Football at the 2004 South Asian Games

Men's football tournament at 2004 South Asian Games was held across 3 venues in Pakistan from March 28 to April 6, 2004. The tournament was delayed twice due to developments related to Pakistan's support as a major non-NATO ally in the fight against terrorism against the Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and US foreign policy at the time following 9/11.^[1] Pakistan won the football tournament, defeating India 1–0, for its third title.^[2]

2004 South Asian Games
Football Event

Tournament details
Host country	Islamabad, Pakistan
Dates	28 March – 5 April 2004
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Pakistan (3rd title)
Runners-up	India
Third place	Sri Lanka
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	20 (1.54 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Muhammad Essa (4 goals)
← 1999 2006 → All statistics correct as of 30 November 2013.

The tournament was the first to introduce an under-23 tournament system for the football events.^[3]

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2004 South Asian Games – Men's team squads

Group stage

• Times listed are UTC+05:00.

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
India	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7
Pakistan	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	6
Bangladesh	3	1	1	1	2	2	+0	4
Afghanistan	3	0	0	3	1	7	–6	0

28 March 2004

India	0–0	Bangladesh
	Report

Army Stadium, Rawalpindi

28 March 2004

Pakistan	3–0	Afghanistan
Essa 5', 62' Farooq 52'	Report

Qayyum Stadium, Peshawar

---

30 March 2004

Bangladesh	2–1	Afghanistan
Ujjal 2', 41'	Report	Omidwar 75'

Army Stadium, Rawalpindi

30 March 2004

Pakistan	0–1	India
	Report	Roypakias 72' (pen.)

Army Stadium, Rawalpindi

---

1 April 2004

Pakistan	1–0	Bangladesh
Essa 86' (pen.)	Report

Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad

1 April 2004

India	2–0	Afghanistan
Zirsanga 42' Marlanki 75'	Report

Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad

Group B

Bhutan won a toss against Nepal for 2nd place.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sri Lanka	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2	6
Bhutan	2	0	1	1	0	1	–1	1
Nepal	2	0	1	1	0	1	–1	1
Maldives	Withdrew

27 March 2004

Nepal	0–0	Bhutan
	Report

Army Stadium, Rawalpindi

---

29 March 2004

Sri Lanka	1–0	Nepal
Azmeer 62'	Report

Army Stadium, Rawalpindi

---

31 March 2004

Sri Lanka	1–0	Bhutan
Kosgodage 13'	Report

Army Stadium, Rawalpindi

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	3 April – Islamabad
	India	4
					5 April – Islamabad
	Bhutan	1
					India	0
	3 April – Islamabad
					Pakistan	1
	Sri Lanka	0 (4)
	Pakistan (p)	0 (5)
					Third place
					5 April – Islamabad
					Bhutan	0 (2)
					Sri Lanka (p)	0 (3)

Semi finals

3 April 2004

India	4–1	Bhutan
Roy 15' Sunil 33', 76' Pradeep 90'		Chophe 37'

Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad

---

3 April 2004

Sri Lanka	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Pakistan
Akram 86' (o.g.)		Essa 64'
Penalties
	4–5[4]

Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad

Bronze medal play-off

5 April 2004 (2004-04-05)

Bhutan	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Sri Lanka
Penalties
Subba Dhendup	2–3[5]	C. M. Weerasingha T. Rangana M. A. Dilshan

Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad

Gold medal match

5 April 2004

India	0–1	Pakistan
		A. Aziz 18'

Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad

Attendance: 37,000

Winner

Football at the 2004 South Asian Games
Pakistan Third title

Goalscorers

There have been 20 goals scored in 13 matches, for an average of 1.54 goals per match.

4 goals

• Muhammad Essa

2 goals

• Sunil Chhetri
• Mehedi Hasan Ujjal

1 goal

• Farooq Shah
• Rozeddin Omidwar
• Jerry Zirsanga
• Sutang Marlanki
• Debabrata Roypakias
• Mohammed Azmeer
• Siyaguna Kosgodage
• Debabrata Roy
• Pappachen Pradeep
• Chema Chophe
• Abdul Aziz

1 own goal

• Naveed Akram (against Sri Lanka)

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Pakistan	5	4	0	1	7	2	+5	13
2	India	5	3	2	0	7	1	+6	11
3	Sri Lanka	4	3	1	0	3	1	+2	9
4	Bhutan	4	0	1	3	1	5	-4	1
5	Bangladesh	3	1	1	1	2	2	+0	4
6	Nepal	2	0	1	1	0	1	–1	1
7	Afghanistan	3	0	0	3	1	7	–6	0
—	Maldives	Withdrew