India national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Blue Tigers |
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| Association | All India Football Federation (AIFF) |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | SAFF (South Asia) |
| Head coach | Stephen Constantine |
| Captain | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu |
| Most caps | Sunil Chhetri (91) |
| Top scorer | Sunil Chhetri (51) |
| Home stadium | Various |
| FIFA code | IND |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 130  1 (09 February 2017)
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| Highest | 94 (February 1996) |
| Lowest | 173 (March 2015) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 176  (24 January 2017)
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| Highest | 54(1964) |
| Lowest | 186 (2015) |
| First international | |
Pre-independence: Australia 5–3 India  (Sydney, Australia; 3 September 1938) Post-independence:  India 1–2 France  (London, UK; 31 July 1948) |
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| Biggest win | |
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India 6–0 Cambodia  (New Delhi, India; 17 August 2007) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Yugoslavia 10–1 India (Helsinki, Finland; 15 July 1952) |
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| Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 1964) |
| Best result | Runners-up: 1964 |
| Olympic Games | |
| Appearances | 4 (first in 1948) |
| Best result | Fourth Place: 1956 |
| Asian Games | |
| Appearances | 15 (first in 1951) |
| Best result |
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Australia 1–7 India
(Sydney, Australia; 12 December 1956)
The India national football team is governed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). Since 1948, the AIFF has been affiliated to FIFA, the international governing body for football. In 1954, the AIFF became one of the founding members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The team was automatically invited by FIFA to play in the 1950 FIFA World Cup (all the other Asian teams withdrew), but they could not go to the tournament in Brazil due to financial constraints. They won two gold medals at the Asian Games and one silver at the Asian Cup.
India qualified for the 1950 FIFA World Cup finals as a result of the withdrawal of all of their scheduled opponents. However, the governing body AIFF decided against going to the World Cup, being unable to understand the importance of the event at that time. The AIFF argued that the cost of travel was expensive (although FIFA agreed to bear a major part of the travel expenses) and there were also problems like lack of practice time, team selection issues and more preference was given to the Olympics over the FIFA World Cup.
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