Hyderabad football team

The sports federation was formed in 1939 as the Hyderabad Football Association under the initiative of the first secretary Syed Mohammad Hadi.{{cite web |url=https://www.siasat.com/hyderabads-rainbow-man-hadi-played-multiple-sports-at-national-and-international-levels-2098714/ |title=Hyderabad's Rainbow Man Hadi played multiple sports at national and international levels |website=siasat.com |publisher=The Siasat Daily |location=Hyderabad |date=26 February 2021 |first=Minhaj |last=Adnan |access-date=1 March 2023 |archive-date=1 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301204433/https://www.siasat.com/hyderabads-rainbow-man-hadi-played-multiple-sports-at-national-and-international-levels-2098714/ }} Ghulam Muhammad was elected the first President of HFA and in 1942 Hadi became the President with Syed Abdul Rahim becoming the secretary.{{cite web |url=https://khelnow.com/football/isl-2019-20-hyderabad-football-history |title=Hyderabad Football: Retracing the city's rich legacy in the sport |first=Neil |last=Talnikar |website=khelnow.com |date=1 November 2019 |access-date=1 March 2023 |archive-date=1 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501003445/https://khelnow.com/football/isl-2019-20-hyderabad-football-history }}

In 1959, under the auspices of the then AIFF vice-president Shiv Kumar Lal, the Andhra and Hyderabad Football Associations were merged to form the Andhra Pradesh Football Association.{{cite book |author=Kausik Bandyopadhyay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uuYJEAAAQBAJ&q=Shiv+Kumar+Lal+aiff |title=Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |date=29 November 2020 |isbn=9781000084054 |access-date=1 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307064545/https://books.google.com/books?id=uuYJEAAAQBAJ&q=Shiv+Kumar+Lal+aiff |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970500106410?journalCode=fsas20 |title=Regionalism and club domination: Growth of rival centres of footballing excellence |publisher=Taylor & Francis |date=6 August 2006 |access-date=1 March 2023 |archive-date=1 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301202832/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970500106410?journalCode=fsas20 |journal=Soccer & Society |volume=6:2–3 |page=227–256 |DOI=10.1080/14660970500106410 }}

They have appeared in the Santosh Trophy finals 4 times, and have won the trophy twice. The team competed as Hyderabad football team until 1959, when the Hyderabad Football Association was merged with the Andhra Football Association to establish the combined team as Andhra Pradesh football team.{{cite web|title=Santosh Trophy Winners|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiasantoshhist.html|website=RSSSF}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970500106410?journalCode=fsas20 |title=Regionalism and club domination: Growth of rival centres of footballing excellence |website=tandfonline.com |date=6 August 2006 }}

Hyderabad football team was one of the major state teams of Indian football during the 1950s and produced some of the country's finest footballers such as Sayed Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din,{{cite news|title=Quadrangular Football: India's Win|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sMw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C1770595|access-date=18 September 2022|work=The Indian Express|date=25 October 1953|location=Rangoon, Burma|page=9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513054108/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sMw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=W0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C1770595|archive-date=13 May 2022}} Muhammad Noor,{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/muhammad-noor-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418114224/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/muhammad-noor-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Muhammad Noor Olympic Results |access-date=14 October 2018}} Anthony Patrick,{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/former-international-footballer-anthony-patrick-passes-away/articleshow/5849395.cms |title=Former international footballer Anthony Patrick passes away |work=The TImes of India |date=23 April 2010 |access-date=28 October 2021 |archive-date=28 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028201336/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/former-international-footballer-anthony-patrick-passes-away/articleshow/5849395.cms }} and Syed Shahid Hakim.{{Cite web|title=Syed Shahid Hakim, a Rome 1960 Olympian, dies at 82|url=https://olympics.com/en/news/indian-footballer-olympics-syed-shahid-hakim-died|access-date=24 August 2021|website=Olympics.com|archive-date=24 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824080303/https://olympics.com/en/news/indian-footballer-olympics-syed-shahid-hakim-died}}{{Cite web|date=22 August 2021|title=SS Hakim, 1960 Rome Olympian and national football coach, dies aged 82|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/syed-shahid-hakim-1960-rome-olympian-death-7465301/|access-date=24 August 2021|website=The Indian Express|language=en|archive-date=24 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824080153/https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/syed-shahid-hakim-1960-rome-olympian-death-7465301/}}

• Santosh Trophy[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiasantoshhist.html List of Santosh Trophy Finals]
• Winners (2): 1956–57, 1957–58
• Runners-up (2): 1949–50, 1950–51

; Hyderabad FA

• DCM Trophy
• Runners-up (1): 1954

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