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 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
competition organised to mark the birthday of
King Birendra
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev ( ne, श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव ) (28 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was the tenth Shah Ruler and the King of N ...
of
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
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