Durand Cup
06-08-2023
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Overview:
Recently, the union Ministry of Defence inaugurated the 132nd edition of Durand Cup in Kokrajhar.
About Durand Cup:
- It is Asia’s oldest and the world’s third oldest football tournament, in which top Indian football clubs from across the country participate.
- The inaugural edition took place in Shimla in 1888, when it started off as an Army Cup, open only to the British Indian Army troops in India.
- The tournament is named after its founder Sir Henry Mortimer Durand.
- It was begun as a football tournament for different departments and regiments of the Armed forces of India and the princely states.
- Since independence, the army’s presence is maintained by the participation of several clubs of different regiments of the Indian Armed Forces as guest invitees.
- The Durand Cup tournament is unique where in the winning team walks away with three trophies,
- The Durand Cup (a rolling trophy and the original prize).
- The Shimla Trophy (also a rolling trophy and first given by the residents of Shimla in 1904).
- The President's Cup (for permanent keep and first presented by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India’s first President, in 1956).
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Source: Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurates 132nd Durand Cup in Kokrajhar, Assam