# Football at the 1951 Asian Games

Football at the 1951 Asian Games was held in New Delhi, India from 5 to 11 March 1951. In this tournament, six teams played in the men's competition. The pitch dimensions were 110 by 65 yards slightly narrower than permitted by international regulations but FIFA had been notified this in advance and sanctioned the tournament.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | India Berland Anthony Syed Khwaja Azizuddin A. M. Bachan Sunil Chatterjee Abhoy Ghosh D. N. Devine Jones Ahmed Khan G. Y. S. Laiq Sheikh Abdul Latif Loganathan Sailen Manna Sheoo Mewalal Santosh Nandy Muhammad Noor Chandan Singh Rawat P. B. A. Saleh Mohammad Abdus Sattar T. Shanmugham Runu Guha Thakurta Kenchappa Varadaraj Thenmaddom Varghese Pansanttom Venkatesh | Iran Nader Afshar Alavinejad Nader Afshar Naderi Amir Aghahosseini Mohsen Azad Mahmoud Bayati Masoud Boroumand Amir Eraghi Hossein Fekri Aref Gholizadeh Mansour Hajian Parviz Kouzehkanani George Markarian Mehdi Masoud-Ansari Mehdi Nassiroghloo Mahmoud Shakibi Hossein Soroudi Ghorban Ali Tari | Japan Ko Arima Toshio Iwatani Taro Kagawa Takashi Kano Nobuyuki Kato Seki Matsunaga Koji Miyata Hirokazu Ninomiya Ken Noritake Yoshio Okada Shigeo Sugimoto Megumu Tamura Masanori Tokita Yukio Tsuda |

## Draw

The draw for the Games was held on 25 February 1951 at a conference chaired by Guru Dutt Sondhi, who headed an executive committee for the purpose, in New Delhi. Japan and Afghanistan received byes in the first round; the former would play the winner of Iran v. Burma and the latter to play the winner of India v. Indonesia games. It was also announced that the matches would be played in two halves of 30 minutes each with a 5-minute interval, and a 15 minute extra-time with a 1-minute interval, when a result is not produced in regulation time.

## Results

All times are India Standard Time (UTC+05:00)
| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 5 March | 5 March | | |
| Iran | 2 | | |
| Iran | 2 | 7–8 March | 7–8 March | |
| Burma | 0 | 7–8 March | 7–8 March |
| Burma | 0 | Iran (r) | 0 (3) |
| | | Japan | 0 (2) |
| | | | | 10 March | 10 March |
| | | | | Iran | 0 |
| 5 March | 5 March | | | | Iran | 0 |
| 5 March | 5 March | | | India | 1 |
| India | 3 | | | India | 1 |
| India | 3 | 7 March | 7 March | | |
| Indonesia | 0 | 7 March | 7 March | | |
| Indonesia | 0 | India | 3 | | |
| | | Afghanistan | 0 | 3rd place match | 3rd place match |
| | | | | 9 March | 9 March |
| | | | | Japan | 2 |
| | | | | Afghanistan | 0 |

### Gold medal match
## Goalscorers

3 goals
* Sheoo Mewalal (IND)
2 goals
* Pansanttom Venkatesh (IND)
* Mehdi Masoud-Ansari (IRN)
* Toshio Iwatani (JPN)
1 goal
* Santosh Nandy (IND)
* Nader Afshar Alavinejad (IRN)
* Masoud Boroumand (IRN)
* Parviz Kouzehkanani (IRN)
* Hirokazu Ninomiya (JPN)
* Masanori Tokita (JPN)
1 own goal
* Chairuddin Siregar (INA) (against IND)

## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 6 |
| | Iran | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 5 |
| | Japan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 |
| 4 | Afghanistan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 |
| 5 | Burma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0 |
| 6 | Indonesia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 |