India national under-20 football team
































































India Under-20
Nickname(s) Blue Colts
Association All India Football Federation
Confederation
AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation
SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach Floyd Pinto
FIFA code IND

















First colours













Second colours


First international

 Burma 1–1 India 
(Malaya; 19 April 1963)
Biggest win

 India 7–0 Nepal   
(Bangkok, Thailand; 23 April 1972)
(Non-varifiable)
 India 6–0 Sri Lanka 
(Kannur, India; 13 July 1996)
 India 7–1 Bhutan 
(Bangalore India; 25 August 1998)
 India 6–0 Bangladesh 
(Qatar; 16 October 2002)
Biggest defeat

 India 0–7 Israel 
(Bangkok, Thailand; 16 April 1972)
 India 0–7 South Korea 
(Qatar; 25 October 2002)
 India 0–7 United Arab Emirates 
(Qatar; 4 October 2015)
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Appearances 0
AFC U-19 Championship
Appearances 22 (first in 1963)
Best result
Med 1.png Champions (1974)
South Asian Championship
Appearances 2 (first in 2015)
Best result
Med 2.png Runners-up (2015)

The India national Under-20 football team, also known as India Under-20s or India U20(s), represents India at all under-20 football tournaments. They are one of the feeder teams for the India national under-23 football team and the senior India national football team.


This team is for Indian players aged under 19 at the start of the calendar year in which a two-year AFC U-19 Championship campaign begins, and as such, some players can remain with the squad until the age of 21. As long as they are eligible, players can play for India at any level, making it possible to play for the U19s first, then the senior side, and again back to playing for the U19s. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (provided the player is eligible).




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 1959−1970


    • 1.2 1971−1978


    • 1.3 1980−2000, the Decline


    • 1.4 2002−2017 Rise and Fall


    • 1.5 2018−Present




  • 2 Current Staff


  • 3 Current squad


    • 3.1 Past Squads




  • 4 Results and fixtures


    • 4.1 2017


    • 4.2 2018




  • 5 Competitive records


    • 5.1 FIFA U-20 World Cup


    • 5.2 AFC U-19 Championship


    • 5.3 SAFF U-19 Championship




  • 6 See also


  • 7 External links


  • 8 References





History


As an Asian U19 team, India competes for the Asian Championship, with the finals every even-numbered year, formerly odd-numbered years. There is no Under-19 World Cup, although there is an Under-20 World Cup. This team also participate in the SAFF U-19 Championship which started from 2015 by South Asian Football federation.



1959−1970


For the first four season of AFC U-19 Championship, from 1959 to 1962 the Indian team did not enter into the tournament though there was no qualification round. India first participated in the AFC U-19 Championships in 1963 but did not moved ahead from the group stage. the first best result came at the 1966 edition where the team entered in the quarter finals with 3 wins against Burma, Japan and Singapore and a defeat by china but in the quarter final they lost to Israel by 4−0. In the next edition at 1967 AFC Youth Championship India again entered in the quarter final. First a draw of 1−1 against Israel and then defeating Malaysia by 4−1 but same as 1966 they again defeated in the quarter final, this time by Indonesia by 2−6. In 1968, the team didn't move beyond group stage, and next two edition of 1969 and 1970 India did not enter in the championships.



1971−1978


In 1971, they again reached the quarter final for the third time in AFC championships, but the fate was same as again saw a defeat, now against Japan by 0−3. But, after a gap of two more edition, it was 1974 AFC Youth Championship, where India seen the golden moment after becoming champions in AFC Under-19 Championships. First in group stage India defeat both Laos and Burma by 1−0 and a draw against Hong Kong by 2−2. Then entering in the quarter final they defeated Singapore by 1(4)−1(1), thus reached semi-finals where defeating Thailand by 2−1, for the first time India reached the final of the Championship. But the final was a draw against Iran by 2−2 thus jointly awarded both the team as the Champions. In 1975 and 1976 edition India didn't do much well but at 1977 AFC Youth Championship they reached the quarter final but the opponent was Iran, the defending Champion who defeated India by 3−0, thus failed to qualify for the first FIFA World Youth Championship in 1977 which later came to be known as FIFA U-20 World Cup and also afiled to qualify at the 1979 edition.



1980−2000, the Decline


These two decades seen a decline in the performance of the Indian team. Qualification round started from 1980 AFC Youth Championship and India failed to qualify in 6 out of 11 edition of the championships and in rest 5 edition the failed to move beyond the group stage, thus also failed to qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup as the finalist only qualify for the competition.



2002−2017 Rise and Fall


In 2002, at the AFC U-19 Championship, India reached the quarter final for the 6th time, by the virtue of third place qualifiers, but defeated heavily by South Korea, where the Korean found the Indian net 7 times. Next two edition they ended their competition in group stages and next 7 editions from 2008 to 2018, India failed to qualify again for the championships and so for the FIFA U20 Worldcup.


In the meanwhile, SAFF started SAFF U-19 Championship from 2015 to develop the youth teams of South Asian countries as they continuously failing to qualify for AFC U-20 championships. In the 2015 inaugural edition, India became runners-up facing a defeat from Nepal through penalty shoot out. In the next edition in 2017, the tournament was a round robin, where India seen two wins against Bhutan and Maldives and two defeats from Bangladesh and Nepal, thus achieved the third place in the tournament.



2018−Present


The AIFF finally acted and opened their eyes to bring out the team from its misery and started various plans and programmes to tackle to present pathetic situation. One of the most important steps is international exposure to the youth and under 17 teams.
India's U-20 team was invited to participate in Cotif Tournament where clubs and national and autonomous teams participate every year since 1984, held at Valencia, Spain. 2018 Cotif was 35th Anniversary of the tournament.[1] Though India lost two consecutive matches against Spanish club Murcia then against Mauritania, they managed a draw against a stronger Latin American side of Venezuala, but on the final group match on 5 August 2018, the Indian side written a piece of history when they defeated the most successful U-20 Worldcup winning nation Argentina. The match was historic in many ways, when Indian defender Deepak Tangri headed a corner kick to the net of Argentine side, it was the first goal against them by any Indian side, then with a second goal by Anwar Ali with a fabulous free kick help India to win the match with a score of 2−1 against the stronger Argentine side, made a history as its the first time that any Indian team defeated any Argentine side and also any American national team.[2][3][4]Argentina national team manager Scaloni and Argentine great Pablo Aimar praised the young colt's performances and said the future of the team is bright if there is continued perseverance.[5]AIFF called it as one of the “biggest days for Indian Football” as team coach said "This victory will definitely earn Indian football more respect in the world of football. It opens up a window of opportunity to test ourselves against the best in the world on a regular basis".[6]


Just after the Cotif experience, AIFF announced the team was invited to play in a four-nation tournament between under-20 national teams of France, Croatia and Slovenia and two friendlies against Serbia.[7] This was the first time India was playing in a 4-nations tournament in which all the opponents are European nations.[8][9] In the first match the team faced a big defeat against a mightier Croatian team by 0−5.[10] The second match was against Slovenia, where they played very well within 90 minutes but failed to convert various chances and on the last minute of injury time the Slovenian side found the net, match ended in 0−1 defeat.[11] Third match was against France, which India lost by 2−0.[12] In the friendlies against Serbia India seen defeat in th both the matches, first by 2−0[13] and second by 3−1 where Rahim Ali managed to find the net once.[14]



Current Staff



























Name
 Position

India Floyd Pinto
 Head Coach

India Mahesh Gawli
 Assistant Coach

India Yusuf Ansari
 Goalkeeping Coach

India Deepak Negi
 General Manager

India Vishnu Nair
 Physio


Current squad


As of 20 July 2018

The following players were called up to the India squad for the 2018 COTIF Cup[15][16][17][18] and Europe Tour.[19]
































































































































































































































Number
 Name
 DOB
 Club
 Caps (goals)
Goalkeepers
1 Prabhsukhan Singh Gill
(2001-01-02) 2 January 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 0 (0)
21 Samik Mitra
(2000-12-01) 1 December 2000 (age 17)
India Chennaiyin FC
 0 (0)
29 Sachin Ammanath Suresh
(2001-01-18) 18 January 2001 (age 17)
India F.C. Kerala
 0 (0)
Vishal Dube
(2000-01-04) 4 January 2000 (age 18)
India SAG Football Academy		 0 (0)
Defenders
2 Boris Singh Thangjam
(2000-01-03) 3 January 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 3 (0)
3 Sahil Panwar
(1999-12-15) 15 December 1999 (age 18)
India Pune City
 5 (0)
4 Anwar Ali
(2000-08-28) 28 August 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 2 (0)
5 Sanjeev Stalin
(2001-01-17) 17 January 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 4 (0)
12 Jitendra Singh
(2001-06-13) 13 June 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 2 (0)
18 Ashish Rai
(1999-02-02) 2 February 1999 (age 19)
India Indian Arrows
 2 (1)
19 Akash Mishra
(2001-11-27) 27 November 2001 (age 17)
India U Dream Academy		 0 (0)
22 Deepak Tangri
(1999-02-01) 1 February 1999 (age 19)
India Chennaiyin FC
 3 (0)
25 Sumit Rathi
(2001-08-26) 26 August 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 0 (0)
26 Narender Gahlot
(2001-04-24) 24 April 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 0 (0)
27 Aimol Chongompipa Reamsochung
(2000-02-14) 14 February 2000 (age 18)
India Chennaiyin FC
 0 (0)
Midfielders
6 Suresh Singh Wangjam
(2000-08-07) 7 August 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 2 (1)
7 Ninthoinganba Meetei
(2001-07-13) 13 July 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 4 (2)
8 Amarjit Singh Kiyam
(2001-01-06) 6 January 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 2 (0)
10 Abhijit Sarkar
(2000-01-05) 5 January 2000 (age 18)
India Chennaiyin FC
13 Lalengmawia
(2000-09-17) 17 September 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
15 Jeakson Singh Thounaojam
(2001-06-21) 21 June 2001 (age 17)
India Indian Arrows
 3 (0)
16 Nongdamba Naorem
(2000-01-02) 2 January 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 3 (0)
17 Rahul Praveen
(2000-03-16) 16 March 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 3 (0)
20 Harmanpreet Singh
(2001-09-02) 2 September 2001 (age 17)
India Anandpur Sports Academy		 0 (0)
23 Lalengmawia
(2000-10-17) 17 October 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 0 (0)
28 Ribhav Jatin Sardesai
(2000-07-06) 6 July 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
 0 (0)
Jashandeep Singh
(2000-01-01) 1 January 2000 (age 18)
India Anandpur Sports Academy		 0 (0)
Forwards
9 Rahim Ali
(2000-04-21) 21 April 2000 (age 18)
India Chennaiyin FC
 3 (0)
11 Aniket Jadhav
(2000-07-13) 13 July 2000 (age 18)
India Indian Arrows
14 Aman Chhetri
(2001-07-26) 26 July 2001 (age 17)
India Chennaiyin FC


Past Squads



AFC U-19 Championship squads




  • 1974 AFC U-19 Championship squad

  • 2002 AFC U-19 Championship squad



Results and fixtures


  Win
  Draw
  Loss



2017



Qatar  v  India


















Saudi Arabia  v  India


















India  v  Yemen


















Turkmenistan  v  India


















2018



UD Alzira Valencian Community v  India


















Murcia U-20 Region of Murcia v  India


















Mauritania U-20 Mauritania v  India


















Venezuela  v  India


















Argentina  v  India


















Croatia  v  India


















Slovenia  v  India


















India  v  France


















Serbia  v  India


















India  v  Serbia


















Competitive records



FIFA U-20 World Cup





































FIFA U-20 World Cup record
Host/Year
 Result
 Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA

FIFA World Youth Championship

Tunisia 1977
to
Netherlands 2005
Did not Qualify

FIFA U-20 World Cup

Canada 2007
to
Poland 2019
Did not Qualify
Total 0/22 0 Titles 0 0 0 0 0 0


AFC U-19 Championship










































































































































































































































































































AFC U-19 Championship records
Host/Year
 Result
 Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA

Malaysia 1959
to
Thailand 1962
Did not enter

Malaysia 1963
 Group Stage 7th 5 2 1 2 6 5

South Vietnam 1964
 Group Stage 6th 3 0 2 1 1 4

Japan 1965
 Group Stage 7th 4 1 1 2 3 6

Philippines 1966
 Quarter Final 5th 5 3 0 2 9 7

Thailand 1967
 Quarter Final 7th 3 1 1 1 7 8

South Korea 1968
 Group Stage 11th 3 1 0 2 4 4

Thailand 1969
Did not enter

Philippines 1970

Japan 1971
 Quarter Final 6th 4 2 1 1 5 5

Thailand 1972
 Group Stage 11th 4 1 0 3 5 13

Iran 1973
 Group Stage 10th 3 0 2 1 1 2

Thailand 1974
 Champions 1st 6 5 1 0 10 6

Kuwait 1975
 Group Stage 13th 4 1 1 2 5 6

Thailand 1976
 Group Stage 5th 3 1 1 1 4 3

Iran 1977
 Quarter Final 5th 3 1 0 2 5 8

Bangladesh 1978
 Group Stage 6th 4 1 1 2 7 8

Thailand 1980
to
United Arab Emirates 1985
Did not qualify

Saudi Arabia 1986
 Group Stage 6th 3 0 1 2 2 8

Qatar 1988
Did not enter

Indonesia 1990
 Group Stage 6th 3 1 0 2 3 7

United Arab Emirates 1992
 Group Stage 8th 3 0 0 3 0 7

Indonesia 1994
Did not enter

South Korea 1996
 Group Stage 8th 4 0 1 3 2 6

Thailand 1998
 Group Stage 10th 4 0 1 3 3 10

Iran 2000
Did not qualify

Qatar 2002
 Quarter Final 8th 4 1 0 3 2 14

Malaysia 2004
 Group Stage 13th 3 0 0 3 2 5

India 2006
 Group Stage 13th 3 0 1 2 3 7

Saudi Arabia 2008
to
Indonesia 2018
Did not qualify
Total 22/40 1 Title 81 22 16 43 89 149


SAFF U-19 Championship

















































SAFF U-19 Championship record
Host/Year
 Result
 Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA

Nepal 2015
 Runners-up 2nd 4 2 2 0 6 1

Bhutan 2017
 Round Robin 3rd 4 2 0 2 8 7
Total 2/2 0 Titles 8 4 2 2 14 8

*Denotes draws includes knockout matches decided on penalty kicks. Red border indicates that the tournament was hosted on home soil. Gold, silver, bronze backgrounds indicates 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishes respectively. Bold text indicates best finish in tournament.


See also



  • India national football team

  • India national under-23 football team

  • India national under-17 football team



External links


  • India U-19 team page at the Official AIFF website


References





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  13. ^ "India U-19 football team suffers 0-2 loss against Serbia U-19". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of india. Retrieved 24 September 2018.


  14. ^ "INDIA U-19 SIDE SUFFER 3-1 DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF SERBIA IN FRIENDLY". the-aiff.com. AIFF. Retrieved 24 September 2018.


  15. ^ "PINTO NAMES 25-MEMBER SQUAD FOR U-20 COTIF TOURNAMENT". AIFF. 20 July 2018.


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