India national football team results (1980–1989)

India	0–1	China
	Report	Huang Xiangdong 79'

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

26 February

India	0–1	Singapore
	Report

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

3 March

India	4–0	Sri Lanka
	Report

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

7 March

India	0–2	Iran
	Report Report	Barzegari 81' Alidoosti 82'

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

10 March

India	1–2	North Korea
	Report

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

1981

1 September 1981

India	0–0	New Zealand
	Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

3 September 1981

Japan	3–2	India
Kato Yokoyama	Report	Ali Bhattacharya

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5 September 1981

India	2–0	United Arab Emirates
Harjinder Singh Xavier Pius	Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11 September 1981

Indonesia	0–1	India
	Report	Roy

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

15 September 1981

Malaysia	2–2	India
Ibrahim Din Dahari	Report	Harjinder Singh

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

October 1981

United Arab Emirates	2–0	India
	FIFA RSSSF

United Arab Emirates

October 1981

United Arab Emirates	3–1	India
	FIFA RSSSF

United Arab Emirates

1982

16 February 1982

1982 Nehru Cup

India	1–1	China
Mihir Bose 59'	FIFA	Zuo Shusheng 24'

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

18 February 1982

1982 Nehru Cup

India	2–2	South Korea
Banerjee 41' Manas Bhattacharya 89' (pen.)	FIFA	Hwang 64' Chung 86'

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

20 February 1982

1982 Nehru Cup

India	1–3	Uruguay
Manas Bhattacharya 35'	FIFA	da Silva 8', 23' Saralegui 70'

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

5 June 1982

1982 President's Cup

India	0–1	Indonesia
	FIFA

Dongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, South Korea

9 June 1982

1982 President's Cup

India	0–1	South Korea
	FIFA	Bhattacharya 65' (o.g.)

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Seoul, South Korea

13 June 1982

1982 President's Cup

India	0–0	Bahrain
	FIFA

Incheon Sungui Stadium, Seoul, South Korea

9 August 1982

1982 Merdeka

India	0–0	Thailand
	FIFA

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

9 August 1982

1982 Merdeka

India	0–3	Singapore
	FIFA

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

12 August 1982

1982 Merdeka

Ghana	1–0	India
	FIFA

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

20 November 1982

1982 Asian Games

India	2–0	Bangladesh
P. Banerjee 1', 90+5'	FIFA

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, New Delhi, India

23 November 1982

1982 Asian Games

India	1–0	Malaysia
Kartick Seth 68'	FIFA

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, New Delhi, India

26 November^[4]

1982 Asian Games

India	2–2	China
Shabbir Ali 53' Kartick Seth 60'	FIFA	Shen Xiangfu 25' Zuo Shusheng 82'

Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi, New Delhi, India

28 November

1982 Asian Games QF

India	0–1	Saudi Arabia
	FIFA	Bayazid 89'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, New Delhi, India

1983

1 October 1983

India	1–2	Saudi Arabia
	RSSSF

New Delhi, India

17 October 1983

Singapore	2–1	India
	RSSSF

National Stadium, Singapore, Kallang, Singapore

19 October 1983

India	4–0	Indonesia
	RSSSF

National Stadium, Singapore, Kallang, Singapore

22 October 1983

India	3–3	Malaysia
	RSSSF

National Stadium, Singapore, Kallang, Singapore

25 October 1983

India	0–2	Malaysia
	RSSSF

Bukit Jalil National Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia

29 October 1983

India	1–0	Singapore
	RSSSF

Bukit Jalil National Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia

31 October 1983

Indonesia	0–1	India
	RSSSF

Bukit Jalil National Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia

6 November 1983

Saudi Arabia	5–0	India
	RSSSF

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

1984

11 January 1984

1984 Nehru Cup

India	1−2	Poland
Bhattacharya 42'	Report RSSSF	Dziekanowski 10' Pawlak 34'

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

14 January 1984

1984 Nehru Cup

India	0−1	Argentina
	FIFA RSSSF	Ricardo Gareca 79'

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

25 January 1984

1984 Nehru Cup

China	3−0	India
Li Huayun 42', 60' Jia Xiuquan 81'	FIFA RSSSF

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

9 June 1984

Trinidad and Tobago	1–3	India
	FIFA Report	Ravi Bhusan Babu Mani Pradip Ghosh

Skinner Park, San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago

11 June 1984

Trinidad and Tobago	3–0	India
	FIFA Report

Skinner Park, San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago

15 June 1984

Suriname	6–2	India
	FIFA Report	Parminder Singh Asokan

André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo, Suriname

17 June 1984

Suriname	4–1	India
	FIFA Report	Ravi Bhusan

André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo, Suriname

22 June 1984

Trinidad and Tobago	3–0	India
	FIFA Report

Arima, Trinidad & Tobago

21 August 1984

1984 Great Wall Cup

China	2–0	India
Zuo Shusheng 9' Li Hui 70'	FIFA RSSSF

Workers' Stadium, Beijing, China

12 October 1984

India	4–0	North Yemen
Dey Ali Banerjee Mani	FIFA RSSSF

14 October 1984

India	2–1	Malaysia
Thapa Mani	FIFA RSSSF	Abidin

17 October 1984

India	2–0	Pakistan
Ali 24', 82'	FIFA RSSSF

Salt Lake Stadium, Calcutta, India^[5]

19 October 1984

South Korea	1–0	India
Park Chang-Seon 48'	FIFA RSSSF

2 December 1984

21:00 UTC+8

Singapore	2–0	India
Awab 36' Saad 81'	FIFA RSSSF

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Antonio Márquez (Mexico)

2 December 1984

19:00 UTC+8

United Arab Emirates	2–0	India
Al-Talyani 81' Khamees 88'	FIFA RSSSF

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Abu Wahid Shanbe (Oman)

2 December 1984

19:00 UTC+8

Iran	0–0	India
	FIFA RSSSF

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

Attendance: 10,000^[6]

Referee: Koh Guan Kiat (Malaysia)

2 December 1984

21:00 UTC+8

China	3–0	India
Lin Lefeng 19' Gu Guangming 59' Jia Xiuquan 79'	FIFA RSSSF

National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore

Attendance: 8,256

Referee: Ahmed Jassim (Bahrain)

1985

31 January 1985

1985 Nehru Cup

Morocco	1−0	India
Rajhy 34'	FIFA RSSSF

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Cochin, India

Referee: Park Hee-Chang (South Korea)

21 March 1985

Indonesia	2−1	India
Nurdiansyah 41', 49'	FIFA RSSSF	Dey 34'

Senayan Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Reynaldo Reyes (Philippines)

26 March 1985

Thailand	0−0	India
	FIFA RSSSF

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand

Referee: Shunsaku Nakanishi (Japan)

30 March 1985

Bangladesh	1−2	India
Chunnu 42'	FIFA RSSSF	Ghosh 34' Panji 84'

Bangladesh Army Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Liu Jingli (China)

6 April 1985

India	1−1	Indonesia
Narender Thapa 89'	FIFA RSSSF	Dede Suleiman 20'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Farouk Mustafa (Iraq)

9 April 1985

India	1−1	Thailand
Krishanu Dey 85'	FIFA RSSSF	Narasek Boongeang 76'

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Shokor Abdulkader Abdul Latif (Iraq)

12 April 1985

India	2−1	Bangladesh
Bikash Panji 36' Camilo Gonsalves 54'	FIFA RSSSF	Bhadra 15'

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Salih Abdul Karim Saadi (Iraq)

21 December 1985

1985 S.A.Games

India	2−0	Nepal
Ghosh	FIFA RSSSF

Dhaka, Bangladesh^[7]

25 December 1985

1985 S.A.Games

India	1−1	Bangladesh
Ghosh	FIFA RSSSF	Aslam
Penalties
Krishnendu Roy Debashis Misra Krishanu Dey Prasanta Banerjee	4–1	Kaiser Hamid

Dhaka, Bangladesh

1986

25 January 1986

1986 Nehru Cup

India	0−0	China
	Report

Greenfield International Stadium, Trivandrum, India

30 January 1986

1986 Nehru Cup

India	0−1	Peru
	Report	Navarro 60'

Greenfield International Stadium, Trivandrum, India

30 June 1986

Burma	3−1	India
	Report

Yangon, Myanmar^[8]

24 July 1986

1986 Merdeka

Malaysia	3–0	India
Azhar Shariff 11' Zainal Abidin Hassan 71', 74'	Report

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Attendance: 7582

26 July 1986^[a]

1986 Merdeka

India	4−3	South Korea
Krishanu Dey 3', 17' V. P. Sathyan Mauricio Afonso	Report	Cha Kee-Chul 11', 60' Kim Dae-Heun

Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Attendance: 2551

30 July 1986

1986 Merdeka

India	3−1	Thailand
Dey 5', 13', 48'	Report	Laohakul pen.'

Stadium Jalan Raja Muda, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

20 September 1986

1986 Asian Games

South Korea	3−0	India
Noh Soo-jin 10' Choi Soon-ho 36' Park Chang-sun 84' (pen.)	Report

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan, South Korea

22 September 1986

1986 Asian Games

India	1−2	China
Debashish Mishra 37'	Report	Ma Lin 22', 25'

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan, South Korea

26 September 1986

1986 Asian Games

Bahrain	3−0	India
Abdulrahman Hisham 3', 45' Yousif Ali Hassan 23'	Report

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan, South Korea

1987

21 November 1987

1987 S.Asian Games

India	0−0	Pakistan
	Report Report

21 November 1987

1987 S.Asian Games

India	5−0	Maldives
Shareef (o.g.) Sisir Ghosh Amit Bhadra Deepak Kumar Krishanu Dey	Report Report

21 November 1987

1987 S.Asian Games

India	1−0	Nepal
Mohammed Farid 89'	Report Report

1988

6 February 1988

Bangladesh	0–0	India
	Report

Abu Dhabi, UAE^[9]

9 February 1988

India	0–1	Thailand
	Report

Abu Dhabi, UAE

11 February 1988

India	0–1	North Yemen
	Report	Mohammed Al Sharani

Abu Dhabi, UAE

13 February 1988

United Arab Emirates	3–0	India
Khamees 59' Mohamed 63' Al Talyani 67'	Report

Abu Dhabi, UAE^[10]

16 February 1988