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History of the India national football team

History
Similar to India's most popular sport today, cricket, football was brought to the country during the British Raj. The first recorded game in India took place in 1854 between Calcutta Club of Civilians and The Gentlemen of Barrackpore. Initially, the game was mainly centralized in the Bengal region before the British Army took the game to other areas of the country. In 1888 the first Indian football competition established, the Durand Cup. The Durand Cup remains the third oldest surviving football tournament in the world.

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