SAFF-2011

The SAFF cup or the south Asian Football Federation cup is a biennial tournament which started in the year 1993. Since then the SAFF championship was conducted 8 times. The teams that compete in this tournament are  Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka .The most successful team so far in this tournament is INDIA which won the title 5 times, was a runner-up twice and secured the 3rd place once.  In the year 2009 it was hosted by Bangladesh. When India hosted in 1999 previously it won the title by defeating Bangladesh in the finals. In the year 2009 India won in the finals against Maldives. ____

SAFF-2011


GROUP A:   INDIA(160), SRI LANKA(172), AFGHANISTAN(184), BHUTAN(199)
GROUP B:  BANGLADESH(149), MALDIVES(162), NEPAL(144), PAKISTAN(144)

With the SAFF-2011 going to be kicked off on December 2nd at the Jawarlal Nehru stadium(New Delhi) the squad of the Indian team is as follows--->


Goalkeepers: Karanjit Singh, Subhasish Roychowdhury, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu,___________
Defenders: Jaspal Parmar, Sameer Naik, Mahesh Gawli, Debabrata Roy, Nirmal Chettri, Syed Rahim Nabi, Gouramangi Moirangthem, Govin Moirangthem_____________________________
Midfielders: Baldeep Singh, Rocus Lamare, Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Francis Fernandes, Climax Lawrence, Anthony Pereira, Clifford Miranda, Jewel Raja, Steven Dias, Lalrindika Ralte_______
Forwards: Baljit Sahni, Jeje Lalpeklua, Sushil Singh, Joaquim Abranches, Sunil Chhetri.______
Head Coach: Savio Medeira._____________________________________________________

India

Group Fixtures

Group A

	Team	Games					Goals
		Pts	P	W	D	L	F	A
	Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	India	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

India - Afghanistan	---	03/12/11 3:00 PM IST
Sri Lanka - Bhutan	---	03/12/11 6:00 PM IST
Sri Lanka - Afghanistan	---	05/12/11 3:00 PM IST
India - Bhutan	---	05/12/11 6:00 PM IST
Bhutan - Afghanistan	---	07/12/11 3:00 PM IST
India - Sri Lanka	---	07/12/11 6:00 PM IST

Group B

	Team	Games					Goals
		Pts	P	W	D	L	F	A
	Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bangladesh - Pakistan	---	02/12/11 3:00 PM IST
Maldives - Nepal	---	02/12/11 6:00 PM IST
Bangladesh - Nepal	---	04/12/11 3:00 PM IST
Maldives - Pakistan	---	04/12/11 6:00 PM IST
Pakistan - Nepal	---	06/12/11 3:00 PM IST
Maldives - Bangladesh	---	06/12/11 6:00 PM IS