Colombo Cup

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The Colombo Cup was an annual football tournament first held in Colombo, Ceylon. It was also known as Former Colonial India Quadrangular Tournament. Established in 1952 by the Ceylon Football Association as a part of the Colombo Fair, teams from India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma played each other in a round robin tournament. The tournament was last played in 1955. In 1953 it was hosted in Rangoon, Burma, in 1954 at Calcutta, India, and finally at Dhaka, Pakistan.[1][2] (Dhaka was capital of East Pakistan (Now  Bangladesh))

Year Host Winner Runner-up 3rd Place
1952
Details
Colombo, Ceylon  India
 Pakistan
n/a  Ceylon
 Burma
1953
Details
Rangoon, Burma
India

Pakistan

Burma
1954
Details
Calcutta, India
India

Pakistan

Ceylon
1955
Details
Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan
India

Pakistan

Burma

Total Wins

Wins Nations Year
4 times  India 1952 (Joint), 1953, 1954, 1955
1 times  Pakistan 1952 (Joint)

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