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1997 Nehru Cup

Field	Value
tourney_name	Nehru Cup
year	1997
country	India
dates	30 March – 12 April
num_teams	5
confederations	2
venues	1
cities	1
champion_other
count	2
second_other
matches	13
goals	36
top_scorer	IRQ Sadiq Saadoun (4 goals)
prevseason	1995
nextseason	2007

The 1997 Nehru Cup was held in Kochi, India. The Nehru Cup is an international association football tournament, organised by the All India Football Federation, which was launched in 1982. Participating nations in 1997 were Iraq, China, India, Ghana and Uzbekistan. The winner of the Nehru Cup was Iraq, whilst India did not record a single win, in drawing three matches and losing one. In the semi-final match, more than 60,000 tickets were sold.

Matches

Kadhim

Saadoun Hussein Najim Jeayer

Chapman Akopyants

Mataliev Akopyants

Bhutia Owusu-Ansah

Knock-out stage

|9 April|Uzbekistan Uzbekistan U-19|2|China China |1 |10 April|Iraq Iraq (pen)|1 (4)|India India|1 (2) |11 April|Iraq Iraq|3|Uzbekistan Uzbekistan U-19|1 |12 April|**China China ** |2|India India|1}}

Semi-finals

Akopyants

Third place match

Yong

Final

Kuralev Hussein

Winners

Statistics

Goalscorers

Iraq Sadiq Saadoun
Uzbekistan U-19 Mataliev
Uzbekistan U-19 Andrey Akopyants
Ghana XI Sekyi Yam
India Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
India Carlton Chapman
India Baichung Bhutia
Iraq Haidar Mahmoud
Iraq Laith Hussein
China Qui Zhong Hui
China Bao Wen Jie
China Huang Yong
Ghana XI Alex Donkor
Ghana XI Princeton Owusu-Ansah
Iraq Alaa Kadhim
Iraq Haidar Najim
Iraq Sabah Jeayer
Iraq Qahtan Chathir
Iraq Hussam Fawzi
Uzbekistan U-19 Anvarjon Soliev
Uzbekistan U-19 Vyacheslav Ponomarev
Uzbekistan U-19 Hikmat Hashimov
Uzbekistan U-19 Kuralev (against Iraq)

References

[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nehru97.html Nehru Cup 1997]. RSSSF
"Nehru Cup 1997, all matches". Wildstat.com.
"NEHRU CUP INDIA - 2012 | Indian Football News | kolkatafootball.com". Kolkatafootballs.com.

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