Current Affairs - Football

Bengaluru won their first-ever Durand Cup by defeating the debutants – Mumbai City by 2–1.

• The final match took place at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata.

India has won the SAFF U-17 Championship (4th title), defeating Nepal in the Final at the Racecourse International Stadium, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The 71st Senior National Basketball Championship for Men & Women was organized at Nehru Stadium, Chennai by Basketball Federation of India in association with Tamil Nadu Basketball Association from 3rd - 10th April 2022.

The Best FIFA Football Awards™ 2021 ceremony, held as a virtual TV show from the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland.

• It crowned Alexia Putellas (Spain) and Robert Lewandowski (Poland) , as the outstanding players in women’s and men’s football respectively.

The annual football awards ‘Ballon d'Or’ were presented by French news magazine France Football.

• Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d’Or for a seventh time.

India won the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship for eighth time defeating Nepal 3-0 in Male.

• Indian Captain Sunil Chhetri’s goal in the final game helped him level with Lionel Messi on 80 international goals.

On 11th October 2021, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) unveiled ‘Ibha’ as the official mascot of FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 – to be held in India.