2011 SAFF Championship final

July 2022 July 2022 2011 SAFF Championship final File:Zohib Islam Amiri (in red uniform) vs Jeje Lalpekhlua (in blue uniform).jpg Zohib Amiri (in red uniform) vs Jeje Lalpekhlua (in blue uniform) during the 2011 SAFF Championship Final. 2011 SAFF Championship India IND 30px 4 Afghanistan AFG 2004 30px 0 2011 12 11 y Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium New Delhi Sukhbir Singh (Singapore) 30,000 2009 2013 The 2011 SAFF Championship final was the final match of the 2011 SAFF Championship which took place in India on 11 December 2011. The final match took place between India and Afghanistan. India entered the final as defending champions after winning their fifth title in 2009. While for Afghanistan this was their first final.https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/india-beat-afghanistan-4-0-to-clinch-their-sixth-saff-title-148477-2011-12-12 India thrash Afghanistan 4-0 12 December 2011 2021-02-16https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/india-pump-in-three-to-enter-last-four/story-yOa3Kx5Ut44rx6YnH9pmeL.html India Pump in three to enter last four 2022-07-17 Hindustan Times Tomojit Basu 8 December 2011 India thrashed Afghanistan 4–0 and won their sixth title. Venue It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India,http://the-aiff.com/pages/news/index.php?N_Id=2247 AIFF Executive committee meeting The-AIFF.com All India Football Federation 23 February 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716215106/http://the-aiff.com/pages/news/index.php?N_Id=2247 2011-07-16 dead but was switched to New Delhi by the executive committee of the All India Football Federation on 22 September.http://the-aiff.com/pages/news/index.php?N_Id=2748 Exe. Committee enthusiastic about AIFF-FIFA Dev. Prog The-AIFF All India Football Federation 23 September 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110925102945/http://www.the-aiff.com/pages/news/index.php?N_Id=2748 2011-09-25 dead The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi was the main venue for the tournament. It is also the home stadium for the India national football team and hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games. New Delhi India center 250 India 28.6139 77.2090 New Delhi top Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Capacity: 60,000 200px Route to the final India and Afghanistan started their tournament campaign by playing out a 1–1 draw. Balal Arezou's opener in the 5th minute was cancelled out by Sunil Chettri five minutes later.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/insipid-india-held-in-saff-championship-opener/articleshow/10975140.cms Inspid India held in SAFF Championship opener The hosts then went on to win back-to-back matches against Bhutan and Sri Lanka by the margins of 5–0 and 3–0 respectively.https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/five-star-india-waltz-to-victory/story-OcKnqv07iv6Yg4xyYfb2FM.html Five-star India waltz to victoryhttps://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/2011/Dec/07/saff-cup-india-beat-sri-lanka-3-0-318005.html SAFF Cup: India beat Sri Lanka 3-0 Meanwhile Afghanistan also picked up two consecutive wins against the same opponents including a 8–1 thrashing of Bhutan with striker Balal Arezou scoring four goals.https://wifa.in/afghan-enter-semis-with-a-resounding-8-1-victory-over-bhutan/ Afghanistan enter Semis with a resounding 8-1 victory over Bhutan Afghanistan reached their first international final after defeating Nepal in the semi-final in extra time. Balal Arezou scored the lone goal of the match in the 101th minute.https://wifa.in/615/ Afghanistan defeat Nepal to make it to the Final of the SAFF Cup On the other hand defending champions India defeated Maldives 3–1 with the help of two goals scored by Sunil Chhetri and one goal by Syed Rahim Nabi.https://wifa.in/defending-champions-make-it-to-the-final-of-the-saff-cup/ Defending Champions make it to the Final of the SAFF Cup IndiaRoundAfghanistanOpponentResult Group stageOpponentResultAFG 20041–1Match 1IND1–1BHU5–0Match 2SRI3–1SRI3–0Match 3BHU8–1TeamPld PlayedW WonD DrawnL LostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGD Goal differencePts PointsAFG 20043210123+97IND321091+87SRI310246−23BHU3003116−150Final standingTeamPld PlayedW WonD DrawnL LostGF Goals forGA Goals againstGD Goal differencePts PointsAFG 20043210123+97IND321091+87SRI310246−23BHU3003116-150OpponentResultKnockout phaseOpponentResultMDV3–1Semi-finalsNEP1–0 a e.t Match 11 December 2011 18:00 IST IND 4–0 https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/9770/India_Afghanistan.html AFG 2004 Chhetri 71 pen. Miranda 79 Lalpekhlua 80 S. Singh 90+5 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi 30,000 Sukhbir Singh (Singapore) _ind10h _nike_white _ind10h 0033FF 0033FF 0033FF 0033FF 0033FF India _den10h _shoulder_stripes_white_stripes _den10h _3_stripes_white DD0000 DD0000 DD0000 DD0000 DD0000 Afghanistan Karanjit Singh Mahesh Gawli Climax Lawrence Syed Rahim Nabi Gouramangi Singh Clifford Miranda 93 Sunil Chhetri 84 Anthony Pereira 74 Rocus Lamare Jeje Lalpekhlua Nirmal ChettriSubstitutes: Steven Dias 74 Sushil Kumar Singh 84 Lalrindika Ralte 93Manager: Savio Medeira Hamidullah Yousafzai 0 64 Djelaludin Sharityar Ata Yamrali Zohib Islam Amiri Israfeel Kohistani Faisal Sakhizada Muqadar Qazizadah Mohammad Mashriqi Balal Arezou Ghulam Hazrat Niazi 68 Sandjar Ahmadi 77Substitutes:Bashir Darman 68Sayed Maqsood Hashemi 77Manager: Mohammad Yousef Kargar Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions. 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