India Football Team Schedule, Matches, and Tickets Booking of Hero Intercontinental Cup 2023
India Football Team Schedule is out for the Hero Intercontinental Cup, which is run by the All Indian Football Federation (AIFF), and the Nehru Cup replaces it. It will be played in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, from June 9 to June 18, 2023.
Indian team won the first edition of the competition, which was held in 2018, and in the Final, they beat Kenya by 2-0 to win the title. Sunil Chhetri scored both goals in the eighth and 29th minutes of the match to give India Football Team their first Hero Intercontinental Cup 2023. In the following year, North Korea won the title by winning against Tajikistan.
The following are the fixtures for the Hero Intercontinental Cup 2023
Date | Match | Time |
Friday, June 9 | India vs Mongolia | 7:30 PM IST |
Monday, june 12 | Vanuatu vs India | 7:30 PM IST |
Thursday, June | India vs Lebanon | 7: 30 PM IST |
The third-highest active goal scorer Sunil Chhetri with 85 goals in 133 international matches, looks to get some more goals into his name in the upcoming tournament. He wants India to play more matches to grow as a team, and it will improve the players together.
The back-to-back tournaments will help the Blue Tigers for the AFC Asian Cup final rounds, “The more games we get to play against better opponents, the better it will be for us.”
“We just need to make sure that we manage it well against these opponents,” “It’s important to make sure that we improve as a team and individually as well. What we do in the camp is really important we must make sure that we are in a position to put our best foot forward once the Asian Cup is here,”
Sunil Chhetri said in the interview
Indian Football Rank is 101 in Fifa Ranking 2023, Whereas their opponents Mongolia is at 183, Vanuatu is at (164) and Lebanon is at (99). It will be difficult for India to win the title, but they should win it to gain some place in the Fifa ranking.
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