The Birthday Cup (also referred to as the Birendra Memorial Cup in the 2002 edition) was an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
competition organised to mark the birthday of
King Birendra
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (; 29 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001.
Early life and education
Birendra was born at the Narayanhiti Royal Palace in Kathmandu as the eldest son of th ...
of
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
in 1974. After the abolition of the Nepalese monarchy, the tournament has since been axed.
Editions
Accurate as of 4 March 2016.
References
External links
Nepal football history
{{Football in Asia
Football competitions in Nepal
1974 establishments in Nepal