF

India	3–0	Indonesia
Doraiswamy Nataraj 74' Rajvi 79' Thapa 83'	RSSSF FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

17 December 1970

16:00

Asian Games QF

Japan	1–0	India
Kimura 88'	RSSSF FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

18 December 1970

16:00

Asian Games SF

Burma	2–0	India
Ye Nyunt 15', 48'	FIFA RSSSF

Bangkok, Thailand

19 December 1970^[4]

Asian Games Bronze

India	1–0	Japan
Gurung 36'	FIFA RSSSF

Bangkok, Thailand

1971

6 August 1971

1971 Merdeka Cup

India	1–9	Burma
Magan Singh	RSSSF	Ye Nyunt Tin Aung Moe Win Maung Aye Maung Gyi Hia Tay

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

9 August 1971

1971 Merdeka Cup

Singapore	2–2	India
Kim Lye R Krishnan	RSSSF	Amar Bahadur Shyam Thapa

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

12 August 1971

1971 Merdeka Cup

Indonesia	3–1	India
Waskito 1', 54', 58'	Report	Habib 42'

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

16 August 1971^[5]

1971 Merdeka Cup

Philippines	1–5	India
Tomas Lozano 56'	Report	Bhowmick 17' 67' Thapa 28' Habib 65'

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

19 August 1971

1971 Merdeka Cup

India	1–2	Hong Kong
Syed Nayeemuddin	Report	Wu Kwok Hung L Kwow Keong

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

23 August 1971

1971 Pestasukan

India	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Indonesia
Mohammed Habib	Report

Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

26 August 1971^[a]

1971 Pestasukan

India	6–0	Malaysia
Subhash Bhowmick Mohammed Habib Doraiswamy Natraj Swapan Sengupta	Report RSSSF

Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

28 August 1971

1971 Pestasukan

South Vietnam	0–0	India
	RSSSF

Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

18 September 1971

Friendly

Soviet Union	5–0	India
Kolotov 6', 35', 39' Khmelnytskyi 49', 71'	Report

Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Soviet Union)

1972

22 March 1972

1972 Olympic Qualifier

India	3–4	Burma
Magan Singh 26' Ghosh Dastidar 44', 50'	Report	Than Soe 11', 14' Win Maung 24', 41'

24 March 1972

1972 Olympic Qualifier

India	2–4	Indonesia
Samaresh Chowdhury 57' Doraiswamy Natraj 89'	Report	Jacob Sihasale 10' Kainun Waskito 16', 38' Abdul Kadir 75'

27 March

1972 Olympic Qualifier

India	0–1	Israel
	Report	Speigler 50'

1973

26 July 1973^[7]

1973 Merdeka Cup

South Vietnam	1–2	India
Ho Thanh Cang 8'	FIFA Report	Magan Singh 32' Nicholas Pereira 57'

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1 August 1973

1973 Merdeka Cup

India	3–0	Khmer Republic
Bernard Pereira 7' Magan Singh N.Ulganathan 60'	FIFA Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

4 August 1973

1973 Merdeka Cup

India	2–0	Thailand
Inder Singh	FIFA Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5 August 1973

1973 Merdeka Cup

Malaysia	4–0	India
Rahim Abdullah Namat Abdullah Harun Jusoh Mokhtar Dahari	FIFA Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

10 August 1973

1973 Merdeka Cup

India	1–1	South Vietnam
M Prasannan	FIFA Report	Nguyen Van Mong
Penalties
Bernard Pereira Manuel Jayaraj Nicholas Pereira Thomas Fernandes	4−5	Ho Than Cang Hyunh Van Chien Cu Sinh Quong Duo Vin Duong Van Tho

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1974

23 July 1974

1974 Merdeka Cup

Thailand	2–4	India
Pasrapon Niwatana Sesawadi pen.'	Report	Magan Singh Bernard Pereira

Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia

25 July 1974

1974 Merdeka Cup

Malaysia	4–1	India
Syed Ahmed 5' Mohammed Bakar 16', 34' Wong Choon Wah 65'	Report	Magan Singh 70'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia

29 July 1974

1974 Merdeka Cup

India	2–2	Hong Kong
Magan Singh 26' Manjit Singh 75'	Report	Yu Kwok-Kit 34', 55'

Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia

2 August 1974

1974 Merdeka Cup

Indonesia	0–0 (a.e.t.)	India
	Report
Penalties
Oyong Liza Wibisono Anjao Asmar Junaeri Adbilah	4−2	Subrata Bhattacharya Lateefuddin

Perak Stadium, Ipoh, Malaysia

2 September 1974

16:00

Asian Games GS

Iraq	3–0	India
Hazim Jassam 19' Hassan 27' Kadhim 58'	Report

Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran, Tehran, Iran

4 September 1974

18:30

Asian Games GS

China	7–1	India
Wang Jilian 2', 24' Li Guoning 19' (pen.) Liu Qingquan Rong Zhixing Chi Shangbin	Report	Magan Singh 74'

Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran, Tehran, Iran

6 September 1974

18:30

Asian Games GS

North Korea	4–1	India
Hong Song-Nam Yong Song-Guk Myong Dong-Chan	Report	Magan Singh

Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran, Tehran, Iran

1976

24 July 1976

Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup

Afghanistan	1–1	India
	FIFA RSSSF	Harjinder Singh

Ghazi Stadium, Kabul, Afghanistan

8 August 1976

1976 Merdeka Cup

Japan	5–1	India
Kunishige Kamamoto Yoshikazu Nagai Yasuhiko Okudera Hiroji Imamura	FIFA Report	A. Devraj Doraiswamy

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

10 August 1976

1976 Merdeka Cup

Malaysia	5–1	India
	FIFA Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11 August 1976

1976 Merdeka Cup

Thailand	6–2	India
Weeryudh Sawesdi Kittichai Miwat Sriswat Witaya Lonakhul	Report Report	Manjit Singh Shabbir Ali

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

13 August 1976

1976 Merdeka Cup

Burma	2–2	India
Maung Win Maung Kyi Lon	FIFA Report	Manjit Singh Harjinder Singh

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

16 August 1976

1976 Merdeka Cup

India	3–1	Indonesia
Shabbir Ali 7', 33', 35'	Report Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

18 August 1976

1976 Merdeka Cup

India	0−8	South Korea
	FIFA Report	Cha Bum-kun Park Sang-in Kim Jin-kook Park Young Joo Kim Ho-kon

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11 September 1976

President Cup

South Korea	4–0	India
Lee Young-Moo 40', 52' Cho Dong-Hyun 42' Cha Bum-Kun 55'	FIFA

Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea

15 September 1976

President Cup

Singapore	2–1	India
Quah Kim Song	FIFA	A. D. Devaraju

Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea

19 September 1976

President Cup

Malaysia	4–0	India
	FIFA

Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea

1977

5 September 1977

President's Cup

South Korea	3–0	India
Cha Bum-Kun 57', 89' Kim Jae-Han 85'	FIFA

Daegu Civil Stadium, Daegu, South Korea

7 September 1977

President's Cup

Thailand	4–0	India
Cherdsak Chaiyabutr 12', 42', 72' Pichai Kongsri	FIFA

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan, South Korea

29 October 1977^[b]

King's Cup

South Korea	0–1	India
	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

31 October 1977

King's Cup

Thailand	1–1	India
	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

4 November 1977

King's Cup

India	2–1	Singapore
	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

8 November 1977

King's Cup

India	2–1	Indonesia
	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

10 November 1977

King's Cup

Malaysia	3–0	India
	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

1978

10 December 1978

Asian Games GS

India	3–0	Bangladesh
Bidesh Bose Harjinder Singh Xavier Pius	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

14 December 1978

Asian Games GS

India	0–1	Malaysia
	FIFA

Bangkok, Thailand

16 December 1978

Asian Games SFs

India	0–3	Iraq
	FIFA	Mahmoud 20' Shaker 25' Saeed 63'

Bangkok, Thailand

18 December 1978

Asian Games SFs

Kuwait	6–1	India
	FIFA	Surajit Sengupta

Bangkok, Thailand

20 December 1978

Asian Games SFs

North Korea	3–1	India
	FIFA	A. Devraj Doraiswamy

Bangkok, Thailand

Notes

^ The standard of teams is unclear. Malaysia apparently used a team of players who had not appeared in the Merdeka Tournament in Malaysia immediately prior to this tournament in Singapore. But the match against Malaysia is considered as full A international by various sources.^[6]
^ This match against South Korea XI in 1977 is considered as full A international for India by some RSSSF and FIFA sources.[1]

References

^ "Merdeka Tournament 1970".
^ RSSSF
^ "Indian team 1970 Merdeka Cup". Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "When FIFA President Called Indian Football Team as 'Best Technical Side of Asia'". Retrieved 29 December 2023.
^ "Indians spilt open myth". Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^ "Lists the results for the India national football team in 1971".
^ "Indian team 1973 Merdeka Cup". Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[7] The standard of teams is unclear. Malaysia apparently used a team of players who had not appeared in the Merdeka Tournament in Malaysia immediately prior to this tournament in Singapore. But the match against Malaysia is considered as full A international by various sources.^[6]

[9] This match against South Korea XI in 1977 is considered as full A international for India by some RSSSF and FIFA sources.[1]

[1] "Merdeka Tournament 1970".

[2] RSSSF

[3] "Indian team 1970 Merdeka Cup". Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[4] "When FIFA President Called Indian Football Team as 'Best Technical Side of Asia'". Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[5] "Indians spilt open myth". Retrieved 5 January 2023.

[6] "Lists the results for the India national football team in 1971".

[8] "Indian team 1973 Merdeka Cup". Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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