Details about the India National Football Team

Details about the India National Football Team: The National Football team of India represents India in International Football. It is controlled and monitored by the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

The Indian squad is under the global jurisdiction of the Federation Internationale de Football Association. It is governed in Asia by the AFC.

The AIFF is one of the members who founded the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The Indian squad is a part of the regional federation.

The team had its golden period during the 1950s and early 1960s. During this period, India received gold at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games. The team stood in fourth place at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

India became the first Asian nation to reach the semi-final of a Federation Internationale de Football Association-organized tournament. India has never participated in the Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup.

The team made an appearance four times in the AFC Asian Cup. The Indian team was runners-up in 1964. The AFC Asian Cup is Asia’s top football championship.

India is an active participant in the SAFF Championship. The SAFF is the top regional football competition in South Asia. They have won eight times since it began in 1993. They became the most successful team in South Asia.

Home stadiums

India has hosted many home matches for the national team in its country. There is no specific domestic ground for the Indian national team.

The list of stadiums where Indian matches have been played is:

The Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi

The Fatorda Stadium in Margao

The Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi

The Mumbai Football Arena in Mumbai

The Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati

The EKA Arena in Ahmedabad

The 2011 SAFF Championship and 2012 Nehru Cup were hosted at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. The 2015 SAFF Championship took place at Trivandrum International Stadium. The 2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series and 2018 Intercontinental Cup were played at Mumbai Football Arena. The 2019 Intercontinental Cup was held at the EKA Arena.

The Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, and the Fatorda stadium have hosted the AFC Asian Cup and Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup qualifiers.

Coaching Staff

Current personnel

On 15 May 2019, Igor Štimac was made the head coach of the national team. The other technical staffs who joined him on this journey were his fellow members:

Croats Luka Radman – Fitness Coach of the Indian National Football Team

Tomislav Rogić – Goalkeeping Coach of the Indian National Football Team

The assistant coach Shanmugam Venkatesh continued to hold his original post after his appointment back in February 2015.

List of main Coaching Staff

Name	Role
Igor Štimac	The Head Coach
Saša Vukčevic	The Assistant Coach
Luka Radman	The Fitness Coach
Tomislav Rogic	The Goalkeeping Coach
Milivoje Živkovic	The Technical Director

Past head coaches

Name	Period
Pankaj Gupta	1938
Balaidas Chatterjee	1948
Syed Abdul Rahim	1951–1952
Balaidas Chatterjee	1953
Syed Abdul Rahim	1954
Balaidas Chatterjee	1954
Saroj Bose	1955
Syed Abdul Rahim	1956–1962
T. Shome	1958
Sailendra Nath Manna	1961
G. M. Pentiah	1963
Harry Wright	1964
Mohammed Hussain	1964–1967
Sachindranath Mitra	1966
S. R. Deb	1967
Sailendra Nath Manna	1968
Jarnail Singh	1969
G. M. H. Basha	1970–1971
P. K. Banerjee	1972–1974
J. Krishnaswamy	1974
Jarnail Singh	1976
Sahu Mewalal	1977
G. M. H. Basha	1977
Arun Ghosh	1978
G. M. H. Basha	1980
P. K. Banerjee	1981–1982
Bob Bootland	1982
Muhammad Salaam	1983
Joe Kinnear	1983
Milovan Ćirić	1983–1985
Arun Ghosh	1985
P. K. Banerjee	1985–1986
Syed Nayeemuddin	1987−1989
Amal Dutta	1987
Anjan Chowdhury	1989
József Gelei	1990–1991
Derek D’Souza	1992–1993
Jiří Pešek	1993−1994
Rustam Akramov	1995−1996
Syed Nayeemuddin	1997–1998
Sukhwinder Singh	1999–2001
Islam Ahmedov	2001
Stephen Constantine	2002–2005
Sukhwinder Singh	2005
Syed Nayeemuddin	2005–2006
Bob Houghton	2006–2011
Armando Colaco	2011
Savio Medeira	2011–2012
Wim Koevermans	2012–2015
Stephen Constantine	2015–2019
Igor Štimac	2019−present