Indian Football News Updates

Ronny · September 2021

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 · September 2021

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 · September 2021

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 · September 2021

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 · September 2021

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 · September 2021

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

Ronny · September 2021

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

indian_gooner · September 2021

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.