Indian Football News Updates

Ronny

India U-18 and U-15 might be invited to the junior CAFA championships this year. AIFF has done a good job by requesting to be invited for all CAFA games

munna219777

I dont think India has joined CAFA

CAFA is yet to organise any Senior level Tournament. Nothing is planned in future also.

CAFA organises Age Group tournaments and AIFF has expressed interest in participation. Thats it.

Ronny

India has not joined it. Kushal Das has said that India is part of SAFF and has requested to be invited to CAFA events to which CAFA has agreed

Nagendra

It might be similar to CONMEBOL inviting nations for Copa America from other Confederations.
Though Mexico not in CONMEBOL , they have played 10 championships.

Ronny

This is actually really good for our junior teams as they get better prepared for similar teams they run into during their Asian qualifying games

sparta

And more quality games for them at the right age level if invited.

Ronny

Pretty sure Kushal Das got the idea for CAFA from IFN lol

indian_gooner

Nagendra said:

CAFA formed some 6 years ago, but still so far there is no Senior or U23 Men's CAFA Championship.

Also my observation is though Iran is main reason for formation of new Association, they are not an active member.
So far all championships ( Youth & Women's ) are hosted either by Uzbekistan or Tajikistan and future events planned in Tajikistan.

Afghanistan will not be able to Host and can be ruled out. Kyrgyzstan infrastructure is not good. Not sure about  Turkmenistan. But Iran has all facilities & infrastructure to host the events.

that's why need merger of SAFF with CAFA. 

indian_gooner

Ronny said:

Pretty sure Kushal Das got the idea for CAFA from IFN lol

that because many of the members have been repeatedly saying to join CAFA or ASEAN for the past many years. 

haritrams24

Saff should be merged with ASEAN