Trivia

Trivia

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Trivia

Durand Cup is the World’s 5th oldest football tournament
Durand Cup is older than the English Premier League
Durand Cup is Asia’s oldest football tournament
The tournament kickstarted in 1888 with only British Indian Army Teams
This is the only tournament attended by both our first President and first Prime Minister
The first few matches of the first edition was played in Dagshai, a Himachal cantonment
Nearly 50,000 people witnessed Mohammedan Sporting win the 1940 tournament
Each team can have maximum 6 foreign players in their starting line-up
The tournament was not held during 1941 - 1949 due to World War ll & Partition