Football

AFC Cup final shifted

Unsuitable ground conditions following incessant rains for the past three days in the city on Saturday forced the Asian Football Confederation to postpone and shift the AFC Challenge Cup final between India and Tajikistan scheduled for Sunday and Delhi is likely to host the game in a week.

An AFC delegation will fly to New Delhi on Sunday morning to inspect the ground conditions at the Ambedkar Stadium and take a decision whether the final could be held there. The delegation will decide the date of the match which the organisers said would be within a week.

Heavy rains which lashed the city for the past eight days made Gachibowli and Lal Bahadur stadiums unsuitable for the final match of the eight-nation tournament, whose winners would automatically qualify for the 2011 Asian Cup.

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