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Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup

football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ110269880 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup, also known as the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Football Tournament, is an Indian association football tournament held in Delhi and organized by Shastri Football Club. The tournament was first started in 1978 in the memory of former Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and is named after him. Apart from some top clubs from Delhi, clubs from neighbouring states also participated in the tournament.

Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup 14th edition returned after 6 years of gap in 2004, with the last tournament being held in 2006 was won by Indian Air Force. The tournament has not been held since then.

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“Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup” enters the record as football tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bahadur, Shastri and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2004, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bahadur, Shastri and football.
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“Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bahadur, Shastri and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lal Bahadur Shastri Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.